diff --git a/scripts/setup-image-studio.sh b/scripts/setup-image-studio.sh
index 2c0d66bc..fa71cd6f 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-image-studio.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-image-studio.sh
@@ -100,10 +100,20 @@ else
     echo "  (SKIP_BUILD set — skipping image build)"
 fi
 
-# --- 2. Download the Ideogram-4 model set (~27 GB) --------------------------
+# --- 2. Download the model sets (Ideogram-4 + the studio director) ----------
 if [ -z "${SKIP_DOWNLOAD:-}" ]; then
-    say "── [2/3] Downloading Ideogram-4 model set (~27 GB; skip with SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1) ──"
+    say "── [2/3] Downloading model sets (~30 GB; skip with SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1) ──"
+    echo "  • Ideogram-4 image model set (~27 GB)"
     bash "$COMFYUI_DIR/download_ideogram4.sh"
+    # The studio DIRECTOR (qwen3.5-4b, GPU0) crafts the prompt behind the 🖼️ image
+    # button — without it studio-director boots but has no model, so the button
+    # fails.  GGUF + vision mmproj (~2.7 GB) → MODEL_DIR/qwen3.5-4b-gguf/… (where the
+    # enhancer compose's -m / --mmproj defaults point).
+    echo "  • Studio director GGUF (Qwen3.5-4B-Uncensored, ~2.7 GB + mmproj)"
+    hf download HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-4B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive \
+        Qwen3.5-4B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-Q4_K_M.gguf \
+        mmproj-Qwen3.5-4B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-BF16.gguf \
+        --local-dir "$MODEL_DIR_RESOLVED/qwen3.5-4b-gguf/hauhaucs-uncensored-q4km"
 else
     echo "  (SKIP_DOWNLOAD set — skipping weight download)"
 fi
diff --git a/services/comfyui/download_kokoro.sh b/services/comfyui/download_kokoro.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a6495d77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comfyui/download_kokoro.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Downloads the Kokoro-82M ONNX voice model for the studio-tts sidecar (Kokoro
+# narration / voiceover on the video lanes). CPU inference via the kokoro-onnx
+# library (installed in the studio-tts image); these are the two model files it
+# mounts at runtime.
+#
+# Source: the kokoro-onnx project's release assets (the kokoro-v1.0.onnx /
+# voices-v1.0.bin format the library loads — NOT the onnx-community HF repo's
+# onnx/model.onnx layout). ~330 MB total.
+#
+# Run:  ./download_kokoro.sh
+#
+# Lands files where the studio-tts compose mounts them (KOKORO_DIR):
+#   tts/kokoro/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
+#   tts/kokoro/voices-v1.0.bin
+set -uo pipefail
+
+# Mirrors the studio-tts compose default (${KOKORO_DIR:-/mnt/models/comfyui/models/tts/kokoro}).
+ROOT="${KOKORO_DIR:-${COMFYUI_MODELS_DIR:-/mnt/models/comfyui/models}/tts/kokoro}"
+REL="https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx/releases/download/model-files-v1.0"
+LOG_TS() { date +%H:%M:%S; }
+log()  { echo "[$(LOG_TS)] $*"; }
+step() { log ""; log "=== $* ==="; }
+
+command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: 'curl' not found." >&2; exit 1; }
+mkdir -p "$ROOT"
+
+fetch() {  # <filename>  — resumable, fail on HTTP error
+    local f="$1"
+    curl -fL --retry 3 -C - -o "$ROOT/$f" "$REL/$f"
+}
+
+step "1/2  Kokoro ONNX model (~310 MB)"
+fetch kokoro-v1.0.onnx
+
+step "2/2  Kokoro voices pack (~27 MB)"
+fetch voices-v1.0.bin
+
+log ""
+log "Done → $ROOT  (kokoro-v1.0.onnx + voices-v1.0.bin)"
diff --git a/services/comfyui/download_step_audio.sh b/services/comfyui/download_step_audio.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..93f69953
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comfyui/download_step_audio.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Downloads Step-Audio-EditX for the studio-step-voice sidecar (premium zero-shot
+# voice clone + emotion/style editing — the 🎙️ Voice lane). Two repos: the model
+# weights + its audio tokenizer, both from stepfun-ai (Apache-2.0). ~14 GB bf16.
+#
+# Run:  ./download_step_audio.sh
+#       nohup ./download_step_audio.sh > /tmp/step-audio-dl.log 2>&1 &   (background)
+#
+# Lands where the step-voice compose mounts them (STEP_AUDIO_DIR → /models):
+#   Step-Audio/Step-Audio-EditX/
+#   Step-Audio/Step-Audio-Tokenizer/
+set -uo pipefail
+
+# Mirrors the step-voice compose default (${STEP_AUDIO_DIR:-/mnt/models/comfyui/models/Step-Audio}).
+ROOT="${STEP_AUDIO_DIR:-${COMFYUI_MODELS_DIR:-/mnt/models/comfyui/models}/Step-Audio}"
+LOG_TS() { date +%H:%M:%S; }
+log()  { echo "[$(LOG_TS)] $*"; }
+step() { log ""; log "=== $* ==="; }
+
+command -v hf >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: 'hf' (huggingface_hub CLI) not found. pip install -U huggingface_hub" >&2; exit 1; }
+mkdir -p "$ROOT"
+
+step "1/2  Step-Audio-EditX weights (~14 GB)"
+hf download stepfun-ai/Step-Audio-EditX --local-dir "$ROOT/Step-Audio-EditX"
+
+step "2/2  Step-Audio-Tokenizer"
+hf download stepfun-ai/Step-Audio-Tokenizer --local-dir "$ROOT/Step-Audio-Tokenizer"
+
+log ""
+log "Done → $ROOT  (Step-Audio-EditX/ + Step-Audio-Tokenizer/)"