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Use during /add-model Phase 4 or Phase 6 to prototype or parity-debug one FastVideo-native DiT/transformer component.

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Add Model Port DiT

Goal

Prototype or parity-debug one diffusion transformer in FastVideo-native code. This skill is for one component only; do not work on the VAE, encoders, pipeline, or unrelated conversion code unless the current component cannot load without a minimal fix there.

Inputs

Follow ../add-model/shared/component_skill_common.md and require the complete packet from ../add-model/contracts/component_context.md.

DiT-specific packet fields:

  • component: transformer or DiT name.
  • parity_test: tests/local_tests/<bucket>/test_<family>_<component>_parity.py.
  • weights: converted transformer dir or local official path.
  • target_files: fastvideo/models/dits/<family>.py and fastvideo/configs/models/dits/<family>.py.

Modes

Use the common prototype and parity-debug modes from ../add-model/shared/component_skill_common.md.

DiT-specific prototype concerns include ambiguous official flags, shape mismatches, missing FastVideo layer equivalents, and dedicated output heads.

Reuse Proof

Apply the shared reuse proof. DiT-specific comparison must include attention algorithm, positional embeddings, RoPE/patching, timestep/guidance embeddings, scaling constants, dtype casts, state-dict names, and every output head.

Existing FastVideo Patterns

  • Base class: fastvideo/models/dits/base.py::BaseDiT.
  • Config bases: DiTConfig and DiTArchConfig in fastvideo/configs/models/dits/base.py.
  • Use the matching DiT config bucket. Wrong bucket inheritance can typecheck but fail during pipeline wiring.
  • Config export: add the config to fastvideo/configs/models/dits/__init__.py.
  • Registry discovery: set EntryClass = <ClassName> in the model file.
  • Loader path: TransformerLoader reads transformer/config.json, calls dit_config.update_model_arch(config), resolves _class_name through ModelRegistry, and constructs the class with config and hf_config.
  • Reference examples: stable_audio.py, wanvideo.py, sd3.py, longcat.py, and ltx2.py.
  • Layer guidance: fastvideo/layers/AGENTS.md.

Implementation Rules

  • Use FastVideo-native layers by default: ReplicatedLinear for DiT hot-path linears, DistributedAttention for standard full-sequence attention, and LocalAttention for local/window attention or simple single-GPU parity paths.
  • Raw SDPA is acceptable for cross-modality flat streams when no FastVideo distributed equivalent exists; document the SP gap in the module docstring.
  • Mirror official tensor contracts exactly: latent packing, patch ordering, timestep embedding scale, RoPE/positional embedding, guidance embedding, cross-attention context order, output head order, and dtype casts.
  • Preserve all output heads that the official DiT emits. Do not silently drop audio, depth, pose, mask, or auxiliary heads.
  • Put architecture fields on DiTArchConfig; keep inference steps, CFG scales, FPS, flow shift, and sampling defaults out of the arch config.
  • Define _fsdp_shard_conditions, _compile_conditions, param_names_mapping, and reverse_param_names_mapping where needed.
  • Follow the production import boundary in ../add-model/shared/common_rules.md.

Prototype Checks

Follow the shared prototype success criteria. A useful one-off check is:

python - <<'PY'
# Import the target config/class, instantiate with random weights, and print
# state_dict names/shapes for the conversion mapping.
PY

Parity-Debug Loop

Run the shared parity-debug loop. The component test command is:

pytest <parity_test> -v -s

For numerical drift, use ../add-model-08-trace/SKILL.md before writing bespoke hooks. Start with FastVideo's activation trace (fastvideo/hooks/activation_trace.py; docs/contributing/activation_trace.md) and a block-level regex such as FASTVIDEO_TRACE_LAYERS="^block\.layers\.[0-9]+

quot;. Only fall back to custom per-block hooks if the needed boundary or statistic is not exposed by FASTVIDEO_TRACE_STATS.

Escape Hatches

Follow ../add-model/shared/common_rules.md and the component-specific guidance in ../add-model/shared/component_skill_common.md. DiT-specific ask cases include dropping an output head/modality, accepting an unsupported kernel/private op, or choosing between incompatible official transformer definitions.

Handoff

Return ../add-model/contracts/component_skill_handoff.md following the common handoff rules in ../add-model/shared/component_skill_common.md.