fix(test-gate): derive a runner hint for Vitest test rows

[rainhuang0220]

Refs #323.

For the reported Vitest package, --test-gate listed src/lib.test.ts with run_unknown="1" and exited 4, without naming a command to run.

A JS/TS test row now carries:

run="npm --prefix <package> run test -- <path>"

when the nearest indexed package.json in the crawl root declares exactly "test": "vitest run", declares Vitest as a dependency, and does not specify a non-npm packageManager.

The filename must also match Vitest 3.2's default include, **/*.{test,spec}.?(c|m)[jt]s?(x). .test or .spec has to sit immediately before .js, .jsx, .mjs, .cjs, .ts, .tsx, .mts, or .cts. test/helpers.ts, tests/setup.js, test_*.ts, and *_test.ts stay run_unknown="1". vitest.config.* is not read.

Malformed or ambiguous manifests, unsupported scripts, and skipped nearer manifests retain run_unknown="1". Nested packages, JavaScript and TypeScript files, shell quoting, and refusal cases have regression coverage.

Exit 4 is unchanged. The command is a hint; ripwire does not observe whether tests have passed.

This PR addresses the Vitest case only. Jest and node:test remain follow-up work. A pnpm or yarn project without a packageManager field may receive the npm hint; lockfiles are not examined.

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Adds Vitest command derivation based on the nearest qualifying package.json. The test-runner hint path lazily checks for Vitest evidence and emits scoped npm commands. New integration tests cover qualifying and unsupported manifest evidence, package selection, and shell quoting.

Changes

Vitest run hints

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Derive commands from package evidence src/vitestrunner.h	Adds an index that checks test paths and package-manifest evidence before returning a scoped npm command.
Connect Vitest evidence to test hints src/testmap.h	TestRunnerIndex lazily creates the Vitest index when existing runner matches do not apply. Shell-safe path checks now use the Vitest helper.
Verify Vitest hints and runner evidence test/runhint_vitest.py, test/runhintcheck.sh, test/cppqualcheck.sh	Adds integration checks for command output, package selection, quoting, and missing or invalid evidence. Updates the readWholeFile count assertion.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: joyful-ii-v-i

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Some generated Vitest commands cannot run the named file. Restrict hints to supported filenames before merging.

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In `@src/vitestrunner.h`:
- Around line 143-149: Update the Vitest eligibility check in deriveVitest to
require the basename to end in a .test or .spec segment immediately before a
supported JS/TS extension, in addition to the existing isTestPath check. Keep
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[joyful-ii-V-I]

Thank you, @rainhuang0220, and sorry this waited two days for a reply. The PR is careful work. You checked Vitest's real default include against its own defaults.ts rather than trusting our isTestPath. You refused every case the manifest can't vouch for. You kept exit 4, and you tested that the emitted command really runs from the package with a fake vitest on PATH. I built your branch, ran it against fixtures of my own, and ran the commands it emits with a real Vitest (5.0.2).

Where this stands against main. While this PR was waiting, #323 was closed by a different change that shipped in 0.6.3: src/jsrunner.h, which derives Vitest, Jest and node --test runners from package.json evidence. That's our sequencing, not anything you did. It has two consequences:

• The branch now conflicts with main in src/testmap.h and test/cppqualcheck.sh.
• Once merged, the new vitestrunner.h path never runs for the cases it was written for. derive() asks jsrunner.h first, and every manifest your rule accepts is one jsrunner.h already maps to Vitest. So on the merged tree, runhint_vitest.py fails at its first arm with run: 'npx vitest run src/lib.test.ts'.

Your PR gets two things right that main gets wrong.

1. The command shape. #335 reports that for a package in a subdirectory, main's npx vitest run web/src/lib.test.ts can't be run from either directory, and that npx vitest run -- '<bracketed path>' runs the whole suite. With the #335 repro and a real Vitest:
   • your npm --prefix web run test -- src/lib.test.ts passes one file from the repo root;
   • npm --prefix web run test -- 'app/[slug]/page.test.ts' also runs exactly one file, because npm consumes the --;
   • main's form fails from the root (npx offers to fetch a different Vitest);
   • the -- form runs 2 of 2 files.
     Your rows were also identical whether the root was spelled ., relative, absolute or ../...
2. The default-include check. main emits npx vitest run src/lib.test.helper.ts and npx vitest run src/__tests__/lib.ts, and a real Vitest answers "No test files found" (exit 1) for both. Your defaultVitestFileName correctly refuses the first. (__tests__/ is a Jest convention, not a Vitest one.)

What I verified on your head 81c44462. runhint_vitest.py fails on the 0.6.2 base (the row is run_unknown="1") and passes all 24 arms on your build. runhintcheck, testgatecheck, testrowruncheck, testgaterefusecheck, multirootcheck and cppqualcheck pass. The build has 0 warnings, and CI was green across the matrix on your base. --quality-delta gates 0.

Required changes

• Put the idea into the existing derivation instead of a parallel index. Two Vitest derivations would disagree on which package.json is "nearest". Yours takes the nearest indexed manifest, and any nearer one on disk blocks it. jsrunner.h climbs past a bare {"name": …} marker to a workspace root, and stops at a manifest whose scripts.test names anything. They would also read package.json two different ways. Concretely:
  • drop vitestrunner.h's Index and the fallback in derive();
  • where jsrunner.h decides Framework::Vitest from a scripts.test that runs vitest run, spell npm --prefix <manifest dir> run test -- <manifest-relative path>, with your quoting rules;
  • use your defaultVitestFileName as the Vitest file-shape check, in place of looksLikeJsTestFile for Vitest rows.
    This needs the nearest-manifest walk to return the manifest's directory as well as its bytes. An in-flight change to jsrunner.h is reshaping exactly that function, so please build on it once it lands on main (we'll ping you here).
• Re-base the tests on 0.6.4 behaviour. When I tried your lane first, ahead of jsrunner.h, the #335 repro was fixed, but:
  • your "nearer package without evidence" arm (a jest script) now meets main's correct npx jest -- 'packages/web app/src/lib.test.ts', where the arm expects run_unknown="1";
  • test/testgatecheck.sh arms (i), (m) and (x5) pin the old npx vitest run src/lib.test.ts spelling and need the new one.
• A CHANGELOG entry under ## [Unreleased], and one sentence in the run= paragraph of --help (then UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 bash test/printffmtparitycheck.sh build/ripwire re-pins help/help_all).

Optional

• should: the package's own vitest dependency is stricter than it needs to be. In a workspace where web/package.json has "test": "vitest run" and Vitest is hoisted to the root's devDependencies, the row is run_unknown="1". But npm --prefix web run test -- src/lib.test.ts passes there, because npm run puts every ancestor's node_modules/.bin on PATH. The script alone may be enough evidence.
• should: state the unread vitest.config as a floor. With test.include: ["src/**/*.test.ts"] and a test at test/lib.test.ts, the row gets a command, and Vitest exits 1 with "No test files found". main has the same gap, so this isn't yours to fix. A sentence in the CHANGELOG and a comment, plus an arm that pins today's behaviour, would make the limit explicit.
• nice: deriveVitest measures complexity 34 against a bar of 15 (non-gating, new code). Splitting it into manifest selection, the nested-manifest guard and the spelling would clear it.

How it lands. Your choice:

1. You rework it as above, as the fix for #335. Rebase onto main once the in-flight jsrunner.h change is there. Expect conflicts in two places: src/testmap.h (keep main's resolveJsVerb path, and move your spelling into it) and test/cppqualcheck.sh (re-measure --uses=readWholeFile on the rebased tree rather than taking either side). We'll review it against the #335 repro.
2. We carry it. We fold the npm --prefix shape and your default-include check into our #335 fix, credit you with a Co-authored-by trailer and a line in the release notes, and close this PR with thanks.

If we don't hear back in about a week, we'll go with option 2 so #335 isn't held up. You're welcome to pick up option 1 at any point before that fix merges. Either way, thank you. The subdirectory case is the one we missed, and your PR already had the answer.

[joyful-ii-V-I]

Thanks again, @rainhuang0220. Here's how #330 is going into our #335 fix, including one place where we're not doing what our review said.

The command shape: we went with (cd <package dir> && npx <runner> <package-relative path>), not your npm --prefix. Our review said we would adopt npm --prefix <dir> run test -- <path>. When we measured it against every kind of manifest our runner detection accepts, it only works when scripts.test is exactly a runner call that takes a trailing file argument:

• a package.json that only lists vitest or jest as a dependency has no script to run;
• a "test": "vitest" script (no run) starts watch mode in a terminal;
• a compound script such as vitest run && tsc passes the path to the wrong command.

cd plus npx covers all of those and still uses the package's own pinned runner and config. Your npm --prefix form is more portable to Windows shells, so if Windows parity becomes a goal, it's the obvious alternative. It would be a change to one function.

Your default-include check is in. We reimplemented it inside jsrunner.h using your defaultVitestFileName rule, and it now covers jest too. A vitest or jest command is given only for a file the runner's default include collects. For example, x.test.helper.ts and a vitest __tests__/x.ts now get run_unknown="1" instead of a command that exits 1. The release notes credit you and this PR by name. The commit that adds it will also carry a Co-authored-by trailer for you, as our review promised.

As the review suggested, the release notes and code comments now state that an include in vitest.config isn't read.

The fix is on a branch and hasn't merged yet, and it won't merge before about 3 October, a week from our review. As we said, option 1 stays open to you until then. Otherwise we'll close this PR with thanks when it lands. The subdirectory case got fixed because of this PR. Thank you.