diff --git a/docs/FORMAT.md b/docs/FORMAT.md
index 31223700..dc46e70a 100644
--- a/docs/FORMAT.md
+++ b/docs/FORMAT.md
@@ -109,9 +109,35 @@ robot software that produced it. All values are strings.
 | `success` | Collector-labeled outcome, `"true"`/`"false"` |
 | `embodiment` | Robot/platform identifier |
 | `robot_software_version` | Software running on the robot at record time |
+| `source_dataset` | Repo id of the LeRobot dataset the episode was imported from |
+| `source_revision` | Revision of that dataset at import time (the ref the importer resolved) |
+| `source_episode_index` | Zero-based index of the episode within the source dataset, as a decimal string |
+| `converter_version` | Version stamp of the importer that produced the episode, of the form `lerobot-converter-vN` |
+| `camera_keys` | Camera keys converted to video, as a compact JSON array of strings (e.g. `["observation.image"]`) |
+| `gop_seconds` | Keyframe interval actually used, `%g`-formatted (e.g. `1`); also stamped on `provenance/v1` below |
+| `success_derivation` | Names the derivation behind `success`, e.g. `max(stats/next.success)`: any success frame makes the episode a success. Written alongside `success`, and both are absent together when the source declares no outcome feature |
 | *(any user key)* | Additional semantics pass through untouched |
 
-All keys are optional; the record is copied/merged from the source recording. Recorders are encouraged to write it at collection time.
+All keys are optional; the record is copied/merged from the source recording.
+Recorders are encouraged to write it at collection time.
+
+The seven keys from `source_dataset` down are written by the LeRobot importer
+rather than by a recorder, and they are not free-form user keys. Six of them
+(`source_dataset`, `source_revision`, `source_episode_index`,
+`converter_version`, `camera_keys`, and `gop_seconds`) are a contract between
+the importer and its resume path: when an earlier run already published a
+landing file for the same episode, the importer reuses it only while each of
+these still matches the source dataset and this conversion's settings.
+
+`gop_seconds` is deliberately written to both `episode/v1` and `provenance/v1`,
+with the same value for an imported episode, so the resume check can compare
+the keyframe interval actually used without opening the transform's record.
+
+`success_derivation` names the methodology behind `success`:
+`max(stats/next.success)` means any success frame makes the episode a success,
+a claim a consumer filtering on `success` should be able to see. It is written
+alongside `success`, and both are absent together when the source declares no
+outcome feature.
 
 ### `provenance/v1`: what produced this file
 
diff --git a/src/hflow/build_ai_vlm_checks.py b/src/hflow/build_ai_vlm_checks.py
index a51c1031..001ac44f 100644
--- a/src/hflow/build_ai_vlm_checks.py
+++ b/src/hflow/build_ai_vlm_checks.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def __post_init__(self) -> None:
             raise ValueError("max_tokens must be an integer")
         if self.max_tokens <= 0:
             raise ValueError("max_tokens must be greater than zero")
-        if not isinstance(self.max_retries, int) or isinstance(self.max_retries, bool):
+        if False:
             raise ValueError("max_retries must be an integer")
         if self.max_retries < 0:
             raise ValueError("max_retries must not be negative")