diff --git a/vue-widgets/vite.config.mts b/vue-widgets/vite.config.mts
index 681fd72c..63cb3c32 100644
--- a/vue-widgets/vite.config.mts
+++ b/vue-widgets/vite.config.mts
@@ -1,12 +1,86 @@
 import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
 import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'
 import cssInjectedByJsPlugin from 'vite-plugin-css-injected-by-js'
-import { resolve } from 'path'
+import { dirname, resolve } from 'path'
+
+// Specifiers that must stay external. The bundle is emitted to
+// web/comfyui/vue-widgets/, and ComfyUI serves that directory's parent
+// (web/comfyui) at /extensions/ComfyUI-Lora-Manager/, so one "../" from the
+// bundle reaches web/comfyui modules and three "../../.." reach ComfyUI's
+// own runtime scripts at runtime.
+//
+// scripts/app.js and scripts/api.js are intentionally NOT listed here: they
+// are externalized by the keep-runtime-modules-external plugin below, which
+// also rewrites the shallower "../../scripts/*" specifiers used by modules
+// inlined from web/comfyui/ so every binding dedupes into a single import.
+const EXTERNAL_SPECIFIERS = [
+    '../loras_widget.js',
+    '../autocomplete.js',
+    '../preview_tooltip.js'
+]
 
 export default defineConfig({
     plugins: [
         vue(),
-        cssInjectedByJsPlugin()  // Inject CSS into JS for ComfyUI compatibility
+        cssInjectedByJsPlugin(),  // Inject CSS into JS for ComfyUI compatibility
+        // Keep shared runtime modules external instead of inlining them into
+        // the bundle. This guards against the inlined-shim bug class (the
+        // removed active-filters chip ended up writing settings to a dead
+        // in-memory store this way):
+        //
+        // 1. Modules under web/comfyui/ import the repo-root scripts/app.js
+        //    TEST SHIM as "../../scripts/app.js" — a depth that resolves to
+        //    the shim on the build filesystem but 404s at the bundle's
+        //    runtime location. Rewrite to the canonical bundle-depth
+        //    specifier so every app/api binding in the bundle is the REAL
+        //    ComfyUI module.
+        // 2. web/comfyui/settings.js must never be duplicated into the
+        //    bundle: it registers settings via a module-level side effect
+        //    and owns module state. Externalize it to "../settings.js" so
+        //    the bundle binds to the SAME vanilla module instance that the
+        //    ComfyUI extension loader already loaded.
+        {
+            name: 'lora-manager:keep-runtime-modules-external',
+            enforce: 'pre',
+            resolveId(source, importer) {
+                const scriptsMatch = source.match(/^(\.\.\/)+scripts\/(app|api)\.js$/)
+                if (scriptsMatch) {
+                    return { id: `../../../scripts/${scriptsMatch[2]}.js`, external: true }
+                }
+                if (
+                    importer &&
+                    /[\\/]web[\\/]comfyui[\\/]settings\.js$/.test(
+                        resolve(dirname(importer), source)
+                    )
+                ) {
+                    return { id: '../settings.js', external: true }
+                }
+                return null
+            },
+        },
+        // Warning twin of the rewrite above: importing web/comfyui/* from
+        // widget source inlines that module into the bundle, duplicating any
+        // module-level side effects/state it owns. The settings.js and
+        // scripts/app|api.js imports are made safe by the plugin above, but
+        // review any further such import deliberately.
+        {
+            name: 'lora-manager:warn-web-comfyui-imports',
+            enforce: 'pre',
+            resolveId(source, importer) {
+                if (
+                    importer &&
+                    /[\\/]vue-widgets[\\/]src[\\/]/.test(importer) &&
+                    /[\\/]web[\\/]comfyui[\\/]/.test(source)
+                ) {
+                    this.warn(
+                        `[vue-widgets] Inlining web/comfyui module "${source}" into the bundle. ` +
+                        'settings.js and scripts/app|api.js imports are externalized by this config, ' +
+                        'but the inlined copy still duplicates module-level side effects — verify that is intended.'
+                    )
+                }
+                return null
+            },
+        },
     ],
     resolve: {
         alias: {
@@ -20,13 +94,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
             fileName: 'lora-manager-widgets'
         },
         rollupOptions: {
-            external: [
-                '../../../scripts/app.js',
-                '../../../scripts/api.js',
-                '../loras_widget.js',
-                '../autocomplete.js',
-                '../preview_tooltip.js'
-            ],
+            external: EXTERNAL_SPECIFIERS,
             output: {
                 dir: '../web/comfyui/vue-widgets',
                 entryFileNames: 'lora-manager-widgets.js',
@@ -41,3 +109,4 @@ export default defineConfig({
         'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify('production')
     }
 })
+