Just curious and if it isn’t, could I request that for a future update/patch?
It would be very helpful to have a tab in the component editor window where - just like painting smooth skin weights I can manually input a number for the vertices. The paint brush is great for quick values and large areas, but if lots of verts and edges are in a compact or hard to reach area, having the ability to quickly select vertices and assign them a specific cloth number would be spectacular.