diff --git a/scripts/ci-test-plan.mjs b/scripts/ci-test-plan.mjs
index 8888fe144..bc06cdf7a 100644
--- a/scripts/ci-test-plan.mjs
+++ b/scripts/ci-test-plan.mjs
@@ -5,21 +5,39 @@ import { DEFAULT_SUITES, matchesSuiteTriggers } from './test-suites.mjs';
 
 const eventName = process.env.GITHUB_EVENT_NAME || '';
 const localNoChanges = !eventName && !process.env.CI_CHANGED_FILES;
-const changedFiles = localNoChanges ? [] : getChangedFiles();
+// The nightly schedule exists for exactly one thing: the full live-e2e
+// matrix. A schedule event has no diff base, so the change-detection path
+// degenerates to "everything changed"; without this guard that would flip on
+// every file-triggered opt-in suite, including the ones that bill LLM APIs
+// (skill-behavior, accept-cleanup, deepseek), every single night.
+const isSchedule = eventName === 'schedule';
+const changedFiles = localNoChanges || isSchedule ? [] : getChangedFiles();
 const forceDeterministic = localNoChanges || eventName === 'push' || eventName === 'workflow_dispatch';
 const forceOptIn = eventName === 'workflow_dispatch';
 
-const plan = {
-  core: true,
-  detector: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('detector', changedFiles),
-  live: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('live', changedFiles),
-  framework: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('framework', changedFiles),
-  cli_remote_e2e: forceOptIn,
-  live_e2e: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-e2e', changedFiles),
-  live_e2e_accept_cleanup: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-e2e-accept-cleanup', changedFiles),
-  skill_behavior: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('skill-behavior', changedFiles),
-  live_svelte_adapter_deepseek: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-svelte-adapter-deepseek', changedFiles),
-};
+const plan = isSchedule
+  ? {
+    core: true,
+    detector: true,
+    live: true,
+    framework: true,
+    cli_remote_e2e: false,
+    live_e2e: true,
+    live_e2e_accept_cleanup: false,
+    skill_behavior: false,
+    live_svelte_adapter_deepseek: false,
+  }
+  : {
+    core: true,
+    detector: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('detector', changedFiles),
+    live: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('live', changedFiles),
+    framework: forceDeterministic || matchesSuiteTriggers('framework', changedFiles),
+    cli_remote_e2e: forceOptIn,
+    live_e2e: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-e2e', changedFiles),
+    live_e2e_accept_cleanup: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-e2e-accept-cleanup', changedFiles),
+    skill_behavior: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('skill-behavior', changedFiles),
+    live_svelte_adapter_deepseek: forceOptIn || matchesSuiteTriggers('live-svelte-adapter-deepseek', changedFiles),
+  };
 
 writeGithubOutputs(plan);
 printSummary(plan, changedFiles);
diff --git a/skill/scripts/live-browser.js b/skill/scripts/live-browser.js
index bbee23bc3..988041d74 100644
--- a/skill/scripts/live-browser.js
+++ b/skill/scripts/live-browser.js
@@ -5970,7 +5970,16 @@
     });
     dismiss.textContent = '×';
     dismiss.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Dismiss');
-    dismiss.addEventListener('click', (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); clearMountErrorCard(); });
+    dismiss.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
+      e.stopPropagation();
+      clearMountErrorCard();
+      // The card was the only recovery affordance while the bar is hidden;
+      // dismissing it must hand the user back a usable surface. PICKING
+      // reactivates the global mark and the picker. The saved session and
+      // server truth survive, so a later republish (SSE `done`) still
+      // resurrects the comparison through the normal handlers.
+      if (state === 'GENERATING') setLiveState('PICKING');
+    });
     head.appendChild(dismiss);
     card.appendChild(head);
 
diff --git a/tests/ci-test-plan.test.mjs b/tests/ci-test-plan.test.mjs
index 8c2d0bbac..d8b33fe72 100644
--- a/tests/ci-test-plan.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/ci-test-plan.test.mjs
@@ -95,6 +95,17 @@ describe('ci-test-plan', () => {
     assert.match(workflow, /live-e2e-accept-cleanup:/);
     assert.match(workflow, /live-svelte-adapter-deepseek:/);
   });
+  it('schedule events run only the deterministic suites plus the full live-e2e matrix', () => {
+    const outputs = runPlan({ GITHUB_EVENT_NAME: 'schedule' });
+    assert.equal(outputs.live_e2e, 'true');
+    assert.equal(outputs.live_e2e_accept_cleanup, 'false');
+    assert.equal(outputs.skill_behavior, 'false');
+    assert.equal(outputs.live_svelte_adapter_deepseek, 'false');
+    assert.equal(outputs.cli_remote_e2e, 'false');
+    assert.equal(outputs.core, 'true');
+    assert.equal(outputs.live, 'true');
+  });
+
 });
 
 function runPlan(env) {