prompt - search (adv)

This is the workhorse of the ymc prompt family - the one node that does search, delete, reorder, and replace, all behind a single action dropdown. If you only install one prompt-editing node from this pack, make it this one. It's prompt - search (the pure filter) with teeth.

The killer use case is ordering. On SDXL-lineage anime models, earlier tags get stronger attention - so "move my character and pose tags to the front" is a real quality lever, not a cosmetic one. This node does that in one click, and it can also strip a whole category of tags or rename a tag everywhere it appears.

How it works

The flow is always: search first, then act. The node finds every tag in text that contains any pattern from the comma-separated search list (matching is substring-based, and tags are unweighted before comparison, so (1girl:1.2) still matches 1girl). Then action decides what happens to those matched tags:

• search - just return the matches (same as plain prompt - search)
• del - remove the matched tags from the prompt
• move2head - move matched tags to the front, rest follows in order
• move2tail - move matched tags to the back
• replace - swap every matched tag for the replace string
• none - return text unchanged (a bypass)

Because each action starts from the same search, the same search/text pair can feed several of these nodes with different actions - a quick way to see "what would this prompt look like without hair tags" vs "with hair tags first" without editing anything.

Inputs and outputs

The ones you'll actually set:

• text - the prompt to edit
• search - the comma-separated patterns that select tags
• action - one of the six operations above
• replace - the string used when action is replace

Single STRING output: the transformed prompt.

Installing it

Part of ymc-node-suite-comfyui:

• ComfyUI Manager → search ymc-node-suite-comfyui → Install → restart, or

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

restart, and pip install -r requirements.txt on a manual clone (four yors_* helper libs; auto-install is commented out). No models, no GPU.

Search prompt / search on the canvas or use the right-click ymc suite menu.

Common issues

• Substring matching bites twice. move2head with hair also moves hairpin. Check what actually matched by running action = search first and eyeballing the output - that's the built-in debug step.
• replace replaces whole tags, not substrings. Searching hair and replacing with fur turns long hair into fur (the whole tag is swapped), not long fur. If you want in-tag edits, you're in the wrong node.
• Empty matches are harmless. If nothing matches, del/replace/move* all return the prompt essentially unchanged - safe to leave wired up.
• WAS Node Suite conflicts on the pack's io/save nodes can appear as Manager warnings if you run both packs - unrelated to this node.

For plain deletion only, the pack's prompt - del is simpler; for a pure filter, prompt - search. But the moment you want to reorder or replace, this is the one.