diff --git a/app/ui/boot.js b/app/ui/boot.js
index d8db6ad6..dfe1e057 100644
--- a/app/ui/boot.js
+++ b/app/ui/boot.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { createKeys } from "./shell/keys.js";
 import { createDock } from "./shell/dock.js";
 import { hostFor } from "./shell/mounts.js";
 import paths from "./modules.js";
+import { composer as c } from "./composer/composer.js";
 
 // What the core offers a feature, by name. `on(fn)` hears every change; fn gets "open" when a
 // different project was opened, "change" for an edit.
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ const on = (fn) => { heard.add(fn); return () => heard.delete(fn); };
 const project = createProject({ keepConsistent: syncSeparated, onChange: () => say("change"), onOpen: () => say("open"), onError: (err) => console.warn(err) });
 const pipeline = createPipelineState(api);
 const generate = createGenerate({ pipeline });
-linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen: (fn) => on((what) => { if (what === "open") fn(); }) });
+linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen: (fn) => on((what) => { if (what === "open") fn(); }), say: (text) => c.toast.warn({ text }) });
 const frame = build(document.getElementById("app"));
 const selection = createSelection({ project });
 selection.on(() => say("select"));
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
index 765971af..3f8d0974 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export function linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen, say = () => {} }) {
       owner = target;
       retries = 0;
       // An old project with nothing saved runs the default and stays as it is on disk; a new one keeps what it took.
-      if (own || project.fresh) store(saved, pipeline.slots(), true);
+      if (own || project.fresh) store(saved, pipeline.slots(), !project.fresh);       // a new project's whole flag is a fact, not a guess
     } else if (retries++ < 3) {
       setTimeout(adopt, 5000);
     } else {
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
index 08cb7842..a0663da0 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
@@ -51,13 +51,14 @@ export function createPipelineState(API) {
 
   async function refreshManifest() {
     const file = currentModelFile(slots);
-    if (file === lastProbedFile) return;
+    if (file === lastProbedFile) return false;
     const traits = await probeModelTraits(slots);
     const manifest = await API.modules(traits ? traits.join(",") : undefined);
     modulesById = {};
     (manifest.modules || []).forEach((m) => { modulesById[m.id] = m; });
     controlState = manifest.control || controlState;
     if (traits !== undefined) lastProbedFile = file;    // only once it worked: a failed probe is tried again
+    return true;
   }
   let incomplete = [];
   let refused = [];
@@ -194,18 +195,20 @@ export function createPipelineState(API) {
         refused = (res && res.refused) || [];
         queueable = !!(res && res.queueable);
         saveNotes = (res && res.notes) || [];
+        _changed();                                     // now: the project this edit was made in takes it, even if another opens during the probe
         // A no-op for the common case (same file as last time) -- see
         // refreshManifest()'s own guard. Only a Models & Pipeline edit that
         // actually changes the loader's file does a second round trip here.
         // Its own try/catch: a failure here is not "could not save" -- the
         // edit above already landed -- so it must not overwrite saveNotes
         // with a message about the wrong failure.
+        let fresh = false;
         try {
-          await refreshManifest();
+          fresh = await refreshManifest();
         } catch (e) {
           console.warn(`[FunPack] could not refresh modules for the new model: ${e && e.message ? e.message : e}`);
         }
-        _changed();                                     // after the modules: a listener sees the ones for this model
+        if (fresh && mine === epoch) _changed();        // again once a new model's modules are known: a listener sees those
       } catch (e) {
         saveNotes = [`Could not save: ${e && e.message ? e.message : e}`];
       }
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
index 3ae960cc..260dfe53 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
@@ -82,3 +82,13 @@ test("an Undo copy of the same project keeps receiving edits", async () => {
   heard([{ ...slots[0], inputs: { ckpt_name: "b" } }]);
   assert.equal(writes.length, 1);
 });
+
+test("a new project keeps the preset pipeline it inherits as whole, so it reopens exactly", async () => {
+  const writes = [];
+  let opened;
+  const project = { fresh: true, project: { id: "n", models: { slots: [] } }, setField: (k, v) => { writes.push(v); project.project[k] = v; } };
+  const pipeline = { adopt: async () => true, slots: () => slots, removedIds: () => ["clip"], unwiredMap: () => ({}), whole: () => true, subscribe: () => {} };
+  linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen: (fn) => { opened = fn; } });
+  await opened();
+  assert.equal(writes[0].whole, true);
+});
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
index 447d968b..c78fe065 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
@@ -356,3 +356,17 @@ test("a model file no module recognises says so, and why nothing is hidden", asy
   await PS.ensureLoaded();
   assert.match(PS.saveNotes().join(" "), /only \.safetensors.*every module is offered/);
 });
+
+test("a save reaches listeners before the model probe answers, so a project switched to meanwhile cannot take it", async () => {
+  const PS = withCheckpoint(load([]));
+  await PS.ensureLoaded();
+  let answer;
+  lastApi.probeFamily = () => new Promise((r) => { answer = r; });
+  let heard = 0;
+  PS.subscribe(() => { heard += 1; });
+  const saving = PS.save({ inputs: { model: { ckpt_name: "picked" } } });
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+  assert.ok(heard >= 1, "announced while the probe is still out");
+  answer({ detected: true, traits: [] });
+  await saving;
+});
diff --git a/core/readiness.py b/core/readiness.py
index c8053399..05040e67 100644
--- a/core/readiness.py
+++ b/core/readiness.py
@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ def machine(disk_free_gb=None) -> List[dict]:
         kind = device()
         if kind == "mps":
             out.append(row("ok", "Apple GPU (MPS): generates, slowly; large video models may not fit in its memory."))
-        elif kind != "cuda":
+        elif kind == "cpu":
             out.append(row("warn", "ComfyUI runs on the CPU: generating is very slow, and only small models fit."))
+        elif kind != "cuda":
+            out.append(row("warn", f"ComfyUI generates on a '{kind}' device, which FunPack is not tested on: expect slow runs, and some features may fail."))
         else:
             props = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0)
             out.append(row("ok", f"{props.name}, {props.total_memory / 1024 ** 3:.0f} GB, sm_{props.major}{props.minor}"))
diff --git a/core/tests/test_readiness.py b/core/tests/test_readiness.py
index 5b46d57a..4dfa671e 100644
--- a/core/tests/test_readiness.py
+++ b/core/tests/test_readiness.py
@@ -39,3 +39,6 @@ def test_the_row_names_the_device_comfyui_generates_on(monkeypatch):
     assert not any("sageattention" in x["text"] for x in rows)           # a CUDA-only library
     monkeypatch.setattr(r, "device", lambda: "cpu")                       # ComfyUI started with --cpu, GPU or not
     assert any(x["level"] == "warn" and "on the CPU" in x["text"] for x in r.machine())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(r, "device", lambda: "xpu")                       # an Intel GPU is not the CPU
+    rows = r.machine()
+    assert any("'xpu'" in x["text"] for x in rows) and not any("on the CPU" in x["text"] for x in rows)