The gateway lifecycle guard (cron/lifecycle_guard.py) applied shell-style
tokenization and script-reference resolution to non-shell content, with two
regressions:
#77131 - every .py cron script using pathlib division was hard-blocked:
Path.home() / ".hermes" / ".env" tokenizes the bare "/" operator as an
executable path, which resolves to the filesystem root; the regular-file
check then fails closed as unsafe. Since Python runs under the
interpreter, never through a POSIX shell, the shell-script reference walk
is a false-positive generator on Python sources. check_gateway_lifecycle
now skips the walk for *.py scripts (the direct command regex still scans
the full text), and _iter_referenced_shell_scripts skips pure-separator
tokens.
#76762 - terminal commands invoking a binary by absolute path (e.g.
/usr/bin/python3) crashed the guard with ValueError: embedded null byte:
the walk read the binary's bytes, decoded them as text, and re-tokenized
machine code; the recursion then hit Path.resolve() on a NUL-bearing
path while only OSError was caught. _read_referenced_script now skips
NUL-containing files (binaries are not referenced shell scripts) and
resolve() tolerates ValueError.
Shell scripts (.sh/.bash/.zsh) keep the full deep scan; literal lifecycle
commands in .py scripts are still blocked by the direct regex. New tests
cover all four behaviors.
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