The .env file is not being used only environment variables work.

[davidsells]

System Information

MacOS Version: 14.5
Running on the main branch ( Oct 31 8AM EDT )

How to reproduce the error

• unset all LLM Provider keys in shell
• add LLM Provider key to .env file
• Start application and create an agent. The only model available is the letta-free.

This was tested with:
GROQ_API_KEY=""
OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-"

Both work fine when the keys are exported to the shell. However, if the keys are not in the shell but described in the .env file they were not picked up by the application.

Related Bugs

This is related to the closed ticket:

• Groq models are not being loaded Groq models are not being loaded #1948

And the open ticket:

• Docker usage, setting OpenAI Key in .env alone is not enough to get it to work. Docker usage, setting OpenAI Key in .env alone is not enough to get it to work. #1946

[ilanb]

Hi, any news for this, I'm stuck with same error : OpenAI key is missing from letta config file, tried .env, and so on

[sid-newby]

the documentation is soooo bad.