This is the reader entry for the assembled developer manual — the whole thing, built from source by the manifest-driven assembler and kept current by a drift gate. The links below are permalinks: every rebuild overwrites the same files, so they always resolve to the newest build.
Read or download
- Read online (HTML) — the full manual in your browser.
- PDF — print-ready.
- Markdown — the source form.
- Build manifest — exact source commit, part counts, and checksums for this build.
What's inside
The manual is assembled from a declared bill of materials — a spine of harvested reference, an authored narrative branch, generated front/back matter, and bound diagrams:
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Front matter | Title, provenance & attestation, table of contents |
| Spine | Command reference (183 pages), function reference (63 functions), SET family, error/message catalog |
| Chapters | Tables & the data model, command surface & dispatch, expressions & aggregates, indexing & relations, messages & diagnostics, HELP/metadata alignment, runtime evidence |
| Diagrams | 12 promoted diagrams bound from the attachment matrix |
| Back matter | Glossary, index, and a colophon that records how the manual assembled itself |
Status and honesty
The assembled manual is an assembled-candidate — regenerated from source on
each build and guarded by the drift gate, but distinct from the gated, reviewed
accepted developer manual (the manual-reviewed baseline promoted
from public source). Where the two differ, the accepted snapshot is the reviewed
authority; the assembled build is the always-current working copy.
For how the manual is built and kept honest, see How the Manual Assembles Itself.