diff --git a/e2e/medication-compliance-journey.spec.ts b/e2e/medication-compliance-journey.spec.ts
index 5fb87248a..bf6926db7 100644
--- a/e2e/medication-compliance-journey.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/medication-compliance-journey.spec.ts
@@ -13,19 +13,23 @@
  *   1. Journey — a twice-daily medication created through the real wizard, one
  *      dose taken and one skipped from the card, and the resulting figure read
  *      back on the card, in the intake history and on the dashboard tile.
- *   2. Refusal — a dose recorded against a schedule that does not exist is
- *      refused, and the rate is exactly what it was before.
+ *   2. Refusal — an intake against a medication this account does not own, and
+ *      one against a slot its schedule does not have, are both refused and the
+ *      rate is exactly what it was before.
  *   3. Cadence — a medication due on two weekdays does not count the other
  *      five as missed. Its daily twin, given the identical doses, does.
  *
  * Every assertion addresses a `data-slot` / `data-*` attribute rather than
- * viewport text: the copy is i18n-driven, the wizard runs in German and the
- * card's own labels collapse to icons at narrow widths.
+ * viewport text: the copy is i18n-driven and the wizard runs in German, so
+ * addressing a control by its label would assert the translation.
  *
- * The flows mutate the one seeded account and read counts back off it, so —
- * like `visits.spec.ts` and `vaccinations.spec.ts` — this file runs in a
- * single project (see `playwright.config.ts`) and serial, and clears the
- * cabinet before each test so a rate counts only the doses the test wrote.
+ * The flows write rows and read counts back off them, so they run on their own
+ * account (`E2E_MEDICATION`) — the rate a card shows is a percentage over one
+ * cabinet, and a sibling spec mounting `/medications` in the other worker
+ * would otherwise be spending the same per-actor read allowance and sitting in
+ * the same dashboard denominator. The file still runs serial and in a single
+ * project (see `playwright.config.ts`), because its three tests share that one
+ * cabinet with each other.
  *
  * Why the medications are aged (`ageMedication`): compliance is reconstructed
  * from the medication's creation stamp forward, so a medication created a
@@ -252,7 +256,16 @@ async function clockAnchoredDoseTimes(
   });
 }
 
-/** Add one `HH:mm` to the wizard's times-of-day chips. */
+/**
+ * Add one `HH:mm` to the wizard's times-of-day chips.
+ *
+ * The Enter press is the commit, not a flourish: the field's overlay input
+ * holds what is being typed and only hands it to the form on Enter or on blur
+ * (`src/components/ui/time-field.tsx:175-184`). Until then the draft is empty,
+ * and the add button is `disabled` on exactly that
+ * (`times-of-day-chips.tsx:267`) — so a fill followed straight by a click
+ * waits out the actionability timeout on a button that never enables.
+ */
 async function addDoseTime(page: Page, time: string): Promise<void> {
   const chips = page.locator('[data-slot="times-of-day-chips"]');
   const draft = chips.getByTestId("times-of-day-draft-input");
diff --git a/src/components/charts/__tests__/medication-compliance-chart.test.tsx b/src/components/charts/__tests__/medication-compliance-chart.test.tsx
index fd9287925..7aae3683f 100644
--- a/src/components/charts/__tests__/medication-compliance-chart.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/charts/__tests__/medication-compliance-chart.test.tsx
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@ import {
  * aggregation helper produces the correct rates.
  */
 
+/**
+ * The daily points the mocked query serves. Mutable so one test can hand the
+ * chart a loaded window; every other test leaves it empty.
+ */
+const queryState = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  data: [] as { date: string; scheduled: number; taken: number }[],
+}));
+
 vi.mock("@tanstack/react-query", () => ({
-  useQuery: () => ({ data: [], isLoading: false }),
+  useQuery: () => ({ data: queryState.data, isLoading: false }),
   useQueryClient: () => ({
     cancelQueries: () => Promise.resolve(),
     getQueryData: () => undefined,
@@ -195,4 +203,24 @@ describe("<MedicationComplianceChart>", () => {
     const html = render(<MedicationComplianceChart />);
     expect(html).not.toContain('data-slot="medication-trend-chip"');
   });
+
+  /**
+   * The tile's adherence number exists only as bar geometry, so the root's
+   * `data-latest-rate` is the one way to read it back — and the browser suite
+   * was its only reader, which put a production attribute's shape three
+   * minutes and a whole server away from the gate that should own it. Pinned
+   * here: the value is the LAST day's rate, as an integer.
+   */
+  it("carries the last day's rate on the root as data-latest-rate", () => {
+    queryState.data = [
+      { date: "2026-05-01", scheduled: 2, taken: 2 }, // 100 %
+      { date: "2026-05-02", scheduled: 4, taken: 1 }, // 25 %
+    ];
+    try {
+      const html = render(<MedicationComplianceChart />);
+      expect(html).toContain('data-latest-rate="25"');
+    } finally {
+      queryState.data = [];
+    }
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/components/medications/card-parts/medication-intake-actions.tsx b/src/components/medications/card-parts/medication-intake-actions.tsx
index 1403fa8ad..296922b7a 100644
--- a/src/components/medications/card-parts/medication-intake-actions.tsx
+++ b/src/components/medications/card-parts/medication-intake-actions.tsx
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ interface MedicationIntakeActionsProps {
  * structurally rather than kept byte-equivalent by hand.
  *
  * Both buttons carry a `data-slot`. They are the only controls on the card
- * that write, and their labels are i18n copy that also collapses to an icon
- * on the narrow card — an e2e journey addressing them by text would be
- * asserting the translation, not the control.
+ * that write, and their labels are translated copy — an e2e journey
+ * addressing them by text would be asserting the translation, not the
+ * control.
  */
 export function MedicationIntakeActions({
   intakeLoading,