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The bundled OpenAlex tool reads process.env.OPENALEX_API_KEY (science-database-openalex.ts) and its rate-limit diagnostics tell users to set it, but .env.example did not list the variable, so the keyed budget path was undiscoverable and runs silently fell back to the anonymous budget. We hit this in production: a headless research session without the key received a 429 with Retry-After: 22439s (~6.2h) and stalled with zero deliverable. Listing the variable next to the existing NCBI_API_KEY precedent makes the free keyed path discoverable. No code change.
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Thanks! Cherry-picked into main with your authorship (83aa148), with the key URL changed to https://openalex.org/settings/api to match the tool's own hint. Ships in 0.5.49. |
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What
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OPENALEX_API_KEYto.env.example(one comment + one line), next to the existingNCBI_API_KEYprecedent.Why
The bundled OpenAlex tool reads
process.env.OPENALEX_API_KEY(seeextensions/research-tools/science-database-openalex.ts), and its rate-limit diagnostics already advise setting it — but.env.examplenever listed the variable, so the keyed budget path was undiscoverable and sessions silently ran on the anonymous budget.We hit this in production on a long headless research run: without the key, one OpenAlex request got
429withRetry-After: 22439s(~6.2 hours), the run stalled and produced zero deliverable. The free key from https://openalex.org raises rate limits, and listing it here is the cheapest fix.Scope
Docs only — no code change.