fix(generate): route --emit-workflow through workflow_ops CRDT primitives (BE-11131) - #838
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comfy generate <model> --emit-workflow / comfy workflow compose produced raw API-format dicts that comfy workflow slot-editing commands (list_slots/set_widget/connect) rejected as workflow_not_frontend_format (BE-11131 — 48 staging refusals). build_workflow now constructs the partner node, LoadImage loaders, ImageBatch chains, and the SaveImage/ SaveVideo sink via workflow_ops.add_node/connect/set_widget instead of hand-writing dict entries with a local sequential-id counter. Output is now frontend-format (nodes[]/links[]) plus the replayable op list those primitives emit, so the CRDT doc-host applier can replay it directly once a --emit-ops flag lands (tracked separately). --emit-workflow has no server/API-key dependency, so the node classes it addresses (the 5 partner nodes in MODEL_NODE_MAP plus LoadImage/ ImageBatch/SaveImage/SaveVideo) are resolved against a bundled, offline object_info snapshot (comfy_cli/command/generate/data/emit_object_info.json) rather than a live catalog fetch — same recorded-snapshot approach test_emit.py already used for its completeness-contract test, now the single source both the module and the test read. Tests: fixture extended with LoadImage/ImageBatch/SaveImage/SaveVideo; test_emit.py assertions rewritten from API-format literals to frontend-format node/link/op-list assertions, plus a new apply_op-replay-matches-build_workflow test (P1 fidelity). Plan: research/architecture/ecw-52-emit-ops-implementation-plan-2026-09-01.md in christian-byrne/in-app-agent-program (PR A of the split). Trace: BE-11131, ecw-52, ecw-57. ## Evidence - uv run pytest tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py -q → 31 passed - uv run ruff check + ruff format --check on changed files → clean - pre-existing hang on origin/main confirmed for the rest of tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/* (test_app.py, test_list_schema_envelope.py timeout under this env regardless of these changes) — not a regression
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe generator now uses bundled node metadata to create frontend-format workflows and replayable operations. It supports partner nodes, image batching, loaders, and media outputs. Tests validate graph structure, widget ordering, links, and operation replay. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant build_workflow
participant ObjectInfoCatalog
participant workflow_ops
participant FrontendWorkflow
participant SaveImage_SaveVideo
build_workflow->>ObjectInfoCatalog: Load node metadata
build_workflow->>workflow_ops: Add nodes and set widgets
workflow_ops->>FrontendWorkflow: Apply graph operations
build_workflow->>workflow_ops: Connect generated media
workflow_ops->>SaveImage_SaveVideo: Record output links
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change routes workflow generation through shared graph operations and adds an offline node catalog. It is mergeable with owner awareness that tests should more directly verify serialized widget slots and exact replayed graph fidelity; these leave a bounded correctness risk but no demonstrated production failure. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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public-repo-hygiene flagged the internal Linear ticket id in two doc comments (emit.py, test_emit.py) — this repo is public. Restate the same rationale without the ticket reference; the plan doc that traces back to it lives in the internal program repo, not here. <!-- authored-by:agent lane-ecw-57 -->
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In `@comfy_cli/command/generate/emit.py`:
- Line 250: Update the catalog loading in
tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py to use the same packaged
emit_object_info.json resource loaded by _load_catalog, or derive the test
fixture from that resource during setup; remove reliance on the independent
fixture file so generation and tests always validate the same catalog.
In `@tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py`:
- Line 173: Update the widget validation in the test around widget_names so it
first asserts that partner["widgets_values"] covers every name in order, then
validates the required positions using that serialized data. Remove the
unconditional “or True” behavior so the test fails when emitted widget values
are missing.
- Around line 274-275: Strengthen the replay fidelity assertions around replayed
and wf by comparing complete nodes and links, including widget values, link
endpoints, and port indices, rather than only node types and link count; also
compare their last-ID fields while excluding replay bookkeeping fields.
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| data = resources.files("comfy_cli.command.generate.data").joinpath("emit_object_info.json").read_bytes() |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Use one catalog source for generation and tests.
_load_catalog reads the packaged catalog, but tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py reads an independent fixture file. A catalog refresh can then leave tests validating stale metadata instead of the schema used to generate workflows.
Make the tests load the packaged resource, or generate the fixture from it during the test setup.
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In `@comfy_cli/command/generate/emit.py` at line 250, Update the catalog loading
in tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py to use the same packaged
emit_object_info.json resource loaded by _load_catalog, or derive the test
fixture from that resource during setup; remove reliance on the independent
fixture file so generation and tests always validate the same catalog.
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| wf, _ops = emit.build_workflow(model, values) | ||
| partner = _one(wf, ns.node_class) | ||
| order = graph.widget_order_default(ns.node_class) | ||
| widget_names = {name for name in order if name in graph.widget_defaults(ns.node_class) or True} |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Check serialized widget slots.
The or True condition makes widget_names equal the static catalog order for every workflow. This test passes even when the emitted node omits widgets_values entries.
Assert that partner["widgets_values"] covers order, then validate the required positions.
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[refactor] 173-173: Boolean condition 'name in graph.widget_defaults(ns.node_class) or True' will always evaluate to 'True'
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In `@tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py` at line 173, Update the widget
validation in the test around widget_names so it first asserts that
partner["widgets_values"] covers every name in order, then validates the
required positions using that serialized data. Remove the unconditional “or
True” behavior so the test fails when emitted widget values are missing.
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| assert sorted(n["type"] for n in replayed["nodes"]) == sorted(n["type"] for n in wf["nodes"]) | ||
| assert len(replayed["links"]) == len(wf["links"]) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Compare replayed graph contents.
Matching node types and link count does not prove replay fidelity. A replay can change widget values, link endpoints, or port indices and still pass these assertions.
Compare nodes, links, and the last-ID fields between replayed and wf, excluding replay bookkeeping fields.
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In `@tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit.py` around lines 274 - 275,
Strengthen the replay fidelity assertions around replayed and wf by comparing
complete nodes and links, including widget values, link endpoints, and port
indices, rather than only node types and link count; also compare their last-ID
fields while excluding replay bookkeeping fields.
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Reviewed against current main, which now has #840 merged. Two blockers, both verified by running things rather than reading.
1. This merges clean and then breaks --emit-ops
git merge origin/main reports no conflicts. That is the bad case here, because the incompatibility is semantic and git cannot see it.
build_workflow changes shape twice in this PR. It returns (workflow, ops) instead of a dict, and the workflow is frontend format instead of API format. Main now has a second caller that still expects the old contract:
emit.py:411 workflow, _ops = build_workflow(...) # this PR, fine
emit.py:518 api = build_workflow(...) # from main, gets a tuple
specs = ops_from_api_workflow(api, graph)
After the clean merge:
TypeError: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not list
10 failed, 332 passed # tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/
All 10 failures are test_emit_ops.py. CI will catch it, so nothing reaches main broken, but the PR needs a rebase and a decision before it can land.
2. Same bug #840 had: the document never goes through strip_internal
build_workflow builds with workflow_ops.add_node / set_widget / connect, which leave apply-only bookkeeping on the dict. write_workflow then writes it straight to disk:
top-level keys on disk: ['_applied_ops', '_widget_stamps', 'last_link_id', 'last_node_id', 'links', 'nodes']
Two consequences. First, _widget_stamps seeds the last writer wins register, so the next edit against the emitted file gets dropped. 20 trials of emit then set-widget with default stamps:
EDITED: 7 DROPPED: 13
Every dropped one exits 0 and reports ok: true.
Second, version is missing, because strip_internal is also what calls complete_save_format. The frontend validator requires it, so the canvas rejects the file. That undercuts the point of the PR.
Fix is one line in write_workflow, same as #840:
workflow_ops.strip_internal(workflow)
path.write_text(json.dumps(workflow, indent=2) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")Worth a test that emits and then edits, since the current tests only check the shape and never edit the file afterwards.
3. Which contract do we want for --emit-workflow
Worth settling before the rebase, and it is a real design question, not a nit. #840 shipped --emit-workflow unchanged as API format and put frontend format behind --emit-ops. This PR changes --emit-workflow itself to emit frontend. Both solve the refusals. The difference is that this one changes the output format of an existing flag, so anything consuming API format from it breaks.
Building ops from the primitives directly, the way this PR does, is the nicer approach. ops_from_api_workflow on main is a conversion step that exists only because the builder produced API format. If we take this PR's direction then that function should go away, rather than both living in the file. That is a bigger change than a rebase, which is why it needs a call first.
4. Bundled snapshot has no provenance and no drift check
emit_object_info.json is 9 node classes with no recorded source version or capture date, no refresh script, and nothing in CI comparing it to a live catalog. Only emit.py reads it.
This matters more than usual because frontend format is positional. widgets_values is an array paired back to input names by input_order. One new required input upstream shifts everything. Simulated a single added input on GeminiImageNode, converting with main's fixed converter:
quality = 'MY PROMPT'
prompt = 'gemini-2.5-flash-image'
model = 42
Silent, no error. API format is immune to this because it names its inputs. #840 avoids it a different way, by resolving the live catalog at emit time instead of bundling one, though that costs the offline behavior this PR wants. If we keep the snapshot, it needs provenance in the file and a test that fails when it drifts.
5. Smaller
allow_deprecated=True is passed for every add_node, but only Flux2ProImageNode and ImageBatch are actually deprecated in the snapshot. A node deprecated later would be emitted with no signal. Scope it to the two classes, or read the snapshot's own flag.
Also note the branch predates the input_order fix in convert_ui_to_api that went in with #840, so files emitted from this branch today convert with the widget values shifted. I checked, rebasing fixes it, nothing to do here beyond the rebase.
Verdict
Requesting changes for 1 and 2. Your own evidence reproduces exactly as written on the branch, 31 passed and ruff clean, so this is about the collision with what landed, not the work itself. Happy to take 3 either way, you have thought about this longer than I have. If we go your direction I would rather delete ops_from_api_workflow in the same PR than carry both.
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comfy generate <model> --emit-workflow/comfy workflow composebuild API-format workflow dicts (workflow["1"] = {"class_type": ..., "inputs": ...}, sequential string ids) by hand-writing dict entries.comfy workflowslot-editing commands (list_slots,set_widget,connect, …) gate on_is_frontend_format, which requiresnodesto be a list — API format keysnodesas a dict, so every one of those commands rejected--emit-workflowoutput asworkflow_not_frontend_format(Linear BE-11131, 48 staging refusals).emit.py::build_workflownow constructs the partner node,LoadImageloaders,ImageBatchchains, and theSaveImage/SaveVideosink viaworkflow_ops.add_node/connect/set_widget— the same CRDT-ready op primitivescomfy workflowslot-editing already requires — instead of a local sequential-id counter and raw dict writes. Output is frontend-format (nodes[]/links[]) plus the replayable op list those primitives emit, so a later--emit-opsflag (tracked separately) can hand it straight toapply_ops.--emit-workflowhas no server/API-key dependency (works with no ComfyUI instance running), so the node classes it can address — the 5 partner nodes inMODEL_NODE_MAPplusLoadImage/ImageBatch/SaveImage/SaveVideo— are resolved against a bundled, offlineobject_infosnapshot (comfy_cli/command/generate/data/emit_object_info.json) rather than a live catalog fetch. This is the same recorded-snapshot approachtest_emit.py's completeness-contract test already used; it's now the single source both the module and the test read, declared as package data inpyproject.toml.ImageBatchis markeddeprecatedin the recorded snapshot (superseded upstream by a node this emitter doesn't yet target), and theflux-2partner node (Flux2ProImageNode) is too — everyadd_nodecall in this module passesallow_deprecated=TruesinceMODEL_NODE_MAPintentionally still targets these classes.This is PR A of a 3-PR split (see the linked plan): PR B does the same rewrite for
fragments.py::Pipeline(comfy workflow compose), PR C adds the opt-in--emit-opsflag that writes the op batch alongside the workflow JSON.Evidence
Confirmed the rest of
tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/*(e.g.test_app.py,test_list_schema_envelope.py) times out identically on a cleanorigin/maincheckout in this sandbox (no network) — pre-existing, not a regression from this change.Plan doc (root cause + PR split, written before this PR):
research/architecture/ecw-52-emit-ops-implementation-plan-2026-09-01.mdinchristian-byrne/in-app-agent-program.