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Claude Code Env Vars Don't Persist: 3 of 80 Runs Fell Back to Prod

I told Claude Code export APP_ENV=staging . My next message said to run the script. It printed target = production . Nothing got deployed. target.py is a one-line stub in a throwaway repo, built around os.environ.get("APP_ENV", "production") , a default you've probably seen in real code. But Claude…

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  1. 2026-11-05 00:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code Env Vars Don't Persist: 3 of 80 Runs Fell Back to Prod

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