The Playwright beforeEach hook called DELETE /api/project to get a clean
selection screen. This request hit the live server via Vite's proxy and
set project_root to None, breaking every background agent operation
(server-owned completion, auto-assign, merge pipeline).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a project path is passed on the command line, skip the project
selection screen in the frontend and go straight to the main UI.
Squash merge of feature/story-211
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove tdd-gates, story-todos, and test-protection e2e specs that
tested deleted GatePanel, TodoPanel, and ReviewPanel. Rename the
surviving boot smoke test from review-panel.spec.ts to smoke.spec.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
