Authorization

GenAIScript will try to find the connection token from various sources:

• a .env file in the root of your project (VSCode and CLI)
• environment variables, typically within your CI/CD environment (CLI only)
• Visual Studio Language Chat Models (VSCode only)

.env file or process environment

The extension also supports the following set of variables:

• The OPENAI_API_TYPE, OPENAI_API_BASE, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_VERSION variables.
• Either AZURE_OPENAI_API_ENDPOINT or AZURE_OPENAI_API_BASE, and AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY variables.
• The AZURE_API_BASE, AZURE_API_KEY, AZURE_API_VERSION variables.

.env

OPENAI_API_KEY="oaip_SomethingSecret"

Additionally,

• The OPENAI_API_BASE can point to a local server, for example, http://localhost:1337/v1 as seen at https://jan.ai/api-reference/.
• The OPENAI_API_TYPE should be either azure or local. If not specified, the system will attempt to infer it based on the OPENAI_API_BASE value.

Don’t commit your secrets

If you are using Git to manage your project, ensure that the .env file is added to your .gitignore to prevent committing your secrets to the repository.

.gitignore

...
.env

Multiple .env files

You can override the default .env file name by adding the --env myother.env file.

Listing model configuration

Run the script model command to list the available scripts and their model configuration. This can be useful to diagnose configuration issues in CI/CD environments.

npx genaiscript scripts model [script]

where [script] can be a script id or a file path.