On October 1, 2026, Comfy Org announced Comfy Agent, an assistant built into ComfyUI that, in the words of the announcement on the Comfy Org blog, "can build, run, and iterate on workflows right in front of you." It is in beta, and today it runs only in Comfy Cloud.
The Desktop version is promised "in a few weeks." Local installs are described as something that "will soon be fully agentic," with no date.
What it does
According to the post, the agent plans a technique, builds the workflow, fixes errors, finds assets and explains technical terms. It also knows about current models, extensions and workflows, and it can read assets visually.
It works on the same canvas you do. You can keep editing by hand while it works, point it at another workflow, drag in a library asset or mention a node by name. Every node stays open, so you can still check any parameter the agent set.
Skills are part of it too. Users can create public or private skills, which is how the team plans to improve what the agent knows.
Where it runs today
Comfy Cloud only. You log in, open the Agent panel and claim the free initial chats; after that it spends the Comfy Credits you already have. The post says up to five chats can run in parallel, with full history kept.
The post gives two creator examples: an animation project that it says took one artist 100 hours with the agent, and a VFX workflow covering masks, depth and normals. Both are the company's own examples, so treat them as claims about what is possible, not as a measure of speed.
What is still unclear
For people who run ComfyUI on their own machine, almost everything is a promise. The post lists planned features: walking a user through setup, picking models that fit their hardware, and customizing the environment. It also mentions agent-built custom nodes and more model options. None has a date. A reader asked about Docker-based local setups in the comments, and the page does not answer.
The post also does not name the models behind the agent. Pricing is another gap: the agent is free to try and links to per-token rates in the docs, but the post does not state them.
For readers with a strictly local setup, the next date to watch is the Desktop release. For a sense of what a hand-built graph involves today, see the ControlNet and AnimateDiff walkthrough for ComfyUI.