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+BRAVE_API_KEY=
+SERPER_API_KEY=
+REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
+API_KEYS=your-secret-key-here
+LITELLM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:4000
+LITELLM_API_KEY=
+SYNTHESIS_MODEL=claude-sonnet-4-6
+RERANKER_MODEL=BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
+PORT=8000
+MAX_CONCURRENT_SCRAPES=10
+SCRAPE_TIMEOUT=5
+EXTRACT_TIMEOUT=10
+RATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE=60
+CRAWL_MAX_PAGES=50
+CRAWL_MAX_DEPTH=3
+INDEX_DB_PATH=axon_index.sqlite3
+ENABLE_BROWSER_FALLBACK=false