-# Spicy Rice — Upstream Investigation
+# Spicy Rice -- Upstream Source Investigation
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
-**Date**: 2026-03-12
-**Investigator**: AI agent (Claude) under guidance of @felipesanches
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs source files was found for
-Spicy Rice.
+Design sources were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** archive (Google Font Directory, Mercurial-era).
+
+- **Repository**: googlefontdirectory-hg
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `spicyrice/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The source directory contains: 3 VFB files (FontLab, proprietary format); 1 compiled binary (OTF/TTF, not design sources).
+
+The VFB format is proprietary (FontLab) and cannot be built with gftools-builder. These sources are **not directly buildable** with the current open-source pipeline.
+
+### Key source files
+
+- `SpicyRice-Regular-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `SpicyRice-Regular-TTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `SpicyRice-Regular.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `SpicyRice-Regular.otf` (compiled binary)
## Research
exist, and no personal GitHub account for Brian Bonislawsky was found with
font source repositories.
-## Decision
-
-No `source` block was added to `METADATA.pb`. No publicly accessible source
-repository was found.
## Notes