Quality-of-life ComfyUI nodes built primarily for CoachBate's own production use — alpha stage, use at your own risk. Should run on any standard ComfyUI setup.

Highlights:

Workflows+ — a fast sidebar panel for searching workflows by name and by contents, with move/rename/delete for both files and folders. Tested against a library of nearly 8,000 workflows across folders and subfolders. Drag and drop your json, audio, image, of video files here and it will open any embedded workflow like it used to
Workflow Model Path Auto-Fix — finds models and LoRAs saved under folder names that don't match your local setup and fixes the widget automatically. A configurable override list lets you redirect specific files, e.g. swapping an fp8 model for an int8 convRot build.
CoachBate Text Preview and Edit — connect a string to its any input; if the upstream node is muted, it falls back to whatever you've typed in instead (hence "Edit"). Unlike similar preview nodes, that resolved value is saved into the workflow's own metadata, so reopening a saved image or video later shows exactly which dynamically generated prompt was used.

Installation

Available in ComfyUI Manager — search for "CoachBate".

Or install manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/CoachBate/ComfyUI-CoachBate.git

Restart ComfyUI. Nodes appear under CoachBate in the Add Node menu.

Nodes

| Node | Description | |-------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Workflows+ | Fast virtualized replacement for the built-in Workflows sidebar — search, sort, pin, manage thousands of workflow files without the browser hanging. Drag and drop files onto the workflows+ panel to open their embedded workflow | | Batch Prompter | Queue one job per prompt line from a multiline text block — all at once, one at a time, or in random order | | Text Preview and Edit | Editable text node that also displays and passes through any connected value | | Numbered Text | Multiline text input with a line-number gutter; passes the full text as a STRING | | Video Combine | VHS Video Combine wrapper that strips API keys from video metadata before saving | | Strip API Key Metadata | Removes API key fields from video metadata | | Load Videos With Audio | Load all the videos in a folder including their audio so they can be edited or saved to new video. | | Lyrics JSON Parser | Parses a custom json format for lyrics/timing that an LLM creates | | Shot Loader | Drives a shotlist.json through Auto Queue one shot per run |

CoachBate Shot Loader

Inputs

| Input | Type | Default | Description | |-------|------|---------|-------------| | json_path | STRING | "" | Absolute path to your shotlist.json | | shot_index | INT | 0 | Seeds the starting position on first run. In increment mode, also jumps forward if set higher than the current position. Updated automatically after each shot. | | mode | ENUM | increment | increment advances forward one shot per run; decrement advances backward; fixed always outputs the same shot |

Outputs

| Output | Type | Description | |--------|------|-------------| | video_prompt | STRING | Full generation prompt for this shot | | duration_seconds | INT | Clip length — multiply by fps for LTX frame count | | shot_id | STRING | Identifier string from the JSON (e.g. "001") | | video_filename_prefix | STRING | Output filename prefix (e.g. "001-BATE ENTERS GYM") | | start_image | STRING | Path to start-frame reference image (empty string if none) | | end_image | STRING | Path to end-frame reference image (empty string if none) | | start_image_prompt | STRING | Text prompt describing the start frame (empty string if none) | | negative_prompt | STRING | Shot-specific negative prompt text (empty string if not set) | | negative_audio_prompt | STRING | Shot-specific negative audio prompt text (empty string if not set) | | total_shots | INT | Number of non-DONE shots remaining | | start_image_strength | FLOAT | Strength for start image conditioning (0.0 if no image or file missing, else JSON value or 1.0) | | end_image_strength | FLOAT | Strength for end image conditioning (0.0 if no image or file missing, else JSON value or 1.0) |

Status display

After each execution a status box is painted directly on the node face:

3/12  001-BATE ENTERS GYM
16s  ➡️ 002-BATE TRAINS

The second line shows [last] when the final active shot has been loaded.

Toast notifications

| Colour | Trigger | |--------|---------| | Blue (info) | Shot loaded — "Shot 3/12: 001-BATE ENTERS GYM" | | Red (error) | Last shot loaded — "Shot 12/12: ... — last shot!" | | Orange (warn) | Shot skipped — start/end image file not found on disk |

shotlist.json format

The file can be a bare array or wrapped in an object with a shots key — both are accepted:

[
  {
    "shot_id": "001",
    "video_filename_prefix": "001-BATE ENTERS GYM",
    "status": "DONE",
    "duration_seconds": 16,
    "scene": "gym_interior",
    "start_image": "C:/path/to/images/gymdoor.png",
    "start_image_strength": 0.85,
    "end_image": "",
    "start_image_prompt": "",
    "video_prompt": "A realistic, cinematic sports-drama scene..."
  },
  {
    "shot_id": "002",
    "...": "..."
  }
]

Or wrapped:

{
  "shots": [ "..." ]
}

Required fields per shot

| Field | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | shot_id | string | Identifier string | | video_filename_prefix | string | Output filename prefix | | duration_seconds | int | Clip length in seconds | | video_prompt | string | Generation prompt |

Optional fields per shot

| Field | Type | Default | Description | |-------|------|---------|-------------| | start_image | string | "" | Path to start-frame image | | end_image | string | "" | Path to end-frame image | | start_image_prompt | string | "" | Text prompt for start frame | | start_image_strength | float | 1.0 | Strength for start image (ignored if no image) | | end_image_strength | float | 1.0 | Strength for end image (ignored if no image) | | negative_prompt | string | "" | Shot-specific negative prompt | | negative_audio_prompt | string | "" | Shot-specific negative audio prompt | | status | string | — | Set to "DONE" to skip a shot permanently | | scene | string | — | Informational only; not returned by the node |

Fields not listed above are loaded and ignored — use them freely for your own production tracking.

Looping through all shots automatically

The node uses a class-level counter (stored_index) that advances one step each time the node executes, matching the behaviour of ComfyUI's built-in JSON Array Iterator node.

Shots with "status": "DONE" are skipped automatically. If all shots are marked DONE the node raises an error rather than looping forever.

To loop through the entire shotlist without manual intervention:

Set mode to increment.
Open the queue panel drop-down (next to the Queue button) and select Auto Queue.
Click Queue once. The node will run shot 0, then shot 1, and so on until it wraps back to 0 (or you stop the queue).

HTTP API

A lightweight REST endpoint is registered on ComfyUI's server at startup.

`POST /coachbate/skip`

Advances stored_index past the current shot so the next Auto Queue run picks up the following non-DONE shot — without requiring a full workflow re-run.

Request body:

{ "current_index": 3, "total": 12 }

Both values are available from the node's last execution UI output (array_idx and total). The endpoint is idempotent: if stored_index has already moved past current_index (e.g. a double-click) the advance is skipped.

Response:

{ "stored_index": 4 }

Workflows+ sidebar panel

A replacement for ComfyUI's stock Workflows sidebar tab, built because the stock tab hangs the browser once your workflows folder holds thousands of files. Registers as its own tab (Workflows+) alongside the stock one — nothing about the built-in tab is modified.

Works with any ComfyUI hosting setup (local, WSL, Linux, or a remote/cloud instance) — the panel is pure browser JS and never touches the local filesystem directly. Every action (listing, search, open, rename/move/copy/ delete, the Contains scan) goes through ComfyUI's own HTTP API, so it reads and writes whatever workflows folder the ComfyUI server can see — not the machine your browser happens to be running on. If you can load the ComfyUI UI in a browser, the panel works exactly the same way, no matter where the server is.

Fast at any scale — the file list and folder tree are virtualized, so opening the panel and expanding large folders stays instant even with several thousand workflows.
Name search with AND / OR operators and phrase matching:
- black cat (bare words) matches the literal, contiguous phrase — it will not match "black cute cat".
- "black cat" (quoted) behaves the same as the bare phrase above.
- black AND cat matches both words independently, anywhere in the name.
- black OR cat matches either word.
- AND / OR are recognized only in uppercase — lowercase "and"/"or" in a workflow name is treated as ordinary text.
Contains search — toggle to Contains and press Enter to search inside every workflow's JSON (prompts, node titles, values — anything in the file), not just the filename. Useful for finding a prompt you used once but can't remember which workflow it's in. Runs server-side and can take a while over a large library; a progress bar tracks the scan and you can stop it early with the Cancel button or the Esc key.
Folder-scoped search — click a folder in the tree to make it the active search scope. A prominent bar appears ("📁 Searching in 'FolderName'") with a ✕ Show All button, and the scoped folder itself is highlighted in the tree, so it's always obvious a scope is active. Both Name and Contains search are restricted to that folder. To go back to searching everything: click ✕ Show All, or click the scoped folder again (which also collapses it). The Search subfolders checkbox still applies within the scope — checked searches the folder and everything nested under it, unchecked restricts to files directly inside it. With no folder selected, the checkbox behaves the same way against the whole library.
Sort by Name, Modified, or Created — click a header button to sort, click again to reverse.
Pinning — right-click any workflow for a context menu with Pin / Unpin. Pinned workflows float to the top of their own folder (Windows Start-menu style), still ordered by whatever sort is active, in their own group above the rest. The context menu also has Reset all pins for this folder and Reset all pins.
Recent — a compact popup listing the last 10 workflows you opened (from anywhere — the topbar, this panel, or drag-and-drop), so it doesn't take up permanent vertical space.
Drag-and-drop — drop a workflow .json, or a .png/.mp4 with an embedded workflow, onto the panel to open it. This restores drag-and-drop workflow loading, which has been broken on the main canvas.
File management — rename, move, duplicate, and delete workflows directly from the panel:
- Multi-select: Ctrl/Cmd-click to toggle individual files, Shift-click to select a contiguous range. Right-click a selection for bulk actions ("Move 5 files…", "Delete 5 files…", etc.).
- Rename — right-click → Rename, or just start typing in the inline field. Enter commits, Esc cancels.
- Move — right-click → "Move to…" opens a folder picker (type to filter existing folders, or type a new folder name to create it on the fly). You can also drag a file (or selection) onto a folder row to move it there directly.
- Duplicate — right-click → Duplicate creates "name copy.json" (incrementing to "copy 2", "copy 3", … if that name is already taken).
- Delete — soft-deletes to a _trash subfolder by default (so nothing is lost by accident); deleting a file that's already in _trash permanently removes it, with a confirmation dialog either way. Right-click the _trash folder itself for Empty Trash.
- Renaming/moving/deleting a file automatically keeps its pin and its place in the Recent list pointing at the new location (or removes them on delete). If the file is currently open, its tab and save target stay in sync too.
- Folders can be renamed, moved, and deleted too — right-click a folder for the same Rename / Move to… / Delete actions, or drag one folder onto another to move it (moving a folder into itself or one of its own subfolders is rejected). Delete moves the whole folder — and everything inside it — into _trash in one step, after a confirmation showing how many files are affected; every pin and Recent-list entry underneath follows along. There's no way to delete the workflows root itself — only real subfolders have a Delete option.

The Workflows+ tab is pinned to the top of the sidebar, above the built-in tabs (Assets, Node Library, etc.), since it's meant to replace your day-to-day use of the stock Workflows tab.

No other configuration needed — the tab appears automatically once the pack is installed.

Workflow Model Path Auto-Fix

A frontend extension (web/js/workflowModelPathAutoFix.js) that runs automatically whenever a workflow loads. Model/LoRA widgets often reference a filename that lives in a different folder, or under a slightly different name, than the one on your machine — the same workflow shared between two ComfyUI setups can point at paths that only exist on the original author's machine. This extension checks every model-type widget against your local model folders and, if the exact file isn't found, rewrites the widget to the best match it can resolve — so the workflow loads pointing at a file that actually exists, instead of showing a blank/invalid widget.

Override rules — workflow_path_autofix_overrides.txt, in the package root, is an ordered list of search<TAB>replacement rules (one per line; blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored). Rules are applied first-match-wins, then validated against that widget's actual local choices, so a rule that doesn't resolve to a real file is simply skipped. Use this to redirect specific files on purpose — e.g. always substituting an int8_convrot transformer build for the fp8_scaled one a workflow was authored with, or mapping an old folder layout (LTXVideo\v2\...) to a new one.
Disabling it — open ComfyUI's Settings → Extension, filter for CoachBate.WorkflowModelPathAutoFix, and turn it off if you'd rather leave paths untouched.
Every replacement it makes is logged server-side (POST /coachbate/workflow_path_autofix/log) so you can see what changed on load.

Typical workflow wiring

CoachBateShotLoader
  ├─ video_prompt           → CLIPTextEncode (positive)
  ├─ negative_prompt        → CLIPTextEncode (negative, append to default)
  ├─ duration_seconds       → frame count calculation (fps × duration)
  ├─ video_filename_prefix  → Save Video filename_prefix
  ├─ start_image            → Load Image → LTX start-frame conditioning
  ├─ start_image_strength   → LTX start-frame strength
  ├─ end_image              → Load Image → LTX end-frame conditioning
  └─ end_image_strength     → LTX end-frame strength

Release notes

2026-07-14

Batch Prompter — sequential mode, prompt-based numbering, randomize

queue_all_at_once toggle. ON (default) keeps the existing behavior: Queue posts every prompt as a separate job up front. OFF runs prompts one at a time — each job fires only after the previous one finishes (same self-advance pattern as Shot Loader), so you can watch results come in and tweak the workflow between jobs.
randomize toggle. Executes the prompts in random order, never repeating, until max_prompts is reached (reshuffled on every Run press). With max_prompts = 1 it runs a single randomly chosen prompt — handy for injecting one random prompt into a workflow. Works in both queue modes; prompts before starting_number are excluded from the pool.
starting_number now counts prompts, not lines. It matches the gutter numbering exactly — blank lines no longer count, so with 19 prompts the number can never run past 19 (it used to jump to total-lines + 1).
max_prompts is honored in sequential mode as a true total across the whole run; when the cap stops mid-text, starting_number is left at the next prompt so another Run continues from there.
When a sequential run finishes, starting_number is restored to the value you started with (not reset to 1), so Run again repeats the same range.
No more error after the last prompt. Sequential mode used to queue one extra run past the end whose empty-string output crashed downstream nodes (image loaders etc.); the sequence now ends on the last real prompt. As a backstop, queuing with nothing left halts quietly (like pressing Interrupt) instead of emitting "".
Stop button no longer grows when the node is resized — extra vertical space all goes to the prompts textarea.

Video Combine — filename cleanup and format defaults

Default format changed to h265-mp4; default CRF changed to 16 for all formats that expose it.
Leading underscores are stripped from the filename prefix before saving, so Mikey-node prefixes like _my_shot produce my_shot.mp4 instead of _my_shot_00001.mp4.
The VHS counter suffix (_00001) is removed from the saved filename unless a file with the desired name already exists on disk, in which case the counter is kept to avoid a collision.
The -audio suffix is removed unless "audio" was requested in the filename prefix. The audio-muxed file always gets priority on the clean name; the silent intermediate keeps its counter if needed.

2026-07-13

Strip API Key Metadata — reliability fixes and folder mode

ffmpeg is now found from the system PATH when VHS doesn't provide it, so the node no longer throws "ffmpeg not found" on systems where VHS isn't installed but ffmpeg is.
Fixed a Windows OSError ("cannot move file to a different drive") when the ComfyUI temp directory and the output file are on different drives.
Folder mode — pass a folder path to process every supported file inside it (.png, .mp4, .mov, .mkv, .webm) in one node execution.
Double-quoted paths are accepted (leading/trailing " are stripped automatically).
Fixed the Browse button returning 404 — the /coachbate/browse_media server route was missing.
Fixed GemmaAPITextEncode api_key widget disappearing after a workflow reload: the scrubbing logic was clearing structural widget values in addition to actual secrets, causing ComfyUI to render the node without an input field. Now only genuine ltxv_… secrets are cleared.

Text Preview and Edit — DOM widget rewrite

Replaced the string widget with a proper addDOMWidget textarea for a stable element reference that survives Vue re-renders in Nodes 2.0.
Adaptive canvasOnly keeps the widget out of the sidebar Parameters tab in legacy mode while remaining visible in the Nodes 2.0 canvas renderer.
Added a Copy Text button.

Dialogs — replaced browser confirm() with ComfyUI dialog API

All confirmation prompts across Shot Loader, Batch Prompter, and Workflows+ now use app.extensionManager.dialog.confirm() — styled consistently with the rest of the ComfyUI UI, with type: "delete" for destructive actions. The old window.confirm() calls were browser-native blocking alerts.

Shot Loader — display fix

The "next shot" name shown in the node status box was incorrect in decrement mode (showed the forward neighbor instead of the backward one).

2026-07-05

Workflows+ folder management, tab position, and clearer scope UX

Folders can now be renamed, moved (drag-and-drop or a dialog), and deleted (soft-delete to _trash, whole subtree preserved) — right-click any folder. Moving a folder into itself or a subfolder is rejected; the workflows root has no Delete option.
The folder-scope indicator is now a prominent accent-colored bar with a clear ✕ Show All button, and the scoped folder is highlighted in the tree. Clicking the scoped folder again also clears the scope.
The Workflows+ tab now registers at the top of the sidebar, above Assets and the other built-in tabs.

2026-07-04

Workflows+ folder-scoped search

Clicking a folder in the tree now scopes both Name and Contains search to that folder (with a label + clear button showing the active scope). The "Search subfolders" toggle applies within the scope — on = the folder and everything nested under it, off = just that folder's direct files.

2026-07-03

Workflows+ file management (new)

Rename, move, duplicate, and delete workflows from the panel, with Ctrl/Shift multi-select and bulk actions in the right-click menu.
Move via a folder-picker dialog (type to filter or create a new folder) or by dragging a file (or selection) onto a folder row.
Delete soft-deletes to _trash by default; deleting an already-trashed file permanently removes it. Right-click _trash for Empty Trash.
Pins and Recent-list entries automatically follow a file through rename/move, and are dropped on delete.

2026-07-02

Workflows+ sidebar panel (new)

Fast, virtualized replacement for the stock Workflows tab — stays responsive with thousands of workflow files.
Name search with AND/OR operators (uppercase only) and literal-phrase matching; a "Contains" mode searches inside workflow JSON server-side, with a progress bar and Cancel/Esc to stop mid-scan.
"Search subfolders" toggle to scope search to the workflows root only.
Sort by Name / Modified / Created.
Windows-style per-folder pinning via right-click, with per-folder and global reset actions.
10-item Recent list and drag-and-drop of workflow JSON/PNG/MP4 files.

2026-06-24

CoachBate Batch Prompter

Runs from the normal Queue button. The on-node "Queue All Prompts" button has been removed. Pressing ComfyUI's own Queue now fans the run out into one queued job per non-blank prompt line — no separate button to start a batch.
- Each job is a full, independent snapshot of the graph taken at queue time (same semantics as a native queue), so editing the canvas afterward only affects the next run.
- The fan-out posts to /prompt directly and never re-enters app.queuePrompt, so it cannot recurse; Auto Queue is suppressed while a batch is in flight.
Only one eligible node drives the batch. A Batch Prompter participates only if it is active (not muted or bypassed) and has an output wired to something. An active-but-unconnected node is ignored. If two or more eligible nodes exist the run falls back to a normal single queue.
Stop button is now narrow and centred so it isn't under the node's bottom-right resize handle (no more accidental stops while resizing).
Prompt-number gutter margin is now correct at low canvas zoom (≤ ~73%).