Permit the use of environmental variables in the config (e.g. for API key)

[cboettig]

Validations

• I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

Would you consider support for environmental variables in configuration?

like so:

{
  "models": [
    {
      "title": "GPT-4o",
      "provider": "openai", 
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "apiKey": "$OPENAI_API_KEY"
    }
  ]
}

This would be convenient in numerous settings as using environmental variables for API keys is a common pattern. In my context this would streamline my deployment of continue.dev in prebuilt devcontainer/jupyterhub environments to students in large-enrollment courses. Thanks for considering and kudos for such a polished and configurable tool!

Solution

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