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name: operations-config description: "Start and configure InvokeAI server operations, CLI entry points, config precedence, API discovery, and multiuser auth administration." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: NOASSERTION

Operations Config

Use this sub-skill when a task is about running or inspecting InvokeAI as an installed application: invokeai-web, root/config resolution, operational settings, FastAPI routes/OpenAPI, or multiuser/auth user administration.

Read First

• Start with references/configuration.md for package metadata, entry points, --root/--config/env/YAML precedence, root layout, and server startup ordering.
• Use references/api-and-auth.md for FastAPI route families, OpenAPI discovery, auth endpoints, user service behavior, and user-management CLI cautions.
• Use references/troubleshooting.md for Python/dependency/runtime failures, port/CORS/SSL/log issues, auth mistakes, and safe diagnostics.

Safe Scripts

• scripts/inspect_cli_help.py prints help and entry-point facts for invokeai-web and invoke-user* commands without starting the server or mutating users.
• scripts/summarize_settings.py summarizes the bundled generated settings catalog by category, setting, or JSON output.
• scripts/inspect_openapi_routes.py summarizes live OpenAPI routes when full runtime dependencies are installed; otherwise it falls back to bundled route-family knowledge with an actionable warning.

Routing Boundaries

• Route custom node authoring/import/runtime problems to ../workflow-nodes/SKILL.md.
• Route workflow record CRUD and session queue behavior to ../workflows-queues/SKILL.md.
• Route model installation, cache sizing, Hugging Face login, and model download failures to ../model-management/SKILL.md.
• Route broad install/backend/Torch/CUDA issues that are not operations-specific to ../../references/troubleshooting.md.
• Frontend React internals, Docker image maintenance, and gallery maintenance mutations are outside this sub-skill; this subtree only records operational cautions for those surfaces.