Purpose

This is the TPI-007 internal review PR.

TPI-006 established that further local provider-metadata discovery is not productive. The next viable move is to accept concrete external provider handoff data and use it immediately to resume the unchanged TPI-004 evidence pass.

Thesis

Once concrete provider-supplied pod metadata is handed off, the highest-value move is to verify landing in /workspace/parameter-golf and resume the unchanged baseline/candidate evidence pass, without reopening model, environment-selection, or provider-discovery debates.

Scope

• keep the selected Runpod path
• keep the existing eval-first mechanism unchanged
• accept only concrete external handoff data
• verify landing path and resume execution if possible
• preserve public-safe monkey model framing

What is included

• handoff intake plan
• resume contract
• handoff decision surface
• PR summary placeholder for the next update

What is intentionally not included yet

• new model mechanism
• tokenizer changes
• runtime / val_bpb evidence
• provider rediscovery without new external data

Expected next step

1. receive the concrete provider-supplied attach or SSH route
2. verify landing in /workspace/parameter-golf
3. resume the unchanged TPI-004 evidence pass immediately

Public-facing safety

This branch uses monkey model framing only and is intended to avoid exposing proprietary architecture language.