The script runs under 'set -o pipefail'. grep -q exits at the first match, which
SIGPIPEs the strings feeding it, so the pipeline reported failure and the gate
declared every image untagged — on its first real run, against images that
carried the tag correctly. Count instead of short-circuiting.
The build-date change in the previous commit was precautionary (it matches the
convention the meshcomod release flow already uses); I have no evidence the
spaces were actually breaking the flags, and should not have called it the fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
