diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ingest.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ingest.yml
index aed155a..5053483 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ingest.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ingest.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ jobs:
       NEO4J_URI: ${{ secrets.NEO4J_RAW_URI }}
       NEO4J_USER: ${{ secrets.NEO4J_RAW_USER }}
       NEO4J_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.NEO4J_RAW_PASSWORD }}
+      # LLM + embedding creds (Graphiti extraction + pgvector embed step).
+      # Re-used across both the free-form graph build and the chunker.
+      LLM_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
+      EMBEDDING_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
+      LLM_CHOICE: ${{ vars.LLM_CHOICE || 'gpt-4o-mini' }}
+      EMBEDDING_MODEL: ${{ vars.EMBEDDING_MODEL || 'text-embedding-3-small' }}
 
     steps:
       - name: Check out knowledge-base repo