establish-empirical-baseline

Purpose

Establish a fair empirical baseline by inventorying methods, extracting comparable performance, normalizing conditions/compute, checking discrepancies, and estimating progress/headroom.

Input contract

required: [method_records, benchmark_or_task, performance_measure]
optional: [historical_series, compute_metadata, condition_schema]
constraints: [comparability fields and source provenance required]

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.