model-registry

# Model Registry One table per family: filename → source URL → target subdir under `<COMFYUI>/models/`. Use with `download_model(url, target_subfolder, filename)`. This registry grows with every release — if a model you need is missing, use `search_models` (HuggingFace) or `download_civitai_model` and consider contributing the row. **Conventions** - HF "resolve" URLs download directly: `https://huggingface.co/<repo>/resolve/main/<path>` - 🔒 = gated repo — needs `HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN` (accept the license on the HF page first) - CivitAI model-page URLs need `download_civitai_model` (resolves version → file); raw `civitai.com/api/download/...` URLs work with `download_model` + `CIVITAI_API_TOKEN` - Always verify the exact filename a workflow's loader expects — `model-compatibility` skill covers which VAE/CLIP pairs with which architecture ## Shared VAEs & text encoders (download these once) | File | Source | Target | |---|---|---| | `ae.safetensors` (Flux/Z-Image VAE) | `huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell/resolve/main/ae.safetensors` (Apache, not gated) | `vae/` | | `vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.safetensors` (SD1.5 VAE) | `huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original/resolve/main/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.safetensors` | `vae/` | | `clip_l.safetensors` | `huggingface.co/comfyanonymous/flux_text_encoders/resolve/main/clip_l.safetensors` | `text_encoders/` | | `t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors` | `huggingface.co/comfyanonymous/flux_text_encoders/resolve/main/t5xx...