---
id: FI-WP-0003
type: workplan
title: "Seed open-weight reserve from baseline recommendations"
domain: agents
repo: freedom-intelligence
status: active
owner: grok
topic_slug: freedom-intelligence
priority: medium
created: "2026-07-24"
updated: "2026-07-28"
depends_on:
  - FI-WP-0001
state_hub_workstream_id: "7513a853-24bf-4826-9ed9-3e8ed8ab0fa5"
---

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

## Goal

Turn baseline + **strategic reserve policy** into a **real, policy-compliant reserve**:
approve high-priority catalog candidates, download to the **pinned bulk store**,
verify checksums, and leave lower-priority items as candidates for later briefs.

**Policy (2026-07-24 / path 2026-07-28):** include the **most capable open-weight
models** even when they exceed current run hardware. Soft quota **850 GiB**.

**Storage pin:** `D:\vault\coulomb\freedom-intelligence\` (Windows) /
`/mnt/d/vault/coulomb/freedom-intelligence/` (WSL when D: mounted).

Source of truth for *which* models:

- `research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md`
- `research/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-collection-plan.md`
- `docs/decisions/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-reserve.md`
- `inventory/catalog/*.yaml`

Gates: `inventory/collection-policy.md` + `docs/backup-storage-policy.md`.

## Priority tiers

| Tier | Action in this workplan |
| ---- | ----------------------- |
| **R — runnable spine** | Approve + collect first (former P0) |
| **S — strategic capability** | Approve + collect top open giants (V3/R1 class, 70B dense, …) under quota; compressed OK |
| **W — watch** | Optional after R+S; may stay candidate |

## Tasks

### T01 — Seed catalog YAML for recommended models

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "5d2a493b-a189-4eae-8a40-18ce8e0ab17d"
```

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 R spine + S priority order

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T02
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "909263c7-7148-45fa-98bc-5d2bafacf507"
```

Human review: license, size vs **850 GiB** soft quota, download order from
`research/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-collection-plan.md` (R first, then S1, …).
Set `status: approved`, `collection.approved_by`, `collection.approved_at`.

**Done when:** each R and chosen S entry is `approved` or `rejected` with reason.

---

### T03 — Download R spine + strategic S to NAS + verify

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T03
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "222969d0-f3af-46fb-a303-f76800c80ff9"
```

For each approved model:

1. Download into `D:\vault\coulomb\freedom-intelligence\models\...` (or `staging/` then promote)
2. For S giants: prefer official compressed if full precision exceeds headroom
3. Record `artifacts[].sha256`, `size`, `collection.storage_path`
4. Set `status: collected` then `verified` after re-hash (smoke load optional for unrunnable S)

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

**Unblocked:** FI-WP-0001-T04 storage pin complete (2026-07-28). Ensure WSL can
see `/mnt/d` before Linux-side pulls.

**Done when:** approved R (+ first S as space allows) are `verified` or deferred with notes.

---

### T04 — W-tier and remaining S decision pass

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T04
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "33daa2cf-f9fd-430d-a4e4-58996c900ca6"
```

After R + primary S fills, decide remaining S/W under free soft-quota capacity.

**Done when:** each remaining catalog entry has an explicit next status.

---

### T05 — Reserve index snapshot

```task
id: FI-WP-0003-T05
status: todo
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "9974b98a-e1b3-4b7a-b2c2-0fd2cba65f97"
```

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 (+ profile/SWOT on all entries)
- [x] Storage pin complete (upstream FI-WP-0001-T04)
- [ ] Operator approve R + S priority (T02)
- [ ] P0/R verified on backup media (T03)
- [ ] 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)