environment

environment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dhaupin/vant. It costs 5 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to environment variables: settings stored outside code, such as API keys, database addresses, and debug switches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize .env files, load values in Node.js or Python, validate required settings, and avoid committing secrets.
Why use it?
It keeps configuration and secrets separate from source code and allows different values for local development and production.

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/dhaupin/vant/vant-skill-environment
Any agent
npx skills add dhaupin/vant --skill vant-skill-environment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhaupin/vant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for environment

README.md
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Per session 5 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00005 $0.00223
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3708427c4134, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

environment scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 4d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

models/public/skills/vant-skill-environment/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Environment

Environment variables.


When To Use

  • Config secrets
  • API keys
  • Environment-specific settings

What To Do

1. Files

File What
.env Local (gitignore)
.env.local Local override
.env.production Production

2. Syntax

API_KEY=secret123
DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost
DEBUG=true

3. Load

// Node
require('dotenv').config()
process.env.API_KEY

# Python
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()
os.environ['API_KEY']

4. Best Practice

  • Never commit secrets
  • Use different values per env
  • Validate required vars

Role: Environment Manager
Input: .env files
Output: Config

Secrets.

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. 4d ago First seen · 67 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 3708427c4134

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environment is a skill published in the GitHub repository dhaupin/vant (9 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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