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-###############################################################################
-# NOTE: With default settings Cognee only needs an OpenAI LLM_API_KEY to be set.
-#       The rest of the settings don't have to be set.
-#       Default relational database: SQLite
-#       Default vector database   : LanceDB
-#       Default graph database    : Kuzu
-#
-#       These default databases are all file-based, so no extra setup is needed
-#       for local use.
-###############################################################################
 
-################################################################################
-#  🧠 LLM Settings
-################################################################################
+###
+### DEV
+###
+
+
+TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM="false"
+
+###
+### LLM
+###
+
+###
+### simple, "expensive", an OpenAPI key
+###
 
 LLM_API_KEY="your_api_key"
-LLM_MODEL="openai/gpt-4o-mini"
-LLM_PROVIDER="openai"
-LLM_ENDPOINT=""
-LLM_API_VERSION=""
+
+###
+### DEV LLM, cheap with content filters
+###
+
+LLM_MODEL="azure/gpt-4o-mini"
+LLM_ENDPOINT="https://DNS.azure.com/openai/deployments/gpt-4o-mini"
+LLM_API_KEY="<<TALK TO YOUR AZURE GUY"
+LLM_API_VERSION="2024-12-01-preview"
+#llm api version might not be relevant
 LLM_MAX_TOKENS="16384"
 
+EMBEDDING_MODEL="azure/text-embedding-3-large"
+EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT="https://DNS.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-3-large"
+EMBEDDING_API_KEY="<<TALK TO YOUR AZURE GUY>"
+EMBEDDING_API_VERSION="2024-12-01-preview"
+EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=3072
+EMBEDDING_MAX_TOKENS=8191
+
+###
+### free local LLM, install it
+###
+
+LLM_API_KEY = "ollama"
+LLM_MODEL = "llama3.1:8b"
+LLM_PROVIDER = "ollama"
+LLM_ENDPOINT = "http://localhost:11434/v1"
+EMBEDDING_PROVIDER = "ollama"
+EMBEDDING_MODEL = "avr/sfr-embedding-mistral:latest"
+EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT = "http://localhost:11434/api/embeddings"
+EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS = 4096
+HUGGINGFACE_TOKENIZER = "Salesforce/SFR-Embedding-Mistral"
+
+###
+### openrouter, also frewe
+###
+
+LLM_API_KEY="<<go-get-one-yourself"
+LLM_PROVIDER="custom"
+LLM_MODEL="openrouter/google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05:free"
+LLM_ENDPOINT="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
+
+###
+### deepinfra
+###
+
+LLM_API_KEY="<<>>"
+LLM_PROVIDER="custom"
+LLM_MODEL="deepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
+LLM_ENDPOINT="https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai"
+
 EMBEDDING_PROVIDER="openai"
-EMBEDDING_MODEL="openai/text-embedding-3-large"
+EMBEDDING_API_KEY="<<>>"
+EMBEDDING_MODEL="deepinfra/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5"
 EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT=""
 EMBEDDING_API_VERSION=""
 EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=3072
 EMBEDDING_MAX_TOKENS=8191
-# If embedding key is not provided same key set for LLM_API_KEY will be used
-#EMBEDDING_API_KEY="your_api_key"
 
-################################################################################
-# 🗄️ Relational database settings
-################################################################################
+###
+### DB
+###
+
+###
+### db minimal/default
+###
+
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="networkx"
+VECTOR_DB_PROVIDER="lancedb"
+DB_PROVIDER=sqlite
+DB_NAME=cognee_db
+
+###
+### Relational options
+###
 
 DB_PROVIDER="sqlite"
 DB_NAME=cognee_db
 
-# -- To switch to Postgres / PGVector, uncomment and fill these: -------------
-#DB_PROVIDER=postgres
-#DB_NAME=cognee_db
-# To use Postgres with the Cognee backend in Docker compose use the following instead: DB_HOST=host.docker.internal
-#DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
-#DB_PORT=5432
-#DB_USERNAME=cognee
-#DB_PASSWORD=cognee
+DB_PROVIDER=postgres
+DB_NAME=cognee_db
+DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
+DB_PORT=5432
+DB_USERNAME=cognee
+DB_PASSWORD=cognee
 
-################################################################################
-# 🕸️ Graph Database settings
-################################################################################
+###
+### Graph options
+###
+
+
+#Default
 
-# Default (local file-based)
 GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="kuzu"
 
-# -- To switch to Remote Kuzu uncomment and fill these: -------------------------------------------------------------
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="kuzu"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="kuzu-remote"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_URL="http://localhost:8000"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME=XXX
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD=YYY
+#or if using remote
 
-# -- To switch to Neo4j uncomment and fill these: -------------------------------------------------------------------
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="neo4j"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_URL=bolt://localhost:7687
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME=neo4j
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD=localneo4j
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="kuzu"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="kuzu-remote"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_URL="http://localhost:8000"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME=XXX
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD=YYY
 
-################################################################################
-#  📐 Vector Database settings
-################################################################################
+# or if using neo4j
+
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER="neo4j"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_URL=bolt://localhost:7687
+GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME=neo4j
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD=localneo4j
+
+###
+### Vector options
+###
 
-# Supported providers: pgvector | qdrant | weaviate | milvus | lancedb | chromadb
 VECTOR_DB_PROVIDER="lancedb"
-# Not needed if a cloud vector database is not used
-VECTOR_DB_URL=
-VECTOR_DB_KEY=
 
-################################################################################
-#  📂 ROOT DIRECTORY IF USING COGNEE LIB INSIDE A DOCKER
-################################################################################
-# Set up the Cognee system directory. Cognee will store system files and databases here.
-DATA_ROOT_DIRECTORY='/cognee_data/data'
-SYSTEM_ROOT_DIRECTORY='/cognee_data/system'
+VECTOR_DB_PROVIDER="pgvector"
 
+###
+### for release test
+###
 
-################################################################################
-#  🔄  MIGRATION (RELATIONAL → GRAPH) SETTINGS
-################################################################################
+LLM_API_KEY="..."
 
-MIGRATION_DB_PATH="/path/to/migration/directory"
-MIGRATION_DB_NAME="migration_database.sqlite"
+OPENAI_API_KEY="..."
+
+MIGRATION_DB_PATH="~/Downloads/"
+MIGRATION_DB_NAME="Chinook_Sqlite.sqlite"
 MIGRATION_DB_PROVIDER="sqlite"
 
-# -- Postgres-specific migration params --------------------------------------
+GRAPH_DATABASE_URL="bolt://54.246.89.112:7687"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME="neo4j"
+GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD="pleaseletmein"
+
+###
+### ROOT DIRECTORY IF USING COGNEE LIB INSIDE A DOCKER
+###
+# Set up the Cognee system directory. Cognee will store system files and databases here.
+
+
+DATA_ROOT_DIRECTORY ='/cognee_data/data'
+SYSTEM_ROOT_DIRECTORY= '/cognee_data/system'
+
+
+
+# Postgres specific parameters (Only if Postgres or PGVector is used). Do not use for cognee default simplest setup of SQLite-NetworkX-LanceDB
+# DB_USERNAME=cognee
+# DB_PASSWORD=cognee
+# To use Postgres with the Cognee backend in Docker compose use the following instead: DB_HOST=host.docker.internal
+# DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
+# DB_PORT=5432
+
+
+
+# Params for migrating relational database data to graph / Cognee ( PostgreSQL and SQLite supported )
+# MIGRATION_DB_PATH="/path/to/migration/directory"
+# MIGRATION_DB_NAME="migration_database.sqlite"
+# MIGRATION_DB_PROVIDER="sqlite"
+# Postgres specific parameters for migration
 # MIGRATION_DB_USERNAME=cognee
 # MIGRATION_DB_PASSWORD=cognee
 # MIGRATION_DB_HOST="127.0.0.1"
 # MIGRATION_DB_PORT=5432
 
-################################################################################
-# 🔒 Security Settings
-################################################################################
+# LITELLM Logging Level. Set to quiten down logging
+LITELLM_LOG="ERROR"
 
-# When set to false don't allow adding of local system files to Cognee. Should be set to False when Cognee is used as a backend.
-ACCEPT_LOCAL_FILE_PATH=True
-
-# When set to false don't allow HTTP requests to be sent from Cognee.
-# This protects against Server Side Request Forgery when proper infrastructure is not in place.
-ALLOW_HTTP_REQUESTS=True
+# Set this environment variable to disable sending telemetry data
+# TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
 
 # Set this variable to True to enforce usage of backend access control for Cognee
 # Note: This is only currently supported by the following databases:
@@ -117,94 +194,3 @@ ALLOW_HTTP_REQUESTS=True
 # It enforces LanceDB and KuzuDB use and uses them to create databases per Cognee user + dataset
 ENABLE_BACKEND_ACCESS_CONTROL=False
 
-################################################################################
-#  🛠️ DEV Settings
-################################################################################
-
-ENV="local"
-
-TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM="false"
-
-# LITELLM Logging Level. Set to quiet down logging
-LITELLM_LOG="ERROR"
-
-# Set this environment variable to disable sending telemetry data
-# TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
-
-# Default User Configuration
-# DEFAULT_USER_EMAIL=""
-# DEFAULT_USER_PASSWORD=""
-
-------------------------------- END OF POSSIBLE SETTINGS -------------------------------
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# 🧪  EXAMPLE OVERRIDES (commented out)
-###############################################################################
-# The blocks below show how to configure alternative providers.
-# Uncomment + fill values to switch.
-
-########## Azure OpenAI #######################################################
-#LLM_MODEL="azure/gpt-4o-mini"
-#LLM_ENDPOINT="https://DNS.azure.com/openai/deployments/gpt-4o-mini"
-#LLM_API_KEY="<<TALK TO YOUR AZURE GUY"
-#LLM_API_VERSION="2024-12-01-preview"
-
-## llm api version might not be relevant
-#LLM_MAX_TOKENS="16384"
-
-#EMBEDDING_MODEL="azure/text-embedding-3-large"
-#EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT="https://DNS.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/text-embedding-3-large"
-#EMBEDDING_API_KEY="<<TALK TO YOUR AZURE GUY>"
-#EMBEDDING_API_VERSION="2024-12-01-preview"
-#EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=3072
-#EMBEDDING_MAX_TOKENS=8191
-
-########## Local LLM via Ollama ###############################################
-
-#LLM_API_KEY ="ollama"
-#LLM_MODEL="llama3.1:8b"
-#LLM_PROVIDER="ollama"
-#LLM_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:11434/v1"
-#EMBEDDING_PROVIDER="ollama"
-#EMBEDDING_MODEL="avr/sfr-embedding-mistral:latest"
-#EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:11434/api/embeddings"
-#EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=4096
-#HUGGINGFACE_TOKENIZER="Salesforce/SFR-Embedding-Mistral"
-
-########## OpenRouter (also free) #########################################################
-
-#LLM_API_KEY="<<go-get-one-yourself"
-#LLM_PROVIDER="custom"
-#LLM_MODEL="openrouter/google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05:free"
-#LLM_ENDPOINT="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
-
-########## DeepInfra ##########################################################
-
-#LLM_API_KEY="<<>>"
-#LLM_PROVIDER="custom"
-#LLM_MODEL="deepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
-#LLM_ENDPOINT="https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai"
-
-#EMBEDDING_PROVIDER="openai"
-#EMBEDDING_API_KEY="<<>>"
-#EMBEDDING_MODEL="deepinfra/BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5"
-#EMBEDDING_ENDPOINT=""
-#EMBEDDING_API_VERSION=""
-#EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS=3072
-#EMBEDDING_MAX_TOKENS=8191
-
-
-########## Release Test ###############################################
-
-#LLM_API_KEY="..."
-
-#OPENAI_API_KEY="..."
-
-#MIGRATION_DB_PATH="~/Downloads/"
-#MIGRATION_DB_NAME="Chinook_Sqlite.sqlite"
-#MIGRATION_DB_PROVIDER="sqlite"
-
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_URL="bolt://54.246.89.112:7687"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_USERNAME="neo4j"
-#GRAPH_DATABASE_PASSWORD="pleaseletmein"