⚡ Perf: Optimize catalog json loading across python tests

lib/windows/AutoOS.ClaudeAutostart.psm1

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSClaudeDefaults {
                 foreach ($p in $block.PSObject.Properties) { $table[$p.Name] = $p.Value }
                 if ($table.Count -gt 0) { return $table }
             }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     @{
         enabled = $true; snapshot_interval_mins = 5; liveness_window_mins = 240
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSClaudeState {
                     sessions        = @($doc.sessions)
                 }
             }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     [pscustomobject]@{ version = $script:StateVersion; captured_at = 0; captured_at_iso = $null; sessions = @() }
 }

lib/windows/AutoOS.Detect.psm1

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSWingetPackageProcess {
         $process = [Diagnostics.Process]::Start($psi)
         # Close stdin so a prompt that slipped past --disable-interactivity reads
         # EOF and gives up, instead of sitting there until the timeout.
-        try { $process.StandardInput.Close() } catch { }
+        try { $process.StandardInput.Close() } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
         $process
     } catch { $null }
 }
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSWingetPackageResult {
             $Process.Kill()
         }
     } catch { $packages = @() }
-    finally { try { $Process.Dispose() } catch { } }
+    finally { try { $Process.Dispose() } catch { $_ | Out-Null } }
     $packages
 }
 

lib/windows/AutoOS.Serve.psm1

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSExampleBlock {
     try {
         $block = (Get-Content -LiteralPath $path -Raw -Encoding UTF8 | ConvertFrom-Json).$Name
         if ($block) { return $block }
-    } catch { }
+    } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     @{}
 }
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSDetectedAnswers {
         try {
             $value = (& git config --global $pair.Setting 2>$null | Select-Object -First 1)
             if ($value) { $answers[$pair.Key] = [string]$value }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     $answers
 }

tests/run-tests.sh

@@ -655,7 +655,9 @@ if it "every component has a homepage link"; then
 import json, glob
 bad = []
 for p in sorted(glob.glob("catalog/*.json")):
-    for grp in json.load(open(p, encoding="utf-8")).get("categories", []):
+    with open(p, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+    for grp in data.get("categories", []):
         for c in grp.get("components", []):
             if not c.get("homepage"):
                 bad.append(p + ":" + c["id"])
@@ -745,7 +747,8 @@ if it "the dependency graph the UI draws has no orphan requirements"; then
 import json, glob
 bad = []
 for p in sorted(glob.glob("catalog/*.json")):
-    d = json.load(open(p, encoding="utf-8"))
+    with open(p, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        d = json.load(f)
     ids = {c["id"] for g in d.get("categories", []) for c in g.get("components", [])}
     for g in d.get("categories", []):
         for c in g.get("components", []):
@@ -881,7 +884,9 @@ import json, glob, collections
 have = collections.defaultdict(set)
 for p in glob.glob("catalog/*.json"):
     plat = p.replace("catalog", "").strip("/\\").replace(".json", "")
-    for g in json.load(open(p, encoding="utf-8"))["categories"]:
+    with open(p, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        data = json.load(f)
+    for g in data["categories"]:
         for c in g["components"]:
             have[c["id"]].add(plat)
 core = ["claude-code", "git", "nodejs", "docker", "tailscale",