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Teknium f20d16fbf1 fix(windows): SSH ControlMaster gating + stop hijacking the user's python (#84452)
* fix(windows): SSH ControlMaster gating + stop hijacking the user's python

Two Windows environment-integrity fixes:

1. tools/environments/ssh.py (#73927): Windows OpenSSH has no
   Unix-domain-socket ControlMaster support, so unconditionally passing
   ControlPath/ControlMaster/ControlPersist failed EVERY tool call on a
   Windows-hosted ssh terminal backend with 'getsockname failed: Not a
   socket'. Gate the three multiplexing options behind a module-level
   _SSH_MULTIPLEX = (os.name != 'nt'); the scp upload path is gated the
   same way. On Windows the backend now works without connection pooling
   (each command a fresh connection); POSIX behavior is unchanged. The
   teardown 'ssh -O exit' is naturally inert because the socket never
   exists on Windows.

2. scripts/install.ps1 (#83797): the installer put the whole
   venv\Scripts directory on the user PATH, which contains python.exe /
   pythonw.exe / pip.exe and so silently hijacked the 'python' command in
   every terminal on the machine — unrelated projects started resolving
   python to Hermes' runtime interpreter. Now copy only the launchers
   (hermes.exe, hermes-acp.exe) into a dedicated $InstallDir\bin and put
   THAT on PATH. Existing installs are migrated: the legacy venv\Scripts
   entry is stripped from the user PATH on the next install/update. The
   new bin dir is under $InstallDir (…\hermes-agent), which the uninstall
   PATH sweep already matches via its \hermes-agent marker.

Updated the stale hermes_cli/update_cmd.py docstring that described the
old venv\Scripts-on-PATH layout.

Tests: SSH ControlMaster gating pinned both directions (multiplex on →
flags present; off → absent but BatchMode/StrictHostKeyChecking retained).
install.ps1 parses clean via the PowerShell AST parser.

* docs: update windows-native install docs for the bin\ launcher layout

CI (test_windows_native_docs) pins the docs and installer to the same
PATH layout. The #83797 fix moved the PATH entry from venv\Scripts to a
dedicated $InstallDir\bin holding only the hermes launchers, so update
the Windows-native guide to match: PATH-after-install section, the
install-steps list, the directory-layout table, the Get-Command
verification line, and the 'command not found' pitfall. Test now asserts
the bin\ layout and guards against a regression back to venv\Scripts on
PATH.

* fix: keep install.ps1 pure ASCII (PowerShell 5.1 codepage safety)

The two comments I added in the #83797 PATH-hijack fix used em-dashes,
tripping tests/test_install_ps1_ascii_only.py — Windows PowerShell 5.1
reads a BOM-less .ps1 in the system ANSI codepage (not UTF-8), so a
non-ASCII byte can misdecode into a stray quote and desync the parser
(issues #66994/#67000). Replace the em-dashes with ASCII '--'.
2026-08-12 02:56:33 -07:00
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Website

This website is built using Docusaurus, a modern static website generator.

Installation

yarn

Local Development

yarn start

This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

yarn build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.

Deployment

Using SSH:

USE_SSH=true yarn deploy

Not using SSH:

GIT_USER=<Your GitHub username> yarn deploy

If you are using GitHub pages for hosting, this command is a convenient way to build the website and push to the gh-pages branch.

Diagram Linting

CI runs ascii-guard to lint docs for ASCII box diagrams. Use Mermaid (````mermaid`) or plain lists/tables instead of ASCII boxes to avoid CI failures.