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Baseline manifest

The recorded state of an instrumentation surface at a point in time, used as the comparison point for future PRs.

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About this term

This page is part of the Skene analytics instrumentation glossary. Use it as a reference when writing specs, dashboards, or playbooks.

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Definition

When Skene indexes a repo, the output is a structured manifest: every analytics call with its library, event name, payload shape, file path, line number, and control-flow context. That manifest is the baseline. On the next PR, Skene rebuilds the manifest for the new state and diffs against the baseline.

How the baseline updates

When a PR with intentional changes merges, the baseline updates to reflect the new state. Changes you accepted are now the truth; future PRs only flag drift from there.