The smoke login timed out on wp-login.php?action=confirm_admin_email, the
periodic 'Administration email verification' interstitial. Login had already
succeeded; click 'The email is correct' and continue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqpXh3hQMMaC74pTjFq4it
Hostinger rate-limits GitHub runner IPs on wp-login.php, causing
TimeoutError (30s) during the auth setup step. This has produced 6
deploy-gate failures over 2 days across multiple repos.
Changes:
- Raise navigation timeout from 30s to 90s per attempt
- Wrap the full login sequence in a retry loop (up to 3 attempts)
- Create a fresh BrowserContext per attempt so stale cookies / throttle
state cannot carry over between retries
- Wait 15s between attempts to let transient throttle windows clear
- Log each attempt number and outcome clearly (console.log + console.error)
so any future failure is diagnosable from the CI log without a local repro
- On final failure, surface a hint pointing to the Hostinger throttle cause
Assertion behaviour: unchanged. The #wpadminbar check and storageState
write are identical to before — retries only affect getting past wp-login.
No changes to smoke test assertions, playwright.config.ts, or workflow files.
Agent-Session: e2e-login-flake-20260612
Third bug in the smoke-gate chain. With testDir + GH-Secrets fixes already in place, this unblocks the workflow-driven prod deploy.
Agent-Session: cto merge-peptide-e2e-post-login-fix
