# Federal Reference — instruments Oregon must comply with

> Non-authoritative, AI-friendly reference for Federal instruments Oregon agencies must comply with and cite as legal authority — the Uniform Guidance, program regulations, and the named publications that carry compliance obligations. The ceiling of the authority chain.
> Every document is verbatim federal source text (`content_mode: verbatim`);
> nothing here is a summary.
> Always verify against the authoritative source linked in each document.

## Start here

- [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md): rules for AI agents working in this corpus
- [STATUS.md](STATUS.md): freshness, coverage, and drift at a glance

## Contents

- `[Instruments](instruments/)`: all 43 documents — the Uniform Guidance (`2-cfr-200`) plus the 38 sections Oregon actually cites as individually addressable documents (`2-cfr-200.NNN`), WIOA (`pl-113-128`), Perkins V (`pl-115-224`), IRS Publication 1075 (`irs-pub-1075-11-2021`), and CJIS Security Policy 6.1 (`cjis-sp-6-1`). The big PDF instruments carry section anchors, so `get_document` can return one section of a 900 KB statute alone.
- `[Cited-sections derivation](_meta/cited-sections.yml)`: the measured reason each split-out 2 CFR 200 section exists — generated by `src/scan_cited_sections.py` over the sibling corpora's citations, committed because CI cannot reach the siblings. Consult before adding or questioning a section document.
- `[Source manifest](_meta/source-manifest.yml)`: the five upstream federal sources this corpus consumes, human-approved before ingestion.
- `[Authority graph](_meta/graph.json)`: relationships feeding `graph_neighbors` and `authority_chain` — this corpus is where sibling corpora's federal citations resolve, the top of the platform's authority chain.