diff --git a/bin/embeddings_manager b/bin/embeddings_manager
index c3327e7..088ad82 100755
--- a/bin/embeddings_manager
+++ b/bin/embeddings_manager
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import os
 import re
+import sys
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
 from shutil import rmtree
@@ -12,6 +13,13 @@ import boto3
 from botocore import UNSIGNED
 from botocore.client import Config
 
+
+# Run from anywhere without setting PYTHONPATH, like the other bin/ scripts.
+# The Dockerfile and CI both set it (`/app/src`, `./bin:./src`), so importing
+# worked there and nowhere else -- including in this script's own documented
+# usage.
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "src"))
+
 from data_generation.alliance import generate_alliance_embeddings
 from data_generation.reactome import generate_reactome_embeddings
 from data_generation.uniprot import generate_uniprot_embeddings
diff --git a/bin/retrieval_baseline b/bin/retrieval_baseline
index 8763dcd..bacd808 100755
--- a/bin/retrieval_baseline
+++ b/bin/retrieval_baseline
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ from langchain_core.documents import Document
 from langchain_core.retrievers import BaseRetriever
 from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
 
+
+# Run from anywhere without setting PYTHONPATH, like the other bin/ scripts.
+# The Dockerfile and CI both set it (`/app/src`, `./bin:./src`), so importing
+# worked there and nowhere else -- including in this script's own documented
+# usage.
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "src"))
+
 from agent.models import get_embedding, get_llm
 from retrievers.csv_chroma import (
     VECTOR_OVERFETCH,