MiniMax Director — Prompt

This is the smallest node in the MiniMax Director pack, and it exists because of a genuinely annoying gap. You're building a shot list on the MiniMaxDirector timeline, and the whole point of that node is that the compiler produces a specific structured prompt - the six-section reference format, dialogue in H3's exact <d> form, camera vocabulary as motion × amplitude × speed. You want to see that string while you edit. Plain ComfyUI has PreviewAny for showing text, but it only fills from execution results: the box sits empty until you run the graph. That's exactly when you don't want to run the graph.

MiniMaxDirectorPrompt (display "MiniMax Director - Prompt") is the editor's own answer to that. Wire the director's prompt output to its single input and the web extension paints the compiled text here on every edit pause, run or not - compiled by the same code the graph would run. If the extension is missing or you execute without it, the node fills the ordinary way from the execution result, so it's honest either way.

Inputs and outputs

One input, one job:

• source - a STRING. In practice, always the director's prompt output. The node is is_output_node: true with no outputs; it exists to display, not to feed anything downstream.

That's the entire API. There's no way to misconfigure it beyond wiring it to the wrong socket, and the worst that happens is you see a prompt that isn't H3's.

Installing it

It ships with the pack, so there's nothing extra. Install ComfyUI-MiniMaxDirector the normal way:

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

restart, and use the shipped examples/minimax-director.json workflow, which wires the director's prompt output into this node's source for you. No models hang off it - it's a text viewer.

When you'd reach for it

Honestly: if you use the shipped workflow, you already have this node and never think about it. Where it earns its keep is when you build your own graph around the director. The moment you're hand-wiring the director into a sampler and you've ever wondered "what string did that actually produce?", this is the node that answers it before you spend the GPU time. It also makes a decent debugging companion for reference tokens: when H3 ignores <Picture 1>, the compiled prompt is the first place to look - and you can look while the timeline is still half-written, which is the whole point.

One honest caveat, same as the rest of this young pack: the node's live-update behavior depends on the web extension the pack ships, so if you've disabled custom frontend extensions, treat it as a slightly more convenient PreviewAny rather than a live view.