Understand code citations and licensed standards
Nomic can help reason over codes and standards, but it does not replace your code library or your team's professional review. Use citations to verify where an answer came from.
What a citation means
A code citation points you to the source Nomic used for a finding. Depending on the source, you may see:
- The code or standard name
- The section or page
- A short excerpt
- The drawing or document page that triggered the finding
Open the citation and compare it to the project condition before relying on the result.
Why full codebooks may not appear
Many codes and standards are copyrighted or licensed. Nomic may show relevant excerpts and references, but it may not expose a full source document unless your organization has the right to use that document in Nomic.
If you already license a standard, your team can work with Nomic to decide where that reference should live and how it should be used.
Using your own standards
For company, client, or project standards:
- Put the standard in an approved project or folder.
- Add it as workflow context if it should be used every run.
- Keep the standard focused on the task.
- Test on a small drawing set before scaling.
Short, specific standards usually produce better results than a large archive of loosely related documents.
When a citation looks wrong
If the citation seems unrelated:
- Check that the jurisdiction or standard was stated clearly.
- Check whether the drawing page had enough information.
- Ask Assistant to explain why it chose that citation.
- Re-run with narrower context.
- Report the issue if the citation is still wrong.