What is GARPedia?

Position

GARPedia is the public explainer for the Governed Analytical Records Protocol and the read-only renderer for profile-eligible records produced under the protocol. The site documents what governed knowledge systems are, how the protocol is structured, and how the systems built on it relate to one another, with implementation references kept separate at garp.tools so this surface can stay focused on the model rather than the toolchain. The renderer-bootstrap surface, populated from synthetic demo records, sits alongside the explainer prose and exercises the same page model that live records will use.

Why this site exists separately

Most knowledge systems hide the moment information becomes durable: a document is saved without ceremony, a page is edited without notice, a model answer is cached and reappears as fact, and a claim is copied into a report and treated as canon by virtue of being typeset. GARPedia explains the opposite pattern, in which knowledge enters through governed admission, source support, review, lineage, and publication boundaries that remain visible after the record exists. The site exists so a non-developer audience can understand the protocol without first parsing a schema or a repository.

Distinction table

Reverse-wiki renderer

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. With those pieces in place, the public read surface takes the shape it was always intended to take, while remaining a read surface and nothing more.

The bootstrap surface includes synthetic read-only renderer examples across four families. The records list at /records resolves into the polished record renderer, with a right-hand provenance rail that renders sources, fragment-level citation spans, entities, typed cross-references, intersections, projections, and disputes alongside the canonical body, and an audit timeline at the foot of the page that surfaces the governed events that produced the record's current state. /sources, /entities, /intersections, and /publishers are peer surfaces that present the cross-record families. /method, with sub-pages for publication eligibility, projection records, and structural-density transparency, explains the rules and posture under which records are rendered. /examples/reverse-wiki-record and /examples/counterpose-signal are annotated walkthroughs of the same renderer, framed for non-developer readers.

The ecosystem boundary is preserved. GARP is the SDK and protocol substrate. The GARP Workbench is the private operator surface for review, promotion, dispute adjudication, and other governed-write actions. Counterpose is the first public publication platform built on the model. GARPedia is the read and render surface, and generalizes the public-reader grammar across profiles without becoming any of those other systems. The renderer presents the chain; it does not write to it, does not run search or retrieval, and does not host operator controls.

What GARPedia is not

GARPedia is not a single encyclopedia or database, not a content management system, not an AI governance compliance product, and not a substitute for record custody at the ARCS layer. It is also not a publication platform, since Counterpose at counterpose.org plays that role, and not an implementation portal, since garp.tools plays that role for developers and operators.