# How are the official ComfyUI workflow templates packaged and versioned for pip, and which pin do I check when templates look stale?

- id: art_01M5P282JAPBF25C8NCDR9X89M
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- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T04, T08 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T04:21:03.682Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5P282JAPBF25C8NCDR9X89M

Problem. Template pickers show different workflows on two machines, and the cause is a package pin rather than the workflow file. Conditions. A ComfyUI install that gets templates from the Python package comfyui-workflow-templates, not from a git checkout. Method. The repo is organised package-per-media: a core manifest/loader package, per-media packages holding JSON and previews, a blueprints package, and a meta package (root pyproject, version 0.11.96) that pins each part with exact == versions. Extras (json, assets, api, video, image, other, all) select parts. Five media wheels are 'frozen' (not rebuilt in routine PRs) because PyPI limits a wheel file to about 100 MB; new media goes to media-assets-02. ComfyUI master's requirements.txt pins comfyui-workflow-templates==0.11.96 next to comfyui-frontend-package==1.57.1. To compare machines, read the meta-package version, not individual media wheels. Failure modes. Frozen wheels keep old content by design, so new templates arrive in ...

Problem. Template pickers show different workflows on two machines, and the cause is a package pin rather than the workflow file. Conditions. A ComfyUI install that gets templates from the Python package comfyui-workflow-templates, not from a git checkout. Method. The repo is organised package-per-media: a core manifest/loader package, per-media packages holding JSON and previews, a blueprints package, and a meta package (root pyproject, version 0.11.96) that pins each part with exact == versions. Extras (json, assets, api, video, image, other, all) select parts. Five media wheels are 'frozen' (not rebuilt in routine PRs) because PyPI limits a wheel file to about 100 MB; new media goes to media-assets-02. ComfyUI master's requirements.txt pins comfyui-workflow-templates==0.11.96 next to comfyui-frontend-package==1.57.1. To compare machines, read the meta-package version, not individual media wheels. Failure modes. Frozen wheels keep old content by design, so new templates arrive in the newest assets wheel and the template index inside the core/json packages, so mixing a new meta pin with an old environment can list a template whose thumbnail or JSON is missing (inference, not tested). Limitations. Only master branches read; pins change often. Version/date. Fetched 2026-10-24 UTC, meta 0.11.96.

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

Limitations: Pins are a moving snapshot of main/master on the fetch date. Behaviour of mixed old/new wheels is inferred, not tested; no package was installed.

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

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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/README.md",
      "note": "Overview; [project] dependencies; Why these bundles are frozen; Why these bundles are frozen; requirements.txt; researcher reasoning"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/pyproject.toml",
      "note": "Overview; [project] dependencies; Why these bundles are frozen; Why these bundles are frozen; requirements.txt; researcher reasoning"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/scripts/docs/frozen_bundles.md",
      "note": "Overview; [project] dependencies; Why these bundles are frozen; Why these bundles are frozen; requirements.txt; researcher reasoning"
    },
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/master/requirements.txt",
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem. Template pickers show different workflows on two machines, and the cause is a package pin rather than the workflow file. Conditions. A ComfyUI install that gets templates from the Python package comfyui-workflow-templates, not from a git checkout. Method. The repo is organised package-per-media: a core manifest/loader package, per-media packages holding JSON and previews, a blueprints package, and a meta package (root pyproject, version 0.11.96) that pins each part with exact == versions. Extras (json, assets, api, video, image, other, all) select parts. Five media wheels are 'frozen' (not rebuilt in routine PRs) because PyPI limits a wheel file to about 100 MB; new media goes to media-assets-02. ComfyUI master's requirements.txt pins comfyui-workflow-templates==0.11.96 next to comfyui-frontend-package==1.57.1. To compare machines, read the meta-package version, not individual media wheels. Failure modes. Frozen wheels keep old content by design, so new templates arrive in the newest assets wheel and the template index inside the core/json packages, so mixing a new meta pin with an old environment can list a template whose thumbnail or JSON is missing (inference, not tested). Limitations. Only master branches read; pins change often. Version/date. Fetched 2026-10-24 UTC, meta 0.11.96. · locator: Overview; [project] dependencies; Why these bundles are frozen; Why these bundles are frozen; requirements.txt; researcher reasoning · source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/main/README.md

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