🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix unhandled NA coercion crash DoS risk in interactive prompts

[seonghobae]

🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: Unhandled coercion NA exception due to weak integer input validation (^[0-9]+$). If a user inputs a massive string (e.g., "99999999999") into readline(), as.integer() coerces it to NA. This causes the subsequent if checks to fail with an unhandled exception ("missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed"), leading to application crash / Denial of Service.
🎯 Impact: An attacker or unaware user providing long numerical inputs into interactive prompts can cause the script to permanently crash out instead of safely retrying or handling the error.
🔧 Fix: Replaced the overly broad ^[0-9]+$ regex validation with a strict exact-match ^[12]$ regex pattern. This guarantees that as.integer() only receives values that safely coerce without NA or overflow. Also added test mocks via mockery to explicitly verify interactive prompt exhaustion.
✅ Verification: Ran devtools::test() which passes successfully and explicitly verifies the interactive readline() max-attempts rejection logic without crashing. coverage remains stable at 36.65%.

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