diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-build-staging-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-build-staging-deploy.yml
index 0375542..7f2da39 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-build-staging-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-build-staging-deploy.yml
@@ -32,4 +32,6 @@ jobs:
           cog push r8.im/replicate-internal/ci-llama-2-7b
 
       - name: run basic prediction tests
+        env:
+          REPLICATE_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPLICATE_API_TOKEN }}
         run: make test-ci-predict model=llama-2-7b