Griptape Create: Text

Griptape Create: Text is the pack's plainest node: a multiline text box that outputs exactly what you type. No LLM, no processing, no surprises. You type a string, you get that string back on the OUTPUT wire. It's the "here's some text, do something with it" starting point for Griptape workflows - the equivalent of ComfyUI's built-in text input nodes, but shaped to drop cleanly into this pack's STRING inputs.

What it's for

Griptape nodes are picky about where text comes from - many expect a STRING wire rather than letting you type directly into a prompt field (some inputs are marked forceInput, meaning they can only be filled by a connection). Create Text is how you get text into those. It also gives you a convenient staging point: type a prompt here, wire it to an agent or task, and you can swap the text without digging into the node's internals.

It's also a good debugging stop - because it's an output node, whatever you put in shows up clearly, and you can use it as a junction to split a string to multiple destinations.

How it works

Straight passthrough:

def run(self, STRING):
    return (STRING,)

The only meaningful behavior is that it's an output node, so its value is displayed when the workflow runs - which makes it useful as a way to see a string at a point in the graph, even if that string came from somewhere else.

Inputs and output

• STRING (STRING, multiline) - the text. Type it, or leave it empty and it outputs an empty string.
• Output: OUTPUT (STRING) - the same text, ready to wire into agent prompts, task nodes, or other STRING inputs.

Installation

Part of ComfyUI Griptape Nodes:

• ComfyUI Manager: search "Griptape" → install.
• Manual: cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/griptape-ai/ComfyUI-Griptape, restart ComfyUI.

No dependencies beyond the pack itself. This node makes zero network calls.

Gotchas

• It does nothing to your text - no trimming, no escaping, no dynamic prompt processing. If you expect {{ key }} replacement here, it won't happen; that's handled by the agent/task node downstream via key_value_replacement.
• Because it's an output node, connecting it in the middle of a workflow means ComfyUI displays its value every run. Harmless, but it does mark the node as a terminal in the graph.

The most useful boring node in the pack. Every workflow needs a text source, and this is the one that never surprises you.