Phase 1: Forward Assist initial build

Multi-tenant AI help desk SaaS for the firearms industry.
Full monorepo: API (Express/Prisma), Worker (BullMQ), Frontend (React/Vite/Tailwind).
PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector, Redis 7, JWT auth, RLS tenant isolation.
Dark Armory theme with tactical branding throughout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.env.example

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+# Database
+DATABASE_URL=postgresql://forward_assist:fa_dev_password_2024@localhost:5432/forward_assist
+
+# Redis
+REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
+
+# JWT
+JWT_ACCESS_SECRET=change-me-access-secret-min-32-chars
+JWT_REFRESH_SECRET=change-me-refresh-secret-min-32-chars
+JWT_ACCESS_EXPIRY=15m
+JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRY=7d
+
+# Server
+API_PORT=3001
+FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:5173
+NODE_ENV=development
+
+# Email (defaults for dev)
+DEFAULT_IMAP_POLL_INTERVAL=60
+
+# AI (Phase 2+)
+OPENAI_API_KEY=
+OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-4o
+
+# Logging
+LOG_LEVEL=debug