Hi FierceHamster54

Do I need to instantiate a task inside my component ? Seems a bit redundant....

Yes, so the idea is that the Task (along the code) will be automatically linked with the output model, for better traceability.
That said you can "import" a model into the system (i.e. it was created somewhere else and you want to register it with InputModel.import_model
https://clear.ml/docs/latest/docs/clearml_sdk/model_sdk#importing-models
I guess "Input" from that perspective is the code is Using it so it is considered the code's input model rather then the code output, aka it created it