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+from enum import Enum
+from typing import Any, Protocol
+
+import mlx.core as mx
+from mflux.config.runtime_config import RuntimeConfig
+
+from exo.worker.engines.mflux.config.model_config import ImageModelConfig
+from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion.kv_cache import ImagePatchKVCache
+
+
+class BlockWrapperMode(Enum):
+    """Mode for block wrapper operation."""
+
+    CACHING = "caching"  # Sync mode: compute full attention, populate cache
+    PATCHED = "patched"  # Async mode: compute patch attention, use cached KV
+
+
+class ModelAdapter(Protocol):
+    """Protocol for model-specific operations in PipeFusion.
+
+    Adapters handle the differences between mflux model architectures:
+    - Flux: JointAttention + SingleBlockAttention
+    - Fibo: FiboJointAttention with attention masks
+    - Qwen: Unified blocks with different RoPE
+    """
+
+    @property
+    def config(self) -> ImageModelConfig:
+        """Return the model configuration."""
+        ...
+
+    def compute_embeddings(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: mx.array,
+        prompt_embeds: mx.array,
+        transformer: Any,
+    ) -> tuple[mx.array, mx.array]:
+        """Compute x_embedder and context_embedder outputs.
+
+        Args:
+            hidden_states: Input latent states
+            prompt_embeds: Text embeddings from encoder
+            transformer: The transformer model
+
+        Returns:
+            Tuple of (embedded_hidden_states, embedded_encoder_states)
+        """
+        ...
+
+    def compute_text_embeddings(
+        self,
+        t: int,
+        pooled_prompt_embeds: mx.array,
+        transformer: Any,
+        runtime_config: RuntimeConfig,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        """Compute time/text embeddings for conditioning.
+
+        Args:
+            t: Current timestep
+            pooled_prompt_embeds: Pooled text embeddings
+            transformer: The transformer model
+            runtime_config: Runtime configuration
+
+        Returns:
+            Text embeddings tensor
+        """
+        ...
+
+    def compute_rotary_embeddings(
+        self,
+        prompt_embeds: mx.array,
+        transformer: Any,
+        runtime_config: RuntimeConfig,
+        **kwargs: Any,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        """Compute rotary position embeddings.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt_embeds: Text embeddings
+            transformer: The transformer model
+            runtime_config: Runtime configuration
+
+        Returns:
+            Rotary embeddings tensor
+        """
+        ...
+
+    def apply_joint_block(
+        self,
+        block: Any,
+        hidden_states: mx.array,
+        encoder_hidden_states: mx.array,
+        text_embeddings: mx.array,
+        rotary_embeddings: mx.array,
+        kv_cache: ImagePatchKVCache | None,
+        mode: "BlockWrapperMode",
+        text_seq_len: int,
+        patch_start: int | None = None,
+        patch_end: int | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[mx.array, mx.array]:
+        """Apply a joint transformer block.
+
+        Args:
+            block: The joint transformer block
+            hidden_states: Image hidden states
+            encoder_hidden_states: Text hidden states
+            text_embeddings: Conditioning embeddings
+            rotary_embeddings: Rotary position embeddings
+            kv_cache: KV cache (None if not using cache)
+            mode: CACHING or PATCHED mode
+            text_seq_len: Text sequence length
+            patch_start: Start index for patched mode
+            patch_end: End index for patched mode
+
+        Returns:
+            Tuple of (encoder_hidden_states, hidden_states)
+        """
+        ...
+
+    def apply_single_block(
+        self,
+        block: Any,
+        hidden_states: mx.array,
+        text_embeddings: mx.array,
+        rotary_embeddings: mx.array,
+        kv_cache: ImagePatchKVCache | None,
+        mode: "BlockWrapperMode",
+        text_seq_len: int,
+        patch_start: int | None = None,
+        patch_end: int | None = None,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        """Apply a single transformer block.
+
+        Args:
+            block: The single transformer block
+            hidden_states: Concatenated [text + image] hidden states
+            text_embeddings: Conditioning embeddings
+            rotary_embeddings: Rotary position embeddings
+            kv_cache: KV cache (None if not using cache)
+            mode: CACHING or PATCHED mode
+            text_seq_len: Text sequence length
+            patch_start: Start index for patched mode
+            patch_end: End index for patched mode
+
+        Returns:
+            Output hidden states
+        """
+        ...
+
+    def final_projection(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: mx.array,
+        text_embeddings: mx.array,
+        transformer: Any,
+    ) -> mx.array:
+        """Apply final norm and projection.
+
+        Args:
+            hidden_states: Hidden states (image only, text already removed)
+            text_embeddings: Conditioning embeddings
+            transformer: The transformer model
+
+        Returns:
+            Projected output
+        """
+        ...