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Why

ComfyUI addresses a prompt's execution events to only the socket whose clientId submitted it (execution.py / comfy_execution/progress.py → send_sync(..., server.client_id) → send_json delivers to self.sockets[sid] and silently drops otherwise).

So when a tool runs a workflow on a user's behalf — the in-app agent shells out to comfy run — the user's browser tab is never told anything: no node highlights, no progress, no outputs. Root cause for PM-1875.

What

comfy run --client-id <id> submits under a caller-supplied clientId instead of minting a fresh UUID, so those events reach the client that is actually watching.

Borrowing a live client's id makes ComfyUI's session-resume behaviour a hazard: its /ws handler pops any socket already registered under an incoming clientId without closing it, so anything that reconnects as the borrowed id silences the tab with no close event and therefore no reconnect — dark until the page is reloaded. Every attach path is closed:

Path Guard
run --wait refused up front (client_id_rejected); connect() also raises if reached
run --where cloud refused — the flag addresses a local ComfyUI socket, and cloud fans events out per user/workspace
detached watcher unaffected — _watch-job is HTTP-poll only, never opens /ws
jobs watch declines to re-attach to a borrowed run and polls status instead

The borrowed marker is stamped both in the job state file and in the submitted extra_data. The state file alone is not a shared channel — the in-app agent runs the CLI under a sandboxed HOME it deletes at turn end, so the user's own jobs watch could never see the state of exactly the runs that borrow an id. ComfyUI preserves unknown extra_data keys and serves them back from /queue and /history, so every watcher can read it regardless of machine or config root.

A clientId is capability-bearing in ComfyUI's model (knowing it is enough to receive another client's events and evict its socket), so it is redacted from telemetry — the key survives so flag usage stays measurable.

Verification

Against a live ComfyUI on :8188 with the frontend dev server on :5173, same workflow, only client_id differing:

without the flag with --client-id <tab's id>
exec events reaching the tab none (status only) all 6
canvas samples with a running stroke 0 113
images on the Save Image node 0 24

Marker round-trip confirmed on the real server (/queue while running and /history after), and with the state file deleted — the agent's actual situation — the watch still refuses the id (_resolve_watch_client_id → None, _client_id_withheld → True) while an ordinary run still resolves its own.

  • ruff check . / ruff format --check clean
  • Full pytest: 8732 passed; the 43 failures are identical to origin/main (sandbox env), 0 introduced
  • 17 new tests in tests/comfy_cli/command/test_run_client_id.py

Notes for review

  • clientIDMinCLI on the cloud side is pinned to 1.23.0. Please confirm --client-id actually ships in that release — the consumer gates on it and fails closed, so a mismatch leaves the feature silently off.
  • docs/json-output.md now warns against forcing --client-id on a borrowed run; that is the one action that evicts the user's tab.

Part of a three-repo change with Comfy-Org/cloud and Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend.

Screenshots

Before: comfy run without --client-id, job actively executing but no node highlight, Total 0%, Save Image node empty

After: comfy run --client-id <tab id>, the Blur Image node outlined green while the CLI-submitted run executes

After: the Save Image node shows the result of the CLI-submitted run

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ComfyUI addresses a prompt's execution events only to the socket whose
clientId submitted it. An agent that runs a workflow on the user's behalf
therefore leaves the user's canvas dark: no node highlights, no progress,
no outputs (PM-1875).

--client-id submits under a caller-supplied clientId instead of a freshly
minted one, so those events reach the client that is actually watching.

Borrowing a LIVE client's id makes ComfyUI's session-resume behaviour a
hazard: its /ws handler pops any socket already registered under an
incoming clientId, so anything that reconnects as the borrowed id would
silence the client the flag exists to feed. Both attach paths are closed:

- --wait is refused outright (client_id_rejected), and connect() raises if
  it is ever reached another way;
- the run is recorded with client_id_borrowed, and jobs watch declines to
  re-attach to a borrowed id, degrading to /history instead.

The detached watcher is poll-only, so it is unaffected.

--client-id is local-only; cloud fans execution events out per
user/workspace regardless of submitter.
Review follow-ups on --client-id:

- A ComfyUI clientId is capability-bearing (it both receives a client's
  execution events and evicts its socket), but tracking's parameter
  snapshot shipped it verbatim on execution_start/_success/_error. Add it
  to _SENSITIVE_EXACT so it is redacted and still counted.
- jobs watch told a user whose run was deliberately withheld that it
  "could not resolve the submitting client_id" and suggested passing
  --client-id, which performs exactly the eviction the guard prevents.
  Distinguish withheld from unresolvable and say the right thing.
- A withheld watch holds a fresh-id socket nothing will ever address, so
  it sat out the full --timeout before its first /history read. Reconcile
  on a 2s cadence instead.
- Record that the borrowed guard only reaches as far as our own state
  file: /queue and /history hand the id back with no borrowed marker.
- Document client_id_rejected in docs/json-output.md and the flag in
  CHANGELOG.md.
… disk

The guard added with --client-id read client_id_borrowed only from our own
job state file, which made it inert for exactly the runs it protects: the
in-app agent runs comfy-cli under a sandboxed HOME it deletes at turn end,
so the user's own `comfy jobs watch` can never see that run's state. It
then recovered the borrowed id from /queue or /history and attached as it.
ComfyUI pops the displaced socket WITHOUT closing it, so the tab fires no
close event, never reconnects, and goes dark for that run and every run
after it until the page is reloaded.

Stamp the marker into the submitted extra_data as well. ComfyUI preserves
unknown extra_data keys (only the two credential keys are stripped) and
serves the slot back from both /queue and /history, so every watcher can
read it regardless of config root or machine. Verified against a live
ComfyUI: the marker round-trips through both endpoints, and with the state
file deleted the watch still refuses the id while an ordinary run still
resolves its own.

The previous docstring claimed closing this needed a server-side signal
ComfyUI does not emit. That was wrong, and is corrected.
Resolution withholds a borrowed id on purpose, but the agent-facing doc
still said "use --client-id to force a specific one" with no caveat — the
one action that takes the user's tab off its own socket. Also correct the
CHANGELOG: the cloud rejection is on the RESOLVED target, so COMFY_WHERE
or a saved default triggers it with no flag present.
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The CLI accepts an optional client ID for local runs and records when a run borrows that ID. Job watches detect borrowed IDs and poll job status rather than re-attaching to the client’s WebSocket.

Changes: Borrowed Client Runs

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Accept and submit borrowed client IDs
comfy_cli/cmdline.py, comfy_cli/command/run/*, comfy_cli/jobs_state.py, comfy_cli/error_codes.py, comfy_cli/tracking.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/test_run_client_id.py, CHANGELOG.md
comfy run validates and forwards --client-id for local runs. Execution submits the borrowed ID with a marker in prompt metadata and records it in job state. The CLI rejects blank IDs, --wait, and cloud targeting. Telemetry redacts the ID.
Detect borrowed IDs and poll job status
comfy_cli/command/jobs.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/test_run_client_id.py, docs/json-output.md
comfy jobs watch checks local state and server metadata for borrowed-client markers. It rejects an explicit client ID for these runs and polls status at two-second intervals. The documentation describes the watch behavior and rejection error.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RunCLI as comfy run
  participant WorkflowExecution
  participant ComfyServer as Comfy server
  RunCLI->>WorkflowExecution: Pass validated client_id
  WorkflowExecution->>ComfyServer: Queue prompt with client_id and borrowed marker
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sequenceDiagram
  participant JobsWatch as comfy jobs watch
  participant JobRecords as Local state and server records
  participant ComfyServer as Comfy server
  JobsWatch->>JobRecords: Check borrowed-client marker
  JobRecords-->>JobsWatch: Return marker status
  JobsWatch->>ComfyServer: Poll prompt status every two seconds
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Leaving the PR as a draft deliberately: it is one of three coordinated PRs and the cloud side is gated on a comfy-cli release number that does not exist yet (see below). I would rather not flip it to ready, or trigger a manual review, until that is settled — happy to do either if a maintainer prefers.

The one thing that genuinely needs a human decision before this merges:

--client-id must ship in the version the cloud agent gates on. Comfy-Org/cloud#11874 pins clientIDMinCLI = "1.23.0", chosen because the newest tag here is v1.22.0 and this flag sits under ## [Unreleased]. The gate fails closed, so a mismatch does not break anything — it just leaves the feature silently off (now a one-shot Warn on the cloud side, so at least it says so). If this lands in a 1.22.x patch instead, that constant needs updating in lockstep.

Companion PRs: Comfy-Org/cloud#11874, Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend#20090.

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The registry and the run error table listed only `wait` and `cloud`. The
code emits four reasons across two commands: `empty`, `cloud` and `wait`
from `comfy run`, and `borrowed` from `comfy jobs watch` on a prompt that
borrowed a live client's id. A consumer branching on `details.reason` would
have met two values the docs never mentioned.

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borrowed run 'takes that client off its own socket'. Since a2adb5d that is
refused outright before any socket opens, which is the opposite outcome.

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🟡 Minor · Poll borrowed watches without a socket. · jobs.py:2281-2299

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Poll borrowed watches without a socket.

When a nonterminal prompt has the borrowed marker and no --client-id override, watch_cmd still connects a fresh-ID WebSocket and waits in recv() before polling status. If that connection fails, the command exits with ws_disconnected instead of following the promised polling path. Skip WebSocket setup for borrowed watches and poll _snapshot at the withheld-watch cadence; keep the WebSocket path for attached watches.

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Correction to this PR's own "Notes for review" — one item in it is now void, flagging it here since I can't edit the description (this app installation has no pull_requests: write, so both the GraphQL and REST body updates come back 403).

The note currently reads:

clientIDMinCLI on the cloud side is pinned to 1.23.0. Please confirm --client-id actually ships in that release — the consumer gates on it and fails closed, so a mismatch leaves the feature silently off.

No confirmation needed — that constant is gone. Comfy-Org/cloud#11874 replaced the version gate with a capability probe that scans comfy run --help at startup, because the version compare turned out to be inert exactly where it had to work: comfy-cli hardcodes version = "0.0.0" in pyproject.toml and only the publish pipeline rewrites it, so every git, editable and source install reports 0.0.0 — including the agent's own image, which pip-installs comfy-cli from a git+https pin. cliVersionAtLeast("0.0.0", "1.23.0") is false, so the flag would never have been sent and PM-1875 would have stayed broken with every test green.

Measured against this branch's binary, with only the checked-out branch varying:

comfy-cli comfy --version old gate (≥ 1.23.0) run --help probe
main 0.0.0 false → withheld ✅ false → withheld ✅
this branch 0.0.0 false → withheld ❌ true → sent ✅

Practical consequence for this PR: the release number --client-id lands in no longer matters to the consumer, and there is no cross-repo constant to keep in sync. The two can merge in either order.

The other note in that section still stands — docs/json-output.md warning against forcing --client-id on a borrowed run is unaffected.

`jobs watch` refuses to attach to a run that borrowed a live client's
socket, reading the marker from the job state file and from the
extra_data the server echoes back. Both can be unavailable at once: the
state file is routinely invisible to the watcher (the in-app agent
submits under a sandboxed HOME it deletes at turn end), and every
`_http_get_json` failure — timeout, refused, oversize, non-JSON —
collapsed to None, which `_borrowed_from_extra_data` then reported as
"no marker". A transient blip therefore made a borrowed run look
ordinary, and an explicit `--client-id` was attached: the exact eviction
the marker exists to prevent, against the safety property the docstring
states.

Absence of the marker is evidence only once somewhere it could have been
recorded actually answered. `_submitted_extra_data` now returns
(extra_data, conclusive): a positive hit in either store is enough, a
negative needs both endpoints to have answered, and a wrongly shaped body
or a matched entry with no extra_data slot is not an answer. When nothing
settles ownership the watch polls under its own `indeterminate` reason —
not `borrowed`, which would misreport the cause and give the wrong advice
("drop --client-id" vs "retry") — and an explicit override is refused
rather than honoured. A readable state file still settles it on its own,
so the common case is untouched.

This mirrors `_server_confirms_no_record`, which already demands a
positive confirmation rather than trusting an absence of evidence.

`_http_get_json` promised that every failure leaves as a RuntimeError,
the single family every call site catches, but urllib only wraps what the
request raises: a server that accepts the connection and hangs up
surfaces a raw http.client.RemoteDisconnected out of getresponse(), which
crashed `jobs watch` mid-decision with a traceback. Widen the net to
OSError (URLError is a subclass) plus HTTPException for the siblings that
are not OSError at all.

Fold `_resolve_watch_client_id` and `_client_id_withheld` into
`_select_watch_client_id`. Both lost their last production call site when
selection became atomic, leaving tests that monkeypatched the former to
steer a watch path that no longer called it, and both carried the same
flaw: bool and str|None cannot distinguish borrowed from indeterminate.
Review caught the guard still failing open on a neighbouring flavour of
the same fallacy it was built to fix. `_submitted_extra_data` tracked
whether each endpoint "answered" and reported a conclusive absence when
both did — but a 200 whose body merely lacks `queue_running` /
`queue_pending`, or a proxy error page, counted as an answer. The queue
walk only cleared the flag for a non-list section, not a missing one, so
`/queue` returning `{}` while a borrowed run was LIVE read as "no
marker", and an explicit --client-id was attached: the eviction the
marker exists to prevent, reachable with no record loss at all.

Drop the endpoint bookkeeping rather than patch it. The flag now answers
one question — did we get this prompt's own record in our hands? A match
in either store with a reachable extra_data slot is the submitted record
and counts; everything else does not, including a server that answered
and simply never mentioned the prompt. That removes the whole class of
"this body didn't say so, therefore it isn't so" reasoning instead of
fixing one instance of it, and makes the absolute claim the docs and
error registry already made about borrowed runs actually true.

A prompt neither store mentions now polls instead of opening a fresh-uuid
socket. That socket could never receive anything, and the poll path
reaches the same prompt_not_found deadline, so the only change is that
the "pass --client-id if you know it" advice is no longer printed where
passing one would be refused.

Also from review:
- `jobs watch --client-id` rejects a blank value and strips a padded one,
  as `comfy run` does; "  " used to be attached as a literal client_id.
- Its help text names the borrowed/indeterminate refusals.
- The borrowed banner no longer asserts the other client is "still
  receiving" events, which nothing here establishes.
- Document that an already-terminal prompt short-circuits before this
  runs, so --client-id is ignored rather than refused there (no socket is
  opened on that path).
- test_borrowed_poll_preserves_a_failed_runs_error asserted on a mapping
  that never held the key, passing vacuously; pin the real relocation.
- Cover the ordinary case through the REAL selector — the integration
  tests monkeypatch it away, so nothing pinned that a normal run still
  opens a socket.
Review round 2. The implementation held, but text this branch wrote
overstated it in four places, and the blank-id check sat behind two
early returns.

Ordering: the `empty` refusal ran after the cloud branch and after the
server probe, so `jobs watch --where cloud --client-id ""` and the same
against a stopped server discarded the flag in silence — while the
registry entry claimed BOTH commands raise `empty` and that the refusal
precedes any socket. It needs neither host nor server, only the string,
so it now runs first, as `comfy run` already does it.

Docs, now matching the code rather than the intent:
- The guard is PER PROMPT. It reads the marker on the prompt being
  watched, not on the id passed, so naming a borrowed client's id while
  watching a different unmarked prompt is still honoured and still
  evicts it. "There is no way to take that client off its own socket"
  claimed otherwise, eleven lines above the paragraph conceding the
  general case.
- The terminal short-circuit ignores a NON-EMPTY id; `empty` is still
  refused there.
- schemas/jobs.json described `attached: false` as "the id could not be
  resolved" and `client_id` as falling back to a fresh id. This branch
  gave both a second meaning: on a poll-only watch the id was resolved
  and deliberately withheld, and no socket was opened at all.
- `--timeout` does not pace a poll-only watch (fixed 2s); it only sizes
  that watch's not-found deadline.
- The cloud-target enumeration listed three of the five sources
  `where.resolve` actually uses.
- Merge the duplicate `### Fixed` heading I added to Unreleased.

Not taken: short-circuiting the server read when the state file already
names the submitter, to save a round-trip. It would put the borrowed
refusal in two places, and this guard has now failed review twice
precisely because the marker check was spread across conditions. One
loopback GET is the cheaper mistake.
Review round 3 found the guard asking the wrong question. The marker
rides a PROMPT, but what it protects is a SOCKET, and the two come apart:
`jobs watch P_ORDINARY --client-id TAB`, where TAB is a live client some
OTHER queued run is feeding, passed every check — P_ORDINARY is clean —
and attached as TAB, evicting the tab exactly as if the borrowed run had
been watched directly. An agent that sees `attached: false` on a quiet
run and retries with the tab id it already holds walks straight into it.

`_submitted_extra_data` already walks the whole queue, so it now returns
a `_SubmittedRecord` carrying the borrowed client_ids it passed on the
way, from the same body as the prompt's own record — one read, so the
two cannot disagree. An explicit id in that set is refused as
`borrowed`. An unrelated override and the no-flag path are untouched.

The residual bound is real and now stated rather than implied: the ids
come from `/queue`, so a run already out of the queue cannot be
consulted. Separately, this only ever protected runs comfy-cli submitted
— a browser tab submitting its own prompt stamps no marker — and closing
THAT would mean never re-attaching to any prompt, which is the whole
feature. Docs, registry and --help now say both.

Also from review: the already-terminal exit is a failed `jobs watch` too,
but it handed `_snapshot`'s raw failure to `_emit_terminal` under `error`
rather than `execution_error`. Trimming and redaction key on the latter,
so that envelope carried the full traceback and a `current_inputs` that
can hold an api_key — and did not have the shape the CHANGELOG claimed
for a failed watch. Promote it as the live path does; it then gets both.

The envelope also gains `poll_reason`. Pretty mode explained in prose why
no socket was opened; `--json` showed `attached: false` with no way to
tell `borrowed` (drop --client-id) from `indeterminate` (retry).
Round 3 added the queue-wide borrowed-id check; round 4 found I had given
it no way to say whether it ran. `borrowed_ids` is empty both when no run
has borrowed anything and when `/queue` never came back, and the
`indeterminate` net was gated on `job is None` — so a watched prompt with
a readable state file skipped it entirely and an explicit `--client-id`
sailed through to `ws.connect`. A blipped lookup silently evicted a live
tab on a run squarely inside the protected set, which is the same
absence-of-evidence reasoning this module keeps being fixed for.

`_SubmittedRecord` now carries `queue_read` beside `read`, because they
are different facts: one covers this prompt's own record, the other the
queue-wide sweep. An explicit id is refused as `indeterminate` when the
sweep did not run, independently of the state file — a local record
vouches for THIS run and says nothing about whose socket the caller just
named. `queue_read` needs BOTH sections walkable: a borrowed run in the
one we could not read would be missing from the census without the
census knowing. The unrequested path is untouched, so an ordinary run
still resolves its recorded id and attaches.

Also:
- `read=True` required only that the `extra_data` slot be present, not
  that it be a dict, while the marker test needs a dict — so a non-dict
  slot counted as a record positively read and unmarked. Stock ComfyUI
  cannot produce one, but a safety primitive should not depend on that.
- The terminal short-circuit published `client_id` and `attached` but not
  `poll_reason`, which the schema promised was null there; a consumer
  following the schema got a KeyError on the path it was pointed down.
- `poll_reason` had no test at all, which is how that shipped. Both poll
  paths now assert it and validate against the published schema, so the
  enum is exercised with a non-null value.
- The `answered_empty_server` fixture described `read=True, extra=None`
  as "the server answered and holds no record", which production reports
  as `read=False`. It documented a contract that does not exist.
- Five text sites bounded the id check by "a run that has already left
  the queue" and omitted "the queue read failed". Both now stated.
Round 5 (PASS, non-blocking polish). Four situations reach the two
published `reason` values, and `watch_cmd` rendered them from a two-way
branch, so half the refusals described the other half's situation and
gave advice that did the opposite of what the command does. Dropping
`--client-id` makes a run carrying its OWN marker poll; for the other
three it makes the watch ATTACH under its own resolved id. A prompt with
a perfectly readable state file was also told it "has no record we could
read" when it was the /queue census that failed.

`_ClientIdRejected` now carries a four-way cause and the message/hint
come from a table keyed on it. The published `reason` stays the
documented pair, so the machine contract is unchanged.

Rest of the round, all text or test quality:
- docs claimed client_id/attached on "every" terminal envelope; cloud
  watch emits neither. Restore the `local` qualifier that was there.
- schema still described `execution_error` as cloud-only; this branch
  made local watch publish it too, from /history.
- changelog named only one of the two envelope moves, and did not say
  `error.details.error` is gone from the already-terminal path.
- the pretty panel renders its error row from the key that path promotes,
  so render before promoting, not after.
- `test_a_half_walkable_queue_is_not_a_census` left the record-side gate
  able to raise the same `indeterminate`, so it passed with the census
  guard deleted. Give it the readable state file that isolates it.
- `_record()`'s default modelled `read=True, extra=None`, a pair
  `_submitted_extra_data` never returns; derive it as production does.
- the parametrised ids drifted from their data at case 10, naming the
  wrong scenario on failure.
Review pointed out that the `execution_error` promotion applies to every
error-ending `jobs watch`, not only the borrowed/poll-only one my commit
message named, and that the reference doc described it only for the
`--client-id` case. Agreed on both, and the broader scope is the point:
the shared classifier reads that key to produce error.code/message/hint,
and the trimming that scrubs `current_inputs` and caps `traceback` keys
on it too, so a failure left anywhere else arrives unclassified AND
unredacted.

Document it as a general field on both of the command's exits, name the
two earlier locations as gone, and say `data.details` keeps the rest.

`poll_reason` had the same gap in the other direction: added to the
envelope and to schemas/jobs.json last round, never described here —
which is where a --json consumer would look to learn that `borrowed`
and `indeterminate` want opposite responses.

Every claim checked against a real envelope rather than the source:
both exits publish `execution_error`, neither publishes `details.error`
or `data.error`, `current_inputs` comes back scrubbed and `traceback`
capped to its last two frames, the live path keeps `data.details`, and
`poll_reason` is null on the already-terminal short-circuit.
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#970 (comment)

prompt_id reaches the URL via raw f-string interpolation at four call
sites (two already fixed call sites elsewhere in this file use
urllib.parse.quote, which is the established convention here). An id
containing ?, #, or ../ would retarget the request against the local
ComfyUI server instead of raising a clear error. The review flagged one
instance; the other three are the identical pattern and get the same fix.
Three review findings on WorkflowExecution's borrowed-client handling:

#970 (comment)
bool(client_id) treated a whitespace-only id as borrowed. Strip before
the bool() check, matching the .strip() convention cmdline.py already
uses at the CLI entry point -- this class is a reusable surface a
programmatic caller can construct directly, bypassing that validation.

#970 (comment)
execution.connect()'s borrowed-client RuntimeError had no catcher in
execute(); cmdline.py already rejects --wait + --client-id before
dispatch so this was unreachable through the CLI, but a programmatic
caller bypassing that validation would crash with a raw traceback.
Checked before the try/except instead of adding a new except clause,
since execute() is already at mccabe's ratcheted complexity ceiling
(pyproject.toml: 48, "never raise it") -- extracted to
_reject_borrowed_wait so the check costs one call site, not one branch.

#970 (comment)
The borrowed-client marker write was one-directional: only ever set to
True, never cleared. A caller-supplied extra_data already carrying the
key would survive into a genuinely non-borrowed submission, marking
every future watcher poll-only for a run that was never borrowed. Pop
the key in the non-borrowed branch.

Both test files mock WorkflowExecution with bare MagicMock(), which
auto-vivifies an unconfigured .borrowed_client_id as a truthy child
mock -- 41 tests across test_run.py/test_run_prompt.py were tripping
the new _reject_borrowed_wait check as a false positive. Set
borrowed_client_id=False explicitly on every such fixture.

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Blocking: a live jobs watch failure is not promoted to execution_error, contrary to the new contract

docs/json-output.md and the CHANGELOG now say that every jobs watch ending in status: "error" carries the structured failure under data.execution_error, on both the live and the poll exits.

The most common path doesn't do this: an attached watch that receives the WS execution_error event. _watch_execution_error sets state.end_details = data, which is the event payload and has no error key. So the if final_status == "error" and isinstance(details.get("error"), dict) promotion in watch_cmd never fires. The failure stays at error.details.details (exception_message, node_type, traceback_tail, …) and execution_error is missing. Only the poll/snapshot exits get promoted, because there end_details is a _snapshot dict that carries error.

Repro with the existing _ScriptedWS / _run_local_watch harness: state file present, plus one {"type":"execution_error","data":{node_id, node_type, exception_message, traceback, current_inputs}} message. The envelope has no execution_error key.

This leaves two shapes for the same failure. An agent coded to the documented key gets nothing on a normal live watch.

Suggested fix: also promote on the WS path, e.g. set payload["execution_error"] = details when end_reason == "error" and end_details came from the event. Please add a live-path test alongside the poll-path ones.

Also: the branch conflicts with main in comfy_cli/tracking.py (the client_id redaction-set addition) and needs a rebase.

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Thanks, you're right. The live exit never hit the promotion because the WS event payload has no error key. Fixed in 722446f:

  • Live-path promotion: _watch_execution_error now stores the event on _WatchState.execution_error. When watch_cmd finishes with status: "error" and the poll/snapshot promotion hasn't already set execution_error, it copies that event into payload["execution_error"]. The event has the same shape /history stores under status.messages, so the key and its contents now match on both exits. It still goes through _emit_terminal's trim_record, so current_inputs is redacted and the traceback is capped to its tail, the same as on the poll path. details is unchanged for existing consumers.
  • Test: test_watch_live_execution_error_is_promoted_to_execution_error uses the _ScriptedWS / _run_local_watch harness, with a state file and a single execution_error message. It asserts that the watch is attached, the code is execution_error, execution_error.{node_type,node_id,exception_message} are present, current_inputs is absent and the traceback is capped to 2 frames.
  • Conflict: I merged main and resolved the tracking.py conflict by keeping both sides (client_id plus main's query / repo). I merged rather than rebased because the branch already contained a merge commit and a rebase would mean a force-push.

ruff check and ruff format --check are clean. In the full test suite, 9313 passed and 6 failed: 5 in tests/comfy_cli/agent/test_command.py (permissions) and 1 in test_http.py. All 6 fail the same way on a clean origin/main checkout, so this change didn't cause them.

One thing I found that this PR doesn't change and I'm not fixing here: if a WS execution_error event has no traceback, _emit_terminal leaves details raw (it only rebuilds it when "traceback" in details). The unredacted current_inputs then stays in error.details.details, even though the new execution_error copy is scrubbed. ComfyUI normally sends a traceback, so this rarely happens. I'm happy to fix it in a follow-up, or here if you'd like it in this PR.

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*PR Created by the Glary-Bot Agent*

---

## Why

ComfyUI delivers a prompt's execution events only to the socket that
submitted it. A local run the agent starts on our behalf is submitted by
comfy-cli under its own freshly-minted id, so this tab is never told
anything: no node highlights, no progress, and nothing in the Save node.
Root cause for
[PM-1875](https://linear.app/comfyorg/issue/PM-1875/local-no-canvas-highlights-showing-where-the-agent-is-in-the-workflow).

## What

Send `api.clientId` as `client_id` on the turn POST, so the agent can
submit those runs as this tab.

Read ambiently in the REST client rather than threaded through
`PostMessageInput` like every neighbouring field: it belongs to the
socket, not to the message. It is `undefined` until the socket's first
`status` frame, which `withoutUndefined` then omits — so a turn posted
before the handshake simply behaves as it does today.

Three lines of real change. `client_id` is in the cloud `openapi.yaml`
(see the companion PR) and is typed locally only until the next
`@comfyorg/ingest-types` release carries it; `client_message_id` is not
in that spec at all and stays local, which the old comment implied
otherwise.

## Verification

- `agentRestClient.test.ts`: 75 passed, including two new cases — the id
is on the wire when the socket has reported one, and the key is absent
before it has.
- Whole agent subtree: 2664 passed. The one failure
(`agentSubgraphDefinitions.test.ts`, a lib0 stack-depth test) reproduces
identically on `main`.
- `oxfmt`, `oxlint --type-aware`, `eslint`, and `pnpm typecheck:app` all
clean (pre-commit hook).
- The cloud repo's cross-repo contract check
(`scripts/check-ingest-fe-types.sh`) regenerated
`@comfyorg/ingest-types` from the updated spec and typechecked this
whole frontend against it: clean.

End-to-end against a live local ComfyUI, submitting under the tab's own
client id reproduces exactly what the agent will now do — the green
running-node outline mid-run, and the images on the Save Image node
afterwards. Screenshots below; the first is the current behaviour for
comparison.

## Known limitation (pre-existing, not introduced here)

The frontend applies `executed` against whatever graph the tab currently
shows — `app.ts` has no `prompt_id`→workflow guard, and
`executionStore.storeJob` is only called from our own `queuePrompt`, so
an agent-submitted prompt is never bound to a workflow. Consequences:
`isActiveWorkflowRunning` stays false for the run (one consumer —
`LinearProgressBar` opacity), and switching tabs mid-run can land
outputs on the wrong canvas. This is existing behaviour for any queued
prompt, but agent turns are long, so the switch window is much wider.
Worth a PM-1875 follow-up; deliberately out of scope here since fixing
it means changing shared execution plumbing that governs native
Run-button runs too.

Part of a three-repo change with `Comfy-Org/comfy-cli#970` and
`Comfy-Org/cloud#11874`.

## Screenshots

![Current behaviour: an agent-style run is executing but the canvas
shows no node highlight, Total 0%, and the Save Image node is
empty](https://pub-1fd11710d4c8405b948c9edc4287a3f2.r2.dev/sessions/23327b9b77d08b32116e27e41e04bc76216a102475e1dd9b0dff8913a3116666/pr-images/1791109412232-864c0d24-6766-4367-a734-8d6bf6fa44e1.png)

![With the tab's client id shared: the Blur Image node is outlined green
while the externally-submitted run
executes](https://pub-1fd11710d4c8405b948c9edc4287a3f2.r2.dev/sessions/23327b9b77d08b32116e27e41e04bc76216a102475e1dd9b0dff8913a3116666/pr-images/1791109412578-5e1ed4a9-452d-4f27-822e-b9347c8b8d09.png)

![With the tab's client id shared: the Save Image node renders the
result of the externally-submitted
run](https://pub-1fd11710d4c8405b948c9edc4287a3f2.r2.dev/sessions/23327b9b77d08b32116e27e41e04bc76216a102475e1dd9b0dff8913a3116666/pr-images/1791109412915-902d9f56-5847-44fd-846b-c3737b126dea.png)

---

## Rebased onto main (2026-10-20)

Conflict resolved, behaviour unchanged. Generated
`AgentPostMessageRequest` now has `client_id`, so the local type
widening is gone.

<details><summary>Full context for agent readers</summary>

- Old head `4ae69b3559`, conflicting with `main`. Rebased onto
`9725d28172`; the change is now one wire line (`client_id:
api.clientId`) plus two unit cases and a per-test `clientId` reset
(`mockReset` does not clear plain fields).
- The docs-only commit `4ae69b3559` was dropped: the `TurnPostBody`
comment it corrected no longer exists on `main`. The "typed locally"
paragraph above is therefore historical.
- `agentRestClient.test.ts`: 126 passed. Removing the wire line fails
the new positive case.
- Pre-commit task set run over the diff (`lint-staged
--diff=origin/main...HEAD`: oxfmt, oxlint, eslint, server-facts,
`typecheck:app`): clean.
- Black-box: the stacked spec from #20091/#20097
(`browser_tests/tests/agent/agentLocalRunClientId.spec.ts`), applied on
this head with two fixture adaptations for changes on `main`, passes 3/3
locally (`--project=cloud`). With the wire line removed it fails at the
`client_id` wire assertion. Those adaptations belong to the dependents,
not this PR.
- The empty commit after it only re-fires CI: the first run after the
rebase received the pre-rebase base SHA, so the server-fact gate diffed
all of `main` since 2026-10-04.

</details>

---------

Co-authored-by: glary <glary@comfy.org>
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christian-byrne dismissed skishore23’s stale review October 21, 2026 00:48

Addressed: the live jobs watch execution_error promotion landed in 722446f (13 min after this review), with the suggested _ScriptedWS live-path test. That test fails on parent 198a700 with KeyError 'execution_error' and passes at 722446f and the current head 5288907 (merge of main a9c5e20, CHANGELOG conflict only). Evidence: program receipt localvibe-cli970-reviewfix-1.

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