Cron script stdout encoding fixes for Windows

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 38633 · cron

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These issues and PRs address bugs in cron's _run_job_script where subprocess stdout was silently dropped or decoded using the platform default encoding (e.g. cp1252, GBK) instead of UTF-8, particularly on Windows with pythonw.exe. Multiple fix attempts target explicit UTF-8 encoding and reliable stdout capture on non-UTF-8 Windows locales.

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#70875 fix(windows): close out the text-mode subprocess decode bug class — salvage #55339/#60741/#60751 + full sweep + linter

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files: agent/anthropic_adapter.py, agent/context_references.py, agent/copilot_acp_client.py, agent/lsp/install.py, agent/proxy_sources/iron_proxy.py, agent/secret_sources/base.py, agent/secret_sources/bitwarden.py, agent/shell_hooks.py, agent/skill_preprocessing.py, agent/trace_upload.py, agent/transports/codex_app_server.py, batch_runner.py, cli.py, contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], gateway/platforms/base.py, gateway/platforms/webhook.py, gateway/platforms/webhook_filters.py, gateway/run.py, gateway/shutdown_forensics.py (+72 more)

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1 · done elsewhere 1 · superseded by another PR 1 · other 1

#38666 fix(cron): make _run_job_script work on Windows pythonw.exe + non-UTF-8 locales · closed without comment
#42390 fix(cron): add explicit utf-8 encoding for subprocess stdout capture · other
#42805 fix(cron): decode no-agent script output as UTF-8 · superseded by another PR → 7498eae
#43857 fix(cron): explicit UTF-8 encoding for script stdout capture · done elsewhere → #70875

Closed issues · 3

Closed#38633Windows: Two bugs in cron `_run_job_script` — pythonw.exe loses stdout + GBK encoding crash
Closed#42384`no_agent` cron script stdout silently dropped on Windows (pythonw gateway) when output contains emoji / multi-byte UTF-8
Closed#42785cron no_agent script stdout decoded with platform default (cp1252 on Windows), mangling non-ASCII output before delivery

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Subsystem: cron
Merged PRs: #70875
Closed issues: 3
Attempts: 4 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 24 Jul 2026

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