# Sources allowlist — daily research

Standing channels for Freedom Intelligence briefs (axes A–D). Prefer **primary**
sources over aggregators. This is a watchlist, not a scrape mandate.

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## Axis A — Frontier & commercial

| Channel | What to extract |
| ------- | --------------- |
| OpenAI / Anthropic / Google / xAI / DeepSeek blogs & release notes | Capability claims, deprecations |
| Official pricing pages | $/MTok in/out, cache, batch |
| Model cards for API models | Context limits, tool use, policies |
| LMSYS / Arena / artificialanalysis-class charts | Directional only; note gaming risk |
| SWE-bench Verified / Live leaderboards | Harness+model pairs, not raw IQ |

## Axis B — Edge / local / open

| Channel | What to extract |
| ------- | --------------- |
| Hugging Face org feeds: `Qwen`, `deepseek-ai`, `meta-llama`, `google`, `mistralai`, `BAAI`, `nomic-ai` | New weights, licenses, sizes |
| llama.cpp, vLLM, MLX, Ollama release notes | Runtime breakthroughs |
| GGUF / official quant announcements | Only after base model known |

## Axis C — Training & specialization

| Channel | What to extract |
| ------- | --------------- |
| arXiv cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.AI (recent) | Methods that fit homelab |
| Unsloth, Hugging Face TRL, Axolotl, LLaMA-Factory | Practical recipes |
| Preference-optimization papers/releases | DPO/ORPO/RLVR-class |

## Axis D — Harness & fleet

| Channel | What to extract |
| ------- | --------------- |
| OpenHands, Aider, SWE-agent, OpenCode, Cline repos/releases | Harness capability |
| sand-boxer / agent-harness / activity-core (internal) | Coulomb adjacency |
| MCP / tool-protocol standards | Interop shifts |

## Internal memory

| Artifact | Role |
| -------- | ---- |
| `research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md` | Baseline; dailies are deltas |
| Prior `briefs/YYYY/MM/*.md` | Avoid duplicate headlines |
| `inventory/catalog/` | Collection status |

## Do not

- Treat Twitter/X rumor as confirmed without primary link  
- Mirror entire HF orgs  
- Cite paywalled claims without noting access limit  
- Collect weights that fail the license gate (`inventory/collection-policy.md`)  
- Store API keys or customer data in briefs  

## Cadence hint

For a 30–60 minute manual brief: scan A pricing+releases (10m), B HF/org
releases (10m), C one methods thread (10m), D harness releases (10m), write
(15m). Skip empty sections.