fix(e2e): observe the dictation banner inside the 6s it exists

[rubenvdlinde]

a local-pinned agent does NOT fall back to the browser when the service is down failed intermittently with:

Error: expect(locator).toContainText(expected) failed
Locator: locator('[data-testid="cn-ai-input-dictation-error"]')
Expected pattern: /private/i     Timeout: 15000ms
Error: element(s) not found

The assertion outlived the thing it asserted on

CnAiInput's showDictationError() arms:

this.dictationErrorTimer = setTimeout(() => {
    this.dictationError = ''
}, DICTATION_ERROR_TIMEOUT)   // = 6000

The banner wipes itself after 6 seconds, deliberately — the component's own comment explains why: "a banner with no lifetime is a banner that becomes furniture".

The test allowed 15 seconds to observe it. If the runner stalled between the click and the first poll — plausible under CI contention — the banner had already cleared, and Playwright then waited out the rest of the 15s for an element that no longer existed. The message reads like a missing feature; the feature was there and gone.

Measured on development 2026-08-31: 2 failures in 8 runs, and a push run and a pull_request run of the same commit disagreed — the signature of a missed window, not of an app that failed to refuse.

The fix

Observe inside the banner's own lifetime, and repeat the trigger if the window was missed (bounded at 3).

Re-clicking is safe and changes nothing the test is about: the control is aria-disabled, the app refuses the click either way, each call re-arms the banner's timer, and the assertion that actually matters — that no browser recogniser was constructed — is checked over the whole test rather than per click.

Deliberately not a longer timeout and not a weakened matcher. The refusal message is the point of this test: it still must appear, still must say "private", and a genuine failure to show it still fails here after three honest attempts. This test exists to prove confidential audio never reaches Google, and nothing about that guarantee is relaxed.

Timing

banner TTL after each click	6s
waitFor(visible)	4s — starts at the click, inside the TTL
worst case	resolves at 4s, leaving 2s of banner for the text assertion
3 attempts	~12s, inside the spec's budget

[github-actions]

Quality Report — ConductionNL/hermiq @ 7f3a423

Check	PHP	Vue	Security	License	Tests
lint	✅
phpcs	✅
phpmd	✅
psalm	✅
phpstan	✅
phpmetrics	✅
eslint		✅
stylelint		✅
build		✅
check-specs		✅
check-manifest		✅
test-l10n		✅
format		✅
check-l10n-js		✅
check-schema-l10n		✅
composer			✅	✅ 123/123
npm			✅	✅ 730/730
app:check-code	⏭️
info.xml	✅
REUSE	❌
PHPUnit					✅
Newman					✅
Playwright					⏭️ deferred — runs on the promotion into beta/main, not on a pull request into development
Hydra gates					✅

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Quality workflow — 2026-08-31 17:39 UTC

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