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feat(workflow): add_node mints Note/MarkdownNote with --text (op-vocabulary v1.6) - #916

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add_node now mints Note and MarkdownNote with a text field instead of refusing them. Fixes the agent's "cannot add Note" failure (Linear PM-983).
Reroute, PrimitiveNode, GetNode, SetNode stay refused. Execution and capture unchanged.
TDD: 20 of 29 new tests red before the change; 33 green after; 675-test regression sweep green.

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Why

Every agent authoring path (add-node command, apply_specs, generate --emit-ops) funnels into add_node, which refused any class in UI_ONLY_NODE_TYPES with UnknownNodeType(ui_only=True). Production traces show the In-App Agent repeatedly asking for Note and MarkdownNote. Every downstream replica already round-trips these nodes: the comfy-multi-player applier stores an uncatalogued positional widgets_values opaquely and the frontend follower materializes a note with its text box. The CLI refusal was the only gap. RCA and design record: PM-983 comment.

What

  • comfy_cli/layout.py: AUTHORABLE_VIRTUAL_NODE_TYPES = {"Note", "MarkdownNote"} and note_size() (multiline text estimate); assign_positions uses it for those classes.
  • comfy_cli/workflow_ops.py: add_node(..., text: str | None = None). For Note/MarkdownNote with no catalog entry: widgets_values=[text] (default ""), no sockets, default mode/flags/properties, layout size via note_size. Non-string text and text on a catalog class both raise ValueError (catalog widgets are set by name via set_widget; a stray text is an error, not a dropped field). AUTHORABLE_VIRTUAL_NODE_TYPES is asserted to be a strict subset of UI_ONLY_NODE_TYPES. apply_specs passes text through.
  • comfy_cli/command/workflow_edit.py: --text on add-node; the ui_only rejection hint for the other four classes points at Note/MarkdownNote with --text.
  • docs/op-vocabulary-v1.md: amendment v1.6. add_node mints Note/MarkdownNote with text; capture deliberately unchanged so recipes captured before and after stay byte-identical. No op kind added, removed, or re-scoped.
  • Tests: tests/comfy_cli/command/test_add_node_virtual_notes.py (add Note/MarkdownNote, batch specs, other UI-only still refused, excluded from API prompt by workflow_to_api, CLI --text, read-back via notes); refusal loop in test_add_node_unknown_class.py now iterates the four remaining UI-only classes.

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uv run pytest tests/comfy_cli/command/test_add_node_virtual_notes.py tests/comfy_cli/command/test_add_node_unknown_class.py -q   # 33 passed
uv run pytest tests/comfy_cli/command/test_workflow_edit.py tests/comfy_cli/test_workflow_to_api.py tests/comfy_cli/test_op_vocabulary_contract.py tests/comfy_cli/test_layout.py tests/comfy_cli/command/generate -q   # 675 passed
uv run ruff check comfy_cli tests && uv run ruff format --check comfy_cli tests   # clean

Downstream follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • Comfy-Org/cloud: bump the comfy-cli pin in services/agent/Dockerfile and services/agent/cli-runner.Dockerfile together; flip TestAddNodeCannotCreateUIOnlyNodes from cloud#9838 so Note/MarkdownNote succeed while the other four stay refused; update the addNodeInput.class_type schema text.
  • comfy-multi-player: regression test that a Note op in this shape projects back with its text intact (already works).
  • ComfyUI_frontend: follower test that a materialized Note shows its text widget.

Decisions to veto

  • text on a catalog class is a hard error rather than ignored.
  • Only the two annotation classes are authorable; the four data-flow UI-only classes stay refused.
  • note_size reuses the multiline estimate (400 wide).

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Note and MarkdownNote can now be created as workflow nodes with optional text. The change adds note sizing, validation, replay and replacement handling, CLI support, telemetry redaction, and tests. Other UI-only nodes remain unavailable for authoring.

Changes: Annotation node authoring

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Annotation node layout
comfy_cli/layout.py, tests/comfy_cli/test_layout.py
Defines Note and MarkdownNote as authorable virtual nodes and calculates their dimensions for position assignment. Unknown and malformed class types retain fallback handling.
Workflow node authoring and replay
comfy_cli/workflow_ops.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/test_add_node_virtual_notes.py
Validates annotation text, builds frontend-shaped nodes, preserves text across batches, recipes, and replacement, and refuses edits through set_widget. Tests cover creation, replay, replacement, recipes, read-back, API conversion, and remaining UI-only node refusals.
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comfy_cli/command/workflow_edit.py, comfy_cli/error_codes.py, docs/op-vocabulary-v1.md, tests/comfy_cli/command/test_add_node_unknown_class.py, comfy_cli/tracking.py, tests/comfy_cli/test_tracking.py
Adds --text, updates UI-only guidance, documents creation and capture behavior, and redacts text values from workflow command telemetry.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant WorkflowOps
  participant Layout
  participant WorkflowNode
  CLI->>WorkflowOps: add Note or MarkdownNote with text
  WorkflowOps->>Layout: calculate note size
  Layout-->>WorkflowOps: return dimensions
  WorkflowOps->>WorkflowNode: build node with text widget
  WorkflowNode-->>CLI: return workflow node
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- Around line 580-581: Update apply_specs() to distinguish an omitted text key
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GPU e2e job red is baseline, not this PR. Every comfy-cli PR branch since 2026-09-21 fails the same two tests/e2e/test_e2e_uv_compile.py tests.

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The failing job is https://github.com/Comfy-Org/comfy-cli/actions/runs/35686697351/job/106614940019 ("Run Tests on GPU Runners (linux)", step "Retry test e2e but without gpu"). The two failures are test_progressive_conflict and test_node_uv_sync_standalone_conflict, both asserting the string "Conflicting packages (by node pack):" in ComfyUI-Manager cm_cli output; the actual output is a [UnifiedDepResolver] rejected path separator error from the impact-pack git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam2 requirement. Nothing in this PR touches uv-compile, ComfyUI-Manager, or the e2e suite; the change is confined to comfy_cli/command/agent/ and its unit tests, which are green.

The same job failed with the same result on the other open PR branches (test/magnific-selector-catalog, huntcsg/be-11394-deployment-api-keys, fix/insert-workflow-rebase-near-existing-graph, feat/set-title-op-proposal, kishore/validate-gaps, fix/agent-permissions-skill-windows) across 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-22, per https://github.com/Comfy-Org/comfy-cli/actions/workflows/run-on-gpu.yml. A separate fix for the resolver message is needed on main; this PR should not carry it.

christian-byrne added a commit to Comfy-Org/comfy-multi-player that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…(PM-983) (#238)

comfy-cli PR #916 lets add_node author Note and MarkdownNote with --text
(op-vocabulary v1.6). Capture the two ops it mints verbatim and assert the
applier takes them on the opaque path: the single positional text widget
survives apply, project, and persist -> reload byte-for-byte, no sockets,
size from note_size, and a later set_widget is still refused with
opaque_widgets rather than silently no-oped.

Inline test instead of a new fixture op: adding to the frontend-only-notes
session would ripple into MANIFEST.json shas, the clock-matrix snapshot,
README op counts and exhaustiveness counts for no extra coverage.

Linear: PM-983
Upstream: Comfy-Org/comfy-cli#916
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…bulary v1.6)

Production agent traces show the In-App Agent repeatedly asking add_node for
Note / MarkdownNote and being refused by the UI-only deny-list. Every
downstream replica (comfy-multi-player applier, frontend follower) already
round-trips these nodes, so the CLI refusal was the only gap.

- add_node accepts Note/MarkdownNote (AUTHORABLE_VIRTUAL_NODE_TYPES, strict
  subset of UI_ONLY_NODE_TYPES) with optional text -> widgets_values=[text],
  no sockets, layout-sized via note_size.
- text on a catalog class or non-string text -> ValueError.
- apply_specs passes text through; CLI add-node gains --text.
- Reroute/PrimitiveNode/GetNode/SetNode still refused (ui_only).
- workflow_to_api exclusion unchanged; capture unchanged (doc s15.2).
- 29 new tests (TDD: 20 red before implementation), refusal test updated.
…y note

add_node(text=None) means the key was omitted, so a recipe spelling out
"text": null silently became "" and contradicted the documented rule that
non-string text raises ValueError. Only the spec layer can tell absent from
explicit null, so check it there. Test pins spec_index/applied_count and
that nothing is written.
- decide note-ness by class name before consulting the catalog (add_node,
  assign_positions) so a stale or hostile catalog cannot flip a Note into a
  catalog node
- replace the impossible-state assert in add_node with a RuntimeError that
  survives -O
- set_widget on a Note/MarkdownNote raises a targeted error pointing at the
  positional text body instead of a generic no-such-widget
- replace_ops carries the original note's text into the replacement spec
- substitute_params leaves add_node text as prose, not a parameter hole
- assign_positions tolerates a malformed class_type instead of raising
- redact add_node text in telemetry (free-form user prose)
- reword ui_only_node_skipped and the explicit-null text hint per class
- op-vocabulary §15: note body semantics, in-place edit deferred to §15.4
- tests: replace the tautological F9 assert with an in-place mutation check;
  cover name-before-catalog, set_widget on notes, replace_ops text, prose
  text through substitute_params, malformed class_type, telemetry redaction
A malformed `type` such as ["Note"] is truthy, so it passed the
_inexpressible_reason pre-check and then raised TypeError at the
AUTHORABLE_VIRTUAL_NODE_TYPES membership test. Require a non-empty string
so replace_ops keeps its NotExpressibleError contract for malformed input.
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