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Victor Kuznetsov 17408b958e Reject the uncalibrated text-manifest tiling and verify Content Seal transforms
Tiled diffusion was never provider-oracle calibrated with verified text
restoration: the tiled VAE donor path ran anyway and produced results no
oracle had certified. The combination is now rejected at both the
pipeline and the engine seam (ValueError with the reason), and the CLI
help no longer implies support. The invisible help is generalized and
the metadata container list corrected (MKA/OGA/Opus/AAC).

scripts/contentseal_transforms.py reproduces the deterministic crop,
resize, and JPEG variants of the Content Seal corpus from manifest.csv,
hash-verifying every output; its README gains scripts/README.md context
and new data tests. The corpus README is honest about the one crop the
daily oracle limit left unchecked, and the eval CSVs carry the updated
verdicts. The byte-scan SynthID suppression hoists its soft-binding
lookup so the guard is computed once.

Staged on top of 0.33.1; no version bump in this commit.
2026-08-27 16:53:34 -07:00

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# Repository data
Tracked data is organized by purpose:
```text
data/
fixtures/
provenance/ Real format and provenance fixtures used by tests
(source records live in fixtures/README.md)
calibration/
<vendor>/ Minimal controlled inputs needed to rebuild detector assets
synthid/
originals/ Canonical provider-oracle fixtures, stored once
manifest.csv Provenance and verification record for each original
full-pipeline-quality.csv
Reusable full-pipeline evaluation selection
evaluations/
fidelity/ Evaluation instructions and hand-verified ground truth
video-synthid-oracle.csv
Reproducible full-clip Gemini SynthID verdicts
```
## Storage rules
1. Store each binary image once. Evaluation manifests and documentation point
to its canonical location.
2. Put executable test fixtures in `fixtures/`.
3. Put only the minimal reproducible detector inputs in `calibration/`.
4. Put externally verified SynthID originals in `synthid/originals/` and keep
both CSV files synchronized.
5. Keep evaluation outputs outside the repository. Record reproducible
commands, hashes, and oracle verdicts instead of committing another corpus
copy. A small curated before-and-after example may live in `docs/images/`
when it is part of the public documentation.
6. Keep third-party fixture license notices in `licenses/`, outside directories
that tests enumerate as media inputs.
7. Runtime detector assets belong in `src/remove_ai_watermarks/assets/`.
Unregistered research candidates belong in
`scripts/assets/visible-mark-candidates/` so they are not shipped in the
wheel.
The source distribution excludes `data/`; the wheel contains only package
runtime assets.
## Video SynthID oracle manifest
`evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv` is the only evidence that the shipped
video removal profile works, so it is also the source of truth for three shipped
defaults: `tests/test_video_invisible.py` asserts that `noise_std`, `long_side`,
and `fps` together match a row this manifest records as certified. Changing one
of those three without adding the row that certifies it fails the suite. Both
historical rows mark `vae` as `unrecorded`: the repository must not infer a model
identity from the current default. Add it to the assertion in the same commit as
the first oracle row that records and verifies one.
| Column | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `date`, `source_url`, `source_sha256` | Identify the carrier. |
| `source_width`, `source_height`, `source_fps` | Carrier geometry. Without it the actual downscale factor of a row cannot be recovered later. |
| `duration_seconds`, `source_verdict` | Clip length submitted and the verifier's reading of the untouched carrier. |
| `vae`, `noise_std`, `long_side`, `fps`, `seed` | The run configuration. `unrecorded` means the historical run did not preserve the VAE identity. |
| `output_sha256` | Identifies the exact submitted file. |
| `output_verdict` | One of `detected`, `not_detected`, `indeterminate`, `refused`. |
| `output_verdict_text` | The verifier's wording, verbatim. |
| `output_detected_range` | Time range the verifier reported for the output. |
| `track` | `visual`, `audio`, `both`, or empty. The verifier scores tracks separately and this path copies source audio unchanged. |
| `session_id` | Groups rows submitted in one oracle session, so per-session drift stays visible. |
| `stratum` | Content class of the carrier, for stratified certification. |
| `psnr_db`, `temporal_residual_ratio` | Fidelity measurements. Neither is a watermark verdict. |
Record `indeterminate` when the verifier answers with its unclear state rather
than a negative: an unclear reading logged as `not_detected` is exactly the
silent regression this manifest exists to prevent. Leave a field empty when it
was not recorded, and never backfill it with a plausible value.
`psnr_db` is measured against the already-resized frame and before the encode,
so it excludes the downscale, the decimation, and the codec. Rows stay
comparable to each other only while that definition holds.
The two 2026-07-31 rows predate this schema; their empty fields were never
recorded and are not recoverable from the row.