G2: the gate keeps a websocket open to its ComfyUI under a client id of its
own, puts that id on every workflow it lets through — ComfyUI tells only
the client that queued a workflow how it goes — and keeps the last word on
each: the node running, its step of how many. It answers at
/progress/{prompt_id}. While a job's request waits, the router reads the
queue (queued, n ahead) and the gate (running, node, step, percent) and
writes it into the job, which a client reads back. Only into a job of the
same key: a tag naming another's job writes nothing.
G3, the rest of the plumbing: comfyui.nodes names custom nodes by https
repository and full commit, with the PyPI packages they need. The gate puts
each in the replica's own custom_nodes at that commit and installs the
packages beside the replica, constrained to the versions ComfyUI's
environment already has, which it never changes. The catalog refuses a
branch for a commit and anything but package specs for requirements. An
OBJ a node saves leaves the gateway as a GLB, colours kept, so every mesh
can carry its licence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
