env-doctor

env-doctor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin. It costs 12 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A diagnostic guide and script for shell and .env settings, where .env files store project configuration such as Twilio credentials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate 401 errors, failures after switching Twilio accounts, regional routing problems, or differences between command-line and MCP access.
Why use it?
It finds conflicting accounts, credentials, regions, or API keys that can cause authentication failures even when the code appears correct.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the twilio-claude-plugin plugin — 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin/env-doctor
Any agent
npx skills add wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin --skill env-doctor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install twilio-claude-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00012 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00060

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0ebfa0909949, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

env-doctor 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 5d 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.

skills/env-doctor/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: env-doctor description: Diagnose shell and .env credential conflicts. Use when hitting 401 errors, auth failures after switching Twilio accounts, or mysterious environment variable issues.

Environment Doctor

Diagnose shell vs .env conflicts that cause mysterious Twilio auth failures. Run this when:

  • A new user clones the repo and gets 401 errors
  • API calls fail after switching between Twilio accounts or projects
  • Regional routing errors appear unexpectedly
  • MCP tools return auth failures but CLI works (or vice versa)

Usage

Run the diagnostic script:

./scripts/env-doctor.sh

What It Checks

Check What It Detects
1. Project .env Missing .env file
2. Credential conflicts TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER mismatch between shell env and .env file
3. Regional routing Orphaned TWILIO_REGION/TWILIO_EDGE in shell that silently redirect all API calls to regional endpoints
4. API key auth TWILIO_API_KEY/TWILIO_API_SECRET mismatch between shell and .env
5. Environment isolation Whether direnv is installed and .envrc is allowed

Common Scenarios

New user gets 401 after cloning

They have TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID from a previous project in their shell. The .env has different credentials. Shell wins → wrong account → 401.

Fix: unset TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN or install direnv.

Regional 401 errors

User previously set TWILIO_REGION=au1 for regional testing. They commented it out in .env but the shell still has it. All API calls silently route to AU1 endpoints where US1 credentials fail.

Fix: unset TWILIO_REGION TWILIO_EDGE — commenting out .env lines doesn't unset shell vars.

MCP tools fail but CLI works

The MCP server inherits env at launch. If shell had stale vars when Claude Code started, MCP uses those. CLI reads .env fresh each invocation.

Fix: Restart Claude Code entirely after fixing env vars.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 5d ago First seen · 66 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 0ebfa0909949

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env-doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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