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+OPENROUTER_API_KEY=
+JWT_SECRET=
+OPENROUTER_LLM_MODEL=
+OPENROUTER_EMBEDDING_MODEL=
+DATABASE_URL=
+REDIS_URL=
+QDRANT_URL=