PARA Archive — Waves 1–8 Garden Foundation & Security Hardening Milestone

Completed PARA project record (role: archive, para: archive, lifecycle_state: archived) documenting the initial bootstrap and security hardening of garden/.

Completed Deliverables

  1. Quartz 5 Self-Hosted Engine: Vendored clean upstream Quartz 5 build pipeline (./quartz/bootstrap-cli.mjs build) per NEG-001.
  2. 11-Bucket Ledger Tree & Hash-Chained Decisions (INV-004, INV-008): Established ledgers/ with 11-key _meta.json sidecars (telemetry_not_authority: true) and ledgers/decisions.jsonl.
  3. Baseline MOCs & Domain Guides (GDN-NOTE-0001..0011): Authored root and subsystem MOCs (container-jdisc, content-nodes, config-admin, utility-libs, work-areas) plus 5 domain guides (search-ranking, schemas-app-packages, querying-yql, feeding-operations, ai-rag).
  4. Transition to Wave 9: Succeeded by the Hybrid PARA + Zettelkasten architecture (area-garden-governance-and-para-lifecycle) and embedded DuckDB + DuckDB-Wasm graph/vector layer (evid-duckdb-wasm-and-verification-gates).