Environment Variables

Bitloops prefers daemon config and repo policy over environment variables, but a small number of variables are still supported for runtime control and temporary overrides.

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_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK	Skips update checks
BITLOOPS_LOG_LEVEL	Overrides the effective log level
ACCESSIBLE	Uses simpler terminal prompts for accessibility workflows

DevQL Semantic Overrides

These override semantic settings resolved from daemon config:

Variable	Meaning
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_SEMANTIC_PROVIDER	Semantic provider override
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_SEMANTIC_MODEL	Semantic model override
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_SEMANTIC_API_KEY	Semantic API key override
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_SEMANTIC_BASE_URL	Semantic base URL override

DevQL Embedding Overrides

Variable	Meaning
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER	Embedding provider override
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_EMBEDDING_MODEL	Embedding model override
BITLOOPS_DEVQL_EMBEDDING_API_KEY	Embedding API key override

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.