Fix #73: stop regression-test.sh reporting a false green

[laird]

Closes #73

Stacked on #72 (feature/issue-70). Base is set to feature/issue-70 so this PR's diff shows only the #73 work. Merge #72 first, then this retargets cleanly onto feat/autocoder-planning-pipeline.

Root cause

regression-test.sh exited 0 with ✅ All tests passed! having executed zero tests, and wrote its report into a directory literally named tests/test_*.sh. The /fix and /dev protocols treat a green regression run as licence to move on to enhancements — so the gate meant to block bad work was passing unconditionally.

Four defects:

1. REPORT_DIR glob. It took the first Location: line anywhere in CLAUDE.md — the Unit Tests one (tests/test_*.sh), not the Test Reports one. mkdir -p then created a glob-named directory which afterwards matched tests/test_*.sh expansions and broke anything iterating the shell suites.
2. Dead extraction header. UNIT_TEST_CMD was read from ### Unit Tests Only, a header present in no CLAUDE.md in this repo, so extraction always missed and fell through to the npm test default — which was then skipped.
3. Skipped counted as passed. A run where every suite SKIPPED still printed success and exited 0.
4. Environment leak. The runner exported its own ISSUE_SOURCE bootstrap into the suite. issue-config.sh treats a pre-set ISSUE_SOURCE as authoritative and skips .autocoder.json, so every test building a file-backend fixture silently talked to GitHub and exited 3.

Defect 4 is the reason this matters beyond tidiness: the false green was hiding four genuinely failing tests. They only became visible once defects 1–3 were fixed.

Solution

• REPORT_DIR scoped by awk to the **Test Reports**: block, plus a guard rejecting any candidate containing glob metacharacters or ...
• Extraction falls back to ### Regression Test Suite, and CLAUDE.md gains the ### Unit Tests Only block the script has always documented. A self-reference guard rejects a command naming regression-test.sh — in this repo that entry is this script, so adopting it would recurse without bound.
• All-skipped now exits 1 and names the skip reasons.
• Suites run under env -u ISSUE_SOURCE -u ISSUE_DIR_PATH -u ISSUE_BACKEND.

Extraction uses awk, not a nested sed range: BSD sed (macOS) rejects /a/,/b/{/c/,/d/p} outright, which aborted the whole run under set -e.

Also adds REGRESSION_TEST_NO_ISSUES=1, a test-mode guard letting the suite exercise the runner without touching a real tracker, and makes a failing tracker query (no remote / no auth) non-fatal rather than aborting a run whose tests already passed.

Mirror

Per the parallel-maintenance rule, the REPORT_DIR, extraction and env-leak fixes are mirrored into .agent/scripts/regression-test.sh. That mirror has no skip detection, so defect 3 does not apply there. Its broader staleness (437 diff lines vs the plugin copy) is pre-existing and tracked by #71 — deliberately not resynced here.

Verification

tests/test_regression_test_config.sh (new): 10 passed, 0 failed
all tests/test_*.sh:                        10 passed, 0 failed
build verification:                         BUILD_OK

• Runner on this repo now executes the shell suites and reports the real result; report lands in docs/test/regression-reports/; no glob directory is created.
• Verified it correctly goes red when a suite fails, not just green when they pass.
• Patched mirror smoke-tested against a fixture: env not leaked, suite ran, report path correct.
• Remote tree OID verified identical to local HEAD tree (2eeb88e).

Known remaining gap (not fixed here)

The summary line still prints PASSED (0/0 passed) — the pass/total counters don't parse this suite's output format. The exit code is now authoritative and correct, so this is cosmetic, but it is the same family of misleading-confidence bug and worth a follow-up.

Push note

git push is 403-blocked by a Zscaler proxy on this machine, so the branch was created via POST /git/refs and the commit via GraphQL createCommitOnBranch. Single-parent commit; history is faithful.

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[laird]

Superseded by #78, which targets master — the repo default, and where all recent merged PRs land. This PR targeted the integration branch that #77 is about to subsume, so the fix would have been stranded.

#78 also fixes a defect this PR did not: master's variant lacks set -o pipefail, so cmd | tee returned tee's status and every failing suite reported PASSED. That is the most severe form of #73 and it is live on master right now.