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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
   directly required.
 - Prefer practical fixes over broad architecture work. Add abstractions only
   when they remove real repeated logic or match an existing ComfyUI pattern.
+- Prefer fewer dependencies. Do not add new dependencies to ComfyUI unless they
+  are absolutely necessary.
 - Delete obsolete code aggressively when newer infrastructure makes it useless.
   Remove dead fallbacks, migration paths, unused options, debug prints, and
   compatibility branches that are no longer needed. Do not leave dead branches,
@@ -111,6 +113,11 @@
 - Do not add freeze, unfreeze, or trainability toggles to model classes. ComfyUI
   models are always treated as frozen for inference, so explicit freeze
   functionality is redundant and should not be added.
+- Remove training-only behavior such as dropout from inference model code, but
+  preserve checkpoint and state-dict compatibility when doing so. If deleting a
+  module would change state-dict keys, module ordering, or checkpoint loading
+  behavior, replace it with a no-op such as `nn.Identity` instead of removing the
+  slot outright.
 
 ## Python Style
 
@@ -234,6 +241,9 @@
   `CATEGORY`, and registration through the local mapping used by that file.
 - Keep node changes backward compatible by default. Add inputs with sensible
   defaults and avoid changing output types unless the request requires it.
+- Model implementations should add the minimal number of ComfyUI nodes required
+  to run the model. Reuse existing nodes as much as possible; adapting the model
+  to work with existing nodes is strongly preferred over creating new nodes.
 - Node-level code must not patch model code directly. Any node behavior that
   modifies, wraps, hooks, or changes model behavior must go through the model
   patcher class instead of reaching into model internals.