diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fc7f99d..600ae4a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Loads the CLIPtion decoder on demand at caption time (rather than at workflow-lo
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `clip` | `CLIP` | CLIP text encoder (must include CLIP-L). |
 | `clip_vision` | `CLIP_VISION` | CLIP vision encoder (must be CLIP-L). |
-| `image` | `IMAGE` | Input Image to caption. |
+| `image` | `IMAGE` | Image to caption. |
 | `beam_width` | `INT` | Number of beams to maintain during search (default: 4). |
 | `unload_after_run` | `BOOLEAN` | Unload the CLIPtion decoder from VRAM after captioning (default: False). |
 | `device` (optional) | `["default", "cpu"]` | Inference device override. |
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ Loads the CLIPtion decoder on demand at caption time (rather than at workflow-lo
 
 | Name | Type | Description |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `STRING` | `STRING` (list) | Generated caption |
+| `STRING` | `STRING` (list) | Generated caption. |
 
-The CLIPtion decoder weights (`CLIPtion_20241219_fp16.safetensors`) are downloaded automatically from [easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models](https://huggingface.co/easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models/tree/main) on Hugging Face the first time the node runs, and are cached on disk afterwards. The weights have also been mirrored to that same repository for convenience.
+The CLIPtion decoder weights (`CLIPtion_20241219_fp16.safetensors`) are downloaded automatically from [easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models](https://huggingface.co/easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models/tree/main) on Hugging Face the first time the node runs, and are saved to `ComfyUI/models/cliption` for reuse on subsequent runs. You can also place a copy of the file in that folder yourself ahead of time to skip the automatic download.
 
-### Recommended high-accuracy CLIP-L model
+### Recommended CLIP-L model
 
 For the `clip` and `clip_vision` inputs, we recommend [zer0int/CLIP-SAE-ViT-L-14](https://huggingface.co/zer0int/CLIP-SAE-ViT-L-14), a free, high-accuracy fine-tune of CLIP ViT-L/14 released by zer0int. This model has also been mirrored to the [easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models](https://huggingface.co/easygoing0114/ComfyUI-use-models/tree/main) repository above.
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Restart ComfyUI. The node should now appear in the node search as **CLIPtion Bea
 ## Credits
 
 - [pharmapsychotic/comfy-cliption](https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/comfy-cliption) — original ComfyUI node pack this fork is based on.
-- [pharmapsychotic/CLIPtion](https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/CLIPtion) — the underlying CLIPtion model.
+- [pharmapsychotic/CLIPtion](https://huggingface.co/pharmapsychotic/CLIPtion) — the underlying CLIPtion model.
 - [zer0int/CLIP-SAE-ViT-L-14](https://huggingface.co/zer0int/CLIP-SAE-ViT-L-14) — recommended high-accuracy CLIP-L model, freely released by zer0int.
 
 ## License
diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 7759ad2..6ea6522 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -11,9 +11,17 @@ from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
 from safetensors import safe_open
 
 import comfy.model_management
+import folder_paths
 from comfy_api.latest import ComfyExtension, io
 
 
+# register comfyui/models/cliption as a known model folder so the
+# downloaded decoder weights are cached alongside ComfyUI's other models
+_CLIPTION_MODELS_DIR = os.path.join(folder_paths.models_dir, "cliption")
+os.makedirs(_CLIPTION_MODELS_DIR, exist_ok=True)
+folder_paths.add_model_folder_path("cliption", _CLIPTION_MODELS_DIR)
+
+
 def _fix_punctuation_spacing(text: str) -> str:
     """Remove stray whitespace before commas and periods left over from
     CLIPTokenizer's BPE decoding (e.g. "cats , dogs ." -> "cats, dogs.")."""
@@ -354,14 +362,25 @@ class CLIPtionBeamSearchIntegrated(io.ComfyNode):
         if _DecoderCache.is_loaded():
             return
 
-        base_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-        local_path = os.path.join(base_path, cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE)
-        if os.path.exists(local_path):
-            model_path = local_path
+        # 1) allow a manually placed copy anywhere under comfyui/models/cliption
+        #    (covers extra_model_paths / multiple registered search paths too)
+        existing_paths = folder_paths.get_filename_list("cliption")
+        if cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE in existing_paths:
+            model_path = folder_paths.get_full_path("cliption", cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE)
         else:
-            model_path = hf_hub_download(
-                repo_id=cls._HF_REPO_ID, filename=cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE, revision=cls._HF_REVISION
-            )
+            # 2) fall back to a copy sitting next to this node (legacy location)
+            base_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+            local_path = os.path.join(base_path, cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE)
+            if os.path.exists(local_path):
+                model_path = local_path
+            else:
+                # 3) download into comfyui/models/cliption and cache it there
+                model_path = hf_hub_download(
+                    repo_id=cls._HF_REPO_ID,
+                    filename=cls._SAFETENSORS_FILE,
+                    revision=cls._HF_REVISION,
+                    local_dir=_CLIPTION_MODELS_DIR,
+                )
 
         state_dict = {}
         with safe_open(model_path, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ecbb99e..0f2ffe2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "comfyui-cliption-integrated"
 description = "Integrated beam-search-only fork of pharmapsychotic's ComfyUI-Cliption, combining the CLIPtion loader and beam search into a single node"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.1.2"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
 
 [project.urls]