Problem 1: resolveLauncher() read bash 'exec <python> <script>' wrappers
and returned ONLY the python interpreter path, discarding the script.
This made probeHermesVersion() run '<python> --version', which always
printed 'Python x.y.z' instead of the Hermes version. And
remoteSupportsSshOwnership() ran '<python> serve --help' which failed
entirely because no 'serve' module exists in the python stdlib.
Problem 2: When the user set remoteHermesPath (an explicit override),
resolveLauncher() resolved it to the python interpreter, replacing the
user's specified path. The override was effectively ignored for version
checking and capability probing.
Fix: resolveLauncher now returns the candidate path directly. The hermes
binary or wrapper script is already executable and handles argument
forwarding (e.g. 'exec <python> <script> "$@"') correctly on its own.
No additional remote SSH round-trip or python script needed.
The SSH modules predate the stricter lint config that landed on main (curly, no-empty, perfectionist sorting, prettier). Mechanical lint:fix + fmt pass, empty catch blocks filled with the codebase's void-0 convention, and inline no-control-regex disables on the three deliberate control-char patterns (same pattern as lib/ansi.ts).
Detect the remote platform on connect and Test SSH: uname first (Linux/Darwin
keep the POSIX lifecycle), else an encoded-PowerShell probe that routes a
Windows host through connectWindowsRemote. The Windows lifecycle mirrors the
POSIX one — probe, one-shot token upload, spawn, readiness scrape, tunnel,
reuse-by-exact-ownership, and teardown — over a PowerShell helper dialect.
Preserve a backend on indeterminate process state (never destroy on unknowns);
a thrown terminate aborts before remove-lock so a live backend is never
orphaned. Interactive terminals on a Windows backend open PowerShell in the
requested cwd instead of a POSIX login shell.
Skip argv ownership verification after the remote PID is already proven dead, then remove only the validated lock/log metadata and continue with a fresh spawn.
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