Host request lane: add the WSL authoring laptop (wsl-authoring-20260923) as a requesting peer

adoption/hardware-profiles.json

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
   "hosts": [
     {
       "id": "this-host-20260923",
-      "label": "This host (measured)",
+      "label": "WSL2 authoring laptop, 2026-09-23 measurement (see wsl-authoring-20260923)",
       "evidence_class": "native_proven",
       "evidence": "evidence/artifacts/sota-refresh-20260923/hw-profiles/this-host.json",
       "note": "Actual scripts/hardware_profile.py output for the host this unit ran on."
@@ -203,6 +203,13 @@
       "evidence_class": "native_proven",
       "evidence": "evidence/artifacts/hw-profiles/mac-coordinator-64gb-20260925/profile.json",
       "note": "Actual scripts/hardware_profile.py output for this host, written by scripts/hardware_profile.py --record-host."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "wsl-authoring-20260923",
+      "label": "WSL2 authoring laptop (measured)",
+      "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+      "evidence": "evidence/artifacts/hw-profiles/wsl-authoring-20260923/profile.json",
+      "note": "Actual scripts/hardware_profile.py output for the WSL2 authoring laptop, written by scripts/hardware_profile.py --record-host; the same machine as this-host-20260923 (2026-09-23 measurement) and receipt host rtx5090-laptop-20260923."
     }
   ]
 }

adoption/host-roles.json

@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
       "host_id": "macos-m5pro-20260924",
       "superseded_by": "mac-coordinator-64gb-20260925",
       "source": "PR #253 body: 'the replacement coordinator Mac'"
+    },
+    {
+      "host_id": "wsl-authoring-20260923",
+      "note": "The WSL2 authoring laptop (Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5090 Laptop GPU), measured by scripts/hardware_profile.py --record-host. Its host receipts use host_id wsl-authoring-20260923; the older this-host-20260923 profile and the rtx5090-laptop-20260923 receipt describe the same machine."
     }
   ]
 }

catalogs/landscape/new-host-grand-list.json

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
   "hosts": [
     {
       "id": "this-host-20260923",
-      "label": "This host (measured)",
+      "label": "WSL2 authoring laptop, 2026-09-23 measurement (see wsl-authoring-20260923)",
       "evidence_class": "native_proven",
       "assumptions": null,
       "measured_tiers": {
@@ -339,6 +339,40 @@
         "unified_memory_gb": 64.0
       },
       "sizing_arithmetic": null
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "wsl-authoring-20260923",
+      "label": "WSL2 authoring laptop (measured)",
+      "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+      "assumptions": null,
+      "measured_tiers": {
+        "concurrent_use_warning": null,
+        "ecosystem_job_memory_high_gb": 7.9,
+        "ecosystem_job_memory_max_gb": 11.8,
+        "embedding_semantic_rag_tier": "standard",
+        "local_generation_model_tier": "large-32b-q4",
+        "workflow_concurrency_cap": 16
+      },
+      "measured": {
+        "cores": 24,
+        "cpu_brand": "Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX",
+        "effective_ram_gb": 47.0,
+        "effective_ram_gb_source": "proc_meminfo",
+        "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+        "gpu": {
+          "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+          "name": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU",
+          "vram_gb": 23.9
+        },
+        "is_wsl": true,
+        "platform": "wsl",
+        "ram_gb_proc_meminfo": 47.0,
+        "wslconfig_memory_gb": 48.0,
+        "wslconfig_memory_gb_evidence_class": "source_review",
+        "wslconfig_other_candidates": [],
+        "wslconfig_source": "/mnt/c/Users/<user>/.wslconfig"
+      },
+      "sizing_arithmetic": null
     }
   ],
   "layers": [

docs/new-host-grand-list.md

@@ -28,14 +28,15 @@ Layers: 20 foundation, 12 trading. Winners: 66 layer-winner pairs (55 distinct c
 
 | Host | Evidence | Generation tier | Semantic-RAG tier | Concurrency cap | Measured |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| This host (measured) | native_proven | large-32b-q4 | standard | 16 | cpu_brand=Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX; cores=24; effective_ram_gb=47.0 |
+| WSL2 authoring laptop, 2026-09-23 measurement (see wsl-authoring-20260923) | native_proven | large-32b-q4 | standard | 16 | cpu_brand=Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX; cores=24; effective_ram_gb=47.0 |
 | 128 GB WSL workstation (labelled projection) | labelled_projection | large-32b-q4 | headroom | 16 | — |
 | macOS arm64, 48 GB unified memory (labelled projection) | labelled_projection | large-32b-q4 | full | 10 | — |
 | macOS arm64, 64 GB unified memory (labelled projection) | labelled_projection | large-32b-q4 | full | 12 | — |
 | GitHub-hosted macos-15 arm64 runner | native_proven | — | — | — | cpu_brand=Apple M1 (Virtual); cores=3; unified_memory_gb=7.0; mlx_smoke: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit@a5339a4, 146.57 tok/s, 32 tokens |
 | macOS arm64, Apple M5 Pro, 18 cores, 24 GB unified memory (measured) | native_proven | mid-14b-q4-or-8b-q8 | light | 16 | cpu_brand=Apple M5 Pro; cores=18; unified_memory_gb=24.0; effective_ram_gb=24.0 |
 | WSL2 x86_64 workstation, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX, 48 visible CPUs, 102 GiB visible RAM, RTX 4090 24 GB (measured) | native_proven | large-32b-q4 | headroom | 16 | cpu_brand=AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5975WX 32-Cores; cores=48; effective_ram_gb=102.2 |
 | macOS arm64, Apple M5 Pro, 18 cores, 64 GB unified memory (measured) | native_proven | large-32b-q4 | full | 16 | cpu_brand=Apple M5 Pro; cores=18; unified_memory_gb=64.0; effective_ram_gb=64.0 |
+| WSL2 authoring laptop (measured) | native_proven | large-32b-q4 | standard | 16 | cpu_brand=Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX; cores=24; effective_ram_gb=47.0 |
 
 ## Qualified local models
 

evidence/artifacts/hw-profiles/wsl-authoring-20260923/profile.json

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  "limits": [
+    "Presence/threshold measurement only; no model, service, or GPU workload is actually run.",
+    "nvidia-smi absence yields gpu=null even when a GPU is present but the driver/tool is unavailable.",
+    ".wslconfig detection is a best-effort read of /mnt/<drive>/Users/*/.wslconfig; a non-default Windows user profile path or drive letter is not searched, and on a multi-user Windows PC the alphabetically-first profile with a .wslconfig is used (see wslconfig_other_candidates for the rest).",
+    "WSL effective_ram_gb uses /proc/meminfo (native_proven) rather than .wslconfig's configured ceiling (source_review); wslconfig_memory_gb is still reported for visibility.",
+    "macOS unified-memory VRAM is scaled by a declared, labelled macos_unified_gpu_working_set_fraction (adoption/hardware-profiles.json), not measured Metal working-set behavior on this run.",
+    "The local generation and embedding/semantic-RAG tiers on a unified-memory host are independent, sequential-use budgets; see concurrent_use_warning when both are non-trivial on the same host."
+  ],
+  "measured": {
+    "cores": 24,
+    "cpu_brand": "Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 275HX",
+    "effective_ram_gb": 47.0,
+    "effective_ram_gb_source": "proc_meminfo",
+    "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+    "gpu": {
+      "evidence_class": "native_proven",
+      "name": "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU",
+      "vram_gb": 23.9
+    },
+    "is_wsl": true,
+    "platform": "wsl",
+    "ram_gb_proc_meminfo": 47.0,
+    "wslconfig_memory_gb": 48.0,
+    "wslconfig_memory_gb_evidence_class": "source_review",
+    "wslconfig_other_candidates": [],
+    "wslconfig_source": "/mnt/c/Users/<user>/.wslconfig"
+  },
+  "profiles_source": "adoption/hardware-profiles.json",
+  "recommended": {
+    "concurrent_use_warning": null,
+    "ecosystem_job_memory_high_gb": 7.9,
+    "ecosystem_job_memory_max_gb": 11.8,
+    "embedding_semantic_rag_tier": "standard",
+    "local_generation_model_tier": "large-32b-q4",
+    "workflow_concurrency_cap": 16
+  },
+  "schema": "hardware-profile-report-v1"
+}

manifests/evidence.json

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     {
       "path": "adoption/host-receipt.schema.json",
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       "path": "catalogs/landscape/research-state.json",
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       "path": "docs/new-workstation-runtime-profile-20260922.md",
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