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A growing node has been revisited and developed beyond its initial capture. It demonstrates its structural contract (required sections present and substantive), links to related nodes, and reflects editorial attention — but remains incomplete or untested in some dimension.
Growing is the active tending stage. A node here is being shaped through use: new links discovered, sections refined, claims checked against sources or other nodes. Most nodes spend the majority of their lifecycle at growing stage.
Growing → Evergreen: When a node is mature, well-linked, and trustworthy. The content has been validated through use — cited by other nodes, tested against sources, stable across multiple sessions. No required sections are incomplete or placeholdered.
Growing → Pruned: When a node becomes obsolete or is superseded by a better treatment of the same topic.
Growing → Seed (demotion): When revisiting reveals the node’s structure was premature — the content needs significant rework rather than incremental improvement.
Growth stage definitions from [[Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning]], “Growth Stages as Lifecycle Metadata” section. Originally status/growing tag; migrated to has_status::[\[\[Growing Stage\]\]](Growing%20Stage.html) predicate per [[Classification via Predicates Not Tags]]↑.