From d71c51fd658445a4fcdf02313446e45f0388da56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maxshhao <71746098+maxshhao@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 01:20:17 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: update README to include instructions for using .env
 file

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 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cac18691..65f0956d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ You will need the OpenAI API for all the agents.
 export OPENAI_API_KEY=$YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY
 ```
 
+To help consolidate the variables in an .env file, you can copy the .env.example. The main.py script will pick up from there.
+```bash
+cp .env.example .env
+```
+
 ### CLI Usage
 
 You can also try out the CLI directly by running: