The model card
The model card opens next to the library when you click a file in the Models tab. It says what the file is, which models it fits, how its author meant it to be used, and puts it on the canvas for you.
<!-- picture: the card of a LoRA with a picture, trigger words and How to use it -->What the card shows
| Part | What it says |
|---|---|
| Preview | an example picture or clip that lies next to the file |
| Family | the model family, and where that is known from: "from the file metadata", "from the description next to the file", "from the file name", "from the internet" |
| Kind, Size, Folder | what sort of file it is, how big, in which ComfyUI folder |
| Name from its author, Made for, Version, Author, tags | what the author wrote in the description next to the file |
| Trigger words | words that switch a LoRA on. Click a word to copy it, Copy all copies all. "The file names no trigger words: the LoRA works without them." when there are none. |
| How to use it | "Strength the author suggests: 0.9", "It works from 0.6 to 1.2", "Clip skip: 2" |
| Prompts the author used | the prompts of the author's sample pictures, each with Copy; a negative prompt is marked Negative prompt: |
| Fits | for a LoRA: "Your base models it fits:" and the checkpoints you have of its family. For a checkpoint: "3 of your LoRAs fit this model" and Show them in the list |
| From the internet | what Civitai or Hugging Face say about the file, after Find on the internet |
| Your notes | the notes you wrote about this file in your model manager, read from the description next to the file |
Buttons
- Add to canvas puts the loader node that fits the file, with the file chosen, and selects it: "Added “Load LoRA” with … The node is selected."
- Put into the selected node appears when a node that loads this kind of file is selected: the node then loads this file.
- Ask the assistant and How do I connect it? send a question about the file.
- Find on the internet sends the file fingerprint to civitai.com and, if Civitai does not know the file, its name to huggingface.co. "The server reads the whole file. A large one takes a few minutes." The fingerprint is computed by an MCP server that reads files; when the app reads ComfyUI directly, there is no fingerprint, so the search goes by the file name only.
Adult content
When the author marked a file as adult content: "The author marked this as adult content. The preview and the examples made with it are hidden." Show for this file shows them for this file; Hide again hides them. To show them always: Settings ▸ Privacy ▸ Adult content (18+). See Settings: Privacy and the content rules.
Warnings about the file
- A file in the format .ckpt, .pt, .pth or .bin: "This format (.ckpt, .pt, .pth, .bin) can run code when ComfyUI loads it. Prefer a .safetensors file of the same model, and load files of this kind only from authors you trust."
- A name with hidden characters: "The file name holds hidden characters that change how it reads. They are shown as �. Check the name in your file manager."
- A name that mixes Latin letters with look-alike letters of another alphabet: "The file name mixes Latin letters with letters of another alphabet that look the same. It may be made to pass for another file."
What can go wrong
- "This file is no longer in the catalog. Sync again to refresh the list."
- "There is no standard loader node for files in “…”. Ask the assistant which node loads them."
- "The preview could not be read. The computer with ComfyUI may be off."
- "The lookup did not work: the site did not answer. Check the internet connection."
- "Civitai does not know this file; nothing was found on Hugging Face by its name."