October 31, 2025

October 2025 Recap

Varlock Team

October was focused on major foundational work that will unlock lots of future plugins and integrations.

Releases

Our main focus was our new plugin system, including a first-party plugin for 1Password.

varlock@0.1.0: This release unifies resolvers with decorators, introduces a new plugin system.
@varlock/1password-plugin@0.1.0: Our first plugin for the new plugin system. It allows seamless use of the desktop app or service accounts for local dev, and service accounts in CI/CD and deployed environments.
Integrations - All of our integrations are now updated (as of v0.1.0), to support the new plugin system.
@env-spec/parser@0.0.7: A new version of the env-spec parser that underpins the varlock release, including unified resolvers and decorators.

Try these updates and let us know what you think!

Docs MCP - Search our docs from the comfort of your favourite AI agent.
1Password Plugin - Secure your secrets with everyone’s favourite password manager.
Plugins - Read more about how our plugin system works.
AI Tools - Updated docs about securely loading secrets into your favorite AI tools with Varlock.

envFlag - As of varlock@0.1.0, envFlag has been deprecated and is replaced by currentEnv, see more in the docs.
docsUrl - As of varlock@0.1.0, docsUrl has been deprecated and is replaced by docs(), see more in the docs.

We have a new RFC in our GitHub discussions:

RFC: Baked-in Functions and Utilities: This RFC proposes adding utilities function and new types to Varlock, such as replace(), gt(), lt(), and other comparison and logical operators. Thanks to rennokki for starting the discussion!