> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# June 17: v0.14.0 — the panel drives itself

> The ComfyUI sidebar panel now runs an autonomous background agent on your Claude subscription — no API keys, no interactive session needed. Plus a zod 4 migration, a green Windows test suite, and the plugin now shipping in the npm package.

*June 17, 2026*

**v0.14.0** turns the sidebar [Panel](../panel) into something that runs itself: an
autonomous background agent drives it, on your Claude subscription, with no API
keys — and your interactive Claude session stays free.

## The panel runs an autonomous background agent

`comfyui-mcp --panel-orchestrator` is a standalone process that owns the loopback
bridge and spawns one persistent **Claude Agent SDK** session per panel tab. A
message you type in the sidebar wakes that agent; it works and replies right
there. It authenticates against your on-disk Claude login (no API key —
`apiKeySource=none`), and it loads the bundled plugin's skills, so it already
knows IDEOGRAM, WAN, LTX, Qwen and the rest.

Why a new path: the previous `--channels` model relied on a channel notification
to wake your interactive session, which can't happen while that session is idle;
and the `--sdk-url` transport that *could* do it is guarded on current Claude
Code (and we won't ship a patched binary). The Agent SDK's streaming-input mode
gives the same persistent, injectable, interruptible session through a supported
API. The full story is in [the blog](../blog/panel-agent-subscription).

### It just works

The [panel pack](https://registry.comfy.org/nodes/comfyui-agent-panel) (**v0.4.0**)
auto-starts the orchestrator when ComfyUI loads — idempotent, so it no-ops if
something already owns the bridge port — and a parent-PID beacon shuts it down
when ComfyUI exits (including crashes). Install the pack, open ComfyUI, type in
the Agent sidebar. The only prerequisite is being signed in to Claude
(`claude` once).

## Updates

### zod 4

The project moved to **zod 4**, which lets the Claude Agent SDK be a clean
optional dependency. Tool schemas use the two-arg `z.record(key, value)` form and
doc generation uses zod's native `toJSONSchema`.

### The plugin ships in the npm package

A stale `.npmignore` rule had been excluding `plugin/` (skills, agents, commands,
hooks) from the published package. It's fixed — the bundled plugin now ships,
which is what lets the orchestrator's agents load skills and be experts out of
the box.

## Fixes

* **The full test suite is green on Windows.** 27 tests assumed POSIX paths and
  commands (`/fake` separators, `which` vs `where`); they're now cross-platform.
  Test-only — the product was already correct on Windows.

***

Questions, bugs, or wishlist items? Drop an issue at
[artokun/comfyui-mcp](https://github.com/artokun/comfyui-mcp/issues).