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get-env-var

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get an env var, fetch a secret, missing env var, missing token/API key, load secrets from Infisical, infisical. Fetch secrets from the team's Infisical workspace into the shell environment so subsequent commands can use them.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/blob/HEAD/.opencode/skills/get-env-var/SKILL.md

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Skill: get-env-var

Fetch a secret from the team's Infisical workspace into the current shell so the next command can use it.

When to use

  • A command or script needs an env var that is not set, such as BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN.
  • A token, API key, or other secret is missing from the environment.
  • The user asks to load secrets from Infisical.

Setup (once per machine)

  • Install the CLI on macOS: brew install infisical/get-cli/infisical.
  • Check auth with infisical user get; if it fails, run infisical login and complete the browser flow.
  • For CI or other non-interactive runs, set INFISICAL_TOKEN from a machine identity; the CLI skips login when it is present.
  • This repo is already project-linked via tracked .infisical.json (workspaceId: "e9f4542a-8714-46c3-a8fd-99d8cb370aeb", empty defaultEnvironment). From the repo root, infisical defaults to the dev environment slug when --env is omitted.

Fetch one secret into the environment

Run from the repo root:

export NAME="$(infisical secrets get NAME --plain --silent)"
  • Replace NAME with the secret name.
  • Add --env <slug> for a non-default environment; this repo defaults to dev.
  • Add --path /some/folder when secrets are organized in folders.

Inject everything into a command

Run the command through Infisical so all project secrets are available only to that process:

infisical run -- <command>

Rules

  • Never echo, print, or otherwise log secret values.
  • Never write secrets to files, logs, commit messages, PR bodies, or comments.
  • Only use --plain inside command substitution, as in export NAME="$(...)".
  • If a secret does not exist, STOP and tell the user exactly which secret name and environment to add in Infisical; do not invent values.