From 9f3eb1b79cd834508c4cd787234841969dab70d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yiorgis Gozadinos <ggozadinos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:42:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove docs references to env vars

---
 docs/python.md   |  2 +-
 docs/server.md   | 14 +++++++++++---
 docs/tutorial.md |  4 +---
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/python.md b/docs/python.md
index bd01c260..d462b625 100644
--- a/docs/python.md
+++ b/docs/python.md
@@ -222,6 +222,6 @@ answer = await client.ask(
 
 The QA agent will search your documents for relevant information and use the configured LLM to generate a comprehensive answer. With `cite=True`, responses include citations showing which documents were used as sources. Citations prefer the document title when present, otherwise they use the URI.
 
-The QA provider and model can be configured via environment variables (see [Configuration](configuration.md)).
+The QA provider and model are configured in `haiku.rag.yaml` or can be passed directly to the client (see [Configuration](configuration.md)).
 
 See also: [Agents](agents.md) for details on the QA agent and the multi‑agent research workflow.
diff --git a/docs/server.md b/docs/server.md
index 4a88a478..0558654b 100644
--- a/docs/server.md
+++ b/docs/server.md
@@ -45,11 +45,19 @@ This will start file monitoring, MCP server on port 8001, and A2A server on port
 
 ## File Monitoring
 
-Set `MONITOR_DIRECTORIES` environment variable to enable automatic file monitoring:
+Configure directories to monitor in your `haiku.rag.yaml`:
+
+```yaml
+storage:
+  monitor_directories:
+    - /path/to/documents
+    - /another/path
+```
+
+Then start the server:
 
 ```bash
-export MONITOR_DIRECTORIES="/path/to/documents"
-haiku-rag serve
+haiku-rag serve --monitor
 ```
 
 ### Monitoring Features
diff --git a/docs/tutorial.md b/docs/tutorial.md
index 2dba754c..9f15dbbc 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial.md
@@ -225,6 +225,4 @@ rm -rf "/Users/moo/Library/Application Support/haiku.rag/haiku.rag.lancedb"
 
 ## Configuration
 
-See [Configuration page](./configuration.md) for more information about configuration
-
-For the available environment variable config options see [config.py](https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/blob/main/src/haiku/rag/config.py).
+See [Configuration page](./configuration.md) for complete documentation on YAML configuration and all available options.