feat: biometric-engine benchmark harness + accuracy protocol

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+# Biometric Engine — Benchmark Harness & Accuracy Protocol (WP7)
+
+**Status:** SYNTHETIC-COHORT decision-layer validation. This is a partial answer to
+the Onfido/Entrust maturity gap: it validates that the engine's **decision layer**
+(similarity math + configured thresholds) behaves correctly and measurably. It does
+**not** claim production-grade biometric accuracy — see [LIMITATIONS](#limitations).
+
+## What is benchmarked
+
+The biometric engine (`services/biometric-engine/main.py`) turns model scores into
+accept/reject decisions at three thresholds:
+
+| Threshold | Env var | Engine default | Decision governed |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `MATCH_THRESHOLD` | `MATCH_THRESHOLD` | 0.40 | ArcFace cosine similarity accept/reject (`_match_faces`) |
+| `LIVENESS_THRESHOLD` | `LIVENESS_THRESHOLD` | 0.72 | Passive/active liveness composite score |
+| `ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD` | `ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD` | 0.60 | MiniFASNetV2 genuine/spoof classifier |
+
+The harness (`services/biometric-engine/benchmarks/run_benchmarks.py`) benchmarks the
+layer where these thresholds live: **cosine similarity on 512-d embeddings and the
+threshold decision rule**.
+
+**No model weights are loaded.** MediaPipe, InsightFace/ONNX Runtime and the
+MiniFASNetV2 weights are not exercised: they require network downloads unavailable
+offline, and they are upstream of the decision layer being validated. If the engine
+module is importable in the environment, the engine's own `_cosine_similarity` is
+used; otherwise the identical math (`dot / (|a|·|b|)`, zero-norm → 0.0) is applied
+locally and the report records which implementation ran
+(`similarity_implementation` field). Thresholds are **read from the engine source /
+env vars at run time — never hardcoded** in the harness.
+
+## Protocol
+
+1. **Synthetic cohort (deterministic).** `N` identities (default 200, `--identities`)
+   × `K` samples each (default 10, `--samples`), 512-d L2-normalised embeddings
+   matching InsightFace `normed_embedding` shape.
+   - *Inter-class variance:* identity centres are uniform on the unit sphere
+     (`rng.normal` + normalise), so impostor cosine ≈ N(0, 1/512) (std ≈ 0.044).
+   - *Intra-class variance:* samples are `normalise(centre + σ_intra · N(0, I))` with
+     `σ_intra = sqrt((1/target − 1)/dim)` derived from `--target-genuine-cosine`
+     (default 0.65), so genuine-pair cosine is centred near the target with a spread
+     smaller than the impostor spread.
+   - One seeded `numpy.default_rng(seed)` (default seed `20260114`) drives every draw
+     in fixed order → the cohort is bit-for-bit reproducible.
+2. **Pairs.** Genuine: every within-identity pair (C(K,2) per identity → 9,000 pairs
+   at defaults). Impostor: equal count of cross-identity pairs, sampled without
+   replacement from an independent seeded RNG.
+3. **Metrics.** Genuine/impostor score distributions; FAR/FRR at the engine's live
+   `MATCH_THRESHOLD`; full ROC sweep over every observed score; EER (linear
+   interpolation across the FAR=FRR crossing); trapezoidal ROC AUC.
+4. **Latency.** `perf_counter` timing of every similarity call → p50/p95/p99 in µs.
+5. **Anti-spoofing decision summary.** The MiniFASNetV2 weights are unavailable
+   offline, so the classifier itself is **not** executed. Seeded Beta(8,2)/Beta(2,8)
+   score models for genuine/spoof presentations are pushed through the engine's
+   `ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD` decision rule and summarised (mean/std/percentiles/pass
+   rates). Decision-layer behaviour only.
+6. **Outputs.** `benchmarks/report.json` (machine-readable: label, seed, params,
+   thresholds + provenance, metrics, latency, environment) and a markdown summary on
+   stdout.
+
+## How to run
+
+Fully offline — no network, no dataset downloads, only `numpy` required:
+
+```bash
+cd services/biometric-engine
+pip install numpy          # the only dependency
+python benchmarks/run_benchmarks.py
+python -m unittest test_benchmarks -v
+```
+
+### CI wiring
+
+`.github/workflows/` exists in this repo. The ready-to-apply job below (validated
+as YAML) could not be committed from the automation token used for this change
+(`workflow` scope is required to modify GitHub Actions workflow files — the push
+was rejected with HTTP 403 `insufficient scopes`). Apply this exact block to
+`.github/workflows/ci.yml` (under `jobs:`) with an appropriately scoped token, or
+run the command above manually / in any runner:
+
+```yaml
+  biometric-benchmarks:
+    name: biometric-benchmarks
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    # Non-blocking: synthetic-cohort decision-layer benchmark; must not gate PRs.
+    continue-on-error: true
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Install benchmark dependencies (numpy only — fully offline afterwards)
+        run: pip install numpy
+      - name: Run decision-layer benchmark (SYNTHETIC-COHORT)
+        working-directory: services/biometric-engine
+        run: python benchmarks/run_benchmarks.py --out benchmarks/report.json
+      - name: Run benchmark harness tests
+        working-directory: services/biometric-engine
+        run: python -m unittest test_benchmarks -v
+      - name: Upload benchmark report
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: biometric-benchmark-report
+          path: services/biometric-engine/benchmarks/report.json
+          if-no-files-found: warn
+```
+
+## Results (real run, seed 20260114, 200 identities × 10 samples, 9,000 genuine / 9,000 impostor pairs)
+
+Thresholds read from the engine: MATCH_THRESHOLD=0.40, LIVENESS_THRESHOLD=0.72,
+ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD=0.60. Environment: CPython 3.12, numpy 2.2, Linux x86_64, no
+model weights loaded.
+
+| Metric | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| FAR @ MATCH_THRESHOLD=0.40 | 0.000000 |
+| FRR @ MATCH_THRESHOLD=0.40 | 0.000000 |
+| EER | 0.000000 (crossing threshold 0.5445) |
+| ROC AUC | 1.000000 |
+| Genuine cosine (mean ± std) | 0.6493 ± 0.0215 |
+| Impostor cosine (mean ± std) | −0.0008 ± 0.0438 |
+| Similarity latency p50 / p95 / p99 | 8.7 / 13.7 / 20.4 µs per 512-d pair |
+| Anti-spoof genuine pass rate @ 0.60 | 0.9314 (synthetic score model) |
+| Anti-spoof spoof pass rate @ 0.60 | 0.0030 (synthetic score model) |
+
+**Reading these numbers honestly:** the synthetic cohort is well separated by
+construction (genuine centre 0.65 vs impostor centre ~0.0 with std 0.044), so zero
+errors at the operating point are expected and say *nothing* about real-world
+accuracy. What they do establish: the threshold logic, ROC/EER computation, env-var
+configuration path, and similarity code path are correct, deterministic, and fast
+(~9–20 µs per comparison, so similarity is not a latency bottleneck). Degraded
+regimes (motion blur, low light, lookalikes) can be explored by lowering
+`--target-genuine-cosine` toward the threshold.
+
+## LIMITATIONS
+
+- **Synthetic-cohort results validate the decision layer only.** The cohort is
+  Gaussian noise on a sphere, not faces. Real FAR/FRR are dominated by the ArcFace
+  model's embedding quality on real imagery (pose, age, lighting, demographic
+  differentials), which this harness does not measure.
+- **No iBeta PAD Level 1/2 certification is claimed or implied.** Presentation-attack
+  detection certification requires an accredited lab (e.g. iBeta) testing with real
+  attack-instrument datasets (print, replay, mask, deepfake) against ISO/IEC
+  30107-3. That is a **roadmap item**, not claimed here.
+- The anti-spoofing section models classifier *outputs* with synthetic Beta
+  distributions; the MiniFASNetV2 classifier itself is not executed offline, so no
+  statement is made about real spoof-detection accuracy.
+- Liveness (landmark video) is recorded for threshold provenance only; its composite
+  scoring path is not exercised by embedding-pair benchmarks.
+- Production accuracy sign-off against vendor benchmarks (Onfido/Entrust parity)
+  requires a labelled real-face evaluation set under a data-processing agreement —
+  also roadmap.
+
+## Roadmap to close the maturity gap
+
+1. Accredited iBeta PAD Level 1, then Level 2, evaluation of the liveness +
+   anti-spoofing stack.
+2. Labelled real-face evaluation set (with consent/DPA) for production FAR/FRR at
+   the operating threshold; rerun this harness's metric code on those scores.
+3. Demographic-cohort breakdown of FAR/FRR once a real dataset exists.

services/biometric-engine/benchmarks/report.json

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+{
+  "antispoofing_decision_summary": {
+    "genuine": {
+      "max": 0.998127339170327,
+      "mean": 0.8004245601245377,
+      "min": 0.29655156345273065,
+      "n": 5000,
+      "p05": 0.5725964643722944,
+      "p50": 0.8197472295386765,
+      "p95": 0.9597525297902306,
+      "pass_rate_at_threshold": 0.9314,
+      "std": 0.12004768213849419
+    },
+    "model": "MiniFASNetV2 score model (Beta(8,2) genuine / Beta(2,8) spoof) \u2014 classifier weights NOT loaded",
+    "note": "Decision-layer behaviour only; production PAD performance requires the real classifier and attack-instrument datasets.",
+    "spoof": {
+      "max": 0.7296393264747192,
+      "mean": 0.20125941429438696,
+      "min": 0.0014049231654741908,
+      "n": 5000,
+      "p05": 0.04088317499015958,
+      "p50": 0.1806916889584838,
+      "p95": 0.4319896540370375,
+      "pass_rate_at_threshold": 0.003,
+      "std": 0.12093182648610243
+    },
+    "threshold": 0.6
+  },
+  "benchmark": "biometric-engine decision-layer (similarity + thresholds)",
+  "environment": {
+    "cpu_count": 2,
+    "model_weights_loaded": false,
+    "network_required": false,
+    "numpy": "2.2.5",
+    "platform": "Linux-5.10.134-18.0.12.lifsea8.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.36",
+    "python": "3.12.12"
+  },
+  "label": "SYNTHETIC-COHORT",
+  "latency": {
+    "max_us": 1034.9660001338634,
+    "mean_us": 8.7105111125412,
+    "n_calls": 18000,
+    "p50_us": 8.489999800076475,
+    "p95_us": 12.835800202992674,
+    "p99_us": 20.30808987910858,
+    "unit": "microseconds per cosine-similarity call (512-d, CPU)"
+  },
+  "liveness_threshold_note": "LIVENESS_THRESHOLD=0.72 governs landmark-video liveness composite scores; embedding-pair FAR/FRR does not exercise it. Recorded here for provenance only.",
+  "match_metrics": {
+    "eer": 0.0,
+    "eer_threshold": 0.5445313831985429,
+    "operating_point": {
+      "far": 0.0,
+      "frr": 0.0,
+      "genuine_mean": 0.6493054845127151,
+      "genuine_std": 0.021458777571238246,
+      "impostor_mean": -0.0007732291753746427,
+      "impostor_std": 0.043776815492409,
+      "threshold": 0.4
+    },
+    "roc_auc": 1.0,
+    "roc_points": 18002
+  },
+  "params": {
+    "cohort_model": "centres uniform on unit sphere (impostor cosine ~ N(0, 1/dim)); samples = normalise(centre + intra_std * N(0, I)) with intra_std = sqrt((1/target_genuine_cosine - 1)/dim), so genuine cosine is centred near target_genuine_cosine",
+    "embedding_dim": 512,
+    "impostor_ratio": 1.0,
+    "intra_std": 0.03242965760392317,
+    "n_genuine_pairs": 9000,
+    "n_identities": 200,
+    "n_impostor_pairs": 9000,
+    "samples_per_identity": 10,
+    "target_genuine_cosine": 0.65
+  },
+  "seed": 20260114,
+  "similarity_implementation": "local-identical-math (engine import unavailable: ModuleNotFoundError)",
+  "threshold_provenance": {
+    "ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD": "source:main.py",
+    "LIVENESS_THRESHOLD": "source:main.py",
+    "MATCH_THRESHOLD": "source:main.py"
+  },
+  "thresholds": {
+    "ANTISPOOFING_THRESHOLD": 0.6,
+    "LIVENESS_THRESHOLD": 0.72,
+    "MATCH_THRESHOLD": 0.4
+  }
+}