Audit Qwen3.8 claims and provenance

[BurnyCoder]

Summary

• add an additive, machine-readable Qwen3.8 claim/provenance audit without changing original hash-bound evidence
• correct BF16/FP32 adapter terminology, parameter denominators, library semantics, checkpoint/runtime wording, control sourcing, and publication scope
• add dated public Hub observations and source-ledger errata
• correct and rebuild the standalone Qwen3.8 paper with extracted-text regression coverage

Validation

• uv lock --check
• uv sync --frozen
• uv run --frozen ruff check .
• uv run --frozen pytest -s (478 passed, 1 skipped)
• shell syntax checks
• original Qwen3.8 and historical Qwen3.5 hash checks
• PDF compile, metadata, and extracted-text checks
• credential/path scans

No training, GPU allocation, RunPod mutation, Hugging Face write, adapter modification, or Collection mutation was performed.