Standardize live search Playwright setup lane

src/Web/StellaOps.Web/README.md

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 The Playwright config auto-starts `npm run serve:test` and intercepts Authority redirects, so no live IdP is required. For CI/offline nodes, pre-install the required browsers via `npx playwright install --with-deps` and cache the results alongside your npm cache.
+
+### Standard live-search acceptance lane
+
+Use this lane when you need browser verification against a freshly ingested local AdvisoryAI corpus instead of mocked search responses:
+
+```bash
+npm run test:e2e:search:live
+```
+
+What it does:
+- starts or reuses the dedicated AdvisoryAI knowledge-test Postgres via `devops/compose/docker-compose.advisoryai-knowledge-test.yml`
+- starts or reuses the local AdvisoryAI WebService on `http://127.0.0.1:10451`
+- compiles the local CLI if `.artifacts/stella-cli/` is missing
+- runs `advisoryai sources prepare --json`
+- rebuilds `POST /v1/advisory-ai/index/rebuild` and `POST /v1/search/index/rebuild`
+- proves a grounded smoke query before the browser suite runs
+- executes the live search Playwright spec through `playwright.live-search.config.ts`
+
+Prerequisites:
+- `docker compose`
+- `dotnet`
+- Playwright browsers installed locally
+
+Optional environment overrides:
+- `PLAYWRIGHT_LIVE_SEARCH_SKIP_DOCKER=1` if the dedicated AdvisoryAI test database is already running
+- `LIVE_ADVISORYAI_SEARCH_BASE_URL` to target a non-default local AdvisoryAI host
+- `AdvisoryAI__KnowledgeSearch__ConnectionString` to override the dedicated test database connection string
 
 ## Running end-to-end tests