Custom node authors can now ship a `node_replacements.json` in their
repo root to define replacements declaratively. During node loading,
ComfyUI reads these files and registers entries via the existing
NodeReplaceManager — no Python registration code needed.
This enables two use cases:
1. Authors deprecate/rename nodes with a migration path for old workflows
2. Authors offer their nodes as drop-in replacements for other packs
The JSON format matches NodeReplace.as_dict() output, keyed by old_node_id.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>