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Cron child output Unicode decode error fixes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 105582

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #116725. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and PRs address UnicodeDecodeError crashes in cron child process output handling, specifically fixing lossy decoding and missing errors='replace' in Popen calls across Windows and POSIX platforms.

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  • #116725 fix(cron): bot-chat delivery keeps accented replies on Windows and stray bytes no longer kill cron child output (#115894, #105582, salvage #105597)

    merged to main

    files: cron/scheduler_delivery.py, cron/scheduler_script.py, tests/cron/test_cron_bot_chat_delivery.py, tests/cron/test_cron_script.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 2 · won't fix / by design 1

  • #105597 fix(cron): decode cron child output lossily, and as UTF-8 on Windows bot-chat delivery (#105582, #115894) · won't fix / by design → #115894, #115910
  • #105658 fix(cron): decode no_agent script stdout lossily on POSIX like Windows · duplicate → #105597, #105582, #66566
  • #105820 fix(cron): use errors=replace for no_agent script Popen on all platforms (#105582) · duplicate → #96673, #105597, #86967, #66566, #105582
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#105582cron no_agent script runs: Popen(text=True) without errors='replace' on POSIX kills tick with UnicodeDecodeError
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20 Sep 2026

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