- production refuses to boot without JWT_SECRET instead of signing
admin tokens with the published development key
- CORS_ORIGINS restricts browser callers; blank keeps allow-all with a
production warning so a running deployment is not cut off
- the boot-time seed creates only roles and permissions in production;
the demo customers, orders, debt and known-password accounts need
SEED_DEMO_DATA=true
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
