Utels project bootstrap

utels project bootstrap

Registers one or two utels.dev projects (production + staging) and pipes the returned ingest tokens to wrangler secret put via stdin. Tokens never appear on stdout — they transit only through the spawned wrangler child's stdin and are dropped from memory.

When to invoke

Use when you're:

• Onboarding utels error tracking on a fresh Worker.
• Re-bootstrapping after a token rotation or after deleting a project.
• Setting up a new environment (staging, preview, ephemeral) that needs its own utels project.

What's in here

assets/scripts/setup-utels.ts

Generic one-shot helper. Accepts the bootstrap token via env (typically decrypted by dotenvx run -f <utels>/.env --), targets one or both of production / staging, registers via POST /api/registration?v=1, captures the ingest token from the response, spawns pnpm exec wrangler secret put UTELS_INGEST_TOKEN with stdin = token.

CLI flags:

• --only=<env> (production | staging) — register just one env, useful after a partial failure.
• --endpoint=<url> — alternative utels host (default https://utels.dev).

Env vars:

• UTELS_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN (required) — the bootstrap token from the utels operator. Usually decrypted via dotenvx.
• APP_UTELS_PROJECT_PROD / APP_UTELS_PROJECT_STAGING — override default project IDs.
• DRY_RUN=1 — skip both the POST and the secret put, just print what would happen.

Two gotchas the script defends against

1. Error: Not found target files — bash 3.2 NUL truncation

The diff-aware secret-scan pattern (used in pre-push hooks elsewhere) reads NUL-separated paths into a shell variable:

files=$(git diff --name-only -z "${upstream}..HEAD")
printf '%s' "$files" | xargs -0 some-tool

bash 3.2 (default on macOS) strips NUL bytes when capturing into a variable. $files ends after the first filename and xargs -0 gets empty input. Pipe the git diff output directly without going through a variable.

This isn't specific to utels — it bit secretlint at pre-push too. Same root cause, same fix.

2. Project slug collision causes 1101 / 500

utels' registration endpoint uses INSERT INTO project without ON CONFLICT. If the slug already exists, the SQL throws a unique-constraint violation that escapes the request handler uncaught, surfacing as a Cloudflare 1101 Worker threw exception HTML response.

Misleading message: "Worker threw exception" suggests a runtime crash, but the actual cause is just a name collision.

Diagnose: query the utels D1 directly:

wrangler d1 execute utels-analytics --remote --command \
  "SELECT project_id FROM project WHERE project_id LIKE '<your-slug>%';"

If the row exists from a previous attempt, either delete it (loses historical data) or pick a new slug (e.g. <base>-prod instead of bare <base>).

Security notes

The script never prints the ingest token. It transits as the spawned wrangler child's stdin only. If wrangler secret put fails for any reason (auth, account ID, network), the token is dropped immediately — there's no temp file, no log, no clipboard.

Repo-side secrets you DO commit: only the bootstrap token via dotenvx encryption, and only inside the utels repo itself. The starter kit / mnemo only needs DOTENV_PRIVATE_KEY_CLOUDFLARE to decrypt .env.cloudflare.

Source

mizchi/mnemo/blob/main/mnemo-server/scripts/setup-utels.mjs. The version shipped here is the same with mnemo-specific defaults parameterized.

Related skills

• cloudflare-workers-otel-utels — the withUtelsErrorTracking boundary wrapper that uses the ingest token this script provisions.