Update characters documentation, taxonomy, measured progress and validation

README.md

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 **500 fictional people ×10 natural facial expressions =5,000 portrait images**, each832×1,248 pixels. The selected aesthetic is the **ghibli-warm-painted** direction: restrained facial proportions, delicate drawn lines, warm painted shading and a solid chroma-green backdrop. Generation uses the **undistilled9B base**, the **rank64 character LoRA**, **50 steps**, real **CFG4**, and **BF16**, with no quantization or distilled checkpoint.
 
-**Production snapshot:0/500 complete people;0/5,000 images uploaded.** Pilot and production validation are recorded in the linked metadata. Counts describe the snapshot; incremental shard commits can be newer.
+**Production snapshot:7/500 complete people;0/5,000 images uploaded.** Pilot and production validation are recorded in the linked metadata. Counts describe the snapshot; incremental shard commits can be newer.
 
 The [base model](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B) and [character LoRA with examples and instructions](https://huggingface.co/laion/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B-vivarium-loras) are linked separately. The compatible [background dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/Anim-E-Ghibli-Backgrounds-FLUX-9B) contains wide warm-painted environments for these foreground characters.
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ person-0253-neutral.json
 person-0253-neutral.txt
 ```
 
-Images are written directly into TARs. There are no individually uploaded PNGs. A production shard normally holds **two complete person groups,20 images**, with smaller last-worker shards and10-image accepted pilot shards. Keeping all expressions of a person together makes grouping convenient. [Shard SHA256/size/count manifest](metadata/shards.json), [inference records](metadata/inference-records.jsonl), [progress](metadata/progress.json), and [sample index](metadata/sample-index.json) describe the release snapshot. Use`personality_id` for splitting: random splitting by image can leak the same fictional identity across train and evaluation.
+Images are written directly into TARs. There are no individually uploaded PNGs. A production shard normally holds **two complete person groups,20 images**, with10-image first-worker/pilot shards and smaller last-worker shards. Keeping all expressions of a person together makes grouping convenient. [Shard SHA256/size/count manifest](metadata/shards.json), [inference records](metadata/inference-records.jsonl), [progress](metadata/progress.json), and [sample index](metadata/sample-index.json) describe the release snapshot. Use`personality_id` for splitting: random splitting by image can leak the same fictional identity across train and evaluation.
 
 Install the lightweight reader dependencies and stream with Hugging Face Datasets:
 

metadata/integrity-validation.json

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+{
+  "status": "passed",
+  "scope": "closed-shard snapshot",
+  "utc": "2026-10-06T15:38:30.718003+00:00",
+  "images_verified": 70,
+  "persons_verified": 7,
+  "shards_verified": 7,
+  "bytes_verified": 78776320,
+  "checks": [
+    "TAR SHA256 and byte size",
+    "three adjacent unique members per sample",
+    "PNG CRC and full decode",
+    "832x1248 RGB",
+    "unique expected IDs",
+    "every person and expression field matches plan",
+    "prompt/seed consistency",
+    "PNG SHA256",
+    "exact neutral reference linkage and416x624 resize",
+    "all ten emotions per closed person group",
+    "50-step CFG4 BF16 pinned model/LoRA",
+    "no quantization or distillation"
+  ]
+}

metadata/performance.json

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {
   "hardware": "8 × NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB",
   "batch_size_per_gpu": 1,
-  "steady_samples": 0,
-  "mean_seconds": null,
-  "median_seconds": null,
+  "steady_samples": 56,
+  "mean_seconds": 39.93901441212178,
+  "median_seconds": 39.88110267953016,
   "neutral_mean_seconds": null,
-  "reference_edit_mean_seconds": null,
+  "reference_edit_mean_seconds": 39.93901441212178,
   "timings_include": "50 denoising steps with real CFG4, reference VAE encode when applicable, VAE decode; CUDA synchronized",
   "timings_exclude": "Positive prompt preencoding, model loading, compile warmup, PNG/TAR writes and upload",
   "pilot_excluded": "Pilot GPU7 was shared with background production and used CPU offload; it is not a dedicated-GPU benchmark"

metadata/production-quality-passed.json

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+{
+  "status": "passed",
+  "utc": "2026-10-06T15:38:51.273275+00:00",
+  "reviewed_production_people": [
+    "person-0001",
+    "person-0068",
+    "person-0133"
+  ],
+  "reviewed_production_images": 30,
+  "integrity_verified_images": 70,
+  "findings": "Identity,outfit,pose and clean greenscreen preserved closely; mild expression edits visible; some negative emotions overlap",
+  "settings": "Undistilled BF16 native9B character rank64 LoRA,50steps CFG4, neutral visual reference416x624",
+  "limitations": [
+    "Reference conditioning can slightly alter facial details and clothing folds",
+    "Visual assessment of rendered age and identity is subjective; demographic labels are intended prompt attributes",
+    "Mild fear,sadness and disgust can be visually close; labels record the requested expression,not a ground-truth expression classifier"
+  ]
+}

metadata/progress.json

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 {
-  "utc": "2026-10-06T15:17:25.589407+00:00",
+  "utc": "2026-10-06T15:38:54.905100+00:00",
   "people": {
-    "queued": 500
+    "done": 7,
+    "pilot": 3,
+    "queued": 483,
+    "running": 7
   },
-  "shards": {},
-  "images_in_closed_shards": 0,
-  "images_generated": 0,
+  "shards": {
+    "ready": 7
+  },
+  "images_in_closed_shards": 70,
+  "images_generated": 84,
   "target_people": 500,
   "target_images": 5000,
   "images_uploaded": 0,
-  "buffer_free_gb": 302.790250496
+  "buffer_free_gb": 302.141669376
 }

metadata/quality-review.json

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+{
+  "reviewed_ids": [
+    "person-0002-neutral",
+    "person-0120-neutral",
+    "person-0253-neutral",
+    "person-0002-angry",
+    "person-0120-angry",
+    "person-0253-angry",
+    "person-0002-joyful",
+    "person-0120-joyful",
+    "person-0253-joyful",
+    "person-0002-sad",
+    "person-0001-neutral",
+    "person-0001-joyful",
+    "person-0001-grateful",
+    "person-0001-playful",
+    "person-0001-angry",
+    "person-0001-afraid",
+    "person-0001-sad",
+    "person-0001-annoyed",
+    "person-0001-pain",
+    "person-0001-disgust",
+    "person-0068-neutral",
+    "person-0068-joyful",
+    "person-0068-grateful",
+    "person-0068-playful",
+    "person-0068-angry",
+    "person-0068-afraid",
+    "person-0068-sad",
+    "person-0068-annoyed",
+    "person-0068-pain",
+    "person-0068-disgust",
+    "person-0133-neutral",
+    "person-0133-joyful",
+    "person-0133-grateful",
+    "person-0133-playful",
+    "person-0133-angry",
+    "person-0133-afraid",
+    "person-0133-sad",
+    "person-0133-annoyed",
+    "person-0133-pain",
+    "person-0133-disgust"
+  ],
+  "findings": [
+    "Focused reference edit prompts produce clear natural neutral/joyful/angry differences for baby,schoolgirl and17-year-old girl while maintaining closely matched identity,hair,outfit and pose. Baby sadness was inspected separately when present.",
+    "All ten expressions visually inspected for production baby person0001 and preschool girl person0068. Identity,hair,outfit,pose and greenscreen remain closely matched. Joyful,grateful,playful,angry and annoyance are clearly differentiated; several mild negative emotions can overlap. No extreme caricatures or visible injuries.",
+    "The complete older-schoolboy series person0133 also retains near-identical clothes and pose with restrained face proportions and ten mild requested expressions."
+  ],
+  "status": "production pilot passed",
+  "limitations": [
+    "Reference conditioning can slightly alter facial details and clothing folds",
+    "Visual assessment of rendered age and identity is subjective; demographic labels are intended prompt attributes",
+    "Mild fear,sadness and disgust can be visually close; labels record the requested expression,not a ground-truth expression classifier"
+  ],
+  "utc": "2026-10-06T15:38:26.256414+00:00"
+}

metadata/sample-index.json

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+    "personality_id": "person-0024",
+    "emotion": "afraid",
+    "shard": "train-g3-00000.tar",
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+  },
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+    "personality_id": "person-0024",
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+    "shard": "train-g3-00000.tar",
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+    "image_sha256": "8b4429710a4b98c5aac6178152bd26b3746cbb4d449e392ac6067013f08a26e3",
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+  },
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+    "id": "person-0024-annoyed",
+    "personality_id": "person-0024",
+    "emotion": "annoyed",
+    "shard": "train-g3-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 8039936,
+    "image_bytes": 1138977,
+    "image_sha256": "a3e0f072ea00aa28a95107ae1936dd37a9122e003462f2adbb40b3140c95eb2c",
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+  },
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+    "personality_id": "person-0024",
+    "emotion": "pain",
+    "shard": "train-g3-00000.tar",
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+    "personality_id": "person-0024",
+    "emotion": "disgust",
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+    "seed": 2433206131
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-neutral",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "neutral",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 512,
+    "image_bytes": 1108644,
+    "image_sha256": "111128472a164993548214782c725645941cf4e9399aa9ddc3b5231d258c8f80",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-joyful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "joyful",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 1116160,
+    "image_bytes": 1113876,
+    "image_sha256": "5a9fad97c9a1c4a6d4e33bf36e75a04fbbd04dad2f385a4f63d3d091e82dc917",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-grateful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "grateful",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 2236928,
+    "image_bytes": 1111324,
+    "image_sha256": "8ad1583a50ad64c0bb54d4bc150a1b0979954b54787d948630546bd9456d26a0",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-playful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "playful",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 3355136,
+    "image_bytes": 1110682,
+    "image_sha256": "a9cc401e6e784a35038516f9e36f7a57b4166e5985b778e7c31b88edfd5690a8",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-angry",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "angry",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 4472832,
+    "image_bytes": 1121969,
+    "image_sha256": "9382bad46f4dbd80ee8a447fff827e4aa533fec286f5ebbe0b070209afe19488",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-afraid",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "afraid",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 5601792,
+    "image_bytes": 1111188,
+    "image_sha256": "d631a775297d3bafdea961d9ccd6b27f6e19b8f96a679a68acc8874a332b58c8",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-sad",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "sad",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 6720000,
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+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-annoyed",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "annoyed",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 7840768,
+    "image_bytes": 1116087,
+    "image_sha256": "37d6c1f3fc8b6a9b0069675bd64fe2faab6864d10859d767df81fe71209c9e0e",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-pain",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "pain",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 8963584,
+    "image_bytes": 1118273,
+    "image_sha256": "abb6c6e18d770c8501aa33bc13a3b3c6e4f4bbc75c614ce57183e58f9b413713",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0068-disgust",
+    "personality_id": "person-0068",
+    "emotion": "disgust",
+    "shard": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 10088960,
+    "image_bytes": 1118041,
+    "image_sha256": "1e7c4036a48a3bc6e76569b5cae06216010f1b2b8e6808530b6258a100e9041a",
+    "seed": 41206551
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-neutral",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "neutral",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 512,
+    "image_bytes": 1082102,
+    "image_sha256": "8415630bac5ca68d302d8ff2be66ecbd7a56cb6286a8e1e946db57488086e4a4",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-joyful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "joyful",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 1089536,
+    "image_bytes": 1092941,
+    "image_sha256": "829914a8e133b780a8db690b4f275c2394cd8f97952a3fd2f39da2099d4150a8",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-grateful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "grateful",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 2189312,
+    "image_bytes": 1091599,
+    "image_sha256": "99a90cd60874f267dbc7f4b5ab90c9bc30a6f889a16919ff0e03c3f2f9d941ff",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-playful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "playful",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 3288064,
+    "image_bytes": 1088902,
+    "image_sha256": "19059f2d68faf48be2f115e8dc960a2dac4cb736d56171c8805aad50d35dceef",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-angry",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "angry",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 4383744,
+    "image_bytes": 1095860,
+    "image_sha256": "13948cf013ba5accb5e529942527f0e7e5b2e165bcc9ccc2abae3add6d89d0d5",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-afraid",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "afraid",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 5486592,
+    "image_bytes": 1096090,
+    "image_sha256": "796f590b180e885fc4a3b2a17cd43f0618751cd50fa15b495cb7081caa7a9f67",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-sad",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "sad",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 6589440,
+    "image_bytes": 1097912,
+    "image_sha256": "ec97d9a20a5131f2c764e90e78b686206f3bcae924b010bc451a43ccc82355bf",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-annoyed",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "annoyed",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 7694336,
+    "image_bytes": 1091612,
+    "image_sha256": "89de05d37d5421eb4742e01537dc9d8c914bd26dd5fb7c339ce6c25a4ad8a6db",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-pain",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "pain",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 8793088,
+    "image_bytes": 1095265,
+    "image_sha256": "ea2911513a3193bc091a042170753c1d2c5fce4c3414a3b4d2799b244b667f85",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0045-disgust",
+    "personality_id": "person-0045",
+    "emotion": "disgust",
+    "shard": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 9895424,
+    "image_bytes": 1092010,
+    "image_sha256": "05be3ae0818798abc7d04a24fe216ebe3d9893eec40a68740e89d379ce51a290",
+    "seed": 926550046
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-neutral",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "neutral",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 512,
+    "image_bytes": 1164801,
+    "image_sha256": "a11ed61840b1fed1261442c32695a12888e2420b56b839de1e18aabbaa70e29c",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-joyful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "joyful",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 1172480,
+    "image_bytes": 1192445,
+    "image_sha256": "47dc9b48453b12c91c8e9bc304840bfe2e62f7488f4a89f9f05d04175349a06f",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-grateful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "grateful",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 2371584,
+    "image_bytes": 1182149,
+    "image_sha256": "5ffcd59d94761f8799fee340b5768e496f543bdcc8bc3372284b272a45fcd68e",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-playful",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "playful",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 3560448,
+    "image_bytes": 1180519,
+    "image_sha256": "39d5f29171bb676ab7356f0ed3bae98d02654dab452f2e987b92fbe322a7b9c1",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-angry",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "angry",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 4747776,
+    "image_bytes": 1191292,
+    "image_sha256": "647f4a16e658d62eaf67019ff2af1835d3059593efc7b4d99b751ee4025ff157",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-afraid",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "afraid",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 5945856,
+    "image_bytes": 1191825,
+    "image_sha256": "b456e4d7c653afc4468067502274026e1c00f6a571461a44cf922c2221b340a3",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-sad",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "sad",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 7144448,
+    "image_bytes": 1186852,
+    "image_sha256": "c3f9344fc0e7995de34192b0649b3f6c0ee7c0ac1e6db687c5a39fe18ec1f678",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-annoyed",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "annoyed",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 8338432,
+    "image_bytes": 1180635,
+    "image_sha256": "f66591c21994ab97ccea69f754e1ce221e5e0b7c17f2e76876fc68c13e406bf6",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-pain",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "pain",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 9525760,
+    "image_bytes": 1182735,
+    "image_sha256": "db7d2f8c61c4e6829be7b0ac659b3a0d50a68f79226c7f0e3ff2a1f7785d7f97",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "person-0001-disgust",
+    "personality_id": "person-0001",
+    "emotion": "disgust",
+    "shard": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "image_offset": 10715648,
+    "image_bytes": 1190239,
+    "image_sha256": "b1ad3527a0765162ef0cd992621b15da9dd9c979ebd11b70c6fb73626d7cd92f",
+    "seed": 1998625666
+  }
+]

metadata/shards.json

@@ -1 +1,79 @@
-[]
+[
+  {
+    "name": "train-g0-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 0,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 11182080,
+    "sha256": "4088a227d57c9c2896da4350e4124486ed5a83cf29d8713b14330ee4023dd145",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:32.049172+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g1-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 1,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 11335680,
+    "sha256": "5c4d91372542b3396ff71b980cb51b470d909ff3852b2b787f2d7de6199893e4",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:22.799148+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g2-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 2,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 10629120,
+    "sha256": "5e9c071cd6d3a6e04f728e5ff71c4842f828a079af91286e3361970189586a4d",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:26.297675+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g3-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 3,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 11489280,
+    "sha256": "e68e9504b397724b89a20ebf15962b8d1fd55812d3840a4b14de4e239df1880d",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:27.100765+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g4-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 4,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 11223040,
+    "sha256": "7b373b727133ec6d016b90d94c6b5921591fffafb502fcf27acf39d6dcbb358a",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:17.715900+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g5-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 5,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 10997760,
+    "sha256": "8dba04196739b28df1795509ee3790ef4767be8e7ec4ffa09c45aa2b6f79ffb9",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:18.808936+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "train-g6-00000.tar",
+    "worker": 6,
+    "count": 10,
+    "bytes": 11919360,
+    "sha256": "a76ac740e7aad6c7d74fbab8bfedbab5ff81c08eab5ab4828e03aa1e9e38cd64",
+    "status": "ready",
+    "revision": null,
+    "created": "2026-10-06T15:37:17.580870+00:00",
+    "uploaded": null
+  }
+]

tools/character_production.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import sqlite3
 import tarfile
 import time
-from datetime import datetime,timezone
+from datetime import datetime,timezone,timedelta
 from background_production import add_member,sha,dump
 
 ROOT=Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ def ingest_pilot():
     for path in sorted(BUFFER.glob('pilot-person-*.tar')):
         if con.execute('SELECT name FROM shards WHERE name=?',(path.name,)).fetchone():continue
         records=[]
+        bg=sqlite3.connect(ROOT/'experiments/background-production/queue.sqlite')
+        end=bg.execute("SELECT MAX(time) FROM events WHERE worker=7 AND kind='complete'").fetchone()[0];bg.close()
+        assert end,'Background GPU7 must have completed before pilot ingestion'
+        corrected=path.with_name(path.name+'.runtimefix')
+        with tarfile.open(path,'r:') as src,tarfile.open(corrected,'w',format=tarfile.USTAR_FORMAT) as dst:
+            for member in src:
+                data=src.extractfile(member).read()
+                if member.name.endswith('.json'):
+                    m=json.loads(data)
+                    start=datetime.fromisoformat(m['generated_utc'])-timedelta(seconds=m['runtime']['generation_seconds'])
+                    m['runtime']['gpu_shared_with_backgrounds']=start<datetime.fromisoformat(end)
+                    m['runtime']['sharing_note']='GPU7 background worker completed at '+end+'; shared flag reflects overlap with this generation call'
+                    data=json.dumps(m,indent=2,ensure_ascii=False).encode()
+                add_member(dst,member.name,data)
+        corrected.replace(path)
         with tarfile.open(path,'r:') as tar:
             for member in tar:
                 if member.name.endswith('.json'):records.append(json.loads(tar.extractfile(member).read()))
@@ -104,7 +119,7 @@ def worker(gpu):
     BUFFER.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True);first=True
     while True:
         records=[];person_ids=[];tar=None
-        for _ in range(2):
+        for _ in range(1 if first else 2):
             person=claim(con,gpu)
             if person is None:break
             if tar is None:
@@ -141,6 +156,8 @@ def upload():
     from huggingface_hub import HfApi
     api=HfApi(token=os.environ['HF_TOKEN']);con=connect()
     while True:
+        if not (STATE/'production-quality-passed.json').is_file() and not (STATE/'pilot-quality-passed.json').is_file():
+            time.sleep(5);continue
         for r in con.execute("SELECT * FROM shards WHERE status='ready' ORDER BY created").fetchall():
             try:
                 path=BUFFER/r['name'];assert sha(path)==r['sha256']