# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Windows path-list and encoding fixes in test runner

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items address two related Windows-specific bugs in the parallel test runner: drive-letter colons breaking path-list splitting, and UnicodeEncodeError suppressing per-file progress output when stdout is piped.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #81965. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #81965 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.50`: 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

- #57149: run_tests_parallel.py on Windows: ':' path-list split breaks drive letters; per-file progress lines lost to UnicodeEncodeError on piped stdout

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#81965: fix(tests): Windows-safe encoding in test suite + runner drive-letter path split**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/settings/billing/index.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/lib/time.test.ts`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `scripts/run_tests_parallel.py`, `tests/conftest.py`, `tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins_cmd.py`, `tests/scripts/test_contributor_map.py`, `tests/stress/test_atypical_scenarios.py`, `tests/test_atomic_replace_symlinks.py`, `tests/test_hermes_constants.py`, `tests/test_run_tests_parallel.py`, `tests/tools/test_web_tools_truncate.py`
- **#57152: fix(tests): Windows-aware path-list split and UTF-8 progress output in parallel runner**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#81965`
- **#57261: fix(test-runner): handle Windows path lists safely**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#57152`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #81965 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-08-08`.
- Subsystem: `cron/scripts`