Public explainer for the Governed Analytical Records Protocol.

GARPedia explains how analytical material moves through capture, candidate review, promotion, revision, and publication while sources, claims, fragments, evidence packs, and audit chains remain visible at every step. The protocol governs whether model-mediated content becomes durable system content at all, treating admission as a governed event rather than a side effect of editing or saving.

Schemas, validators, SDK packages, and implementation references for developers and operators live at garp.tools. This site is the public explanation of what GARP is, how the systems built on it relate to one another, and where to read further when implementation work begins.

GARPedia describes how analytical material becomes a governed record, why retrieval is treated as a separate operation from publication, and how sources, captures, fragments, claims, candidate records, and evidence packs relate to one another inside the protocol. It walks through the review actions that gate every promotion, the revision and dispute mechanisms that operate on existing records, and the withdrawal path that retires records without erasing their lineage.

Renderer-bootstrap mode

GARPedia is in renderer-bootstrap mode. The three substrate preconditions named in earlier content versions as future have shipped: the GARP SDK now produces fragment-level citation spans, digest and export artifacts are generated from governed records, and publication eligibility is computed from the active profile rather than configured by hand. The site now includes synthetic read-only renderer examples that exercise those preconditions end-to-end.

The bootstrap surface presents records, sources, entities, intersections, publishers, and method pages as peer surfaces, and resolves a polished record renderer for each synthetic record with a right-hand provenance rail of sources, citation spans, entities, typed cross-references, intersections, projections, and disputes alongside the canonical body. The page model is real, the components are real, and the layout is the same one a live record will use; no private corpus is connected and no matter-specific material appears.

Mutation, review approval, publication approval, search, retrieval, and operator controls remain outside this surface, where they belong: GARP itself is the SDK and protocol substrate, the GARP Workbench is the private operator surface, Counterpose is the first public publication platform built on the model, and GARPedia is the read and render surface that generalizes the public-reader grammar across profiles.

Bootstrap surfaces