test: skip stub-driven abilities load-order simulation under real WordPress (#2620)

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Summary

The homeboy / Test host-smoke phase crashes on abilities-categories-load-order-smoke.php (run-php exit 255 / state 1 assertion failure), which aborts the entire host-smoke run — it stops on the first alphabetical failure. Two sibling tests (abilities-image-template-load-order-smoke.php, abilities-send-email-load-order-smoke.php) have the identical defect and would crash next, so all three are fixed here.

Closes #2620

Root cause

These three smoke tests drive ensure_registered() through its three timing states (doing_action → register now, ! did_action → hook, post-action → no-op) by stubbing the WordPress lifecycle functions (doing_action, did_action, add_action, wp_register_ability_category / wp_register_ability). The stubs are installed only when the real functions are absent:

if ( ! function_exists( 'doing_action' ) ) { function doing_action( $hook ) { ... } }

The wp-codebox host-smoke backend runs every tests/*-smoke.php inside a real WordPress, where all those functions already exist — so the stubs are never installed and are inert. The simulation sets $state->doing = true to fake "the init action is firing", but real doing_action( 'wp_abilities_api_categories_init' ) returns false during the test, so categories never register immediately and the state 1 assertion fails → exit(1) → host-smoke aborts.

This is a test-harness incompatibility, not a production regression. The runtime registration logic is correct (and is the same code that boots categories on every request).

Fix

Guard the stub-driven behavioral simulation behind ! defined( 'WPINC' ) — the established real-WP detector already used by agent-conversation-runtime-policy-smoke.php. Under real WordPress the test runs only the source-string assertions (which lock the real contract: unconditional registration call site + lifecycle-safe doing_action/did_action/no-op branches) and exits 0. In the pure-PHP / PHPUnit context the full behavioral simulation still runs.

No production code changed — test-only.

Verification

Each of the three tests validated in both modes:

Test	standalone (full sim)	real-WP (WPINC defined)
categories-load-order	14 assertions ✓ exit 0	8 source assertions ✓ exit 0
image-template-load-order	✓ exit 0	✓ exit 0
send-email-load-order	✓ exit 0	✓ exit 0

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Homeboy Results — data-machine

Lint

✅ lint — passed

ℹ️ Full options: homeboy docs commands/lint
Deep dive: homeboy lint data-machine --changed-since 12afa9a

Artifacts and drill-down

• CI results artifact: homeboy-ci-results-data-machine-lint-quality-Linux-node24 contains immediate command JSON for this action invocation.
• Observation artifact: homeboy-observations-data-machine-lint-quality-Linux-node24 contains exported Homeboy run history for deeper queries.
• Drill-down: download the observation artifact, then run homeboy runs import <dir>, homeboy runs list, and homeboy runs findings <run-id>.
• Artifacts are attached to the workflow run: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine/actions/runs/27501990562

Test

✅ test — passed

ℹ️ Auto-fix lint issues: homeboy refactor data-machine --from lint --write
ℹ️ Collect coverage: homeboy test data-machine --coverage
ℹ️ Pass args to test runner: homeboy test -- [args]
ℹ️ Full options: homeboy docs commands/test
Deep dive: homeboy test data-machine --changed-since 12afa9a

Artifacts and drill-down

• CI results artifact: homeboy-ci-results-data-machine-test-quality-Linux-node24 contains immediate command JSON for this action invocation.
• Observation artifact: homeboy-observations-data-machine-test-quality-Linux-node24 contains exported Homeboy run history for deeper queries.
• Drill-down: download the observation artifact, then run homeboy runs import <dir>, homeboy runs list, and homeboy runs findings <run-id>.
• Artifacts are attached to the workflow run: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine/actions/runs/27501990562

Audit

✅ audit — passed

• audit — 9 finding(s)
• Total: 9 finding(s)

Deep dive: homeboy audit data-machine --changed-since 12afa9a

Artifacts and drill-down

• CI results artifact: homeboy-ci-results-data-machine-audit-quality-Linux-node24 contains immediate command JSON for this action invocation.
• Observation artifact: homeboy-observations-data-machine-audit-quality-Linux-node24 contains exported Homeboy run history for deeper queries.
• Drill-down: download the observation artifact, then run homeboy runs import <dir>, homeboy runs list, and homeboy runs findings <run-id>.
• Artifacts are attached to the workflow run: https://github.com/Extra-Chill/data-machine/actions/runs/27501990562

Tooling versions

• Homeboy CLI: homeboy 0.229.8+d44d5011
• Extension: wordpress from https://github.com/Extra-Chill/homeboy-extensions
• Extension revision: 29a1d974
• Action: unknown@unknown