The VPS runner (peptide-vps) has OS-level Playwright deps pre-installed by
root. --with-deps triggers apt-get which requires sudo, blocked by the
runner's NoNewPrivileges systemd hardening. Drop the flag; Playwright's
binary-only install succeeds as ghrunner with no elevated privileges.
SSH-verified: npx playwright install chromium succeeds for ghrunner user;
Chromium 149.0.7827.55 downloaded to /home/ghrunner/.cache/ms-playwright.
Bump: v1.7.1 → v1.7.2
Agent-Session: smoke-playwright-nodeps-20260617
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