Establish Freedom Intelligence lab foundation and baseline research.

Add INTENT/SCOPE, daily-brief playbook, activity-core definition (disabled),
workplans FI-WP-0001..0003, baseline field survey with open-weight collection
recommendations, and inventory catalog candidates for the model reserve.

inventory/catalog/BAAI__bge-reranker-v2-m3__candidate.yaml

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+id: BAAI__bge-reranker-v2-m3__candidate
+status: candidate
+name: bge-reranker-v2-m3
+org: BAAI
+source:
+  kind: huggingface
+  url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
+  revision: main
+  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
+license:
+  spdx: Apache-2.0
+  url: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
+  allows_offline_retention: true
+  allows_local_ops: true
+  allows_fine_tune: true
+  notes: "Confirm SPDX on card."
+size:
+  total_bytes: 0
+  total_human: "~1–2 GB (estimate)"
+hardware_class:
+  min_vram_gb_q4: 1
+  min_vram_gb_fp16: 2
+  notes: "Companion to bge-m3"
+axes: [B]
+priority: medium
+collection:
+  approved_by: ""
+  approved_at: null
+  downloaded_at: null
+  downloaded_by: ""
+  storage_path: ""
+  brief_refs:
+    - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
+reason: "P1 — cheap RAG quality win as companion to BGE-M3."
+tags: [reranker, rag]
+companions:
+  - BAAI__bge-m3__candidate
+notes: ""
+history:
+  - at: "2026-07-24"
+    event: nominated
+    by: baseline-survey
+    detail: "P1 recommendation from initial deep research."