diff --git a/modules/letta/client.ts b/modules/letta/client.ts
index 6e194db..4216e60 100644
--- a/modules/letta/client.ts
+++ b/modules/letta/client.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 // The Letta API client — letta's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0039). Its tools
 // import it; nothing outside letta does.
 //
-// Letta authenticates with a single server password, presented as a Bearer token. That password is
-// a mesh own-secret, minted once and handed to both the server (LETTA_SERVER_PASSWORD) and this
-// client (MESH_LETTA_PASSWORD) — so the module's tools are live without anything configured by hand.
-// The runtime config file may still override the URL or password.
+// Letta authenticates with a single server password. That password is a mesh own-secret handed to
+// both the server (LETTA_SERVER_PASSWORD) and this client, through the runtime config file the mesh
+// mounts (its `password` key) — so the module's tools are live without anything configured by hand.
+// Where a server already has clients, the password is accepted rather than minted.
 
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ export class LettaClient {
       ...options,
       headers: {
         "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        // The server's --secure mode checks X-BARE-PASSWORD ("password <it>") and answers a Bearer
+        // token alone with 401 (letta/server/rest_api/app.py, 0.6.x). Both are sent: Bearer is what
+        // later servers read.
+        "X-BARE-PASSWORD": `password ${this.password}`,
         Authorization: `Bearer ${this.password}`,
         ...(options.headers as Record<string, string> | undefined),
       },
diff --git a/modules/letta/module.json b/modules/letta/module.json
index 4cd08c0..2fa834d 100644
--- a/modules/letta/module.json
+++ b/modules/letta/module.json
@@ -5,21 +5,28 @@
     "container-runtime"
   ],
   "requires": [
-    "postgres-database"
+    "postgres-database",
+    "route"
   ],
   "contributes": {
     "postgres-database": {
       "name": "letta"
+    },
+    "route": {
+      "label": "letta",
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "postgres-database": "/var/lib/letta/database.json"
+    "postgres-database": "${dir:state}/database.json",
+    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json"
   },
   "secrets": {
-    "postgres-database": "/var/lib/letta/database.secret"
+    "postgres-database": "${dir:state}/database.secret"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "server-password": "/var/lib/letta/server-password.secret",
+    "server-password": "${dir:state}/server-password.secret",
+    "openai-api-key": "${dir:state}/openai-api-key.secret",
     "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/letta/broker"
   },
   "listens": [
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@
       "port": 8283,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
-      "why": "the Letta agent server REST API and web UI; a public name is a route grant later"
+      "why": "the Letta agent server REST API and web UI, password-protected (--secure); a public name is the route's"
     }
   ],
   "resources": [
@@ -41,15 +48,15 @@
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/var/lib/letta",
-      "mode": "0700"
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
     },
     {
       "id": "server-env",
       "type": "file",
-      "path": "/var/lib/letta/server.env",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/server.env",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "LETTA_PG_URI=postgresql://${bound:postgres-database:as}:${secret:postgres-database}@${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}/${bound:postgres-database:as}\nLETTA_SERVER_PASSWORD=${secret:server-password}\nSECURE=true\nTZ=Europe/Brussels\n"
+      "content": "LETTA_PG_URI=postgresql://${bound:postgres-database:as}:${secret:postgres-database}@${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}/${bound:postgres-database:as}\nLETTA_SERVER_PASSWORD=${secret:server-password}\nOPENAI_API_KEY=${secret:openai-api-key}\nSECURE=true\nTZ=Europe/Brussels\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "net",
@@ -60,31 +67,24 @@
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "letta",
-      "image": "letta/letta@sha256:1d2e0692514287c5ed1a483e14e16ed945f8632d315539f5e66373bb7d7c471b",
+      "image": "letta/letta@sha256:bfd1e49ce45b9a208c941e832c1d1d194017ff210a3784b0ca6c323aed767a29",
       "network": "letta",
       "env-file": [
-        "/var/lib/letta/server.env"
+        "${dir:state}/server.env"
       ],
       "ports": [
         "8283"
       ],
-      "secrets-in-environment": "the letta image is env-driven and its file-source support could not be verified; the mesh runtime can take its password from config.json (client.ts) \u2014 not yet converted"
+      "secrets-in-environment": "letta 0.6.x reads its settings from the environment only (pydantic settings, no secrets_dir or _FILE twin), and its startup.sh starts an embedded PostgreSQL unless LETTA_PG_URI is set - so the database password travels inside that URI (startup.sh also echoes it to the log); LETTA_SERVER_PASSWORD and OPENAI_API_KEY have no file source either"
     },
     {
       "id": "runtime-config",
       "type": "file",
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/letta/config.json",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "{}\n",
+      "content": "{\n  \"password\": \"${secret:server-password}\"\n}\n",
       "merge": "json"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "/var/lib/letta/runtime.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "MESH_LETTA_PASSWORD=${secret:server-password}\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "runtime",
       "type": "container",
@@ -99,14 +99,10 @@
         "MESH_LETTA_URL": "http://letta:8283",
         "MESH_LETTA_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
       },
-      "env-file": [
-        "/var/lib/letta/runtime.env"
-      ],
       "restart-on": [
         "runtime-config"
       ],
-      "artifact": "runtime",
-      "secrets-in-environment": "the letta image is env-driven and its file-source support could not be verified; the mesh runtime can take its password from config.json (client.ts) \u2014 not yet converted"
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {