recon-queue.yaml

# Recon queue. Auto-appended by tools/watch_models.py; hand-edit freely.
# Vet each candidate, then promote into catalog/models.yaml or reject.

queue:
- id: kandinsky-5
  name: Kandinsky 5.0 Video Lite
  category: video
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-20
  link: https://huggingface.co/kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite
  status: new
  notes: Fast 2B draft-tier video. Bake off against HunyuanVideo 1.5 on a cast-rich
    song.
- id: wan-vace
  name: Wan-VACE
  category: control
  flagged_reason: new
  flagged_date: 2026-07-20
  link: https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.1-VACE-14B
  status: testing
  notes: Core of the control rig (pose/depth/ref). Test a directed hero shot end to
    end.
- id: omnivoice
  name: OmniVoice
  category: tts
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-20
  link: https://huggingface.co/k2-fsa/OmniVoice
  status: new
  notes: 600+ language zero-shot cloning; the multilingual wildcard for the dub lane.
- id: wan-s2v
  name: Wan-S2V
  category: lipsync
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-21
  link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18621
  status: new
  notes: Audio-driven cinematic avatar on the Wan stack; paper reports it beats HunyuanVideo-Avatar and OmniHuman. Slots into the existing Wan setup, test next.
- id: fish-audio-s2
  name: Fish Audio S2 / S2-Pro
  category: tts
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-21
  link: https://huggingface.co/fishaudio/s2-pro
  status: new
  notes: Tops independent TTS benchmarks (paralinguistics), sub-100ms, 80+ langs. LICENCE non-commercial (research); commercial needs paid licence. Quality ceiling only.
- id: kimi-k2-6
  name: Kimi K2.6
  category: llm
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-21
  link: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k2-6
  status: new
  notes: Top open coding model (~1T MoE, modified MIT); needs serious rented hardware. For big-GPU scripting runs.
- id: wan-2-7
  name: Wan 2.7
  category: video
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-21
  link: https://www.wan-video.com/
  status: new
  notes: "UNVERIFIED: reported April 2026 with first/last-frame control and 9-grid input, but open-weight release NOT confirmed (Wan 2.5 was API-only). Confirm weights are actually open before adopting."
- id: cosmos3-t2i
  name: Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image
  category: image
  flagged_reason: hyped
  flagged_date: 2026-07-21
  link: https://llm-stats.com/leaderboards/best-ai-for-image-generation
  status: new
  notes: "UNVERIFIED: claimed open T2I leader (~1219 Elo, 65B) from a single low-quality source. Needs primary confirmation before trusting."