Open Manager for ComfyUI

Download Manager	Model Library
Resource Monitor	Desktop Mode

The whole workspace at once: one screenshot.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f264d2f-b11b-4ca9-9f69-73a553213e85

A manager for the whole ComfyUI workspace, not just its nodes.

Open Manager is not affiliated with ComfyUI-Manager or the Comfy Registry.

Install

# as a custom node
cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/WASasquatch/open-manager-comfyui.git

# or as the manager
pip uninstall comfyui-manager
pip install comfyui-open-manager
python main.py --enable-manager

Access keys (optional)

Set under Open Manager > Access keys. A variable, where set, is used instead.

Packs

Findings reword the confirmation. A registry ban blocks Install until Install versions the registry has banned is on.

Beyond packs

Four pieces. None of them adds a node to your graph.

Every panel opens as a movable window, or centred on the page. One setting each.

Remote installs

Desktop Mode is served by ComfyUI's own server: no second port, no second login.

Server switches

Set to 1. What ships on is closed with a NO_ switch; what ships off is opened with its own.

The server refuses what a closed switch governs and names the variable. Desktop Mode and the file browser are hidden rather than refused, and their settings do nothing until the machine opens them.

Reference

Where it appears

Extensions follows ComfyUI: the panel on the modern interface, the classic menu of destinations under --enable-manager-legacy-ui. Override it under What the Extensions button opens. Both carry every destination, and the sidebar tab is unaffected.

Network

Open Manager reads the Comfy Registry live. What it contacts:

Settings

Under Settings -> Open Manager.

A GitHub token, set under Open Manager > Access keys or as GITHUB_TOKEN, raises 60 anonymous calls an hour to 5,000. Without one, pack pages still show README, gallery and versions.

The registry address is BASE_URL in open_manager/registry.py, and BASE in open_manager/catalog.py for the offline copy. Both can point at a mirror or a private index.

Trust

Requirements

torch, torchaudio, torchsde and torchvision are never installed from a pack's requirements: they carry the build your ComfyUI was set up with. Anything held back is named in the install output. To substitute a package, map it in user/open_manager/pip_overrides.json:

{ "opencv-python": "opencv-python-headless>=4.9" }

Your GitHub list

For pack authors

Declare a [tool.open_manager] table in pyproject.toml and every Open Manager user sees it. Every field is optional. Packs without the table are unaffected.

[tool.open_manager]
incompatible = ["numpy>=2.0"]                   # declare known conflicts with other packages
source = "github"                               # prefer installing from the repository
branch = "main"                                 # named in the GitHub recommendation
docs = "https://example.com/docs"               # documentation URL
funding = "https://ko-fi.com/you"               # funding URL
release_note = "1.4.0 needs config regen."      # shown above the version list, 600 chars
capabilities = [                                # what your pack does, its own page panel
  "filesystem", "network", "subprocess",        #   from a fixed list, see below
]
example_workflows = ["workflows/*.json"]        # a path, a glob, or a directory
themes = ["themes/my-theme.json"]               # list themes to offer
gallery = [                                     # shown off on the pack page, up to 24, `png`,
                                                # `jpg`, `jpeg`, `gif`, `webp`, `avif`, and
                                                # `mp4`, `webm`, `mov`, `m4v` for clips
  "docs/*.png",                                 #   a path or glob in your repository
  "https://cdn.example.com/after.webp",         #   or a file hosted anywhere
]

Workflow thumbnails are not declared. An image beside a workflow and named for it is paired with it automatically, following ComfyUI's workflow templates convention: workflows/hdr.json picks up workflows/hdr.webp, .png, .jpg, .jpeg or .gif, and a numbered variant such as hdr-1.png counts too. Workflows without one show as a plain row.

Capabilities

Your own account of what your pack does, in fixed words so that two packs describe themselves the same way.

filesystem network subprocess binaries environment dynamic_code packages models credentials telemetry compilation hardware

Themes

A ComfyUI colour palette plus an optional extras block: gradient or flat headers per node category or class, a title icon, an image behind node bodies, see-through bodies, a graph backdrop, shadow colours and a selection glow. Packs ship them, users add them from the pack page.

[tool.open_manager]
themes = ["themes/my-theme/my-theme.json"]

Full reference in docs/THEMES.md. Examples in open_manager/themes/.

Licence

MIT, see LICENSE.

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