private/ — DEPRECATED 2026-04-30

This directory has been migrated. New canonical home: ~/rdco-vault/07-source-material/.

What moved

wheeler-understanding-variation.txt → 07-source-material/books/wheeler-understanding-variation/extracted.txt
wheeler-making-sense-of-data.txt → 07-source-material/books/wheeler-making-sense-of-data/extracted.txt
wheeler-understanding-spc.txt → 07-source-material/books/wheeler-understanding-spc/extracted.txt

Each book now also has a metadata.yaml capturing the same purchase + extraction provenance that lived in the prior private/README.md. See 07-source-material/README.md for the new architecture.

Why migrated

Per founder green-light 2026-04-30: bookshelf is the single source of truth for source material. private/ was a transitional artifact — its purpose (gitignored personal-use copyrighted material) is now served by the bookshelf, which has the same .gitignore protection (line 07-source-material/ added to ~/rdco-vault/.gitignore 2026-04-30).

Why this README still exists

Breadcrumb for any future session that grep’s the vault for “Wheeler” or follows a stale link. Points at the new home.

Original `private/` rules (still apply, now to `07-source-material/`)

Never commit. 07-source-material/ is in .gitignore.
Never quote at length — ≤15 words in quotation marks per excerpt, only for genuine commentary, never displacive summary.
Don’t index in QMD by default — Phase-1 retrieval is grep + Read. QMD-indexing is a Phase-2 founder-judgment decision.
Don’t ship to sub-agents unless founder asks for a specific extraction. Reading these into context costs ~225KB-740KB per file. Right pattern: grep for the concept, read matching pages only.

Cleanup