Local dev gets an unauthenticated Adminer instance bound to loopback only. In production, any account with is_admin=true can open it - the app mints a short-lived token from a live admin session, which Nginx's new db.ciagent.org block exchanges for a session cookie that re-checks admin status on every request, instead of a shared static password that wouldn't scale to multiple admins or revoke live. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>