Environment variables

Variables

TALOS_CREDENTIAL_STORE

Where keys are kept for this process: system or memory. Overrides credentials.store.Valuessystemmemory

TALOS_MODELS_DEV

Set to off to turn off the models.dev catalog: nothing is sent.Valuesoff

TALOS_REDUCED_MOTION

Set to 1 or true to reduce animation in the interactive screen.Values1true

TALOS_RG_PATH

Path of the ripgrep binary to use for search, instead of the one shipped with the package.

TALOS_TRACE_ID

A trace id to reuse in failure reports (1 to 128 printable characters), e.g. from a parent process.

TALOS_CLI_UPDATE_CHANNEL

The default channel of talos update.Valuesstablepreview

NO_COLOR

Any value turns colors off, as --no-color does.

VISUAL

The editor used to compose a long prompt (checked before EDITOR).

EDITOR

The editor used to compose a long prompt, when VISUAL is not set.

APPDATA

Windows: the settings folder is %APPDATA%\TALOS-CLI.

LOCALAPPDATA

Windows: data, sessions and logs are under %LOCALAPPDATA%\TALOS-CLI.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME

macOS and Linux: if set, the settings folder; otherwise ~/.config/talos-cli.

XDG_STATE_HOME

macOS and Linux: if set, the data folder; otherwise ~/.local/state/talos-cli.

XDG_CACHE_HOME

macOS and Linux: if set, the cache folder; otherwise ~/.cache/talos-cli.

Provider keys

Each provider can take its key from the variables listed on Providers. A key found in the environment is not used until you approve it — talos provider env-key <provider> --use, or when the interactive screen asks. One-shot commands that run a model (talos research start, talos automation run) use it and say where the key came from.

Read to adapt to the terminal

TALOS reads these only to recognize the terminal (colors, notifications, remote sessions):

TERMTERM_PROGRAMWT_SESSIONTMUXSTYKITTY_WINDOW_IDSSH_CLIENTSSH_CONNECTIONSSH_TTY