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Jaroslav Beneš 47d1ddbc3c Draw a picture, on a ComfyUI you are running
The last unbuilt capability, and built the way CLAUDE.md said it had to be: a
ToolDef reaching resolve_tools plus a permission and a capability flag, not a new
code path. The only genuinely new UI is one branch in the transcript.

services/images/ is three modules. comfy.py speaks HTTP -- submit, poll /history,
fetch the PNG, /free, and an /object_info discovery for the admin page only.
Polled and not socketed, because holding a connection open for the length of a
generation is the live-connection state the whole ssh.py design forbids, and the
thing being waited for takes tens of seconds anyway. The base URL is exempt from
the SSRF guard by construction, exactly as Connection.base_url and the audio
endpoints are -- said out loud in the docstring, because a default of
127.0.0.1:8188 is precisely the shape that guard exists to refuse and therefore
reads as a hole rather than a decision.

workflow.py fills a template, and the one thing that matters is that it walks the
parsed JSON rather than the text of it. A value that is exactly "{{steps}}"
becomes the number 20; ComfyUI validates types and refuses the string. A
placeholder inside a longer string is still text, which is what makes
"{{prompt}}, masterpiece" work -- and text substitution would additionally mean a
prompt containing a quotation mark produced a document that no longer parses, on
the one input guaranteed to hold arbitrary text. Which node holds the prompt is
the administrator's statement rather than a guess from node types: sniffing for
the first CLIPTextEncode works on the shipped workflow and on nothing else, and
swaps positive for negative the first time somebody reorders them. seed has no
fixed default, because one would make every unspecified generation identical and
make the retry loop redraw the same rejected picture four times.

tool.py is one call, one finished image. Returning every attempt to the
conversation would cost a round each, make the ceiling advisory rather than
enforced, and walk the reader past every reject -- so the reviewer lives inside
the tool and is asked about *bytes*: an attempt about to be discarded should not
leave an Attachment behind, so it sees a downscaled preview built in memory and
only the kept image is written. Anything that goes wrong in review is a keep;
losing a picture because a judging request timed out would be the check
destroying the thing it was checking. The last attempt is kept whatever the
verdict, so a request always produces something. Rejects are recorded, not
stored.

Preserve VRAM unloads the chat's own connection and nothing else, because the
memory being freed belongs to one machine: local llama-swap answers GET /unload,
and a box on the network has no reason to be unloaded when ComfyUI wants memory
here. The swap goes round the review rather than round the tool, which costs two
model loads per retry -- so the two settings are independent and the page warns
when both are on. Nothing loads the LLM back: the reply's next request does, and
that step exists in the description and not in the code, so the code says so.

Two rules elsewhere had to be drawn for the first time. message_payload sends
images only on user turns -- no assistant message had ever carried one, and the
moment one does the multimodal list form on an assistant turn is rejected by
OpenAI and most local runners, breaking every later turn in the chat. And
files.store gained keep_original, because _process_image turns anything without
alpha into JPEG q85 at 1400px: right for a phone photo, a visible loss on the one
output this feature exists to produce.

/image sends the ordinary message with force_tool, which becomes tool_choice for
the first round only -- left in place the reply would draw a picture, be asked
again, and draw another. FORCEABLE_TOOLS is an allow list because the name is
read off a form.

ToolContext gained chat_id, and that fixed a tool nobody had ever successfully
run: _run_scratch_write read context.chat_id on a dataclass with no such field,
so every call raised AttributeError, swallowed by run_tool's blanket except into
"the scratch_write tool failed" -- indistinguishable from a model calling it
wrongly. The test that existed asserted the family and the risk, which are
properties of the declaration rather than of the code.

Verified against the real ComfyUI 0.27.0 on this machine rather than against
documentation: every endpoint shape here was read off it, a generation ran end to
end through the client, the reviewer was shown a matching and a mismatched prompt
and answered KEEP and RETRY correctly, and the unload hook fired for the local
llama-swap and not for the remote box.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 14:13:19 +02:00

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"""The tool that makes a picture, and the loop that decides to keep it.
One call is one finished image. The alternative -- return every attempt to the
conversation and let the model decide whether to call again -- costs a full
round per retry, makes the ceiling advisory rather than enforced, and shows the
reader every reject on the way past. So the retrying happens here, and what
comes back is the image that was kept.
**Three things are ordered rather than incidental.**
*The reviewer is asked about bytes, not about a row.* An attempt that is going
to be thrown away should not leave an `Attachment` behind, so the judge is shown
a downscaled preview built in memory and only the kept image is ever written.
*Preserve VRAM swaps around the review, not around the tool.* The sequence is
unload the LLM, generate, free ComfyUI, ask the reviewer (which loads the LLM
again), and round once more if it said no. Two model loads per retry, which is
why the two settings are independent and the admin page says so.
*Nothing loads the LLM back at the end.* The reply's next request does it, and
llama-swap -- or Ollama, or anything else worth pointing this at -- loads on
demand. A step that exists in the description and not in the code looks like an
omission, so it is said here instead.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Any
import httpx
from sqlalchemy import select
from lembas.services.images import comfy, workflow
from lembas.services.llm.openai_client import Endpoint, LLMError, complete
from lembas.services.tools import RISK_WRITE, ToolContext, ToolDef, ToolOutcome
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# What the reviewer is allowed to write back. It is one verdict and one line of
# reason, and a model that writes an essay about a picture is a model whose
# answer nobody reads.
MAX_VERDICT_TOKENS = 200
# How long to wait for a connection to admit it has unloaded. Short: this is a
# hint before a slow operation, and a machine that will not answer it is one
# where the generation should go ahead anyway rather than fail.
UNLOAD_TIMEOUT = 30.0
SCHEMA: dict[str, Any] = {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
# First, and the only required one, because `tools.parse_arguments`
# puts the whole raw string into the first required parameter when a
# model emits arguments that are not valid JSON. That failure is common
# with small models, and this way it degrades into a prompt rather than
# into a seed.
"prompt": {
"type": "string",
"description": "What to draw. Describe the subject, the setting and the style.",
},
"negative": {
"type": "string",
"description": "What to keep out of the picture. Defaults to 'text, watermark'.",
},
"template": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Which workflow to use. Omit to use this chat's usual one.",
},
"model": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Which checkpoint to draw with. Omit to use this chat's usual one.",
},
"seed": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Omit for a new random image; repeat one to get the same image again.",
},
"steps": {"type": "integer", "description": "Sampling steps. Default 20."},
"cfg": {"type": "number", "description": "Prompt adherence. Default 8."},
"width": {"type": "integer", "description": "Pixels. Default 512."},
"height": {"type": "integer", "description": "Pixels. Default 512."},
"sampler": {"type": "string", "description": "Sampler name. Default euler."},
"scheduler": {"type": "string", "description": "Scheduler name. Default normal."},
"denoise": {"type": "number", "description": "0 to 1. Default 1."},
},
"required": ["prompt"],
}
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Attempt:
"""One generated image and what was decided about it."""
number: int
seed: int
kept: bool
verdict: str = ""
def config_of(context: ToolContext) -> comfy.Config:
"""The client snapshot, with the key decrypted at the last moment."""
from lembas.services.crypto import decrypt
values = context.image_config or {}
return comfy.Config(
base_url=str(values.get("base_url") or ""),
api_key=decrypt(str(values.get("api_key_encrypted") or "")),
timeout=float(values.get("timeout") or comfy.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT),
)
def _choices(db, values: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[list[Any], list[str]]:
"""The templates and checkpoints on offer, for the schema and the harness."""
from lembas.db.models import ImageWorkflow
rows = list(
db.scalars(
select(ImageWorkflow)
.where(ImageWorkflow.enabled.is_(True))
.order_by(ImageWorkflow.position, ImageWorkflow.slug)
)
)
return rows, [str(name) for name in (values.get("checkpoints") or [])]
def schema_for(db, values: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""The parameter schema, with this instance's own choices in it.
`template` and `model` become enums because a name that does not exist is a
refusal from ComfyUI and a wasted round; `sampler` and `scheduler` stay
plain strings because there are forty-four and nine of them, and an enum
that size costs tokens on every request forever to prevent a mistake worth
one sentence of correction.
"""
rows, checkpoints = _choices(db, values)
schema = json.loads(json.dumps(SCHEMA))
if rows:
schema["properties"]["template"]["enum"] = [row.slug for row in rows]
schema["properties"]["template"]["description"] = "Which workflow to use. " + "; ".join(
f"{row.slug}: {row.description or row.name}" for row in rows[:12]
)
if checkpoints:
schema["properties"]["model"]["enum"] = checkpoints
return schema
def tool_def(db, values: dict[str, Any]) -> ToolDef:
return ToolDef(
name="image_generate",
family="image",
description=(
"Draw a picture from a description and show it to the person you are "
"talking to. Returns once the image has been made and is on screen."
),
parameters=schema_for(db, values),
run=run,
# Not RISK_READ: it spends somebody's GPU for a minute and puts a new
# artefact in the conversation. In an agent chat that means the mode
# decides whether to ask first, which is the right answer for a call
# that cannot be undone by reading something again.
risk=RISK_WRITE,
)
# --- Preserve VRAM -------------------------------------------------------------
async def _unload_llm(context: ToolContext) -> bool:
"""Ask this chat's own endpoint to drop its model. Best-effort.
*This chat's own* is the whole of the design. The unload hook is a column on
`Connection`, so a chat talking to a local llama-swap unloads that and a
chat talking to a box on the network unloads nothing -- its VRAM is not the
VRAM ComfyUI is about to want.
"""
from lembas.db.models import Connection
from lembas.db.session import session_scope
url = ""
method = "POST"
try:
with session_scope() as db:
connection = db.get(Connection, context.connection_id)
if connection is not None:
url = (connection.unload_url or "").strip()
method = (connection.unload_method or "POST").upper()
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - a hint that could not be looked up is not a failure
log.debug("could not read the unload hook", exc_info=True)
return False
if not url:
return False
try:
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=UNLOAD_TIMEOUT) as client:
await client.request(method, url)
return True
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - see the module docstring: a hint, not a step
log.info("could not unload the model at %s", url, exc_info=True)
return False
# --- The reviewer --------------------------------------------------------------
def _reviewer(context: ToolContext) -> tuple[Endpoint, str] | None:
"""The model that judges an image, or None if there is nobody to ask.
The admin's choice first, then the chat's own model when it has vision. A
chat on a text-only model with no reviewer configured simply keeps the first
image, which is the behaviour with review switched off -- said here rather
than failing, because "you asked for a picture and got an error about
vision" is a worse answer than a picture.
"""
from lembas.db.models import Connection, Model
from lembas.db.session import session_scope
values = context.image_config or {}
if not values.get("review_enabled"):
return None
wanted = str(values.get("review_model_id") or "")
try:
with session_scope() as db:
model = None
if wanted:
model = db.get(Model, wanted)
if model is None and context.model_id:
model = db.scalar(
select(Model).where(
Model.model_id == context.model_id,
Model.connection_id == context.connection_id,
)
)
if model is None or not (model.capabilities_json or {}).get("vision"):
return None
connection = db.get(Connection, model.connection_id)
if connection is None or not connection.enabled:
return None
return Endpoint.from_connection(connection), model.model_id
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - no reviewer is a degraded mode, not an error
log.warning("could not resolve an image reviewer", exc_info=True)
return None
async def _review(
context: ToolContext, endpoint: Endpoint, model_id: str, prompt: str, payload: bytes
) -> tuple[bool, str]:
"""Show the reviewer the image and ask whether to keep it.
Answers `(keep, reason)`. **Anything that goes wrong is a keep**: the
reviewer is a second opinion on a picture that already exists, and losing an
image because a judging request timed out would be the check destroying the
thing it was checking.
"""
from lembas.db.session import session_scope
from lembas.services import files as files_service
from lembas.services import prompts as prompts_service
preview = files_service.preview_data_uri(payload, max_edge=768)
if preview is None:
return True, ""
with session_scope() as db:
instruction = prompts_service.resolve(db, "task.image_review")
# An administrator who cleared the fragment has switched reviewing off, the
# same way clearing `task.compact` switches compaction off. Nothing is asked
# of anyone and the image is kept.
if not instruction.strip():
return True, ""
body = {
"model": model_id,
"messages": [
{"role": "system", "content": instruction},
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": f"The request was: {prompt}"},
{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": preview}},
],
},
],
"max_tokens": MAX_VERDICT_TOKENS,
"temperature": 0,
}
try:
answer = (await complete(endpoint, body)).strip()
except LLMError as exc:
log.info("could not review a generated image: %s", exc.message)
return True, ""
verdict, _, reason = answer.partition("\n")
keep = not verdict.strip().upper().startswith("RETRY")
return keep, (reason or verdict).strip()[:300]
# --- The runner ----------------------------------------------------------------
async def run(context: ToolContext, args: dict[str, Any]) -> ToolOutcome:
"""Generate one image, review it if there is anybody to ask, and keep one."""
from lembas.db.session import session_scope
from lembas.services import files as files_service
event: dict[str, Any] = {
"name": "image_generate",
"kind": "image",
"query": str(args.get("prompt") or "")[:200],
"results": [],
}
prompt = str(args.get("prompt") or "").strip()
if not prompt:
return ToolOutcome(
"No prompt was given, so nothing was drawn. Say what the picture should show.",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": "No prompt."},
)
if not context.chat_id:
return ToolOutcome(
"Images can only be generated inside a chat.",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": "No chat."},
)
values = context.image_config or {}
config = config_of(context)
if not config.configured:
return ToolOutcome(
"No image generator is configured on this instance.",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": "No ComfyUI configured."},
)
# Resolve the template and the checkpoint: what the model asked for, then
# this chat's usual, then the instance default. Every rung is a preference
# and none of them is a constraint, which is what lets a model that only
# wrote a prompt still get a picture.
try:
with session_scope() as db:
rows, checkpoints = _choices(db, values)
wanted = str(args.get("template") or "")
chosen = _pick(rows, wanted, context.image_workflow_id, values)
if chosen is None:
return ToolOutcome(
"No image workflow has been set up on this instance.",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": "No workflow."},
)
template = json.loads(json.dumps(chosen.workflow_json or {}))
template_slug, template_name = chosen.slug, chosen.name
except ToolOutcome: # pragma: no cover - defensive
raise
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
log.exception("could not resolve an image workflow")
return ToolOutcome(
f"The image workflow could not be read: {exc}",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": str(exc)},
)
checkpoint = _checkpoint(str(args.get("model") or ""), context.image_checkpoint, checkpoints)
if checkpoint is None:
return ToolOutcome(
"No checkpoint is available. An administrator has to list them on the "
"image generation page.",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": "No checkpoint."},
)
given = {name: args.get(name) for name in workflow.PLACEHOLDERS if name in args}
given["model"] = checkpoint
given["prompt"] = prompt
reviewer = _reviewer(context)
tries = int(values.get("max_tries") or 1) if reviewer else 1
preserve = bool(values.get("preserve_vram"))
attempts: list[Attempt] = []
kept: tuple[bytes, dict[str, Any]] | None = None
try:
for number in range(1, tries + 1):
if preserve:
await _unload_llm(context)
params = workflow.resolve({**given, "seed": args.get("seed") if number == 1 else None})
refs = await comfy.await_images(
config, await comfy.submit(config, workflow.fill(template, params))
)
if not refs:
raise comfy.ComfyError("ComfyUI finished but saved no image.")
payload = await comfy.fetch_image(config, refs[0])
if preserve:
await comfy.free(config)
if reviewer is None:
attempts.append(Attempt(number, params["seed"], kept=True))
kept = (payload, params)
break
endpoint, model_id = reviewer
keep, reason = await _review(context, endpoint, model_id, prompt, payload)
last = number == tries
attempts.append(Attempt(number, params["seed"], kept=keep or last, verdict=reason))
if keep or last:
kept = (payload, params)
break
except comfy.ComfyError as exc:
if preserve:
await comfy.free(config)
return ToolOutcome(
f"The image could not be generated: {exc.message}",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": exc.message},
)
if preserve:
await comfy.free(config)
if kept is None: # pragma: no cover - the loop always keeps its last attempt
return ToolOutcome(
"Nothing was generated.", {**event, "status": "error", "error": "No image."}
)
payload, params = kept
try:
with session_scope() as db:
attachment = files_service.store(
db,
user_id=context.owner_id,
chat_id=context.chat_id,
payload=payload,
filename=f"{template_slug}-{params['seed']}.png",
# What ComfyUI made, at the size it made it. See `_keep_image`.
keep_original=True,
source_label="Image generation",
source_path=f"{checkpoint} · seed {params['seed']}",
)
attachment_id = attachment.id
width, height = attachment.width, attachment.height
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
log.exception("could not store a generated image")
return ToolOutcome(
f"The image was generated but could not be saved: {exc}",
{**event, "status": "error", "error": str(exc)},
)
return ToolOutcome(
_describe(prompt, template_name, checkpoint, params, attempts),
{
**event,
"status": "ok",
"detail": f"{template_name} · {checkpoint}",
"text": _transcript(params, attempts),
# Bound to the reply by `generation._persist`, the single writer. A
# runner may create the row; only the loop may say which turn owns
# it.
"attachment_id": attachment_id,
"image": {"id": attachment_id, "width": width, "height": height},
},
)
def _pick(rows: list[Any], wanted: str, chat_default: str, values: dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
"""The workflow to use: asked for, then the chat's, then the instance's."""
by_slug = {row.slug: row for row in rows}
if wanted and wanted in by_slug:
return by_slug[wanted]
by_id = {row.id: row for row in rows}
if chat_default and chat_default in by_id:
return by_id[chat_default]
fallback = str(values.get("default_workflow_id") or "")
if fallback and fallback in by_id:
return by_id[fallback]
return rows[0] if rows else None
def _checkpoint(wanted: str, chat_default: str, available: list[str]) -> str | None:
"""The checkpoint to draw with, on the same ladder.
A name the instance does not have is ignored rather than passed through: it
would reach ComfyUI, be refused, and cost a round to discover -- and the
model was shown the list it may choose from.
"""
if wanted and wanted in available:
return wanted
if chat_default and chat_default in available:
return chat_default
return available[0] if available else None
def _describe(
prompt: str, template: str, checkpoint: str, params: dict[str, Any], attempts: list[Attempt]
) -> str:
"""What the model reads back.
It is told the image is already on screen, because otherwise the commonest
next thing it does is offer to show it -- and there is nothing it could do
to comply.
"""
lines = [
"The image has been generated and is shown to them. It is not a link and "
"needs no further action.",
f"Prompt: {prompt}",
f"Template {template}, checkpoint {checkpoint}, "
f"{params['width']}x{params['height']}, seed {params['seed']}, "
f"{params['steps']} steps, cfg {params['cfg']}.",
]
if len(attempts) > 1:
rejected = [a for a in attempts if not a.kept]
lines.append(
f"It took {len(attempts)} attempts; the earlier ones were rejected on review "
f"({'; '.join(a.verdict for a in rejected if a.verdict) or 'no reason given'})."
)
return "\n".join(lines)
def _transcript(params: dict[str, Any], attempts: list[Attempt]) -> str:
"""What the reader sees when they open the tool block.
The rejected attempts are recorded here and their images are not kept. A
transcript full of pictures somebody's model decided against is noise, and
the disk they would occupy buys nothing -- what is worth knowing is that it
took three goes and why the first two did not do.
"""
lines = [
f"seed {params['seed']} · {params['steps']} steps · cfg {params['cfg']} · "
f"{params['sampler']}/{params['scheduler']} · denoise {params['denoise']}"
]
if len(attempts) > 1:
lines.append("")
for attempt in attempts:
state = "kept" if attempt.kept else "rejected"
reason = f" — {attempt.verdict}" if attempt.verdict else ""
lines.append(f"Attempt {attempt.number} (seed {attempt.seed}): {state}{reason}")
return "\n".join(lines)