@xagent-ai/cli 1.3.2 → 1.3.4

package/src/shell.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@ import { existsSync } from 'fs';
 import { spawn, spawnSync } from 'child_process';
 import { output as logOutput } from './output-util.js';
 
+// Track if Windows console encoding has been initialized
+let windowsEncodingInitialized = false;
+
+/**
+ * Initialize Windows console encoding to UTF-8.
+ * This should be called once at startup to avoid repeated chcp calls.
+ */
+export function initializeWindowsEncoding(): void {
+	if (process.platform !== 'win32' || windowsEncodingInitialized) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	try {
+		// Set code page to UTF-8 and configure console output encoding
+		spawnSync('chcp', ['65001'], {
+			encoding: 'utf-8',
+			stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'ignore'] // Suppress all output
+		});
+		windowsEncodingInitialized = true;
+	} catch {
+		// Ignore errors - encoding setup is not critical
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Check if Windows encoding has been initialized.
+ */
+export function isWindowsEncodingInitialized(): boolean {
+	return windowsEncodingInitialized;
+}
+
 /**
  * Find bash executable on PATH (Windows).
  */

package/src/tools.ts

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { getCancellationManager } from './cancellation.js';
 import { SystemPromptGenerator } from './system-prompt-generator.js';
 import { getSingletonSession } from './session.js';
 import { ripgrep, fdFind } from './ripgrep.js';
-import { getShellConfig, killProcessTree, quoteShellCommand } from './shell.js';
+import { getShellConfig, killProcessTree, quoteShellCommand, isWindowsEncodingInitialized } from './shell.js';
 import { truncateTail, buildTruncationNotice } from './truncate.js';
 import { createAIClient } from './ai-client-factory.js';
 
@@ -445,10 +445,11 @@ This is useful when working with skills that have local dependencies.
 
     // Set up cross-platform encoding environment for command execution
     if (process.platform === 'win32') {
-      // Windows: set code page to UTF-8 and ensure console output encoding
-      // chcp 65001 sets the console code page to UTF-8
-      // Use *>$null to suppress output (PowerShell-style, not CMD-style)
-      finalCommand = `chcp 65001 *>$null; [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8; [System.Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8; ${finalCommand}`;
+      // Windows: Only set encoding if not already initialized at startup
+      // This avoids repeated chcp calls that can cause screen flicker
+      if (!isWindowsEncodingInitialized()) {
+        finalCommand = `chcp 65001 *>$null; [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8; [System.Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8; ${finalCommand}`;
+      }
     } else {
       // Unix/macOS: set locale to UTF-8 for proper encoding handling
       finalCommand = `export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8; ${finalCommand}`;