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Test Improvement

The regression test added in #351 ("--status alone never prompts or errors on an unfilled blank") spawns cli.js with piped stdin, so process.stdin.isTTY is never true and interactive is already false with or without the !statusOnly term the test is meant to guard. Reverting that one-line fix left the suite green (512/512).

This PR adds --status never asks even when stdin is a TTY, which spawns the CLI with
--import 'data:text/javascript,Object.defineProperty(process.stdin,"isTTY",{value:true})' so the TTY branch is reached without a pty (works on both the ubuntu and macOS matrix legs). A positive control in the same test runs the identical shim without --status and asserts the ask path fails with the stdin is closed diagnostic, so the --status assertion cannot be satisfied vacuously.

Validation at 8d26afe, Node v26.12.0:

• npm test — 513/513 pass, coverage 99.60% lines / 97.69% branches / 100% functions (gate unchanged)
• mutation check: with the !statusOnly term removed from dist/cli.js, the new test fails (actual: 1, expected 0); the pre-existing test still passed
• dist/cli.test.js + .map regenerated for the dist-sync gate; changelog.d/added-status-tty-regression-test.md added

Closes #353

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Read against src/cli.ts and src/resolver.ts at main: the test does what it claims and looks correct to me.

• src/cli.ts:118 — interactive = !flags['no-interactive'] && !statusOnly && process.stdin.isTTY === true. The --import data: shim sets isTTY to true on the spawned process before cli.js loads, so this is the first test that actually evaluates the !statusOnly term rather than short-circuiting on isTTY.
• src/resolver.ts:230-237 — with input: '' stdin hits EOF immediately, rl.on('close') fires and rejects with Variable "file" has no value and stdin is closed, which is exactly the positive-control assertion. Deterministic, no timing dependence.
• The positive control (exit 1 without --status) is the important half: it is what makes the --status assertion falsifiable if someone drops !statusOnly from the condition.
• --import with a data: URL needs Node ≥ 20.6; engines.node is >=22 and the CI matrix is 22/24/26, so no portability concern.
• dist/cli.test.js + .map are committed, which the dist-sync gate requires; verify is green.

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