Why
tests/run-bats.sh's discovery walk already excludes apm_modules/ and
.claude/skills/ because those hold apm-installed copies of the same
*.bats files one directory level shallower than their plugins/*/.apm/
source, which overshoots the hardcoded six-levels-up REPO_ROOT walk
each test's setup() does and fails to find the bats-support helper.
build/ was missing the same exclusion: apm pack stages an identical
copy under build/<package>-<version>/ before archiving, hitting the
exact same failure mode from a different apm subcommand. A stray
local `apm pack` run leaves that directory on disk (gitignored,
regenerable) and silently doubles the suite (846 tests instead of
423) with 423 of them failing.
Implementation Notes
Added `-not -path "*/build/*"` to the find walk and the matching
git ls-files grep exclusion, mirroring the existing apm_modules/ and
.claude/skills/ entries. Extended tests/test-run-bats.sh with a case
following the same pattern as the existing exclusion-bug fixtures.
Impact
Unblocks the run-tests pre-commit/pre-push hook for any checkout that
has ever run a bare `apm pack` locally.
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