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Why

A workflow that validates clean and is then refused by the server costs an
agent a whole round trip, and the agent learns to discount validator output.
This PR closes every divergence found by running the validator against a real
ComfyUI, and fixes two converter bugs that silently changed values.

Nothing here is reasoned from docs. Every claim below was checked against a
live CPU-only ComfyUI (/prompt with validate: true), the shipped
517-template corpus, or the frontend source that produces the shapes.

What was measured

Three corpora, all re-run on the final commit:

Corpus Result
638 generated fuzz cases, CLI vs. live server 568 MATCH, 39 CLI-stricter, 31 server 5xx, 0 CLI-false-OK, 0 crashes
517 shipped templates, converted + validated 297 valid (was 293), required_input_missing 40 -> 4, 0 crashes
69 hand-built cases across the special input-type families 55 MATCH before these fixes; the 14 divergences are what this PR is made of
Unit suite 7,672 passed, 2 failures that also fail on the base commit

The 39 CLI-stricter cases are all the safe direction and all known: 31
shape_mismatch (the server coerces a scalar at prompt time and dies at
execution instead), 6 unknown_enum_value, 2 output_index_out_of_range on a
stringified index. Not one case has the CLI passing a graph the server refuses.

Plus six end-to-end turns driven through a real local agent, which is where the
encoding bug and the unwirable match-type node surfaced.

The fixes

socketless is a widget, not a link. The flag hides the input socket and
nothing else — litegraph renders the widget and it serializes positionally like
any other (ColorToRGBInt ["#ffffff"], Painter ["p.png", 1024, 1024, "#000000"]). Reading the type as a link left the slot unconsumed, and
_collect_default_inputs then refilled the input from the schema default, so a
colour the user picked came back as #000000 — a value the server accepts and
renders wrong. An explicit forceInput still demotes it to a link.

A required socketless input is required. An earlier reading of the flag as
"display-only, never submitted" made validate pass graphs the server refuses.
Live: an ImageCompare carrying only image_a/image_b comes back
required_input_missing: compare_view, and the key is accepted with any
value once present, null included.

...and it is emitted when the saved workflow never persisted it. The
frontend builds its prompt from live widget state, so an ImageCompare saved as
widgets_values: [] still submits a compare_view. 40 of the 517 templates
convert to a prompt the server refuses outright; a required socketless widget
with no declared default is now emitted as null. A declared default is used
when there is one, and a saved value always wins.

A link into a dotted slot is still a link. The server type-checks every
entry in inputs, dotted or not — a MASK into images.image0 is
return_type_mismatch, an INT into a FLOAT combo sub-input the same — but the
edge check resolved only top-level names, so all of them validated clean.
Sub-keys left over from another selection stay unchecked, because the server
ignores those.

A match-type port is a wildcard on both ends. The validator has always read
COMFY_MATCHTYPE that way; the connect gate had a second type test that knew
only *, so nothing with a match-type socket could be wired in either
direction. A live agent could not build a ResizeImageMaskNode graph by any
route. Both surfaces now use one rule.

The three buttons the LOAD_3D widget injects. getCustomWidgets().LOAD_3D
adds upload 3d model / upload extra resources / clear before its own
component widget, and only when the node already carries a model_file widget.
They serialize their values, so a real Load3D writes seven widgets_values
against four declared inputs. The converter read "upload3dmodel" into image,
"uploadExtraResources" into width and "clear" into height — every
Load3D in the corpus, silently. The engine's widget order was short by three,
so a fresh node from add_node serialized a shape the frontend reads one slot
early, and the doc host refuses a widgets_values longer than its order. Both
sides now take the slots from one table, gated the way the frontend gates them.

The JSON envelope is escaped on any stream that is not UTF-8. The existing
escape path only fires on UnicodeEncodeError, so it missed the case that
actually corrupts output: cp1252 can encode an em-dash (0x97), the write
succeeds, and the bytes are not valid UTF-8. The agent on a Windows box stored
workflow has no output nodes � the server will reject it for every
validate failure it ran.

The validate envelope names the classes it found. workflow_unknown_nodes
is a registered catch-all raised for every verdict, so a caller reading only
error.code diagnosed a dependency cycle as "unknown nodes". The code is
unchanged (it is a stable contract); the message now lists the real codes.

Known divergences, left deliberately

  • An upload-backed filename that was never uploaded validates clean. The
    option list is a stale directory snapshot, so enum-checking it would
    false-reject every freshly uploaded file. Structural, not a logic bug.
  • A dynamic-combo selector outside its option list is rejected by the CLI
    and accepted by /prompt — the server defers that to execution. The CLI's
    message already says so, and the graph does fail at run time.
  • Two combos with no choices and opposite server verdicts (CustomCombo vs.
    17 real loaders) declare the identical schema; reporting the loaders is worth
    the false rejections, because silencing it would hide a missing model.
  • Six unwired PreviewAny.source slots inside subgraphs in the template
    corpus, pre-existing.

Test plan

Every fix is a red-then-green test: tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_validate_server_parity.py
(the server-parity suite), test_frontend_widget_slots.py, test_workflow_to_api.py,
test_connect_union_types.py, test_json_line_encoding.py, and
test_workflow_validate_envelope_command.py. The two suite failures on this
branch (test_usage_error_envelope, test_http) reproduce on the base commit.

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…server rejected it

Differential-tested `workflow validate` against a real ComfyUI: 189 generated
workflows, each validated offline and then POSTed to `/prompt`. Eight validated
clean and were rejected on submit, and two killed the CLI outright.

- Dependency cycles were never detected: a self-link, a 2-node and a 3-node
  cycle all validated clean, and the server answers `dependency_cycle`. Walks
  only the output-reachable set, as the server does, so a pruned cycle stays
  valid; iterative DFS so a deep chain cannot blow the recursion limit.
- A list value that is not `[node_id, index]` was treated as an opaque literal,
  so `["1"]` and `["1", 0, "extra"]` passed. The server takes any list as a
  link and answers `bad_linked_input`.
- A numeric source id (`[1, 0]`) was coerced with str() and resolved; prompt
  keys are strings, so the server raises KeyError and 400s.
- An autogrow group wired from image1 up validated clean; the server requires
  the index-0 slot by name. A gap above the anchor stays valid, which the
  server allows.
- NaN and Infinity (both accepted by json.loads) raised ValueError/OverflowError
  out of Port.validate_shape, so `--json` printed nothing at all. They are now
  a shape_mismatch, matching the server's `invalid_input_type`.

Re-running the corpus: 0 cases now validate clean that the server rejects, and
0 crash. The 17 remaining divergences are all the server being MORE lenient
(scalar coercion, an unknown dynamic-combo selector, negative link indices);
none are new.

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Workflow validation now covers malformed structures, reachability, cycles, autogrow slots, socketless inputs, effective dotted-port types, and non-finite values. Widget conversion handles LOAD_3D slots. CLI envelopes include command labels, and non-UTF-8 output uses escaped JSON.

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Workflow validation and parity coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Input, link, and type validation
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py, tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_validate_server_parity.py, tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_engine.py
Validation handles malformed inputs and links, missing class_type, output-index errors, reachability, non-finite INT values, socketless inputs, and dotted autogrow or dynamic-combo types.
Reachable cycles and autogrow slots
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py, tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_validate_server_parity.py
Validation reports reachable dependency cycles and requires the effective first autogrow slot while allowing later gaps.
Socketless and LOAD_3D widget mapping
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py, comfy_cli/workflow_to_api.py, tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_frontend_widget_slots.py, tests/comfy_cli/test_workflow_to_api.py
Widget mapping preserves socketless values and handles injected LOAD_3D buttons, defaults, links, and missing saved values.
Shared wildcard compatibility
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py, comfy_cli/workflow_ops.py, tests/comfy_cli/test_connect_union_types.py, tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_engine.py
The public wildcard helper is used for compatible connections, including union inputs.
CLI envelopes and output compatibility
comfy_cli/command/workflow.py, comfy_cli/output/renderer.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/test_workflow_validate_envelope_command.py, tests/comfy_cli/output/test_json_line_encoding.py
Error envelopes include the command label and distinct validation codes. Non-UTF-8 streams receive escaped JSON.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as workflow validate
  participant Graph as Graph.validate_workflow
  participant Cycle as Cycle detector
  participant Mapper as workflow_to_api
  participant Envelope as Error envelope
  CLI->>Graph: validate workflow
  Graph->>Cycle: inspect reachable dependencies
  Cycle-->>Graph: cycle result
  Graph-->>Mapper: validated workflow data
  Mapper-->>Envelope: conversion result or error
  Envelope-->>CLI: command-labelled response
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This change substantially improves workflow validation parity with the ComfyUI server, but three known correctness gaps remain unresolved at the current head: a dynamic-combo dotted-key edge case can cause the validator to incorrectly flag or miss a workflow cycle, FLOAT/NUMBER inputs can silently accept NaN/Infinity values, and a non-string class_type field is reported with a misleading error message. None of these are catastrophic, but they represent real validation-accuracy gaps that should be addressed before merge.

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🟠 Major · Apply the first-slot check to nested autogrow groups. · engine.py:2652-2688

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Apply the first-slot check to nested autogrow groups.

When _check_dynamic_combo_sub handles an autogrow sub-input, it accepts every present slot below dotted without checking the required group’s anchor. A reachable model.images group can therefore pass offline validation with model.images.image1 but no model.images.image0, then reach the server and be rejected. Extract a shared anchor check and call it from both _check_autogrow_required and this nested branch. Preserve the zero-slot exception, and derive the anchor from the autogrow template.

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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py` around lines 2652 - 2688, The nested autogrow
handling in _check_dynamic_combo_sub must validate the required group’s first
slot before accepting present slot keys. Extract the shared anchor check from
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- Around line 2742-2783: Update the autogrow first-slot validation around
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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py`:
- Around line 2652-2688: The nested autogrow handling in
_check_dynamic_combo_sub must validate the required group’s first slot before
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kishore and others added 3 commits September 19, 2026 23:41
Same differential run, four reports that sent the reader to the wrong place.

- A link index of the wrong JSON TYPE ("0", 0.0, null) was folded into the
  range check, so `["1", "0"]` read "index 0 out of range" on a node whose
  only valid index IS 0. It is now output_index_not_an_integer.
- A node with no class_type was a warning, and the hard error landed on
  whoever linked to it. The server answers `missing_node_type` for that node,
  so it is now an error on the node itself, advisory on one no output reaches.
- That consumer then claimed the source "does not exist" when it does exist
  and is merely malformed. Suppressed: its own error already says so.
- Every early-exit error envelope stamped the Typer group ("workflow") while
  the verdict path stamped "workflow validate", so a caller routing on
  `command` misfiled nine failure paths, including the SSRF refusal and the
  signed-out cloud case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…on junk

Ran the validator against a live ComfyUI over three corpora: 638 generated
mutations, the 517 shipped workflow templates, and 61 command-surface cases.

Server-verified parity fixes:
- `inputs` as a scalar (42, "x", [], null, true) raised TypeError out of two
  separate checks, so `--json` printed nothing. Crashes on main today.
- A node with no class_type is an error on THAT node, and not gated on
  reachability: the server answers `missing_node_type` even for a node no
  output reaches (verified on an orphan).
- The structural link checks (bad shape, non-integer index, out of range,
  dangling) are now advisory on a node no output reaches, which the server
  prunes and runs: 21 of 638 mutations were hard-rejected here while the
  server accepted them.

False rejections on the shipped templates (~90 of 517 files):
- An autogrow group that NAMES its slots (`names: [image_1, …]`, the modern
  convention) was asked for `image0`, which cannot exist. This was my own
  regression from the anchor check; 51 correctly-wired templates failed.
- A group under `required` declaring `min: 0` (GLSLShader.floats) needs no
  slots at all.
- `socketless: true` inputs (ImageCompare.compare_view and 20 other classes)
  are display-only: never socketed, never serialized, never required.

Templates: 256 -> 293 valid, autogrow false rejections to zero, zero crashes
across 1034 invocations. Fuzz: 0 crashes and 0 wrongly-accepted workflows.

Not fixed, documented instead: CustomCombo declares the same empty-options
schema as 17 real loaders but the server accepts its values and rejects
theirs, so the shape cannot be told apart from the catalog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fuzzer's last two disagreements with the server.

A node carrying junk under a key its schema does not declare
(`totally_unknown_field_zzz: [1, 2]`) was hard-rejected, but the server reads
the inputs a node declares and ignores everything else, so it accepts the
prompt. The unknown_input warning already names the key.

Scoping that by name then demoted a dynamic combo's sub-input
(`model.images.image0`), which an existing test caught: a dotted key belongs
to the port its FIRST segment names, so it is declared and still hard-fails.

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`getCustomWidgets().LOAD_3D` adds `upload 3d model` / `upload extra
resources` / `clear` button widgets before its own component widget, and
only when the node already carries a `model_file` widget. They serialize
their values, so a real Load3D writes seven `widgets_values` where
object_info declares four inputs.

Neither walk knew about them. The converter read `"upload3dmodel"` into
`image`, `"uploadExtraResources"` into `width` and `"clear"` into
`height` for every Load3D node in the corpus — four templates, silently,
since LOAD_3D carries no type constraint and two of the three landed on
INTs as strings. The engine's widget order was short by three names, so
a fresh node from `add_node` serialized a shape the frontend reads one
slot early, and the doc host refuses a `widgets_values` longer than the
order it was given.

Both sides now take the slots from one table in the engine, gated the
way the frontend gates them: a `model_file` widget must be present, so
the `model_3d`-fed viewers (Preview3DAdvanced, SaveGaussianSplat, ...)
get none. The converter skips a slot only when its value IS one of the
button values, so a workflow saved without them keeps its straight
positional mapping.

Verified across the 517-template corpus: the eight hard type mismatches
and four silent wrong-but-compatible assignments this caused are gone,
and the four Load3D nodes now convert to image='', width=1024,
height=1024.

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The existing escape path only fires on UnicodeEncodeError, so it misses
the case that actually corrupts output: a legacy code page that CAN
encode the character. cp1252 spells an em-dash 0x97, the write succeeds,
and the bytes are not valid UTF-8 — every reader of this stream decodes
it as UTF-8. The comfy-agent on the Windows box stored

    workflow has no output nodes � the server will reject it

for every validate failure it ran, because the validator's messages use
an em-dash.

Escaping whenever the stream's encoding is not UTF-8 keeps envelopes
unescaped and readable on a UTF-8 terminal (pinned by the existing test)
and decodable everywhere else. A stream with no encoding at all — a
StringIO under test, a mock — counts as UTF-8; an unknown codec name
falls to escaped, which is always safe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Checked 69 generated cases across the special input-type families and six
end-to-end agent turns against a real ComfyUI, then fixed what diverged.

socketless is a widget, not a link. The flag hides the input SOCKET and
nothing else: litegraph renders the widget and it serializes positionally
like any other (ColorToRGBInt ["#ffffff"], Painter ["p.png", 1024, 1024,
"#000000"]). Reading the type as a link left the slot unconsumed, and
_collect_default_inputs then refilled the input from the schema default,
so a colour the user picked came back as "#000000" — a value the server
accepts and renders wrong. An explicit forceInput still demotes it.

A required socketless input is required. The earlier reading of the flag
as "display-only, never submitted" made validate pass a graph the server
refuses; an ImageCompare carrying only image_a/image_b comes back
`required_input_missing: compare_view`, and the key is accepted with any
value once present. Both verified live.

A link into a dotted slot is still a link. The server type-checks every
entry in `inputs`, dotted or not — a MASK into `images.image0` is
`return_type_mismatch`, an INT into a FLOAT combo sub-input the same —
but the edge check resolved only top-level names, so all of them passed.
Sub-keys left over from another selection stay unchecked, as the server
ignores them.

A match-type port is a wildcard on both ends. The validator has always
read COMFY_MATCHTYPE that way; the connect gate had its own type test
that knew only "*", so nothing with a match-type socket could be wired in
either direction and a live agent could not build a ResizeImageMaskNode
graph by any route. Both now use one rule.

Also: the validate envelope's message names the error classes it found.
The code stays the registered catch-all, which is raised for every
verdict, so a caller reading only `error.code` saw "unknown nodes" for a
dependency cycle.

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The frontend builds its prompt from LIVE widget state, not from
`widgets_values`, so an ImageCompare saved as `widgets_values: []` still
submits a `compare_view`. Converting it without one produced a prompt the
server refuses outright — verified live against a real ComfyUI:

    400 required_input_missing, details "compare_view"

which is 40 of the 517 shipped templates. The server accepts any value
for it, `null` included, and the input declares no default to offer
instead, so a required socketless widget with no default is emitted as
null. One with a default already took it, and a saved value still wins.

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🟠 Major · Reject non-finite FLOAT and NUMBER values. · engine.py:413-415

comfy_cli/cql/engine.py:413-415
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-finite FLOAT and NUMBER values.

A NaN value passes this branch because it has the correct Python type. Range comparisons also cannot reject NaN. An infinite value passes when the port has no matching bound.

Return shape_mismatch for these values, as the PR objective requires for non-finite numeric values.

Proposed fix
 elif self.type in ("FLOAT", "NUMBER"):
     if isinstance(value, bool) or not isinstance(value, int | float):
         return f"{self.name}: expected {self.type}, got {type(value).__name__}"
+    if isinstance(value, float) and not math.isfinite(value):
+        return f"{self.name}: expected {self.type}, got {value!r}"
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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py` around lines 413 - 415, Update the FLOAT/NUMBER
validation branch in the relevant type-checking method to reject float values
that are not finite, including NaN and infinities, before range validation;
return the existing shape-mismatch error format for these values while
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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py`:
- Around line 3216-3220: Update _dotted_slot_port to recurse using each nested
Port’s full dotted name, read selectors by that full name, and preserve the
complete path through autogrow and dynamic-combo branches until returning the
element type. Ensure nested paths such as model.images.image0 and
model.mode.budget resolve correctly so _edge_types_compatible validates them.
Add focused type-mismatch tests for nested autogrow and nested dynamic-combo
inputs.

In `@comfy_cli/output/renderer.py`:
- Line 408: Update _write_json_line to detect non-UTF-8 streams with an
available buffer, flush the text wrapper, write the JSON line plus newline as
UTF-8 bytes through the raw buffer, flush it, and return; preserve the existing
text-stream path otherwise. Add a regression test covering UTF-16 output and
UTF-8 decoding.

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- Around line 413-415: Update the FLOAT/NUMBER validation branch in the relevant
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@skishore23 skishore23 changed the title fix(validate): close four gaps where a workflow validated clean and the server rejected it fix(validate): stop the validator and the converter from disagreeing with the server Sep 20, 2026
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Three findings from review, each with a test that fails without the fix.

A dotted key is resolved down its whole path. `model.images.image0` is an
autogrow slot nested under a dynamic combo's selected option, and
`model.mode.budget` a sub-input of a nested combo. The resolver recursed
only into a nested COMBO and handed it a key with the base segment
stripped, against a map keyed by the full name — so neither shape ever
resolved, and the caller type-checks only when a port comes back. A MASK
wired into a nested IMAGE slot validated clean. A nested selector is now
read under its own full name and every segment is kept.

A dotted suffix on an ordinary port is not a declared input. Only an
autogrow group or a dynamic combo takes dotted keys; `images.extra` on a
plain IMAGE input is a key the server ignores outright, and counting it
as declared promoted a malformed link under it to a hard error, rejecting
a prompt the server runs.

The JSON envelope goes out as UTF-8 bytes on a stream that would encode
it as anything else. Escaping to ASCII does not help against a UTF-16
wrapper, which turns even pure ASCII into two-byte sequences that no
reader decoding this stream as UTF-8 can parse. The text wrapper is
flushed first so anything already buffered keeps its place.

Also: an autogrow `names` template whose first entry is an empty string
falls through to the prefix scheme rather than requiring a slot named "".

Templates 517: 297 valid, 0 crashes — unchanged. Suite: 7,682 passed.

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🟡 Minor · Report a non-string class_type as invalid, not absent. · engine.py:1601-1602

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Report a non-string class_type as invalid, not absent.

A node with "class_type": [] reaches the missing_class_type message after this coercion. The message then says that the node has no class_type, although the field is present with the wrong type.

Preserve the original value. Emit a message that includes its type and value. This keeps the diagnostic on the right type of track.

Proposed fix
-            if not isinstance(class_type, str):
-                class_type = ""
+            if not isinstance(class_type, str):
+                errors.append(
+                    {
+                        "node_id": node_id,
+                        "field": node_id,
+                        "code": "missing_class_type",
+                        "message": (
+                            f"node {node_id!r} has invalid class_type {class_type!r} "
+                            f"({type(class_type).__name__}); expected a non-empty string"
+                        ),
+                    }
+                )
+                continue

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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py` around lines 1601 - 1602, Update the class_type
validation near the existing non-string check so non-string values remain
unchanged and are reported as invalid rather than coerced to an absent value.
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UTF-8: nothing re-encodes it, so escaping would only make its text harder
to read. Unknown/odd codec names fall to escaped, which is always safe.
"""
encoding = getattr(stream, "encoding", None)

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this seems brittle, but maybe ok.

If we can more strongly type it, that would be better.

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Fair, and I agree it is the weakest part of the change. Tightened in f5344bb: the parameter is TextIO | None now rather than Any, and the docstring says why the encoding is still read with getattrmachine_stream is assignable, and the things callers assign (a StringIO, a test double) declare no encoding at all. A stream with none re-encodes nothing, so it takes the unescaped path.

The one part I would defend as not brittle: the name goes through codecs.lookup rather than a string compare, so every alias a platform may report normalises correctly — utf8, UTF-8, utf_8 and Windows' cp65001 all resolve to utf-8. A name no codec claims falls to "not UTF-8", which only ever escapes more. Those edges are now pinned by tests (every alias, a stream with no encoding, a garbage name, a non-string).

There is a stronger version I deliberately did not take: always write the envelope as UTF-8 bytes to stream.buffer whenever one exists, which would drop the sniff out of the common path entirely. It bypasses the text wrapper for every invocation though, including under CliRunner and capsys, and the payoff over the current narrow path is small. Happy to do it if you would rather have the simpler invariant.

from typing import Any

from comfy_cli.cql.engine import _FRONTEND_DOM_WIDGET_TYPES
from comfy_cli.cql.engine import _FRONTEND_DOM_WIDGET_TYPES, LOAD_3D_BUTTON_VALUES

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I imagine this is idiomatic but also seems brittle. C'est la vie.

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…graph

Both graph walks — output-reachability and cycle detection — followed
every two-item list in `inputs`, so a key the schema does not declare
could pull a pruned node into the validated set or close a cycle that
does not exist. ComfyUI's `validate_inputs` recurses over a class's
declared INPUT_TYPES and never looks at anything else.

Proved against a live ComfyUI. This graph, whose only cycle runs through
`images.extra` on a plain IMAGE input, is accepted (200, no node_errors):

    1 EmptyImage
    2 PreviewImage  images=[1,0]  images.extra=[3,0]
    3 ImageInvert   image=[2,0]

while the validator reported `dependency_cycle: 2 -> 3 -> 2` and refused
it. It now reports the node as unreachable from an output, a warning,
which is what the server does with it.

The three places that ask "does this node declare this key" — the two
walks and the structural-finding gate — now share one rule, so they
cannot drift apart.

Also, for review: `_is_utf8_stream` takes a `TextIO | None` rather than
`Any`, and says why the encoding is still read with `getattr` (the
streams callers assign in tests have none). Its edges are pinned by
tests: every UTF-8 alias including Windows' `cp65001`, a stream with no
encoding, and a name no codec claims.

Templates 517: 297 valid, 0 crashes — unchanged. Suite: 7,685 passed.

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Please see green light bot review. Fix or defer is fine I think.

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base = port_by_name.get(key.split(".", 1)[0])
return base is not None and (base.is_autogrow or base.is_dynamic_combo)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Resolve dynamic-combo dotted keys against the current selection.

_node_declares_input accepts every dotted key under a dynamic-combo port. _declared_link_targets then follows stale links from a previous selection during reachability and cycle detection.

For dynamic combos, pass node_inputs to this helper and accept the key only when _dotted_slot_port(...) resolves it under the current selector. Add a traversal regression test with a stale dynamic-combo link that cannot create false reachability or a false dependency_cycle. Keep stale selectors from steering the graph astray.

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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py` around lines 3186 - 3187, The dynamic-combo branch
in _node_declares_input must validate dotted keys against the current
node_inputs selection instead of accepting every key under the base port; pass
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