Ino List Get First

Somewhere between "I have a list" and "I need a single item" there's always a gap in ComfyUI. Ino List Get First is the one-node bridge: hand it a list of anything, and it hands you the first item, plus a couple of useful extras. It's the kind of tiny utility you don't think you need until a workflow demands "just take the first image/prompt/model from that batch" and you realize there's no obvious stock way to do it.

It's part of ComfyUI Ino Nodes (nobandegani/ComfyUI-InoNodes), the 125+-node V3-schema pack, and lives in its InoListHelper category alongside list-making, list-measuring, and list-append tools.

How it works

One input, three outputs, zero settings. The node takes items (any list type), pulls the item at index 0, and returns:

• item - the first value, whatever type it is.
• success - True if there was something to grab, False if the list was empty.
• length - the size of the list you fed it, which is a sneaky useful extra when you need the count anyway.

That success output is the part that makes this automation-friendly. An empty list is a totally normal thing to encounter mid-workflow - maybe a folder scan found nothing, maybe an upstream node produced zero results. Instead of the node erroring out and killing your run, you get success: False with item empty, and you can route on that boolean to handle the empty case gracefully.

When you'd use it

Classic patterns:

• Batch → single. A node outputs a batch of images; you want just the first one for a preview or a side path.
• Config handling. First prompt in a prompt list becomes the "hero" prompt while the rest go through a variation loop.
• Empty-list guards. Pair the success output with a switch node so an empty result takes a fallback branch instead of producing garbage.

The one thing to remember

This returns the first item by itself, not wrapped in a list. If your downstream node expects a list (most batch-processing nodes do), you'll want to wrap it back up - the pack's Ino Make Any List with a single slot does the job. And if you need the last item instead, the same category has Ino List Get Last; the pack also has an indexed Ino List Get Item for anything in between.

Installing it

ComfyUI Ino Nodes is a one-pack install:

• ComfyUI Manager (easiest): search for "ComfyUI Ino Nodes", install, restart.
• Manual:

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

  Then restart ComfyUI.

Requires inopyutils and a current ComfyUI (V3 schema throughout). It's a small, under-the-radar pack, but if you've ever wanted to just take the first one, this node is the clean answer.