Authentication - Zero Runtime

Your worker connects to the Zero Runtime runtime over a secure connection. Configure the connection and credentials with environment variables.

Connect to the runtime

Point the worker at your runtime address:

export ZERORUNTIME_TARGET=us2.zeroruntime.ai:443

Authenticate the worker

Get your auth token, or your API key and secret, from the Zero Runtime dashboard. Then authenticate in one of two ways: use a JWT auth token, or provide an API key and secret and let the SDK mint a JWT for you.

# JWT auth token
export ZERORUNTIME_AUTH_TOKEN=<token>

Provider keys

Providers imported from zeroruntime.inference (Node JS: @zeroruntime/js-sdk/inference) run through the Inference Gateway and authenticate with your ZERORUNTIME_AUTH_TOKEN, so they need no provider key. If you import a provider directly from zeroruntime.plugins, set the key for each one your pipeline uses:

export DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=<key>    # speech-to-text
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=<key>      # LLM
export CARTESIA_API_KEY=<key>    # text-to-speech

Reference

Variable	Purpose
`ZERORUNTIME_TARGET`	Runtime address
`ZERORUNTIME_AUTH_TOKEN`	JWT auth token
`<PROVIDER>_API_KEY`	Key for each provider you use directly from plugins (not needed for Inference Gateway providers)