In order to get this to work, the positional arguments must use --driver-mode=cl <args>, and NOT clang-cl <args>. In the latter case, clang-tidy has to try really hard to "guess" whether the first argument is argv[0] or argv[1]. This still tests effectively the same thing, but without the convoluted magic of having to care about the name of the tool being run.
This is the test for D23455