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SaveImage always writes the API prompt into PNG text chunk 'prompt' (unless --disable-metadata) and writes the extra_pnginfo entries (normally 'workflow') only if the client sent extra_data.extra_pnginfo. Inference: images produced through a bare API submit contain the API prompt but no UI workflo...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Recording enough in a file to rerun a ComfyUI result. Conditions. Workflow schema v1 (latest) as published on docs.comfy.org; ComfyUI v0.42.5 SaveImage. Method. The published schema's ComfyWorkflow1_0 requires version, state and nodes, allows extra top-level properties, and defines an optional top-level 'models' array whose entries have name, url and directory as required fields and optional hash and hash_type (a free string, additionalProperties false). Nodes carry mode, inputs, properties (including 'Node name for S&R') and widgets_values (array or object). 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