diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 Requires Bash, FFmpeg, curl, jq, and standard coreutils.
 
 ```sh
-export OPENROUTER_API_KEY='sk-or-v1-...'
 ./transcribe recording.m4a
 ./transcribe video.mp4 > transcript.txt
 ```
diff --git a/transcribe b/transcribe
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@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+export OPENROUTER_API_KEY
+OPENROUTER_API_KEY="$(op read "op://API Keys/openrouter-mai-transcribe-2/credential")"
+
 set -euo pipefail
 
 if [[ $# == 1 && ($1 == -h || $1 == --help) ]]; then