How to connect with DeepSeek?

[Gennady-G]

Greetings!

I am new with LibreChat and trying to relate it with free DeepSeek API key..
But if I try to create new Agent on the right - I cannot see DeepSeek in dropdown:

I use Docker so try to use override docker-compose.override.yml file, it is:

services:
  api:
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: ./librechat.yaml
        target: /app/librechat.yaml
    image: ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat:latest

My librechat.yaml is:

version: 1.2.1
endpoints:
  - name: deepseek
    apiKey: "sk-***************************"
    baseURL: "https://api.deepseek.com/v1"
    models:
      default:
        - deepseek-chat
        - deepseek-coder
      fetch: false
    titleConvo: true
    titleModel: deepseek-chat
    modelDisplayLabel: DeepSeek
    agents: true
    agentOptions:
      models:
        - deepseek-chat

or more simple (both do not work):

version: 1.2.1
endpoints:
  - name: deepseek
    apiKey: "sk-1********************************"
    baseURL: "https://api.deepseek.com/v1"
    models:
      default:
        - deepseek-chat
    agents: true

What am I doing wrong?..

Best regards

[danny-avila]

Please review the guide here:

https://www.librechat.ai/docs/quick_start/custom_endpoints

[Gennady-G]

Thank You much danny!

So I added "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-********************" to the .env file and appended my settings to the snippets from Your link and now it started to work.

Thank You much! :)

[Gennady-G]

Thank You