---
id: FI-WP-0003
type: workplan
title: "Seed open-weight reserve from baseline recommendations"
domain: infotech
repo: freedom-intelligence
status: active
owner: grok
topic_slug: freedom-intelligence
priority: medium
created: "2026-07-24"
updated: "2026-07-24"
depends_on:
  - FI-WP-0001
---

# FI-WP-0003 — Seed open-weight reserve from baseline recommendations

## Goal

Turn baseline survey recommendations into a **real, policy-compliant reserve**:
approve high-priority catalog candidates, download to pinned backup storage,
verify checksums, and leave medium/low items as candidates for later briefs.

Source of truth for *which* models:

- `research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md` § Collection recommendations
- `inventory/catalog/*.yaml` (seeded as `candidate`)

Gates: `inventory/collection-policy.md` + `docs/backup-storage-policy.md` (T04 of FI-WP-0001).

## Priority tiers (from survey)

| Tier | Action in this workplan |
| ---- | ----------------------- |
| **P0 — seed now** | Approve + collect after storage pin (small/mid, high leverage) |
| **P1 — next wave** | Approve when quota allows; may stay candidate |
| **P2 — watch / large** | Keep candidate; do not bulk-pull full 600B+ MoE without explicit operator decision |

## Tasks

### T01 — Seed catalog YAML for recommended models

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T01
status: done
priority: high
```

Create `status: candidate` entries under `inventory/catalog/` for every P0/P1
recommendation in the baseline survey (and note P2 as candidates or docs-only).

**Done when:** catalog files exist and match `inventory/schema.yaml` required fields.

---

### T02 — Operator approve P0 set

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T02
status: todo
priority: high
```

Human review of P0 candidates: license, size vs soft quota, hardware fit.
Set `status: approved`, `collection.approved_by`, `collection.approved_at`.

**Done when:** each P0 entry is `approved` or `rejected` with reason.

---

### T03 — Download P0 to backup storage + verify

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T03
status: todo
priority: high
```

For each approved P0:

1. Download into `{BACKUP}/freedom-intelligence/models/...` (or `staging/` then promote)
2. Record `artifacts[].sha256`, `size`, `collection.storage_path`
3. Set `status: collected` then `verified` after re-hash or smoke load

Prefer official HF revisions; use `huggingface-cli` or equivalent with revision pin.

**Blocked on:** FI-WP-0001-T04 (storage pin).

**Done when:** all approved P0 are `verified` or explicitly deferred with notes.

---

### T04 — P1 decision pass

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T04
status: todo
priority: medium
```

After P0, decide which P1 models fit remaining quota. Approve/collect subset or
leave as candidates for daily briefs to re-prioritize.

**Done when:** each P1 has an explicit next status (`approved`, `candidate`, `rejected`).

---

### T05 — Reserve index snapshot

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T05
status: todo
priority: low
```

Write `inventory/RESERVE-STATUS.md` summarizing collected vs candidate totals,
bytes used vs soft quota, and hardware coverage gaps.

**Done when:** one-page status exists for operators and future daily briefs.

---

## Acceptance (workplan-level)

- [x] Catalog seeded from baseline survey
- [ ] Storage pin complete (upstream)
- [ ] P0 verified on backup media
- [ ] RESERVE-STATUS snapshot after first collections

## Out of scope

- Hosting inference endpoints
- Full DeepSeek-V3/R1 671B pull without separate capacity decision
- Dataset reserve (weights only unless tiny tokenizer/adapters)