> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bijection.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# bijection explain

> Explain a field or an exact retained health observation

## bijection explain

```text theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light-default","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
Explain a field or an exact retained health observation

Usage:
  bijection explain <ref> [flags]

Flags:
      --as string                  Act as a person, such as alice, on a development, preview or local deployment. Production refuses development identities.
      --branch string              Use a branch under your current business identity.
      --context string             Require the same authorized definitions.
      --contract-revision string   Source contract revision of the observation.
      --deployment string          Inspect definitions in a specific deployment. Accepts:
                                   • a deployment name (e.g. joyful-capybara-123)
                                   • a deployment reference (e.g. dev/james, staging)
                                   • dev (for your personal dev deployment)
                                   • prod (for your project’s default production deployment).
                                   You can also select deployments in other projects with project-slug:reference.
      --field string               Explain this field's declared value and membership ancestry.
      --format string              Output format; JSON preserves exact values. (pretty, json) (default "pretty")
      --generation string          Exact decimal int64 source generation.
  -h, --help                       help for explain
      --help-all                   Show all commands and options, including administrative controls.
      --sequence string            Exact decimal int64 observation sequence.
      --source string              Health source handle from resource health.
      --url string                 Inspect definitions in a private deployment at this explicit origin.
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