diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/build.yaml
index 83f507e..969a8aa 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ jobs:
           # Start frontend and run cypress
           # timeout 1800: SIGTERM after 30 min so Cypress can flush video/screenshots
           # before the outer timeout-minutes hard-kills the step (avoids silent multi-hour hangs)
-          npx ng serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4200 & npx wait-on http://localhost:4200 && timeout 1800 npx cypress run --browser chrome --spec "cypress/e2e/csv-limited.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/liveness.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/editor.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/excel-multi-load.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/excel.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/csv.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/filtering.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/filter-panel.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/licensing.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/viewer-labels.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/full-table-search.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/viewbox.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/stage.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/browser-info.cy.ts"
+          npx ng serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4200 & npx wait-on http://localhost:4200 && timeout 1800 npx cypress run --browser chrome --spec "cypress/e2e/csv-limited.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/hook-programs.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/liveness.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/editor.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/excel-multi-load.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/excel.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/csv.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/filtering.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/filter-panel.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/licensing.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/viewer-labels.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/full-table-search.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/viewbox.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/stage.cy.ts,cypress/e2e/browser-info.cy.ts"
 
       - name: Zip Cypress videos
         if: always()
diff --git a/client/cypress/e2e/hook-programs.cy.ts b/client/cypress/e2e/hook-programs.cy.ts
index 0b56696..408ec14 100644
--- a/client/cypress/e2e/hook-programs.cy.ts
+++ b/client/cypress/e2e/hook-programs.cy.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 // Marks this file as an ES module (rather than a global script) so its
 // top-level consts don't collide, under the TS type-checker, with the same
 // names declared in other spec files.
+//
+// RUN ORDER MATTERS, and build.yaml reflects it: this spec must run after
+// csv-limited.cy.ts (which asserts the free tier and so needs the first slot,
+// before any spec applies a licence key) and before every spec that submits a
+// changeset. Test 2 reads the approval queue, which is paged oldest first, and
+// a changeset submitted by an earlier spec pushes this one off the first page.
 export {}
 
 const hostUrl = Cypress.env('hosturl')