Fix e2e daemon isolation and fast model defaults

packages/app/e2e/fixtures.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ import { test, expect, type Page } from '@playwright/test';
 const consoleEntries = new WeakMap<Page, string[]>();
 
 test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+  const daemonPort = process.env.E2E_DAEMON_PORT;
+  if (!daemonPort) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'E2E_DAEMON_PORT is not set. Refusing to run e2e against the default daemon (e.g. localhost:6767). ' +
+        'Ensure Playwright `globalSetup` starts the e2e daemon and exports E2E_DAEMON_PORT.'
+    );
+  }
+
   const entries: string[] = [];
   consoleEntries.set(page, entries);
 
@@ -14,20 +22,36 @@ test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
     entries.push(`[pageerror] ${error.message}`);
   });
 
-  // Set up test daemon connection if available
-  const daemonPort = process.env.E2E_DAEMON_PORT;
-  if (daemonPort) {
-    const testDaemon = {
-      id: 'e2e-test-daemon',
-      label: 'localhost',
-      wsUrl: `ws://localhost:${daemonPort}/ws`,
-      createdAt: new Date().toISOString(),
-      updatedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
-    };
-    await page.addInitScript((daemon) => {
+  const nowIso = new Date().toISOString();
+  const testDaemon = {
+    id: 'e2e-test-daemon',
+    label: 'localhost',
+    wsUrl: `ws://localhost:${daemonPort}/ws`,
+    restUrl: `http://localhost:${daemonPort}/`,
+    createdAt: nowIso,
+    updatedAt: nowIso,
+  };
+
+  const createAgentPreferences = {
+    // Ensure create flow never uses a remembered host from the developer's real app.
+    serverId: testDaemon.id,
+    // Keep e2e fast/cheap by default.
+    provider: 'claude',
+    providerPreferences: {
+      claude: { model: 'haiku' },
+      codex: { model: 'gpt-5.1-codex-mini' },
+    },
+  };
+
+  await page.addInitScript(
+    ({ daemon, preferences }) => {
+      // Hard-reset anything that could point to a developer's real daemon.
       localStorage.setItem('@paseo:daemon-registry', JSON.stringify([daemon]));
-    }, testDaemon);
-  }
+      localStorage.removeItem('@paseo:settings');
+      localStorage.setItem('@paseo:create-agent-preferences', JSON.stringify(preferences));
+    },
+    { daemon: testDaemon, preferences: createAgentPreferences }
+  );
 });
 
 test.afterEach(async ({ page }, testInfo) => {