name: check-envs description: Check and validate all required environment variables in .env file. Use when verifying environment setup or troubleshooting configuration issues. allowed-tools:

• Bash
• Read user-invocable: true

Environment Variables Checker Skill

This skill validates the presence and configuration of environment variables required for the project.

What This Skill Does

• Reads the .env file from project root
• Checks for all required environment variables
• Categorizes variables by platform (Cloudflare, Supabase)
• Displays detailed status of each variable
• Provides setup guidance for missing variables
• Cross-platform support (Unix/Mac/Windows)

Environment Variables Checked

Cloudflare Workers (Required)

• CLOUDFLARE_API - API token for Cloudflare Workers deployment
• CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID - Cloudflare account identifier

Supabase (Optional)

• SUPABASE_URL - Supabase project URL
• SUPABASE_ANON_KEY - Anonymous/public key for client-side use
• SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY - Service role key for server-side use
• SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF - Project reference ID for CLI operations

Usage

Via Claude Code Skill

/check-envs

Manual Execution

Unix/Mac/Linux:

.claude/skills/check-envs/scripts/check-envs.sh

Windows PowerShell:

.claude/skills/check-envs/scripts/check-envs.ps1

Output Format

The skill provides color-coded output:

• ✅ Green - Variable is set and configured
• ⚠️ Yellow - Variable is set but has placeholder value
• ❌ Red - Variable is missing or not set

Example Output

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║   Environment Variables Check             ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝

Cloudflare Workers (Required)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ CLOUDFLARE_API: Set
✅ CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID: Set

Supabase (Optional)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠️  SUPABASE_URL: Placeholder value detected
⚠️  SUPABASE_ANON_KEY: Placeholder value detected
❌ SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY: Not set
✅ SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF: Set

Summary
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Required variables: 2/2 configured ✅
Optional variables: 2/4 configured

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Setting up the project for the first time
• Troubleshooting deployment issues
• Verifying environment configuration before deployment
• Onboarding new team members
• Switching between environments
• After updating credentials

Error Handling

.env File Not Found

If the .env file doesn't exist, the skill will:

1. Report that no .env file was found
2. Suggest creating one from .env.example
3. Provide instructions on how to obtain credentials

Missing Required Variables

If required Cloudflare variables are missing:

1. Display which variables are missing
2. Provide links to obtain the credentials
3. Exit with error status

Placeholder Values Detected

If variables contain placeholder values like:

• your-*-here
• <your-*>
• xxxxx

The skill will warn that these need to be replaced with actual values.

Setup Instructions Provided

When variables are missing or have placeholders, the skill provides:

For Cloudflare:

• Link to Cloudflare Dashboard
• Link to API token generation
• Required permissions list

For Supabase:

• Link to Supabase Dashboard
• Navigation path to API settings
• Explanation of each key type and usage

Integration with Other Skills

This skill works well with:

• /dependencies - Check environment before installing dependencies
• /deployment - Validate configuration before deployment

Future Enhancements

Planned improvements:

• Validate format of environment variables (URL format, token length, etc.)
• Check for common configuration mistakes
• Suggest fixes for detected issues
• Support for multiple environment files (.env.development, .env.production)
• Export environment report to file
• Integration with CI/CD pipelines