envault-manager

A guide for Envault, a command-line tool that stores environment variables in one SQLite database and synchronizes them with project .env files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and check Envault, set up environment variables, manage secrets across projects, and keep stored values and .env files synchronized.
Why use it?
It gives projects and environments a central place for configuration values instead of requiring manual edits in many .env files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/altic-dev/envault/envault-manager
Any agent
npx skills add altic-dev/envault --skill envault-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/altic-dev/envault

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,454 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00035 $0.03454
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01727
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00345

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd56a5134c06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

envault-manager scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- ✅ Rely on filesystem permissions (database is `chmod 600`)
skills/envault-manager/SKILL.md · 457 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 457 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Envault Manager

Overview

Envault is a centralized environment variable management CLI tool that stores variables in a SQLite database (~/.envault/envault.db) while keeping .env files in sync. It uses git repository roots to identify projects and provides a structured, AI-friendly interface for managing environment variables across multiple projects and environments.

Core principle: One database for all projects, with bidirectional sync between the database (store) and project .env files.

Installation

Before using envault, always check if it's installed:

# Check if envault is installed and get version
envault --version

# If not installed, you'll see: "command not found: envault"
# If installed, you'll see: "envault 0.1.0" (or current version)

If envault is not installed, install it:

Using Bun (recommended):

bun install -g envault-manager

Using npm:

npm install -g envault-manager

Verify installation:

# Should show version number
envault --version

# Should show help menu
envault --help

When to Use

Use envault when:

  • User asks to "set up environment variables" for a project
  • User wants to manage secrets across dev/staging/prod environments
  • User needs to copy variables between projects
  • User has existing .env files to import into centralized management
  • User wants to view or modify environment variables without editing files directly
  • User needs to sync environment variables across team or AI agent sessions

Quick Reference

Command Purpose Example
envault project list List all tracked projects envault project list --json
envault env list List environments in current or specified project envault env list --project backend
envault var list List variables (with partial value display) envault var list --env prod
envault var get <KEY> Get full value of a variable envault var get DATABASE_URL
envault var set <KEY> Set variable (interactive/secure mode) envault var set API_KEY --env prod
envault var unset <KEY> Remove a single variable envault var unset OLD_KEY
envault var clear Remove all variables (with confirmation) envault var clear --env dev --yes
envault var copy <project> Copy variables from another project envault var copy backend --from-env prod --env staging
envault sync Sync store → project (write .env files) envault sync
envault sync --from project Sync project → store (import .env files) envault sync --from project

Read the full file on GitHub · 457 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 457 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B fd56a5134c06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

envault-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository altic-dev/envault (11 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 3,454 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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