Prompts

Prompts ask for a value interactively the first time it’s needed, then remember the answer — so secrets and machine-specific values never have to be hard-coded in config.toml.

# Config-level (global)
[prompts]
GIT_EMAIL = "Enter your git email"

# Package-level
[packages.aws]
[packages.aws.prompts]
AWS_ACCESS_KEY = "Enter AWS access key"

# Profile-level
[profiles.work]
[profiles.work.prompts]
WORK_EMAIL = "Enter work email"

Each entry maps a variable name to the message shown when prompting for it.

When prompts run

Prompts are collected — from config-level, the active profile, and every package being operated on — and checked before deploy, update, and diff. Any key not already present in .uservariables.toml triggers an interactive prompt; the rest are skipped silently.

Where answers go

Answers are saved to .uservariables.toml in the repository root, which dotr init adds to .gitignore. Once a key has an answer there, it’s never prompted for again — delete the line (or the whole file) to be asked again.

Values from .uservariables.toml become user variables — the highest-priority source in variable resolution, overriding profile, package, environment, and config variables. See Variables.