Projects and configuration

labcoat init creates a Rust-first contract project:

contracts/          Rust contract sources
tests/              Native integration tests
Cargo.toml          Host-side test project
labcoat.toml        Public project configuration
labcoat.lock        Per-network deployment ledger, created on deploy
AGENTS.md            Concise instructions for coding agents
SKILL.md             Complete Labcoat agent workflow

Settings precedence

Settings resolve in this order:

CLI flags → LABCOAT_* environment variables → labcoat.toml → defaults

labcoat.toml supports network, rpc_url, wallet_file, and fee_rate. The default network is regtest and the default gateway is http://localhost:18888.

Secrets

Never put a mnemonic or passphrase in labcoat.toml or on the command line.

• Set LABCOAT_WALLET_PASSPHRASE for the keystore passphrase.
• Set LABCOAT_MNEMONIC or use wallet init --mnemonic-stdin for recovery.
• Mainnet and signet refuse wallet operations without an explicit passphrase.

Deployment state

labcoat.lock maps contract names to network-specific IDs, hashes, transaction IDs, and deployment status. Commit it when deployments are part of shared project state. After labcoat reset -y, redeploy contracts because the local chain no longer contains those IDs.