Make the sensing loop durable and pin the reserve to Scaleway

The weekday brief only counts when the file is on origin/main. Hub
events without git objects are failures. The open-weight SoT moves
from the VAULT 850 GiB quota to a dedicated Scaleway bucket (One Zone
IA for R, Glacier for S) so V4-Flash and K3 are economically in-scope.

Catalogs the real DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (MIT ~167 GiB MoE, not 12B)
and nominates Qwen3.8-27B. Bucket create remains FI-WP-0004-T08.

Assistant: grok
Assistant-Session: 01a09c6a-1cfc-75b1-a78d-c13eaf22241d

inventory/catalog/Qwen__Qwen3.8-27B__candidate.yaml

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+id: Qwen__Qwen3.8-27B__candidate
+status: candidate
+name: Qwen3.8-27B
+org: Qwen
+source:
+  kind: huggingface
+  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
+  revision: main
+  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
+  project_url: https://qwen.ai/
+license:
+  spdx: Apache-2.0
+  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
+  allows_offline_retention: true
+  allows_local_ops: true
+  allows_fine_tune: true
+  notes: "Apache 2.0 on the 27B dense multimodal card (2026-08-14). Confirm at pin. Not the Qwen3.8-Max bespoke licence."
+profile:
+  summary: "Dense 27B multimodal Apache-2.0 — candidate R-spine upgrade vs Qwen3-8B."
+  original_source: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
+  use_cases:
+    - "Local instruct / vision on T2–T3 (24 GB class at Q4)"
+    - "Coding and office agents that need more than 8B"
+    - "Homelab QLoRA base"
+  sweet_spots:
+    - "Apache-2.0, ungated, actually runnable unlike V4-Flash / K3"
+    - "Native vision; 262k context (YaRN toward 1M)"
+  not_ideal_for:
+    - "Replacing the 8B always-on default until measured"
+    - "Standing in for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (different licence, multi-TB)"
+  capability_notes: >
+    Released 2026-08-14, the day the automated brief last landed on
+    origin — so the sensing loop never recorded it. Dense 27.8B,
+    multimodal, Apache 2.0. Distinct from Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (custom
+    Max licence, ~4.89 TB). Nominate as W/R; do not pull until euro
+    budget and R-spine review after V4-Flash lands.
+swot:
+  strengths:
+    - "Apache-2.0 dense multimodal at a size we can actually serve later"
+    - "Likely better local default than Qwen3-8B if VRAM allows"
+  weaknesses:
+    - "Larger than current verified R instruct (8B)"
+    - "Hardware envelope hosts still TBD"
+  opportunities:
+    - "R-spine upgrade path that does not need Glacier"
+    - "Vision in the local working set"
+  threats:
+    - "Qwen 4.x could supersede before we pull"
+size:
+  total_bytes: 0
+  total_human: "~56 GiB class (reports); measure at pull — Q4 much smaller"
+hardware_class:
+  min_vram_gb_q4: 20
+  min_vram_gb_fp16: 56
+  notes: "T2 stretch / T3. Not T1."
+axes: [B, C]
+priority: medium
+collection:
+  approved_by: ""
+  approved_at: null
+  downloaded_at: null
+  downloaded_by: ""
+  storage_path: ""
+  brief_refs:
+    - briefs/2026/09/2026-09-13.md
+reason: "Missed by the Aug 14 brief cutoff; Apache-2.0 dense 27B is the obvious R-upgrade candidate."
+tags: [tier-w, tier-r, instruct, vision, apache]
+companions: []
+notes: "Do not confuse with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (S-class, custom licence, multi-TB)."
+history:
+  - at: "2026-09-13"
+    event: nominated
+    by: grok
+    detail: "Catch-up brief after cadence hole. Candidate only."