direnv-pattern

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the manual, insecure, and error-prone process of managing environment variables and API keys, ensuring your projects always have the correct configuration loaded automatically.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Secure Secrets Management: Follows the b00t pattern to separate variable names (in datums) from actual secret values (in .env files), keeping sensitive data out of version control.
• Automatic Environment Loading: Integrates direnv to automatically load project-specific environment variables when you navigate into a directory, saving setup time.
• Validated Configuration: Leverages the b00t datum system and Rust via PyO3 to validate that all required environment variables are present before execution.
• Use Case: Automatically load all necessary API keys for your project when you cd into its directory, ensuring your AI agents always have the correct credentials without manual setup or risk of exposure.

Quick Start

Set up direnv for my project. Create the .envrc and .env files, then allow direnv to load my environment variables automatically, ensuring all required API keys are ready for use.