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The two precincts — Garden Precinct and Vault Precinct — are not quality tiers. A meeting note is not a “lesser” document waiting to graduate into a garden node. They serve different purposes with different sharing properties.
Garden-precinct nodes are context-independent. A gloss, model, or pattern extracts the transferable insight and strips the conversational context. “Gossip as Social Sensing Filter” stands alone — you don’t need to know who said it, when, or in what meeting. Garden nodes are designed for sharing: added to patches, published to GitHub Pages, referenced by other gardeners.
Vault-precinct documents are context-dependent. A meeting note captures who said what, with what hedging, in what relational context. “Peter said he’s really committed to the overall idea” carries attribution, timing, and the specific relationship between the speakers. Person notes carry contact information and observations. Transcripts preserve exact words including informal speech, false starts, and tangential disclosures.
A garden patch (shared openly) contains only garden-precinct nodes. Anyone can read it. There is no attribution that could embarrass a speaker, no informal remark taken out of context, no personal detail that was shared in confidence.
A compound meeting document (shared selectively) contains vault-precinct documents. It travels under Chatham House rules: participants can share the substance but not attribute specific statements to specific people without permission. The compound meeting zip is shared with meeting participants and trusted collaborators, not published.
The precinct boundary IS the sharing boundary. When Peter receives the IFP garden patch (120+ files), he sees context-independent knowledge. When he receives the compound meeting zip, he sees the conversation that produced it — protected by the relational context in which it was shared.
The pipeline from meeting to garden crosses the precinct boundary at the seeding stage. Peter observed that gossip produces silence for humans but noise for agents. That observation, in the meeting note, is vault precinct — attributed to Peter, in the context of a specific conversation. The garden node Gossip Duality Between Human Silence and Agent Noise is garden precinct — the insight stands alone, attributed to the concept not the conversational moment.
This extraction is not sanitization — it’s not about hiding who said what. It’s about producing knowledge that works without the context. The meeting note is richer (it has the attribution, the conversational flow, the hedging). The garden node is more portable (it works for anyone, anywhere).