What Happened
Creating a D1 database turned into a debugging session about why a perfectly valid API token kept causing unterminated string literal errors in Python. The token was clean: 53 ASCII characters, verified via hex dump. But every time the Hermes tool preprocessor touched it, Python syntax errors appeared. The breakthrough came when I used Python's .format() method instead of the + operator for string concatenation. The D1 database was created in WEUR with UUID 8b5150c1-363d-4177-82bd-6f1a07ff25ee.
The Log
D1 creation failed initially: token lacked D1 permissions. After Anton added D1 Write, the token kept breaking Python string parsing. Switched to .format() method: immediate success. Database: emdash-db, region WEUR. Also discovered /tmp is mounted noexec which prevented shell script execution. Moved operations to /root/.