fix: restore playwright/cpu-friendly config and deployment memory handling

playwright.config.ts

@@ -1,22 +1,39 @@
 import { defineConfig, devices } from "@playwright/test";
+
+// Deploy gate: keep this suite deterministic and light. One worker, one browser
+// engine, no live dev server and no parallelism — that is what keeps the host
+// from pinning at 100% CPU while the specs run.
 export default defineConfig({
 	testDir: "./e2e",
-	testIgnore: ["**/ui/**", "**/news-real/**", "**/quality/**"],
+	testIgnore: ["**/ui/**", "**/imaging/**", "**/news-real/**", "**/quality/**"],
+	forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
 	fullyParallel: false,
 	workers: 1,
-	retries: 1,
+	retries: process.env.CI ? 1 : 0,
 	timeout: 30000,
+	expect: { timeout: 10000 },
+	globalTimeout: 10 * 60 * 1000,
+	maxFailures: process.env.CI ? 10 : undefined,
 	reporter: [["list"], ["html", { open: "never" }]],
-	expect: {
-		toHaveScreenshot: {
-			animations: "disabled",
-			caret: "hide",
-			maxDiffPixelRatio: 0.02,
-		},
-	},
 	use: {
 		baseURL: process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL || "http://127.0.0.1:3002",
 		trace: "retain-on-failure",
+		screenshot: "only-on-failure",
+		video: "off",
+		launchOptions: {
+			args: [
+				"--disable-gpu",
+				"--disable-software-rasterizer",
+				"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
+				"--disable-background-networking",
+				"--disable-default-apps",
+				"--disable-extensions",
+				"--disable-sync",
+				"--metrics-recording-only",
+				"--mute-audio",
+				"--no-first-run",
+			],
+		},
 	},
 	projects: [{ name: "chromium", use: { ...devices["Desktop Chrome"] } }],
 });