wifi-densepose/aether-arena/STATUS.md

AetherArena — Build Status

Tracks ADR-149 implementation milestones. "Complete" = benchmark infrastructure done, tested, CI-gated, deploy-ready, RuView baseline entered, §7 acceptance test passing. Model SOTA (e.g. MM-Fi PCK@20 ~72%) is a separate long-running ML effort, blocked on ADR-079 camera-ground-truth collection — not an infra-completion blocker.

#	Milestone	Status
M1	ADR-149 Accepted + committed	✅ done
M2	Scorer runner (aa_score_runner) — real model scoring + witness (proof+inputs hash) + repeatability analysis	✅ done — builds --no-default-features, determinism gate PASS, repeatable 16/16
M3	CI harness-gate workflow (PR runs scorer + repeatability + real-scoring smoke + ledger verify)	✅ done — .github/workflows/aether-arena-harness.yml
M4	Scaffold: README + submission schema + VERIFY (acceptance test)	✅ done
M5	Public smoke split (committed) + private MM-Fi held-out split prep	🟡 smoke split done (fixtures/smoke_*.json); private MM-Fi prep pending
M6	HF Space (Gradio) — leaderboard + ledger integrity + submit/verify/about	✅ deployed → https://huggingface.co/spaces/ruvnet/aether-arena (sandboxed scorer container = later hardening)
M7	Witness ledger chain — append-only, hash-chained, tamper-evident	✅ done — ledger/ledger_tools.py (seed/append/verify); tamper test fails as designed
M8	Public launch	✅ Space LIVE (gradio 5.9.1, serving 200) — board empty, awaiting first real harness score (benchmark-first: no seeded numbers)

v0 infrastructure: COMPLETE

Implement ✅ · Test ✅ · Deploy to HF ✅ (https://huggingface.co/spaces/ruvnet/aether-arena) · Instructions+Verification ✅ · PR runs the harness ✅ (PR #874, AA harness gate passed). Remaining = data + hardening, not infra: private MM-Fi held-out split (M5), sandboxed scorer container (M6), privacy-leakage attacker (gated category), and model SOTA (separate ML effort, blocked on ADR-079 — explicitly not an infra exit).

Benchmark-first posture (per user direction)

• No placeholder numbers on the board. The ledger seeds to genesis only; every result is a real scoring-pipeline witness. RuView gets no seeded baseline.
• Witness chain = inputs_sha256 (binds witness to exact inputs) + proof_sha256 (cross-platform-stable score hash) + the append-only hash-chained ledger. Repeatability analysis (--repeat N) proves the proof hash is identical across runs.

Blockers / decisions needed

• HF deploy (M6) — token is in GCP Secret Manager (HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY); creating the public ruvnet/aether-arena Space still wants explicit go.
• MM-Fi is CC BY-NC → AA must stay non-commercial / legally distinct from the commercial RuView product.
• Private MM-Fi split (M5) — needs the dataset pulled + a held-out split assembled before real public scoring replaces the smoke fixture.