The 4B over-uses 'partial' (mislabels identical ref/gen and clear opposites) and also mis-identifies fine-grained content (e.g. names a position 'doggy'/'cowgirl' when it is neither). Deterministic fix: force verdict=match when normalized ref==gen. Prompt hardened to not default to 'partial' (opposites=mismatch). Docs: the 4B is only reliable for coarse attributes — use the 30B for fine-grained recognition; prefer grounded geometry axes over named-position labels. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ComfyUI-Prompt-Calibratror
A fully local prompt calibration loop for ComfyUI. A vision-language model (Qwen3-VL) judges how close a generated image is to a reference image and returns a structured score + per-axis difference analysis, which is used to calibrate the prompt-generation method (ComfyUI-Prompt-Builder) until the generated image matches the reference.
Full design rationale, controller options, and VLM-as-judge variance mitigations are in docs/METHODOLOGY.md. The controller is an external CLI agent that drives ComfyUI via its HTTP API — see docs/AGENT_LOOP.md.
Nodes & tools
| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
Qwen3-VL Image Judge (Calibrator) |
scores generated vs reference, writes analysis to disk for the agent |
SxCP External Prompt (Receptor) |
stable injection point; the agent sets prompt/negative/seed here per queue |
agent_bridge.py |
one CLI call = one iteration (inject → POST /prompt → wait → print analysis JSON) |
The "vllm node": Qwen3-VL Image Judge (Calibrator)
The core node (nodes/qwen_judge.py). It reuses the standard transformers Qwen3-VL
inference plumbing (same approach as
ComfyUI-QwenVL-MultiImage
— the recommended reuse base) but forces strict JSON output so an automated loop
can act on it.
Inputs
| name | type | default | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
reference_image |
IMAGE | — | the target |
mode |
compare / describe | compare | describe = first pass over the reference only → caption + target spec (seeds the prompt). compare = score ref vs generated |
generated_image |
IMAGE (optional) | — | the candidate to score (required for compare, ignored for describe) |
model_path |
STRING | /media/p5/qwen3vl_4b_abliterated_comfy_convert/hf_bf16 |
local dir, HF repo id (org/name), or alias (30b-a3b / 8b / 4b) |
precision |
bf16 / fp16 / fp8 / nf4 | bf16 | nf4 = 4-bit (run the 30B judge on 32 GB); fp8 with the hf_fp8 copy |
axes |
STRING | ~20 axes (identity, body, wardrobe, action, affect, camera, render) | scored/described axes; granular for explicit content. Edit to taste |
max_new_tokens |
INT | 1024 | |
temperature |
FLOAT | 0.0 | 0 = greedy/repeatable |
swap_eval |
BOOL | true | run twice with images swapped, average → cuts position bias |
keep_loaded |
BOOL | true | cache weights across loop iterations |
auto_download |
BOOL | true | if model_path is a repo id/alias and not local, fetch it from HF into models/prompt_generator/ |
Auto-download: set model_path to 30b-a3b (alias) or any org/name repo id and leave
auto_download on — the node snapshot-downloads it on first run (into ComfyUI's
models/prompt_generator/<name>) and reuses the local copy afterward. Local paths and the
default skip download entirely.
Outputs
| name | type | use |
|---|---|---|
overall_score |
FLOAT 0..1 | compare: mean verdict (computed here, not by the model). describe: 1.0 placeholder |
axis_scores_json |
STRING (JSON) | compare: per-axis {verdict, ref, gen} (verdict = match/partial/mismatch). describe: {axis: value} |
analysis |
STRING | compare: header (overall, N mismatches) + axes worst-first (VERDICT ref:[…] gen:[…]). describe: the caption |
raw |
STRING | raw model output (both passes if swap_eval) |
report_path |
STRING | path to the written calib_<tag>.json (carries mismatch_count) |
Install
cd /media/p5/Comfyui/custom_nodes
ln -s /media/p5/ComfyUI-Prompt-Calibratror . # or git clone
/media/p5/Comfyui/venv/bin/pip install -r /media/p5/ComfyUI-Prompt-Calibratror/requirements.txt
The node defaults to the huihui-ai Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct abliterated weights already
converted at /media/p5/qwen3vl_4b_abliterated_comfy_convert/ so it runs out of the box
(the abliterated/uncensored variant won't refuse to analyze adult imagery, which would
otherwise break the loop).
Recommended upgrade (latest Qwen VL + uncensored, fits 32 GB):
huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-abliterated
— MoE (3B active, fast), run at precision=nf4 (~18 GB). The node auto-detects the MoE
class. An easier middle ground is the 8B abliterated at bf16 (~17 GB, no quantization).
Qwen3.5-VL abliterated isn't out yet (Qwen3.5 abliterated builds are text-only so far);
Gemma-3-27B-it abliterated (4-bit) is a viable non-Qwen alternative. See
docs/METHODOLOGY.md.
Loop sketch
Prompt-Builder (SxCP) ──prompt──▶ T2I (SDXL/Flux/Krea2) ──image──▶ Qwen3-VL Image Judge
▲ │
└──────── knob overrides ◀── Controller ◀── overall_score + diff ┘
Use the Prompt-Builder For-Loop Start/End + Accumulator nodes to drive iterations and
route overall_score into the stop condition. Controller options (greedy hill-climb →
black-box optimizer → LLM-in-the-loop) are in the methodology doc.
End-to-end loop
- Run ComfyUI with
--listen, install this node pack, put your reference atComfyUI/input/reference.png. - First pass (describe): the judge looks at the reference alone and emits one canonical
scene description (coherent paragraph + per-axis target spec) to seed the prompt and
anchor the loop:
python agent_bridge.py --mode describe --workflow workflow/workflow_describe_api.json \ --run-tag seed --analysis-dir /media/p5/Comfyui/output/calibrator - Compare loop: load
workflow/workflow_api.json(SDXLwaiIllustriousSDXL_v160example — swap the checkpoint for Flux/Krea as needed) and iterate, followingdocs/CALIBRATION_POLICY.md. Pass--ref-desc-fileso compare anchors on the canonical reference (therefside stays fixed; only the generated image is re-read each turn):stdout = the analysis JSON (python agent_bridge.py --workflow workflow/workflow_api.json \ --prompt "<description from step 2, then calibrated>" \ --ref-desc-file /media/p5/Comfyui/output/calibrator/calib_seed.json \ --run-tag iter001 --analysis-dir /media/p5/Comfyui/output/calibrator{verdict, ref, gen}per axis) → agent steers towardref→ next iteration.
Status
- Methodology + node selection (
docs/METHODOLOGY.md) - Qwen3-VL Image Judge node —
describe(first pass) +compare(scoring), swap-eval, file report - Agent-driven architecture (
docs/AGENT_LOOP.md) — Receptor node +agent_bridge.py(--mode) - Example workflows:
workflow_describe_api.json(first pass) +workflow_api.json(compare loop) - Agent calibration policy (
docs/CALIBRATION_POLICY.md) - Optional: structured-config receptor (carry Prompt-Builder knobs instead of a flat string)