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Document the demo-buyer seed variable where the others are TESTNOT_BUYER_PASSWORD gates a seed phase and drives the carousel capture, and .env.example named neither. MT_HARNESS_PASSWORD is documented three lines up; a box operator setting one had no way to learn about the other.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-07 18:41 UTC

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42	42		# builds the catalog alone. See multithreaded/deploy/README.md.
43	43		# MT_HARNESS_PASSWORD=
44	44		# MT_HARNESS_REDIRECT_URI=https://<mt-host>/auth/callback
	45	+
	46	+	# Optional: the demo-buyer phase of `--seed-examples`. Set on a testnot box to
	47	+	# have the reseed create the `demo_collector` account and its purchase history,
	48	+	# which is what makes /library shootable for the landing carousel. Leave unset
	49	+	# anywhere else and the seed builds the catalog without a buyer. The capture
	50	+	# script reads the same value as CAPTURE_BUYER_PASSWORD. See src/seed/buyer.rs.
	51	+	# TESTNOT_BUYER_PASSWORD=