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title: "Configuration and telemetry · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/configuration-and-telemetry
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updated: 2026-10-27
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# Configuration and telemetry

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Developer tools, SDKs and CLIs](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

> Read settings in one documented order from standard paths, take secrets from the environment, and let users switch telemetry off with one variable.

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/configuration-and-telemetry">Agent Wranglers developer tools, SDKs and CLIs playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

## Required

- DEV-7 [Take secrets from the environment or a file instead of a flag](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/configuration-and-telemetry/no-secrets-in-flags.md) · 989 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Read tokens, passwords and keys from an environment variable, a file, standard input or the system keychain. The tool never accepts a secret as a command-line argument and never prints one.

## Recommended

- DEV-14 [Read settings in one documented order from standard folders](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/configuration-and-telemetry/config-precedence.md) · 1,155 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Take each setting from the first source that sets it. The order is flag, environment variable, project file, user file, system file and built-in default. On Linux and BSD, find files through the XDG base directory variables.
- DEV-15 [Send no telemetry from CI or when DO_NOT_TRACK is set](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/configuration-and-telemetry/cli-telemetry-off.md) · 853 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Send no usage data when `DO_NOT_TRACK=1`, when the tool's own variable such as `EXAMPLE_TELEMETRY=0` is set, or when `CI` is set. Before the first send, print what the tool collects and how to turn it off.

- Previous: [Command-line behaviour](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/command-line-behaviour.md)
- Next: [Help, completion and updates](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools/help-completion-and-updates.md)
- [All chapters](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/developer-tools.md)