I noticed in the SSDD rules it says "autosaves beforehand to get optimal target layouts are allowed"

I can't seem to find a save state mod or console commands. I would love save states though, if anyone could help I would appreciate it :)

You got the answer in discord, but for anyone else reading in the future you use

bind 0 devsave quicksave bind 9 loadgame quicksave

with 0 and 9 just being the keys I used, they can be whatever.