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/nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 id: nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate
-status: candidate
+status: verified
 name: nomic-embed-text-v1.5
 org: nomic-ai
 source:
@@ -48,9 +48,13 @@ swot:
   threats:
     - "Becomes redundant if one embed wins all lab evals"
     - "Upstream rename/deprecation of v1.5"
+artifacts:
+  - path: "model.safetensors"
+    sha256: "9e7d262b1fe5ea350782829496efa831901b77486bbde1cea54a4c822d010d5c"
+    bytes: 546938168
 size:
-  total_bytes: 0
-  total_human: "<1 GB"
+  total_bytes: 547958078
+  total_human: "0.51 GiB"
 hardware_class:
   min_vram_gb_q4: 1
   min_vram_gb_fp16: 1
@@ -58,11 +62,11 @@ 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/nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5/main"
   brief_refs:
     - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
 reason: "P0/R lightweight embed for A/B with BGE-M3; long-context text retrieval."
@@ -79,3 +83,15 @@ history:
     event: profile_swot_added
     by: grok
     detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
+  - at: "2026-07-28"
+    event: approved
+    by: bernd
+    detail: "R light 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"