⚡ Quick Group Manager

ComfyUI lets you group nodes visually and then right-click → mute or bypass the whole box. That's great until your workflow has a dozen groups and you're doing it every run. QuickGroupManager is the fix: a compact frontend panel that discovers the visual groups in your current graph and gives you a row for each one - an enable toggle, plus control over what "off" actually means.

Here's the part that's easy to miss: this node has zero inputs, zero outputs, and zero execution side effects. It's a pure frontend utility. It never touches the graph data flow, it never runs code at execution time. You drop it on the canvas and it is the control surface.

What the panel does

• Enable/disable per group, and a node-level mute vs. bypass switch that decides how a turned-off group behaves.
• Sorting - drag group rows to reorder, and each manager keeps its own order.
• Framing - a view icon fits a whole group to the canvas, handy when you've got a group sprawled across two screens.
• Link rules - a link icon lets you say "when this group is enabled, disable that one," which turns group state into actual workflow logic.

How it's scoped

The trick that makes it usable: managers work on color ranges. A filter icon lets you scope a manager to all groups, groups of a single color, or uncolored ones - and you can have several managers, each owning a different color range. So you can run one panel for your "detail passes" group and another for "upscale". Toggling mute/bypass converts every currently-disabled group in the manager's range in one undoable transaction.

This is the same genre of group control rgthree made famous in its dashboard - kill a whole branch from one row instead of node by node - but scoped to your workflow and saved with it. And it plays with the pack's probes: GroupIsEnabled / GroupLogicProbe read the state these switches set, so group toggles can drive automated branching instead of just your eyeballs.

The honest caveats

The README is upfront about two limits:

• It only controls visual groups in the current graph - it won't reach inside subgraphs. If your automation lives behind a subgraph, this won't see it.
• Link rules cascade only within the manager that initiated the change. They don't propagate between managers, so if you have multiple managers, their link rules are independent.

Both are sensible boundaries, but worth knowing before you build something clever.

Install

Same pack as all of Aaalice's nodes:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Aaalice233/ComfyUI-Aaalice-Nodes.git
cd ComfyUI-Aaalice-Nodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

or search ComfyUI-Aaalice-Nodes in ComfyUI Manager, then restart. Nothing to download, certifi is the only extra dependency. It's a newer "V3 node" pack, so keep ComfyUI reasonably up to date - classic canvas and Nodes 2.0 work, App Mode doesn't.

If you live in large graphs and are tired of counting muted nodes, this is the quiet quality-of-life node that earns its place next to the reroutes and power loaders.