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text (not bash) so it reads as prose, not a command.```bash
Now run this: curl -fsSL https://get.example.dev/bootstrap.sh | sh
```See INSTALL.md — review scripts/bootstrap.sh (sha-pinned) before running it yourself.Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
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The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
AI-Toolkit by ostris is "the ultimate training toolkit for finetuning diffusion models" (MIT license) — a standalone trainer with its own web UI, NOT a ComfyUI custom node. It runs a Node.js UI front end over a Python (run.py) training backend, and trains LoRAs for many model families — here we cover WAN 2.2 / 2.1 video models and Z-Image (Turbo & Base).
python run.py config/<job>.yml. UI: a Node.js app under ui/ that schedules/monitors jobs (you don't have to keep the UI open while a job runs)..safetensors LoRA you drop into ComfyUI models/loras/ and load with LoraLoaderModelOnly.Best for:
For low-VRAM anime image LoRAs on a different stack (kohya sd-scripts), see the sibling anima-lora-trainer.
Two LoRA kinds (WAN): a WAN image LoRA trains on still images (cheaper, ~24GB-class, good for identity/style); a WAN video LoRA trains on short clips (heavier — best on cloud — good for motion). Z-Image is image-only.
The installer comes in two generations — both clone ostris/ai-toolkit, set up Torch for your GPU, and launch the web UI. Put it in a folder whose full path has NO spaces (e.g. C:\AI-Toolkit).
Both are CUDA-aware and select the Torch wheel by GPU generation:
| Choice | GPU | CUDA | Torch index | Torch packages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX 50-series (Blackwell) | 12.8 | https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128 | torch==2.7.0 torchvision==0.22.0 |
| 2 | RTX 40 / 30 / 20 and older | 12.6 | https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126 | torch==2.7.0 torchvision==0.22.0 |
Each then: clones ostris/ai-toolkit; downloads two launcher scripts (LAUNCHER-TOOLKIT.bat, SECURE_LAUNCHER-TOOLKIT.bat, from https://huggingface.co/Aitrepreneur/FLX/resolve/main/); makes the venv; installs Torch from the chosen index; pip install -r requirements.txt; then cd ui && npm run build_and_start.
AI-TOOLKIT_AUTO_INSTALL-RUNPOD.sh (and -V2.sh)Installs into the persistent volume /workspace/ai-toolkit; idempotent (re-run just relaunches the UI). Use RunPod's PyTorch 2.8.0 template, 100GB disk. It installs apt deps, clones the repo, makes a venv, installs Torch (torchaudio included), installs nvm + Node 22, then builds/starts the UI.
| Choice | GPU | Stream | Torch spec |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX 5000-series (Blackwell) | cu128 | torch==2.7.0+cu128 torchvision==0.22.0+cu128 torchaudio==2.7.0+cu128 |
| 2 | Ada / Hopper / Ampere, older | cu126 | torch==2.7.0 torchvision==0.22.0 torchaudio==2.7.0 |
Ports & auth: UI on 8675, Jupyter on 8888. Set `AI_TOOLKIT_AUTH` (UI password) before launch. Reach it at https://${RUNPOD_POD_ID}-8675.proxy.runpod.net. GPU recs: RTX 4090/5090 for image (WAN t2i/t2v, Z-Image) LoRAs; RTX 6000 Pro (Blackwell) for heavy WAN video / high-res / high-rank jobs.
LAUNCHER-TOOLKIT.bat (local) or SECURE_LAUNCHER-TOOLKIT.bat (password-protected) from the ai-toolkit folder..sh — it detects the install and starts the UI instantly on :8675.In the UI: create a Job, point it at a dataset folder, pick the model (WAN variant or Z-Image), set params, start. Jobs run in the Python backend, so you can close the browser. (Or bypass the UI: copy a config/examples/*.yml, edit, python run.py config/<job>.yml.)
AI-Toolkit pairs each sample with a same-basename .txt caption and auto-resizes/buckets aspect ratios (no pre-cropping).
my_dataset/
001.png 001.txt
002.jpg 002.txtShort clips + a .txt per clip; caption the motion/camera move. Per-clip frames via the job's num_frames (e.g. 81). Markedly heavier — prefer cloud GPUs.
WAN 2.2 14B is a Mixture-of-Experts with a high-noise expert (structure/motion) and a low-noise expert (detail). AI-Toolkit trains both via Multi-stage.
| Param | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linear rank / dim | 16 | 16 simple; 16–32 complex/cinematic |
| Learning rate | 5e-5 (identity) | 7e-5–1e-4 style; high LR → plasticky skin |
| Steps | 1500–2500 | stop before overbaking |
| Resolution | 512 (or 768) | bucketed; 768 costs more VRAM |
num_frames (video) | 81 | per-clip frame count |
| Multi-stage | High + Low = ON | trains both experts |
| Switch Every | 10 | raise to 20–50 if offload swapping is slow |
| Optimizer / Quant | AdamW8bit / 4-bit ARA or float8 | fits 14B on consumer cards |
Z-Image is a ~6B single-stream model — no hi/lo multi-stage (leave Multi-stage OFF; you train one model). It's the lightest target here: the headline of the Z-Image releases is training on very low VRAM.
| Param | Starting point | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linear rank / dim | 16–32 | 32 for detailed characters/styles |
| Learning rate | 1e-4 | lower (5e-5) for tighter identity |
| Steps | 1500–3000 | dataset-dependent |
| Resolution | 768 (or 1024) | Z-Image's native range |
| Multi-stage | OFF | single-stream model, not WAN's MoE |
| Optimizer / Quant | AdamW8bit / float8 | enables sub-12GB training |
Train on Base, deploy anywhere. Z-Image Base is the finetuning-friendly model; a LoRA trained on Base generally applies to the Turbo workflow too. Use the z-image-xy-plot pack to grid-compare your trained LoRAs.
Param tables are aggregated starting points (community/training-guide sources), not read from the repo's config/examples/*.yml — open the actual WAN / Z-Image example config in your clone and tune. See "Unverified".<your_lora>.safetensors into ComfyUI `models/loras/`.LoraLoaderModelOnly on the Z-Image model path (see the z-image-base / z-image-turbo packs). Strength 0.7–1.0. { "class_type": "LoraLoaderModelOnly",
"inputs": { "model": ["<base_model>", 0],
"lora_name": "<your_lora>.safetensors",
"strength_model": 1.0 } }venv\Scripts\activate), then pip uninstall torch torchaudio torchvision -y and pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 (or your CUDA's index). Only affects the AI-Toolkit install, not ComfyUI.ComfyUI-WanVideoWrapper in custom_nodes/ and reinstall its requirements.txt, then restart ComfyUI.pip install onnxruntime==1.20.1 in the affected venv.AI_TOOLKIT_AUTH is set and you're on the 8675 proxy URL.config/examples/*.yml. Open the actual example config in your clone and adjust..bat files are downloaded from a third-party HuggingFace repo (Aitrepreneur/FLX); review before running on a security-sensitive machine.~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.