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 ### Simple example
 
-Add LLM_API_KEY to .env using the command bellow.
-```
-echo "LLM_API_KEY=YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY" > .env
-```
-You can see available env variables in the repository `.env.template` file. If you don't specify it otherwise, like in this example, SQLite (relational database), LanceDB (vector database) and NetworkX (graph store) will be used as default components.
-
 This script will run the default pipeline:
 
 ```python