⭐ Star Delete Sampler Settings

Every sampler preset you save is a promise that you'll use it again, and eventually half of them are lies. Star Delete Sampler Settings is the unglamorous third member of the StarNodes sampler-settings trio - the one that cleans up the presets you made experimenting with CFG and steps and never touched again. It's a dropdown, a click, and a message back. That's the whole node, and it's all it needs to be.

It's in ⭐StarNodes/Settings, next to Star Save Sampler Settings and Star Load Sampler Settings.

How it works

One input: settings_name, a dropdown populated with every saved preset. Select one, run the node, and it's gone - the settings are deleted from the shared settings store, and the node outputs a message string ("Settings deleted", or similar) that you can preview to confirm.

The settings live in samplersettings.json, which StarNodes writes in two places - inside the pack's own json/ folder and in the ComfyUI root as a backup. The manager class merges both when listing, so you might see presets from either location; the delete removes them from the merged store.

The context

This node only makes sense as part of the trio. The Save node captures the full configuration of the pack's StarSampler (Unified) - sampler, scheduler, steps, CFG, denoise and the rest - as a named preset, the Load node applies one to a sampler, and this node removes ones you no longer want. If you've never saved a preset, the dropdown just shows the pack's bundled defaults (things like "SDXL Fast 10 Steps Refiner", "FLUX Fast 12 Steps"), and you can delete those too if you don't want them cluttering the list.

It's a small quality-of-life detail, but it's the difference between a preset system you trust and one you slowly stop using because it fills with cruft. Preset systems rot exactly this way.

Installing it

Standard StarNodes install - ComfyUI Manager, search Starnodes, install, restart:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Starnodes2024/ComfyUI_StarNodes
cd ComfyUI_StarNodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

Search the canvas for star - it's under ⭐StarNodes/Settings.

Gotchas

There's no undo, and the confirmation is just a string in the message output - if you're running it as part of an automated graph rather than clicking it by hand, make sure the selected preset is genuinely the one you mean. Also note the preset list is shared across the whole pack: a settings name saved under the SDXL sampler and the Flux sampler live in the same store, so deleting a name removes it wherever it appears. And since the file is also written to the ComfyUI root as a backup, deleting via this node doesn't always wipe every trace - if a preset stubbornly reappears after a restart, you may need to prune the backup samplersettings.json yourself.