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reorganise-comfy-workflow

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Reorganise an existing ComfyUI workflow layout without changing runtime behavior. Use when the user asks to clean up a messy graph, make it readable, regroup or align nodes, or run the explicit `/reorganise_comfy_workflow` agent route.

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Reorganise Comfy Workflow

Use this when the graph should become easier to review, share, or maintain, but the workflow semantics must stay unchanged. This is a layout-only path: it may move, resize, group, color, flag, or annotate UI furniture, but it must not edit topology, node classes, links, widget values, prompts, runtime payloads, or generated graph state.

The explicit route is available now. Automatic main-flow integration is conservative: the default mode can suggest this skill after a successful functional edit, but it does not silently reorganise, auto-apply, or start a second edit phase.

CLI Path

Start with deterministic offline evidence:

vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --assess

Create a preview candidate before any write to the source workflow:

vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --preview --out cleaned.json

Preview writes sibling artifacts next to cleaned.json:

  • reorganisation_plan.json
  • reorganisation_report.md
  • reorganisation_metrics.json
  • structural_noop_evidence.json
  • reorganisation_preview_manifest.json

Apply only an existing preview manifest:

vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --apply --manifest reorganisation_preview_manifest.json --out cleaned.json

Replacing the source workflow is deliberately explicit:

vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --apply --manifest reorganisation_preview_manifest.json --replace-original

In-place apply preserves a sibling .bak. Apply refuses stale source graphs by checking the preview manifest source hashes and writes the exact previewed candidate instead of recomputing a new layout.

Useful options:

vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --preview --out cleaned.json --spacing compact
vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --preview --out cleaned.json --existing-group-policy preserve
vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --preview --out cleaned.json --force-regroup
vibecomfy reorganise workflow.json --preview --out cleaned.json --sidecar workflow.layout.json

Agent Route

For Comfy app agent turns, use the explicit route:

/reorganise_comfy_workflow

or send route="reorganise".

The route runs after normal durable turn allocation. It should produce a reviewable layout candidate, report, metrics, structural no-op evidence, and candidate UI artifact when gates pass. It must use the existing candidate, idempotency, accept/reject, and apply-eligibility flow; do not introduce a parallel apply path.

Explicit organisational prompts such as "organise this workflow", "clean up the canvas", and "make this readable" canonicalize to route="reorganise" with task="layout_reorganise". Unknown explicit routes still fail closed through the normal clarify path.

Main-Flow Suggestions

Post-edit reorganisation is controlled by:

VIBECOMFY_REORGANISE_AUTO=off|suggest|candidate
  • off: default. Do not inspect successful edits for a follow-up layout offer.
  • suggest: After a successful applyable functional candidate, attach compact layout_reorganisation advisory metadata and mention /reorganise_comfy_workflow when deterministic before/after layout evidence shows the result may be harder to review. The functional candidate remains unchanged.
  • candidate: experimental rollout mode. Only after a successful applyable functional candidate, prepare a layout-only reorganise candidate through the same durable candidate lifecycle. If preview, structural no-op, or apply eligibility checks fail, keep the functional candidate and fail closed.

Invalid config values fail closed to off with visible config metadata. In all modes, functional user intent stays on the functional route; compact layout hints must not override a concrete edit request.

Review Discipline

  • Treat the result as a candidate, not an applied edit.
  • Confirm layout_only_structural_noop is true before presenting an apply path.
  • Confirm the structural/topology hash is unchanged apart from UI-only layout fields. Reorganisation must never add, remove, rewire, or retarget runtime nodes, links, widgets, prompts, or generated API payloads.
  • Use reorganisation_report.md for the user-facing summary and structural_noop_evidence.json for safety evidence.
  • After a successful preview, tell the user where the organised .json and artifacts were written, and offer to open that output folder for review.
  • Also offer a manifest-backed replace-original option. Make clear that replacing the original requires --apply --manifest reorganisation_preview_manifest.json --replace-original; this writes the exact previewed candidate and creates a sibling .bak backup of the original workflow. Do not describe replacement as happening by omission of --out.
  • If parse, validation, compile, stale-source, invalid-ref, duplicate-ownership, or structural-drift checks fail, report that no candidate is available.
  • Do not call semantic providers for CLI assessment or default preview. Provider-backed planning is an explicitly injected orchestration path, not the default skill behavior.
  • If the user asks for functional graph changes after layout cleanup, hand off to edit-comfy-workflow.