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    "quote": "gemma4:12b (q4) the narrator - the locked co-resident chat seat read 2026-08-11 licence what it asks of us what it permits you gemma4:26b (a4b) the 96G workstation posture seat (the locked co-resident default remains 12b) read 2026-08-11 licence what it asks of us what it permits you qwen3-vl:2b the world's eyes - vision intake read 2026-08-11 licence what it asks of us what it permits you nomic-embed-text the world's memory - the pinned embedder (swapping it means re-writing every vector, so it is never swapped casually) read 2026-08-11 licence what it asks of us what it permits you qwen3.8:27b the doorman - RuleSage's live question-screening seat (hired 2026-08-17; the audit is exhibit fourteen) read 2026-08-18 licence (the text packaged with the weights, read in full - 11,346 bytes, sha256 225c54bacb96eca3...) what it asks of us what it permits you ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2 the careful reader - RuleSage's re-ranker, a cross-encoder trimmed to ~22 MB on the serving host card read 2026-08-18 licence (declared in the model card, read 2026-08-18; the deployed artifact ships only the quantized graph and carries no packaged licence text - so this row rests on the card's declaration, and says so) what it asks of us what it permits you qwen3.5:27b the re-bake's best voice - benched, awaiting a second card read 2026-08-11 licence what it asks of us what it permits you Cards with the oxblood edge are seats our own worlds run today.",
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    "quote": "Source: krea.ai/krea-2-licensing) what it asks of us only while the licensee's company-wide trailing-twelve-month revenue stays under US$1,000,000 what it permits you us kandinsky 5.0 image lite published - a late addition, read before it rendered read 2026-08-23 licence (opened 2026-08-23: 1 099 bytes, sha256 94946098..., canonical MIT with \"Copyright (c) 2025 Kandinsky Lab\" filled in and nothing added.",
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