[allanbatista]

What changed

• Detect native POSIX test expressions passed through rtk test, such as rtk test -d graphify-out.
• Route those expressions to the system test command via passthrough.
• Keep regular RTK test filtering intact for commands like rtk test cargo test.
• Add regression coverage and a changelog entry.

Problem

rtk test -d graphify-out failed with:

sh: 0: Illegal option -d

Running test -d graphify-out directly worked.

Root cause

test is also an RTK subcommand. Clap correctly routed rtk test -d graphify-out to Commands::Test, but that handler joined the remaining args into a string and executed it through sh -c for RTK's test-output filtering.

That produced sh -c "-d graphify-out". POSIX sh interpreted -d as an option to the shell command itself, not as an argument to test, which caused Illegal option -d.

Proposed solution

When Commands::Test receives a native test expression (-d, -f, !, (, etc.), bypass the RTK test-output wrapper and run the system test command directly with the original arguments. This keeps shell parsing out of the path and preserves the native test exit semantics.

Validation

• rtk cargo +1.91.0 fmt --all && rtk cargo +1.91.0 clippy --all-targets && rtk cargo +1.91.0 test --all
• rtk proxy ./target/debug/rtk test -d .
• rtk proxy ./target/debug/rtk test -d graphify-out
• rtk proxy ./target/debug/rtk test true

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[allanbatista]

Closed in favor of upstream PR: rtk-ai#2515