Atif Ali 584c61acb5 fix: mark connecting agents as unhealthy instead of healthy (#24044)
## Problem

Workspaces showed as "Healthy" immediately after creation while the
agent was still downloading, starting, or connecting. If the agent never
connected, the workspace stayed "Healthy" for the entire connection
timeout (~120s), then abruptly flipped to "Unhealthy".

## Root cause

In `db2sdk.WorkspaceAgent`, the health switch had no case for
`WorkspaceAgentConnecting`. Agents in `connecting` status with a
non-`off` lifecycle (e.g. `created` after a fresh build) fell through to
the `default` case and were marked `Healthy = true`.

## Fix

Add an explicit case for `WorkspaceAgentConnecting` that sets `Healthy =
false` with reason `"agent has not yet connected"`. The case is placed
after the existing `!connected + off` case (which correctly catches
stopped agents as "not running") and before the `timeout`/`disconnected`
cases.

```
Status        + Lifecycle       → Health reason
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
any !connected + off           → "agent is not running"
connecting    + created/starting → "agent has not yet connected"  ← NEW
timeout       + any            → "agent is taking too long to connect"
disconnected  + any            → "agent has lost connection"
connected     + start_error    → "agent startup script exited with an error"
connected     + shutting_down  → "agent is shutting down"
connected     + ready/starting → healthy
```

The frontend already handles this case — `getAgentHealthIssue()` returns
"Workspace agent is still connecting" with `severity: "info"` for
unhealthy workspaces with connecting agents.

## Test changes

- **Healthy test**: now actually connects the agent via `agenttest.New`
before asserting health (previously passed due to the bug).
- **New Connecting test**: verifies a never-connected agent is correctly
marked unhealthy.
- **Mixed health test**: connects a1 and waits for the mixed state
(`a1.Healthy && !workspace.Healthy`) to avoid a race where both agents
are initially connecting.
- **Sub-agent excluded test**: connects the parent agent and waits for
it to be healthy before creating the sub-agent.
- **TestWorkspaceAgent/Connect**: flipped assertion to `Health.Healthy
== false` for a `dbfake` agent that never connects.

<details>
<summary>Review notes</summary>

### Known follow-up

The `healthy:false` workspace search filter maps to `[disconnected,
timeout]` and does not include `connecting`. This is a pre-existing gap
that is now more consequential — a workspace unhealthy solely due to a
connecting agent won't appear in `healthy:false` results. Worth a
follow-up issue.

### Deep review findings addressed

| Finding | Severity | Status |
|---------|----------|--------|
| Mixed health test race (all 3 reviewers) | P2 | Fixed — tightened
`Eventually` condition |
| `TestWorkspaceAgent/Connect` assertion break | P1 | Fixed — flipped
assertion |
| CLI renders red for connecting agents | Obs | Acknowledged — design
trade-off, accurate but visually strong for transient state |
| Switch case ordering overlap | Obs | Documented with inline comment |

</details>

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