{ "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/insomnia/refs/heads/main/json-schema/environment.json", "title": "Insomnia Environment", "description": "An Insomnia environment stores key-value pairs of variables that can be referenced in requests using template tags. Environments allow switching between different configurations such as development, staging, and production without modifying individual requests.", "type": "object", "properties": { "_id": { "type": "string", "description": "Unique identifier for the environment, typically prefixed with env_." }, "name": { "type": "string", "description": "Human-readable name of the environment (e.g., Development, Staging, Production)." }, "data": { "type": "object", "description": "Key-value pairs of environment variables available for template tag substitution in requests.", "additionalProperties": { "description": "Environment variable value, which can be a string, number, boolean, object, or array." } }, "dataPropertyOrder": { "type": ["object", "null"], "description": "Defines the display order of data properties in the UI.", "properties": { "&": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Ordered list of property keys." } } }, "color": { "type": ["string", "null"], "description": "Optional color code for visual identification of the environment in the UI." }, "parentId": { "type": "string", "description": "Identifier of the parent workspace or base environment." }, "metaSortKey": { "type": "integer", "description": "Sort key used for ordering environments in the UI." }, "isPrivate": { "type": "boolean", "description": "Whether the environment is private and excluded from cloud sync and Git storage. Useful for storing secrets locally.", "default": false }, "created": { "type": "integer", "description": "Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the environment was created." }, "modified": { "type": "integer", "description": "Unix timestamp in milliseconds when the environment was last modified." }, "_type": { "type": "string", "const": "environment", "description": "The resource type identifier." } }, "required": ["_id", "name", "data", "parentId", "_type"], "additionalProperties": true }