Environment variables¶

Every env var the Designer honors. Set in your shell, your CI job, or the OS user environment.

General¶

Var	Effect
`ELYSIUM_LOG`	Log level: `debug` / `info` / `warn` / `error`. Default `info`.
`ELYSIUM_TELEMETRY`	`0` disables anonymous telemetry
`ELYSIUM_EDITOR`	Editor command for "Open paired Python file"
`VISUAL` / `EDITOR`	Fallback editor (if `ELYSIUM_EDITOR` not set)

Var	Effect
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`	Claude provider
`OPENAI_API_KEY`	OpenAI provider
`OLLAMA_HOST`	Ollama endpoint (default `http://localhost:11434`)
`ELYSIUM_AI_PROVIDER`	Override the default provider

Var	Effect
`ELYSIUM_SIGNING_IDENTITY`	macOS Developer ID
`ELYSIUM_NOTARY_PROFILE`	macOS notarytool profile
`ELYSIUM_WINDOWS_CERT`	Path to a Windows PFX
`ELYSIUM_WINDOWS_CERT_PASSWORD`	Password for the above
`ELYSIUM_SIGN_KEY`	Hex-encoded 32-byte seed for marketplace signing

Var	Effect
`ELYSIUM_GPU_BACKEND`	Force a backend: `metal` / `dx12` / `vulkan` / `gl` / `cpu`
`ELYSIUM_TEXTURE_BUDGET_MB`	Override runtime texture budget
`ELYSIUM_RENDER_THREADS`	Number of CPU render threads

Var	Effect
`ELYSIUM_IPC_SOCKET`	Override the IPC socket path
`ELYSIUM_NO_HOT_RELOAD`	`1` disables hot reload entirely

Var	Effect
`ELYSIUM_DESIGNER_HOME`	Override the per-user state directory
`ELYSIUM_DESIGNER_PLUGINS`	Path to extra plugins folder
`ELYSIUM_BRIDGE_PORT`	Override the Aether bridge port

The elysium CLI inherits all of the above plus standard PATH / PYTHONPATH conventions.