🔗 Pipe 20CH Any

The 🔗 Pipe 20CH Any is the "I need to carry a lot" option on the pack's fixed-channel pipe ladder: one pipe in/out plus 20 any channels, each accepting any ComfyUI type. It's for workflows where the bundle isn't a few settings - it's half the graph's intermediate state riding one wire.

How it works

Same engine as the 5, 10, 30, and 40-channel siblings: * wildcard channels, a pipe input/output, and the inherit-if-empty behavior that makes pipes chainable. Drop values into any1…any20, pass through pipe, and matching channels come out of any downstream Pipe node. The implementation is modeled on rgthree's context-utils pattern, so the pipe behaves like a plain bundle of named slots rather than anything exotic.

The realistic use case is a Subgraph boundary or a heavily parameterized pipeline: instead of 20 parallel wires crossing into a Subgraph, you cross once. The fixed port count is the selling point here - unlike the pack's dynamically-growing Pipe Hub, you know exactly which slot is which, every time, which makes it predictable in reusable templates.

Inputs and outputs

• pipe (optional in/out) - extend or forward the bundle.
• any1 … any20 (optional) - inject or read back values; each mirrors to its matching output.

The honest take

Twenty channels is a lot of surface area, and it's usually a smell if you genuinely use all of them. But the fixed layout has real value: it's self-documenting. Name your template once, and any7 being "the controlnet model" is true forever. If you find yourself going past 20, the 30 and 40-channel versions exist - though at that point you should probably ask whether the graph itself needs restructuring rather than a bigger pipe.

Empty channels flow through as None, so be disciplined about which slots are in active use; reading an unconnected channel downstream gives you a silent None, not a warning.

Install

Ships in Light-x02 Nodes - ComfyUI Manager → search "ComfyUI-Lightx02-Nodes", or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Light-x02/ComfyUI-Lightx02-Nodes

Restart ComfyUI, look under 💡Lightx02/Pipes. No extra dependencies. Standard pack reminder: remove any older standalone Light-x02 repos first, or you'll see duplicate node registration on startup.