Environment Variables

Environment Variables

ThreadLens preserves existing runtime environment variable names even when public docs use the ThreadLens brand.

Variable	Default	Purpose
PORT	4749	Go API HTTP port.
SCOUT_DB_PATH	../../scout.db from the API working directory	SQLite database path. Docker sets this to /data/scout.db.
SCOUT_FRONTEND_DIST	../web/dist from the API working directory	Static web build directory served by the Go API.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Empty	Anthropic-backed AI workflows.
GEMINI_API_KEY	Empty	Gemini provider path.
PARALLEL_API_KEY	Empty	Parallel.ai Search provider for Google scouting.
BLUESKY_HANDLE	Empty	Bluesky API account handle.
BLUESKY_APP_PASSWORD	Empty	Bluesky app password.
SCOUT_ENV_FILE	Empty	Docker env-file override for embedding repositories.
SCOUT_INIT_DEMO	Empty	Seeds demo data when set to 1.
THREADLENS_RUNTIME_MODE	self-hosted	Selects self-hosted or hosted.

Do not rename these variables as part of documentation updates.