FileNotFoundError on Windows due to missing .cmd extension in gcloud command

[josendfa]

What happened?

When running agents-cli setup --workspace on Windows, the CLI crashes with a FileNotFoundError when attempting to check the Application Default Credentials (ADC).

This occurs because the script calls subprocess.run(["gcloud", ...]). On Windows, the Google Cloud CLI executable is named gcloud.cmd. Python's subprocess on Windows does not automatically resolve the .cmd extension without shell=True, causing it to fail to find the executable.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install agents-cli (v0.1.3) on a Windows 11 environment.
2. Ensure the Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) is installed and authenticated.
3. Run agents-cli setup --workspace
4. See error.

What did you expect to happen?

The CLI should successfully detect the local gcloud installation, verify authentication, and continue the setup process.

Client information

Client Information

CLI version: 0.1.3
CLI install path: C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\google\agents\cli
OS info: Windows-11-10.0.26200-SP0
Installed skills: 7 (project)

• google-agents-cli-adk-code
• google-agents-cli-deploy
• google-agents-cli-eval
• google-agents-cli-observability
• google-agents-cli-publish
• google-agents-cli-scaffold
• google-agents-cli-workflow

Project root: C:\Development\example-agent-1
Project name: example-agent-1
Deployment target: agent_runtime
Agent directory: app
Region: us-east1

Command Output / Logs

1. Authentication
   ─────────────────
   agents-cli v0.1.3
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\google\agents\cli\main.py", line 64, in invoke
   super().invoke(ctx)

File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1902, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1298, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 853, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\google\agents\cli\setup\cmd_setup.py", line 326, in cmd_setup
authed, display = is_authenticated()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\google\agents\cli\auth.py", line 366, in is_authenticated
if not _check_valid_adc():
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\google-agents-cli\Lib\site-packages\google\agents\cli\auth.py", line 382, in _check_valid_adc
subprocess.run(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
["gcloud", "auth", "application-default", "print-access-token", "--quiet"],
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
check=True,
^^^^^^^^^^^
capture_output=True,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\subprocess.py", line 555, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1039, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
pass_fds, cwd, env,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<5 lines>...
gid, gids, uid, umask,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
start_new_session, process_group)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1553, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# no special security
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<4 lines>...
cwd,
^^^^
startupinfo)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Anything else we need to know?

Workaround:

As a local workaround, changing "gcloud" to "gcloud.cmd" on google/agents/cli/auth.py successfully resolves the issue.

A permanent, cross-platform fix in the codebase could involve using shutil.which("gcloud") to resolve the correct executable path dynamically, or explicitly appending .cmd if sys.platform == 'win32'.

[lenintorresact]

Analysis below was done by Claude (Anthropic, via Claude Code) while debugging this bug on my machine — sharing because it expands the scope of the issue. I'm not claiming credit for the investigation.

Reproduced on a separate Windows 11 / Python 3.14 / uvx install (different from the original uv tool install path), with the same root cause confirmed by an isolated repro:

>>> subprocess.run(['gcloud', '--version'])         # FileNotFoundError
>>> subprocess.run(['gcloud.cmd', '--version'])     # works
>>> shutil.which('gcloud')
'C:\...\google-cloud-sdk\bin\gcloud.CMD'

A few additions that may help whoever picks this up:

1. The bug class is broader than gcloud — it affects 5 external tools across 13+ call sites. The original report only covers _check_valid_adc. A grep across v0.1.3 site-packages turns up the same subprocess.run(['<tool>', ...]) pattern for gcloud, npx, npm, terraform, and gh:

Tool	File	Line	Caller
gcloud	auth.py	175	_get_gcloud_account
gcloud	auth.py	383	_check_valid_adc (the one in the original report)
gcloud	data/_helpers.py	28	project-id lookup
gcloud	deploy/cmd_deploy.py	241	gcloud beta run deploy
gcloud	deploy/cmd_deploy.py	354	gcloud services enable
gcloud	deploy/cmd_deploy.py	434	project-id lookup
gcloud	deploy/cmd_deploy.py	542	gcloud builds submit
gcloud	infra/cmd_datastore.py	50	gcloud storage cp
gcloud	scaffold/commands/create.py	936	project-id lookup
npx	setup/cmd_setup.py	156	skills list during setup
npm	scaffold/utils/language.py	101	npm install --package-lock-only
terraform	deploy/cmd_deploy.py	507	terraform init
terraform	infra/cmd_datastore.py	87	terraform -chdir=...
gh	infra/_cicd_utils.py	494, 506	gh auth login --with-token

I hit the npx case during setup step 3 (Skills Installation):

> npx -y skills list --json
WARNING:root:Could not check for legacy skills: [WinError 2] El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado

That one happens to be non-fatal because the surrounding code falls back to a hardcoded 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\npx.CMD' path on the next call. The terraform and gh cases will likely fail hard the same way gcloud does.

2. The codebase already has the correct helpers — they're just inconsistently applied. google/agents/cli/_tools.py defines require_tool() (uses shutil.which, with a Windows-specific fallback for gcloud) plus per-tool wrappers for every single one of the affected tools:

• get_gcloud_path()
• get_npx_path()
• get_npm_path()
• get_terraform_path()
• get_gh_path()
• get_git_path()

get_gcloud_path is already imported and used correctly in auth.py::_setup_google_cloud_adc (line 95) — it just wasn't applied to the other call sites. So the fix is one-line per site:

# before
subprocess.run(["gcloud", ...], ...)

# after
from google.agents.cli._tools import get_gcloud_path
subprocess.run([get_gcloud_path(), ...], ...)

Since the helpers already exist and already work on Windows, this isn't a new design decision — it's a consistency fix across ~13 call sites.

3. Confirmed local fix. Patching just the two auth.py sites (lines 175 and 383) to use get_gcloud_path() is enough to unblock agents-cli setup end-to-end on Windows, when ADC is already configured.

[sushicw]

Thank you for your feedback! We'll look into it right away.

Internal tracking: b/511715719

[sushicw]

If you are able, can you please clarify if this occurs only on 0.1.3, or on previous versions of agents-cli as well?

[lenintorresact]

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[sushicw]

I did some testing on my own and it looks like 0.1.1 works correctly, but as of 0.1.2 it breaks.

[sushicw]

We have some very relevant WIP work to better resolve command paths on Windows. We'll make sure it fixes this. It should land soon, stay tuned!

[FotieMConstant]

Having the same issue from 0.1.2, was on 0.1.3, downgraded to 0.1.1, and works fine.