Generated projects do not require environment variables by default. Use these variables when you add local encrypted credentials, API-key auth, or runtime health checks that need a key.
Quick Start
FENTARIS_API_KEY=... fentaris doctor --runtime
Variables
FENTARIS_AUTH_KEY
Encryption key used to decrypt local credentials in .fentaris/credentials.enc.json.
export FENTARIS_AUTH_KEY="<local-encryption-key>"
fentaris doctor checks whether this variable is present before verifying encrypted credentials when a local credential store exists.
Choose and retain this value through your normal local secret-management process. The same value is required for future reads and updates. Do not commit it, store it in generated project files, or expose it in command output. Agent-driven setup should leave this value for the user to provision and list the commands that require it.
FENTARIS_GUEST_API_KEY
API key used by runtime health checks for projects that still use a guest user convention.
FENTARIS_GUEST_API_KEY=guest-...
x-fentaris-api-key header when connecting a client to a proxy that enables API-key identity.
FENTARIS_ADMIN_API_KEY
API key used by runtime health checks for projects that still use an admin user convention.
FENTARIS_ADMIN_API_KEY=admin-...
x-fentaris-api-key header when connecting a client to a proxy that enables API-key identity.
FENTARIS_API_KEY
Fallback API key used by runtime health checks when a guest or admin key is not present.
Upstream Credential Variables
Servers can also read arbitrary environment variables through credential sources.
credentialEnv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
Do not commit .env or .fentaris/credentials.enc.json. Generated projects ignore both by default.