How to read this reference - Structural Reference Manual

This sheet is a holding frame for a structural reference project, not a design authority.

The project is still in discovery. Source files are being inventoried, chapter structure is being normalized, and the first pilot bundle is steel design and connections. Technical pages stay in draft until evidence review and expert review say otherwise.

Use the stamps first:

DISCOVERY means the project is still mapping source material and workflow.
DRAFT means text may be useful to read, but it is not settled.
REVIEW REQUIRED means a qualified reviewer still has work to do.
ACTIVE means the artifact is part of the current workflow.

The reference separates four things that are easy to blur:

Adopted code basis.
Latest published standards.
Technical guidance.
Firm practice and lessons learned.

If those are not separated, the manual becomes dangerous. A note about useful practice can start to sound like a code requirement. A current standard can be mistaken for an adopted local basis. A model-generated rewrite can make an old claim look newer than it is.

The public version will move slowly for that reason. That is not polish. That is load path.