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 - [x] Environment reproducible with `pip install -r requirements.txt`; dataset downloaded and hashed
 - [x] BPE tokenizer trains, round-trips, and is saved to disk
-- [ ] Corpus encoded to binary token files
-- [ ] Model builds; parameter count matches the estimate
+- [x] Corpus encoded to binary token files
+- [x] Model builds; parameter count matches the estimate
 - [ ] Overfit-one-batch sanity check passes (loss → ~0 on a single batch)
 - [ ] Full training run completes on MPS with checkpoints + loss curve
 - [ ] Sampler produces stories from prompts; gallery committed to `reports/`