npm treats NODE_ENV=production as --omit=dev, so `npm install` in the frontend-e2e job skipped typescript and the build died on `tsc: not found`. The same env var would have stripped vite and @playwright/test from the frontend install, and flipped the session cookie to Secure on a run served over plain http. The reported summarize crash was a symptom: the job aborted before Playwright ran, but Summarize is `if: always()` and threw ENOENT on the missing JSON, burying the real failure. Both summarize scripts now report the missing file and exit 0 -- the job still fails via its own step. Also split build from start, replaced `sleep 3` with a readiness poll against /api/config, and dump the backend log when e2e fails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>