Finish FI-WP-0002 and FI-WP-0003: daily rhythm and R-spine reserve.

Enable fi-daily-research-brief, prove fi_brief_status idempotence with the
2026-07-28 brief, approve R/S catalog entries, collect and verify embeds plus
Qwen3-8B and R1-Distill-14B on VAULT, and document residuals (HF-gated Llama,
deferred S giants, railiance ConfigMap apply).

inventory/catalog/BAAI__bge-m3__candidate.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 id: BAAI__bge-m3__candidate
-status: candidate
+status: verified
 name: bge-m3
 org: BAAI
 source:
@@ -50,9 +50,19 @@ swot:
   threats:
     - "Leaderboard churn; risk of holding a stale 'default' without re-eval"
     - "Pipeline lock-in if vector DBs assume fixed dimension without migration plan"
+artifacts:
+  - path: "pytorch_model.bin"
+    sha256: "b5e0ce3470abf5ef3831aa1bd5553b486803e83251590ab7ff35a117cf6aad38"
+    bytes: 2271145830
+  - path: "sentencepiece.bpe.model"
+    sha256: "cfc8146abe2a0488e9e2a0c56de7952f7c11ab059eca145a0a727afce0db2865"
+    bytes: 5069051
+  - path: "tokenizer.json"
+    sha256: "21106b6d7dab2952c1d496fb21d5dc9db75c28ed361a05f5020bbba27810dd08"
+    bytes: 17098108
 size:
-  total_bytes: 0
-  total_human: "~2 GB"
+  total_bytes: 2293331623
+  total_human: "2.14 GiB"
 hardware_class:
   min_vram_gb_q4: 1
   min_vram_gb_fp16: 2
@@ -60,11 +70,11 @@ hardware_class:
 axes: [B]
 priority: high
 collection:
-  approved_by: ""
-  approved_at: null
-  downloaded_at: null
-  downloaded_by: ""
-  storage_path: ""
+  approved_by: "bernd"
+  approved_at: "2026-07-28"
+  downloaded_at: "2026-07-28"
+  downloaded_by: "grok"
+  storage_path: "/mnt/d/vault/coulomb/freedom-intelligence/models/BAAI__bge-m3/main"
   brief_refs:
     - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
 reason: "P0/R multilingual embedding staple for local RAG (docs, ops notes, DE/EN)."
@@ -81,3 +91,15 @@ history:
     event: profile_swot_added
     by: grok
     detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
+  - at: "2026-07-28"
+    event: approved
+    by: bernd
+    detail: "R multilingual embed"
+  - at: "2026-07-28"
+    event: collected
+    by: grok
+    detail: "snapshot_download weights-only to VAULT"
+  - at: "2026-07-28"
+    event: verified
+    by: grok
+    detail: "MANIFEST.json sha256 for weight files"