cowork: CLI error observability + --output robustness

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Summary

• Spec-load errors now print to a stderr Rich console, keeping stdout clean for CI pipelines consuming --format json/yaml output (silent-failure trap: previously errors could interleave with machine-readable output).
• All --output writes route through a helper that creates missing parent directories instead of crashing with an unhandled FileNotFoundError.
• Retired placeholder tests/test_dummy.py (a pass-only test that inflated pass counts) — moved to _archive/retired-tests/.
• Added regression tests for stderr error routing and nested --output paths.

Verification

• pytest: 191 passed (was 192 incl. dummy; net +2 real tests)
• ruff check src tests: clean

cowork-bot commit 0047b49

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🤖 Automated Code Review

✅ Ruff Lint — No issues

⚠️ Ruff Format — Formatting needed

unformatted: File would be reformatted
   --> src/api_contract_guardian/cli.py:21:19
    |
20  |
    -     warnings.warn(
    -         "revenueholdings-license not installed; license checks skipped", stacklevel=2
    -     )
21  +     warnings.warn("revenueholdings-license not installed; license checks skipped", stacklevel=2)
22  |     _has_rh = False
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53  |
    - def _validate_output_format(
    -     format_name: str, allowed: tuple[str, ...], command: str
    - ) -> str:
54  + def _validate_output_format(format_name: str, allowed: tuple[str, ...], command: str) -> str:
55  |     """Reject unsupported output formats before the command runs."""
56  |     if format_name not in allowed:
57  |         allowed_list = ", ".join(allowed)
    -         raise typer.BadParameter(
    -             f"Unsupported {command} format '{format_name}'. Choose from: {allowed_list}"
    -         )
58  +         raise typer.BadParameter(f"Unsupported {command} format '{format_name}'. Choose from: {allowed_list}")
59  |     return format_name
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110 |     global _require_license_strict
    -     _require_license_strict = require_license_flag or bool(
    -         os.environ.get("REVENUEHOLDINGS_REQUIRE_LICENSE")
    -     )
111 +     _require_license_strict = require_license_flag or bool(os.environ.get("REVENUEHOLDINGS_REQUIRE_LICENSE"))
112 |

✅ Secret Detection — Clean

✅ Large Files — Within limits

📊 Diff Stats — 3 file(s) changed

 {tests => _archive/retired-tests}/test_dummy.py |  0
 src/api_contract_guardian/cli.py                | 33 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 tests/test_cli.py                               | 19 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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Verdict: ⚠️ Warnings — Lint/format issues found. Recommend fixing before merge.

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