Ensure program selection always opens target program

[mad-sol-dev]

Summary

• always request program opens during selection and treat failures as errors
• verify active program status after open and include mismatch warnings
• update selection tests for new auto-open behavior and error propagation

Testing

• pytest bridge/tests/unit/test_program_selection_tools.py

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Auto-open errors leave selection locked

The select flow locks the requester to the chosen program before calling _maybe_autoopen_program, and when that helper returns an error these lines exit immediately. Because the state was already marked locked, a transient open_program failure now leaves the session locked to a program that was never opened; with the default strict switch policy, subsequent selection attempts for other programs will raise ProgramSelectionError, forcing a session restart to recover. Consider delaying the lock or rolling back the selection when auto-open fails so errors don’t strand the requester.

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