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. On Windows, fs.rename can fail when a file is briefly held by the system, antivirus software, an indexer, or another process.…