Ino Cast Any To Clip

Ino Cast Any To Clip is the CLIP-flavored member of the Ino CastHelper family, and it shares the family secret: it doesn't convert anything. Whatever lands on input_any is passed straight through to the output, only now declared as a CLIP type so the wire will connect to a CLIP input. Think of it as a type tag relabel, not a conversion.

The use case is the same as its MODEL sibling. ComfyUI's newer V3-style node API changed how some node types are declared, and when you load a workflow built against a different node version, you occasionally hit a connection that should work but won't - an any-typed output that refuses to dock with a CLIP input. Dropping this node between them and relabeling the output as CLIP lets the graph validate and run.

Know what you're promising

A CLIP in ComfyUI is a text-encoder object - the thing that turns your prompt into conditioning, typically handed to you by a checkpoint or CLIP loader. This node does not create one. If the value on input_any is actually a CLIP object (say it came from a loader whose output got untyped through some other node), you're fine. If it's a string or a None, the relabel will let the graph start, and then the conditioning node will fail with a confusing error that points everywhere except here. When you see that, remember: this node lied on its behalf.

Contrast with Ino Cast Any To String in the same pack - that one really does convert (str(value)). The Model/Clip/VAE/Controlnet casts are all pass-through relabels. There's no type coercion happening on this one.

Inputs and outputs

• input_any (*) - the value to relabel.
• clip (CLIP) - same value, typed as CLIP.

Installing it

Part of ComfyUI-InoNodes (Inoland). ComfyUI Manager → search "ComfyUI Ino Nodes" → install → restart. Manual:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/nobandegani/comfyui_ino_nodes
cd comfyui_ino_nodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart after. Requires inopyutils (auto-installed) and a current ComfyUI on the V3-style node API. No keys or downloads.

Common issues

Same single failure mode as every pass-through cast: you forced a connection and the downstream node crashed because the value wasn't really a CLIP. If that's happening, fix the actual type mismatch upstream instead of papering over it here. And if you're reaching for this often, it's usually a sign that one of your nodes is outdated and needs an update - the V3 API churn that makes these casts necessary is precisely the thing updating fixes.