diff --git a/playwright.config.ts b/playwright.config.ts
index 268ccd25..4195dd79 100644
--- a/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/playwright.config.ts
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ const chromiumExecutablePath = process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_CHROMIUM_EXECUTABLE_PATH;
 // Tag-level filters keep production and prototype journeys disjoint even when
 // they share a spec file.
 const productionSpecPattern =
-  /.*ui-(smoke|stress|accessibility|tools|overlap|universal-search|specifiers|formulation|pwa)\.spec\.ts/;
+  /.*(?:answer-progress-ui-smoke|ui-(smoke|stress|accessibility|tools|overlap|universal-search|specifiers|formulation|pwa))\.spec\.ts/;
 const mockupSpecPattern = /.*ui-(tools|tools-collapse|tools-task-directory)\.spec\.ts/;
 const mockupTag = /@mockup/;
 
 export default defineConfig({
   testDir: "./tests",
   testMatch:
-    /.*ui-(smoke|stress|accessibility|tools|tools-collapse|tools-task-directory|overlap|universal-search|specifiers|formulation|pwa)\.spec\.ts/,
+    /.*(?:answer-progress-ui-smoke|ui-(smoke|stress|accessibility|tools|tools-collapse|tools-task-directory|overlap|universal-search|specifiers|formulation|pwa))\.spec\.ts/,
   timeout: 60_000,
   retries: 0,
   // Fail the run if a stray `test.only` is committed: otherwise it silently
diff --git a/scripts/ci-change-scope.mjs b/scripts/ci-change-scope.mjs
index 2014a8e1..8c738370 100644
--- a/scripts/ci-change-scope.mjs
+++ b/scripts/ci-change-scope.mjs
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ const uiPatterns = [
   "src/components",
   "src/styles",
   "public",
+  // Answer progress is a production Playwright journey even though its
+  // historical filename does not start with `ui-`. Keep its CI trigger in
+  // lockstep with playwright.config.ts so an edited assertion cannot evade
+  // the required UI job (Vitest does not collect *.spec.ts files).
+  "tests/answer-progress-ui-smoke.spec.ts",
   /^tests\/ui-.*\.spec\.ts$/,
   /^tests\/playwright-.*\.ts$/,
   /^playwright(?:\..*)?\.config\.ts$/,
@@ -420,6 +425,12 @@ function selfTest() {
     ui_changed: true,
     build_changed: true,
   });
+  assertScope("answer-progress-playwright", ["tests/answer-progress-ui-smoke.spec.ts"], {
+    source_changed: true,
+    coverage_changed: true,
+    ui_changed: true,
+    build_changed: false,
+  });
   assertScope("db", ["supabase/migrations/20260710000000_example.sql"], {
     db_changed: true,
     source_changed: true,