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When the comic recipe makes several images at once and some of them fail, it now tells the assistant to retry for free only the ones that never actually ran, instead of blindly re-running everything and possibly charging the user twice. It also tells the assistant to speak up if a job keeps taking too long, instead of waiting forever.

What

One paragraph in ## Step 2 of skills/technique-multi-scene-comic.md changes; Steps 3-5 already reuse it by reference ("as in Step 2", "waited the same way"), so they inherit it unchanged.

• The wait_for_batch sentence now: re-polls on the same batch_id while timed_out: true; if it keeps timing out, tells the user which job ids are still pending.
• Before using a batch's outputs: re-send as-is, in a new submit_batch, only items marked not_attempted: true or billed: false. Items marked may_be_charged: true / billed: "unknown", or failed on moderation, validation or credits, are retried at most once, with a changed input or the user's say-so.
• A re-sent item runs in a new batch, so the recipe waits on that new batch_id the same way, until every job in it is terminal, before using its output. Its new job id is recorded against its character (Step 2) and its panel (Steps 3-5).
• One shared clause at the end of the paragraph covers every wait_for_job in the recipe: re-call on timed_out: true, tell the user if it keeps timing out, follow message on stalled: true.

Why

The hosted server's batch contract has no "billed: true": an executed failure is billed: "unknown", so it is never known-safe to retry. Failed batch entries carry not_attempted: true ("safely re-sendable as-is") or may_be_charged: true ("a blind retry double-charges"), and the server's failure copy says not to blindly retry or resubmit without the user's say-so. The old sentence ("re-submit any item whose job failed") contradicted that. stalled: true exists only on wait_for_job, so it is mentioned only there, not next to wait_for_batch.

Negative-claim check: the change denies no capability. It narrows when a free re-send is appropriate and always keeps a path forward (one changed-input retry, or ask the user).

Testing

• claude plugin validate ./claude-code: passed.
• Checked the cited fields against the server's current main: BillingVerdict is billed: false | 'unknown' only; not_attempted / may_be_charged are on failed batch entries; wait_for_batch's description says "tell the user if it keeps timing out" and has no stalled; wait_for_job's does.
• git diff touches only skills/technique-multi-scene-comic.md; the Step 3 sentence "With two or more panels that have characters" and Step 6 are byte-identical; the new text does not contain "more than three scenes".
• Doc-drift sweep: 2 references checked, 0 updated (both are generic search_templates mentions in AGENTS.md / README.md, not stale).

Provenance

• Authored by: agent-work loop
• Verified:
  • claude plugin validate ./claude-code passes on the current head.
  • Doc-drift sweep on the current head: 2 references checked, 0 updated.
  • The server's batch and billing contract was read on its main branch when the PR was opened, and was not re-read for the review fix.
  • The diff touches only skills/technique-multi-scene-comic.md.
• Deviations:
  • The replacement-batch wait clause was added after review and was not in the original plan.
  • The rest of the replacement paragraph and the shared wait_for_job sentence are verbatim from the plan.

Residual

• The server's bundled mirror of this skill is not updated here. When it is, its negative-claim lint will flag the new sentences (they contain only / not / instead of), so the mirror change needs matching negative-claim inventory rows. I did not run the server mirror test suite for this change.

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The character-sheet workflow now specifies how to re-poll timed-out batches, report pending jobs, retry failed items under defined conditions, and track replacement job IDs.

Changes: Comic batch job handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Batch polling and retry rules skills/technique-multi-scene-comic.md	The instructions repeat wait_for_batch on the same batch ID after a timeout and report pending job IDs if timeouts persist. Unchanged retries are limited to items marked not_attempted: true or billed: false. Other specified failures can be retried at most once, only after an input change or user approval. Resent jobs receive new IDs that are tracked against the character and later panel.

Possibly related PRs

• Comfy-Org/comfy-skills#47: Adds batch generation and panel job-ID tracking in the same comic recipe.
• Comfy-Org/comfy-skills#39: Adds the comic recipe’s initial batch workflow, which this change refines.

Suggested reviewers: vqt123

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 234a8

This updates retry and polling instructions in a legacy recipe file that the repository marks as frozen and mirrors into production prompts, so it needs maintainer approval for the exception. The new retry text also omits an explicit wait on replacement batches. Both issues are small and easy to fix.

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- Line 17: Update the replacement-item retry flow around submit_batch so it
waits for every replacement batch to reach a terminal state before using its
outputs. Use wait_for_batch on that batch’s batch_id, repeating on timed_out:
true as required by the existing wait guidance.
- Line 17: Restore the frozen multi-scene comic recipe to its prior content by
reverting this edit; do not alter its reference-generation, sheet-creation, or
batch workflow unless an exception has been approved.

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