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hermes - 💡(How to fix) Fix pytest-timeout SIGALRM crashes entire suite on Windows [3 pull requests]

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pyproject.toml sets --timeout-method=signal in pytest addopts, which uses SIGALRM. Windows has no SIGALRM, so the suite crashes with INTERNALERROR before completing.

Switching to --timeout-method=thread fixes it. The thread method works cross-platform and is the pytest-timeout default. On this repo, scripts/run_tests_parallel.py still provides the outer per-file process timeout backstop, so the suite keeps its process-level hang protection while local Windows pytest runs can execute.

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