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@@ -329,3 +329,23 @@ quality gap closed for albedo. Not yet carried: metallic/roughness maps
 (vertex colors are albedo-only) — MR needs the UV path (Option B) or a
 COLOR_1 convention. MESHGOD finish-farm verts→texture bake = the
 remaining Option-A step for game-budget assets.
+
+## 2026-07-19 — Qwen-Image-Layered on MLX (m1ultra) — WORKING
+
+New capability: image → N editable RGBA layers, fully local. Model:
+Qwen/Qwen-Image-Layered (20B, BF16, Apache 2.0, 54GB in m1 HF cache).
+Runtime: mflux PR#302 fork (unmerged upstream; vendored at
+monster/Qwen-Image-Layered-MRP-MLX, pin tag pr302-head-a255e4f, isolated
+venv ~/qwen-layered-staging/mflux-layered/.venv — production mflux venv
+untouched). CLI: `mflux-generate-qwen-layered`.
+
+Smoke (anatomy test image, 4 layers, 640, q8-on-the-fly): **1180.8s wall
+first-run** (dominated by 20B load + live quantization), 27.1GB peak.
+Output verified: 4 true RGBA PNGs — bg layer, atmosphere layer, clean
+figure cutout (74.5% transparent, crisp to the fingers), detail layer.
+The figure-cutout layer doubles as a high-end matting result — relevant
+to the MESHGOD prep frontline for hero assets.
+
+Optimization in progress: `mflux-save --quantize 8` pre-baked model →
+skips load+quant cost; timed gen-only rerun to follow. Next: 1024-res,
+q4/q6 quality ladder, m3ultra cross-bench.