comfy-node

created: 2026-06-04 modified: 2026-06-04 reviewed: 2026-06-04 model: opus name: comfy-node description: >- Orchestrate a ComfyUI node pack from idea to registry: scaffold, create + seed the repo, open the gitops adoption PR. Use when releasing or spinning up a new comfyui node pack. allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, TodoWrite, AskUserQuestion

comfy-node

Take a ComfyUI custom-node idea and drive it through every step from empty to publish-ready, collapsing the manual repo-creation + gitops wiring into one orchestrated pass with a single human approval gate.

This is the orchestrator around the comfyui-node-scaffold skill (which only generates the local repo). Use comfyui-node-scaffold alone if you just want the files; use this when you want the GitHub repo created, pushed, and adopted into gitops too.

When to Use This Skill

Do not use it to add a node to an existing pack, or to publish a release (release-please + publish.yml already automate that once the repo exists).

The shape it automates

flowchart LR
  idea["idea"] --> sc["scaffold.py"] --> gh["gh repo create<br/>+ seed main"] --> gop["gitops PR<br/>(entry + import block)"]
  gop --> gate["👤 merge gitops PR"] --> apply["Scalr apply:<br/>adopt + secrets + protection"] --> rm["remove import block"] --> impl["implement + release"]
  classDef g fill:#1b4332,stroke:#2d6a4f,color:#fff
  classDef m fill:#6a040f,stroke:#9d0208,color:#fff
  class sc,gh,gop,apply,rm g
  class gate,impl m

Everything left of the gate is one orchestrated pass. There is no scaffold PR — the seed goes straight to main (see Phase 3 for why). The single gate (merging the gitops PR) is intentionally human — it triggers an infra apply on shared state. Never merge it on the user's behalf.

Preconditions

• Run from the workspace root repos/laurigates/ (new repo lands as a sibling of the reference packs; modal-variant primitive copy resolves there).
• gh auth status is a personal account that can create repos. The gitops GitHub App cannot create repos on user accounts — that is exactly why the repo is created out-of-band here and then imported into Terraform state.
• The gitops repo is clean (no uncommitted repositories.tf / main.tf changes) so the orchestrator's gitops PR is isolated.

Phase 0 — Derive and confirm the spec

From the idea, derive and show the user before creating anything external:

Confirm the name and variant with the user — these are hard to change after the repo exists. If the idea matches a project:comfyui-nodes task, mark it in_progress:

task project:comfyui-nodes export | jq -r '.[] | select(.description | test("resize"; "i")) | .uuid'

Phase 1 — Preflight (fail fast if the name is taken)

test ! -e comfyui-touch-resize && echo "local: free" || echo "local: EXISTS"

grep -q '"comfyui-touch-resize"' gitops/repositories.tf && echo "gitops: EXISTS" || echo "gitops: free"

gh repo view laurigates/comfyui-touch-resize >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "github: EXISTS" || echo "github: free"

All three must report free. Stop and surface any collision.

Phase 2 — Scaffold + local green check

python3 .claude/skills/comfyui-node-scaffold/scaffold.py --name comfyui-touch-resize --display "Touch Resize" --desc "Selection-gated pinch-to-resize for ComfyUI nodes and groups on touch devices." --variant gesture

Then bring the pack to green locally (the scaffold prints these too):

cd comfyui-touch-resize

uv sync --group dev

npm install --no-audit --no-fund

just check

just check must pass before anything is pushed. If it fails, fix locally and re-run — do not create the remote repo on a red pack.

Phase 3 — Create the GitHub repo and seed main

Seed main directly as the first commit — no scaffold branch, no PR. The repo has no branch protection yet (gitops adds it on adoption in Phase 5), so this is allowed, and it avoids the branch juggling you'd otherwise hit: if the first push were a feature branch, main would be missing on origin, forcing a later rename + default-branch change + base-branch fixups. Pushing main first sidesteps all of it. Implementation work afterward goes through feature-branch PRs as normal (protection is live by then).

git init -b main

git add -A

git commit -m "feat: scaffold comfyui-touch-resize (gesture pack)"

gh repo create laurigates/comfyui-touch-resize --public --source . --remote origin --push

Branch-protection hook note (expect this): in a Claude Code session the branch-protection hook will block the agent from git add/commit on main (confirmed on the first real run). For a brand-new, not-yet-protected repo this is a false positive. Hand the whole seed to the user as one paste-safe line to run with the ! prefix, e.g.:

cd <repo> && git add -A && git commit -m "feat: scaffold <name> (gesture pack)" && gh repo create laurigates/<name> --public --source . --remote origin --push

(git add -A and &&-chaining are fine in the user's shell — those hooks are agent-side.) Do not work around it by seeding a feature branch — that reintroduces the missing-main/rename juggling this phase exists to avoid. Don't fight the hook with quoting tricks either.

The --push makes the seeded main the default branch.

Phase 4 — Open the gitops PR (entry + transient import block)

Two edits in the gitops/ repo, on a dedicated branch.

gitops/repositories.tf — add to the active repositories locals block, next to the other comfyui-* entries (mirror comfyui-touch-connect):

    "comfyui-touch-resize" = {
      description    = "Selection-gated pinch-to-resize for ComfyUI nodes and groups on touch devices"
      visibility     = "public"
      release_please = true
      comfy_registry = true
      topics         = ["comfyui", "comfyui-nodes", "mobile", "touch", "resize"]
    }

gitops/main.tf — add a transient import block alongside the existing ones at the top of the file:

import {
  to = github_repository.this["comfyui-touch-resize"]
  id = "comfyui-touch-resize"
}

Validate, branch, commit, push, open the PR (run inside gitops/):

just check

git -C gitops switch -c feat/adopt-comfyui-touch-resize

git -C gitops add repositories.tf main.tf

git -C gitops commit -m "feat: adopt comfyui-touch-resize (comfy_registry)"

git -C gitops push -u origin feat/adopt-comfyui-touch-resize

gh pr create -R laurigates/gitops -a laurigates -l chore -l opentofu --title "feat: adopt comfyui-touch-resize (comfy_registry)" --body-file /tmp/gitops-pr-body.md

Write a short body (to /tmp/gitops-pr-body.md) rather than --fill — it's an infra PR that triggers an apply, so spell out what merge does: imports the repo, pushes REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN + release-please credentials, applies the branch-protection ruleset, and that a follow-up PR removes the import block. Use labels chore + opentofu (both exist in the gitops repo; check gh label list -R laurigates/gitops if unsure).

Set metadata per github-metadata-hygiene (assignee laurigates; skip self-reviewer — the author is the running user). Scalr posts a plan check on the PR; the expected plan imports the repo and creates the REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN secret + release-please var/secret + branch-protection ruleset.

Phase 5 — Human gate, then finish

Hand the user the new repo URL and the gitops PR URL. The user merges the gitops PR — that is the Scalr apply trigger on shared infra state. Do not merge it for them.

After the user confirms the Scalr apply landed, verify the wiring and remove the now-dead import block:

gh secret list -R laurigates/comfyui-touch-resize

gh api repos/laurigates/comfyui-touch-resize/actions/variables/RELEASE_PLEASE_APP_ID --jq .name

REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN should be listed; the variable lookup should return its name. Then open the import-block-removal follow-up PR (it is a one-time adoption artifact — leaving it is harmless but untidy):

git -C gitops switch -c chore/remove-comfyui-touch-resize-import

Remove the import { … "comfyui-touch-resize" … } block from main.tf, then:

git -C gitops commit -am "chore: remove one-time import block for comfyui-touch-resize"

git -C gitops push -u origin chore/remove-comfyui-touch-resize-import

gh pr create -R laurigates/gitops -a laurigates -l chore --fill --title "chore: remove comfyui-touch-resize import block"

Phase 6 — Hand back to implementation

The pipeline is now live: conventional-commit feature PRs → merge → release-please PR → merge → tag → publish.yml publishes to registry.comfy.org. Tell the user what's left:

• Implement the pack logic (for gesture: tune web/js/<short>.js — groups support, affordance hint, the anisotropic-scale TODO).
• First merged feat:/fix: commits drive the first release-please PR.

Log durable follow-ups (groups support, browser smoke matrix, the jsdom modal DOM test gap) to project:comfyui-nodes per taskwarrior-cross-session.

Failure modes & guards

Notes

• The orchestrator never runs tofu apply — all applies go through Scalr on merge (see gitops/CLAUDE.md). Local gitops work is plan/validate only.
• Screenshots pipeline + docs/blueprint/ PRD/ADR set are not scaffolded; add them later from a reference pack if the pack warrants them.