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/Qwen__Qwen3-8B__candidate.yaml

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+id: Qwen__Qwen3-8B__candidate
+status: candidate
+name: Qwen3-8B
+org: Qwen
+source:
+  kind: huggingface
+  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
+  revision: main
+  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
+license:
+  spdx: Apache-2.0
+  url: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B
+  allows_offline_retention: true
+  allows_local_ops: true
+  allows_fine_tune: true
+  notes: "Confirm exact card license at download time; Qwen3 line generally Apache-2.0."
+size:
+  total_bytes: 0
+  total_human: "~16 GB fp16 / ~5 GB Q4 (estimate)"
+hardware_class:
+  min_vram_gb_q4: 6
+  min_vram_gb_fp16: 16
+  notes: "Default T1–T2 general instruct and FT base"
+axes: [B, C]
+priority: high
+collection:
+  approved_by: ""
+  approved_at: null
+  downloaded_at: null
+  downloaded_by: ""
+  storage_path: ""
+  brief_refs:
+    - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
+reason: "P0 spine — best default open general/tool model for local ops and QLoRA domain specialization."
+tags: [instruct, text, qwen3, ft-base]
+companions: []
+notes: "Prefer Instruct variant on card if separate repo; pin commit SHA at collection."
+history:
+  - at: "2026-07-24"
+    event: nominated
+    by: baseline-survey
+    detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."