Two issues surfaced only when plans 19-04 (login UI) and 19-05 (Option C
bypass + login.spec) were merged together and run against the real stack —
neither executor could catch them in isolation:
1. LOCAL_SESSION_SECRET was added to the CI harness (ci.yml) but not to the
local dev stack (docker-compose.dev.yml). Without it the real-login success
path (POST /api/auth/local/login) 503s when signing the session cookie, so
the e2e round-trip failed. Add the same fixed dev-only value to the dev
compose override (dev-only target; never a production secret).
2. login.spec test 1 assumed clearing the local-session cookie yields a
logged-out state, but under the always-on DEV_AUTH_BYPASS devAuthBypass()
injects DEV_USER into /api/me regardless of any cookie — a logged-out state
is architecturally unreachable in this bypass-only harness. Reframe the test
to drive /login directly (validating the real-browser render of all brand +
form surfaces) and move the unauthenticated root->/login redirect-gate
coverage to a unit test in App.test.tsx where meQuery.isError is controllable.
Result: API 446/446, PWA 265/265 (+2 gate tests), e2e desktop 42 passed / 3
skipped (all login specs green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
