fix(windows): hide console-window flash on backend git/gh/wmic/bash subprocess spawns

The Windows desktop GUI runs its backend headless via pythonw.exe. Several
auxiliary subprocess sites that run inside that windowless backend spawned
console-subsystem children (git, gh, wmic, powershell, bash, rg, taskkill)
WITHOUT CREATE_NO_WINDOW, so Windows allocated a fresh conhost per call and
flashed a black window on screen — sometimes continuously (the dashboard
Projects-tree git probe alone fired ~118 spawns in 60s on startup).

The terminal tool, cron, browser, code_execution, and gateway-spawn paths
already carry windows_hide_flags(); these auxiliary probe/scan/launcher legs
were missed. Wire the existing helper into them:

- tui_gateway/git_probe.py: run_git (+ encoding=utf-8/errors=replace, fixes the
  cp950 UnicodeDecodeError on CJK paths from the same site)
- agent/coding_context.py: _git (per-turn git status/log/diff)
- agent/context_references.py: _run_git + _rg_files (@file/@ref resolution)
- hermes_cli/copilot_auth.py: gh auth token probe (auxiliary provider:auto)
- hermes_cli/gateway.py: wmic + PowerShell Get-CimInstance PID scan
- hermes_cli/main.py: wmic stale-dashboard PID scan
- gateway/status.py: taskkill /T /F force-kill

windows_hide_flags() returns 0 on POSIX, so every changed call is a no-op on
Linux/macOS (verified: real git/rg probes still work; Windows-simulated calls
all pass creationflags=CREATE_NO_WINDOW).

Scoped to the windowless-backend paths that cause the reported flashing. The
Electron updater-handoff leg (main.cjs windowsHide:false) and the
interactive-CLI banner probes (cli.py) are intentionally NOT touched here —
the former needs a Windows-tested change of its own, the latter runs in a
visible console anyway.

Tracking: #54220
Refs: #53178 #53631 #53781 #53957 #49602 #52982 #53424 #53053 #53016
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Teknium 2026-06-28 05:01:59 -07:00
parent f25f235722
commit cb982ad997
10 changed files with 56 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Optional
from hermes_cli._subprocess_compat import IS_WINDOWS, windows_hide_flags
logger = logging.getLogger("hermes.coding_context")
CODING_TOOLSET = "coding"
@ -647,12 +649,14 @@ def _enabled_mcp_servers(config: Optional[dict[str, Any]]) -> list[str]:
def _git(cwd: Path, *args: str) -> str:
_popen_kwargs = {"creationflags": windows_hide_flags()} if IS_WINDOWS else {}
try:
out = subprocess.run(
["git", "-C", str(cwd), *args],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=_GIT_TIMEOUT,
**_popen_kwargs,
)
except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
return ""