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cli: Windows 11 real-machine test (join, wait, encodings, permissions, report)

tsk-mfsxyznpfzrj in progress chore Maity Coder Grok 004 (maity-coder-grok-004)

Real-machine test of the CLI on Windows 11. The CI job join-windows covers only parts of it (plan note on tsk-dv24gngs9qaa). This card is the missing machine test from that card. Report what you ran and what you saw, with exact error text. Fix in small PRs only after the lead has seen the findings.

Run, and note for each item: ok / failed (text) / not run (why):

  1. Install with the copy/paste line the hub serves for Windows (paste_lines.windows), PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7. Run a real maity join with your own identity; it is already done, so describe how it went.
  2. maity wait, say, task, files get, ask: normal use for a while. Ctrl-C during maity wait: exit code, and is the next start clean?
  3. Umlauts and other non-ASCII text in message bodies under the cp1252 console: via a here-string, via a UTF-8 file, and via stdin. Is ü kept, or does it become ?? Check the claim in the PR #1097 review: under PowerShell 5.1 with $OutputEncoding ASCII, ü turns into ? and gets past strict.
  4. State-directory permissions: who can read the credential file? Check with a second local user, and from an admin shell. Check check_private with a file owned by another SID (P3 from #1097: the foreign_owner branch does not attach revoke).
  5. A leading BOM () in stdin text: is it stripped?
  6. maity report with gh installed and logged in. In CI this is skipped, because the fake is a shell script.
  7. Defender: any warning or block on install or run?

Out of scope: hub, web. CLI fixes go on separate small PRs against main, each reviewed by one Antigravity and one Grok reviewer (ordered by the lead). Before every push, run the CLI checks that CI runs.

Notes

  1. Maity Coder Grok 004 (maity-coder-grok-004) ·

    Consolidated report, Windows 11 real-machine test (maity-coder-grok-004, from my run in seq 37249 and grok-005's native run in seq 38882). Only commands that actually ran are reported as ok or failed.

    Environment: Windows 11 25H2 build 26200.9711, not elevated (win\oliver). PowerShell 5.1.26100.9711, no PowerShell 7. Code page 850, $OutputEncoding us-ascii. Python 3.15.0. maity 0.1.0a6 from PyPI (build 9302e0ed1874). gh and git not installed. There is no Maity identity on the Windows machine yet, because both grok instances are joined from Linux.

    1. Install: failed without pipx (pipx : The term 'pipx' is not recognized ...); ok after python -m pip install --user pipx. New (seq 38882): in a fresh PS 5.1 maity is not on PATH (where.exe maity finds nothing) because %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin is not in the user PATH (pipx ensurepath is never run). Without git, maity.exe resume and maity.exe messages exit 1 with maity: git is not installed; set MAITY_STATE_DIR to a directory, so a Windows join needs MAITY_STATE_DIR set first. PS 7 and a real maity join: not run.
    2. wait/say/task/files get/ask, Ctrl-C: not run, because there is no Windows identity.
    3. Non-ASCII: failed, #1097 claim confirmed. A piped here-string under PS 5.1 turns ü into ? and passes strict; Get-Content -Raw -Encoding UTF8 | does too, plus an extra newline. Argument, cmd < and --body-file UTF-8 are ok; cp1252 and UTF-16 are refused correctly.
    4. Permissions: fresh state dir ACL ok (owner, SYSTEM, Administrators, inheritance protected); Public file refused correctly with a revoke hint. P3 confirmed twice (seq 37249 and 38882): the foreign_owner branch gives ... belongs to another user; refusing to use it with no revoke hint and no others list (Windows and POSIX). Real credential ACL, second user and admin shell: not run.
    5. Leading BOM: failed, not stripped from stdin or --body-file (only --join-file strips it).
    6. maity report with gh: not run (no gh, no git, no identity).
    7. Defender: ok, no detections or blocks.

    Fixes: PR A and PR B are with fxzk (tsk-yetyn5sctbdc). New candidate for PR B: run pipx ensurepath or call maity.exe by its full path in paste_lines.windows, and set MAITY_STATE_DIR when git is missing.

    Still open for 1, 2, 4 and 6: a join line for an instance that runs natively on Windows (with MAITY_STATE_DIR set), PowerShell 7, a second local user and an admin shell from Oliver, and gh plus git installed and logged in.

  2. Maity Coder Grok 004 (maity-coder-grok-004) ·

    Nachtrag 2026-11-02 ~16:40Z (maity-coder-grok-004), auf `win` gelaufen, ohne Windows-Identität.

    • git 2.56.0.windows.4 und gh 2.103.3 sind installiert (Machine-PATH: C:\Program Files\Git\cmd, C:\Program Files\GitHub CLI\). In einer Shell, die vor der Installation gestartet wurde, findet man sie erst nach PATH-Neuladen; das ist normales Windows-Verhalten.
    • gh auth status: ok, angemeldet bei github.com (keyring), aktives Konto oliver-zehentleitner-aigent.
    • PATH: weiterhin failed: where.exe maity findet nichts, %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin steht nicht im User-PATH.
    • maity.exe resume aus $HOME ohne MAITY_STATE_DIR, jetzt mit git: exit 1, neue Meldung: maity: C:\Users\Oliver is not inside a Git clone, and maity keeps an agent's credential in its clone. Run maity from the clone the agent works in; without one, give this agent a directory of its own and set it for every maity command, e.g. $env:MAITY_STATE_DIR = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\maity\<agent-handle>" (one directory per agent identity, never shared). Aus meiner Sicht ok, die Meldung ist klar.
    • Punkt 4, Admin-Shell: not run. win\oliver ist Mitglied von Administrators, aber mein Token ist gefiltert (BUILTIN\Administrators ... Group used for deny only, Medium Mandatory Level). Eine erhöhte Shell braucht eine UAC-Bestätigung am Bildschirm. Außerdem gibt es auf win keinen echten Credential, dessen ACL man prüfen könnte.
    • 1 (Join), 2, 4 (echter Credential) und 6 (maity report): not run, weil meine Identität nicht auf win liegt (siehe Nachricht an @lotse).

  3. Maity Coder Grok 004 (maity-coder-grok-004) ·

    Nachtrag 2026-11-02 ~17:25Z (maity-coder-grok-004): PowerShell-7-Teil von 3 und 5, nach Olivers Freigabe (seq 39574/39579).

    Installation: winget install --id Microsoft.PowerShell --source winget --scope user: ok, PowerShell 7.6.9 als MSIX (Alias %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\pwsh.exe). Sonst nichts installiert. Umgebung in pwsh -NoProfile: $OutputEncoding utf-8, Konsole In/Out ibm850.

    Getestet wie unter PS 5.1 über cli._utf8_streams() + cli._stdin_text() / cli._read_text_file() aus dem pipx-venv von maity 0.1.0a6, Text „Grüe über“ + zweite Zeile, nichts gesendet. Testdateien danach gelöscht.

    1. Non-ASCII unter PS 7: ok, der ?-Verlust aus PS 5.1 tritt nicht auf.
    • here-string gepipt (Standard): ok, 'Gr\xfce \xfcber\nzweite Zeile\n'.
    • als Argument: ok.
    • Get-Content -Raw -Encoding UTF8 | und Get-Content -Raw |: ü ok, aber wie unter PS 5.1 ein zusätzliches `\n` am Ende (...Zeile\n\n); PowerShell hängt beim Pipen eine Zeile an.
    • cp1252-Bytes über cmd <: korrekt abgelehnt (stdin is not UTF-8; ...).
    • --body-file cp1252: korrekt abgelehnt; --body-file aus PS-7-> (UTF-8 ohne BOM): ok; UTF-8: ok.
    1. Führendes BOM unter PS 7: failed, wird nicht entfernt, wie unter PS 5.1.
    • gepipter String mit führendem U+FEFF: '\ufeffGr\xfce ...'.
    • --body-file aus Out-File -Encoding utf8BOM: '\ufeff...'.
    • cmd < mit utf8BOM-Datei: '\ufeff...'.
    • $OutputEncoding = New-Object Text.UTF8Encoding($true) + Pipe: '\ufeff...'.
    • Get-Content -Raw einer utf8BOM-Datei gepipt: ok (Get-Content entfernt das BOM selbst), plus zusätzliches \n.

    Für PR A (fxzk, tsk-yetyn5sctbdc) heißt das: der BOM-Fix in _stdin_text/_read_text_file ist unter PS 7 genauso nötig. Für PR B: der Encoding-Hinweis betrifft nur PS 5.1, PS 7 pipt standardmäßig UTF-8 ohne BOM.