---
id: FI-WP-0004
type: workplan
title: "Make the sensing loop durable and move the reserve to Scaleway"
domain: agents
repo: freedom-intelligence
status: active
owner: grok
topic_slug: freedom-intelligence
priority: high
created: "2026-09-13"
updated: "2026-09-13"
depends_on:
  - FI-WP-0001
  - FI-WP-0002
  - FI-WP-0003
state_hub_workstream_id: "2ca633f0-2938-5f1c-85a2-827ce8014575"
---

# FI-WP-0004 — Operational loop + Scaleway reserve

## Goal

The lab already has INTENT, a brief template, a catalog, and a weekday
schedule. It does **not** yet have a trusted daily field picture or a
reserve that can hold the models INTENT says to keep.

This workplan closes that gap:

1. **Sensing loop is durable.** A brief day is complete only when the file
   exists on `origin/main`. Hub `fi_daily_brief` events that are not on
   git are failures, not completions.
2. **Sensing quality is gated.** The executor must not re-announce cataloged
   models, invent sizes, or skip axes C/D by default.
3. **Reserve uses Scaleway economics.** VAULT HD is local staging. The
   source of truth for weight blobs is a dedicated Scaleway bucket on
   `reef-storage` (One Zone IA for the R-spine, Glacier for S-tier).
   The 850 GiB NAS quota is retired as the capacity gate; euros/month
   become the gate.

## Why now

Review 2026-09-13: last brief on `origin/main` is 2026-08-14; hub events
for 2026-09-07…11 claim `committed=True` with no origin objects. Automated
briefs mis-sized DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 as a 12B dense model (it is a
~304B / ~13B-active MIT MoE, ~167 GiB) and never cataloged it. Kimi K3
was deferred only because a 1 TB disk quota could not hold ~1454 GiB;
on Scaleway Glacier that footprint is a few euros per month.

Org storage selection is already Scaleway (`RESOURCE-WP-0002`,
`reef-storage`). Do **not** reuse the postgres backup bucket (30-day
expiry). FI needs its own long-retention bucket.

## Tasks

### T01 — Decision: Scaleway object reserve

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "9d8d067d-aac9-5f6e-acb9-8ec89a764ccf"
```

Write `docs/decisions/2026-09-13-scaleway-object-reserve.md`. Pin:

- SoT for blobs: Scaleway Object Storage `nl-ams` via `reef-storage`
- R-spine: One Zone IA (immediate get)
- S-tier: Glacier (restore is acceptable for just-in-case)
- VAULT HD: staging / optional local R cache, not SoT
- Soft euro budget (not GiB quota) as the capacity gate
- Dedicated bucket, never `railiance-platform-pg-backup`

**Done when:** decision file exists and is linked from storage policy.

### T02 — Policy and operator docs

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "4b0a0381-0f3c-5236-abc8-f83a48dc6335"
```

Update `docs/backup-storage-policy.md`, `inventory/collection-policy.md`,
`docs/hardware-envelope.md`, `README.md`, `SCOPE.md`,
`docs/recurrence-ops.md` so they describe the live dual-loop contract
and Scaleway pin. Retire “workplans still active” drift from README.

**Done when:** an operator can find the bucket contract, euro gate, and
completion rule without reading INTENT.

### T03 — Brief durability contract + verifier

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T03
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "e4fbc634-462c-5f07-8a27-ed6ad7315bfe"
```

- Document: `fi_daily_brief` may fire only after the brief is on
  `origin/main`.
- Add `scripts/verify_brief_durability.py` comparing hub events to git.
- Tighten `activity-definitions/fi-daily-research-brief.md` and the
  playbook so a local-only commit does not clear `due`.

**2026-09-14 follow-up:** verifier now resolves live origin/main, reads Git
objects, paginates Hub events, and validates pushed/SHA evidence. Exact-event
corrections preserve the five missing dates as explicit historical gaps.
`--require-date` proves a specific scheduled day; see
`docs/brief-durability-audit.md`.

**Done when:** `python3 scripts/verify_brief_durability.py` fails on the
known Sep 2026 hub/git mismatch (or reports it as debt until those
events are reconciled).

### T04 — Executor origin publication (rein-aharness)

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T04
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "f0a8e3e7-d1e9-5c54-966e-abd87effec00"
```

FI is the definition owner. Grant origin publication as a named
capability of `fi-research-brief` (reverses the 2026-09-04 local-only
commit):

- After commit, `git push origin HEAD:<branch>`
- `fi_daily_brief` only if push succeeded (`detail.pushed=true`,
  `detail.origin_sha`)
- Push failure → `executor_run` failure, `due` stays true
- Prompt/context: catalog ids, no re-announce, no invented sizes

**Done when:** rein-aharness tests prove push is attempted and a failed
push does not look like a completed brief day.

### T05 — Catch-up brief + catalog the missed SOTA

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T05
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "10d027ad-b32e-5ae5-aa6b-5f81a3dbba59"
```

Write `briefs/2026/09/2026-09-13.md` correcting V4-Flash and covering
the Aug 15–Sep 12 gap. Catalog:

- `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731` as S (MIT, ~167 GiB) — **primary
  next pull** once the bucket exists
- `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B` as R/W candidate (Apache-2.0, dense ~27B)

Update `inventory/RESERVE-STATUS.md`.

**Done when:** catalog entries exist with correct size/class; catch-up
brief cites primary cards.

### T06 — `collect_model.py` S3 backend

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T06
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "05c655a3-3196-5bff-bcc5-11e14e9fc262"
```

Local snapshot still stages on disk. After MANIFEST, optional upload to
the FI bucket with an explicit storage class. Credentials from env
(`AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` / `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `SCW_*`), never git.

**Done when:** `--s3-bucket` uploads and prints the object prefix.

### T07 — reef-storage bucket declaration (planned)

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T07
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "db7e6da1-b261-500e-a55c-ae0c5a4693f1"
```

Add `reef-storage/substrate/object-stores/fi-open-weight-reserve.yaml`
(`status: planned`) and a create script that **must not** copy the
postgres 30-day expiry. Bind freedom-intelligence as a potential
consumer.

**Done when:** YAML validates against the reef-storage schema; create
script is documented. Bucket create itself is T08 (operator).

### T08 — Operator: create bucket and scoped key

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T08
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "a824a9a1-9cb2-5fbc-9428-708f98392ad6"
```

**2026-09-13:** Bucket `railiance-fi-open-weight-reserve` exists in `nl-ams`,
versioning on, no object expiry, `strategic/` → Glacier at 90 days
(provider minimum). STANDARD PUT/GET smoked; Glacier PUT smoked
(GET needs restore). YAML `status: active`. Residual: bucket-scoped IAM
key — bootstrap cannot `iam application list`; collect loads bootstrap
from OpenBao at runtime until a founder key is stored at
`platform/workloads/railiance/freedom-intelligence/object-storage`.

Operator / railiance-platform:

1. Create private bucket `railiance-fi-open-weight-reserve` in `nl-ams`.
2. Versioning on. **No 30-day object expiry.**
3. Lifecycle: prefix `strategic/` → Glacier after 90 days (Scaleway minimum).
   S-tier PUT still uses `StorageClass=GLACIER` immediately.
4. Scoped IAM key in OpenBao (not the postgres backup key).
5. Flip the reef-storage YAML to `status: active`.
6. Confirm a 1-byte PUT/GET.

**Done when:** attributes are live and a smoke object round-trips.

### T09 — First Scaleway collect (V4-Flash)

```task
id: FI-WP-0004-T09
status: progress
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "304816de-5065-5928-b9bd-da1b5019c3d4"
```

**2026-09-14:** The old WSL download is stopped/inactive. Collection now runs
as `fi-reserve-collect.service` on Railiance using diskless streaming (64 MiB
parts, 512 MiB memory cap, zero swap). Source pinned to
`7872f01b1d1fe23eabc4c98b48bffcef5a386062`; 67 files / 166,898,547,054 bytes.
Live multipart tests passed for STANDARD, ONEZONE_IA and GLACIER. Provider
ignored wrong Content-MD5, so explicit part/composite ETag validation is used.
See `docs/streaming-reserve.md`. Transfer completion and final manifest remain
pending. Update catalog `collected` only after the manifest is complete;
`verified` requires restore/readback.

**Done when:** catalog `storage_path` is the S3 prefix and checksums match.

## Acceptance (workplan-level)

- [x] Scaleway reserve decision written
- [x] Docs no longer claim VAULT-as-SoT or “workplans still active”
- [x] Durability verifier exists
- [x] Executor publishes to origin or fails the day
- [x] V4-Flash cataloged at the real size
- [x] Bucket live (T08)
- [ ] First S-tier object on Scaleway (T09)

## Out of scope

- Reusing `railiance-platform-pg-backup`
- 24/7 inference of the reserve
- Changing Scaleway org billing (resource-control / founder alert)
- Recovering the unpushed 2026-09-07…11 railiance-local commits
  (note in the catch-up brief; do not invent those files)