diff --git a/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/config.py b/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/config.py
index 1d7ca8af2..f93002609 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/config.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/config.py
@@ -175,7 +175,12 @@ class AdvantageConfig:
 
     enabled: bool = True
 
-    # Path or Hub repo ID of the trained distributional value function checkpoint.
+    # Constant advantage label for all frames (e.g. "positive" for SFT iteration 0).
+    # Skips VF inference, dropout still applies for CFG.
+    constant_value: str | None = None
+
+    # Trained value function checkpoint (local path or Hub repo ID).
+    # Ignored when constant_value is set.
     value_function_path: str = ""
 
     # Device to run the value function on.
@@ -205,6 +210,9 @@ class AdvantageConfig:
     # Batch size for value function inference.
     batch_size: int = 32
 
+    # Random seed for dropout reproducibility.
+    seed: int = 1729
+
 
 @dataclass
 class AnnotationPipelineConfig:
diff --git a/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/modules/advantage.py b/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/modules/advantage.py
index 5682ee3ca..55ebcf554 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/modules/advantage.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/annotations/steerable_pipeline/modules/advantage.py
@@ -206,8 +206,12 @@ class AdvantageModule:
 
     def run_episode(self, record: EpisodeRecord, staging: EpisodeStaging) -> None:
         """Score one episode and write advantage rows to staging."""
+        if self.config.constant_value:
+            self._run_constant_mode(record, staging)
+            return
+
         if not self.config.value_function_path:
-            logger.warning("No value_function_path configured; skipping advantage scoring.")
+            logger.warning("No value_function_path or constant_value configured; skipping advantage scoring.")
             return
 
         advantages, intervention_mask = self.compute_advantages_for_episode(record)
@@ -215,7 +219,7 @@ class AdvantageModule:
 
         threshold = self._compute_threshold(advantages, intervention_mask)
 
-        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=hash((record.episode_index, 42)) & 0xFFFFFFFF)
+        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=self.config.seed + record.episode_index)
 
         rows: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
         for t in range(num_frames):
@@ -255,6 +259,39 @@ class AdvantageModule:
             sum(1 for r in rows if r["content"] == "negative"),
         )
 
+    def _run_constant_mode(self, record: EpisodeRecord, staging: EpisodeStaging) -> None:
+        """Emit a fixed advantage value for every frame (with dropout for CFG)."""
+        num_frames = record.num_frames
+        rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=self.config.seed + record.episode_index)
+
+        rows: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+        for t in range(num_frames):
+            if rng.random() < self.config.dropout_rate:
+                continue
+
+            timestamp = float(record.frame_timestamps[t]) if t < len(record.frame_timestamps) else 0.0
+
+            rows.append(
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": self.config.constant_value,
+                    "style": "advantage",
+                    "timestamp": timestamp,
+                    "camera": None,
+                    "tool_calls": None,
+                }
+            )
+
+        staging.write("advantage", rows)
+        logger.debug(
+            "Episode %d: %d/%d frames labeled constant '%s' (dropout=%.2f)",
+            record.episode_index,
+            len(rows),
+            num_frames,
+            self.config.constant_value,
+            self.config.dropout_rate,
+        )
+
     def _compute_threshold(self, advantages: np.ndarray, intervention_mask: np.ndarray) -> float:
         """Compute the binarization threshold as the configured percentile of advantages."""
         non_intervention = advantages[~intervention_mask] if intervention_mask.any() else advantages