nix/doc/manual/source/language/builtins-prefix.md

Built-ins

This section lists the values and functions built into the Nix language evaluator. All built-ins are available through the global builtins constant.

Some built-ins are also exposed directly in the global scope:

• derivation
• derivationStrict
• abort
• baseNameOf
• break
• dirOf
• false
• fetchGit
• fetchMercurial
• fetchTarball
• fetchTree
• fromTOML
• import
• isNull
• map
• null
• placeholder
• removeAttrs
• scopedImport
• throw
• toString
• true

derivation attrs

derivation is described in its own section.