# Public release boundary

TRACE-Rec's public repository is a sanitized portfolio snapshot. It preserves
the independently implemented source, tests, frozen protocols, aggregate
reports, audit records, documentation, and repository-authored screenshots.

The public release intentionally excludes:

- KuaiRec, KuaiRand-1K, ESCI, FairJob, and Hillstrom raw or processed rows;
- checkpoints, model weights, per-user predictions, embeddings, and indices;
- deployment ZIP/TAR bundles, container images, logs, caches, and local paths;
- the private Git history whose commit identity used a personal email address.

The committed aggregate reports retain their original metric values and
protocol boundaries. Some reports refer to excluded artifacts by path and
SHA-256 so the historical evidence remains auditable, but those paths are not
expected to exist in a fresh public clone.

## Version boundary

- `v2.2.0` remains the historical Docker and deployment verification described
  in `docs/RELEASE.md`.
- `v2.3.0` is the sanitized source/portfolio release. It adds public-release
  checks and does not claim a new Docker E2E or a rerun of any Final evaluation.

Repository-authored code is MIT licensed. Dataset and derived-artifact terms
remain independent; see `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`.