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[AW Top 10] 02 Bound output draining in Windows CLI integration

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
75/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, powershell
Domain
cli, testing

Research direction

Find the Windows CLI integration entry point, Invoke-CliProcess, and read how it currently drains stdout and stderr and emits the existing TIMEOUT diagnostic. Add a test using an inherited handle; done means draining finishes within the bound and prints TIMEOUT when it exceeds it.

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Description

agentic-workflows automation aw-essential cookie

Priority 2/10 | 2 source issues | Impact 3/5 | Confidence 4/5 | Effort 1/5

One assignment, one coherent fix

The Windows CLI integration workflow can hang when a child process keeps redirected handles open after the CLI exits.

Implementation scope

Apply a bounded wait to stdout and stderr reads in Invoke-CliProcess and emit the existing TIMEOUT diagnostic when draining exceeds the bound.

Done when
  • A test with an inherited handle finishes within the bound.
  • The TIMEOUT diagnostic is printed when draining times out.
Why now

Two issues describe the same unbounded wait from static review. The fix is a small local change.

AW source issues and corroborating reports

#71557 #72008

No corroborating AW discussion; evidence comes from the source issues.

Unchanged AW sources close only after this summary is completed. Newer source activity and not-planned retirement do not trigger source closure. Assigned summaries are frozen; unassign to allow reclustering.

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