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ComfyTV registers a single ComfyTV tab in ComfyUI’s left sidebar rail. Inside it are seven tabs — everything that isn’t a node on the canvas lives here: workflow configuration, the media library, prompt fragments, workflow/parameter management per stage kind, presets, resources, and remote servers. The last tab you used is remembered across reloads. ComfyTV sidebar tabs

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Workflow — configure the selected stage’s workflow

Select a stage node on the canvas and this tab becomes the workflow config editor for it — which workflow node receives the prompt, which LoadImage takes upstream image #N, where the seed goes, and so on. Workflow config sidebar What you’ll see, top to bottom:
  • The stage’s kind and the workflow it currently has selected. If the node’s workflow combo is empty, or the workflow hasn’t finished its one-time preparation yet (normal for a freshly imported one — it happens automatically the first time it runs), the editor says so instead of showing fields.
  • A linked source banner when the workflow is a 🔗 linked one: it lives in ComfyUI’s own library and live-updates when you save it there. You can Unlink from here; if the underlying file was moved or deleted, the banner turns into a broken-link warning.
  • Notes — free-text notes shipped with the workflow’s preset (gotchas, model requirements).
  • Exposed widgets & bindings — the workflow’s nodes, searchable and filterable by group chips, where you edit each binding. Changes apply immediately, no restart.
  • ⇩ Export preset.json — package the current bindings to share alongside the workflow file.
The full editor walkthrough is in sidebar-config-editor.md.

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Assets — the media library

Assets panel A library of images, video, audio, and 3D models you want to keep reusing — independent of any single project.
  • Get things in: the upload button, or just drag files onto the panel. The panel also scans ComfyTV’s media folder on open (and via Scan folder in the ⚙ menu) and adopts anything new it finds there.
  • Organize: create categories and tag assets with them — an asset can carry several tags. Filter by category chip, by media type (image / video / audio / model, with counts), or search by name. Grid and list views.
  • Use an asset: drag it onto the canvas — ComfyTV creates the matching Load … from Asset node wired to it — or use the card menu’s Load as node. The menu also offers View full (lightbox), Make proxy (for videos), Edit tags, Rename, and Delete. Deleting removes the library entry; files on disk are left alone.
  • Asset images can also be dropped straight into a stage’s prompt as reference images — see Prompt references below.

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Entries — reusable prompt fragments

Entries panel Per-project text fragments you can reference in any stage’s prompt by typing @label.
  • Each entry has a label (must start with a letter or underscore — Chinese is fine — then letters / digits / _ / -) and a content block. At run time, @label in a prompt expands to the content; unknown tokens stay literal.
  • Delete an entry and existing @label tokens simply fall back to literal text.
  • Import / Export round-trips all entries of the project as a JSON backup (duplicates are skipped on import).
  • You can also create a fragment without leaving the prompt: type @, type a new label, and the mention popup offers to create it on the spot.

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Stages — workflows & extra parameters per stage kind

Stage manager Pick a stage kind in the header dropdown; two sections follow. Workflows — every workflow registered for that kind, i.e. what the matching stage node’s dropdown offers:
  • Badges tell you each row’s story: built-in (ships with ComfyTV), linked (points into ComfyUI’s native library), new (found in the most recent scan), default, plus health warnings — file missing, not GUI format, API not generated (normal until first run).
  • Hover a row to ★ set it as the default — new stage nodes of this kind start with it selected.
  • Import a JSON here, or drop files into user/comfytv/workflows/<kind>/ and hit Rescan — the library is re-scanned from disk with no backend restart.
Parameters — define your own extra widgets for every stage of this kind:
  • A parameter has a label, a type (float / int / string / boolean / combo), a default, and type-specific config (min / max / step for numbers, options for combos, placeholder for strings).
  • On any stage card of that kind you can then attach the parameter and set a per-node value; the value merges into the stage’s run options, and you wire it into the workflow via a binding in the Workflow tab.

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Presets — every saved stage preset

Presets panel All parameter presets you’ve saved from stage cards, grouped by stage type. Rename or delete them here; creating one happens on the node itself (the preset bar’s Save preset button). Built-in presets are marked and can’t be overwritten.

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Resources — LUTs, fonts, SoundFonts

Resources panel Files that nodes consume but that aren’t media assets: Upload, rename, and delete per group. When a stage runs on a remote server, preflight checks that the remote has the same resource — you get a warning (with Run anyway) if it’s missing or differs.

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Servers — run stages on other machines

Servers panel Register other ComfyUI instances on your network (name / host / port) and stages gain a Run on dropdown — run heavy stages on the GPU rig upstairs while light ones stay local, in parallel. Results always land on this machine.
  • Test connection shows online/offline plus queue status (running / pending, and how many jobs are from ComfyTV).
  • A capability probe reports the remote’s ComfyTV version — or warns that ComfyTV isn’t installed there — and lists any nodes it’s missing. Preflight blocks a run that can’t work (no ComfyTV, missing node) and warns on missing resources.
  • Disable or delete a server anytime; stages pointed at it fall back to running locally.

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Prompt references

The sidebar’s libraries plug directly into every stage’s prompt box. Mention popup Type @ in a prompt to open the mention popup:
  • @image_N — reference one of the stage’s wired image slots inline (“make @image_0’s character wear @image_1’s outfit”). Chips are color-coded to match the input slots, so you can see at a glance which image is which. At run time each token expands to the image’s actual ordinal in the batch that gets sent.
  • @fragment — insert an Entries fragment by label. Type a label that doesn’t exist yet and the popup offers to create it inline.
  • Asset images — insert an image straight from the asset library; it’s sent as a reference image at run and claims one of the workflow’s reference slots.

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Pinned image references

Image references Stages that take images also have an Image references strip: pin images from the asset library onto the stage’s reference slots without wiring any nodes. The strip warns when two pins target the same slot, when a pin overrides an upstream connection, or when the workflow binds fewer slots than you’ve pinned.

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Prompt helper

The ✨ prompt helper on generator cards offers quick starters (portrait, landscape, product, …), templates (storyboard grid, character sheet, mood board, upscale), and enhancement tags grouped by quality / lighting / mood / style — one click appends them to the prompt.