Text Input ⌨️

This is the plainest node in the pack: a multiline text box that outputs whatever you type as a string. No dropdowns, no randomization, no cleverness. It exists so you have a tidy, labeled place to feed your own text into a WildPromptor chain - a hand-written subject, a fixed prefix, a scratch note you're iterating on.

It's part of WildPromptor by 1038lab (better known for the ComfyUI-RMBG background-removal pack).

Why it exists

Fair question when ComfyUI already has primitive string nodes. The point is fit-and-finish: Text Input drops in next to the pack's other nodes, matches their look, and gives you a clean STRING source to wire into Prompt Concat, Prompt Builder, Keyword Picker, or anything else that takes text. When you're building a prompt out of several WildPromptor nodes and want to slot in one piece of your own writing, this is the box for it.

Think of it as the "your words go here" tile in an otherwise dropdown-driven system.

Could you use a stock primitive string node instead? Sure - functionally they overlap. The reason to prefer this one is purely ergonomic: it sits in the same menu as the rest of your WildPromptor nodes, it's a real multiline box (so a full paragraph prompt pastes in cleanly), and it reads as an intentional part of the chain rather than a generic widget you bolted on. In a graph that's already leaning on this pack, keeping the string source native just makes the layout easier to follow.

Inputs and outputs

• text (required, multiline STRING) - what you type
• STRING output - the same text, passed to whatever you connect

That's the entire surface. You type, it emits. Wire the output into any string input downstream.

How you'd actually use it

A common pattern: Text Input holds your fixed subject or opening line, its output goes into the prefix or subject slot of Prompt Concat, and the pack's list nodes fill the rest of the slots with randomized fragments. You get a stable, hand-authored core with variety bolted on around it - the "plan meticulously or embrace serendipity" balance the pack is going for, with you controlling exactly which parts are which.

It's also a fine feeder for Keyword Picker: type a pool of your own tags into Text Input, wire it into Picker's input_keywords, and let Picker draw a random few each run. And because the box is multiline, it doubles as a scratchpad for the prompt you're actively iterating on - edit in place, re-queue, repeat, without hunting for a widget buried elsewhere in the graph.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager: search ComfyUI-WildPromptor, install, restart. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/1038lab/ComfyUI-WildPromptor

then restart. Under 🧪AILab/🧿WildPromptor. Nothing to download.

Common issues

There's very little to go wrong here. If the text isn't reaching downstream, check the wire is connected to a string-typed input and the node isn't muted. Everything else is just typing.