diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 5784fb517e1..802584fefc7 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 # Cache Configs
 CACHE_STORE=database # Defaults to database. Other available cache store: redis and filesystem
+CACHE_DIR=./data/cache # Directory to store the cache files if using filesystem cache
 REDIS_URL=           # Redis URL - could be a local redis instance or cloud hosted redis. Also support rediss:// URLs
 PGLITE_DATA_DIR=     #../pgLite/ if selecting a directory   --- or memory:// if selecting in memory
 
diff --git a/agent/src/index.ts b/agent/src/index.ts
index 1ded5914eb0..8da1c3c375a 100644
--- a/agent/src/index.ts
+++ b/agent/src/index.ts
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ async function startAgent(
         const cache = initializeCache(
             process.env.CACHE_STORE ?? CacheStore.DATABASE,
             character,
-            "",
+            process.env.CACHE_DIR ?? "",
             db
         ); // "" should be replaced with dir for file system caching. THOUGHTS: might probably make this into an env
         const runtime: AgentRuntime = await createAgent(