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Summary

  • aggregate running / needs-input agent counts on collapsed workspace groups
  • hide last assistant-message snippets from agent workflow rows
  • keep real notification previews visible in those rows
  • treat Claude idle_prompt as an idle reminder, not proof that the agent asked for input

Regression coverage

The final two commits intentionally preserve red/green history:

  1. a42e57ee23 adds behavior tests for notification visibility and false idle-prompt input state
  2. 925292da94 fixes both shared boundaries

Validation

  • Swift parser on changed source/tests
  • python3 scripts/check-test-determinism.py --strict
  • ./scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh
  • python3 scripts/check-workspace-package-groups.py --check
  • python3 scripts/check-package-resolved-policy.py
  • ./scripts/check-pbxproj.sh
  • focused macOS test workflows dispatched separately (local machine has CommandLineTools only)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added sidebar indicators for running agents and agents requiring input.
    • Activity counts now appear for workspaces, panels, and collapsed groups.
    • Added English and Japanese accessibility labels and tooltips.
    • Sidebar subtitles prioritize relevant agent activity and input requests.
    • Indicators update immediately when agent status changes, including while menus are open.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Idle reminders no longer incorrectly mark agents as needing input.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for activity counts, accessibility, grouping, previews, and live updates.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The sidebar now aggregates running and needs-input agent counts, propagates them through workspace snapshots and group rows, and displays localized accessibility text. Conversation subtitles use shared agent-activity visibility rules. Tests cover aggregation, rendering, subtitles, and immediate refresh behavior.

Changes

Sidebar agent activity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Activity aggregation and summary logic
Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Sources/CmuxSidebar/AgentActivity/*, Sources/SidebarAgentActivitySummary.swift, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings
Adds public activity states and count types, visibility-aware aggregation, localized labels, accessibility text, and subtitle selection.
Snapshot and group propagation
Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotBuilder.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotFactory.swift, Sources/Sidebar/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicy.swift, Sources/ContentView.swift, Sources/VerticalTabsSidebar+WorkspaceGroups.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupRowSnapshot.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowModel.swift
Carries activity counts through snapshots and collapsed-group construction into group header models. Context-menu refreshes propagate updated counts immediately.
Sidebar activity presentation
Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift, Sources/ContentView.swift
Displays running and needs-input counts, updates layout and accessibility labels, and applies shared subtitle rules.
Agent activity validation
Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Tests/*, cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift, cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotAgentActivityTests.swift, cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicyTests.swift, cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift, cmuxTests/ClaudeBackgroundWorkNotifyTests.swift, Sources/Sidebar/SidebarWorkspaceDescriptionText.swift, CLI/cmux.swift, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Tests aggregation, visibility handling, subtitle suppression, header rendering, snapshot refreshes, and notification state handling. The markdown callback uses the current SwiftUI signature, and CI runs CmuxSidebar tests.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 92529

The PR adds running and needs-input counters to collapsed workspace groups and preserves their updates across sidebar implementations. Merge risk is low, but two focused tests should be strengthened because regressions could otherwise go undetected; no concrete runtime failure is identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotFactory
  participant ContentView
  participant VerticalTabsSidebar
  participant SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView
  participant SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView
  SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotFactory->>ContentView: provide agentActivityCounts
  ContentView->>VerticalTabsSidebar: pass workspaceRowsById
  VerticalTabsSidebar->>SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView: pass aggregated group counts
  SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView->>SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView: render activity indicators
  ContentView->>SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView: pass messages and activity state
  SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView->>SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView: select subtitle
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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ❌ Error New memberWorkspaceIds.compactMap scans scalable group members in Sources/VerticalTabsSidebar+WorkspaceGroups.swift:39,297 during SwiftUI/AppKit row rebuilds; AppKit repeats it per group at O(W... Precompute cached group activity counts in the shared workspace snapshot projection with one pass over workspace rows, then pass counts to both group builders instead of filtering member IDs in each render path.
Cmux Full Internationalization ❌ Error The PR adds three user-facing Localizable.xcstrings keys with only en/ja, while the touched catalog supports 20 locale codes, leaving 18 missing translations per key. Add translated, non-placeholder values for ar, bs, da, de, es, fr, it, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant to all three keys.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 4.65% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description explains the changes and validation, but omits the required Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist sections. Add the required Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist sections, and document manual verification results.
✅ Passed checks (21 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The diff adds Sendable value structs and a stateless aggregator, not shared mutable references or service protocols; UI uses remain MainActor-bound, and no default MainActor setting exists for the...
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The complete PR diff adds no semaphores, waits, sleeps, timers, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or locks; existing primitives remain unchanged.
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The PR does not change browser automation or its policy files; the scoped source and policy test files are unchanged, and the CLI change only updates idle_prompt notification state.
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The merge-base diff adds only in-memory lifecycle aggregation and snapshot fields; an audit found zero added forbidden loader, file-I/O, JSON, transcript, or Task.detached patterns.
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff adds live Workspace.agentLifecycleStatesByPanelId data to transient sidebar snapshots and refreshes it; no fresh persistence/history read is replaced. CLI session-cache use predates this PR.
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The PR changes 24 Swift files, localization data, and one GitHub Actions YAML entry; the rule excludes Swift and workflow YAML, and no covered runtime sleep was introduced.
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The main-to-HEAD diff adds no Dispatch, Combine, completion-handler, or fire-and-forget Task patterns; remaining matches are pre-existing UI/test boundaries and are allowed.
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The PR adds only synchronous aggregation and presentation code; the diff adds no async, nonisolated, @concurrent, or heavy async helper/call site. UI-bound code remains synchronous or @MainActor.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The diff places pure activity counts, panel states, and aggregation in the CmuxSidebar SwiftPM target with package tests; app Sources retain only lifecycle mapping and UI/localization glue.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The full PR adds only a CmuxSidebar CI test entry; it changes no Package.swift, .gitignore, Xcode package reference, or Package.resolved file, and the package lock remains unchanged.
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The complete PR diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, or ad hoc diagnostic logging; the CLI change only updates state logic, and existing CLI output is unchanged.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The diff adds only generic localized agent-count labels; “Claude”/“idle_prompt” appear in developer comments or internal logic, and existing message previews are not newly exposed as errors.
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The PR adds only immutable activity inputs and pure SwiftUI text in the group-header row; no new observable state, GeometryReader, lazy-row store reference, or render-time state write appears in th...
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff adds value-based aggregation and snapshot fields, with shared summary logic across AppKit and SwiftUI; it adds no timing repair, observer, lock, side channel, or new lifecycle owner.
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The PR diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, Window, or WindowGroup code; changed UI is sidebar content, and lint_auxiliary_window_close_shortcuts.py passes.
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The merge-base diff has 26 intentional source, test, localization, and CI paths; four additions are first-party CmuxSidebar code/tests, with no artifact-like paths or binary outputs.
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The PR adds no DEBUG/test guards or test/debug-named members in 15 changed production Swift files; new aggregation APIs serve sidebar product code, and tests use @testable import only.
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed The PR adds constructable structs with instance APIs and one additive static operator; the enum has cases. The diff adds no file-scope functions, mutable globals, static-only namespaces, or singlet...
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: accurate agent activity display and preserved notifications.
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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In `@Resources/Localizable.xcstrings`:
- Around line 257167-257291: Update the localizations for
workspaceGroup.agentActivity.a11y to retain only the supported en and ja
entries. Remove all other locale entries from this key, without changing the
English or Japanese translations.

In `@Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift`:
- Around line 186-222: Both group-header views must hide agent activity when
both aggregated counts are zero. In
Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift lines 186-222,
gate agentActivityField.isHidden and the attributed-text block on
model.showsAgentActivity and either count being greater than zero; in
Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView.swift lines 200-212, apply the same
condition to the showsAgentActivity block using runningAgentCount and
needsInputAgentCount.
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  • Resources/Localizable.xcstrings
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  • Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift
  • Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift
  • Sources/Sidebar/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicy.swift
  • Sources/SidebarAgentActivitySummary.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupRowSnapshot.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotBuilder.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotFactory.swift
  • Sources/VerticalTabsSidebar+WorkspaceGroups.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceRowSuspensionTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotAgentActivityTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicyTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceTableSuspensionTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift

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56-65: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use plural-specific accessibility strings.

workspaceGroup.agentActivity.a11y contains two pluralized counts but has no .one or .other selection. VoiceOver can produce grammatically incorrect singular text.

Create plural-aware running and needs-input accessibility clauses. Combine the localized clauses after selecting each count form. Add matching catalog values.

Based on learnings: “when handling pluralized strings, prefer using localization keys with the ICU-style plural forms .one and .other.”

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In `@Sources/SidebarAgentActivitySummary.swift` around lines 56 - 65, Update
accessibilityText(counts:) to localize separate running-agent and needs-input
clauses using ICU plural keys with .one and .other variants, selecting each form
independently before combining them into the final accessibility sentence.
Replace the single workspaceGroup.agentActivity.a11y lookup and add matching
catalog entries for both pluralized clauses.

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In `@Sources/SidebarAgentActivitySummary.swift`:
- Around line 56-65: Update accessibilityText(counts:) to localize separate
running-agent and needs-input clauses using ICU plural keys with .one and .other
variants, selecting each form independently before combining them into the final
accessibility sentence. Replace the single workspaceGroup.agentActivity.a11y
lookup and add matching catalog entries for both pluralized clauses.

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  • .github/workflows/ci.yml
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Sources/CmuxSidebar/AgentActivity/SidebarAgentActivityAggregator.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Sources/CmuxSidebar/AgentActivity/SidebarAgentActivityCounts.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Sources/CmuxSidebar/AgentActivity/SidebarAgentPanelActivity.swift
  • Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar/Tests/CmuxSidebarTests/SidebarAgentActivityAggregatorTests.swift
  • Resources/Localizable.xcstrings
  • Sources/ContentView.swift
  • Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift
  • Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift
  • Sources/Sidebar/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicy.swift
  • Sources/SidebarAgentActivitySummary.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotBuilder.swift
  • Sources/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotFactory.swift
  • Sources/VerticalTabsSidebar+WorkspaceGroups.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotAgentActivityTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceSnapshotRefreshPolicyTests.swift
  • cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift

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Closing at the author's request.

@krandder krandder closed this Aug 12, 2026
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Apologies for the confusion. This was an agentic PR that was not intended to be pushed or proposed upstream. It was an internal experiment for our own workflow, not a request for a cmux feature. Please disregard.

@krandder krandder reopened this Aug 15, 2026
@krandder krandder changed the title Show agent counts on collapsed workspace groups Show truthful agent activity without hiding notifications Aug 15, 2026

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Inline comments:
In `@cmuxTests/ClaudeBackgroundWorkNotifyTests.swift`:
- Around line 275-280: Extend the idle_prompt assertions in the relevant test to
verify the idle state is preserved: assert that statusLine returns “Idle” and
lifecycleLine returns “idle” for the snapshot, alongside the existing negative
Needs input checks.

In `@cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift`:
- Around line 2084-2086: Update
structuredAgentActivityKeepsNotificationPreviewButHidesConversationSnippet to
explicitly set IMessageModeSettings.key to true in its test defaults, matching
the adjacent test, so it exercises the agent-activity branch rather than
returning early through the disabled iMessage mode path.

Apply the same fix in `@cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift` around lines
2108 - 2148.
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Closing at the author’s request: this was an internal experiment, not an upstream feature proposal.

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