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Cron gateway survives agent-issued interpreter kills

Cluster 113667. Data as of 2026-10-26 12:29 UTC

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #114880 on 18 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address a bug where agent-issued process kills targeting the interpreter image name (e.g. taskkill /F /IM python.exe) could terminate the supervised cron gateway itself. The work adds an image-name branch to the lifecycle guard to block or survive such kills.

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#114880 fix(cron): supervised gateway survives agent-issued kills of its own interpreter image (#113667, salvage #113671, #94379)

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files: cron/lifecycle_guard.py, gateway/lifecycle_ledger.py, gateway/restart.py, tests/gateway/test_lifecycle_ledger.py, tests/gateway/test_restart_service_detection.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_restart_loop.py, tests/tools/test_execute_code_lifecycle_guard_deadline.py, tests/tools/test_launchctl_guard_diagnostic.py, tests/tools/test_process_registry.py, tools/code_execution_tool.py, tools/process_registry.py, tools/terminal_tool_guards.py, website/docs/user-guide/security.md

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#113671 fix(cron): block taskkill gateway interpreter · merged via another change → 309b764, #114880, #113667, #113671, #94379

Closed issues · 1

Closed#113667[Bug]: agent-issued `taskkill /F /IM python.exe` from inside the gateway kills the gateway — lifecycle guard has no image-name branch

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Merged PRs: #114880
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 1 PR closed without merging
Fix link checked: 18 Sep 2026

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