docs(release): PR 8.2 difficulty-axis reframe + disclosure hardening

[shaypal5]

Summary

Phase 8 pre-publish review-driven fix — PR 8.2. Source: docs/external_review/summaries/v1_release_review_synthesis.md (cross-model review of v1 preview site).

HIGH issues

Reframe tiers as prevalence/noise axes — the existing README / HF card framing implied modelling difficulty ("Advanced = harder for models"). LR AUC is flat at ~0.88 across all three tiers by design; the tiers vary prevalence (41% → 20% → 8%) and noise. Added:

• "Tier purpose" row to summary table
• "Reading this table" note explaining the flat AUC
• Updated tier descriptions
• Changed "intended difficulty axis" → "intended prevalence axis"

Add calibration_max_bin_error to metrics table — Advanced tier sits at 0.52 max-bin error (vs. intro/intermediate at ~0.25). The existing Brier-only reporting actively misleads: Brier improves with lower prevalence. Now both metrics are shown.

Clarify acceptance bands are regression fences — added blockquote in docs/release/v1_acceptance_gates.md under the Performance gates heading: bands fire only on substantial unintended regressions, not on any value outside some "realistic" range.

Fix isPrivate: true — publish blocker in release/kaggle/dataset-metadata.json; flipped to false.

MEDIUM issues

Change HF default config to intro — DEFAULT_DEFAULT_CONFIG = "intro" in scripts/package_hf_release.py; release/huggingface/README.md regenerated. Students calling load_dataset("leadforge/...", trust_remote_code=True) with no config arg now land in the easiest tier.

Remove intermediate_instructor/ from public README tree — scrubbed from both READMEs and from SOURCE_TREE_BLOCK in scripts/_release_common.py. Listing the instructor companion in the public What's-inside tree was a redaction-bypass risk signal.

Elevate 93% account-overlap warning — added "Evaluation note — account overlap" section before the tier table in both READMEs; links to GroupKFold recommendation in Notebook 02.

Add non-physical values to Known limitations — one bullet: Advanced-tier noise can produce negative duration/count proxies; these are synthetic distortion artifacts, not data errors.

Files changed

File	Change
release/README.md	Prevalence-axis reframe, calibration table, account-overlap note, known limitations
release/huggingface/README.md	Same body edits; regenerated by packager with intro as default
release/kaggle/dataset-metadata.json	isPrivate: false
docs/release/v1_acceptance_gates.md	Regression-fences blockquote
scripts/_release_common.py	Removed intermediate_instructor/ from SOURCE_TREE_BLOCK
scripts/package_hf_release.py	DEFAULT_DEFAULT_CONFIG = "intro"
tests/scripts/test_package_hf_release.py	Updated assertion
release/_preview_committed/*.html	Updated committed preview samples
.agent-plan.md	PR 8.2 marked done

Testing

• 1418 passed, 5 skipped
• Both packager dry-runs pass (package_kaggle_release.py --dry-run, package_hf_release.py --dry-run)
• SOURCE_TREE_BLOCK guard passes for both packagers
• Pre-existing notebook execution test failure on main is unrelated to this PR

Labels / Milestone

Labels: type: docs, layer: render, layer: validation
Milestone: v1.0.0 — Polished OSS release

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Pull request overview

This PR updates v1 release/publication materials to reduce disclosure risk and correct how the three tiers are explained (prevalence/noise axis rather than “model difficulty”), while also adjusting Hugging Face packaging defaults.

Changes:

• Reframe tier messaging in release READMEs/preview HTML and add calibration max-bin error alongside existing metrics.
• Change Hugging Face default config to intro (and update the corresponding test).
• Remove intermediate_instructor/ from the public “What’s inside” tree and clarify acceptance-gate bands as regression fences.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
release/README.md	Updates public README tier framing, metrics table, and warnings.
release/huggingface/README.md	Regenerates HF dataset card, making intro the default config and updating the same content edits.
release/kaggle/dataset-metadata.json	Updates Kaggle description text and intended publication metadata.
docs/release/v1_acceptance_gates.md	Adds clarification that acceptance bands are regression fences, not realism thresholds.
scripts/_release_common.py	Updates the shared source tree block used by packagers (removes instructor listing).
scripts/package_hf_release.py	Switches HF default config to intro and updates related inline guidance.
tests/scripts/test_package_hf_release.py	Updates assertion to match the new HF default config.
release/_preview_committed/kaggle.html	Refreshes committed Kaggle preview to match updated README content.
release/_preview_committed/huggingface_public.html	Refreshes committed HF preview to show intro as default and updated README content.
.agent-plan.md	Marks PR 8.2 as completed in the internal plan.

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release/kaggle/dataset-metadata.json:7

• dataset-metadata.json still has "isPrivate": true, so the Kaggle dataset would remain private. This also contradicts the PR description/commit message claiming it was flipped to false; please update the field to false for publishing.

  "description": "# LeadForge: Synthetic B2B Lead Scoring Dataset (`leadforge-lead-scoring-v1`)\n\nA relational, reproducible, three-tier synthetic CRM dataset family for\nteaching lead scoring at scale. Generated by\n[leadforge](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge), an\nopen-source Python framework for synthetic CRM/funnel data. The\nframework version is decoupled from the dataset version: the package\nstays at `1.x`; the dataset is published under the explicit `…-v1`\ntag.\n\n## Why lead scoring matters in 2024–2026\n\nMid-market SaaS vendors entered 2024–2026 with growth slowing and\ncustomer-acquisition costs rising[^macro], so predicting *which* leads\nconvert within a fixed window has moved from a marketing nicety to a\nsurvival skill. This dataset teaches that skill on a relational\nsubstrate, with the realistic confusions (snapshot-window discipline,\nleakage traps, channel signal weaker than vendor blogs imply) that\nstudents will hit when they finally get hands on real CRM data.\n\n[^macro]: Macroeconomic framing summarised in\n[`docs/external_review/summaries/gemini_v2_summary.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/external_review/summaries/gemini_v2_summary.md)\n(median public-SaaS growth 30%→25% from 2023 to 2025; New CAC Ratio\nrose materially in 2024).\n\n## What's inside\n\n```\n.\n├── intro/ intermediate/ advanced/    # student_public bundles, one per difficulty tier\n│   ├── manifest.json                 # provenance + file hashes\n│   ├── metrics.json                  # per-tier headline metrics (medians + spreads)\n│   ├── dataset_card.md               # auto-rendered per-bundle card\n│   ├── feature_dictionary.csv        # authoritative column spec\n│   ├── lead_scoring.csv              # flat convenience CSV (all splits)\n│   ├── tables/*.parquet              # 7 snapshot-safe relational tables\n│   └── tasks/converted_within_90_days/{train,valid,test}.parquet\n├── docs/                             # vendored DGP / leakage / break-me docs (agent-readable)\n├── metrics.json                      # top-level cross-tier metrics summary\n├── claims_register.{md,json}         # claims → backing-artifact map (agent-readable)\n├── dataset-metadata.json             # Kaggle dataset metadata\n├── dataset-cover-image.png           # Kaggle cover image\n├── README.md                         # Kaggle package README\n└── LICENSE\n```\n\n`student_public` bundles ship the snapshot-safe relational view;\n`research_instructor` companions ship the full-horizon view plus the\nhidden causal structure (DAG, latent registry, mechanism summary)\nunder `metadata/`. The full layout is documented in each bundle's\n`manifest.json`.\n\n### Agent-reviewable artifacts\n\nThe published bundle is self-contained for AI review and offline\nauditing — every numeric / structural claim on this page can be\nverified without following an external link:\n\n- **`metrics.json` (root) + `<tier>/metrics.json`** — deterministic\n  JSON view of the headline LR AUC / AP / P@100 / Brier / conversion\n  rate / cohort-shift / cross-tier-ordering medians, with JSON-path\n  back-references to `validation/validation_report.json` (the\n  source of truth).\n- **`claims_register.{md,json}`** — every numerical or structural\n  claim on this page paired with the artifact and path that backs it.\n  Rendered from `claims_register_source.yaml` by\n  `scripts/build_claims_register.py`.\n- **`docs/`** — vendored copies of `generation_method.md`,\n  `channel_signal_audit.md`, `break_me_guide.md`,\n  `feature_dictionary.md`, `v1_acceptance_gates_bands.yaml`,\n  `v2_decision_log.md`, plus a hand-authored\n  `relational_table_schemas.csv` documenting every column of every\n  relational table.  These match the GitHub-blob links cited below but\n  ship inside the bundle so a reviewer never needs network access.\n- **`<tier>/manifest.json`** — SHA-256 hash for every file plus the\n  full redaction contract (`structural_redactions.columns`,\n  `omitted_tables`, `relational_snapshot_safe`, `snapshot_day`).\n- Kaggle / HuggingFace preview pages additionally inject a\n  `schema.org/Dataset` JSON-LD block in their `<head>` for agent\n  ingestion without HTML parsing.\n\n## Quick start\n\n```python\n# Flat CSV\ndf = pd.read_csv(\"intermediate/lead_scoring.csv\")\n\n# Parquet task splits (recommended)\ntrain = pd.read_parquet(\"intermediate/tasks/converted_within_90_days/train.parquet\")\ntest  = pd.read_parquet(\"intermediate/tasks/converted_within_90_days/test.parquet\")\n\n# Relational tables (feature engineering — example)\nleads   = pd.read_parquet(\"intermediate/tables/leads.parquet\")\ntouches = pd.read_parquet(\"intermediate/tables/touches.parquet\")\nmy_touch_count = (\n    touches.groupby(\"lead_id\").size().rename(\"my_touch_count\").reset_index()\n)\nfeatures = leads.merge(my_touch_count, on=\"lead_id\", how=\"left\")\n\n# Reproduce from source\n# pip install leadforge\n# leadforge generate --recipe b2b_saas_procurement_v1 --seed 42 \\\n#                    --mode student_public --difficulty intermediate --out my_bundle\n```\n\nThe label `converted_within_90_days` resolves over a 90-day window;\nengagement features (`touch_count`, `session_count`, etc.) are\ncomputed strictly over events on days `[0, 30]`. The deliberate\nexception is `total_touches_all`, the leakage trap — flagged\n`leakage_risk=True` in `feature_dictionary.csv`. Drop it from your\nfeature set unless you're demonstrating leakage detection.\n\n## Evaluation note — account overlap\n\n**518 of 557 test accounts (≈93 %) appear in train** on the intermediate\nbundle; the other tiers are similar. The random-split headline metrics\ntherefore ride account-level signal across the split boundary and\nover-estimate generalisation to unseen accounts. For a faithful\nout-of-sample number, retrain with `GroupKFold(account_id)` and report\nboth metrics. Notebook 02 demonstrates the detection recipe;\n[`break_me_guide.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/break_me_guide.md) §5 gives\nthe worked example.\n\n## Dataset summary\n\n**Tiers are prevalence and noise axes, not modelling-complexity axes.**\nLR AUC is ~0.88 in every tier by design. The tiers differ in conversion\nrate, missingness, and noise — not rank discrimination. Choose a tier\nbased on the teaching exercise, not on expected AUC:\n\n| | Intro | Intermediate | Advanced |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| **Tier purpose** | High-prevalence warm-up | Default benchmark | Low-prevalence · calibration · noise exercise |\n| Leads | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n| Accounts | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 |\n| Contacts | 4,200 | 4,200 | 4,200 |\n| Snapshot columns | 31 / 34* | 31 / 34* | 31 / 34* |\n| Target | `converted_within_90_days` | `converted_within_90_days` | `converted_within_90_days` |\n| Conversion rate (acceptance band, gate G7.\\*) | 24–61% | 12–31% | 4–12% |\n| Conversion rate (observed median, seeds 42–46) | 42.67% | 21.60% | 8.40% |\n| Signal strength | 0.90 | 0.70 | 0.50 |\n| Noise scale | 0.10 | 0.30 | 0.55 |\n| Missing rate | 2% | 8% | 18% |\n\n\\* `student_public` / `research_instructor`. Difficulty is modulated\nby the simulation engine — signal strength on latent-trait weights,\nGaussian noise on float features, MCAR missingness, outlier rate —\nnot post-hoc label flipping. The acceptance band is the recipe\ngate's tolerance window (`v1_acceptance_gates_bands.yaml` G7.\\*),\nnot the achievable range — observed five-seed spreads sit\ncomfortably inside the band.\n\n## The scenario\n\n**Veridian Technologies** is a fictional Series B startup (Austin, US)\nselling **Veridian Procure**, a procurement / AP automation SaaS, to\nmid-market firms (200–2,000 employees) in the US and UK. The funnel\nruns through inbound marketing (45%), SDR outbound (35%), and\npartner referrals (20%); four personas drive deals (VP Finance, AP\nManager, IT Director, Procurement Manager). **Task:** predict whether\na lead converts (`closed_won`) within 90 days. ACV bands are\n$18k–$120k. See\n[`docs/release/generation_method.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/generation_method.md)\nfor the full DGP, and the deeper \"what's modelled / approximate / not\nmodelled\" breakdown that this README only summarises.\n\n## Public vs instructor: what's redacted\n\nFiltering happens **during rendering**, not during simulation. The\nredaction contract is single-sourced in\n[`leadforge/validation/leakage_probes.py`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/leadforge/validation/leakage_probes.py);\nthe snapshot-safe writer and the validator import the same constants,\nso they cannot drift apart.\n\n| Source-of-truth constant | Public bundle treatment |\n|---|---|\n| `BANNED_LEAD_COLUMNS = (\"converted_within_90_days\", \"conversion_timestamp\")` | Dropped from `tables/leads.parquet` |\n| `BANNED_OPP_COLUMNS = (\"close_outcome\", \"closed_at\")` | Dropped from `tables/opportunities.parquet` |\n| `BANNED_TABLES = (\"customers\", \"subscriptions\")` | Omitted from public bundles |\n| `SNAPSHOT_FILTERED_TABLES` (touches, sessions, sales_activities, opportunities) | Filtered per-lead by `lead_created_at + snapshot_day` |\n| Snapshot redaction (`current_stage`, `is_sql`) | Stripped from `tasks/` splits and `tables/leads.parquet` |\n| `total_touches_all` (deliberate trap) | **Retained in both modes**; flagged `leakage_risk=True` |\n\nEach bundle's `manifest.json` records `relational_snapshot_safe`,\n`redacted_columns`, and `snapshot_day`, so the bundle is\nself-describing.\n\n## Calibration\n\nEvery realism / calibration / difficulty claim in this README is\nbacked by\n[`validation/validation_report.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/release/validation/validation_report.md),\nregenerated by\n[`scripts/validate_release_candidate.py`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/scripts/validate_release_candidate.py)\nwith bands declared in\n[`docs/release/v1_acceptance_gates_bands.yaml`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/v1_acceptance_gates_bands.yaml).\nHeadline cross-seed medians (seeds 42–46):\n\n| Tier | LR AUC | AP | P@100 | Brier | Cal. max-bin err |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| intro | 0.879 | 0.761 | 0.80 | 0.130 | 0.25 |\n| intermediate | 0.886 | 0.575 | 0.59 | 0.110 | 0.25 |\n| advanced | 0.886 | 0.351 | 0.34 | 0.061 | **0.52** |\n\n**Reading this table:** LR AUC is flat across tiers by design — the\ntiers are a prevalence / noise axis, not a rank-discrimination axis.\nBrier score *improves* as prevalence falls (a prevalence effect, not\nbetter calibration); use `calibration_max_bin_error` to assess\ncalibration quality. Advanced's 0.52 max-bin error means the model's\npredicted probabilities are materially mis-scaled against actual\nconversion rates — a realistic miscalibration exercise.\n\nAP, P@100, conversion-rate, and lift orderings hold across the\nintended prevalence axis (intro > intermediate > advanced).\n\n## Intended uses\n\n- Teaching baseline lead-scoring on a flat snapshot.\n- Teaching relational feature engineering against snapshot-safe tables.\n- Teaching leakage detection (the `total_touches_all` trap is\n  designed to be discoverable).\n- Teaching calibration, lift, P@K, value-aware ranking\n  (`expected_acv × P(convert)`), and cohort-shift evaluation.\n- Comparing model families under a controlled DGP.\n\n## Out-of-scope uses\n\n- **Production lead scoring.** The company, product, and customers are\n  fictional.\n- **Vendor benchmarking / paper baselines.** Difficulty tiers are\n  calibrated for pedagogy, not cross-paper comparability.\n- **Causal-inference research that requires recovery of the true DGP.**\n  The instructor companion exposes the hidden graph for teaching, not\n  designed counterfactuals.\n- **Demographic / fairness research.** v1 does not model protected\n  attributes.\n\n## Known limitations\n\n- **Tiers are a prevalence / noise axis, not a modelling-complexity\n  axis.** LR AUC is ~0.88 in every tier; the three tiers differ in\n  conversion rate (43% / 22% / 8%), noise scale, and missingness —\n  not in rank discrimination. Use AP, P@K, and calibration metrics\n  to see the difficulty gradient; AUC alone will not show it.\n- **93% account overlap across train / test splits.** Random splits are\n  keyed on lead ID; most test accounts also appear in train. Headline\n  metrics over-state generalisation to unseen accounts. Use\n  `GroupKFold(account_id)` for a faithful estimate.\n- **GBM does not consistently beat LR (gate G7.4.4).** GBM−LR AUC delta\n  is slightly negative in every tier (intro −0.0045, intermediate\n  −0.0072, advanced −0.0133); v1's snapshot is dominated by linear\n  features. v2 will inject non-linear interactions in the simulator.\n- **Channel signal is weak.** Per\n  [`docs/release/channel_signal_audit.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/channel_signal_audit.md),\n  out-of-sample univariate AUC of `lead_source` is ≈0.50–0.52 across\n  all tiers and the per-channel rate spread is ≤0.05. The simulator\n  does not encode channel-conditional probabilities; channel-conditional\n  encoding is post-v1 work.\n- **Cohort-shift degradation is small.** v1 has no time-of-year drift\n  baked in; the cohort-shift gate (G6.4) is informational and will\n  bite in v2.\n- **Advanced-tier noise can produce non-physical values.** With\n  `noise_scale=0.55` and `missing_rate=18%`, Gaussian noise injection\n  can yield negative values in count and duration columns before MCAR\n  fill (e.g. a negative `days_since_last_touch`). These are treated\n  as real-world data-messiness artifacts; the snapshot builder clamps\n  them to zero, but some residual distortion is intentional as a\n  data-cleaning exercise.\n\n## Composition\n\n- **Entities.** Accounts, contacts, leads, touches, sessions,\n  sales_activities, opportunities (public); plus customers and\n  subscriptions (instructor only). Per-row counts per bundle live in\n  `manifest.json`.\n- **Features.** 32 public columns grouped by analytical role in\n  [`docs/release/feature_dictionary.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/feature_dictionary.md);\n  the per-bundle `feature_dictionary.csv` is the authoritative\n  machine-readable spec.\n- **Label.** `converted_within_90_days` (boolean), event-derived from\n  the simulator. Never sampled directly.\n- **Splits.** 70/15/15 train/valid/test, deterministic given seed;\n  recorded in `tasks/converted_within_90_days/task_manifest.json`.\n  Splits are keyed on `lead_id`; see the *Evaluation note* above for\n  the account-overlap caveat.\n- **Provenance.** Recipe `b2b_saas_procurement_v1`, seed 42, package\n  version stamped in `manifest.json`.\n\n## Maintenance, adversarial framing, license\n\nWe *want* the dataset to be broken. The\n[break-me guide](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/break_me_guide.md) catalogues\nnine adversarial patterns to look for (leakage, split\ncontamination, ranking inversions, calibration drift) with\nworked-example pointers back into the notebooks. Issue\ntemplates ship under `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/`: a\n[breakage report](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/dataset_breakage_report.yml)\nform for findings on the bundle itself, and a\n[realism feedback](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/realism_feedback.yml)\nform for distributional critiques. Accepted findings are\nlogged in\n[`docs/release/v2_decision_log.md`](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/blob/main/docs/release/v2_decision_log.md).\nFile issues at\n[leadforge-dev/leadforge](https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge);\nPRs welcome.\n\n| Field | Value |\n|---|---|\n| Generator | leadforge `1.0.0+` |\n| Recipe | `b2b_saas_procurement_v1` |\n| Canonical seed | 42 (cross-seed sweep: 42–46) |\n| Bundle schema version | 5 |\n| Format | Parquet (canonical) + CSV (convenience) |\n| License | MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE) |\n\nVerify integrity with `leadforge validate <bundle_dir>`; every file\nis hashed in `manifest.json`.\n",
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# Copilot Comments

## COPILOT-1
Location: release/README.md:137
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/83#discussion_r3297756677
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    The updated summary table reports `Snapshot columns` as `31 / 34*`, but later in the README the composition section still states there are `32` public columns. Please reconcile these counts (and any other references) so the public feature/column count is consistent throughout the doc.

## COPILOT-2
Location: release/huggingface/README.md:183
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/83#discussion_r3297756711
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    The updated summary table reports `Snapshot columns` as `31 / 34*`, but later in the README still states there are `32` public columns. Please reconcile the counts (and any other references) so the public feature/column count is consistent across the dataset card.

## COPILOT-3
Location: release/kaggle/dataset-metadata.json
URL: https://github.com/leadforge-dev/leadforge/pull/83#discussion_r3297756734
Status: outdated
Root author: copilot-pull-request-reviewer

Comment:
    Within the long `description` string, the tree block still labels the public tiers as "one per difficulty tier" even though the README now reframes tiers as prevalence/noise axes. Also, the same description later claims "32 public columns" while the summary table now says 31; please align terminology and the column count within the Kaggle description text.

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