fix(ci): name the E2E upload for what it holds, not for a report it never has

.changeset/8561-e2e-artifact-name.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+---
+
+Rename `ci.yml`'s E2E failure upload from `playwright-report` to
+`e2e-failure-artifacts`, and correct the `e2e` row of
+`content/docs/guide/ci-cd-pipeline.md` to say what that upload actually holds
+(objectui#8561). `playwright.config.ts` selects the `github` reporter when `CI`
+is set; that reporter writes annotations and no `playwright-report/` directory,
+so the zip a maintainer downloads from the Actions UI has only `test-results/`
+in it and the docs row promised a report the lane has never produced. The
+explanatory comment above the step and both entries of its path list are
+deliberate prior art (objectui#4086) and are unchanged. CI and docs only; no
+package is released by this change.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1444,11 +1444,11 @@ jobs:
       # `playwright-report/` keeps working if the HTML reporter is ever enabled
       # on CI. upload-artifact only warns when NO path matches, so the absent
       # one costs nothing.
-      - name: Upload Playwright report
+      - name: Upload failure artefacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         if: ${{ steps.relevant.outputs.should_run == 'true' && !cancelled() && failure() }}
         with:
-          name: playwright-report
+          name: e2e-failure-artifacts
           path: |
             playwright-report/
             test-results/

content/docs/guide/ci-cd-pipeline.md

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ it green — which is how two of `type-check`'s gates came to be missing from th
 | `test` | Test (shard N/4) | When a pull request changed nothing outside the exclusion list, the decision step runs `scripts/markdown-test-inputs.mjs` before anything else, and the job runs in full when the answer is yes ([#8861](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/8861)). The exclusions drop every markdown path, and a markdown document can be a TEST'S INPUT: [#8857](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/8857) changed one package README, this job reported success in ten seconds having run nothing, and the merge-queue build then failed the same shard in 907 seconds and dequeued it. That script carries the derived class — which documents a test reads, and which test reads each — and audits itself against the tree, so the widening stays narrow: a markdown-only change nothing reads still skips. It is this job's stage only, because this is the job that runs those tests. Then `pnpm test --shard=N/4` across a 4-runner matrix with `fail-fast: false`, so every shard reports its own failures. No coverage instrumentation — v8 adds 40–100% overhead. Then, **on shard 1 only**, `pnpm test:dist` — the built-artifact lane ([#7183](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7183)). It delegates to a turbo task scoped to the one package that holds built-artifact pins; that task depends on the package's OWN build (`dependsOn: ["build"]`, not `^build`), so the bundle exists before the pins read it, and then runs the `dist` vitest project, whose pins import a package's BUILT bundle instead of its `src` — a claim the source-aliased suite above is structurally unable to make, since the root config aliases every workspace package to `src`. It is deliberately not sharded and not repeated on the other three runners: the lane is a handful of files, and running it on all four would pay for the same build four times. | Pull requests and merge-queue builds (everything but `push`); steps short-circuit on a PR that changed only ignored paths |
 | `test-coverage` | Test (coverage shard N/4) | `pnpm test:coverage --reporter=blob --shard=N/4` across a 4-runner matrix with `fail-fast: false`. Each shard writes `.vitest-reports/blob-N-4.json` — raw coverage and test results in one file — and uploads it as an artifact even when the shard is red, which is what makes a failing coverage run diagnosable at all (vitest deletes `coverage/` on a red run unless `coverage.reportOnFailure` is set, [#5402](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/5402)). The configured coverage thresholds are neutralised on the shard legs, because a quarter of the suite judged against a whole-suite threshold is not a defect signal; they are enforced once, on the merged report, by the job below ([#5403](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/5403)). | **Push only** |
 | `coverage-report` | Test (coverage) | Downloads the four blob reports, refuses to continue unless all four arrived, merges them with `pnpm test:coverage --merge-reports` into one complete report — which is where the configured coverage thresholds are enforced, over the whole merged map, the shard legs having overridden them to zero — and publishes that report as the `coverage-report` artifact (kept 7 days, the same as the blobs it is derived from). Its last step runs on every path and states the outcome: the job is **red, with an error annotation**, whenever the gate did not run for the commit — before [#5403](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/5403) the final step carried the implicit `success()` and was silently skipped by 311 of 373 coverage jobs, which is how four days of a 100%-failing coverage job went unnoticed. A breach of the thresholds is reported *separately* from a lane that never delivered, because the two call for opposite actions. ⛔ It never merges a report from fewer than four shards: a wrong coverage number is worse than a missing one. The Codecov upload this job used to carry was retired by [#5436](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/5436) — `CODECOV_TOKEN` was never set, so it failed on every push; the trend dashboard and PR coverage comments are gone with it, the gate is not. | **Push only** |
-| `e2e` | Build & E2E | Builds the console with `vite build` (`VITE_BASE_PATH=/console/`), verifies the artifact, then `pnpm test:e2e --project=chromium`. Uploads the Playwright report on failure. | Every run; on a PR the steps short-circuit when only ignored paths changed |
+| `e2e` | Build & E2E | Builds the console with `vite build` (`VITE_BASE_PATH=/console/`), verifies the artifact, then `pnpm test:e2e --project=chromium`. On failure it uploads `test-results/` — the screenshots, traces and `error-context.md` Playwright writes for failing specs — as the `e2e-failure-artifacts` upload; the `github` reporter this lane runs on CI writes annotations, so there is no HTML report in it. | Every run; on a PR the steps short-circuit when only ignored paths changed |
 | `docs` | Build Docs | `turbo run build --filter='@object-ui/site'`. On a PR it first diffs against the base and skips the build only when nothing that build consumes changed. ⛔ The path set is **not enumerated here**, deliberately: it is derived rather than curated — from the workspace packages turbo builds on the way to `@object-ui/site`, the root-level inputs `turbo.json` declares for the `build` task, and the workspace manifests, plus the workflow file itself so a change to this gate is validated by the gate — and a path list copied into prose is a stale list the moment the closure moves, which is the class [#8629](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/8629) and [#7448](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7448) each record. `scripts/__tests__/docs-build-trigger.test.ts` re-derives all three populations on every PR and executes the step's own shell against them, so the live answer is the pathspec in the step and a red test is what happens when it stops covering them. Until [#8647](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/8647) the filter named the site's **output** surface only — the docs content and the site app — while its **input** surface is everything turbo builds before `next build` runs, so a pull request touching only `packages/**` skipped the build and still reported `success`, and a skipped build and a passed build are the same green to every reader downstream. The merge-queue leg always built, so what the filter cost was early detection rather than the guarantee at merge time. Then `scripts/check-doc-expression-carriage.mjs`, which is **report-only**: it censuses every `json` fence on the surface `check:doc-types` walks (`content/docs/**`, every `apps/<app>/docs/**` tree, and the root `README.md` — widened from `content/docs/**` alone by [#7878](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7878)) for a `${…}` authored on a key `SchemaRenderer` never evaluates — the class that reached `main` four times under green gates, because `check:doc-types` judges the `type` literal only and `check:doc-snippets` compiles the ts/tsx blocks only ([#7851](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7851)). It prints its findings and **exits 0 regardless**, so it can block no merge; it exits 1 only when the instrument itself is broken — a derivation that matched nothing, a missing `@objectstack/spec` artifact, or a failed built-in control — because a check that runs, goes green and looked at nothing is worse than none. Report-only is a ruling, not an oversight: three cards of the class it reports ([#7440](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7440), [#7444](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7444), [#7838](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/7838)) are open and each fixes its own sites. It does **not** check docs links any more — that moved to `docs-links.yml` (#3448), because this workflow's `paths-ignore` then hid exactly the docs-only PRs a link check needs to see. #3523 has since removed that filter from the `pull_request` trigger, but the check stays in its own home: `docs-links.yml` still runs where this workflow does not (a docs-only push to `main`), and one gate with one home was the point of #3448. | Every run (build itself conditional) |
 
 Uses: Node 22.x, pnpm via `corepack`, `actions/cache` over `.turbo/cache`.