diff --git a/workers/.gitignore b/workers/.gitignore
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+++ b/workers/.gitignore
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+.venv/
diff --git a/workers/README.md b/workers/README.md
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+# void-workers
+
+Python ML ingest service alongside `void-server` (Node). Sibling of `lib/` in the void-v2 repo.
+
+## Local dev
+
+```bash
+cd workers
+python3.12 -m venv .venv
+. .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -e ".[all]"
+export DATABASE_URL="postgres://..."
+python -m void_workers.runner
+```
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[test,all]"
+DATABASE_URL="postgres://..." pytest -v
+```
+
+See `../docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-01-void-v2-plan4-workers.md` for the full plan and `../docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-01-void-v2-plan4-workers.md` for the design.
diff --git a/workers/pyproject.toml b/workers/pyproject.toml
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+++ b/workers/pyproject.toml
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+[project]
+name = "void-workers"
+version = "0.1.0"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+dependencies = [
+  "psycopg[binary,pool]>=3.2",
+  "structlog>=24.1",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+pdf = ["pdfplumber>=0.11", "pytesseract>=0.3.13", "pillow>=10.3"]
+image = ["pytesseract>=0.3.13", "pillow>=10.3"]
+video = ["yt-dlp>=2024.10.0", "faster-whisper>=1.0.3"]
+test = ["pytest>=8.0", "pytest-asyncio>=0.23"]
+all = ["void-workers[pdf,image,video,test]"]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]
+include = ["void_workers*"]
diff --git a/workers/void_workers/__init__.py b/workers/void_workers/__init__.py
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+++ b/workers/void_workers/__init__.py
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+__version__ = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/workers/void_workers/config.py b/workers/void_workers/config.py
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+++ b/workers/void_workers/config.py
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+import os
+
+def env(name, default=None, required=False):
+    v = os.environ.get(name, default)
+    if required and v is None:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"env {name} is required")
+    return v
+
+def env_int(name, default):
+    return int(os.environ.get(name, default))
+
+DATABASE_URL = env("DATABASE_URL", required=True)
+BLOB_ROOT = env("BLOB_ROOT", "/var/lib/void/blobs")
+WHISPER_MODEL = env("WHISPER_MODEL", "small.en")
+WHISPER_CACHE = env("WHISPER_CACHE", "/var/lib/void/whisper-models")
+ALLOW_PRIVATE = env("VOID_INGEST_ALLOW_PRIVATE", "false") == "true"
+
+CONCURRENCY = {
+    "extract.pdf":      env_int("VOID_CONCURRENCY_EXTRACT_PDF", 2),
+    "extract.image":    env_int("VOID_CONCURRENCY_EXTRACT_IMAGE", 2),
+    "ingest.video":     env_int("VOID_CONCURRENCY_INGEST_VIDEO", 1),
+    "sync.source_doc":  env_int("VOID_CONCURRENCY_SYNC_SOURCE_DOC", 1),
+    "echo":             env_int("VOID_CONCURRENCY_ECHO", 1),
+}
+
+POLL_INTERVAL_MS = env_int("VOID_POLL_INTERVAL_MS", 1000)
diff --git a/workers/void_workers/log.py b/workers/void_workers/log.py
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+++ b/workers/void_workers/log.py
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+import logging
+import structlog
+
+def init():
+    structlog.configure(
+        processors=[
+            structlog.contextvars.merge_contextvars,
+            structlog.processors.add_log_level,
+            structlog.processors.TimeStamper(fmt="iso"),
+            structlog.processors.JSONRenderer(),
+        ],
+        wrapper_class=structlog.make_filtering_bound_logger(logging.INFO),
+    )
+    return structlog.get_logger()
+
+log = init()