Environment Variables¶

Prompts Directory Resolution¶

The prompts directory is resolved in this order:

Priority	Source
1 (highest)	`--prompts-dir PATH` CLI option
2	`AIA_PROMPTS__DIR` environment variable (AIA >= 0.8.0)
3	`AIA_PROMPTS_DIR` environment variable (AIA < 0.8.0)
—	Error if none of the above is set

Preferred. Set by AIA >= 0.8.0. Takes precedence over AIA_PROMPTS_DIR.

export AIA_PROMPTS__DIR="$HOME/.prompts"

Legacy (AIA < 0.8.0). The absolute path to the directory containing your AIA prompt files. Used as a fallback when AIA_PROMPTS__DIR is not set.

export AIA_PROMPTS_DIR="$HOME/.prompts"

Set this in your login profile (.zprofile, .bash_profile) so it is available in cron jobs.

Optional. The shell binary used to wrap each cron entry with a login invocation.

aias reads ENV["SHELL"] when building job entries. If not set, falls back to /bin/bash.

echo $SHELL
# /bin/zsh

This produces cron entries of the form:

0 8 * * * /bin/zsh -l -c 'aia daily_digest >> ... 2>&1'

To override the shell for a specific update run:

SHELL=/bin/bash aias update

These are not used by aias directly, but must be available in your login profile for cron jobs to succeed.

Variable	Description
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`	Anthropic API key (when using Claude)
`OPENAI_API_KEY`	OpenAI API key (when using GPT models)
`AIA_PROMPTS_DIR`	Same as above — must be in login profile

Set these in your login profile, not only in your interactive shell's rc file (.bashrc, .zshrc). See Cron Environment for details.