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The English onboarding path currently makes newcomers navigate installation details and seven abstract concept pages before they understand how to run or troubleshoot a workflow. This PR gives them a task-based path: choose Cloud or local ComfyUI, run an image template, understand the parts they used, compare local and hosted execution, and resolve common blockers.

  • Add four short guides: Start here, How ComfyUI works, Where a workflow runs, and Fix a workflow that will not run.
  • Reorder the English homepage and navigation around that path. Keep existing concept URLs, but move them under ComfyUI Reference and rewrite their opening explanations.
  • Clarify that templates are ready-made workflows, while nodes and models determine what needs to be downloaded, where generation runs, and when an account or credits are required. Distinguish the Comfy Cloud app, Comfy Cloud nodes, and Partner Nodes.
  • Keep the first-image guide template-based and Cloud-first while explaining the local-model difference.

Validation: git diff --check, python3 -m json.tool docs.json, and targeted internal-link checks over 15 related pages passed. The repository-wide mint broken-links command is blocked by a pre-existing MDX parsing error in CLAUDE.md (line 1).

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@comfyui-wiki English documentation was updated in this PR. Please complete or schedule translation updates for the following files:

Japanese (ja)

  • ja/basic-concepts/custom-nodes.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/dependencies.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/links.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/models.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/nodes.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/properties.mdx
  • ja/basic-concepts/workflow.mdx
  • ja/get_started/cloud.mdx
  • ja/get_started/first_generation.mdx
  • ja/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • ja/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • ja/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • ja/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx
  • ja/index.mdx
  • ja/tutorials/partner-nodes/overview.mdx
  • ja/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • ja/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • ja/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • ja/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx

Simplified Chinese (zh)

  • zh/basic-concepts/custom-nodes.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/dependencies.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/links.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/models.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/nodes.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/properties.mdx
  • zh/basic-concepts/workflow.mdx
  • zh/get_started/cloud.mdx
  • zh/get_started/first_generation.mdx
  • zh/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • zh/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • zh/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • zh/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx
  • zh/index.mdx
  • zh/tutorials/partner-nodes/overview.mdx
  • zh/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • zh/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • zh/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • zh/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx

Korean (ko)

  • ko/basic-concepts/custom-nodes.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/dependencies.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/links.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/models.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/nodes.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/properties.mdx
  • ko/basic-concepts/workflow.mdx
  • ko/get_started/cloud.mdx
  • ko/get_started/first_generation.mdx
  • ko/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • ko/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • ko/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • ko/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx
  • ko/index.mdx
  • ko/tutorials/partner-nodes/overview.mdx
  • ko/get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx
  • ko/get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx
  • ko/get_started/start_here.mdx
  • ko/get_started/where-work-runs.mdx

Local sync: npm run translate (see README — Automated translation)

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The PR reorganizes onboarding navigation, adds template-based Getting Started guides, rewrites the first-image tutorial, and updates workflow reference pages.

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Getting Started documentation

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Homepage and navigation updates
index.mdx, docs.json
The homepage now links to seven onboarding pages. The navigation moves these pages into the Get Started group and renames and reorders the ComfyUI reference group.
Template-based onboarding guides
get_started/start_here.mdx, get_started/how-comfyui-works.mdx, get_started/where-work-runs.mdx, get_started/fix-a-workflow.mdx, get_started/cloud.mdx, get_started/first_generation.mdx
The guides explain templates, local and hosted execution, missing requirements, troubleshooting, and first-image generation.
Workflow and node reference updates
basic-concepts/*.mdx
The reference pages now explain workflows, nodes, models, links, node settings, dependencies, and custom nodes with updated terminology and shorter introductions.
Partner Node terminology alignment
tutorials/partner-nodes/overview.mdx
The Partner Nodes overview now describes hosted partner models and account and credit requirements. ჯ

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The custom-node reference promises uninstall, disable, and conflict guidance that users cannot yet follow. Correct the scope claim or add the guidance before relying on this page for those tasks.

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{/* Getting Started Section */}
<div className="mb-12">
<h2 className="text-2xl font-bold mb-6 text-center">Getting Started</h2>
<p className="text-center mb-6">New to ComfyUI? Choose where to run it, create one image, then explore how workflows work.</p>

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rephrase the rhetorical question to match the technical reference tone.

The coding guidelines ask for a technical reference tone here, not a marketing blog tone. "New to ComfyUI?" reads like landing-page copy that asks a question instead of stating a fact. State the guidance directly instead, for example: "New users can choose where to run ComfyUI, create one image, then explore how workflows work." Straight talk beats a coy question mark, especially when a new user just wants to make some art.

Based on coding guidelines: "match the tone of surrounding pages: technical reference rather than marketing blog."

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In `@index.mdx` at line 60, Update the introductory paragraph in the surrounding
JSX to use a direct technical-reference statement instead of the rhetorical “New
to ComfyUI?” question, while preserving the existing guidance about choosing
where to run ComfyUI, creating an image, and exploring workflows.

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Find community packages in the [Comfy Registry](https://registry.comfy.org). If a package appears in an imported workflow, [ComfyUI Manager](/manager/overview) can help install and manage it.

In this guide, we'll cover various operations related to custom nodes, including installation, updates, disabling, uninstalling, and dependency installation.
The rest of this page covers installation, updates, disabling, uninstalling, and software dependencies.

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Align the scope claim with the page content.

The sections Uninstalling Custom Nodes, Temporarily Disabling Custom Nodes, and Custom Node Dependency Conflicts contain only To be updated. Add guidance for these sections or remove these topics from the scope sentence.

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In `@basic-concepts/custom-nodes.mdx` at line 13, Update the page scope sentence
near the opening to match the currently documented sections: remove
uninstalling, temporarily disabling, and dependency conflicts unless those
sections receive actual guidance. Keep the remaining topics aligned with the
page content.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr.

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