Task Environment

Every task sees a constructed environment, not the raw shell environment of the engine process.

Sources of task values

From lower priority to higher priority, values can come from:

• namespaces
• task, plugin, or job parameters
• pipeline parameters
• SetParameter(...) during pipeline execution

Practical rules

• jobs seed pipeline parameters naturally
• plugins usually have to publish values into the pipeline explicitly with SetParameter(...)
• secure parameters may need to be read with GetParameter(...)

The safe mental model is: tasks run with the environment the engine intentionally assembles for them, not whatever happened to be exported in the parent shell.