GR-004: bind galleries to the embedder that built them

A gallery is only valid for the embedder that produced its vectors. Cosine
similarities across models are meaningless but *look* plausible, so the mistake
is silent and every measurement taken afterwards is suspect. Stamp the embedder
identity into the gallery at build; verify it at every load.

The stamp is the model file's basename plus the SHA-256 of its bytes (plus
embed_dim). The hash decides, the name explains. A name alone is a promise
rather than a fact — models get re-exported and overwritten in place under an
unchanged filename, which is exactly the case where the weights differ and
nothing else does. A hash alone is correct but unactionable in an error message.
SHA-256 is derived from the artefact, needs no registry kept current, and costs
~0.1s for a 250MB ONNX, memoised per process.

Mismatch is a hard error in every mode, with no bypass, naming both sides.

Unstamped legacy galleries warn loudly and proceed: unknown is not known-bad,
and hard-failing every pre-existing gallery would turn the check into something
people disable rather than trust. --require-gallery-stamp (or
SAE_REQUIRE_GALLERY_STAMP=1, which propagates to subprocesses) promotes that to
a hard error — the mode measurement work should run in. scripts/stamp_gallery.py
re-binds an existing gallery with no re-embedding, so "warn" is a cheap state to
leave rather than a permanent one.

Embedding dumps carry the same stamp: a replay has no live embedder, so the dump
is the embedder as far as the gallery is concerned. Derived galleries inherit
their source's stamp; --merge and the JSON gallery merge check before writing,
since one file holding two embedding spaces cannot be untangled afterwards.

Verified in: scene_analyze, scene_preview, the sae_kpn matcher binding,
replay.py, optimize.py (once per film at startup, before the first evaluation),
movienet_eval.py and both merge paths.

Stamp logic lives in src/gallery/embedder_stamp.{hpp,cpp} and its Python twin
scripts/sae_stamp.py, kept dependency-light so replay subprocesses do not pay
sae_gallery's requests/Pillow import to ask whether two models match.

Tests: 12 new cases in test_gallery_store.cpp covering the comparison logic,
both round trips, and the SHA-256 vectors that guarantee the C++ and hashlib
stamps agree. No ONNX or GPU required.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ variable-length HDF5 types and reads straight into numpy.
movie : str (source video path)
sample_fps : float
embed_dim : int = 512
embedder_model : str basename of the embedding model (GR-004)
embedder_sha256: str SHA-256 of that model file (GR-004)
frames/ group — one row per sampled frame
timestamp_sec : float64 [F]
@@ -41,6 +43,20 @@ variable-length HDF5 types and reads straight into numpy.
`F` = number of sampled frames, `N` = total faces (= sum of face_count).
Frame *i*'s faces are `faces/*[ face_offset[i] : face_offset[i]+face_count[i] ]`.
## Model binding (GR-004)
`embedder_model` / `embedder_sha256` record which embedder produced every vector
in `faces/embedding`. A replay has no live embedder, so **the dump is the embedder
as far as the gallery is concerned**: `replay.py` checks these two attributes
against the gallery's own `/embedder` stamp and refuses to run on a mismatch,
naming both sides. Cross-model cosines are meaningless but look plausible.
The attributes are additive, not a format break — `schema_version` stays 1. Dumps
written before GR-004 simply lack them, which reports as *unverifiable* (a loud
warning, or a hard error under `SAE_REQUIRE_GALLERY_STAMP=1`) rather than as a
pass. Re-dump to bind an old dump; there is no in-place migration, because unlike
a gallery nobody can assert after the fact which model produced a vector.
## Invariants
- `embedding` rows are unit-norm (cosine == dot product against the gallery).
- `face_offset[0] == 0`; `face_offset[i+1] == face_offset[i] + face_count[i]`.