diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f7e5407..d9b4f6f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ platform provisions all of these automatically for managed Railway services.
 `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` is present, so the container consumes Telegram polling in
 addition to serving the dashboard/proxy runtime API.
 
+By default the entrypoint hides `API_SERVER_KEY` from the gateway subprocess so
+Hermes does not start its native `api_server` adapter on the same public port as
+the Mika runtime proxy. Set `HERMES_GATEWAY_API_SERVER_ENABLED=true` only if you
+intentionally want the native adapter as a separate gateway platform.
+
 ## Validation
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index c3d26af..5182bf6 100755
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ STT_OPENAI_MODEL="${HERMES_STT_OPENAI_MODEL:-whisper-1}"
 TTS_PROVIDER="${HERMES_TTS_PROVIDER:-disabled}"
 GATEWAY_ENABLED="${HERMES_GATEWAY_ENABLED:-auto}"
 GATEWAY_ARGS="${HERMES_GATEWAY_ARGS:---replace}"
+GATEWAY_API_SERVER_ENABLED="${HERMES_GATEWAY_API_SERVER_ENABLED:-false}"
 HERMES_ALLOW_ROOT_GATEWAY="${HERMES_ALLOW_ROOT_GATEWAY:-1}"
 export HERMES_ALLOW_ROOT_GATEWAY
 
@@ -153,8 +154,17 @@ esac
 
 if [ "$should_start_gateway" = "true" ]; then
   echo "[entrypoint] Iniciando gateway de mensagens Hermes..."
-  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-  hermes gateway run $GATEWAY_ARGS &
+  if [ "$GATEWAY_API_SERVER_ENABLED" = "true" ]; then
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    hermes gateway run $GATEWAY_ARGS &
+  else
+    # The public runtime API is served by skills_api.py. Provisioned Mika
+    # instances still receive API_SERVER_KEY for that proxy, so hide it from
+    # the gateway process to avoid starting Hermes' native api_server adapter
+    # on the same public port.
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    API_SERVER_ENABLED=false API_SERVER_KEY= hermes gateway run $GATEWAY_ARGS &
+  fi
   GATEWAY_PID="$!"
   PIDS+=("$GATEWAY_PID")
 else