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   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "The product is presented as a hosted control plane that connects to existing Git and cloud accounts. No self-hosted control plane was on the homepage.",
   "source": "https://www.envzero.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "env zero is used as a web control plane. The CLI is a client of that service.",
   "source": "https://www.envzero.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "The homepage offers Start for Free next to a demo request. A published price table was not on that page.",
   "source": "https://www.envzero.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "The API reference describes the official env zero REST API with base URL https://api.env0.com/.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "The reference shows HTTPS JSON requests, including POST https://api.env0.com/api-keys.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "Authentication is HTTP Basic. The API key ID is the username and the API key secret is the password, shown in curl as --user.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "The create-API-key page is the opened reference for the REST base URL and Basic authentication.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "The env0 GitHub organization README calls the repository Env0's MCP server and documents Docker stdio plus optional HTTP.",
   "source": "https://github.com/env0/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.verdict",
   "note": "env zero's own changelog says the MCP server lets an IDE or agent plan, approve, and deploy with existing governance, and that it is open source.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/changelogs/2025/09/env-zero-mcp-server-change-log",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "env zero documents a current CLI binary for environment and deployment commands, with JSON output and stable exit codes.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/guides/community-and-resources/support-and-help/env-zero-cli",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "https://docs.envzero.com/llms.txt is a first-party index of the env zero docs, including the API reference.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "Basic-authenticated REST is documented and the reference is large. This pass did not map every resource, so the path stays at 7.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "The CLI is documented for agents, with JSON, exit codes, API-key auth, deploy, and approval. That is a broad practical path at 8.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/guides/community-and-resources/support-and-help/env-zero-cli",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "The official server has a named tool list, but deploy-environment always requires user approval and the documented install is Docker. That keeps the path at 6.",
   "source": "https://github.com/env0/mcp-server",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "verdict.best_path",
   "note": "CLI is the highest score. API-key environment variables run it without an MCP client.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/guides/community-and-resources/support-and-help/env-zero-cli",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened the current env zero CLI guide, including JSON output, exit codes, and API-key variables.",
   "source": "https://docs.envzero.com/guides/community-and-resources/support-and-help/env-zero-cli",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
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   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened the current create-API-key reference, including Basic authentication and https://api.env0.com/.",
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   "tier": "declared"
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   },
   {
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    "url": "https://github.com/env0/mcp-server"
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   }
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    "basic-auth"
   ],
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   "docs": "https://docs.envzero.com/api-reference/credentials/create-api-key",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
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  },
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   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [],
   "import": []
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
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   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. The env zero CLI and the official MCP server act on environments through API credentials.\n",
   "ui_stack": [],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
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 "name": "env zero",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
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   "hashicorp-terraform",
   "pulumi"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "env0",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "cli",
  "scores": {
   "api": 7,
   "cli": 8,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 6,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "env zero is automatable today through its CLI. The current CLI is a single binary, installed with Homebrew or npm install -g @env0/cli@2. It prints JSON on stdout, writes errors to stderr, and uses stable exit codes. Browser login is env0 login. Automation uses ENV0_API_KEY_ID and ENV0_API_KEY_SECRET. Commands create, deploy, destroy, archive, approve, cancel, and abort environments, and env0 context summarizes one environment. env zero also documents a REST API at https://api.env0.com. Requests use HTTP Basic authentication with the API key ID as the username and the API key secret as the password. The secret is shown once. The env0 organization publishes an official MCP server in env0/mcp-server. The default transport is Docker stdio. HTTP is optional with MCP_TRANSPORT=http. Tools include project and environment reads, deploy, abort, approve, cancel, plan logs, and Cloud Compass resource reads. The README says deploy-environment always requires user approval before execution. The homepage offers Start for Free. https://docs.envzero.com/llms.txt is a first-party documentation index. Zapier, Make, Power Automate, and n8n were not assessed. Computer-use viability is unassessed. CLI scores 8. API scores 7. MCP scores 6. CLI is the best path because a key pair runs deployments from a shell, including approval, without Docker or an MCP client.\n"
 }
}