ComfyUI wrote straight to the agent's pipe. An agent that restarts and
adopts the replica leaves that pipe with no reader, and ComfyUI's next
progress bar failed with a broken pipe, failing the workflow. It now
writes to a pipe of the gate's, which reads for as long as ComfyUI writes
and passes on what it can.
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ComfyUI lists its base directory's custom_nodes before anything else and
exits when there is none.
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A model whose profiles run engine comfyui is placed on a node's card like
any other, and makes pictures there. ComfyUI asks for no key, so the agent
starts it behind llmgw comfyui-gate: ComfyUI on the loopback, the gate on
the replica's port demanding the replica's key and letting through only
what the router asks — queueing, waiting, fetching, cancelling. The gate
answers the agent's /health and /v1/models, shows ComfyUI the fetched
weights by their own names, and gives each replica its own base directory.
ComfyUI runs as the gate's child, so its card memory is the replica's.
A node offers the engine when agent.yaml names its ComfyUI
(engines.comfyui.dir). The model's comfyui: block names the workflow and,
for a source that is a set of files, the checkpoint.
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ComfyUI saves the whole workflow — prompt, checkpoint, nodes — as PNG text
chunks in every picture. They are taken out before the picture is sent.
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An external model with api: comfyui is a ComfyUI server. A request for
pictures goes through the same key, allowlist, limit, admission and guard
checks as any other; at the replica it becomes a workflow — a built-in
(flux-schnell, flux-dev) or a JSON file in API format, with {{prompt}},
{{width}}, {{seed}} and the like filled in — queued, waited on, and its
pictures sent back as b64_json. A client that leaves takes its workflow
off the queue or interrupts it. ComfyUI is never scraped for metrics.
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