diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
index 4aa2c859f11..90d2e3216d2 100644
--- a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/case.mjs
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ async function nudgeGesture(ctx, pre) {
 const blockedCdnUrls = new Set();
 
 /** Serves the fixtures' CDN requests from the repo; any other CDN URL is blocked and named once. */
-async function serveFixtureAssetsLocally(page) {
+export async function serveFixtureAssetsLocally(page) {
   const cdp = await page.createCDPSession();
   cdp.on("Fetch.requestPaused", ({ requestId, request }) => {
     const file = localAsset(request.url);
diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.mjs
index 8d859d5e8ff..1865cf77e10 100644
--- a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.mjs
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.mjs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   createFileServer,
   initializeSession,
 } from "../../../../producer/src/index.js";
+import { serveFixtureAssetsLocally } from "./case.mjs";
 import { BACKGROUND, COMPOSITION, PLAYHEAD, TARGET } from "./grid.mjs";
 
 const FPS = { num: 30, den: 1 };
@@ -81,8 +82,11 @@ export async function renderBox(dir, decoder, time = PLAYHEAD) {
       },
       null,
       // A composition with no GSAP never registers a timeline; the default 45 s wait for one changes no pixel.
-      { playerReadyTimeout: 10_000 },
+      // Static-frame dedup opens a second page that would fetch GSAP from the CDN; one frame needs none.
+      { playerReadyTimeout: 10_000, staticFrameDedup: false },
     );
+    // The producer's own browser would fetch GSAP from the CDN; a stalled fetch renders the 0 s frame.
+    await serveFixtureAssetsLocally(session.page);
     await initializeSession(session);
     const { buffer } = await captureFrameToBuffer(session, 0, time);
     // Diagnostic only: a DOM rect ignores clip-path, so it cannot score a crop.
diff --git a/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.test.mjs b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..15ac4e4bc60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/studio/tests/e2e/edit-accuracy/render.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { FIXTURE_CDN } from "./grid.mjs";
+
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+const gsapUrl = `${FIXTURE_CDN}npm/gsap@${require("gsap/package.json").version}/dist/gsap.min.js`;
+// Chrome's Fetch urlPattern: the whole URL, `*` any run of characters, `?` one character.
+const chromeUrlPattern = (pattern) =>
+  new RegExp(
+    `^${pattern
+      .replace(/[.+^${}()|[\]\\]/g, "\\$&")
+      .replace(/\*/g, ".*")
+      .replace(/\?/g, ".")}$`,
+  );
+const sent = [];
+const handlers = {};
+const sessionArgs = [];
+const page = {
+  createCDPSession: async () => ({
+    on: (event, handler) => (handlers[event] = handler),
+    send: async (method, params) => void sent.push({ method, params }),
+  }),
+  evaluate: async () => null,
+};
+
+vi.mock("../../../../producer/src/index.js", () => ({
+  createFileServer: async () => ({ url: "http://127.0.0.1:1", close() {} }),
+  createCaptureSession: async (...args) => (sessionArgs.push(args), { page }),
+  // Navigation: Chrome pauses the fixture's GSAP request here when it is intercepted.
+  initializeSession: async () =>
+    handlers["Fetch.requestPaused"]?.({ requestId: "1", request: { url: gsapUrl } }),
+  captureFrameToBuffer: async () => ({ buffer: Buffer.alloc(0) }),
+  closeCaptureSession: async () => undefined,
+}));
+
+describe("renderBox", () => {
+  it("serves the fixture's GSAP from the repo and opens no second page that would fetch it", async () => {
+    const { renderBox } = await import("./render.mjs");
+    const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "edit-bench-render-"));
+    const decoder = { evaluate: async () => ({ left: 0, right: 1, top: 0, bottom: 1, area: 1 }) };
+    try {
+      await renderBox(dir, decoder);
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+    }
+    expect(sent.map((s) => s.method)).toEqual(["Fetch.enable", "Fetch.fulfillRequest"]);
+    const { patterns } = sent[0].params;
+    expect(patterns).toEqual([{ urlPattern: patterns[0].urlPattern }]);
+    expect(gsapUrl).toMatch(chromeUrlPattern(patterns[0].urlPattern));
+    const gsap = readFileSync(require.resolve("gsap/dist/gsap.min.js")).toString("base64");
+    expect(sent[1].params.body).toBe(gsap);
+    expect(sessionArgs[0][4]).toMatchObject({ staticFrameDedup: false });
+  });
+});