Fast Groups

Big workflows live and die by their groups. A graph with a dozen named regions - "face fix", "upscale pass", "the thing I'm experimenting with" - is only manageable because you can mute or bypass a whole region at once. The catch is doing it: you marquee-select every node in the group, or right-click node by node, and it's tedious exactly when you're iterating fast.

WAS Fast Groups is a one-node dashboard for that chore. Drop it on the canvas and it lists every group in the graph, each with a switch that mutes or bypasses every node inside it. No selection first, no hunting through menus - the groups are right there on the node, each with its toggle.

The detail that makes it actually trustworthy: the switches are the graph's own mute and bypass states, not a parallel set the node remembers on its own. So what you flip here survives a save, an undo and a copy/paste of the workflow, and it agrees with what ComfyUI's own UI shows. This isn't a controller pretending to mute things - it's a remote control for the real state.

How it works

Nothing fancy under the hood, and that's the point. The node reads the graph's groups, renders each one with its switch, and toggling a switch flips the underlying node states. The schema says it plainly: it reads nothing and answers nothing - no inputs, no outputs, no data flowing through. It's a pure canvas utility, closer to a toolbar than a processing node.

That makes it categorically different from the nodes around it in the menu. It doesn't transform a value, so there's no wire to route and nothing to feed it. You add it to a workflow the way you'd add a note or a bookmark - except this one does something.

When it earns its keep

Fast Groups shines in exactly the "keep everything, flip regions on and off" workflow. You're dialing in a style and want to A/B the upscale pass - flip its group off, queue, flip on, queue, and the comparison is honest because nothing else moved. You're sharing a workflow and want to leave the heavy experimental branch intact but off by default. You have a pipeline with optional stages - face detail, background cleanup, a second pass - and you want them as switches rather than as decisions you make by dragging a selection box around a dozen nodes.

It's also a genuinely nice answer to the "I don't want to delete this region, I just want it to not run" problem that every ComfyUI user hits within their first fifty hours. Muting keeps the nodes in the graph and in the file, ready to come back.

Installing it

It's part of WAS Node Suite v3, so install the pack: ComfyUI Manager → search WAS Node Suite v3, or clone https://github.com/WASasquatch/was-node-suite-comfyui into custom_nodes and restart. No weights, no dependencies.

If you're coming from the rgthree pack, the mental model is the same as its Fast Groups Muter and Bypasser - WAS folds both jobs into one node with a switch per group. Whichever pack you run, the habit is identical: group your workflow properly and a dashboard node like this turns group management from a chore into a checkbox.