Console window flashes briefly when git-ai.exe runs

[bramthijssencontiweb]

Bug Report: Console window flashes briefly when git-ai.exe runs

Summary

The Atlascode extension spawns git-ai.exe processes that briefly display a visible console window before closing. This causes an annoying black window flash on the user's screen at regular intervals.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11 (Build 26100)
• VS Code: 1.107.1
• Atlascode Extension Version: 0.13.22 (rovodev)
• Extension Path: %APPDATA%\Code\User\workspaceStorage\<id>\atlassian.atlascode\atlascode-rovodev-bin\0.13.22\

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install the Atlascode extension in VS Code
2. Connect to an Atlassian site (e.g., Jira/Bitbucket)
3. Open a workspace with a Git repository
4. Wait or work normally in VS Code
5. Observe intermittent black console window flashing on screen

Expected Behavior

Background processes should run invisibly without displaying any console window.

Actual Behavior

A black console window briefly appears and disappears. The window flashes too quickly to read but is visually disruptive.

Technical Details

Using Process Monitor (Sysinternals), I captured the following process being spawned:

Process: git-ai.exe
Command Line: git-ai.exe stats-delta --json
Parent Process: Code.exe (VS Code)
Working Directory: C:\<project_path>

The git-ai.exe binary appears to be a PyInstaller-bundled Python application. When executed, it creates a console window because it was likely built without the --noconsole flag, or the parent process (VS Code/Atlascode) is not using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW process creation flag.

Additionally, atlassian_cli_rovodev.exe may exhibit similar behavior:

atlassian_cli_rovodev.exe serve <port> --xid rovodev-ide-vscode --site-url <site>

Workaround

Disabling the Atlascode extension stops the issue, but this removes all extension functionality.

Additional Notes

• The issue is intermittent and seems to occur when the extension polls for git status or repository changes
• The console window appears for approximately 50-200ms, making it difficult to capture without process monitoring tools
• This is a Windows-specific issue due to how console applications are handled

Attachments

Process Monitor logs available upon request.

[bramthijssencontiweb]

In addition, disabling Rovo Dev Agentic AI "solves" the issue as well:

[tbernelumis]

The plugin becomes almost unusable because of that behavior.
Fix it, please.

[darksidemilk]

I am also having this problem and it's driving me nuts.

%appdata%\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage\{some-uuid}\atlassian.atlascode\atlascode-rovodev-bin\0.13.22\git-ai\git-ai.exe is popping up at random and short intervals.

[SalahEddineGhezaiel]

I just rolled back to version 4.0.13 until they solve this annoying issue

[sdzh-atlassian]

Hi folks, thanks a lot for raising this!

Looks like this might be a windows-specific issue, would you mind trying to get a repro on our end @marcomura?

If 4.0.13 works as expected, this might be caused by a recent change in rovodev CLI, so we might need to forward this to the CLI folks 🤔

[cabella-dot]

Hey all! We have just rolled out version 4.0.17 with a fix. Please update this thread if the problem still persists