Environment variables
Revue needs no environment variables. These are for running a second copy alongside your own, scripting the
command line, and trying other AI models. Set them in the shell that starts Revue or runs revue.
An app opened from Finder or the Dock doesn’t see them.
Data folders
Section titled “Data folders”| Variable | What it does |
|---|---|
REVUE_DATA_DIR | Revue’s data folder, ~/ unless you set it. Drafts, windows and caches then go in native-state and cache folders inside it, instead of Application Support and Caches. |
REVUE_NATIVE_DATA_DIR | A folder for everything the app keeps, as development builds use. The data folder is its backend folder, drafts and windows go in state and caches in cache. |
REVUE_NATIVE_STATE_DIR | Where drafts, viewed marks, windows and tabs go, ahead of either variable above. |
The agent commands, revue hooks and the developer commands read only REVUE_DATA_DIR. To point them at a copy of
Revue started with REVUE_NATIVE_DATA_DIR=<dir>, set REVUE_DATA_DIR=<dir>/backend. Files and folders lists what
each folder holds.
The review server
Section titled “The review server”These are read by the developer commands.
| Variable | What it does |
|---|---|
REVUE_BIND | The address revue serve listens on, 127.0.0.1:8787 unless you set it. |
REVUE_UI_TOKEN | In a release build, the server answers only requests carrying this value in a revue_token cookie. |
REVUE_SYNC_STATE | Which pull requests revue serve syncs: open, the default, or all. |
REVUE_GITHUB_API_BASE, REVUE_GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL | Another GitHub API to talk to, such as a test server. |
AI models and tools
Section titled “AI models and tools”These override Settings › AI review for AI review and Ask AI. A variable you set wins over the setting.
| Variable | What it does |
|---|---|
REVUE_CLAUDE_BIN | The claude command to run, instead of the one on your PATH. |
REVUE_CODEX_BIN | The codex command to run, when Settings › AI review uses Codex. |
REVUE_FINDER_MODEL | The Claude model that looks for problems. sonnet by default. |
REVUE_VERIFIER_MODEL | The Claude model that checks each problem found. opus by default. |
REVUE_SYNTHESIZER_MODEL | The Claude model that writes up the review. opus by default. |
REVUE_ASK_MODEL | The Claude model Ask AI answers with. opus by default. |
Claude Code’s plugin sets two more for its own use. REVUE_AGENT_SESSION names the session in each command Claude
runs, so a reply is credited to it. REVUE_BIN names the revue the plugin runs, if you need to point it somewhere
else.
Caches
Section titled “Caches”| Variable | What it does |
|---|---|
REVUE_CACHE_BUDGET_MB | The diff cache limit in megabytes, in place of Settings › Storage › Diff cache limit. Past it, the diffs read longest ago are removed first. |