537 Playwright tests fell in a single CI run — a route restructuring left the test suite pointing at ghosts, and the war room mobilized to hunt them all down.
Act I · Orchestration
/fire-next-up
Two chains in flight: #550 (profile header redesign) with Loki PASS awaiting Playwright CI, and #551 (consolidate UX dirs) sitting in Up Next. The orchestrator discovered duplicate directory pairs — designs/ux-design/ vs ux/, designs/product/ vs product/, designs/architecture/ vs architecture/ — and interviewed Odin on consolidation strategy.
Act II · Architecture
Delete backlog files, move unique files, renumber ADRs, delete designs/ entirely
Odin's verdict: delete stale backlog files, move unique UX artifacts into ux/, renumber old ADRs into architecture/adrs/, and purge designs/ entirely. Issue #551 was updated with full consolidation plan and dispatched to FiremanDecko via Depot sandbox.
Act III · CI Pipeline
/fire-next-up --resume (repeated 4 times)
A long vigil. Both chains — #550 and #551 — achieved Loki PASS, but Playwright CI refused to yield. The orchestrator checked and rechecked: PR #552 ran for 40 minutes, PR #553 for 10. Decko's handoff on #551 arrived and Loki QA was auto-dispatched. The CI wolves howled but would not finish.
Act IV · Bug Discovery
/fire-next-up --resume
PR #552 returned from the abyss: 537 failed, 604 passed. The failures spanned 50+ test suites — chronicles-render (61), wizard-animations (32), import (30), auth (28), profile-dropdown (22). 114 tests hit the 30-second timeout wall. This was no regression from a profile dropdown change — this was systemic carnage.
Act V · Issue Filing
Extract all the info about failing tests and file a follow up to fix them all
Issue #554 was filed — "Fix 537 failing Playwright tests in CI" — labeled bug + critical. The full breakdown: 50+ suites, failure modes categorized (timeouts vs element-not-found vs assertion), investigation steps laid out. Added to Up Next on the project board.
Act VI · Merge & Dispatch
merge them and lets get on fixing it
Both PRs merged despite CI failures — Loki PASS'd both, and the Playwright failures were pre-existing environmental rot, not caused by either PR. #552 and #553 squash-merged, issues closed, moved to Done. FiremanDecko immediately dispatched to Depot for #554.
gh pr merge 552 --squash --delete-branch gh pr merge 553 --squash --delete-branch
Act VII · Debugging
/fire-next-up --resume (repeated 5 times over 1 hour)
The vigil deepened. FiremanDecko's Depot session ran for over an hour — zero commits for the first 45 minutes as he investigated the full 537-test massacre across 50+ suites. The orchestrator checked repeatedly: session alive, no commits, no PR, no handoff. Then, at the one-hour mark, a single commit appeared: fix: update test routes to /ledger/ prefix after #371 restructuring.
The root cause was found: PR #371 had restructured all app routes under /ledger, but the test suites were still hitting the old bare routes. Every test navigating to / instead of /ledger/ was doomed to fail.
Bug Fixed
Tests pointed at pre-#371 routes (/ instead of /ledger/) causing 537 failures across 50+ suites