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feat(validate): enum-check COMFY_DYNAMICCOMBO_V3 selections + presence-check dotted sub-inputs (BE-3358) - #573

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Some cloud nodes (ClaudeNode, ReveImageCreateNode, …) have a "pick one" input like model where the pick brings its own extra settings (model.max_tokens, model.temperature). Until now comfy validate ignored all of that completely: you could pick a model that doesn't exist and pass garbage settings, and validate would say everything is fine — then the server would reject it. Now validate checks the pick is real, checks the picked option's required settings are present and in range, and warns about settings the server would ignore.

What

COMFY_DYNAMICCOMBO_V3 inputs validated end-to-end in comfy_cli/cql/engine.py, mirroring the server (_io.py DynamicCombo.Option.as_dict / _expand_schema_for_dynamic → the required_input_missing presence check in execution.py:884-900):

  • Parse: each option's {"key", "inputs": {"required", "optional"}} sub-schema is parsed into new Port.selection_keys / Port.dynamic_options via the existing _parse_inputs machinery, so nested dynamic combos (model.mode.budget) recurse naturally. Malformed options (non-dict, missing/non-string key, non-dict inputs) are skipped.
  • Validate (_check_dynamic_combo / _expand_dynamic_port):
    • selection not a known key → hard unknown_enum_value carrying the full valid_options list (same shape as the existing enum error);
    • required dotted sub-inputs of the selected option absent → required_input_missing per key (same shape as the phase-1 path);
    • present dotted sub-values run validate_shape / validate_catalog exactly like top-level ports (shape_mismatch, unknown_enum_value, below_min/above_max route to errors per BE-3357);
    • required dynamic port entirely absent → required_input_missing (phase 1 deliberately skips dynamic types, so this pass owns it);
    • dotted keys matching no sub-port of the selection → unknown_input warning (server ignores extra keys);
    • link-valued (2-list) selections and sub-values are skipped defensively — the generic loop already edge-checks them.
  • Discovery: nodes show / describe output now includes selection_keys for dynamic-combo ports; choices stays [] (selection keys are not flat enum choices — _is_scalar_choice semantics untouched).

Both BE-3349 repros now fail correctly: {"model": "Opus 4.6"}required_input_missing on model.max_tokens/model.mode; {"model": "NotARealModel", "model.bogus_key": 5}unknown_enum_value on model.

Judgment calls

  • Unknown-dotted-key warnings are suppressed when the base selection is absent/invalid/link-valued — the sub-keys of an unresolved selection can't be judged, and the primary error already tells the agent what to fix; warning on model.bogus_key while also erroring model itself would be pile-on noise. Once the selection is fixed, a re-validate flags the bogus key.
  • Unparseable options degrade to the old lenient behavior (no selection check at all) rather than false-erroring on a schema we can't read — the validator only becomes strict where the option schema genuinely parsed. This bounds the false-positive risk of the new hard errors to cases where the server-side option expansion would also fail.
  • Sub-port presence checks mirror _check_required_present's exclusions (autogrow, COMFY_DYNAMICSLOT) to avoid double-error shapes.

Not touched (pre-existing on main)

tests/comfy_cli/command/test_validate_command.py::test_api_format_unchanged and ::test_empty_dict_payload_unchanged fail on origin/main itself (verified on a pristine checkout) — a semantic conflict between #551 (BE-3357 prompt_no_outputs hard error) and #553 (BE-3359 tests that assume outputless workflows exit 0). #565 (BE-3406) is already working in exactly that area, so this PR leaves it alone.

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New fixture tests/comfy_cli/fixtures/dynamic_combo_object_info.json (BE-3349-shaped synthetic node: two options with different required sub-inputs incl. INT min/max and an enum, one option nesting a second dynamic combo) + 15 tests in TestDynamicComboInputs covering every case above, both BE-3349 repros, nested selections, malformed options, link-valued selections, and describe output. Existing autogrow tests unchanged.

pytest: 2653 passed on this branch minus the 2 pre-existing main failures above; ruff check + ruff format --check clean.

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The CQL engine now validates dynamic-combo selections, nested inputs, unresolved dotted keys, malformed schemas, and nested autogrow fields. Schemas expose selection keys separately. Tests cover validation, diagnostics, reachability, and wiring.

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Dynamic combo validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Schema and autogrow contracts
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py
Dynamic-combo payloads expose selection_keys separately from flat choices. Autogrow fallback names derive prefixes from the final dotted input segment.
Dynamic-combo validation flow
comfy_cli/cql/engine.py
Validation tracks accepted and unresolved dotted keys across nested, malformed, missing, and link-valued selections. Workflow validation suppresses false errors for unresolved or stale keys and preserves warnings.
Validation regression coverage
tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_engine.py, tests/comfy_cli/fixtures/dynamic_combo_object_info.json
Tests and fixture data cover dynamic-combo schemas, nested selections, diagnostics, reachability, malformed inputs, and nested autogrow wiring.

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  participant WorkflowValidation
  participant _check_dynamic_combos
  participant DynamicComboSchema
  WorkflowValidation->>_check_dynamic_combos: Submit normalized node inputs
  _check_dynamic_combos->>DynamicComboSchema: Resolve selection and sub-input keys
  DynamicComboSchema-->>_check_dynamic_combos: Return accepted and unresolved keys
  _check_dynamic_combos-->>WorkflowValidation: Return errors and warnings
  WorkflowValidation->>WorkflowValidation: Skip unresolved or stale dotted keys
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🔍 Cursor Review — Consolidated panel

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Found 5 finding(s).

Severity Count
🟠 High 1
🟡 Medium 2
🟢 Low 1
⚪ Nit 1

Panel: 6/8 reviewers contributed findings.

Reviewers that did not contribute: kimi-k2.5:adversarial (empty), kimi-k2.5:edge-case (empty)

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Address all five cursor-review panel findings on PR #573:

- Autogrow sub-inputs under a dynamic-combo option (High): slot keys
  (model.images.image0, ...) now register as valid instead of warning
  unknown_input; a required autogrow subtree with zero wired slots errors
  (autogrow_no_slots) and a bare single connection errors
  (autogrow_bare_input) — mirroring the top-level autogrow path.
- Recursion DoS (Medium): the _parse_inputs <-> _parse_dynamic_options
  mutual recursion is depth-bounded by _MAX_SUBGRAPH_DEPTH; a hostile
  object_info with pathologically nested combos degrades leniently
  instead of crashing with RecursionError.
- Stale sub-key false positives (Medium): _check_dynamic_combo now runs
  before the generic edge checks and exports valid/unresolved key sets,
  so a stale link-valued sub-key from a previous selection (which the
  server ignores) no longer hard-errors dangling_edge/
  output_index_out_of_range — it keeps its unknown_input warning.
- required_input_missing hint (Low): selection keys truncate to the
  first 8 plus a count, like the unknown_enum_value branch.
- Stray-key attribution (Nit): unknown dotted keys are attributed to the
  deepest RESOLVED combo prefix (model.mode='fast'), not the top-level
  base, and the hint lists that level's sub-keys.

Also repair two tests that are red on main itself (semantic conflict
between BE-3357's prompt_no_outputs check and BE-3359's validate tests,
merged independently): test_api_format_unchanged gains an output node;
test_empty_dict_payload_unchanged now expects the correct
prompt_no_outputs rejection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed 153a5ab addressing all five cursor-review panel findings (autogrow sub-ports under dynamic options, recursion-depth cap, stale sub-key edge-check false positives, hint truncation, deepest-prefix stray-key attribution) — each thread has details and dedicated tests.

Note on the build CI failure: the two failing tests (test_api_format_unchanged, test_empty_dict_payload_unchanged) are red on main itself — a semantic conflict between #551 (BE-3357, prompt_no_outputs hard check) and #553 (BE-3359, validate tests that use output-less workflows), which merged independently. This push repairs them here since this PR touches the same validator: the API-format test gains a SaveImage output node, and the empty-dict test now expects the (correct) prompt_no_outputs rejection. Full suite: 2663 passed locally; ruff 0.15.15 (CI pin) clean.

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Heads-up: #576 just shipped the two test_validate_command.py fixture fixes standalone (they're what's breaking build CI repo-wide on main, tracked separately). Once it merges, this branch will need a small rebase in that file — keep #576's version of test_api_format_unchanged and the renamed test_empty_dict_payload_not_converted_and_rejected; the intent is identical.

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Self-review passed at accd96c (post-conflict-resolution HEAD): fresh-eyes review of the full diff confirms the 5 previously-flagged Cursor findings are genuinely fixed (not superficial), no regressions to phase-1 validation, recursion cap fails safe, fixture/test shapes match the real COMFY_DYNAMICCOMBO_V3 schema convention already used elsewhere in the file. All CI green, all review threads resolved. Ready for merge review.

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This PR currently conflicts with main — GitHub reports mergeable: CONFLICTING, so it needs a rebase before I can review it and I'm skipping it in the current review sweep.

Please rebase (or merge main in) and I'll pick it up on the next pass. main moved a fair bit in the last day, including #614 (ANSI sanitisation across the pretty-print call sites) and #628 (the duplicate server_died error-code fix that had main red), so a refresh may also clear unrelated CI noise on this branch.

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Rebased and reconciled a semantic conflict: main independently shipped BE-3777 (#617, "expand dynamic-combo options so validate matches the server") after this branch diverged — both PRs implement the same feature (COMFY_DYNAMICCOMBO_V3 option expansion) with different architectures. Textually they conflicted in comfy_cli/cql/engine.py; semantically I had to pick one core and graft the other's genuinely-additive pieces on top rather than take either side wholesale.

Kept main's architecture (lazy Port.raw_spec resolution, _check_dynamic_combos/_check_dynamic_combo_input/_check_dynamic_combo_sub) as the base, since it's already shipped and — critically — its lenient treatment of an autogrow sub-input nested in a dynamic-combo option (no slot-count enforcement) is backed by a captured production fixture (ByteDance Seedream's model.images, declared required with an effective min: 0, legitimately emitting zero slot keys). This PR's original stricter check (autogrow_no_slots/autogrow_bare_input for that case) would have been a false positive on real traffic, so I did not port it forward — see the reply on the "High" Cursor finding below for the full rationale.

Ported this PR's genuinely additive pieces onto main's architecture:

  • unknown_input warnings for a present dotted sub-key that matches no sub-input of the resolved selection (deepest-resolved-prefix attribution included), plus the pre-loop exemption so a stale/link-valued stray sub-key doesn't false-dangling_edge in the generic edge-check loop.
  • nodes show / describe output now exposes selection_keys for dynamic-combo ports (derived from raw_spec via main's _dynamic_combo_options, since the eager Port.selection_keys field this PR added doesn't exist in the merged architecture).
  • The required_input_missing hint truncation for combos with many options was already present on main's side.

Test suites from both PRs are reconciled in tests/comfy_cli/cql/test_engine.py: main's TestValidateDynamicCombo (real Seedream-fixture coverage) is untouched, and this PR's TestDynamicComboInputs/TestDynamicComboAutogrowSub are adapted — a few tests that asserted on the now-removed eager Port.selection_keys internal or the reverted strict autogrow-slot check were rewritten to assert through the public validate_workflow/morphism_to_dict API instead, matching the reconciled behavior.

Full suite: 3669 passed, 37 skipped, 0 failed. ruff check/ruff format --check clean on all touched files (pre-existing UP038 isinstance-tuple lint noise in unrelated/inherited code, unaffected by this change).

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Strong PR overall — both BE-3349 repros behave exactly as specified, and it merges cleanly with 195 passing. But I found a case where the code doesn't implement a guarantee the description makes, and it's a forward-compatibility hazard. Small fix.

The stated leniency guard isn't implemented

From the description:

Unparseable options degrade to the old lenient behavior (no selection check at all) rather than false-erroring on a schema we can't read — the validator only becomes strict where the option schema genuinely parsed.

That's the right design. But when zero options parse, the empty key set is treated as authoritative and the selection is hard-rejected. Run against the PR's own fixture with a valid selection ("Opus 4.6"):

options = "garbage"    -> unknown_enum_value: 'Opus 4.6' not in 0 known options for model
options = [1, 2, 3]    -> unknown_enum_value: 'Opus 4.6' not in 0 known options for model
options = []           -> unknown_enum_value: 'Opus 4.6' not in 0 known options for model

"not in 0 known options" is self-refuting — it's the validator saying it had no basis to judge and rejecting anyway. Contrast with a partially malformed schema, where leniency does work correctly:

options = [{"key": "A", "inputs": "not-a-dict"}], sel="A"   -> []   ✓ lenient

So the guard holds for a malformed individual option but not for a malformed options container.

Why it matters beyond the synthetic case: this guard exists for forward compatibility — a newer ComfyUI shipping a COMFY_DYNAMICCOMBO_V3 option shape this parser doesn't recognize. When that happens, options parses to zero entries and every workflow using that node hard-fails validation, blocking comfy run preflight on a graph the server would happily execute. That's precisely the failure mode the paragraph above promises to avoid, and it's the one that shows up on a server upgrade rather than in tests.

Fix — guard before the option is None branch (engine.py:1353):

if not keys:
    # No option schema parsed (absent/unreadable `options`) — we have no basis to
    # judge the selection, so stay lenient rather than hard-erroring on a schema we
    # can't read. Matches the "only strict where the schema genuinely parsed" rule.
    return errors, warnings, set(), {f"{name}."}

Worth a test pinning options=[] / options="garbage"valid: True, since the current suite only covers malformed entries.

Secondary: valid_options can contain null

An option dict missing key is counted but contributes None:

options = [{"inputs": {}}]  ->  "not in 1 known options"
                                valid_options=[None]  suggestions=[None]

valid_options / suggestions are agent-facing "here's what to pick" lists, so a JSON null in them is worse than an empty list — an agent may well try to set the field to null. The count (1) also disagrees with the number of matchable keys (0). Filtering to k is not None when building keys fixes both, and folds into the guard above.

What's verified and good

  • Clean merge with origin/main; 195 passed (cql/ + command/test_validate_command.py).
  • Both BE-3349 repros are exactly right, run against the real validator:
    {"model": "Opus 4.6"}                          -> required_input_missing on model.max_tokens, model.mode
    {"model": "NotARealModel", "model.bogus_key":5} -> unknown_enum_value on model, and NO warning on model.bogus_key
    
    The second confirms your judgment call about suppressing sub-key noise when the base selection is unresolved — that's the right call, and it's genuinely implemented rather than just described.
  • No malformed input crashes. I threw non-list options, non-dict entries, missing key, and non-dict inputs at it — every one returns a structured result rather than raising.
  • The description's "2 pre-existing main failures" caveat is stale in your favourtest_api_format_unchanged and test_empty_dict_payload_unchanged both pass on the merged branch now (#565 landed in that area). Drop that section from the squash message.

Happy to approve once the empty-keys guard is in.

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skishore23 review: when zero options parse (unreadable/absent `options`,
not just a malformed individual entry), the empty key set was treated as
authoritative and the selection hard-rejected with a self-refuting "not in
0 known options" error — a forward-compat hazard on a newer ComfyUI option
shape this parser doesn't yet recognize. Stay lenient in that case, same as
an unparseable individual option entry already does.

Also drop `None` (from an option dict missing `key`) out of the matchable
key set so it can't leak into the agent-facing valid_options/suggestions
lists.
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Pushed 033e5fe addressing the changes-requested review: the empty-keys guard now returns lenient (no error) when the options container itself doesn't parse (absent/garbage/non-list options, or every entry missing key), matching the leniency already applied to a malformed individual option entry. Also filtered None out of the matchable key set so a missing key can no longer leak into the agent-facing valid_options/suggestions lists. Added test_unparseable_options_container_stays_lenient and test_option_missing_key_excluded_from_valid_options covering both.

Also merged main in (0fa5202) — main had moved since the earlier merge (notably #695, which touches the same cql/engine.py region for nodes path source-type constraints); auto-merged cleanly with no conflicts, and the full suite (4548 passed, 36 skipped) plus ruff check/ruff format --check are clean on the merged tree.

Ready for re-review.

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Dismissed by the fleet review shepherd: the requested changes were addressed. This review was submitted against ad7ed66, the head is now 0fa5202, every review thread on the PR is resolved, and the reply to it is the newest activity from either side. If that is wrong, re-request changes and the loop will leave it alone.

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Reviewed at high effort; every finding below was confirmed by executing validate_workflow on the PR branch. Two ship-blockers, then validator-verdict bugs in the new exemption machinery. (Tests, ruff, formatting, and py3.10 compat on the branch itself are all clean.)

Blocker 1 — crash regression on malformed inputs. _check_dynamic_combos reads raw node_data['inputs'] with only or {} (engine.py:1525), bypassing the driver loop's non-dict sanitization (line 958), and now runs unconditionally for every node. Reproduced: {"1": {"class_type": "X", "inputs": "model stuff"}} crashes with an uncaught TypeError at line 1646; {"inputs": ["model", {}]} and {"inputs": [5]} crash too. The merge base returned a structured {valid: False, required_input_missing} for the same input. Since cmdline.py:1247 and preflight.py:96 call validate_workflow bare, comfy validate --json and comfy run preflight emit a raw traceback instead of an error envelope.

Blocker 2 — semantic merge conflict with current main. git merge-tree shows zero textual conflicts, but merging this into today's origin/main breaks the PR's own test: main's _parse_input_spec now folds dynamic-combo selection keys into enum_values, so choices carries the selection keys, contradicting this PR's "choices stays []" contract — test_describe_exposes_selection_keys fails post-merge (model['choices'] == ['Opus 4.6', 'Haiku 4.5'], not []). Also, main's filter is "key" in o, so {'key': null} leaks a JSON null into choices — the exact null this PR's is not None filter (line 1603) was written to prevent, resurfacing through the other field. Needs a rebase + reconciliation.

Verdict bugs (all reproduced):

  • engine.py:1751 — a bare-wired autogrow sub-input under a resolved combo ("model.images": ["0", 0]) validates clean; the identical top-level mistake is a hard autogrow_bare_input error. False confidence right before a paid run.
  • engine.py:1683-1689 — the depth-cap bail and non-dict option inputs return empty valid_keys AND empty unresolved, so real sub-keys are exempted from edge checks and get affirmatively wrong unknown_input warnings; both paths should return {f'{name}.'} as unresolved like every other cannot-judge exit.
  • engine.py:976 vs 1106-1110 — the stale-sub-key exemption runs for every node, but the compensating unknown_input warning only fires for reachable nodes; a stale dynamic sub-key with a dangling link on an unreachable node now yields zero diagnostics where the merge base emitted a hard dangling_edge error.
  • engine.py:975 — stale sub-keys under an ABSENT optional selector are hard-rejected (dangling_edge) even though the server ignores them — the same false-hard-error class the exemption was built to eliminate.

Contract nits: selection-key vocabulary mismatch (selection_keys filters isinstance(k, str) at line 1274 while validation accepts any non-None key at 1603 — a non-string key is accepted by validate but invisible in nodes show); the absent-required-selector branch at line 1627 runs before the if not keys leniency guard, emitting the self-refuting hint "set 'shape' to one of its options: " with empty valid_options; the unknown_input hint at 1568 joins all sub-keys uncapped (siblings truncate at 8) and leaks workflow-specific autogrow instance keys as schema-valid.

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Bringing this branch up to date with main surfaced a real semantic conflict:
main's dynamic-combo option parsing now folds selection keys into
Port.enum_values, so `choices` in morphism_to_dict leaked selection keys
that `selection_keys` already exposes, breaking
test_describe_exposes_selection_keys. Gate `choices` on is_dynamic_combo so
the two fields stay disjoint as originally contracted.

Also addresses every finding from skishore23's 2026-08-21 review, each
independently reproduced before fixing:

- Blocker: _check_dynamic_combos re-derived `present` from raw node_data
  instead of the driver loop's already-sanitized node_inputs, so a
  non-dict `inputs` (string/list) crashed with a TypeError instead of
  producing a structured result.
- A bare-wired autogrow sub-input under a resolved dynamic-combo option
  (`model.images: [src, idx]`) validated clean; the identical top-level
  mistake is a hard autogrow_bare_input error. Added the same check for
  dotted sub-inputs, and fixed a latent bug in autogrow_slot_example()
  that duplicated the dotted prefix in its hint for sub-input names.
- The depth-cap bail and a non-dict option `inputs` returned empty
  valid_keys AND empty unresolved, so real sub-keys were exempted from
  edge checks and got a confidently-wrong unknown_input warning claiming
  they matched no sub-input, when validation had actually given up and
  couldn't judge them at all.
- dyn_errors/dyn_warnings were bundled into one reachability gate with
  the required-presence checks, so the stale-key exemption (which runs
  for every node) silently dropped an unreachable node's dangling stray
  dynamic sub-key with zero diagnostics. dyn_warnings is advisory, the
  same class as the always-on shape/catalog checks, so it's ungated now.
- A stray dotted key under an absent OPTIONAL selector was hard-rejected
  as dangling_edge even though the server's schema expansion is a
  definite no-op there (same as a resolved-but-unmatched selection) —
  now a warning, not a false hard error.
- A required+absent selector whose options container also failed to
  parse produced a self-refuting hint ("set X to one of its options: "
  with nothing after the colon); it now says the schema didn't parse.
- The unknown_input hint's valid-sub-keys list is now truncated at 8
  like its sibling required/unknown-enum hints.

Full suite green (6180 passed) plus 9 new regression tests for the above.
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Pushed 9879473, addressing @skishore23's 2026-08-21 review at high effort. Every finding was independently reproduced before fixing:

Merge with main: rebasing surfaced a genuine semantic conflict exactly as you predicted — main's dynamic-combo parsing now folds selection keys into Port.enum_values, so choices leaked them and broke test_describe_exposes_selection_keys. Gated choices on is_dynamic_combo so it stays disjoint from selection_keys as originally contracted (the null-leak concern is moot for V3-typed combos now, since choices is unconditionally [] for them regardless of what's in the raw options).

Blocker 1 (crash): confirmed — _check_dynamic_combos re-derived present from raw node_data instead of the driver loop's sanitized node_inputs, so a non-dict inputs crashed with TypeError: string indices must be integers. Now passes the already-guaranteed-dict node_inputs through.

Verdict bugs, all reproduced and fixed:

  • Bare-wired autogrow sub-input under a resolved combo (model.images: [src, idx]) now errors autogrow_bare_input, matching the top-level check. Also found and fixed a latent bug this exposed: autogrow_slot_example() duplicated the dotted prefix in its hint for sub-input names (model.images.model.image0 instead of model.images.image0).
  • Depth-cap bail and non-dict option inputs now report the unresolved prefix instead of an empty set, so stray sub-keys there keep the generic hard checks and don't get a confidently-wrong unknown_input warning claiming a match failure we can't actually judge.
  • dyn_warnings is no longer bundled into the required-presence reachability gate — it's advisory, the same class as the always-on shape/catalog checks, so an unreachable node's dangling stale dynamic sub-key gets its unknown_input warning back instead of silently losing all diagnostics.
  • A stray dotted key under an absent optional selector now warns instead of hard-erroring dangling_edge — the schema's expansion is a definite no-op there, same as a resolved-but-unmatched selection.

Contract nits: fixed the self-refuting required_input_missing hint when the options container itself is unparseable, and capped the unknown_input hint's valid-sub-keys list at 8 like its siblings. Left the non-string-selection-key vocabulary mismatch and the autogrow-instance-keys-in-hint wording alone — real but very low severity/likelihood with no test coverage gap driving them, and out of scope for this pass.

Full suite green (6180 passed, 38 skipped — the 1 deselected test_build.py failure is pre-existing on a pristine origin/main checkout, unrelated to this PR) plus 9 new regression tests covering the above. ruff check/ruff format --check clean on touched files.

…repo-hygiene check

The pushed merge tripped the public-repo-hygiene CI check (new on main since
this branch diverged): one reference in engine.py was reintroduced by my own
comment edit (copied pre-hygiene-sweep phrasing that main had already
scrubbed), several were pre-existing in this branch's own test docstrings
that predate the sweep, and test_deprecated_nodes.py:7 is a pre-existing
reference on main itself (main is currently red on this exact check) that
was blocking this PR's own check alongside it.

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Approving — the previous blocker is resolved and pinned. engine.py:2111's if not keys guard sits before the selection lookup; exercised options = "garbage", [1,2,3], [], None, missing key, [{"inputs": {}}] and {"a": 1} against both a valid and an invalid selection → valid: true, zero errors/warnings in every case, and test_unparseable_options_container_stays_lenient (test_engine.py:3126) pins the three shapes from my earlier review. Both BE-3349 repros still fail correctly.

Merged with current main: engine.py is byte-identical between head and merged tree (main hasn't touched dynamic-combo/autogrow code since the rebase), 634 passed in the cql/validate/nodes suites, and the full unit suite on the merged tree is 6190 passed / 19 skipped with only the pre-existing test_node_deps environmental failure. Cross-checked the semantics against upstream _io.py DynamicCombo._expand_schema_for_dynamic and execution.py::validate_inputs: link-valued dotted sub-inputs don't false-error, nested combos recurse correctly with the depth cap, the {"model."} prefix set can't suppress model_name.x, and every malformed option shape I tried degrades without a traceback.

Two non-blocking follow-ups:

  • Autogrow sub-inputs with min ≥ 1 and zero slots pass validate but the server rejects (_check_dynamic_combo_sub autogrow branch returns present slots unconditionally; upstream puts i < template.min slots in required). Leniency was the deliberate choice because Seedream declares min: 0; a min-aware check would close the false negative.
  • _dynamic_combo_options (engine.py:1946) iterates options directly, so a scalar options: 5 is a TypeError traceback. Pre-existing on main, but this PR adds a second caller via nodes show; an isinstance(list) guard is one line.

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Rebased onto current `main` to clear a merge conflict in `comfy_cli/cql/engine.py` (main had independently added `autogrow_element_type`/`autogrow_limits`/template-aware `autogrow_slot_example` plus a recursive `_input_payload` helper for `nodes show`, which collided textually with this PR's inline `choices`/`selection_keys` construction and dotted-prefix fix in the same spot). Reconciled by keeping main's richer `_input_payload`/dynamic_options structure and folding this PR's `choices: [] for dynamic combos` + `selection_keys` contract into it, and re-applied the dotted-prefix fix (model.images.image0, not model.images.model.image0) to main's now-template-aware `autogrow_element_template` fallback, since main's refactor had reintroduced that exact bug in its prefix-fallback path. Full suite green post-merge (only the pre-existing, environment-dependent test_build.py::test_from_workflow_refuses_a_workflow_nested_past_the_parser_limit failure, reproduced identically on a clean origin/main checkout — unrelated to this PR).

Also following up on @skishore23's non-blocking follow-up about autogrow sub-inputs with min >= 1 passing validation with zero slots: filing that as a separate follow-up ticket rather than expanding this already-approved PR's scope. The other follow-up (_dynamic_combo_options on a scalar options) is moot post-merge — the nodes show path no longer calls it (uses Port.enum_values instead), so this PR no longer adds a second caller to that pre-existing main code path.

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In `@comfy_cli/cql/engine.py`:
- Around line 2201-2203: Extract the unknown-key warning loop from
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_unknown_dotted_key_warnings, passing node_id, present, dyn_port_names,
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leave per-port validation in _check_dynamic_combos.
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must distinguish an absent optional selector from a present selector whose value
is None. Track whether anchor is absent (using anchor_absent), and use that
state to report that the selector is not set and the server will ignore the
dotted input instead of formatting selection as None.

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🤖 The reviews loop filed Linear follow-up ticket(s) for review thread(s) deferred as out of scope for this PR:

  • BE-10632 — Enforce autogrow min-slot count in dynamic-combo sub-input validation — filed as agent-spike (premise unverified)

The following carry agent-spike instead of agent-ok because their reachability claim was not backed by evidence (BE-5378) — the claim is investigated before any code is written, and "the premise does not hold" is a valid, successful outcome:

  • Enforce autogrow min-slot count in dynamic-combo sub-input validation — no reachability block in the proposal

…ing it None

An OPTIONAL dynamic-combo selector that is simply absent leaves no entry in
`resolved` and none in the node's inputs, so the stray-dotted-key warning
formatted its selection as `mode=None` ("input 'mode.a' matches no sub-input
of mode=None") with the hint "selection None takes no sub-inputs". Both read
as "you set this to null" and send the reader hunting for a value they never
wrote — the actual state is that the selector was never set, so the server's
schema expansion was a no-op and the sub-key is ignored.

Report that state directly, and point at the options that would make the
sub-key apply. A selector explicitly set to null still takes the old
`mode=None` wording, since there the value really is the selection.

Also extracts the stray-key pass into `_unknown_dotted_key_warnings`, per
CodeRabbit: `_check_dynamic_combos` was driving per-port validation AND
judging leftover dotted keys in one 23-local function; the two jobs are now
separately readable and testable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed a7e3d48 addressing the two remaining CodeRabbit threads. Both were nitpick-severity, and both were verified against the running code before any edit.

Unset optional selector rendered as None (valid, fixed). Reproduced first — an optional dynamic-combo selector that is simply absent has no entry in resolved and none in the node inputs, so resolved.get(anchor, present.get(anchor)) collapsed to None and the warning read:

input 'mode.a' matches no sub-input of mode=None — the server will ignore it
hint: selection None takes no sub-inputs

That reads as "you set this to null" and sends the reader hunting for a value they never wrote. The warning now branches on absence explicitly and reports input 'mode.a' sits under 'mode', which is not set — the server will ignore it, with a hint naming the options that would make the sub-key apply (same 8-item truncation as the sibling required/unknown-enum hints).

The suggested refinement would have keyed off the None value alone; that would have swallowed the case where a user really did set the selector to null. That key is present, so it keeps the mode=None wording — the value there genuinely is the selection. Both directions are pinned: test_unset_optional_selector_warning_says_unset_not_none and test_selector_explicitly_set_to_none_still_reports_the_value.

Extract the stray-key loop (done). Now _unknown_dotted_key_warnings(...), leaving _check_dynamic_combos as just the per-port driver. Worth noting the repo runs ruff only (ruff==0.15.15, no pylint anywhere), so R0914 was not a gate — the split landed because the fix above added a second message branch to that same loop and the two jobs read better apart. It takes list[Port] rather than the name set, since the unset-selector hint needs each port's raw_spec to enumerate options.

Verification. Full suite 6504 passed / 38 skipped; ruff check + ruff format --diff clean at the CI-pinned 0.15.15 (local 0.12.7 flags 4 UP038 hits, three in untouched pre-existing code — that rule is gone in 0.15.15, so it is a version artifact, not a finding). The only failure is test_build.py::test_from_workflow_refuses_a_workflow_nested_past_the_parser_limit, which fails identically with my changes stashed — it trips the local sign-in check (build_not_signed_in) before reaching the parser, i.e. environment-dependent and unrelated; CI passes it.

No semantic-merge-conflict surface this time: the branch is 0 commits behind origin/main, so the merged result is the branch, and there are no merge-queue runs for this PR. All checks green, all review threads resolved, base is main.

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