OrcaWinandOrca Worker 8f063f3567 perf(copilot): run the Windows status hook as a direct .cmd, faster and UTF-8 safe (#27718)
* perf(hooks): register direct .cmd hooks for Gemini, DSH, Kiro, Droid and Command Code on Windows

On a cmd-safe profile path these agents now register the managed .cmd path
itself instead of a `powershell.exe -EncodedCommand` launcher, so each hook
event no longer pays a second PowerShell start-up on top of the runner's own
shell. Profiles the bare path cannot carry (spaces, non-ASCII, UNC) keep the
encoded launcher. Same pattern as Claude (#18875) and Muse (#26755).

Refs #20913

* fix(kimi): register a cmd.exe-runnable hook on Windows

Kimi runs hooks with asyncio.create_subprocess_shell, which is cmd.exe on
Windows. Orca registered a POSIX `if [ -f ... ]` command there, so cmd failed
with "-f was unexpected at this time" before reaching the script and, since
Kimi fails open, no status event was ever sent.

On win32 write a cmd+curl kimi-hook.cmd and register it the way the other
direct .cmd agents do: the bare forward-slash path on a cmd-safe profile,
the encoded launcher otherwise. The ownership matcher already covers every
extension of the stem, so the old kimi-hook.sh entry is replaced on the next
install. SSH remotes keep the POSIX script.

Kimi joins the direct .cmd runner suite as a row run the way CPython's
shell=True does, and every row now also runs from a profile with a space
(the encoded launcher) and outside an Orca pane.

* fix(copilot): run the Windows status hook as a direct curl .cmd

Copilot runs a Windows hook as `pwsh|powershell -nop -nol -c <command>`. Orca
registered an encoded `powershell.exe -EncodedCommand` launcher there that
started a second PowerShell to run copilot-hook.ps1, which posted with
Invoke-WebRequest: two PowerShell starts per event (~850-900 ms median), and
the .ps1 read stdin through the console code page, so non-ASCII prompt text
arrived as "caf?? ...".

On win32 write copilot-hook.cmd (answer `{}`, refresh the endpoint, env guard
before stdin, curl form POST with hookEventName) and register its bare path
with the event as its argument; non-cmd-safe profile paths keep the encoded
launcher, which now sets ORCA_COPILOT_HOOK_EVENT for the .cmd. The managed
matcher covers every extension of the stem, so old .ps1 entries are replaced
on the next install while user hooks stay. SSH remotes keep the POSIX script.

Copilot joins the direct .cmd runner suite as a row run under both
PowerShells, checking the byte-exact payload and the posted hookEventName.

Refs #20913

* refactor(hooks): one Windows batch-hook helper and one payload-delivery table

- Add wrapWindowsBatchHookCommand (bare .cmd path, encoded launcher
  otherwise) and use it for Muse, Gemini, DSH, Kiro, Droid and Command Code.
- Fold the five agents into windows-hook-payload-delivery.test.ts as rows
  run under each vendor's shell, from a plain and a spaced profile, with a
  stale encoded registration seeded per row; drop the separate runner suite
  and its CI list entries.
- Replace the Windows-only per-agent registration tests with ones that stub
  process.platform, so they run on every CI OS.
- Fix stale launcher, helper and DSH comments.

Refs #20913

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