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W16 — Filesystem workspace, ComfyUI editor, blog flow node

Eleven commits of focused consolidation. The filesystem panel grows up. The ComfyUI advanced editor unifies. The blog publish flow node UX gets its first serious pass.

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The week after the W15 chat-and-inspector burst. Different rhythm — fewer commits, deeper passes on three specific surfaces.

What shipped

  • Filesystem workspace + preserved seeded flows. 4.5k LOC. The filesystem panel went from a thin file browser to a proper workspace surface with previews, uploads, downloads, moves. Seeded flows (the curated starter set) became durable across upgrades — they survive chore: commit current local changes resets.
  • ComfyUI advanced editor unification. The advanced editor and the cache catalogs now share state. 924 LOC. Until this commit they were two windows looking at the same data; now they’re one surface that can re-cache without tab-juggling.
  • Kanban flow processing lifecycle. The kanban-to-flow integration got its first serious hardening pass — card transitions, lane handlers, error surfaces. 509 LOC.
  • Local LLM provider stabilization + persistence. The chat panel’s new providers got durable connection state. Conversations restore correctly across server restarts. 1.3k LOC.
  • Blog publish flow node UX. 2.2k LOC. The single biggest UX investment in the blog publishing pipeline since it shipped. Live preview, cleaner status surfaces, better error messaging. The node that drafts → publishes → commits → pushes a post became something you’d actually want to drag onto a canvas.

Architecture moves

The blog flow node UX work is the moment the blog publishing pipeline crossed from “it works” to “it’s pleasant.” That distinction matters because pleasantness drives volume; volume drives content; content drives the whole reason to have a public site at all.

By the numbers

  • 11 commits
  • +8,491 / −1,506 (net +6,985)
  • 5 milestone-class drops

What’s next

Spark Nemotron integration. Templates lineage analytics. Begin the path toward the Telegram bridge that ships in W18.