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Windows PATH deduplication and normalization fixes

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 108508 · hermes cli

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
2open PRs
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No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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1 issue and 2 PRs.

These items address repeated or duplicate PATH entries on Windows, particularly involving virtual environment paths and case/spelling variants. The work involves normalizing and deduplicating PATH entries at the points where they are augmented.

Open issues1

  • Issue#108508[Audit 2026-09-11] PATH pollution: 70x venv/Scripts in bash session snapshot

Open PRs2

  • PR#108514fix(cli): normalize Windows PATH entries before augmentation
  • PR#108529fix(windows): dedupe PATH entries across spelling variants at every prepend site

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #108547 fix(cli): dedup PATH entries with Windows-equivalent path normalization · superseded by another PR → #108529, #108514
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