Environment Variables

Bitloops prefers daemon config and repo policy over environment variables. The list below is the current documented, user-facing runtime surface. Test-only and build-time variables are intentionally omitted.

General

Variable	Meaning
BITLOOPS_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT	Disables telemetry dispatch at runtime. It does not answer the CLI consent prompt or rewrite stored daemon-config consent.
BITLOOPS_DAEMON_CONFIG_PATH_OVERRIDE	Forces repo-scoped commands to use the specified daemon config.toml path. This also controls which config bitloops enable --install-embeddings, bitloops daemon enable --install-embeddings, bitloops inference install, and bitloops init --install-default-daemon mutate and bootstrap.
BITLOOPS_LOCAL_EMBEDDINGS_VERSION_OVERRIDE	Overrides the managed bitloops-local-embeddings release tag the CLI installs. When unset, the CLI resolves the latest release from GitHub on the first managed local install.
BITLOOPS_PLATFORM_EMBEDDINGS_VERSION_OVERRIDE	Overrides the managed bitloops-platform-embeddings release tag the CLI installs. When unset, the CLI resolves the latest release from GitHub on the first managed platform install.
BITLOOPS_INFERENCE_VERSION_OVERRIDE	Overrides the managed bitloops-inference release tag the CLI installs. When unset, the CLI resolves the latest release from GitHub on the first managed install.
BITLOOPS_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK	Skips update checks
BITLOOPS_LOG_LEVEL	Sets the log level for both the daemon log (daemon.log) and the telemetry file logger
BITLOOPS_WORKOS_CLIENT_ID	Overrides the built-in WorkOS AuthKit client id used by bitloops login
BITLOOPS_WORKOS_BASE_URL	Overrides the built-in WorkOS API base URL used by CLI auth. This is mainly useful for development and tests
ACCESSIBLE	Uses simpler terminal prompts for accessibility workflows

Inference Configuration

Configure inference runtimes and profiles through the daemon config, and repo semantic embedding intent through project policy:

• daemon [semantic_clones] for capability policy such as summary_mode
• daemon [semantic_clones.inference] for daemon-owned slot bindings such as summary_generation
• repo .bitloops.local.toml or .bitloops.toml [semantic_clones] for embedding_mode
• repo [semantic_clones.inference] for code_embeddings and summary_embeddings profile bindings
• [inference.runtimes.<name>] for executable-backed runtimes such as the standalone bitloops-local-embeddings, bitloops-platform-embeddings, and bitloops-inference binaries
• [inference.profiles.<name>] for embeddings and text-generation profiles

Watcher Overrides

Variable	Meaning
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_WATCH_DEBOUNCE_MS	Overrides repo-policy debounce
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_WATCH_POLL_FALLBACK_MS	Overrides repo-policy polling fallback
BITLOOPS_DISABLE_WATCHER_AUTOSTART	Prevents watcher auto-start for supported commands

Dashboard Bundle Overrides

These are mainly useful in development or CI:

Variable	Meaning
BITLOOPS_DASHBOARD_CDN_BASE_URL	Overrides the dashboard CDN base URL
BITLOOPS_DASHBOARD_MANIFEST_URL	Overrides the dashboard manifest URL

Interpolation In Daemon Config

Daemon config values may reference environment variables with ${VAR_NAME}:

[knowledge.providers.github]
token = "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"

Use this for secrets and per-machine credentials. Repo policy files should not contain secrets.

This interpolation also applies to inference profile values such as [inference.profiles.summary_llm].api_key.