diff --git a/routers/chatbots.py b/routers/chatbots.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 97602e8..0000000
--- a/routers/chatbots.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import json
-
-from fastapi import Request, APIRouter
-from pydantic import BaseModel
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
-
-import db.app_logger as log
-import db.pipeline.mongo_util as mutil
-import db.pipeline.config_util as cutil
-
-router = APIRouter(
-    prefix='/api/chatbots'
-)
-
-load_dotenv(override=True)
-MONGO_URI = os.environ["MONGO_URI"]
-CONFIG_DB = os.environ["CONFIG_DB"]
-CONFIG_PIPELINE_COL = os.environ["CONFIG_PIPELINE_COL"]
-
-class UserQuery(BaseModel):
-    query: str
-
-class QueryBody(UserQuery):
-    chatbot_id: str
-
-@router.get('/')
-async def get_chatbots():
-    log.info('/api/chatbots loaded')
-    results = mutil.get_all(CONFIG_DB, CONFIG_PIPELINE_COL, {}, { '_id': 0 })
-    log.info('/api/chatbots results:', results)
-    return [cutil.pipeline_to_ui(result) for result in results]
-
-@router.get('/{id}')
-async def get_chatbots_id(id: str):
-    results = mutil.get(CONFIG_DB, CONFIG_PIPELINE_COL, {"id": id}, {'_id': 0})
-    log.info(f"/api/chatbots/{id}: ", results)
-    if not results:
-        return {"message": "no chatbot configuration found"}
-
-    return cutil.pipeline_to_ui(results)
-
-@router.post('/')
-async def post_chatbots(request: Request):
-    body = await request.json()
-    log.info(f"/api/chatbots POST body: ", body)
-    pipeline_obj = cutil.ui_to_pipeline(json.dumps(body))
-
-    mutil.insert_one(CONFIG_DB, CONFIG_PIPELINE_COL, pipeline_obj)
-    # insert_one seems to include the '_id' property which cannot be serialized by json.dumps
-    del pipeline_obj['_id']
-
-    pipeline_json = json.dumps(pipeline_obj)
-    log.debug(f"/api/chatbots POST: pipeline_obj, pipeline_json", pipeline_obj, pipeline_json)
-    return pipeline_json
-
-
-
-    # JSON Shape from UI
-    # {
-    #       "id": "test1",
-    #       "name": "test1",
-    #       "knowledge_bases": ["giraffes"],
-    #       "generative_model": "gpt-4-o",
-    #       "similarity": {
-    #             "on": "True",
-    #             "cutoff": 0.5
-    #           },
-    #       "colbert_rerank": {
-    #             "on": "True",
-    #             "top_n": 0.4
-    #           },
-    #       "long_contet_reorder": "True",
-    #       "prompt": "hello"
-    # }
-