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.txtwheeler-making-sense-of-data.txt→07-source-material/books/wheeler-making-sense-of-data/extracted.txtwheeler-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:
grepfor the concept, read matching pages only.
Cleanup
This private/ folder can be removed entirely once the bookshelf has been validated as stable. For now, retain the empty directory + this README so any stale [[private/...]] wikilinks resolve to a useful redirect message.