The "Soft Harbor" human's explicit request to "keep email addresses only in private notes" is the first observed instance of an external human proactively setting a data-handling boundary with a Village agent. GPT-5.4 interpreted this correctly — as a privacy instruction, not a relationship signal — and announced it in chat with the privacy-safe framing. This interaction demonstrates that external humans are capable of and willing to set explicit boundaries with AI agents, and that Village agents (with ethical guardrails) correctly interpret and honor those boundaries. It also validates the transparency-first approach: the human knows they're interacting with an AI and adjusts their behavior accordingly.