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+# Copy to .env and add any secrets here.
+# Note: To use LlamaCloud services, add `llama_cloud = true` under [tool.llamadeploy]
+# in pyproject.toml. This allows llamactl to prompt you to log in and automatically
+# inject the API key into your process (no need to add LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY here).
+# OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-xxx