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Update the framing to match how Diffusers actually works now: models follow the single-file policy (with UNet/older transformers as legacy exceptions, not the model), add a Modular Pipelines section parallel to standard Pipelines, and slim Pipelines/Models bullets to remove stale guidance (per-task pipeline subclassing, generic-class checkpoint adaptation, dead links to deprecated repos). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Pipelines are designed to be easy to use (therefore do not follow [*Simple over easy*](#simple-over-easy) 100%), are not feature complete, and should loosely be seen as examples of how to use [models](#models) and [schedulers](#schedulers) for inference. | ||
| Pipelines are intended **only** for inference. Pipelines are designed to be easy to use (therefore do not follow [*Simple over easy*](#simple-over-easy) 100%) — they should be readable, self-explanatory, easy to tweak, and loosely seen as examples of how to use [models](#models) and [schedulers](#schedulers). Pipelines are not feature complete, to build feature-complete user interfaces on top of Diffusers, consider using [Modular Diffusers](../modular_diffusers/overview). |
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| Pipelines are intended **only** for inference. Pipelines are designed to be easy to use (therefore do not follow [*Simple over easy*](#simple-over-easy) 100%) — they should be readable, self-explanatory, easy to tweak, and loosely seen as examples of how to use [models](#models) and [schedulers](#schedulers). Pipelines are not feature complete, to build feature-complete user interfaces on top of Diffusers, consider using [Modular Diffusers](../modular_diffusers/overview). | |
| Pipelines, either standard or modular, are intended **only** for inference. Pipelines are designed to be easy to use (therefore do not follow [*Simple over easy*](#simple-over-easy) 100%) — they should be readable, self-explanatory, easy to tweak, and loosely seen as examples of how to use [models](#models) and [schedulers](#schedulers). Pipelines are not feature complete, to build feature-complete user interfaces on top of Diffusers, consider using [Modular Diffusers](../modular_diffusers/overview). |
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