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teknium1 726bccd28d fix(cron): lifecycle guard blocks kills aimed at the gateway's own interpreter image
An agent-issued `taskkill /F /IM python.exe` (or `pkill -9 python3`, `killall python`,
`Stop-Process -Name python`, `taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME eq python.exe"`, `pgrep python | xargs
kill`) from inside the supervised gateway killed the gateway: every branch of
_GATEWAY_LIFECYCLE_PATTERN was anchored on a hermes/gateway token, and the supervised gateway is
literally a `python` process. Branch E is token-aware (not a line regex) so option values are
never read as targets, `-f` cmdline patterns are judged as patterns (`pkill -f 'python
my_script.py'` passes, `pkill -f 'python -m hermes_cli.main'` does not), and other image names
(`taskkill /F /IM agent-browser.exe`) stay killable. Numeric-PID kills stay out of scope: the
explicit PID / `proc_*` id is the ownership-scoped route the terminal rejection now names.

The guard never ran on the Windows Scheduled-Task topology either: the launcher exports only the
generalized HERMES_SUPERVISED_CHILD marker, which gateway/restart.py never read.
is_supervised_gateway_launch() reads it and gates the self-kill guards;
is_gateway_supervisor_process() deliberately keeps ignoring it because it also selects the
exit-75 restart route, which the task has no restart policy to honour (#113670).

Supersedes the narrow `/IM python.exe` regex from #113671 (kept for authorship); the Windows
spellings from #94379 (`hermes.exe gateway restart`, `taskkill`/`Stop-Process` on hermes-gateway
tokens) ride along.

Fixes #113667
2026-09-18 12:49:13 -07:00
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