env.example

# Copy to .env and fill in. .env is gitignored — never commit real keys.

# REQUIRED — the Claude API.
# Used for all three LLM jobs: extracting structured availability/lineup signals
# from raw news (prediction), reconciling team/player names across sources
# (entity resolution), and writing the plain-English explanation of results.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=

# OPTIONAL — raw news for Claude's extraction.
# Only needed if you use NewsAPI. GDELT is free and keyless, so you can leave
# this blank and point ingest.py at GDELT instead.
NEWS_API_KEY=

# EVAL ONLY — closing betting odds for the calibration benchmark.
# Not used in prediction. Needed only if you want to score the model against
# the market (The Odds API). Skip if you're not running evaluate.
ODDS_API_KEY=