'Refreshing cua-driver (Computer Use)...' could hang for minutes on
Windows: when the driver's native check-update verb returned an
indeterminate result (old driver without the verb, offline, GitHub
rate-limited, or the probe timing out), install_cua_driver(upgrade=True)
fell through to the full upstream installer — a silent, output-captured
run with a 660s ceiling, plus install.ps1's 600s concurrency-lock wait
on Windows on top. Every 'hermes update' paid that cost.
Two changes:
- install_cua_driver() grows require_confirmed_update: with it set, an
indeterminate check keeps the installed version and returns fast,
printing the force path (hermes computer-use install --upgrade).
'hermes update' passes it; the explicit --upgrade CLI keeps the old
fall-through so a force refresh still works when the check can't
answer.
- cua_driver_update_check() default timeout is now 25s on Windows
(8s unchanged on POSIX): first-spawn of the exe under Defender /
SmartScreen routinely exceeds 8s, and a false timeout is exactly the
indeterminate result that used to trigger the multi-minute reinstall.
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