# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Suppress Windows console flash on subprocess spawns

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

Multiple fixes targeting the brief console window flash that appears on Windows when spawning subprocesses (gh, git, wmic, bash) during authentication and CLI operations. One related change removes a gh auth token fallback from Copilot auth resolution.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #53370: fix(windows): suppress console window flash when spawning gh auth token

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#53390: fix(cli): suppress gh auth token console flash on Windows**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#53397`
- **#53397: fix(windows): suppress console flash in copilot_auth gh token lookup (#53370)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#53390`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent/secret_sources`