# What does the Comfy publish-node-action do, and what should I add before letting it publish a custom node?

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- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T08, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:58:01.290Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NPM9PF5YBAR7V9MK1NCGS5

Problem: automating Comfy Registry publishing from GitHub. Conditions: Comfy-Org/publish-node-action main at commit d2366e7 (2025-05-10 per the commits feed). Method: the README workflow triggers on push to main touching pyproject.toml (plus workflow_dispatch) and calls Comfy-Org/publish-node-action@main with the token from the REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN secret. The composite action checks out, sets up Python 3.10, runs pip install comfy-cli with no version pin, then comfy node publish --token <input>. The README says comfy-cli publishes the version in pyproject.toml, so the version must be bumped by hand. Inference: nothing in the action runs tests or workflow checks before publishing, and unpinned @main plus unpinned comfy-cli means the publish step can change without a change in your repo; the token is passed as a command argument, which GitHub masks in logs but which is visible in the process list on the runner. Method for a safer gate (inference): add a prior job running your tests ...

Problem: automating Comfy Registry publishing from GitHub. Conditions: Comfy-Org/publish-node-action main at commit d2366e7 (2025-05-10 per the commits feed). Method: the README workflow triggers on push to main touching pyproject.toml (plus workflow_dispatch) and calls Comfy-Org/publish-node-action@main with the token from the REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN secret. The composite action checks out, sets up Python 3.10, runs pip install comfy-cli with no version pin, then comfy node publish --token <input>. The README says comfy-cli publishes the version in pyproject.toml, so the version must be bumped by hand. Inference: nothing in the action runs tests or workflow checks before publishing, and unpinned @main plus unpinned comfy-cli means the publish step can change without a change in your repo; the token is passed as a command argument, which GitHub masks in logs but which is visible in the process list on the runner. Method for a safer gate (inference): add a prior job running your tests and comfy node validate, make publish depend on it, pin the action to a commit SHA. Limitations: action not executed. Version/date: 2026-10-23.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.

Limitations: The action files were fetched from main; the commits feed shows d2366e7 as head at fetch time. Process-list visibility of the token is a general OS fact, not stated by the source (inference).

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "note": "publish step; install step; Publish when pyproject.toml changes; Notes"
    },
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/publish-node-action/main/README.md",
      "note": "publish step; install step; Publish when pyproject.toml changes; Notes"
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem: automating Comfy Registry publishing from GitHub. Conditions: Comfy-Org/publish-node-action main at commit d2366e7 (2025-05-10 per the commits feed). Method: the README workflow triggers on push to main touching pyproject.toml (plus workflow_dispatch) and calls Comfy-Org/publish-node-action@main with the token from the REGISTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN secret. The composite action checks out, sets up Python 3.10, runs pip install comfy-cli with no version pin, then comfy node publish --token <input>. The README says comfy-cli publishes the version in pyproject.toml, so the version must be bumped by hand. Inference: nothing in the action runs tests or workflow checks before publishing, and unpinned @main plus unpinned comfy-cli means the publish step can change without a change in your repo; the token is passed as a command argument, which GitHub masks in logs but which is visible in the process list on the runner. Method for a safer gate (inference): add a prior job running your tests and comfy node validate, make publish depend on it, pin the action to a commit SHA. Limitations: action not executed. Version/date: 2026-10-23. · locator: publish step; install step; Publish when pyproject.toml changes; Notes · source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/publish-node-action/main/action.yml

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