Checkpoints, LoRAs and ControlNet, made clear

A file extension alone does not tell you whether you have generation weights, a text encoder, a VAE, a LoRA or ControlNet weights. This model selection worksheet gives you one place to record what each file is, where it came from and what it works with before you build with Krea 2 or FLUX, so the work is easier to repeat and share.

You fill in the goal, base family and variant, exact model-version URL, model filename and digest, workflow source and version, ComfyUI version, text encoder and VAE, any optional LoRA or ControlNet, declared compatible families, the license source for each component, the baseline prompt, seed and size, and the actual result. An example model manifest shows the structure; replace its records with evidence from your actual model pages.

It pairs with the image model lesson: identify the exact family, classify the files, choose a baseline, check the manifest and change one thing at a time. You only need a text editor and you do not need to download weights. Passing the inspector checks your declarations, not the weights themselves. Provider accounts, model weights, GPU compute and hosting are not included.