CircleCI context

Export secrets into a CircleCI context.

Connection

What	This provider
Vendor	CircleCI
Key	`circleci-context`
Availability	`available`. You can connect it today.
Credential we hold	`circleci-token`
Values read back	no
Activation	`immediate`

Direction	What it does
`export`	We write names and values from your environment into the store.

CircleCI returns no value once it holds one, so we can write here and cannot read back.

immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.

Direction	Policies you can pick
`export`	`create_only`, `overwrite`, `overwrite_and_prune`

How syncs work says what each one does.

Paste a credential from the vendor. We seal it and never show it again.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	What it is
`token`	Personal API token	secret; we mask it here and seal it	yes	Use a personal token. Project tokens do not work on CircleCI's v2 API, and one minted before June 2023 is refused by context endpoints.

You answer these once per environment you map.

Field	Label	Kind	Required	Advanced	What it is
`contextId`	Context ID	text	yes	no	The last part of the context's URL in CircleCI's organization settings.

We probe for these when we verify the connection.

Permission	Directions	Blocking	Without it
`me:read`	every direction	yes	We cannot confirm which CircleCI account this token belongs to.
`context:write`	`export`	yes	Export cannot write anything.