From 5ac61b934f224a5ba61aceb329fcedf34c7d1a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Lyjak <adrianlyjak@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:42:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] improve .env documentation comment (#182)

---
 .env.template | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.env.template b/.env.template
index eb7fa0a..d1f9db0 100644
--- a/.env.template
+++ b/.env.template
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
-# Copy this to .env and set any necessary secrets
+# Copy to .env and add any secrets here.
+# Note: LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY does not need to be added here. This template has
+# `llama_cloud = true` set under [tool.llamadeploy] in pyproject.toml, so llamactl
+# will prompt you to log in and automatically inject the API key into your process.
 OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-openai-api-key-here