Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`ALCHEMIST_CONFIG_PATH`	`~/.config/alchemist/config.toml`	Path to config file
`ALCHEMIST_CONFIG`	(alias)	Alias for `ALCHEMIST_CONFIG_PATH`
`ALCHEMIST_DB_PATH`	`~/.config/alchemist/alchemist.db`	Path to SQLite database
`ALCHEMIST_DATA_DIR`	(none)	Sets data dir; `alchemist.db` placed here
`ALCHEMIST_CONFIG_MUTABLE`	`true`	Set `false` to block runtime config writes
`RUST_LOG`	`info`	Log level: `info`, `debug`, `alchemist=trace`

Default paths: XDG on Linux/macOS, %APPDATA%\Alchemist\ on Windows.

Docker

Always set path variables explicitly to paths inside your mounted volumes. Without this, files are lost when the container is removed.

environment:
  - ALCHEMIST_CONFIG_PATH=/app/config/config.toml
  - ALCHEMIST_DB_PATH=/app/data/alchemist.db

Recommended host bind mount:

volumes:
  - ~/.config/alchemist:/app/config
  - ~/.config/alchemist:/app/data