diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
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+DB_PATH=/data/linkedstorm.db
+CLIPS_DIR=/data/clips
+SPEACHES_URL=http://192.168.86.150:8000
+OLLAMA_URL=http://192.168.86.150:11434
+OLLAMA_MODEL=qwen2.5:14b
+LIVEKIT_URL=ws://192.168.86.150:7880
+LIVEKIT_API_KEY=devkey
+LIVEKIT_API_SECRET=devsecret
+PIPELINE_INTERNAL_URL=http://linkedstorm-pipeline:8300
+CLIP_RETENTION_DAYS=30
+SPEAKER_KNOWN_THRESHOLD=0.85
+SPEAKER_AMBIGUOUS_THRESHOLD=0.60
diff --git a/app/__init__.py b/app/__init__.py
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diff --git a/app/api/__init__.py b/app/api/__init__.py
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diff --git a/app/api/routes/__init__.py b/app/api/routes/__init__.py
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diff --git a/app/cron/__init__.py b/app/cron/__init__.py
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diff --git a/app/pipeline/__init__.py b/app/pipeline/__init__.py
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diff --git a/app/shared/__init__.py b/app/shared/__init__.py
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.backends.legacy:build"
+
+[project]
+name = "linkedstorm"
+version = "0.1.0"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+dependencies = [
+    "fastapi==0.115.0",
+    "uvicorn[standard]==0.30.6",
+    "pydantic-settings==2.4.0",
+    "httpx==0.27.2",
+    "websockets==13.1",
+    "resemblyzer==0.1.1.dev0",
+    "silero-vad==5.1.2",
+    "torch==2.4.1",
+    "numpy==1.26.4",
+    "livekit-api==0.7.2",
+    "scipy==1.14.1",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "pytest==8.3.3",
+    "pytest-asyncio==0.24.0",
+    "pytest-mock==3.14.0",
+    "httpx==0.27.2",
+]
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]
+include = ["app*"]
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
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+[pytest]
+asyncio_mode = auto
+testpaths = tests
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
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diff --git a/tests/routes/__init__.py b/tests/routes/__init__.py
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