Environment Variables

Supported environment variables

Environment Variables

Reference for all environment variables used by Simili Bot.

Required

QDRANT_URL

Vector database URL.

export QDRANT_URL="https://your-cluster.qdrant.io:6333"

QDRANT_API_KEY

Vector database API key.

export QDRANT_API_KEY="your-api-key"

GEMINI_API_KEY

Google Gemini API key.

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Optional

GITHUB_TOKEN

GitHub personal access token for API calls.

export GITHUB_TOKEN="ghp_xxxxx"

Required scopes: repo, write:checks

TRANSFER_TOKEN

Elevated GitHub token for cross-repo transfers.

export TRANSFER_TOKEN="ghp_xxxxx"

Configuration Variable Expansion

Use variables in simili.yaml:

qdrant:
  url: "${QDRANT_URL}"
  api_key: "${QDRANT_API_KEY}"

embedding:
  api_key: "${GEMINI_API_KEY}"

Simili Bot expands ${VARIABLE_NAME} from environment at runtime.

GitHub Actions

Set secrets in repository:

env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  QDRANT_URL: ${{ secrets.QDRANT_URL }}
  QDRANT_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.QDRANT_API_KEY }}
  GEMINI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GEMINI_API_KEY }}

Docker

Pass variables with -e:

docker run -e QDRANT_URL="..." \
           -e QDRANT_API_KEY="..." \
           -e GEMINI_API_KEY="..." \
           similigh/simili-bot:latest