Environment Variables

Environment variables read by the qawolf CLI.

The qawolf CLI reads the following environment variables.

QAWOLF_API_KEY

API key for the QA Wolf platform. Used by flows pull, flows list --remote, and flows run --env. Required for any command that talks to the platform. Takes precedence over credentials stored via qawolf auth login.

QAWOLF_API_URL

Base URL for the QA Wolf platform API. Defaults to https://app.qawolf.com. Trailing slashes are stripped.

ANDROID_HOME

Path to the Android SDK root. Required by qawolf install android and by Android flow execution. ANDROID_SDK_ROOT is accepted as a fallback.

ANDROID_SDK_ROOT

Fallback path to the Android SDK root, used when ANDROID_HOME is not set.

CI Detection

The CLI treats the following variables as a signal that it is running in CI and switches the default output format to JSON:

• CI
• GITHUB_ACTIONS
• GITLAB_CI
• CIRCLECI
• JENKINS_URL
• BUILDKITE

Agent Detection

The CLI treats the following variables as a signal that it is running inside an agent and switches the default output format to agent mode:

• CLAUDE_CODE
• CURSOR_SESSION_ID