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Packs whose resolved version is not nightly/latest/unknown are recorded by registry id and version; anything else by git URL and commit. Save with save-snapshot --output file.json or .yaml (yaml nests the data under custom_nodes); restore-snapshot looks in ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots if the path is not an existing file and has pip flags --pip-non-url, --pip-non-local-url, --pip-local-url and --restore-to. restore-dependencies r...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Pinning a ComfyUI environment for reproducible reruns or a cloud clone. Conditions. ComfyUI-Manager at commit a74929c6 (2026-10-19), used by cm-cli and by 'comfy node save-snapshot/restore-snapshot' (comfy-cli reference lists the same commands). Method. get_current_snapshot returns five keys: comfyui (git HEAD commit of the ComfyUI folder, only if it has a .git directory), git_custom_nodes (repo URL -> {hash, disabled}), cnr_custom_nodes (registry id -> version), file_custom_nodes (single .py files with disabled flag) and pips (installed pip packages). Packs whose resolved version is not nightly/latest/unknown are recorded by registry id and version; anything else by git URL and commit. Save with save-snapshot --output file.json or .yaml (yaml nests the data under custom_nodes); restore-snapshot looks in ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots if the path is not an existing file and has pip flags --pip-non-url, --pip-non-local-url, --pip-local-url and --restore-to. restore-dependencies reinstalls dependencies for custom_nodes already on disk (cloud instances). Failure modes. 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