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/Qwen__Qwen3-8B__candidate.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 id: Qwen__Qwen3-8B__candidate
-status: candidate
+status: verified
 name: Qwen3-8B
 org: Qwen
 source:
@@ -51,9 +51,34 @@ swot:
   threats:
     - "Rapid supersession by next Qwen/peer 8–14B release"
     - "Quant quality variance across third-party GGUF repacks"
+artifacts:
+  - path: "merges.txt"
+    sha256: "8831e4f1a044471340f7c0a83d7bd71306a5b867e95fd870f74d0c5308a904d5"
+    bytes: 1671853
+  - path: "model-00001-of-00005.safetensors"
+    sha256: "31d6a825ae35f11fb85b195b4c42c146c051e446433125a215336abdf95cbf5f"
+    bytes: 3996250744
+  - path: "model-00002-of-00005.safetensors"
+    sha256: "5991236cea6fe21f3d43cab0f0e84448734fbbe0789816202989f2ddc9d18282"
+    bytes: 3993160032
+  - path: "model-00003-of-00005.safetensors"
+    sha256: "c5185c4794be2d8a9784d5753c9922db38df478ce11f9ed0b415b7304d896836"
+    bytes: 3959604768
+  - path: "model-00004-of-00005.safetensors"
+    sha256: "b5ee7de71fbf17db3d5704e0c8f2bc7d005ca9e1d7ca2aeb19827b0cfcaa917a"
+    bytes: 3187841392
+  - path: "model-00005-of-00005.safetensors"
+    sha256: "20c2d6366ab85c90786ccdd829cd2b9e7d30ef3b2ebbb998280e7e4014b542ff"
+    bytes: 1244659840
+  - path: "tokenizer.json"
+    sha256: "aeb13307a71acd8fe81861d94ad54ab689df773318809eed3cbe794b4492dae4"
+    bytes: 11422654
+  - path: "vocab.json"
+    sha256: "ca10d7e9fb3ed18575dd1e277a2579c16d108e32f27439684afa0e10b1440910"
+    bytes: 2776833
 size:
-  total_bytes: 0
-  total_human: "~16 GB fp16 / ~5 GB Q4 (estimate)"
+  total_bytes: 16397459696
+  total_human: "15.27 GiB"
 hardware_class:
   min_vram_gb_q4: 6
   min_vram_gb_fp16: 16
@@ -61,11 +86,11 @@ hardware_class:
 axes: [B, C]
 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/Qwen__Qwen3-8B/main"
   brief_refs:
     - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
 reason: "P0/R spine — best default open general/tool model for local ops and QLoRA domain specialization."
@@ -81,3 +106,15 @@ history:
     event: profile_swot_added
     by: grok
     detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
+  - at: "2026-07-28"
+    event: approved
+    by: bernd
+    detail: "R1 default instruct"
+  - 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"