fix: complete Playwright removal in CI deploy workflow

Drop the leftover Playwright browser install and e2e smoke test from the deployment script, and update the deployment contract tests to cover the verify-deployed-release smoke check instead.

.dockerignore

@@ -34,8 +34,5 @@ public/cache
 public/tmp
 db_backup_*.sql
 *.log
-playwright-report
-test-results
-blob-report
 .codex
 .agents

scripts/ci-deploy.sh

@@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ for managed_name in epicnext-cms epicnext-cms-app; do
 done
 cp "$deploy_dir/.env" .env
 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
-# Prepare browser before cutover so installation failures cannot interrupt the site.
-pnpm exec playwright install chromium
 
 echo "Building $image"
 DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --network=host --progress=plain --cache-from epicnext-cms:latest \
@@ -161,8 +159,7 @@ candidate_attempted=1
 )
 healthy
 node scripts/verify-deployed-release.mjs http://127.0.0.1:3002/api/health "$sha"
-PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3002 pnpm test:e2e
+# Publish the latest alias only after health and release checks pass.
-# Publish the latest alias only after health and browser checks pass.
 docker tag "$image" epicnext-cms:latest
 cutover_started=0
 if [ "$backup_created" -eq 1 ]; then docker rm "$backup_name" || true; fi

src/lib/ci-deploy.test.ts

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ describe("deployment transaction", () => {
 		expect(result.calls.indexOf("pnpm db:migrate")).toBeLessThan(
 			result.calls.indexOf("docker stop"),
 		);
-		expect(result.calls.indexOf("pnpm test:e2e")).toBeLessThan(
+		expect(result.calls.indexOf("verify-deployed-release.mjs")).toBeLessThan(
 			result.calls.indexOf(
 				`docker tag epicnext-cms:${sha} epicnext-cms:latest`,
 			),

src/lib/ci-workflow-contract.test.ts

@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ describe("CI workflow", () => {
 	it("smoke-tests the deployed app within the deployment transaction", () => {
 		expect(workflow).toContain("bash scripts/ci-deploy.sh");
 		const deploy = readFileSync("scripts/ci-deploy.sh", "utf8");
-		expect(deploy).toContain("pnpm test:e2e");
+		expect(deploy).toContain(
-		expect(deploy).toContain("PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL");
+			"node scripts/verify-deployed-release.mjs http://127.0.0.1:3002/api/health",
+		);
 	});
 });

src/lib/deploy-workflow-contract.test.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ it("uses two test workers and runs smoke checks in the deployment transaction",
 	expect(workflow).not.toContain("\n  e2e:");
 	expect(workflow).toContain("bash scripts/ci-deploy.sh");
 	expect(deploy).toContain(
-		"PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3002 pnpm test:e2e",
+		"node scripts/verify-deployed-release.mjs http://127.0.0.1:3002/api/health",
 	);
 });
 it("locks CI and scheduled deployments using the same production lock", () => {

src/test/ci-deploy-harness.sh

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ flock() { echo "lock" >> "$TEST_DIR/calls"; [ "$SCENARIO" != lock-failure ]; }
 pnpm() {
   echo "pnpm $*" >> "$TEST_DIR/calls"
   if [ "$1" = db:migrate ] && [ "$SCENARIO" = migration-failure ]; then return 1; fi
-  if [ "$1" = test:e2e ] && [ "$SCENARIO" = smoke-failure ]; then return 1; fi
   return 0
 }
 curl() {
@@ -43,5 +42,12 @@ docker() {
 }
 export -f git flock pnpm curl sleep docker
 
-node() { echo "node $*" >> "$TEST_DIR/calls"; [ "$SCENARIO" != release-failure ]; }
+node() {
+  echo "node $*" >> "$TEST_DIR/calls"
+  case "$SCENARIO" in
+    release-failure) return 1 ;;
+    smoke-failure) case "$*" in *verify-deployed-release.mjs*) return 1 ;; esac ;;
+  esac
+  return 0
+}
 export -f node