What changed in each release. The version you are running is marked Installed.
Profile
What you make with PatchWork. Your use cases set the starting settings in each tab.
Pick at least one.
UI tour
Walk through where everything lives again, or change the answers that decide which steps you see.
API Keys
Sync GPU keys to my accountYour other devices can then start pods without the RunPod, Hugging Face and Civitai keys. They are stored encrypted. Anyone signed in to your PatchWork account can then spend on your RunPod account.
GPU Pods
Contribute to fleet statisticsWhen signed in, sends generation rows to PatchWork to compare pod cost, speed and failures. Prompt text is hashed.
Appearance
How the canvas presents itself, and the colors it uses.
Mobile view keeps the same canvas and nodes, adds touch controls (drag to pan, pinch to zoom, long-press for the node menu) and hides the chrome that doesn’t fit a phone. Set it to Always on to preview the phone layout from a desktop.
Show History Panel
Show drawing/action history panel on the canvas
Which corner toast notifications appear in.
Theme
Colors for the workspace and the connections between nodes.
Choose a color theme. Changing individual colors below switches
to Custom.
Background
Secondary BG
Accent
Text Primary
Text Secondary
Fine-tune individual colors
Colors cycle through connections to help trace links
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110
Thickness of background grid lines (1-10)
Behavior
Notifications, node numbering, and diagnostics.
Tells you when a run finishes, a take fails or a pick is waiting.
Events that arrive close together show as one notification. Click it to open the first pick that is waiting.
Badge Count
Show the number of unread notifications (the count on the bell) in the browser tab title, on the dock icon (macOS) and on the taskbar button (Windows). Open or clear the notifications to reset it.
Notification Sounds
Play audio chimes and system alert sounds when workflows complete, generations finish, or nodes need attention. Turn off to mute all notification sounds.
Per-Workflow Node Numbers
Reset node numbers (Prompt 1, Image 1, etc.) when switching workflows. When off, numbers increment globally across all workflows.
Mock Generations
Return placeholder images/videos instead of real API calls — for testing workflows without using credits
When something goes wrong, send this report along with what you were doing.
It carries the app version, which credentials are set (never their values), the storage in use,
every node's last error, and the recent log — including from the previous session. Nothing is
uploaded; API keys, tokens and inline media are redacted before it leaves the app.
Developer Mode
Show advanced debugging outputs on nodes (result, error)
Confirmation Dialogs
Re-enable confirmation dialogs you previously dismissed with "Don't ask again".
Confirm before deleting a project
Confirm before closing a workflow tab
Confirm before clearing a workflow
Accounts
Sign in to the services you already pay for. PatchWork generates through those
accounts, and each keeps its own login, so you can connect several.
Connections
Your other devices and your AI agents.
Primary computer
The computer that runs Nano Banana, Veo and GPT Image for your other devices.
None yet
Nano Banana, Veo, Omni Flash and GPT Image run in the
PatchWork desktop app, with your own accounts. To run them from this device, open PatchWork on a
computer that has them and turn on Settings → Connections → Other devices there. The computer
runs them and the takes come back here, over any network: the devices do not need the same Wi-Fi.
Run account models on
Nano Banana, Veo and GPT Image can run here or on your primary computer.
Enable Agent Access
Agents and Claude Chat can use this window while this is on.
Lets your AI agent read and build your projects and start generations on
this PatchWork. On by default in the desktop app; turn it off to keep agents out. When on, this app
hosts a private agent room. Generations the agent starts cost real money.
OffApplies immediately
Connect an agent
Click an app to set it up, then restart that app.
Other devices
Your phone, tablet and other computers can generate on this computer.
Off
Generate for your other devices on this computer: a phone, a tablet, or
PatchWork in a browser on another computer. They send Nano Banana, Veo and GPT Image here, from
the canvas or from Studio. This computer runs them with its own accounts and sends the takes
back, over any network. Turning this on makes it the primary computer; pick another one in the
menu above at any time.
It turns Agent Access on and stores its key, encrypted, on your PatchWork
account. Anyone signed in to that account gets the same control of this computer an agent with
the key has, while PatchWork is open here. Turning this off stops their requests at once.
Regenerate Key also locks out any device that saw the old key.
Applies immediately
Advanced: keys and manual setup
Connection key
For manual setup, use it as PATCHWORK_AGENT_KEY.
Paste the key into your agent's MCP config as
PATCHWORK_AGENT_KEY, or use Copy MCP Config for a ready-to-paste block with the key
included. Treat it like a password: anyone with it can drive your canvas and spend on
generations. Regenerate Key revokes the old key.
Account token
For working with PatchWork closed. Paste it into your agent's MCP config as
PATCHWORK_ACCOUNT_TOKEN, or save it to tools/.account-token. With it,
an agent can list, read, edit and generate your stored projects with this tab shut — no Agent
Access needed.
It never expires and signing out does not revoke it — only Revoke does.
This is your whole account, not just this canvas, so treat it like your password.
Shown here on this device only: the server keeps just a hash of it, so if you lose the
copy, create a new one.
Video editor tools
Copy this only for an app that Connect does not list.
Transcription & captions
How the video editor turns speech into text, and how new captions look.
Editing defaults
What new projects, clips, titles and audio start with in the video editor.
Export
What the export window starts with. Any export can still change them.
Media
Stock libraries the editor can search, and what happens to music you import.
Local models
Models the editor runs on this computer: Whisper for transcripts, packs for beats and music.
Interface
How the video editor looks and responds.
My workflows
A workflow is a folder of Claude Code agents: its own CLAUDE.md, and one per sub-folder or agent file. One of them manages the rest, and every chat with the workflow starts with it. Changes here apply at once.
Workflow defaults
Where workflows live on this computer, and how PatchWork starts Claude Code for a chat.
Workflows are folders on your computer, so these settings need the
PatchWork desktop app.
Checking for Claude Code…
Each workflow is a folder in here. Claude Code starts inside the workflow's folder, so it reads that CLAUDE.md, skills and references. Applies immediately.
Every chat with a workflow agent runs in its own terminal, in that agent's folder. These apply to every agent; change one agent on its workflow in My workflows, or from its chat. Full access skips every permission prompt.
Check for workflow updates
Shows a badge on My workflows when a workflow you got from the Marketplace has a new version. Nothing changes until you review it.
Let agents see the screen
An agent can take a picture of the PatchWork window to see what you see. The window flashes and a note appears each time. Off: agents still get the screen name and your selection, as text.
Files & Storage
Where saves land, how often they happen, and how exports are named and formatted.
Click the folder icon to choose a folder for downloads and exports.
How often the workspace is automatically saved (1-30 minutes)
Google Drive
Send exports, takes and project files
to your Google Drive, and import files from it.
My Drive › PatchWork
Where Send to Drive goes until you choose another folder. The
folder you last sent to is offered first.
Copies each asset you save to a project's collection (and each
Refinement result) into My Drive › PatchWork › <project>.
Not connected
Exports
Tokens: {project} {node} {model} {seed} {date}. Collisions get a numeric suffix.
Videos download exactly as the model produced them. Converting would mean re-encoding, which PatchWork does not do.
Embed prompt metadata
Writes the prompt and model (and seed, when known) into downloaded images: PNG text chunks, or a JPEG comment. WebP and video files are not tagged.
Disk Usage
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Generation Defaults
Applied to every new generation node. Any node can still override them.
What a newly placed generation node starts on.
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How many takes a new node makes per run, image or video. Each take is billed.
10
116
Per connected Flow account. Two Flow accounts at 10 = 20 concurrent generations; each account has its own Chrome.
Used only when “Lock seed” is on, and only by MiniMax H3, LTX, Wan 2.2 and FLUX 3 Klein (GPU pod) generations on a node set to 1 take — a batch needs a different seed per take. Every other model picks its own seed.
Lock seed between runs
Keep the same seed so a prompt edit is the only thing that changes.
Auto-retry transient errors
Automatically re-attempt failed generations on rate limits (429), server 502/503/504 errors, and network timeouts before failing.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Every key in PatchWork and where it works. Turn on Customize to rebind one. Built-in keys cannot change.
Click a key to change it, then press the new combination. Esc cancels. Changes apply when you Save.
System
Updates, and how PatchWork reaches the network.
PatchWork
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Experimental ships more often and can change node behavior between releases.
Used for provider requests and pod traffic. Leave blank for a direct connection.
60 s
15300
How long PatchWork waits for any single request to a GPU pod (ComfyUI) or the RunPod API before giving up on it. It never caps how long a generation may take — it only cuts off one request that has stopped answering, and that request then fails like a dropped connection.
Workflow Defaults
Pick values and hit Apply to push them onto every matching node in this
workflow. Anything left on Keep current is untouched. Saved with the workflow.