diff --git a/src/server/tools/mcpDiscovery.ts b/src/server/tools/mcpDiscovery.ts
index 3a43213..8710959 100644
--- a/src/server/tools/mcpDiscovery.ts
+++ b/src/server/tools/mcpDiscovery.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ function searchCatalog(query: string, limit: number): any[] {
 // embedding re-rank. Understands intent ("find a crypto payment tool") even
 // when the keywords don't literally appear in the name/description.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const EMBED_HOST = process.env.OLLAMA_HOST || 'http://10.30.20.128:11434';
+const EMBED_HOST = process.env.EMBED_HOST || process.env.OLLAMA_HOST || 'http://10.30.20.128:11434';
 const EMBED_MODEL = process.env.EMBED_MODEL || 'nomic-embed-text';
 const EMBEDDINGS_PATH = path.join(DATA_DIR, 'mcp_catalog_embeddings.json');