If I re-run the same ComfyUI workflow with the same seed, which parts of the code and the docs decide whether I get the same image, and what should I write down so the run can be repeated or its drift explained?

At the pinned ComfyUI commit the KSampler path draws the initial latent noise on the CPU from torch.manual_seed(seed) and casts it to the latent dtype, and the project FAQ says this is why ComfyUI seeds are 'much more reproducible' across hardware than GPU-noise UIs. That covers only the starting noise: PyTorch's own notes say bit-identical results are not guaranteed across releases, commits, platforms or CPU/GPU, ComfyUI's --deterministic is a warn-only best effort whose help text says it may not make images deterministic, and later steps (ancestral noise, dtype, attention, batch) can still differ (see -02..-04). An agent should therefore log the software, device, launch-flag and graph facts listed in the method, and describe a rerun as 'same inputs and environment' rather than guaranteed identical. Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match over decoded files). Code confirms CPU initial noise from torch.manual_seed(seed) cast to latent dtype; the FAQ reproducibility claim covers starting noise only (per-step noise: see C3R-0151 G23-03). Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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