Acceptance probe: deliberately broken test

internal/globals/ci_gate_probe_test.go

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+package globals
+
+import "testing"
+
+// Scratch-branch probe: a deliberately failing test used to verify that CI
+// actually executes the test stage. Never merged.
+func TestCIGateRunsTests(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Fatal("deliberate failure: the CI gate must report this commit red")
+}