However, if you hit test, then .* passes all tests. Is that not an issue?

I'm not sure... I don't really speak Go so I can't comment too much on it. Is the test suite (for 'test' cases) set up incorrectly? (if so, do you know how to fix it?)

• The Kata forces you to use regex

In this kata, your task is to create a regular expression

• All the test cases expect the regex to match

Why haven't you passed it then? I hit attempt and it's clearly not the case there.

None of these are kata issues, sorry.