Six modules take their secrets from files; the rest say precisely why not

From the survey of every env-file secret (ADR 0086, issue 041): amqp-ping, minio, mongodb and grafana use the _FILE twin their software honours; mesh-catalog and model-usage read DATABASE_URL_FILE (a file the mesh templates, mounted where only the runtime reads it); grafana's secret files belong to its own account. Two dead deliveries removed: a line nothing read in amqp-email-forwarder, and mailu's secret.env on four containers that never read it. The 25 exceptions that remain carry the surveyed reason — convertible and awaiting a bed, convertible through a generated config file, the application's own code, or not convertible.
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      "volumes": [
        "/services/n8n/n8n-data:/home/node/.n8n"
      ],
-      "secrets-in-environment": "the image reads its configuration from the environment only; converting to a file is the per-module work of issue 041"
+      "secrets-in-environment": "n8n's loader honours <VAR>_FILE for every setting; convertible, awaiting a bed that proves it (N8N_BASIC_AUTH_* was removed in n8n 1.0 and is likely dead)"
    }
  ]
 }