Separator

Let's be upfront: this node does nothing. No inputs, no outputs, no computation. SeargeSeparator is a visual divider - a spacer you drop into the graph to break the Searge SDXL layout into readable sections. That's the entire feature, and it's not a knock on it.

It makes sense once you've seen the workflow it belongs to. Searge SDXL EVOLVED crams txt2img, img2img, inpainting, revision, ControlNet and up to five LoRAs onto one screen, deliberately packed tight so you can see every setting without scrolling. A graph that dense needs visual structure or it turns to soup, and this is one of the tools the author used to give it some - the node equivalent of a horizontal rule in a document.

How it works

There's no mechanism to explain. It has no data contract at all - nothing flows in, nothing flows out. It occupies space on the canvas and marks a boundary between groups of nodes, and that's it. If you're used to organizing big graphs with reroute nodes, group boxes, or the layout helpers in packs like rgthree, this is the most minimal member of that family: pure cosmetics, zero behavior.

The reason a "does nothing" node is worth shipping is the same reason people spend real effort organizing large ComfyUI workflows in the first place. The community's standing complaint about ComfyUI is that non-trivial graphs become unreadable - a screenshot of a typical complex workflow is a running joke about how it scares off newcomers. Anything that makes a busy graph legible earns its place, even if it never touches a pixel.

The inputs and outputs that matter

None. This is the rare node where the honest answer to "what do I wire in?" is "nothing." Place it, position it, move on. There's nothing to set and nothing to connect.

How to install it

It comes with the Searge SDXL pack - you don't install it on its own. Via ComfyUI Manager: search SeargeSDXL, install, restart. Or manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/SeargeDP/SeargeSDXL.git

then restart ComfyUI. Manual installers should run python -m pip install opencv-python once in ComfyUI's Python environment, since the pack as a whole won't load without it.

Common issues

Genuinely none specific to this node - there's nothing here to break. If it's missing from your node list, that's a pack-loading problem, not a Separator problem: after a ComfyUI update an out-of-date Searge checkout can fail to import (the v4.3.x releases were compatibility fixes for exactly that), so update the pack. If you're looking at a Searge workflow and wondering why there's a node that appears to be wired to nothing and produces nothing, now you know - it's a spacer, and it's supposed to look like that.