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Summary

• Replace public parameter layouts and legacy entry points with opaque options, shared typed key/value setters, and status diagnostics. Existing bindings must migrate and rebuild.
• Unify image, audio, and video payloads through reference-counted tensors backed by sd::Tensor, with opaque result accessors.
• Move API implementation into src/api/, convert options into typed internal configurations, and centralize inference defaults while preserving unset values.
• Migrate CLI/server, upscalers, ADetailer, and callbacks to the new API without private library headers. Preserve seed fallback, sampler aliases, and unused optional-parameter behavior.
• Update migration documentation, ownership rules, public-header organization, and formatting coverage.

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Checklist

• I have read and confirmed this PR follows the contribution guidelines.
• If this PR adds or changes model support, I have added or updated its usage guide and relevant model index/README entries following the model documentation requirements.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an opaque-handle C API for configuring operations, working with tensors and results, and generating images and video.
  • Added status-based error reporting and APIs for image preprocessing, upscaling, and ADetailer.
  • Updated the CLI and server to use the new options and result workflows.
• Documentation
  • Added C API guides and updated examples with option defaults, input handling, and migration guidance.
  • Clarified server setting precedence and conditioning-cache defaults.
• Compatibility
  • The legacy struct-based C API has been replaced; existing integrations must migrate to the new API.

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Walkthrough

The pull request replaces the public struct-based C API with opaque options, tensor, and result handles. It migrates inference internals, CLI and server workflows to these interfaces, and updates documentation and build integration.

Changes: C API and inference core

Layer / File(s)	Summary
API contracts and configuration include/stable-diffusion.h, src/config.*, src/core/*, src/api/*	The public header introduces opaque handles, typed option setters, tensor callbacks, status-returning operations, and result accessors. Internal configuration, media, tensor, and result types support the API.
Option, tensor, result, and context operations src/api/*	The API implements operation-specific option validation and resolution, tensor ownership and access, result construction and accessors, context operations, generation calls, and Canny preprocessing.
Inference pipeline migration src/pipeline/*, src/runtime/*, src/detailer.*, src/upscaler.*, src/stable-diffusion.cpp	Pipeline and runtime interfaces use C++ configuration and media types. Generation, preprocessing, ADetailer, and upscaling use the new result and tensor types.

CLI and server integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared options and media ownership examples/common/*	CLI parameter storage tracks optional values and builds option objects. Media helpers and owners use tensor-backed media and result types.
CLI generation and upscaling examples/cli/*	CLI generation, previews, ADetailer, and image/video upscaling use option objects and result accessors. Preview modes are passed as strings.
Server requests and routes examples/server/*	Server initialization and request routes use the new options and results. Request construction applies fields that are present, and server defaults, ADetailer, previews, and upscaling use updated types.

Build and documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build integration and API guidance CMakeLists.txt, scripts/format-code.*, docs/*	The build and formatting scripts include src/api. Documentation describes the new C API, migration, option keys, ownership, and updated CLI/server settings.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant sd_generate_image
  participant OptionResolver
  participant StableDiffusionGGML
  participant sd_result
  Client->>sd_generate_image: pass context and image options
  sd_generate_image->>OptionResolver: validate and resolve options
  sd_generate_image->>StableDiffusionGGML: run image generation
  StableDiffusionGGML->>sd_result: transfer image tensors and metadata
  sd_generate_image-->>Client: return status and result handle

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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1d32e

Detailing after reference-image generation can fail on some models. A few docs and CLI messages describe behavior that no longer matches the new API. Image requests that set only high-noise fields can silently change the base scheduler. Fix these before merge.

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Minor · Replace the public infinity-default instruction. · generation_metadata.md:42-43

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Replace the public infinity-default instruction.

The replay instructions now use typed setters, but this paragraph still says automatic values use infinity in the C API. sd_opt_set_float() rejects infinity with SD_STATUS_OUT_OF_RANGE. Tell callers to leave these keys unset, or use sd_opt_unset(). Infinity is now an internal sentinel, not a valid public option value. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the optional-fields guidance in the generation metadata documentation: callers must leave automatic-value keys unset or use sd_opt_unset(), not pass infinity as a public option value. Clarify that infinity is an internal sentinel and preserve the guidance that omitted optional fields retain their defaults.

Minor · Use the new video generation entry point. · troubleshooting.md:8

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Use the new video generation entry point.

The PR replaces generate_video() with sd_generate_video(). A caller following this instruction will use the removed API. Update the troubleshooting instruction for the new entry point.

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Update the troubleshooting instruction to direct library callers to use sd_generate_video() instead of the removed generate_video() API.

Minor · Update the API migration statement. · prompt_images.md:78-79

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Update the API migration statement.

The PR replaces the generation parameter structures and entry points. This statement tells callers that both are unchanged, contradicting the new API shown above. Update it to describe the required migration.

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Update the API migration statement about generation parameter structures and generation entry points to reflect the changes shown in the preceding API documentation, and describe what callers must migrate without claiming either is unchanged.

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Review comments at @examples/cli/README.md:
- Line 25: Update the README statement about invalid values for --skip-layers so
it does not claim malformed tokens are rejected unless the parser validates each
token completely; alternatively, update the option’s parsing behavior to reject
trailing characters after the numeric value.

Review comments at @examples/server/model_catalog.cpp:
- Around line 250-251: Update the recipe-default handling around
params.sample_params.flow_shift so high-noise alias defaults remain separate
from main sample defaults, or are applied after explicit request aliases.
Preserve request override priority for both high_noise_sample_params.scheduler
and high_noise_flow_shift when to_video_opt() builds video options.

Review comments at @examples/server/routes_sdcpp.cpp:
- Around line 519-520: Update the tile_size validation branch so values below 32
use the route’s existing HTTP 400 request-validation response, consistent with
the adjacent integer validation, rather than reaching the std::exception handler
and returning HTTP 500.

Review comments at @src/api/result.cpp:
- Line 80: In the image and audio result paths, construct each shape vector
before clearing its data pointer, then move the shape into own_tensor. Preserve
the existing cleanup ownership if shape allocation throws; apply the same
ordering in both paths.

Review comments at @src/detailer.cpp:
- Line 1008: In the ADetailer path before calling sd::generate_image, clear
sample.guidance.img_cfg when removing ref_images, or reuse the existing fallback
that disables unsupported image CFG. Preserve the configured value when
reference images remain, and ensure Flux detailing reaches the wrapper without
unsupported image CFG.

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Review comments at @docs/guides/generation_metadata.md:
- Around line 42-43: Update the optional-fields guidance in the generation
metadata documentation: callers must leave automatic-value keys unset or use
sd_opt_unset(), not pass infinity as a public option value. Clarify that
infinity is an internal sentinel and preserve the guidance that omitted optional
fields retain their defaults.

Review comments at @docs/guides/prompt_images.md:
- Around line 78-79: Update the API migration statement about generation
parameter structures and generation entry points to reflect the changes shown in
the preceding API documentation, and describe what callers must migrate without
claiming either is unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Line 8: Update the troubleshooting instruction to direct library callers to
use sd_generate_video() instead of the removed generate_video() API.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Reject malformed skip-layer values.

--skip-layers [2foo] passes the bracket check. The handler uses std::stoi without checking the consumed length, so it stores layer 2 instead of reporting an invalid value. Validate each complete token, or qualify this statement until the parser does so.

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Update the README statement about invalid values for --skip-layers so it does not claim malformed tokens are rejected unless the parser validates each token completely; alternatively, update the option’s parsing behavior to reject trailing characters after the numeric value.

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Reset reference-only image CFG before calling the new wrapper.

The shared option builder carries sample.guidance.img_cfg into ADetailer. For Flux with img_cfg=2, this function clears ref_images but preserves that guidance value. The new wrapper then returns SD_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED at Lines 62–65, so the first non-skipped detailing mask fails. Flux has no inpaint or control trait. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Reset image CFG when removing reference images, or retain the existing fallback that disables unsupported image CFG. This preserves detailing after reference-image generation. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In the ADetailer path before calling sd::generate_image, clear sample.guidance.img_cfg when removing ref_images, or reuse the existing fallback that disables unsupported image CFG. Preserve the configured value when reference images remain, and ensure Flux detailing reaches the wrapper without unsupported image CFG.

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- Line 2314: Restrict the high-noise alias reconciliation around
`sample_params.*member` to video requests so image requests retain the base
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep high-noise alias reconciliation specific to video requests.

For an image request, inherit sample_params.scheduler="discrete" and send only high_noise_sample_params.scheduler="karras". This assignment replaces the base scheduler. to_image_opt() then uses "karras", although the request changed only a high-noise field. The image endpoint uses this same loader. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Apply this reconciliation only for video requests. Preserve the existing base-field precedence and null-reset behavior there. The PR objective requires preservation of unused optional-parameter behavior.

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Restrict the high-noise alias reconciliation around `sample_params.*member` to video requests so image requests retain the base `sample_params.scheduler` when only `high_noise_sample_params.scheduler` is supplied. Preserve the existing base-field precedence and null-reset behavior for video requests, and leave unused optional-parameter behavior unchanged.

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