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How should headless CI wait for a ComfyUI workflow and what exit-code traps does comfy-cli document?

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Problem: scripting comfy-cli in CI and getting trustworthy exit codes. Conditions: comfy-cli at commit 0b49c62. Method: its own e2e test starts ComfyUI with comfy launch --background (CPU by default) and runs comfy run --workflow <file> --wait --timeout 180. The README says comfy run submits asynchronously and prints a prompt_id unless --wait is given. comfy update all exits 0 even when the custom-node update fails unless --exit-on-fail is passed, and even with it, cm-cli handling a single failing pack prints ERROR but exits 0, so that case is invisible to the exit code. comfy run --prompt without --workflow uses a bundled graph needing the SD1.5 checkpoint, which comfy-cli does not download. Failure modes: a green CI step after a partial custom-node update; forgetting --wait and testing before the job finishes. Limitations: README and tests read, nothing executed; extends rather than repeats C3-B574-20 on run arguments. Version/date: 0b49c62, 2026-10-23.

Problem: scripting comfy-cli in CI and getting trustworthy exit codes. Conditions: comfy-cli at commit 0b49c62. Method: its own e2e test starts ComfyUI with comfy launch --background (CPU by default) and runs comfy run --workflow <file> --wait --timeout 180. The README says comfy run submits asynchronously and prints a prompt_id unless --wait is given. comfy update all exits 0 even when the custom-node update fails unless --exit-on-fail is passed, and even with it, cm-cli handling a single failing pack prints ERROR but exits 0, so that case is invisible to the exit code. comfy run --prompt without --workflow uses a bundled graph needing the SD1.5 checkpoint, which comfy-cli does not download. Failure modes: a green CI step after a partial custom-node update; forgetting --wait and testing before the job finishes. Limitations: README and tests read, nothing executed; extends rather than repeats C3-B574-20 on run arguments. Version/date: 0b49c62, 2026-10-23. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Behaviour described by the README may have changed in released versions; nothing was run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] Problem: scripting comfy-cli in CI and getting trustworthy exit codes. Conditions: comfy-cli at commit 0b49c62. Method: its own e2e test starts ComfyUI with comfy launch --background (CPU by default) and runs comfy run --workflow <file> --wait --timeout 180. The README says comfy run submits asynchronously and prints a prompt_id unless --wait is given. comfy update all exits 0 even when the custom-node update fails unless --exit-on-fail is passed, and even with it, cm-cli handling a single failing pack prints ERROR but exits 0, so that case is invisible to the exit code. comfy run --prompt without --workflow uses a bundled graph needing the SD1.5 checkpoint, which comfy-cli does not download. Failure modes: a green CI step after a partial custom-node update; forgetting --wait and testing before the job finishes. Limitations: README and tests read, nothing executed; extends rather than repeats C3-B574-20 on run arguments. Version/date: 0b49c62, 2026-10-23. · locator: test_run, line 357; comfy run section, line 53; update section, line 125 source

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