Hermes Windows Process

Answer "what is still running, and who started it" on Windows: win_process_table reads the process table (PID, parent PID, image name) and adds each process's image path and creation time, then marks every row with whether its recorded parent is still the process that spawned it. Windows stores a parent PID rather than a handle, so a child that outlived its parent points at a PID that is either unused or reused by a newer process; a parent that started after its child cannot have spawned it, so both cases are reported as gone or reused instead of a plausible but wrong parent name. Filters cover one PID, several PIDs, a name or path substring, a parent PID, and an orphans-only view of what outlived its parent, with a result cap and an option to leave out Windows session processes. Use it for leftover gateway/backend/server children after a quit, for telling thirty python.exe rows apart by start time, and for checking whether a process started before or after the thing being debugged. Read-only: processes are opened with PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION for QueryFullProcessImageName and GetProcessTimes only - no memory reads (command lines are deliberately out of scope), no handle duplication, no writes, no child processes. Stdlib-only (ctypes): no Python dependencies, no network calls, no file writes, no self-update. Windows only.

Category

Coding & developer tools

Maintained by

Yicheng-Mark (Community)

Needs

No API keys declared

Adds tools

win_process_table

Works on

windows

Needs Hermes

0.21.4 or newer

Version

0.1.0

In the catalog

2026-10-25