Skip to content

Update secrets advice #121

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
kevinbackhouse merged 4 commits into from
Dec 16, 2025
Merged

Update secrets advice #121

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
4 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
b0eee6d
Update secrets advice.
kevinbackhouse Dec 16, 2025
55ad1dd
Update README.md
kevinbackhouse Dec 16, 2025
96bc382
Update README.md
kevinbackhouse Dec 16, 2025
332d9e4
Add comment about GH_TOKEN.
kevinbackhouse Dec 16, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
19 changes: 14 additions & 5 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -36,17 +36,26 @@ Python >= 3.9 or Docker

## Configuration

Provide a GitHub token for an account that is entitled to use [GitHub Models](https://models.github.ai) via the `AI_API_TOKEN` environment variable. Further configuration is use case dependent, i.e. pending which MCP servers you'd like to use in your taskflows.
Provide a GitHub token for an account that is entitled to use [GitHub Models](https://models.github.ai) via the `AI_API_TOKEN` environment variable. Further configuration is use case dependent, i.e. pending which MCP servers you'd like to use in your taskflows. In a terminal, you can add `AI_API_TOKEN` to the environment like this:

You can set persisting environment variables via an `.env` file in the project root.
```sh
export AI_API_TOKEN=<your_github_token>
```

Or, if you are using GitHub Codespaces, then you can [add a Codespace secret](https://github.com/settings/codespaces/secrets/new) so that `AI_API_TOKEN` is automatically available when working in a Codespace.

Many of the MCP servers in the [seclab-taskflow](https://github.com/GitHubSecurityLab/seclab-taskflows) repo also need an environment variable named `GH_TOKEN` for accessing the GitHub API. You can use two separate PATs if you want, or you can use one PAT for both purposes, like this:

```sh
export GH_TOKEN=$AI_API_TOKEN
```

We do not recommend storing secrets on disk, but you can persist non-sensitive environment variables by adding a `.env` file in the project root.

Example:

```sh
# Tokens
AI_API_TOKEN=<your_github_token>
# MCP configs
GH_TOKEN=<your_github_token>
CODEQL_DBS_BASE_PATH="/app/my_data/codeql_databases"
AI_API_ENDPOINT="https://models.github.ai/inference"
```
Expand Down