---
title: 'Core reference'
description: 'The inventory of what baseline gives you, grouped as state, runtime, and templating.'
slug: 'core-reference'
type: 'article'
date: 2026-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
lang: 'en'
url: 'https://www.eleventy-baseline.dev/docs/core-reference/'
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The inventory of what Baseline gives you. Each page below is a lookup target: exact options, exact shapes, exact defaults.

If you are starting out, the [[introduction | introduction]] and [[tutorial | tutorials]] are friendlier doors. Reference assumes you know the surrounding piece and want the precise detail.

This chapter is grouped to mirror Baseline's two first layers and templating globals.

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## State

What you configure. The plugin call, the settings argument, and the directory contract Baseline ships.

- [[plugin-entrypoint]]
- [[site-settings]]
- [[config-export]]

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## Runtime

What runs during the build, and what the modules read.

- [[page-context]]
- [[seo-graph]]
- [[content-graph]]
- [[internals]]

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## Templating

What you reach for from inside a template.

- [[filters]]
- [[globals]]
- [[image-shortcode]]

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