# CouncilOS — Environment Variables Template # Copy this file to .env and fill in your actual values. # NEVER commit the .env file to version control. # ============================================================================= # LLM API Keys # ============================================================================= # Anthropic Claude API key (required) ANTHROPIC_API_KEY= # OpenAI GPT-4o API key (optional for Phase 1, required from Phase 3) OPENAI_API_KEY= # Tavily Search API key (required for Phase 4 web-search tool) TAVILY_API_KEY= # ============================================================================= # Database # ============================================================================= # PostgreSQL connection string (required from Phase 2) DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://user:password@localhost:5432/councilOS # ============================================================================= # Vector Database (ChromaDB) # ============================================================================= # Local directory to persist ChromaDB embeddings (required for Phase 4 PDF tool) CHROMA_PERSIST_DIR=./chroma_db # ============================================================================= # Application Settings # ============================================================================= # FastAPI server host and port HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=8000 # Log level: DEBUG | INFO | WARNING | ERROR LOG_LEVEL=INFO # CORS: comma-separated list of allowed frontend origins in production # Example: https://my-app.vercel.app,https://www.my-domain.com CORS_ORIGINS=http://localhost:3000