fix(agent_launch): headless work-item dispatch flashes a visible console window on Windows

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Committed as e9a5775.

Summary

Fixed run_captured in src/agent_launch.rs — it builds and spawns every headless coding-agent subprocess (via run_headless, the path autonomous work-item dispatch uses) but was missing the CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag on Windows, so a console window flashed on every dispatch since the daemon has no console of its own.

Added a #[cfg(windows)] block right after the existing #[cfg(unix)] block, setting creation_flags(0x0800_0000) before cmd.spawn(), mirroring the identical fix already present in agentflare-jobs/src/supervisor.rs::Supervisor::spawn().

Verified:

• cargo build -p agentflare — clean (one pre-existing unrelated unsafe-code warning).
• cargo clippy -p agentflare --bins --lib -- -A unsafe_code -A clippy::pedantic -D warnings — clean.
• cargo clippy --all-targets fails on a pre-existing, unrelated issue (item_commit_failure_tests.rs has a Unix-only test body behind #[cfg(unix)], leaving use super::*; unused on Windows) — confirmed present on the unmodified tree via git stash, so not something this fix introduced or needs to touch.
• cargo test -p agentflare --bin agentflare agent_launch — all 15 tests pass, including ones that exercise run_captured's spawn path directly, confirming the new flag doesn't break spawning.

Left run_launch_env (interactive agentflare run) untouched per the handoff's explicit scope — it uses .status() with inherited stdio from an existing terminal, not run_captured.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented unwanted Windows console windows from appearing when running headless processes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

run_captured now prevents console windows for headless child processes on Windows by setting CREATE_NO_WINDOW. Other platforms keep the existing process-launch behavior.

Changes

Windows child-process launch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply the Windows creation flag src/agent_launch.rs	run_captured sets CREATE_NO_WINDOW before spawning child processes on Windows. Other platforms remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to 571c9

The change prevents visible console flashes during headless Windows work-item dispatch. A trivial maintainability follow-up remains, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related PRs

• getappz/agentflare#155: Introduced run_captured, which this change modifies.
• getappz/agentflare#401: Also modifies run_captured in src/agent_launch.rs.
• getappz/agentflare#407: Applies CREATE_NO_WINDOW to Windows child-process spawning in another launch function.

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src/agent_launch.rs (1)

230-232: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the existing Windows constant.

src/ipc/process.rs, Lines 6-28, already uses windows_sys::Win32::System::Threading::CREATE_NO_WINDOW. Use that constant here instead of duplicating 0x0800_0000.

Suggested change

-        const CREATE_NO_WINDOW: u32 = 0x0800_0000;
-        cmd.creation_flags(CREATE_NO_WINDOW);
+        cmd.creation_flags(windows_sys::Win32::System::Threading::CREATE_NO_WINDOW);

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In `@src/agent_launch.rs` around lines 230 - 232, Update the Windows command setup
in agent_launch to use the existing windows_sys CREATE_NO_WINDOW constant from
the established process implementation, removing the local duplicated numeric
constant while preserving the cmd.creation_flags call.

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In `@src/agent_launch.rs`:
- Around line 230-232: Update the Windows command setup in agent_launch to use
the existing windows_sys CREATE_NO_WINDOW constant from the established process
implementation, removing the local duplicated numeric constant while preserving
the cmd.creation_flags call.

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