Record public benchmark availability and manuscript snapshot provenance

README.md

@@ -40,13 +40,14 @@ and file-integrity manifests.
 - 16 historical source-screen processes, reported separately.
 - 40 published CSV/JSON result files in `tables/`.
 - The frozen evidence archive under `releases/`: 19,226 manifest entries.
-- The current 19-page IEEE Access manuscript and matching LaTeX source bundle
-  under `paper/`.
+- The 19-page IEEE Access manuscript snapshot accompanying the initial evidence
+  deposit and its matching LaTeX source bundle under `paper/`.
 
 The archive is rebuilt from source commit
 `289747694f1a71052acc7977e742bfc0a45286a2`. It retains historical material for
-provenance; `paper/RLVRAMBench_IEEE_Access_submission.pdf` is the current
-manuscript, not the earlier reading copies inside the historical record.
+provenance. The files under `paper/` accompany that evidence snapshot; the
+latest manuscript, including the public repository links, is maintained in
+the original [paper repository](https://github.com/kobzaond/rl/tree/rlvrambench-paper/paper/submission).
 
 No model weights, trained checkpoint shards, or optimizer-state payloads
 are included. Those are distinct model-release artifacts.
@@ -76,8 +77,10 @@ and bounded temporal validation are retained in the evidence.
 
 ## Access, licenses, and citation
 
-Initial deposit: **private**. Authorized access or an author-approved public
-release is required for reviewers to download the files.
+This benchmark and the reproduction-code repository are **public** as of
+2026-09-14, at the repository owner's request. Downloads require neither
+authentication nor access approval. The initial deposit was private; the
+frozen evidence archive and its SHA-256 digest are unchanged by public release.
 
 The authors have not yet selected licenses for their original code or
 research outputs. Applicable upstream dataset, software, and template notices

RIGHTS.md

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # Rights and release status
 
-This repository is initially private. The authors have not yet selected a
-license for their original research software or original research outputs.
-No new license is asserted by this packaging step.
+This repository is public as of 2026-09-14 at the repository owner's request.
+The authors have not yet selected a license for their original research
+software or original research outputs. Public availability does not itself
+grant a software or data reuse license. No new license is asserted by this
+publication step.
 
 The evidence archive retains the original provenance and applicable
 third-party notices. Upstream datasets, model descriptions, vendor software,
@@ -13,5 +15,5 @@ No upstream model weights, trained checkpoint shards, or optimizer states
 are included in this reproduction-code repository or benchmark evidence
 release. Exact model identities and revisions are recorded in the evidence.
 
-Select the original-material licenses and review third-party terms before
-public release. Repository visibility and DOI creation remain author actions.
+Original-material license choices and DOI creation remain author actions.
+Applicable third-party terms continue to govern the corresponding materials.

release.json

@@ -16,5 +16,7 @@
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   "doi": null,
   "visibility_at_initial_deposit": "private",
+  "visibility": "public",
+  "public_release_date": "2026-09-14",
   "original_material_license": null
 }

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