test(picklescan): stabilize benign nested constructor checks

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Summary

• reproduce the July 29 Windows Python 3.11 Nightly failure by forcing call-graph source instability during benign nested constructor scans
• keep constructor notices and clean-result assertions, while accepting only the explicit fail-closed source-stability error when a source changes
• cover all ten benign constructor shapes under both ordinary encoded scans and forced hex-source instability

Validation

• confirmed the new hex/slice source-change regression fails before the assertion fix and passes afterward
• 40 benign nested constructor/source-instability cases passed
• 3 adjacent nested-constructor and fail-closed source-stability regressions passed
• repository-wide Ruff lint and format checks passed
• changed picklescan test passes mypy; full local mypy reports pre-existing macOS/environment-only errors in six untouched files, while the exact main commit GitHub Type Check is green

Nightly failure: https://github.com/promptfoo/modelaudit/actions/runs/30423861843

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Pull request overview

This PR stabilizes modelaudit-picklescan’s benign nested-constructor scan tests by explicitly modeling and asserting the “fail-closed” behavior when the shared call-graph source snapshot changes mid-analysis (an observed flaky condition in Windows/Python 3.11 nightly runs).

Changes:

• Expands the benign nested-constructor test matrix to include a forced “hex + source changed” scenario via monkeypatch on _ensure_shared_source_snapshot_stable.
• Updates assertions to accept only the explicit call-graph source-stability failure mode as INCONCLUSIVE/UNKNOWN, while keeping the clean path as COMPLETE/CLEAN.
• Keeps the original expectations around “no findings” and presence of the correct nested-payload notice across all benign constructor shapes and encodings.

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Performance Benchmarks

Compared 13 shared benchmarks with a regression threshold of 15%.
Status: 0 regressions, 0 improved, 13 stable, 0 new, 0 missing.
Aggregate shared-benchmark median: 4.423s -> 4.342s (-1.8%).

Workload	Benchmark	Target	Size	Files	Baseline	Current	Change	Status
direct-malicious-upload	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_direct_malicious_upload	malicious_reduce	52 B	1	239.5us	221.5us	-7.5%	stable
rejected-basic-auth-candidates	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_rejected_basic_auth_candidates_scan_linearly	-	371.1 KiB	1	2.579s	2.516s	-2.4%	stable
warm-cache-rescan	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_scan_warm_cached_repository_rescan	release-candidate	547.3 KiB	32	152.90ms	149.39ms	-2.3%	stable
padded-multi-stream-upload	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_padded_multi_stream_upload	multi_stream_padded	4.1 KiB	1	332.9us	340.3us	+2.2%	stable
chunked-upload-stream	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_chunked_upload_stream	chunked_stream	278.2 KiB	1	114.44ms	112.87ms	-1.4%	stable
nested-payload-review	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_nested_payload_review[nested_base64]	nested_base64	98 B	1	290.0us	293.7us	+1.3%	stable
nested-payload-review	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_nested_payload_review[nested_hex]	nested_hex	130 B	1	317.7us	314.3us	-1.1%	stable
duplicate-heavy-registry	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_scan_duplicate_registry_snapshot	registry-snapshot	915.2 KiB	13	571.70ms	566.38ms	-0.9%	stable
suspicious-pickle-intake	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_scan_suspicious_pickle_intake	suspicious-intake	183.8 KiB	4	150.03ms	148.76ms	-0.8%	stable
mixed-model-repository	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_scan_release_candidate_repository	release-candidate	547.3 KiB	32	639.04ms	633.77ms	-0.8%	stable
clean-training-checkpoint	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_clean_training_checkpoint	safe_large	278.2 KiB	1	110.54ms	109.77ms	-0.7%	stable
single-checkpoint-preflight	tests/benchmarks/test_scan_benchmarks.py::test_scan_single_checkpoint_before_load	single_checkpoint.pkl	183.0 KiB	1	104.09ms	103.57ms	-0.5%	stable
nested-payload-review	tests/benchmarks/test_picklescan_benchmarks.py::test_picklescan_nested_payload_review[nested_raw]	nested_raw	78 B	1	276.2us	275.3us	-0.3%	stable

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Preserve clean assertions for normal constructor cases

When source_changes is false, this branch allows every ordinary raw/base64/hex case to return INCONCLUSIVE/UNKNOWN; therefore, a regression that makes nested-constructor source tracking consistently report instability would pass instead of detecting that benign inputs no longer scan cleanly. The explicit source_changes=True cases already cover the fail-closed outcome, so keep the normal cases deterministic—mock a stable snapshot if necessary—and require COMPLETE/CLEAN.

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