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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
+
+"""Build a pre-cast text-encoder checkpoint for the Studio TE prequant path.
+
+Apply the runtime layerwise-fp8 STORAGE cast (``diffusion_precision._cast_fp8``) to a
+model's dense text encoder ONCE and save the cast state dict, so the backend can load the
+~half-size artifact (meta-init + ``load_state_dict(assign=True)``, see
+``core/inference/diffusion_te_prequant.py``) instead of downloading the full bf16 encoder
+and casting on every load. The cast is a deterministic storage transform, so the loaded
+encoder is bit-identical to dense-load-then-cast by construction. CPU-runnable: the cast
+touches storage dtypes only, no kernels.
+
+  python scripts/build_te_prequant_checkpoint.py \
+      --base Lightricks/LTX-2 --family ltx-2 --component text_encoder \
+      --out outputs/te_prequant/ltx2/text_encoder_fp8.pt
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+BACKEND = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "studio" / "backend"
+
+
+def main(argv = None) -> int:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--base", required = True, help = "diffusers base repo (carries the component subfolder)"
+    )
+    p.add_argument("--family", required = True, help = "diffusion/video family name or alias")
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--component",
+        default = "text_encoder",
+        help = "pipeline component attribute (also the repo subfolder)",
+    )
+    p.add_argument("--scheme", default = "fp8", choices = ["fp8"])
+    p.add_argument("--out", required = True, help = "output .pt path for the checkpoint")
+    p.add_argument("--dtype", default = "bfloat16", choices = ["bfloat16"])
+    p.add_argument("--hf-token", default = None)
+    args = p.parse_args(argv)
+
+    sys.path.insert(0, str(BACKEND))
+    import torch
+    import transformers
+
+    from core.inference.diffusion_precision import _cast_fp8
+    from core.inference.diffusion_te_prequant import TE_PREQUANT_FORMAT
+
+    # The family is metadata for forensics; detection lives in different modules per
+    # branch (diffusion_families vs video_families), so resolve best-effort by name.
+    family = args.family.strip().lower()
+
+    print(f"== build TE prequant ({family}/{args.component}/{args.scheme}) ==", flush = True)
+    print(f"  loading dense encoder from {args.base} (subfolder={args.component}) ...", flush = True)
+    t0 = time.time()
+    config = transformers.AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
+        args.base, subfolder = args.component, token = args.hf_token
+    )
+    # Prefer the checkpoint's own architecture (what the diffusers pipeline instantiates,
+    # e.g. Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration); AutoModel.from_config would give the bare base
+    # class and record a te_class whose state dict the pipeline cannot use.
+    arch = (getattr(config, "architectures", None) or [None])[0]
+    if arch and hasattr(transformers, arch):
+        encoder_cls_name = arch
+    else:
+        encoder = transformers.AutoModel.from_config(config)
+        encoder_cls_name = type(encoder).__name__
+        del encoder
+    encoder = getattr(transformers, encoder_cls_name).from_pretrained(
+        args.base,
+        subfolder = args.component,
+        torch_dtype = torch.bfloat16,
+        token = args.hf_token,
+    )
+    print(f"  casting in place (layerwise {args.scheme}) ...", flush = True)
+
+    class _Target:
+        dtype = torch.bfloat16
+
+    _cast_fp8(encoder, _Target())
+
+    state_dict = {
+        k: (v.detach().to("cpu") if hasattr(v, "detach") else v)
+        for k, v in encoder.state_dict().items()
+    }
+    metadata = {
+        "base_model_id": args.base,
+        "family": family,
+        "scheme": args.scheme,
+        "component": args.component,
+        "te_class": encoder_cls_name,
+        "torch_dtype": args.dtype,
+        "cast_backend": "diffusers_layerwise",
+        "torch_version": torch.__version__,
+        "transformers_version": transformers.__version__,
+    }
+    ckpt = {
+        "format": TE_PREQUANT_FORMAT,
+        "metadata": metadata,
+        "state_dict": state_dict,
+    }
+    out = Path(args.out)
+    out.parent.mkdir(parents = True, exist_ok = True)
+    torch.save(ckpt, out)
+    size_gb = out.stat().st_size / 1e9
+    print(f"  saved {out}  ({size_gb:.2f} GB) in {time.time() - t0:.0f}s", flush = True)
+    print(f"  metadata: {metadata}", flush = True)
+    print("BUILD-TE-PREQUANT-DONE", flush = True)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())