Required

For authentication, Percy requires a token environment variables to be set:

• PERCY_TOKEN: The Percy repo write-only API token. This is unique for each Percy repository.

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IMPORTANT: Keep your Percy token secret. Anyone with access to your token can consume your account quota. They will not be able to read data because the token is write-only.

See the Setup guides for how to securely set environment variables in your CI service.

Optional

Percy client libraries pull other information from the environment they are running in, such as the branch name, commit SHA, GitHub Pull Request number, etc. You can override some of Percy's behaviors by setting these these environment variables in your CI environment:

• PERCY_BRANCH: The branch the build is being run in. Defaults to the current git branch.
• PERCY_TARGET_BRANCH: The branch to compare against. Defaults to master.
  • If the Percy build is associated to a GitHub Pull Request, setting this value have no effect and the target branch will be automatically determined from the GitHub PR.
• PERCY_COMMIT: The commit SHA to associate to the build.
• PERCY_PULL_REQUEST: The pull request number to associate to the build, if any.
• PERCY_PARALLEL_TOTAL: The total number of parallel builds to expect.
  • In most setups this is automatically discovered and does not need to be set. See Parallel test suites for more info.
• PERCY_PARALLEL_NONCE: A unique identifier used to group parallel builds. This can be any string that is shared between parallel runners, such as the CI build number.
  • In most setups this is automatically discovered and does not need to be set. See Parallel test suites for more info.
• PERCY_ENABLE: Set to 0 to prevent Percy running in your CI environment. This can be useful to set conditionally if you want Percy to be disabled in certain scenarios.

Setting environment variables

See the Setup guides for how to set environment variables in your CI service or in local development environments.