CLIP skip

Stops reading your prompt this many layers before the end of the text encoder.

Typical 1-2Default 1

The encoder builds meaning up in layers, and stopping early hands the model a looser, less literal reading of what you asked for. 1 is standard and is what most models were trained against. Many anime-derived checkpoints were trained at 2, and on those the difference is not subtle. Where a model states a value, the panel marks it on the CLIP skip control as a suggestion.
Sampling · Interactive explorer CLIP skip
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Skips the last layer. On an anime-lineage model this is the intended setting; elsewhere it just loosens the prompt.

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