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buzz/desktop/scripts
f3981dbfef fix(discovery): spawn PowerShell install commands natively on Windows (#2750)
## Problem

On Windows, `install_shell_command` wraps every install command in Git
Bash `-l -c`, including the Windows-specific `powershell.exe … irm
https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex` command. A Git Bash login
shell prepends its POSIX dirs (`C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin`) to PATH,
so when Codex's `install.ps1` shells out to bare `tar -xzf C:\…`, it
resolves Git's GNU tar (`/usr/bin/tar`) instead of Windows bundled
bsdtar. GNU tar parses `C:` as a remote host:

```
tar (child): Cannot connect to C: resolve failed
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/usr/bin/tar: Child returned status 128
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Downloaded Codex package archive did not contain the expected package layout.
```

Claude's installer doesn't hit the same failure because it doesn't shell
out to `tar`.

## Solution

On Windows, detect `powershell.exe` install commands and spawn them
natively (`Command::new("powershell.exe")`) instead of routing them
through Git Bash. The discriminator is a case-insensitive prefix check
on the first whitespace-delimited token — minimal and precise.

The native spawn preserves everything `install_shell_command` provides
that applies:
- `NPM_CONFIG_*` / `COREPACK` env strip + managed npm prefix env
- PATH composed from managed Buzz dirs + inherited process PATH (no
POSIX login-shell dirs)
- `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` so no console flash
- stdin null, piped-drain in `run_install_command`
- The retry/backoff/annotate logic is fully shared

The `-Command` body is split correctly at the boundary
(case-insensitive) and passed as a single argument to preserve pipes and
spaces inside the installer script call.

Non-PowerShell commands (e.g. `npm install -g …` adapter steps) continue
through the existing Git Bash path unchanged.

## Tests

6 unit tests:
1. `is_powershell_command` detection (positive + negative)
2. Routing: PowerShell → native spawn on Windows, non-PowerShell → Git
Bash
3. Unix: non-Windows path returns the shell command unchanged
(compile-time cfg)
4. `-Command` body preservation (no bash args in native spawn; body is
single arg)

Full `just desktop-tauri-test` suite: 1627/1627 passing. Windows CI will
validate end-to-end.

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Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: npub1mn7jgtj4w2pd0g0zeuhxsa6jy6p0rewxz4kujt98my82ahfmp72sxjexk7 <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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