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

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+id: nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate
+status: candidate
+name: nomic-embed-text-v1.5
+org: nomic-ai
+source:
+  kind: huggingface
+  url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
+  revision: main
+  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
+license:
+  spdx: Apache-2.0
+  url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
+  allows_offline_retention: true
+  allows_local_ops: true
+  allows_fine_tune: true
+  notes: ""
+size:
+  total_bytes: 0
+  total_human: "<1 GB"
+hardware_class:
+  min_vram_gb_q4: 1
+  min_vram_gb_fp16: 1
+  notes: "CPU-friendly"
+axes: [B]
+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 lightweight embed for A/B with BGE-M3; long-context text retrieval."
+tags: [embedding, rag]
+companions: []
+notes: "If v2 text is preferred at collection time, update id/url and supersede this candidate."
+history:
+  - at: "2026-07-24"
+    event: nominated
+    by: baseline-survey
+    detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."