The scaffold-era README was out of sync with the shipped product:
- Vendor counts stale (recon estimates, not actual deployed counts)
- Trial data sources (gh_plot_reports + agripro_trials) entirely
unmentioned
- Tool list listed `corpus_status` (doesn't exist) and missed both
`lookup_variety` and `search_trials`
- Build-phase table showed everything as "pending" / "next" but
Phases 1-8 + 11 all shipped
Rewrite to reflect the deployed state:
- Corpus inventory: 760 variety records + 4,313 trial documents =
5,073 chunks across 6 sources
- All 6 MCP tools documented with their purpose
- Eval baseline table (hybrid+rerank wins 100%, P@1 90%, MRR 0.905)
with the surprising findings (dense alone is noise; hybrid w/o
rerank is WORSE than BM25 alone)
- Deploy mechanics: Watchtower chain, 4-GPU embedder pool, shared
llama-rerank sidecar with the network-attach gotcha
- Status table: ✅ on the phases that shipped, deferred work list
(becks_pfr, 2023 plot backfill, NK trials, Channel Seed brand)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
justin