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--emit-workflow writes API format, which the ComfyUI canvas and every cloud-agent edit tool refuse (workflow_not_frontend_format — 48 refusals in one staging day), and which a shared-document (CRDT) consumer cannot attribute.

--emit-ops (requires --emit-workflow) re-expresses the same graph — build_workflow stays the single source of the model→node mapping — as add_node/set_widget/connect specs and materializes it through workflow_ops.apply_specs: the machinery every hand edit already uses, so widget order, autogrow growth and position assignment keep one answer. The written file becomes frontend format (canvas-editable), and the envelope carries a stamped replace_ops batch exactly like templates fetch --emit-ops (--actor/--base-version accepted the same way).

Also fixes a latent converter bug the round-trip contract exposed: convert_ui_to_api paired widgets positionally from the input dict order and ignored input_order, silently swapping neighboring widget values on any re-serialized catalog (GeminiImageNode's prompt/model traded places on an alphabetized fixture). It now honors input_order the way the cql engine's _ordered_names does.

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  • test_emit_ops.py (11 tests, TDD): ops shape, apply-to-frontend, and the round-trip contract — lowering the materialized frontend workflow back to API format reproduces build_workflow's semantics (image-edit, video, no-image, multi-image/ImageBatch cases); write_frontend_workflow file+batch behavior incl. the delete half over a previous graph; CLI end-to-end via COMFY_OBJECT_INFO_FILE; the converter input_order regression.
  • Full suite: 424 passed in the touched areas; the only failures are 4 pre-existing on clean main in this sandbox (TTY/network-dependent spend-gate + stderr tests — verified by stashing the change).
  • ruff check/format clean.

Consumer wiring (cloud agent generate_workflow passes the flags + pin bump) follows in Comfy-Org/cloud.

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…tamped op batch (BE-11131)

--emit-workflow writes API format, which the canvas and every edit tool
refuse (workflow_not_frontend_format) and which a shared-document consumer
cannot attribute. --emit-ops re-expresses the SAME graph (build_workflow
stays the single source of the model→node mapping) as
add_node/set_widget/connect specs and materializes it through
workflow_ops.apply_specs — the machinery every hand edit uses, so widget
order, autogrow and positions have one answer. The file on disk becomes
frontend format (canvas-editable), and the envelope carries the
replace_ops batch exactly like templates fetch --emit-ops, so the
consumer folds the replacement in as attributed ops.

Also fixes a latent converter bug the round-trip contract exposed:
convert_ui_to_api paired widgets positionally from the input DICT's order
and ignored input_order, silently swapping neighboring widget values on
any re-serialized catalog (GeminiImageNode's prompt/model traded places
on an alphabetized fixture). It now honors input_order the way the cql
engine's _ordered_names does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QX1YteLA2BYbfjup13xNg1
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The generate command now supports frontend workflow emission with attributed operations and metadata. API workflows convert into ordered operations, frontend files are materialized and written, and input conversion honors declared input_order.

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Workflow emission

Layer / File(s) Summary
API graph operation conversion
comfy_cli/command/generate/emit.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit_ops.py
API workflow nodes, widgets, and links convert into ordered operation specifications and frontend workflow state.
Frontend workflow persistence and CLI wiring
comfy_cli/command/generate/app.py, comfy_cli/command/generate/emit.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit_ops.py
The CLI validates --emit-ops, accepts actor and base-version metadata, writes frontend workflows, and reports format, node count, and operations.
Input ordering and round-trip validation
comfy_cli/workflow_to_api.py, tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit_ops.py
Frontend-to-API conversion orders widget values using input_order. Tests cover round trips and CLI behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant generate_command
  participant write_frontend_workflow
  participant workflow_ops.apply_specs
  participant frontend_json
  generate_command->>write_frontend_workflow: model and operation metadata
  write_frontend_workflow->>workflow_ops.apply_specs: replacement operation specs
  workflow_ops.apply_specs-->>write_frontend_workflow: materialized frontend workflow
  write_frontend_workflow->>frontend_json: write workflow and operations
  frontend_json-->>generate_command: emission result
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In `@comfy_cli/command/generate/app.py`:
- Line 614: Wrap the _get_graph call in generate with a typer.Exit handler that
invokes _track_error("emit", exc) before re-raising the same exception, ensuring
exits after cql_no_graph produce a terminal generate:error event while
preserving existing exit behavior.
- Around line 607-617: Update the invalid base-version handling in the generate
command to pass the caught conversion exception to _bail instead of directly
raising after renderer.error. Preserve the generate_bad_args user-facing message
while ensuring _track_error records the matching generate:error lifecycle event.

In `@tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit_ops.py`:
- Line 3: Remove the internal ticket identifier “BE-11131” from the comment text
in test_emit_ops.py and replace it with a concise, non-sensitive description of
the --emit-workflow behavior. Preserve the existing explanation about API-format
output and canvas compatibility.

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base_version = int(meta.get("base-version", 0))
except (TypeError, ValueError):
renderer.error(
code="generate_bad_args",
message=f"--base-version must be an integer, got {meta.get('base-version')!r}",
)
raise typer.Exit(code=1) from None
graph = _get_graph(None, None, None)
workflow, ops = emit.write_frontend_workflow(
name,
values,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Route invalid --base-version through _bail

When int() rejects the CLI value, the local handler emits generate_bad_args but skips _track_error, so generate:start has no matching generate:error. Pass the caught exception to _bail to preserve both the user-facing error and the tracking lifecycle.

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In `@comfy_cli/command/generate/app.py` around lines 607 - 617, Update the invalid
base-version handling in the generate command to pass the caught conversion
exception to _bail instead of directly raising after renderer.error. Preserve
the generate_bad_args user-facing message while ensuring _track_error records
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message=f"--base-version must be an integer, got {meta.get('base-version')!r}",
)
raise typer.Exit(code=1) from None
graph = _get_graph(None, None, None)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track _get_graph exits before re-raising.

When comfy_cli.command.workflow._get_graph catches LoadError, it emits cql_no_graph and raises typer.Exit. The emit block and outer typer.Exit handler only re-raise it, so no generate:error follows generate:start. Catch this exit around the call, invoke _track_error("emit", exc), then re-raise so the event trail has a terminal tail.

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In `@comfy_cli/command/generate/app.py` at line 614, Wrap the _get_graph call in
generate with a typer.Exit handler that invokes _track_error("emit", exc) before
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"""``generate --emit-ops``: the emitter expressed as the frozen op vocabulary.

BE-11131: ``--emit-workflow`` writes an API-format file, which the canvas and

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the internal ticket identifier.

Public Repo Hygiene rejects this identifier, so the pipeline fails. Replace it with issue context that does not expose an internal reference.

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In `@tests/comfy_cli/command/generate/test_emit_ops.py` at line 3, Remove the
internal ticket identifier “BE-11131” from the comment text in test_emit_ops.py
and replace it with a concise, non-sensitive description of the --emit-workflow
behavior. Preserve the existing explanation about API-format output and canvas
compatibility.

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Coordination note: this overlaps with #838 (opened ~12h earlier from the same ticket, BE-11131) — #838 is PR A of a 3-PR plan that rebuilds build_workflow on the op primitives directly, with B (compose) and C (--emit-ops flag) to follow. Converting this to draft to avoid a collision.

Proposed resolution: #838 lands first; this PR then rebases into its PR-C slot, contributing the pieces #838's plan hasn't covered yet: the --emit-ops --actor --base-version flag surface with the stamped replace_ops envelope batch (including the delete half over a previous canvas, matching templates fetch --emit-ops), the frontend↔API round-trip conformance test, and the consumer wiring in Comfy-Org/cloud#8274.

One piece here is independent of the collision and worth extracting either way: the convert_ui_to_api input_order fix (widgets were paired from input dict order, silently swapping neighboring values on any re-serialized catalog).

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