Concepts

Use these pages to understand why the project behaves as it does.

• A builder, not a copy of the standard explains the project’s distribution and authority boundary.
• Editions, manifests, and provenance explains why current is resolved before storage and how every build is tied to its sources.
• The local build pipeline follows data from official artifacts to public query surfaces.
• The entity and query model describes registries, IOD graphs, encoding records, web transactions, and content mapping.
• Response evidence and confidence separates normativity, evidence source, machine decidability, parse confidence, and warnings.
• Attribute-context resolution explains bounded effective-type computation.
• Structured lookup and text fallback explains when to use specialized resolvers and when to retrieve prose.

Use Reference for exact field and command definitions.