diff --git a/ecosystem.config.js b/ecosystem.config.js
index e189de3..a34c308 100644
--- a/ecosystem.config.js
+++ b/ecosystem.config.js
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
+// Single source of truth for runtime config is TSSBOT/.env (loaded here).
+// Do NOT add `env:` blocks to apps below — they would override the .env values
+// and create two parallel config sources to reason about.
 require('dotenv').config();
 
-// __dirname resolves to BOTS/TSSBOT on disk. Override with TSSBOT_DEPLOY_PATH if
-// you need to point at a different checkout (e.g. local dev).
-const DEPLOY_PATH = process.env.TSSBOT_DEPLOY_PATH || __dirname;
+const DEPLOY_PATH = __dirname;
 
 // Reuse SREBOT's venv by default — both bots share BOTS/SHARED and most
-// runtime deps (discord.py, dotenv, etc.). Split into TSSBOT/.venv once
-// the dep sets diverge meaningfully.
+// runtime deps (discord.py, dotenv, …). Split into TSSBOT/.venv once the
+// dep sets diverge meaningfully.
 const PY_INTERPRETER =
   process.env.TSSBOT_PY_INTERPRETER || `${DEPLOY_PATH}/../SREBOT/.venv/bin/python`;
 
 module.exports = {
   apps: [
-    // Discord Bot (skeleton — currently just idles, see TSSBOT/start_bot.py)
+    // Discord Bot
     {
       name: 'tssbot',
       script: 'start_bot.py',
@@ -22,10 +23,6 @@ module.exports = {
       autorestart: true,
       watch: false,
       max_memory_restart: '8000M',
-      env: {
-        NODE_ENV: 'production',
-        PYTHONUNBUFFERED: '1'
-      },
       log_file: './logs/bot_combined.log',
       out_file: './logs/bot_out.log',
       error_file: './logs/bot_error.log',
@@ -34,7 +31,8 @@ module.exports = {
       kill_timeout: 5000,
       restart_delay: 3000
     }
-    // tssbot-api and tssbot-web will be added here once the API server and
-    // web frontend exist under TSSBOT/server.js and TSSBOT/web/server.js.
+    // tssbot-api and tssbot-web will be added here once TSSBOT/server.js and
+    // TSSBOT/web/server.js exist. They should read TSSBOT_API_PORT and
+    // TSSBOT_WEB_PORT from .env (mirroring the SREBOT naming convention).
   ]
 };