prompt-forge

Having a prompt gallery for txt2img models (i.e. Stable Diffusion) has always pained me: having a wordpad on the side and copy-pasting parts is very annoying in the long run. And on top of that, it doesn’t allow for much flexibility: do you want a variation with different types of lighting? Well, you have to tune it manually, wait for the generation to finish, tune again… it sucks.

Searching for existing solutions, I stumbled upon Dynamic Prompts, which has a good presence, but is not exactly fit for what I was trying to accomplish, and lacked a few features I’ve grown to love from AUTOMATIC1111’s prompts from file script, such as setting the resolution, inference steps or sampler directly from the prompt.

With my initial use case in mind, I started working on this system, which was originally a script that would’ve generated prompts in a file, which could then be fed to prompts from file. However, since I’m using a webui hosted on my own cloud, it’s quite annoying to have to deal with files outside the webapp. So I wrote a script for the webui, which seemlessly integrates prompt-forge.

In terms of features, as of the time of writing these lines, prompt-forge has its own simple syntax for the candidates (the possible prompts parts), supports setting a range of webui settings from the config file without actually touching the UI (so cool!), and has a couple of modes: random, which generates random prompts from the configuration, and exhaustive, which generates them all (and trust me, it grows fast!).

Under the hood, there has been a lot of work on the parser, the graph construction, and the probability distributions (which is all customizable!).

Today it serves me well, but I notice some limitations, especially regarding the configuration format (i.e. using a single file). At first, I thought this was a great idea, especially for versioning, but the more I use it, the more I find the Dynamic Prompts idea of using sub-files for specific properties interesting. If I ever get limited by that, it seems smarter to implement prompt-forge’s features into Dynamic Prompts directly.

Hope you enjoyed the read! Find the project on GitHub, feedback is very welcome 😃