atmos-settings

DevOps & Security

Atmos global settings: settings, logs, errors, env, docs, metadata, version requirements, terminal behavior, telemetry, experimental flags, and non-subsystem atmos.yaml options

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Atmos Settings

Use this skill for global atmos.yaml options that are not owned by a narrower subsystem skill.

Owned Sections

Section	Use for
`settings`	Global CLI behavior, terminal behavior, telemetry, experimental options
`logs`	Log level, log file path, debug output behavior
`errors`	Error output formatting and error reporting options
`env`	Environment variables applied to Atmos operations
`docs`	Documentation generation defaults
`metadata`	Project-level metadata such as name, tags, and version
`version`	Minimum or maximum Atmos version constraints

If a setting belongs to a subsystem such as templates, validation, auth, CI, or toolchain, load that subsystem skill instead.

Common Pattern

settings:
  terminal:
    pager: false
    syntax_highlighting:
      enabled: true
  telemetry:
    enabled: false

logs:
  level: Info

env:
  AWS_REGION: us-east-1

metadata:
  name: platform-infrastructure

Terminal Appearance and Color

settings.terminal controls Atmos's terminal output appearance (color, theme, width, unicode, syntax highlighting, pager). Fields (from pkg/schema/schema.go Terminal struct):

settings:
  terminal:
    color: true               # Explicitly force color on (overrides TTY auto-detection)
    no_color: false           # Deprecated: use the --no-color flag or ATMOS_NO_COLOR/NO_COLOR/CLICOLOR env vars instead
    force_color: false        # ENV-only (ATMOS_FORCE_COLOR) -- not settable from this config field
    theme: dracula             # Theme name; see `atmos theme list` for available names
    max_width: 120
    unicode: true
    syntax_highlighting:
      enabled: true
    pager: false               # false/true/off/on/"less"/a specific pager command

Precedence: no_color (config) is deprecated in favor of the --no-color flag/env vars below. IsColorEnabled logic: no_color forces color off; else explicit color: true forces it on; otherwise Atmos falls back to TTY auto-detection.

Flags and Environment Variables

Flag	Env vars	Effect
`--no-color`	`ATMOS_NO_COLOR`, `NO_COLOR`, `CLICOLOR`	Disable color output
`--force-color`	`ATMOS_FORCE_COLOR`, `CLICOLOR_FORCE`	Force color output even when not a TTY (e.g. piped/CI output, screenshots)

`atmos theme` Commands

Discover and preview themes (a theme controls tables, markdown rendering, and help text colors):

atmos theme list                 # List all available themes
atmos theme list --recommended   # Only themes tested for optimal compatibility
atmos theme show <theme-name>    # Preview a theme's palette and sample UI elements
atmos theme browse               # Interactive/searchable theme gallery (docs site)
atmos list themes                # Alias for 'theme list'; defaults to recommended-only, use --all for all

Activate a theme via ATMOS_THEME=<theme-name> env var or settings.terminal.theme in atmos.yaml.

Routing

Need	Load
Template settings	`atmos-templates`
Validation settings and policies	`atmos-validation`, `atmos-schemas`
Auth or identity settings	`atmos-auth`
Native CI settings	`atmos-ci`
Toolchain settings	`atmos-toolchain`
Stack/component `settings` fields	`atmos-stacks`, `atmos-components`

Guardrails

Treat env as global process environment. Use component, workflow, command, or auth-specific env settings when only one execution context needs the variable.
Do not put subsystem-specific details here just because they live under settings; route to the owning skill first.
Prefer explicit, stable global settings over hidden shell assumptions.