diff --git a/settings/settings.yaml b/settings/settings.yaml
index 1b5be09d..9d8e293b 100644
--- a/settings/settings.yaml
+++ b/settings/settings.yaml
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ embedding:
 
 huggingface:
   embedding_hf_model_name: BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
+  access_token: ${HF_TOKEN:}
 
 vectorstore:
   database: qdrant