Neil 92315c4178 fix(preflight): do not count a Windows binary reached through interop as a WSL install (#16028)
* fix(preflight): do not count a Windows binary reached through interop as a WSL install

WSL appends the Windows PATH to the guest PATH by default, so on a distro with
no guest `claude`, `command -v claude` resolves to
`/mnt/c/Users/me/.../claude.exe`. That path is POSIX-absolute, so the existing
absolute-path check accepted it and preflight reported the agent as installed
in the distro.

That is worse than reporting it absent. Absent tells the user to install it; a
false positive launches a Windows executable inside a Linux session, where it
sees Windows paths, no guest $HOME and none of the distro's config -- and the
failure surfaces later, somewhere less obvious.

Rejects `/mnt/<drive>/` and any `.exe`, case-insensitively. A genuine guest
install is unaffected.

* fix(preflight): skip Windows mounts during the PATH walk, not after it

The review caught this and it is the more important half of the fix.

Rejecting the interop path in TypeScript happens after the guest walk has
already stopped on it: the lookup breaks at the first executable, and the
version-manager fallback dirs are APPENDED, so they sit behind the Windows
entries WSL appends. A user with claude in nvm AND on the Windows PATH
therefore went from a false positive to "not installed" -- the exact #9725
population the fallback dirs exist to serve. Worse than the bug being fixed.

The lookup now takes `skipWindowsMountDirs` and skips those PATH components
mid-walk, so the guest binary behind the shadow is still found. Matched by
mount metadata from /proc/mounts (drvfs/9p/virtiofs), not by a `/mnt` name:
the automount root is configurable, and `/mnt` is an ordinary directory on a
Linux box. That also closes the custom-root hole the reviewers found in the
name-based predicate.

The TypeScript check stays as a secondary net for a mount the guest does not
report, with a comment saying why it must never be the thing that decides.

Proven with a real /bin/sh: a Windows `claude` ahead of an nvm `claude` on
PATH now resolves to the nvm one.

Credit: review counsel, and community PR #12794 (spfcraze), which proposed
this shape first.

* fix(preflight): let the mount table be the only word on what is a Windows path

The name-based check could veto a path the walk had deliberately kept. /mnt/d
is a perfectly ordinary Linux mount, so a guest binary there was resolved
correctly by the walk and then discarded by its name -- the #9725 false
negative, reintroduced by the belt-and-braces net I added "just in case". And
if awk were missing, the name rule became the only rule, which is precisely
the failure it was supposed to backstop.

The walk skips components the guest itself reports as drvfs/9p/virtiofs. That
is authoritative. Without a mount table we now degrade to main's behaviour (the
old false positive) rather than inventing a new false negative.

Net: one predicate, three fixtures and an import deleted.
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
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Mobile Companion

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