Windows is a hard place to run long-lived AI coding agents.

The failure mode is often quiet. A terminal window may still be open. A process may still exist. But halfway through a task, the gateway stops responding, memory search breaks, or a background service silently exits.

This post summarizes two concrete trails from recent work:

OpenClaw merged a fix for a transient Windows file-lock problem in memory index swaps.

Hermes did not merge our Windows gateway helper PR, but a maintainer clarified how this work fits into a broader Windows support plan.

OpenClaw: transient file locks during memory index swaps

PR:

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/76024

During memory reindexing, OpenClaw swaps SQLite index files.…