diff --git a/workers/index.js b/workers/index.js
index d0fe233..fb0aff1 100644
--- a/workers/index.js
+++ b/workers/index.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ const { runGraphWorker } = require("./graphWorker");
 const { runSignalWorker } = require("./signalWorker");
 
 
+require("dotenv").config({ path: path.resolve(__dirname, "../.env") });
+
 const configPath = path.resolve(__dirname, "../config.json");
 const configDir = path.dirname(configPath);
 const rawConfig = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(configPath, "utf8"));
@@ -19,12 +21,17 @@ function resolvePath(p, fallback) {
   return path.isAbsolute(p) ? p : path.resolve(configDir, p);
 }
 
+const openRouter = { ...rawConfig.openRouter };
+if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY)     openRouter.apiKey = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_API_KEY;
+if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL)   openRouter.llmModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_LLM_MODEL;
+if (process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL) openRouter.embeddingModel = process.env.OPEN_ROUTER_EMBED_MODEL;
+
 const config = {
   duriin_db: process.env.DURIIN_DB || resolvePath(rawConfig.duriin_db, path.resolve(configDir, "archive.sqlite")),
   intelligence_db: process.env.INTELLIGENCE_DB || resolvePath(rawConfig.intelligence_db, path.resolve(configDir, "intelligence.sqlite")),
   llm: rawConfig.llm || {},
   workers: rawConfig.workers || {},
-  openRouter: rawConfig.openRouter || {},
+  openRouter,
   intelligence: rawConfig.intelligence || {},
 };