Icy LoraLoaderModelOnly

IcyLoraLoaderModelOnly is the minimalist's LoRA loader: it patches the diffusion model and skips the CLIP text encoder entirely. One model in, one model out, one strength slider. If you've ever looked at the full LoraLoader and thought "I don't need half these wires," this is the version for you - and for a big chunk of use cases it's genuinely all you need.

The "Icy" prefix is the pack's privacy coat, not a different loader. IcyHider subclasses core ComfyUI nodes at startup - identical inputs, outputs, and behavior, filed under the IcyHider Comfy Core category - and its JavaScript hides the preview until hover. This is core LoraLoaderModelOnly with a cover on.

The inputs

From the schema, three, and it's refreshingly few:

• model - the MODEL to patch.
• lora_name - dropdown of LoRA files in ComfyUI/models/loras.
• strength_model - how strongly to apply it, default 1.0. Negative values invert the LoRA.

One output: MODEL, the patched diffusion model. Wire it straight into a sampler or chain another LoRA node after it.

When to use this over the full LoraLoader

The full LoraLoader's strength_clip only matters when the LoRA changes how the text encoder understands prompts - which is true for many character and concept LoRAs, but noticeably less true for style LoRAs and for the "alter the way latents are denoised" effect that lives purely in the model weights. When the effect is all image-side, the model-only loader does the same job with fewer wires and nothing to misconfigure.

The author's own description spells it out: it modifies the diffusion model, altering how latents denoise - applying styles - and multiple nodes can be linked. The trade-off: if you do have a LoRA with CLIP-side behavior (one that changes your prompt's meaning, or introduces trigger words you need the encoder to understand), you want the full LoraLoader. Model-only skips that half silently.

Install and gotchas

Frontend-only pack, no dependencies, no downloads:

# ComfyUI Manager: search "IcyHider", Install, restart

# or:
cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/icekiub-ai/ComfyUI-IcyHider.git
# restart ComfyUI

Pack-wide: the hiding is DOM-based, so the newer Nodes 2.0 canvas frontend may not engage it, and the cover is screen-only - the LoRA file on disk isn't touched. And the same compatibility rule as every LoRA: it must match your checkpoint family, or you'll get silently bad results rather than an error. If things look off, check the LoRA/base match before the strength slider.