# freedom-intelligence

**The just in case open weights model lab**

Coulomb / NetKingdom lab for:

1. **Daily research briefs** on AI models, methods, harness, and tooling  
2. An **open-weight model reserve** on backup storage for possible local training or ops

Standing lenses: **A** frontier & price · **B** edge/local open · **C** homelab training · **D** agent harness & fleet

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## Start here

| Doc | Role |
| --- | ---- |
| [`INTENT.md`](INTENT.md) | Why the lab exists (stable) |
| [`SCOPE.md`](SCOPE.md) | What is in/out of scope now |
| [`research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md`](research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md) | **Baseline field survey + model collection recommendations** |
| [`docs/daily-brief-playbook.md`](docs/daily-brief-playbook.md) | How to produce a daily brief |
| [`history/InitialExploration.md`](history/InitialExploration.md) | Founding conversation |
| [`briefs/`](briefs/) | Daily briefs + template |
| [`inventory/`](inventory/) | Model catalog & collection policy |
| [`workplans/`](workplans/) | Setup workplans (incl. activity-core) |
| [`activity-definitions/`](activity-definitions/) | Cron definition for daily brief (disabled until FI-WP-0002) |

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## Workplans

| ID | Title | Status |
| -- | ----- | ------ |
| [FI-WP-0001](workplans/FI-WP-0001-lab-operating-foundation.md) | Lab operating foundation | active (storage pin open) |
| [FI-WP-0002](workplans/FI-WP-0002-activity-core-daily-research.md) | Activity-core daily research rhythm | active (resolver/ops open) |
| [FI-WP-0003](workplans/FI-WP-0003-seed-open-weight-reserve.md) | Seed open-weight reserve | active (catalog seeded) |

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## Collection plan (bulk reserve)

**Storage:** `D:\vault\coulomb\freedom-intelligence\` (VAULT HD) · soft quota **850 GiB**  
**Policy:** store the **most capable open weights** even if unrunnable today  
(`docs/decisions/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-reserve.md`).

| Tier | Examples |
| ---- | -------- |
| **R — runnable spine** | Qwen3-8B, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, BGE-M3, R1-Distill-14B, nomic-embed |
| **S — strategic** | DeepSeek-V3 (class), DeepSeek-R1 full, Llama-3.3-70B / Qwen3-72B dense |
| **W — optional** | 14B/32B upgrades, reranker, … |

Plan detail: `research/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-collection-plan.md` · catalog: `inventory/catalog/`.

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## Layout

```text
freedom-intelligence/
├── INTENT.md / SCOPE.md / README.md
├── activity-definitions/     # fi-daily-research-brief (enabled: false)
├── briefs/                   # daily deltas
├── research/                 # deep surveys (baseline lives here)
├── inventory/catalog/        # YAML candidates / collected
├── docs/                     # playbook, sources, storage, hardware
├── workplans/                # FI-WP-*
└── history/
```

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## Quick ops

**New brief**

```bash
mkdir -p briefs/$(date +%Y/%m)
cp briefs/_template.md briefs/$(date +%Y/%m)/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md
# follow docs/daily-brief-playbook.md
```

**Do not** bulk-download models until `docs/backup-storage-policy.md` path/quota
are pinned (FI-WP-0001-T04).

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## License

MIT — see [`LICENSE`](LICENSE). Model weights retain **upstream** licenses.