AbstractVision documentation¶
This folder contains the user-facing documentation for abstractvision.
Start here (new users)¶
1) Project overview + quickstart
2) Getting started (shell and interactive t2i/i2i; then Diffusers, MLX-Gen, GGUF, OpenAI-compatible HTTP, Playground)
3) Architecture (how the pieces fit together)
Quick reference¶
- FAQ
- Troubleshooting
- API reference
- Architecture decisions
- Backends
- MLX-Gen local examples (current LoRA route proofs, progress logs, and generated assets)
- Configuration (CLI/REPL env vars + flags)
- Capability registries (models + adapters)
- Artifacts (artifact refs + stores)
- AbstractCore integration (capability plugin + tools)
- Agent-oriented docs:
../llms.txtand../llms-full.txt
AbstractFramework ecosystem¶
AbstractVision is part of the AbstractFramework ecosystem and is designed to compose with:
- AbstractFramework (project hub): https://github.com/lpalbou/AbstractFramework
- AbstractCore (orchestration + tool calling): https://github.com/lpalbou/abstractcore
- AbstractRuntime (runtime services, including artifact storage): https://github.com/lpalbou/abstractruntime
Current implementation status (as shipped)¶
Public API surface: VisionManager exposes:
- generate_image (text_to_image), edit_image (image_to_image)
- generate_image_batch, edit_image_batch (repeatable orchestration with explicit seed planning)
- generate_video (text_to_video), image_to_video (image_to_video) (backend-dependent)
- generate_video_batch, image_to_video_batch (repeatable orchestration with explicit seed planning)
- generate_angles (multi_view_image) (API exists; no built-in backend implements it yet)
Built-in backends implement:
- Images: Diffusers, stable-diffusion.cpp, MLX-Gen, OpenAI-compatible HTTP (../src/abstractvision/backends/)
- Current local policy: MLX-Gen supports curated q4/q8 image presets, validated Qwen structured control and Qwen/FIBO masked edits, official FIBO image snapshots, SeedVR2 upscaling, shared LoRA adapters, and Wan 2.2 TI2V/A14B video. This release is validated on Apple Silicon first; the MLX-Gen install extra also exposes Linux support when upstream mlx-gen / mlx markers are available. Local Diffusers text_to_video is experimental and temporarily disabled from normal local surfaces.
- Video:
- MLX-Gen for Wan 2.2 local text_to_video and first-frame image_to_video
- OpenAI-compatible HTTP for optional text_to_video / image_to_video when endpoints are configured (openai_compatible.py)
If you’re looking for “what can model X do?” or “which adapter defaults/compatibilities are packaged?”, the packaged registries are the source of truth:
../src/abstractvision/assets/vision_model_capabilities.json (loaded by VisionModelCapabilitiesRegistry in ../src/abstractvision/model_capabilities.py) and
../src/abstractvision/assets/vision_adapter_capabilities.json (loaded by VisionAdapterCapabilitiesRegistry in ../src/abstractvision/adapter_capabilities.py).
Exact runtime route truth still comes from the selected backend.
The curation and cross-platform support policy for those registries is governed by
ADR 0005.
Internal engineering notes¶
docs/adr/ contains durable engineering policy.
docs/backlog/ is an internal log (planned work + completion reports). It is not the normative user documentation surface.
Project¶
- Release notes:
CHANGELOG.md - Contributing:
CONTRIBUTING.md - Security:
SECURITY.md - License:
LICENSE - Acknowledgments:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md