# Reference Documentation

This section contains reference materials, technical specifications, and conceptual documentation for the Forge platform.

## 📚 Reference Categories

- [🛠️ Tools & Technologies](./tools/index.md) - Reference documentation for tools used in Forge
- [📊 Version Compatibility Matrix](./version-compatibility.md) - Framework versions, breaking changes, and migration guides
- [🌍 Environments](./environments.md) - Environment configurations, deployment flows, and approvers
- [🚀 Pipelines](./pipelines.md) - What each `.azdo` pipeline does, what triggers it, and which one to run
- [🧭 Service ↔ Azure Resource Model](./service-azure-resource-model.md) - How a service maps to live Azure resources: naming invariant, subscription topology, resource discovery, and tag contract
- [🔐 Security](./authorization.md) - Authentication, authorization, and security patterns