prompt - del

You grab a workflow's prompt off Civitai, paste it in, and one of the tags is doing something you hate - maybe it's pulling a pose, maybe it fights with your LoRA. Hand-editing a 200-tag list is miserable. prompt - del from the ymc-node-suite-comfyui pack is the surgical version: tell it what to remove, it removes it, everything else stays exactly as written.

The name of this node is slightly hostile to beginners, so here's the honest mapping: the search input is your actual prompt text, and todel is the list of tags you want gone. There's no "search" happening in the eyeballing sense - the node takes your prompt, and deletes every comma-separated tag in it that appears in todel.

How it works

The pack is a pure-Python text utility suite (author: yemiancheng, with code credited to WASasquatch's WAS Node Suite as a reference). prompt - del splits search on commas, and for each tag strips off any (parentheses) and :1.2-style weights before comparing against todel - so it deletes (easy pose:0.8) even if your todel just says easy pose. That unweighting matters: it means you can paste a weighted prompt and still match against plain tag names.

The action enum (yes/no) is a bypass switch. no returns search untouched - handy for A/B testing or for wiring a toggle into a workflow without deleting the node.

Inputs and outputs

Three inputs, one output - the whole thing is small enough to hold in your head:

• search - your prompt (the text to edit)
• todel - the comma-separated tags to remove
• action - yes (delete) or no (pass through unchanged)

The single STRING output is the cleaned prompt, ready to feed into a CLIP Text Encode or your prompt stack.

Installing it

It ships inside ymc-node-suite-comfyui, so you install the whole pack:

• ComfyUI Manager → Custom Nodes Manager → search ymc-node-suite-comfyui → Install → restart, or
• manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/YMC-GitHub/ymc-node-suite-comfyui

Then restart ComfyUI. There are no model downloads - this is string math, not neural net. The pack's requirements.txt pulls in four tiny yors_* helper libraries (list utilities, console color, node setup helpers). If you cloned manually, run pip install -r requirements.txt yourself - the auto-install in the pack's __init__.py is commented out, so a bare clone will import nothing and you'll see zero ymc nodes.

You'll find it by double-clicking the canvas and searching prompt / del, or via the right-click ymc suite menu.

Common issues

• It doesn't work on multi-line prompts the way you expect. Splitting happens on commas, so a newline-separated list is treated as one long string with \n inside tags. Run the prompt through prompt - std or prompt - unweight first to normalize to clean comma-separated tags.
• WAS Node Suite conflicts. If you also run WAS nodes, the packs overlap on a couple of save-node names (Manager shows "Conflicted Nodes" for Image Save / Save Text File). That hits the io/save side of this pack, not prompt - del, but it's worth knowing when you install both - disable whichever pack you aren't using.
• Node counts as zero after a fresh manual clone - almost always the missing yors_* deps from above.

For anything more elaborate - deleting, but also moving tags around or replacing them - the same pack has prompt - search (adv), which bundles all of it into one action dropdown.