Any To VAE 🔽

Any To VAE is a type converter from the ComfyUI Telegram Suite, and it does one thing: accept any input, declare the output a VAE, pass the value through unchanged. No decoding, no latent-space math, no model loading. It's a label change for ComfyUI's strict type checker, nothing more.

Why it exists

This whole converter family exists to support the suite's trigger mechanism, which forces nodes to run in a specific order by routing a dependency through wildcard-typed (*) trigger ports (the full explanation is in the Send Chat Action article). A trigger output is typed *, and a * wire won't connect to a VAE port - the kind of input a VAE Decode node expects. Any To VAE is the adapter that re-declares the signal so the wire plugs in after it's been through a trigger.

The honest take on this specific one

Let's be straight: you will essentially never need this node. A VAE is a specialized component that lives right at the decode step, and routing one through a trigger to order your workflow would be absurd when a seed or a string does the job. The realistic uses are a * output from another pack that happens to hold a VAE, or a graph so unusual that it defies description. That's fine - the author generated one converter per core ComfyUI type precisely so no edge case is missing. The family's value is in being complete, not in any single member being exciting.

One thing worth internalizing for all of these converters: they don't verify anything. Feed Any To VAE a prompt string and it'll happily declare it a VAE; the failure happens later, when VAE Decode tries to call decode on a string and throws an attribute error. If you see that, look upstream at what you actually fed the cast.

Input and output

One any input, one VAE output, no settings - identical in shape to the other nineteen converters in the pack.

Install

Shared pack install:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/SwissCore92/comfyui-telegram-suite.git
cd comfyui-telegram-suite
pip install -r requirements.txt

Or "ComfyUI Telegram Suite" from ComfyUI Manager. No extra dependencies or model downloads - the converter classes ship inside the pack's converters.py.