Skip welcone screen by passing LLM key and other configs as environment variables.

[hussnain-ekai]

We are running code server (vscode) in a docker container with roocode preinstalled. Now we are trying to skip the welcome screen by passing LLM key. However, we cant get rid of welcome screen. Can you please add option of skipping the welcome screen?

[mrubens]

How are you passing the api key?

[hussnain-ekai]

via environment file (.env)

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="key"

and then in roocode-config.json
"apiKey": "${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}"

I have also checked the env variable is available in the container and it is correct.

[InTEGr8or]

This is related to #3641.

Environment variables would reduce Roo-Code's dependency on VS Code's state storage, which doesn't even work across the VS Code/VS Code Insiders boundary, among others.

Many other tools use a GEMINI_API_KEY= type of key storage, but Roo-Code still requires it to be re-entered into the Roo-Code UI and separately for different installation locations of VS Code.

I'm currently working on a fix for my own use, but it would be nice to know that others might also be able to use it.