diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 4305e80..bf1ab00 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -241,15 +241,19 @@ services:
     # this command is required, not optional, or the container exits 0
     # immediately and restart-loops. Runs as root (image's only user);
     # group_add above is what actually grants /dev/kfd + /dev/dri access.
+    #
+    # --base-directory fully replaces ComfyUI's custom_nodes/input/output/
+    # user/temp dirs with ones under /storage (confirmed in folder_paths.py)
+    # rather than adding to the image's baked-in ones — so first boot must
+    # seed /storage/custom_nodes from the image's copy (ComfyUI-Manager
+    # lives there) or it's gone, and main.py hard-crashes if custom_nodes
+    # doesn't exist yet at all.
+    entrypoint: ["sh", "-c"]
     command:
-      - python
-      - main.py
-      - --listen
-      - "0.0.0.0"
-      - --port
-      - "8188"
-      - --base-directory
-      - /storage
+      - >
+        mkdir -p /storage/custom_nodes /storage/input /storage/output /storage/user &&
+        [ -z "$(ls -A /storage/custom_nodes)" ] && cp -r /workspace/ComfyUI/custom_nodes/. /storage/custom_nodes/ || true;
+        exec python main.py --listen 0.0.0.0 --port 8188 --base-directory /storage
     #
     # Published host port (unlike llama-server's ai-stack-only pattern):
     # ComfyUI's own UI is meant to be reachable directly too, for a planned