test: guard ci.yml gating jobs against continue-on-error

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Test Improvement

Adds tests/ci-gating-jobs.test.mjs. No workflow file is modified — the
change is one new file under tests/.

.github/workflows/ci.yml is the only pull_request-triggered workflow, so its
validate, lint and e2e jobs are the entire pre-merge gate. Adding
continue-on-error: true to any of them leaves every step running and every step
reporting, and makes the job report success. The same line on the
Run unit tests with coverage step discards the unit suite and all four coverage
thresholds on its own. Nothing in the suite noticed.

The existing guards are blind to it by construction:

• tests/workflow-scripts.test.mjs pins the relationship in one direction only —
  that e2e-coverage is non-gating (assert.equal(coverage['continue-on-error'], true)).
  Nothing asserted the converse.
• tests/coverage-gate-thresholds.test.mjs pins the threshold values and that
  ci.yml runs the gate command. Both survive the exit code being ignored.

What the new file pins

test	fails when
only allowlisted jobs opt out of failing	any job in any workflow gains continue-on-error
ci.yml's gating jobs are gating	validate, lint or e2e is disarmed (names the job in the message)
no step inside a gating job suppresses its own failure	a step of a gating job ignores its exit code
every workflow parses and ci.yml still defines its gating jobs	a gating job is deleted, or ci.yml stops triggering on pull_request
the non-gating allowlist does not outlive its jobs	an allowlist entry names a job that no longer exists or no longer opts out

The allowlist holds exactly one entry — ci.yml#e2e-coverage — with its reason
written next to it. This follows the FLOORS convention in
coverage-gate-thresholds.test.mjs: a legitimate future non-gating job stays
possible, but it must be argued for in the allowlist rather than slipped in as one
line of YAML. continue-on-error accepts an expression, so only a literal false
counts as pinned off; ${{ ... }} is treated as opting out.

Verification

The scanners take the parsed workflows as an argument rather than closing over the
repository's own, so every violation path is exercised against a fixture — a guard
whose failure path never runs is a guard nobody has checked.

Each failure mode was also confirmed end-to-end by mutating a scratch copy of
ci.yml and restoring it (the committed ci.yml is byte-identical to main):

mutation	result
continue-on-error: true on the validate job	✖ only allowlisted jobs opt out of failing, ✖ ci.yml's gating jobs are gating
continue-on-error: true on Run unit tests with coverage	✖ no step inside a gating job suppresses its own failure — ci.yml#validate → Run unit tests with coverage
e2e-coverage stops opting out	✖ only allowlisted jobs opt out of failing, ✖ the non-gating allowlist does not outlive its jobs
the lint job deleted	✖ every workflow parses and ci.yml still defines its gating jobs
unmodified ci.yml	9 passed, 0 failed

Full gate, npm run test:unit:coverage:check (TZ=UTC), run locally on this branch:

tests/ci-gating-jobs.test.mjs | 100.00 | 92.98
src files                     | 100.00 | 100.00 | 8351/8351 lines | 2395/2395 regions
all files                     |  99.37 |  95.00 | 42954/43227 lines | 7258/7640 regions

Exit 0, zero failing tests; overall coverage is unchanged against the 99.37 / 95.02
baseline on main. npx prettier --check and npx cspell both pass on the new file.

Scope

Disjoint from every open hold-gated PR: this touches no file in #989, #991, #994,
#996 or #998. In particular it does not touch tests/tools/coverage-report.mjs,
tests/tools/e2e-coverage-report.mjs or package.json, so it does not overlap the
reporter work in #991/#992/#996.

Related Issue

Closes #999

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