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Variables

A variable is the plaintext sibling of a secret: a typed free value (a macro), owned at one scope and resolved down the cascade the same way, but shown in the clear because it is not sensitive. The model underneath is config and credentials.

Values > Variables (with variable:read) is the directory of every variable. Each row shows its name under its label where it has one, a type badge (string, int, float, bool, json), a scope label (Platform, or the location / system / component it attaches to), and the value in the clear (no mask, no reveal). The list reads in label order, with the variables that carry none at the end, and a variable with no label reads as its name exactly.

The Variables directory: type badges and the value shown in the clear, the plaintext sibling of Secrets.
The Variables directory: type badges and the value shown in the clear, the plaintext sibling of Secrets.
  • New variable (with variable:create) opens a create drawer: give it a name (lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens, no dots and no underscores, unique per owner, and what the cascade resolves by), pick a type and a scope, choose the entity from the shared tree picker, then enter the value in a type-aware editor (a number input, a toggle for a bool, a textarea for json). A platform variable is install-wide, so it needs an all-scope grant plus platform:create on top of variable:create. variable:create is on the operator role; platform:* starts at admin. Without platform:create the Platform scope is not offered at all, and the form says which capability that takes.
  • Pick a row to open its detail blade. The footer Edit pencil (with variable:update, also an operator permission) opens the type-aware value editor; Delete (with variable:delete, admin and owner) sits behind a confirm. On a Platform row both also need the matching platform:<action>; holding only the variable half leaves the blade read-only with a note naming what is missing.

From the CLI the same surface is omniglass variable list / create / update / delete (see the CLI reference).