- is_a::[[Gloss Form]]
- has_status::[[Seed Stage]]
- in_domain::[[Deep Context Architecture]]
Grafted Node as Transplanted Knowledge in a Garden Patch
In horticulture, grafting takes a cutting (scion) from one plant and attaches it to another (rootstock) so it grows in a new context. A grafted node applies the same principle to knowledge: it is a node copied from a source garden and placed in a garden patch, where it grows alongside other nodes in a context different from its origin.
Grafted nodes carry their original content and relations, adapted to be self-contained within the patch. As the patch grows — new connections to target content, refined explanations, additional context — grafted nodes diverge from their upstream originals. These changes can be merged back to the source garden, carrying insights discovered through the patch context.
A grafted node is present and navigable — it has a file in the patch, and links to it are clickable. This distinguishes it from:
- A [[Patch-Native Node as Original Knowledge in a Garden Patch]] — born in the patch, not copied from upstream
- An [[Upstream Node as Source Garden Reference]] — exists in the source garden but not grafted here
- A [[Ghost Link as Unplanted Garden Stake]] — does not exist yet anywhere
Sources
- First articulated as a distinct concept (separate from patch-native) in the Inter-Face Protocol garden patch (March 2026)
Relations
- relates_to::[[Patch-Native Node as Original Knowledge in a Garden Patch]]
- The complement: patch-native nodes are born in the patch; grafted nodes are copied from the source garden.
- relates_to::[[Garden Patch as Composable Knowledge Fragment]]
- Grafted nodes are one of the two kinds of content a garden patch carries (alongside patch-native nodes).
- relates_to::[[Upstream Node as Source Garden Reference]]
- Upstream nodes exist in the source garden but were not grafted into the patch.
- relates_to::[[Ghost Link as Unplanted Garden Stake]]
- Ghost links reference nodes that don’t exist anywhere yet.