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+# WO53 — The ship set (assembled 2026-10-18; publish owner-gated)
+
+Every lane, every gate, every artifact — the complete release picture.
+The publish guard (`pipeline/publish.py`) makes an incomplete release
+structurally impossible; this file is the human-readable counterpart.
+
+## Lane-by-lane
+
+| lane | candidate artifact | quality (verified) | parity | conformance | license | status |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| urd-diac | urd-diac-base-1.0-fp16.zip (1.35GB) | gate CER 0.0357 row-mean | ≡ torch, 300/300 rows (WO51) | runtime 12/12 byte-exact | **GATED-1** | ready pending license |
+| urd-g2p | run-059/best export | 0.16 CER row-mean | cleared by WO51 contract | fixtures pending ship | **GATED-1** | ready pending license |
+| ara-diac | r6/r7 canonical (shipped 1.1) | WER 2.58 / DER 1.53 (r6 verified) | int8 zipcheck GOOD | plane family | **GATED-2** | stage-2 may improve; relabel resume9 consolidating (C-lev fix) |
+| fas-diac | run-077/best | 0.603% row-mean / 0.777% corpus, word-acc 82.33% | pending export | fixtures pending ship | CLEAR (CC0) | **GATED-4** (gate value) |
+| he-* | — | — | — | — | no-license sources | **GATED-3** (data supply) |
+| tha-* | shipped small tier | per WO08 contract | plane family | existing | clear | closed |
+
+## The owner-gated queue (exactly what blocks shipping)
+
+1. **urd-g2p weights** — training data verified **non-commercial**
+   (humair025/urdu-g2p-dictionary, HF card). Options: ship
+   research-only, or retrain on an open dictionary first.
+2. **ara-diac (qcri-wiki)** — QCRI's Qatara repo carries **no license**
+   (default copyright). Options: contact QCRI for explicit terms, or
+   rebuild the ara lane on Tashkeela-derived data (GPLv2 — weights
+   redistribution implications then apply).
+3. **urd-dia sources** — the paper's corpus mixes `mahwizzzz` +
+   `humairmunirawn`; **no licenses found on either**. Options: contact
+   the paper authors, or rebuild from licensed sources.
+4. **fas-diac gate value** — the docs' 0.52% is **proven
+   unreproducible** (5-arm elimination; WO47). Accept the verified
+   ceiling (run-077/best, 0.603%/0.777%) and re-anchor the recipe gate,
+   or commission the corpus-rebuild arm (~18% of raw rows were dropped
+   by the derivation) before shipping.
+5. **Versions + final go** — per standing law, version numbers are the
+   owner's decision. Name them (e.g. `urd-diac-base-1.0`,
+   `fas-diac-base-1.0`) when saying go; the publish guard enforces the
+   rest (explicit semver, green gates, conformance fixtures).
+6. (HE supply asks — micsell no-license and QCRI-contact drafts sit in
+   TODO.sota/43/17, ready to send whenever you choose.)
+
+## Machine-gated (not owner)
+
+- **stage-2 (ara oracle distill)**: resume9 running — all three arms
+  complete; consolidation now uses the C levenshtein (the pure-python
+  one needed ~56h vs the 23h timeout — the loop that killed resume6/8).
+  `RELABEL_DONE` → stage-2 launch through the spine runner.
+
+## Non-blocking backlog (recorded, not holes)
+
+Housekeeper (ckpt pruning / dead-repo inventory) · exporter
+attention-mask option for batched serving (WO51 remedy (b)) ·
+conformance coverage grows with each shipped artifact ·
+src/gpu/modal_* deprecation (owner-flagged; nothing deleted) ·
+runtime default index URL re-point at next runtime release.