Authoring & Publishing ComfyUI Custom Nodes

This skill covers writing a ComfyUI custom node pack and publishing it to the Comfy Registry (registry.comfy.org), the public catalog that powers ComfyUI-Manager. For using existing nodes in workflows, see the comfyui-core skill instead.

Minimal Node Pack Structure

A node pack is a Python package placed under ComfyUI/custom_nodes/<name>/. The package __init__.py must export NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS and NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS; WEB_DIRECTORY is optional (only if the pack ships frontend JS).

ComfyUI/custom_nodes/my-node-pack/
├── __init__.py          # exports the mappings ComfyUI scans for
├── nodes.py             # node class definitions
├── pyproject.toml       # registry metadata (required to publish)
├── requirements.txt     # optional Python deps
├── .comfyignore         # optional, exclude files from the published archive
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── web/js/              # optional frontend extension (see WEB_DIRECTORY)

__init__.py

from .nodes import NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS, NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS

# Optional: serve frontend JS/CSS from this folder (path relative to __init__.py)
WEB_DIRECTORY = "./web/js"

__all__ = ["NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS", "NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS", "WEB_DIRECTORY"]

A minimal node class (nodes.py)

class ImageSelector:
    CATEGORY = "example"          # menu path where the node appears

    @classmethod
    def INPUT_TYPES(cls):
        return {
            "required": {
                "images": ("IMAGE",),
                "mode": (["brightest", "reddest", "greenest", "bluest"],),
            },
            "optional": {
                "threshold": ("FLOAT", {"default": 0.5, "min": 0.0, "max": 1.0, "step": 0.01}),
                "count": ("INT", {"default": 1, "min": 1, "max": 64}),
                "label": ("STRING", {"default": "", "multiline": False}),
            },
        }