From 2a6e4caf7cca795085e7d8cda0d907d66336c0a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacek <jacek@clerk.dev>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:55:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(e2e): reduce playwright workers for staging to avoid FAPI
 rate limiting

The generic suite runs 212 tests with 4 workers, each spinning up
long-running apps against the same staging instance. This overwhelms
the staging FAPI rate limits causing 'Too many requests' errors.

Add E2E_WORKERS env var support to playwright config and set it to 2
for the staging workflow.
---
 .github/workflows/e2e-staging.yml | 1 +
 integration/playwright.config.ts  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e-staging.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e-staging.yml
index edfdff68150..286723e8197 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e-staging.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e-staging.yml
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           E2E_DEBUG: '1'
           E2E_STAGING: '1'
+          E2E_WORKERS: '2'
           E2E_SDK_SOURCE: ${{ steps.inputs.outputs.sdk-source }}
           E2E_APP_CLERK_JS_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}
           E2E_APP_CLERK_UI_DIR: ${{ runner.temp }}
diff --git a/integration/playwright.config.ts b/integration/playwright.config.ts
index 007d17768cc..60c8cd937a7 100644
--- a/integration/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/integration/playwright.config.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export const common: PlaywrightTestConfig = {
   forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
   retries: process.env.CI ? 5 : 0,
   maxFailures: process.env.CI ? 5 : undefined,
-  workers: process.env.CI ? '50%' : '70%',
+  workers: process.env.E2E_WORKERS || (process.env.CI ? '50%' : '70%'),
   use: {
     actionTimeout: 10_000,
     navigationTimeout: 30_000,