fix(browserstack-service): don't mark external-grid runs as Automate

[AakashHotchandani]

Summary

@wdio/browserstack-service classifies every non-App-Automate run as Automate:

// config.ts
this.appAutomate = !isUndefined(options.app) || detectAppAutomate(capabilities)
this.automate    = !this.appAutomate

This never checks whether the session actually runs on BrowserStack. When a user runs on an external (non-BrowserStack) grid and uses the service only for Test Observability — the documented "tests running locally or elsewhere" flow, with user/key placed inside testObservabilityOptions — automate is still set to true. That flows into getProductMap (buildProductMap), and the build is attributed with origin Automate, even though browserstackAutomation is correctly false in the very same build-start event.

Reproducible build-start payload from such a run (web Chrome on an external CI grid):

"browserstackAutomation": false,
"product_map": { "observability": true, "automate": true, "app_automate": false }

This is a different axis from webdriverio#15267 (which fixed App-Automate ↔ Automate detection from capabilities). That change left this.automate = !this.appAutomate untouched, so external-grid web runs are still mislabeled.

Fix

• config.ts: the BrowserStackConfig constructor / getInstance take an optional isBrowserStackInfra (default true, preserving behaviour for the existing getInstance() retrieval callers). appAutomate/automate are gated on it:

  this.appAutomate = isBrowserStackInfra && (!isUndefined(options.app) || detectAppAutomate(capabilities))
  this.automate    = isBrowserStackInfra && !this.appAutomate

• launcher.ts: passes isBrowserstackInfra(_config) — the same helper that already drives the browserstackAutomation field via shouldAddServiceVersion — so the product map stays consistent with it.

Result for an external-grid Test-Observability run: { observability: true, automate: false, app_automate: false } → no longer attributed to Automate. On-BrowserStack Automate / App-Automate / TurboScale runs keep isBrowserStackInfra = true and are unchanged. The credentials-in-testObservabilityOptions case is covered because isBStackSession is false when no root user/key is present.

Test plan

• Added tests/config.test.ts cases: external-grid web run → automate:false/app_automate:false; app caps off-infra → both false; web run on-infra → automate:true (regression guard). Existing cases are unchanged (they rely on the default isBrowserStackInfra = true).
• ⚠️ This PR was authored via the GitHub API; the local vitest suite / tsc / eslint were not run in this environment (no disk space to install deps). Please rely on CI to validate.

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