Spike: cmux-tui daemon terminal backend behind a dev flag (tier A, deletable bridge) - #10408
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Tier-A spike from the GUI-frontend migration plan: when the new terminal.beta.tuiBackend.enabled flag is on, a plain local main-grid terminal is backed by a cmux-tui daemon terminal (session cmux-<tag>) and the Ghostty surface runs 'cmux-tui attach --terminal <id>' instead of the shell, so the process and scrollback survive quitting the app. The daemon terminal_id persists in SessionTerminalPanelSnapshot; on restore a live daemon terminal is reattached, otherwise today's fresh spawn path runs unchanged. Flag off is byte-for-byte today's behavior. Throwaway bridge; the shipped data path is the native CMTH renderer. Binary path is a dev setting defaulting to a locally installed npm binary (no bundled artifact yet).
The attach command smuggled through shouldReplaySessionScrollback's tmuxStartCommand parameter never suppressed replay (that path only recognizes OMX hud commands), so a reattached terminal would replay the persisted scrollback on top of the daemon's own redraw after a real quit (terminate-time saves include scrollback). Gate replay off explicitly when reattaching.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a cmux-tui beta setting and binary path, implements daemon terminal provisioning and restoration, persists TUI terminal identifiers, integrates attach commands into workspace terminals, adds daemon-session quit handling, and adds policy, bridge, serialization, alert, localization, and test coverage. Changescmux-tui terminal backend
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to With the beta flag enabled, new and restored terminals can block the UI for seconds, misjudge terminal or process liveness, leave sessions running after requested cleanup, or fail outside the contributor’s binary and configuration setup. The flag is off by default, but these concrete issues require fixes or explicit owner acceptance before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Workspace
participant TuiTerminalAttachBridge
participant TuiTerminalAttachPolicy
participant cmux-tui
Workspace->>TuiTerminalAttachBridge: request terminal provisioning or restoration
TuiTerminalAttachBridge->>TuiTerminalAttachPolicy: evaluate terminal eligibility
TuiTerminalAttachBridge->>cmux-tui: start daemon or execute CLI command
cmux-tui-->>TuiTerminalAttachBridge: return terminal state
TuiTerminalAttachBridge-->>Workspace: return attach command or fresh-spawn fallback
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In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/Sources/CmuxSettings/Keys/BetaFeaturesCatalogSection.swift`:
- Around line 95-103: Update tuiTerminalBackendBinaryPath and the
TuiTerminalAttachBridge resolution flow to avoid the developer-specific
hardcoded path; resolve cmux-tui from PATH or the app bundle, or exclude this
beta setting and its usage from shipped builds so other machines do not attempt
an invalid daemon binary.
Apply the same fix in `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 26 -
38: The bridge also embeds the same developer-local default path.
In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Navigation/CuratedSettingEntry`+Default.swift:
- Line 281: Update the tuiTerminalBackend CuratedSettingEntry to use the
existing localized key from BetaFeaturesSection instead of a raw title string,
preserving the English default value. Add matching English and Japanese catalog
entries for that key.
In `@Resources/Localizable.xcstrings`:
- Around line 168692-168708: The localization entry for
settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend currently includes only en and ja; add
translated stringUnit values for ar, bs, da, de, es, fr, it, km, ko, nb, pl,
pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant, preserving the existing catalog
structure and translated states.
In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 167-183: Remove the time-based cached result from liveTerminalIDs
when it is used by restoreDecision, or force a fresh terminal-list query before
returning .reattach. Ensure restoreDecision uses current daemon liveness data so
an exited terminal causes the existing fresh-spawn path instead of an attach
attempt.
- Around line 224-248: Update unixSocketAccepts to avoid blocking the main
actor: configure the socket descriptor as nonblocking, handle an EINPROGRESS
result from connect with a bounded poll-based timeout, and return the
connection’s liveness status only when the probe completes within that bound.
Preserve immediate failure handling and descriptor cleanup.
- Around line 129-165: Refactor daemon provisioning into one async actor-owned
client so TuiTerminalAttachBridge no longer blocks the main actor. In
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift:129-165, replace ensureDaemonRunning’s
Thread.sleep readiness loop with an async readiness await; in
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift:190-221, replace runCLI’s
DispatchSemaphore waits with continuation-based termination handling and async
pipe reads, reaping drain work on timeout; in Sources/Workspace.swift:8089-8102,
invoke the async provisioning API from a caller-owned task and create the
terminal panel only after the attach command resolves.
- Around line 137-143: Update the log path construction in the daemon launch
flow to use the same per-user temporary-directory and uid-based location as
TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.daemonSocketPath, rather than the shared /tmp path.
Preserve the existing session-specific filename and stdout/stderr FileHandle
setup.
In `@Sources/Workspace.swift`:
- Around line 2583-2586: Update discardClosedPanelLifecycleState to remove the
closed panel’s tuiTerminalIDsByPanelId entry and destroy its associated daemon
terminal using the existing terminal-lifecycle cleanup mechanism. Extend
DetachedSurfaceTransfer to carry the panel’s TUI terminal ID, and restore that
value in the destination workspace so detached panels retain their daemon link.
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| /// Path to the cmux-tui binary used by the `tuiTerminalBackend` spike. | ||
| /// Dev-only setting with a spike-only default pointing at a locally | ||
| /// installed npm binary; there is no bundled artifact yet (that is build | ||
| /// item 1 in the migration plan). | ||
| public let tuiTerminalBackendBinaryPath = DefaultsKey<String>( | ||
| id: "terminal.beta.tuiBackend.binaryPath", | ||
| defaultValue: "/Users/lawrence/.local/bin/cmux-tui-npm", | ||
| userDefaultsKey: "terminal.beta.tuiBackend.binaryPath" | ||
| ) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
The enabled beta setting depends on a developer-local binary path.
The default /Users/lawrence/.local/bin/cmux-tui-npm path is not portable, and enabling the setting on another machine causes daemon provisioning to fail and fall back to local spawning. Resolve the executable from the app bundle or PATH, or keep this setting out of shipped builds and fail closed when the binary is unavailable.
📍 Affects 2 files
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/Sources/CmuxSettings/Keys/BetaFeaturesCatalogSection.swift#L95-L103(this comment)Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L26-L38
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In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/Sources/CmuxSettings/Keys/BetaFeaturesCatalogSection.swift`
around lines 95 - 103, Update tuiTerminalBackendBinaryPath and the
TuiTerminalAttachBridge resolution flow to avoid the developer-specific
hardcoded path; resolve cmux-tui from PATH or the app bundle, or exclude this
beta setting and its usage from shipped builds so other machines do not attempt
an invalid daemon binary.
Apply the same fix in `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 26 -
38: The bridge also embeds the same developer-local default path.
| .init(section: .betaFeatures, id: "dock", title: "Dock", synonyms: "dock right sidebar terminal controls tui beta unstable"), | ||
| .init(section: .betaFeatures, id: "customSidebars", title: "Custom Sidebars", synonyms: "custom sidebars swift json interpreted vibe beta unstable"), | ||
| .init(section: .betaFeatures, id: "remoteTmux", title: "Remote tmux", synonyms: "remote tmux ssh control mode -CC mirror session window pane sidebar workspace beta unstable"), | ||
| .init(section: .betaFeatures, id: "tuiTerminalBackend", title: "cmux-tui Terminal Backend", synonyms: "cmux-tui tui daemon terminal backend attach persistent survive quit restart spike beta unstable"), |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Localize the new settings-search title.
CuratedSettingEntry.title can be displayed in settings search, but this entry uses a raw Swift string. Reuse the key from BetaFeaturesSection and add matching en and ja catalog entries.
Proposed fix
- .init(section: .betaFeatures, id: "tuiTerminalBackend", title: "cmux-tui Terminal Backend", synonyms: "cmux-tui tui daemon terminal backend attach persistent survive quit restart spike beta unstable"),
+ .init(
+ section: .betaFeatures,
+ id: "tuiTerminalBackend",
+ title: String(
+ localized: "settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend",
+ defaultValue: "cmux-tui Terminal Backend"
+ ),
+ synonyms: "cmux-tui tui daemon terminal backend attach persistent survive quit restart spike beta unstable"
+ ),As per coding guidelines: “Production SwiftUI user-facing text must use String(localized:defaultValue:) or an equivalent localized API, with a stable key and English defaultValue.”
As per path instructions: “Swift text must use localized APIs with matching translated string-catalog entries.”
Based on learnings: the supported locales are English (en) and Japanese (ja).
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In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Navigation/CuratedSettingEntry`+Default.swift
at line 281, Update the tuiTerminalBackend CuratedSettingEntry to use the
existing localized key from BetaFeaturesSection instead of a raw title string,
preserving the English default value. Add matching English and Japanese catalog
entries for that key.
Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions, Learnings
| "settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend": { | ||
| "extractionState": "manual", | ||
| "localizations": { | ||
| "en": { | ||
| "stringUnit": { | ||
| "state": "translated", | ||
| "value": "cmux-tui Terminal Backend" | ||
| } | ||
| }, | ||
| "ja": { | ||
| "stringUnit": { | ||
| "state": "translated", | ||
| "value": "cmux-tui ターミナルバックエンド" | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| }, |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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python3 - <<'PY'
import json
with open("Resources/Localizable.xcstrings", encoding="utf-8") as file:
catalog = json.load(file)
keys = [
"settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend",
"settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend.subtitleOff",
"settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend.subtitleOn",
]
catalog_locales = sorted({
locale
for entry in catalog["strings"].values()
for locale in entry.get("localizations", {})
})
for key in keys:
locales = sorted(catalog["strings"][key].get("localizations", {}))
print(f"{key}: {locales}")
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Add translations for all catalog locales.
Add translated 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 new keys.
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In `@Resources/Localizable.xcstrings` around lines 168692 - 168708, The
localization entry for settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend currently
includes only en and ja; add translated stringUnit values for ar, bs, da, de,
es, fr, it, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant,
preserving the existing catalog structure and translated states.
Sources: Coding guidelines, Learnings
| private func ensureDaemonRunning(binary: String) -> Bool { | ||
| let socketPath = daemonSocketPath | ||
| if Self.unixSocketAccepts(path: socketPath) { return true } | ||
| let session = sessionName | ||
| logSpike("daemon.start session=\(session)") | ||
| let process = Process() | ||
| process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: binary) | ||
| process.arguments = ["server", "start", "--session", session, "--headless"] | ||
| let logPath = "/tmp/cmux-tui-\(session).log" | ||
| FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: logPath, contents: nil) | ||
| if let logHandle = FileHandle(forWritingAtPath: logPath) { | ||
| logHandle.seekToEndOfFile() | ||
| process.standardOutput = logHandle | ||
| process.standardError = logHandle | ||
| } | ||
| process.standardInput = FileHandle.nullDevice | ||
| do { | ||
| try process.run() | ||
| } catch { | ||
| logSpike("daemon.start.fail error=\(error)") | ||
| return false | ||
| } | ||
| // SPIKE: bounded poll for the daemon socket (max 5s). The principled | ||
| // replacement is launchd supervision plus socket activation; this | ||
| // bridge is scheduled for deletion before that ships. | ||
| let deadline = Date(timeIntervalSinceNow: 5) | ||
| while Date() < deadline { | ||
| if Self.unixSocketAccepts(path: socketPath) { return true } | ||
| if !process.isRunning { | ||
| logSpike("daemon.start.exited status=\(process.terminationStatus)") | ||
| return false | ||
| } | ||
| Thread.sleep(forTimeInterval: 0.05) | ||
| } | ||
| logSpike("daemon.start.timeout session=\(session)") | ||
| return false | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔴 Critical | 🏗️ Heavy lift
The bridge exposes a synchronous main-actor API for daemon I/O. All three sites block the main thread because TuiTerminalAttachBridge performs process launch, readiness polling, and CLI execution synchronously on @MainActor; the shared fix is one async daemon client owned by an actor.
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L129-L165: replace theThread.sleepreadiness poll inensureDaemonRunningwith anasyncreadiness await inside an actor.Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L190-L221: replace theDispatchSemaphorewaits inrunCLIwith a continuation resumed fromterminationHandlerplus async pipe reads, and reap the drain work on timeout.Sources/Workspace.swift#L8089-L8102: call the newasyncprovisioning API from a caller-owned task, and create the terminal panel after the attach command resolves.
As per coding guidelines: "Do not introduce or expand semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or manual locks where actors or explicit signals should synchronize runtime work."
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Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L129-L165(this comment)Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L190-L221Sources/Workspace.swift#L8089-L8102
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 129 - 165, Refactor
daemon provisioning into one async actor-owned client so TuiTerminalAttachBridge
no longer blocks the main actor. In
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift:129-165, replace ensureDaemonRunning’s
Thread.sleep readiness loop with an async readiness await; in
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift:190-221, replace runCLI’s
DispatchSemaphore waits with continuation-based termination handling and async
pipe reads, reaping drain work on timeout; in Sources/Workspace.swift:8089-8102,
invoke the async provisioning API from a caller-owned task and create the
terminal panel only after the attach command resolves.
Source: Coding guidelines
| let logPath = "/tmp/cmux-tui-\(session).log" | ||
| FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: logPath, contents: nil) | ||
| if let logHandle = FileHandle(forWritingAtPath: logPath) { | ||
| logHandle.seekToEndOfFile() | ||
| process.standardOutput = logHandle | ||
| process.standardError = logHandle | ||
| } |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
The daemon log path is world-writable and predictable.
logPath is /tmp/cmux-tui-<session>.log. /tmp is shared and world-writable, so any local process can pre-create or symlink that path. FileManager.createFile follows an existing symlink, so daemon stdout and stderr can be redirected to an attacker-chosen file.
Write the log under the per-user temporary directory instead, next to the daemon socket that TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.daemonSocketPath already derives from NSTemporaryDirectory() and the uid.
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 137 - 143, Update the log
path construction in the daemon launch flow to use the same per-user
temporary-directory and uid-based location as
TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.daemonSocketPath, rather than the shared /tmp path.
Preserve the existing session-specific filename and stdout/stderr FileHandle
setup.
| private func liveTerminalIDs() -> Set<String>? { | ||
| if let cached = cachedTerminalIDs, Date().timeIntervalSince(cached.fetchedAt) < 3 { | ||
| return cached.ids | ||
| } | ||
| let binary = Self.binaryPath | ||
| guard FileManager.default.isExecutableFile(atPath: binary) else { return nil } | ||
| guard let output = runCLI( | ||
| binary: binary, | ||
| arguments: ["--session", sessionName, "--json", "terminal", "list"], | ||
| timeout: 10 | ||
| ) else { return nil } | ||
| guard let ids = TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.terminalIDs(fromTerminalListJSON: output) else { | ||
| return nil | ||
| } | ||
| cachedTerminalIDs = (ids, Date()) | ||
| return ids | ||
| } |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
A 3-second cache can make a correctness-critical reattach decision stale.
liveTerminalIDs returns cached ids for 3 seconds. restoreDecision uses that set as the authoritative liveness proof before it emits .reattach. If the daemon terminal exits inside the cache window, the restore path builds an attach command for a terminal that no longer exists, and the surface shows an attach failure instead of failing closed to a fresh spawn.
Restore is a one-shot burst, so the cache saves at most a few CLI calls. Either drop the cache on the restore path, or record the fetch generation and re-verify before you return .reattach.
As per path instructions (.github/review-bot-rules/reliability-single-source-of-truth.md): "Caches may reduce expensive CLI work only if they do not make correctness-critical restore decisions stale."
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 167 - 183, Remove the
time-based cached result from liveTerminalIDs when it is used by
restoreDecision, or force a fresh terminal-list query before returning
.reattach. Ensure restoreDecision uses current daemon liveness data so an exited
terminal causes the existing fresh-spawn path instead of an attach attempt.
Source: Path instructions
| private nonisolated static func unixSocketAccepts(path: String) -> Bool { | ||
| guard path.utf8.count < 104 else { return false } | ||
| let fd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) | ||
| guard fd >= 0 else { return false } | ||
| defer { close(fd) } | ||
| var address = sockaddr_un() | ||
| address.sun_family = sa_family_t(AF_UNIX) | ||
| let copied = withUnsafeMutableBytes(of: &address.sun_path) { buffer -> Bool in | ||
| let bytes = Array(path.utf8) | ||
| guard bytes.count < buffer.count else { return false } | ||
| for (index, byte) in bytes.enumerated() { | ||
| buffer[index] = byte | ||
| } | ||
| buffer[bytes.count] = 0 | ||
| return true | ||
| } | ||
| guard copied else { return false } | ||
| let length = socklen_t(MemoryLayout<sockaddr_un>.size) | ||
| let result = withUnsafePointer(to: &address) { pointer in | ||
| pointer.withMemoryRebound(to: sockaddr.self, capacity: 1) { rebound in | ||
| connect(fd, rebound, length) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| return result == 0 | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
connect on the main actor has no timeout.
unixSocketAccepts creates a blocking socket and calls connect. restoreDecision calls it on @MainActor for every restored terminal panel. A stale socket file whose listener is wedged with a full backlog blocks the main thread with no bound.
Set O_NONBLOCK on the descriptor and treat EINPROGRESS plus a bounded poll as the liveness answer, or move the probe off the main actor together with the async rework above.
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 224 - 248, Update
unixSocketAccepts to avoid blocking the main actor: configure the socket
descriptor as nonblocking, handle an EINPROGRESS result from connect with a
bounded poll-based timeout, and return the connection’s liveness status only
when the probe completes within that bound. Preserve immediate failure handling
and descriptor cleanup.
…sor provenance plumbing A scoped single-terminal attach (attach --terminal, the GUI terminal bridge) currently drives the host terminal like a full TUI: it enables every mouse-tracking mode at startup even when the inner application requested none (so the host loses native click and selection handling), and it asserts a DECSCUSR cursor shape and OSC 12 cursor color derived from session defaults (clobbering the host terminal's configured cursor style). Both happen on first attach and on reattach identically. This commit adds the contract tests plus inert plumbing: - CursorStyleProvenance: a streaming detector that recovers whether the inner application authored its cursor style, scanning only raw inner-PTY output bytes; daemon-built vt-state replays reset it because they carry resolved state with session defaults baked in. - RemoteSurface wiring for the detector and mirror-side tests showing a reattach replay restores inner mouse-tracking state to the mirror. - Pure helpers for the host startup mode set, mouse-capture transitions, and initial cursor/capture bookkeeping, still with today's behavior. The new tests assert the passthrough contract and fail against today's behavior; the follow-up commit makes them pass.
…mouse and cursor state A scoped attach now asserts on the host terminal only what the inner terminal actually requested: - Startup no longer enables mouse tracking (DECSET 9/1000/1002/1003/ 1015/1006) or the shift-bypass report (XTSHIFTESCAPE) in scoped mode. After every frame the client mirrors the inner terminal's mouse-tracking state to the host, so the host owns clicks, drags, and selection for plain shells, while applications that request mouse input (vim mouse=a) still capture, including across detach/reattach because the daemon replay restores the mirror's mouse modes. - The host cursor shape and color are only asserted when the inner application authored a cursor style (DECSCUSR), tracked by scanning the raw output stream; session and frontend defaults never overwrite the host terminal's configured cursor style, and a scoped client starts from an applied Reset so it writes no cursor escapes at all until an application authors one. Focus reporting and bracketed paste stay host-enabled in both modes: the client consumes those events itself and re-encodes paste for the inner terminal according to the mode it actually requested, so they are transparent to the user. Full-TUI behavior is unchanged. Fixes dead clicks and clobbered Ghostty cursor style in GUI terminal tabs backed by cmux-tui attach --terminal.
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Dogfood round 2 root cause and fix: the dead clicks and wrong Ghostty cursor style after reopen are host-passthrough bugs in The attach client reused the full-TUI startup: unconditional mouse capture ( New binary requirement for this spike: the bridge needs a cmux-tui build containing PR 10428. On this Mac the dev setting now points at it (temporary, dogfood-only): Known bridge trade-off introduced by correct passthrough: wheel scrollback in plain-shell daemon tabs no longer works (host alt screen has no scrollback; keyboard scrollback works; the native CMTH renderer is the durable fix). |
When the tuiBackend beta flag is on and the cmux-tui daemon owns live terminals, every quit path (applicationShouldTerminate) asks whether to keep the sessions running for the next launch or stop them. Keep is the default. Stop closes every daemon terminal first (server stop alone leaves PTY hosts adoptable) and then stops the server, replying with terminateLater while that owned work runs. The dialog replaces the generic quit warning instead of stacking a second dialog, and the Cmd+Q shortcut path defers to the terminate entrypoint when the prompt applies. Decision and stop-command construction are pure functions in TuiTerminalAttachPolicy with unit tests; the alert presenter gains a cancelResponse for three-button alerts.
Greptile SummaryThe PR adds a development-gated daemon-backed terminal bridge that provisions persistent cmux-tui terminals, restores them across app launches, and defines explicit close and quit behavior.
Confidence Score: 4/5The PR is not yet safe to merge because daemon startup and CLI execution can still block the main actor and freeze interactive terminal and quit flows. TuiTerminalAttachBridge remains MainActor-isolated while daemon readiness polling sleeps for up to five seconds and CLI execution synchronously waits on semaphores, leaving the previously reported UI-blocking failure outstanding. Files Needing Attention: Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift Important Files Changed
Sequence DiagramsequenceDiagram
participant User
participant App as cmux macOS app
participant Bridge as TuiTerminalAttachBridge
participant Daemon as cmux-tui daemon
participant PTY as Persistent terminal
User->>App: Create terminal tab
App->>Bridge: Provision terminal
Bridge->>Daemon: Ensure server and create workspace
Daemon->>PTY: Start terminal shell
Bridge-->>App: terminal ID and attach command
App->>Daemon: Attach Ghostty surface
User->>App: Quit
App->>User: Keep or stop sessions?
alt Keep sessions
App-->>Daemon: Leave daemon and PTY running
User->>App: Relaunch
App->>Bridge: Restore persisted terminal ID
Bridge->>Daemon: Validate terminal
App->>Daemon: Reattach surface
else Stop sessions
App->>Bridge: Close terminals and stop server
Bridge->>Daemon: terminal close, then server stop
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| let deadline = Date(timeIntervalSinceNow: 5) | ||
| while Date() < deadline { | ||
| if Self.unixSocketAccepts(path: socketPath) { return true } | ||
| if !process.isRunning { | ||
| logSpike("daemon.start.exited status=\(process.terminationStatus)") | ||
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| } | ||
| Thread.sleep(forTimeInterval: 0.05) |
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When the daemon starts slowly or a CLI call stalls, synchronous Thread.sleep polling and semaphore waits run through this @MainActor bridge, blocking terminal creation, session restoration, or quit interaction for several seconds.
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| let logPath = "/tmp/cmux-tui-\(session).log" | ||
| FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: logPath, contents: nil) | ||
| if let logHandle = FileHandle(forWritingAtPath: logPath) { | ||
| logHandle.seekToEndOfFile() | ||
| process.standardOutput = logHandle | ||
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| final class TuiTerminalAttachBridge { | ||
| static let shared = TuiTerminalAttachBridge() |
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| "dialog.tuiQuitSessions.keepAndQuit": { | ||
| "extractionState": "manual", | ||
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| "en": { | ||
| "stringUnit": { | ||
| "state": "translated", | ||
| "value": "Keep Sessions and Quit" | ||
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| "stringUnit": { | ||
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15-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRemove the global bridge singleton.
TuiTerminalAttachBridge.sharedcreates ambient mutable daemon state throughcachedTerminalIDs. Construct the bridge at the application composition root. Retain it in one explicitMainActorlifecycle owner. Inject it into terminal provisioning and quit handling.As per coding guidelines: “Avoid new ambient global runtime state ... and runtime singletons. Prefer constructable injectable owners.”
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In `@Sources/AppDelegate.swift`:
- Around line 2216-2239: Update confirmTerminationAfterTuiSessionDecision and
TuiTerminalAttachBridge so the daemon-stop Task is stored as caller-owned state
and can be cancelled during termination. Add a session-level, cancellation-aware
deadline around stopDaemonSessionForQuit, define and handle the explicit result
when that deadline expires, and ensure cleanup of the stored task and
termination state on completion or timeout.
In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 139-140: In the stop-command generation flow, invalidate
cachedTerminalIDs before calling liveTerminalIDs() so the inventory is freshly
fetched rather than reusing the quit-alert cache. Preserve the existing sorting
and subsequent cache reset behavior.
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 15-40: Remove TuiTerminalAttachBridge.shared and make
TuiTerminalAttachBridge explicitly constructable at the application composition
root. Retain one instance in a MainActor lifecycle owner, then inject that
instance into terminal provisioning and quit-handling paths so cachedTerminalIDs
remains owned without ambient global state.
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| private func confirmTerminationAfterTuiSessionDecision(reason: String, stopSessions: Bool) { | ||
| prepareForConfirmedAppTermination() | ||
| isQuitWarningConfirmed = true | ||
| closeAllWebInspectorsBeforeAppTeardown() | ||
| guard stopSessions else { | ||
| if deferTerminateForOwnedCleanupAndFreshSnapshot(reason: reason) { return } | ||
| terminationWatchdog.arm() | ||
| replyToTerminateOnce(true) | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| // Stop is asynchronous CLI work (close every daemon terminal, then | ||
| // stop the server); the terminate request already returned | ||
| // .terminateLater, and `isAwaitingTuiSessionStop` keeps re-entrant | ||
| // terminate requests deferred until this owned work replies. | ||
| isAwaitingTuiSessionStop = true | ||
| Task { @MainActor [weak self] in | ||
| guard let self else { return } | ||
| await TuiTerminalAttachBridge.shared.stopDaemonSessionForQuit() | ||
| self.isAwaitingTuiSessionStop = false | ||
| if self.deferTerminateForOwnedCleanupAndFreshSnapshot(reason: reason) { return } | ||
| self.terminationWatchdog.arm() | ||
| self.replyToTerminateOnce(true) | ||
| } | ||
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Bound and own the daemon-stop operation.
Line 2231 creates an unowned Task while AppKit remains in .terminateLater. stopDaemonSessionForQuit() runs one CLI command per stop command sequentially. A large terminal set can delay quit by 10 seconds per command. The existing termination watchdog starts only after this operation returns.
Store a caller-owned stop task. Add a cancellation-aware session-level deadline in TuiTerminalAttachBridge. Define the termination result when that deadline expires.
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In `@Sources/AppDelegate.swift` around lines 2216 - 2239, Update
confirmTerminationAfterTuiSessionDecision and TuiTerminalAttachBridge so the
daemon-stop Task is stored as caller-owned state and can be cancelled during
termination. Add a session-level, cancellation-aware deadline around
stopDaemonSessionForQuit, define and handle the explicit result when that
deadline expires, and ensure cleanup of the stored task and termination state on
completion or timeout.
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Driving Cmd+Q through the debug socket wedged the app: simulate_shortcut runs inside a main-queue drain (v2MainSync), handleQuitShortcutWarning called NSApp.terminate synchronously, and AppKit's _shouldTerminate then pumps a nested event loop waiting for a terminate reply that is itself a main-queue task, which can never run re-entrantly. The shortcut path now presents the keep-vs-stop dialog first (ownsTerminateRequest: false), exactly like the generic quit warning, and only calls terminate from the button response on the normal event loop. A Stop choice is carried into the terminate entrypoint via a pending flag and runs as owned async work before the snapshot cleanup.
…nal state Round-4 dogfood repro: btop in a daemon-backed tab has working clicks and drag, but after Keep Sessions and Quit plus reopen the reattached tab's clicks are dead. Byte-level investigation cleared the daemon side: the terminal host's real attach replay (vt_replay_bounded_theme_portable_with_aliases) emits every non-default mode including the mouse-tracking DECSETs, and a mirror that applies it reports mouse_tracking. The round-2 tests lied by splitting coverage: one proved replay restores the mode to the mirror, another proved capture follows rendered_terminal_pointer_semantics, and nothing covered the link between them, which exists only through a successful pane render. draw_content removes a surface's entry from that map at the start of every draw and re-inserts it only after a successful nonzero-rect render, so any frame that skips or fails the scoped pane render ends with the map empty and the end-of-frame sync writes capture-off to the host while the inner application still holds the mouse. A reattach with a live btop (replay apply, resize, full redraw in the same frames) is exactly that window. Three tests pin the contract at the previously untested level: - scoped_host_mouse_capture_follows_canonical_state_without_a_rendered_frame (fails today): canonical inner mouse-tracking with no rendered frame must still assert capture. - scoped_host_mouse_capture_keeps_last_applied_when_state_is_unknowable (fails today): an unknowable surface must keep the last applied capture instead of toggling the host. - daemon_theme_portable_replay_restores_mouse_tracking_to_the_attach_probe (passes today): upgrades the replay-path test from a hand-written DECSET to the daemon's real replay builder output, observed through the pointer-semantics probe the App reads. The follow-up commit makes the failing tests pass.
…al state The end-of-frame host capture sync read rendered_terminal_pointer_semantics, a projection that draw_content removes at the start of every draw and restores only after a successful nonzero-rect pane render. A frame that skipped or failed the scoped pane's render therefore ended with the entry missing and wrote capture-off to the host terminal while the inner application still had mouse tracking enabled, killing clicks and drags in the GUI bridge tab until a later successful render flipped capture back. Reattach is the storm that hits this: replay application, resize, and a full redraw land in the same frames. desired_host_mouse_capture now reads the inner terminal's mode state directly from the session surface's pointer-semantics probe, the same canonical state the daemon replay restores and live output updates, so render success is no longer load-bearing for mouse ownership. When the state is momentarily unknowable (terminal lock contended, surface gone during teardown) the client keeps the capture it last applied instead of toggling the host. Cursor-style behavior is untouched: host cursor escapes still require application-authored DECSCUSR recovered from raw output bytes, and daemon replays still reset that provenance. The legacy scoped-capture test now drives the terminal itself; the rendered map remains routing-only.
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Round 4 on the bridge: the reattached-btop dead-clicks repro is addressed on #10428 (commits 159a447 red, 517b1fd green). Root-cause class: the scoped client derived host mouse capture from the rendered-frame projection ( Two byte-level findings relevant to the spike itself, no code change here:
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App-managed sessions now run with CMUX_TUI_CONFIG pointed at an app-managed empty config. The user's interactive cmux-tui.json can belong to a different binary version; its parse warning printed onto the surface before alt-screen entry and flashed on quit when the alt screen popped.
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15-18: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRemove the process-wide bridge singleton.
static let sharedcreates a global owner for daemon lifecycle and cached terminal state inSources/. Construct this bridge in the application lifecycle owner and inject it into workspace and quit flows. This keeps lifecycle ownership explicit and prevents global state from becoming a second state owner.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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109-113: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the bridge configuration for newly provisioned terminals.
This attach command omits
configPath. New terminal surfaces therefore load the user cmux-tui configuration, unlike restored surfaces at Lines 180-186. An incompatible user configuration can again print warnings onto newly created terminal surfaces. PassSelf.bridgeConfigPathhere.Proposed fix
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 15-18: Remove the static shared instance from
TuiTerminalAttachBridge, construct the bridge in the application lifecycle
owner, and inject that instance into workspace and quit flows so daemon
lifecycle and cached terminal state have one explicit owner.
- Around line 109-113: Update the new-terminal attach command in
TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.attachCommand to pass Self.bridgeConfigPath as
configPath, matching the restored-surface attach path while preserving the
existing binaryPath, sessionName, and terminalID arguments.
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The repeated "could not checkpoint terminal ... reconnect: session changed during checkpoint capture" toasts on daemon-backed terminals are addressed in two parts. #10484 (merged) stopped the destructive half: a failed reconnect checkpoint no longer disconnects the healthy host and re-runs the reconnect, whose journal writes had been re-poisoning every other terminal's capture window. #10501 fixes the capture layer itself: the consistency fence in journal_checkpoint.rs compared a journal head and a session snapshot read under separate lock holds, so any concurrent journal write between them spuriously aborted the checkpoint; capture now reads both under one projection lock as a single cut, and any residual skip reports one status event total (further skips go to the daemon log) instead of one toast per terminal per reconnect. |
…close Closing a daemon-backed tab always prompted "process is running" because the surface child is the always-running attach client. The shared panelNeedsConfirmClose path now consults the daemon's real process state (terminal <id> process show --json): prompt only when the shell has a child process (or the root process is not a shell), skip the prompt for an idle shell, and fall back to the existing prompting behavior whenever the daemon cannot be queried. Closing the tab now also closes the daemon terminal (terminal <id> close) from the shared panel-discard path, fixing the known close-orphans-the-daemon-terminal cut. Detach transfers carry the terminal id to the destination container instead of closing, and app termination never closes terminals here (quit owns keep-vs-stop through its own dialog). Also commits an in-tree fix picked up this round: the attach command launches via env(1) because ghostty wraps surface commands in bash -c "exec -l <cmd>", where a leading VAR= prefix is parsed as the program name and reattach fails to launch.
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108-114: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the bridge configuration to new-surface attach commands.
Line 110 creates the new-surface attach command without
configPath: Self.bridgeConfigPath. The new attach client can then read the user configuration, while restored attach clients use the bridge configuration. Schema drift can show warnings on the terminal surface.Proposed fix
attachCommand: TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.attachCommand( binaryPath: binary, sessionName: session, - terminalID: terminalID + terminalID: terminalID, + configPath: Self.bridgeConfigPath )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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8103-8144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPropagate the requested working directory into daemon provisioning.
The bridge creates the daemon terminal before
Sources/Workspace.swiftresolvesrequestedWorkingDirectory. The daemon terminal therefore cannot receive the selected or inherited directory. The attached shell starts in the daemon default directory instead.
Sources/Workspace.swift#L8103-L8144: resolve the requested directory before provisioning and pass it to the bridge.Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift#L86-L114: accept the directory and send it through the documented daemon create command, or returnnilwhen the daemon cannot preserve it.What is the documented cmux-tui workspace or terminal creation option for setting the terminal working directory?🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 190-192: Remove the time-based cached close-confirmation lookup
and fetch the daemon process state immediately before determining the close
decision. Move this query into the async daemon client, updating the close flow
around the cachedCloseConfirmations handling and the related logic at lines
208-216 so no .noPrompt decision is reused after process state may have changed.
- Around line 227-240: Update closeTerminalForClosedSurface in
TuiTerminalAttachBridge so the close request is stored as a bridge-owned pending
operation rather than only launched in an unowned Task.detached; retain failed
runCLI attempts and retry them until completion or a defined retry limit,
removing the pending operation only after success or exhaustion. In
Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift lines 490-496, preserve terminal-ID removal while
ensuring the bridge-owned pending close remains available for retry.
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift`:
- Around line 108-114: Update the TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.attachCommand call in
the ProvisionedTerminal construction to pass configPath: Self.bridgeConfigPath,
matching restored attach-client configuration behavior.
In `@Sources/Workspace.swift`:
- Around line 8103-8144: The requested working directory is resolved after
daemon provisioning, so the attached terminal loses the selected or inherited
directory. In Sources/Workspace.swift lines 8103-8144, compute
requestedWorkingDirectory before
TuiTerminalAttachBridge.provisionTerminalForNewSurface and pass it to that call;
in Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift lines 86-114, accept the directory and
forward it using the documented daemon creation option, returning nil when it
cannot be preserved.
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| if let cached = cachedCloseConfirmations[terminalID], | ||
| Date().timeIntervalSince(cached.fetchedAt) < 2 { | ||
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Do not cache a no-prompt close decision.
A shell can start a foreground process after Line 192 returns .noPrompt. A close request inside the two-second cache window then closes that process without confirmation.
Fetch daemon process state immediately before the close decision. Move this query to the async daemon client instead of using a time-based cache.
Also applies to: 208-216
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 190 - 192, Remove the
time-based cached close-confirmation lookup and fetch the daemon process state
immediately before determining the close decision. Move this query into the
async daemon client, updating the close flow around the cachedCloseConfirmations
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reused after process state may have changed.
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| func closeTerminalForClosedSurface(terminalID: String) { | ||
| let binary = Self.binaryPath | ||
| guard FileManager.default.isExecutableFile(atPath: binary) else { return } | ||
| cachedTerminalIDs = nil | ||
| cachedCloseConfirmations.removeValue(forKey: terminalID) | ||
| let arguments = TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.terminalCloseArguments( | ||
| sessionName: sessionName, | ||
| terminalID: terminalID | ||
| ) | ||
| logSpike("surfaceClose.begin terminal=\(terminalID)") | ||
| Task.detached(priority: .utility) { [terminalID] in | ||
| let output = TuiTerminalAttachBridge.runCLI(binary: binary, arguments: arguments, timeout: 10) | ||
| Self.logSpikeStatic("surfaceClose.done terminal=\(terminalID) ok=\(output != nil ? 1 : 0)") | ||
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rg -n -C 10 'discardPanel|discard.*Panel|discardClosedPanelLifecycleState|removeValue\\(forKey: panelId\\)' Sources/Workspace.swift Sources/Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swiftRepository: manaflow-ai/cmux
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- runCLI ---'
sed -n '315,390p' Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- exact quit references ---'
rg -n 'stopDaemonSessionForQuit|shouldPromptToKeepDaemonSessionsOnQuit|isTerminatingApp' Sources --glob '*.swift' \
| grep -E 'TuiTerminalAttachBridge|AppDelegate|Workspace|Application|Quit|Termination'
printf '%s\n' '--- discard function declarations and relevant ranges ---'
rg -n 'func .*discard|discard.*panel|discardPanel' Sources/Workspace.swift Sources/Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant Workspace ranges ---'
sed -n '8140,8210p' Sources/Workspace.swift
sed -n '9870,9970p' Sources/Workspace.swiftRepository: manaflow-ai/cmux
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- panel discard function ---'
sed -n '410,515p' Sources/Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- termination sequence ---'
sed -n '2090,2145p' Sources/AppDelegate.swift
sed -n '2210,2270p' Sources/AppDelegate.swift
sed -n '2285,2325p' Sources/AppDelegate.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- termination watchdog and quit cleanup references ---'
sed -n '2360,2405p' Sources/AppDelegate.swift
sed -n '4240,4300p' Sources/AppDelegate.swift
rg -n -C 8 'TerminationWatchdog|stopDaemonSessionForQuit' Sources/AppDelegate.swift Sources/*.swiftRepository: manaflow-ai/cmux
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- close policy and stop commands ---'
sed -n '135,235p' Sources/TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- source-level lifecycle verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
bridge = Path("Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift").read_text()
lifecycle = Path("Sources/Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift").read_text()
app = Path("Sources/AppDelegate.swift").read_text()
close = re.search(
r'func closeTerminalForClosedSurface\(terminalID: String\) \{(?P<body>.*?)\n \}',
bridge, re.S
)
assert close, "closeTerminalForClosedSurface not found"
body = close.group("body")
print("close_task_handle_retained:", bool(re.search(r'\b(?:let|var)\s+\w+\s*=\s*Task\.detached', body)))
print("close_task_is_detached:", "Task.detached" in body)
print("close_result_is_used_for_retry:", bool(re.search(r'(retry|pending|retain|inFlight|await)', body, re.I)))
print("close_result_is_only_logged:", "output != nil ? 1 : 0" in body)
discard = re.search(
r'if let tuiTerminalID = tuiTerminalIDsByPanelId\.removeValue\(forKey: panelId\),(?P<body>.*?)\n \}',
lifecycle, re.S
)
assert discard, "panel discard close block not found"
discard_body = discard.group("body")
print("panel_id_removed_before_close:", "closeTerminalForClosedSurface" in discard_body)
policy = Path("Sources/TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.swift").read_text()
policy_fn = re.search(
r'static func shouldCloseDaemonTerminalOnPanelDiscard\(.*?\n \}',
policy, re.S
)
assert policy_fn, "close policy not found"
print("close_policy_requires_not_terminating:", "isTerminatingApp" in policy_fn.group(0) and "!isTerminatingApp" in policy_fn.group(0))
quit_call = re.search(
r'await TuiTerminalAttachBridge\.shared\.stopDaemonSessionForQuit\(\)',
app
)
print("quit_stop_is_awaited:", bool(quit_call))
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Retain failed daemon-terminal closes.
closeTerminalForClosedSurface starts an unowned Task.detached and only logs runCLI failure. After Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift removes the terminal ID, no operation can retry a failed close. Store the pending close in a bridge-owned operation and retain it until completion or retry exhaustion.
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In `@Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift` around lines 227 - 240, Update
closeTerminalForClosedSurface in TuiTerminalAttachBridge so the close request is
stored as a bridge-owned pending operation rather than only launched in an
unowned Task.detached; retain failed runCLI attempts and retry them until
completion or a defined retry limit, removing the pending operation only after
success or exhaustion. In Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift lines 490-496, preserve
terminal-ID removal while ensuring the bridge-owned pending close remains
available for retry.
Source: Coding guidelines
Round-5 investigation tooling for the reattach dead-mouse bug. All of it is inert unless CMUX_TUI_DEBUG_TAP names a directory. - debug_tap: per-pid O_APPEND logger (never stdout/stderr, which belong to the host terminal). Records every host mouse-capture escape written with applied->desired and the canonical pointer probe, every host input event, every mouse-router disposition (forwarded to a surface vs dropped and why), the exact bytes enqueued to the inner PTY, startup host modes, and any restore_terminal invocation with a backtrace. - cmux-tui-pty-tap: a transparent PTY tee binary that fronts the attach client inside a Ghostty surface (mirrors termios + full winsize incl. pixel fields, propagates SIGWINCH). It hex-logs bytes in both directions and extracts terminal-state-changing escape sequences from the child's output, so a wrapper can prove exactly what the client wrote to the host and what the host sent back on a click. Non-tty invocations exec the child untouched, so it can front a binary's every call while only tapping interactive attach clients. This is how the reattach path was measured byte-level against the real app: the client correctly writes 1002h on reattach and Ghostty forwards SGR clicks, across single, repeated, and 10-client concurrent reattach storms.
…cus-in and resize Round-5 dogfood: btop in a daemon-backed bridge tab renders after Keep-quit + reopen but every click and drag is dead, while a freshly created btop tab has working mouse. Byte-level ground truth from the real app (tag tuimt5, spike build, tap wrapper on the attach binary) cleared the client: on reattach it writes 1002h/1006h/1015h to the host within ~4ms of attach, and Ghostty forwards SGR clicks to it. That holds across single, repeated, and 10-client concurrent reattach storms matching the user's multi-terminal reopen. The per-frame capture sync and the round-4 canonical-state read are both correct. The only remaining way the tab can end up dead is a host-side loss the client cannot observe: the Ghostty surface silently drops the mouse-tracking modes after the client asserted them (a reset written into the surface by app-side session restore, or the host re-initializing on relaunch). The sync is edge-triggered on host_mouse_capture_applied, so the client believes capture is still applied and never re-emits, and btop never toggles modes to force a change. Capture is latched off with no client-visible cause. Three tests pin the missing re-assert contract. Two fail today: a focus-in (Ghostty sends \e[I on every reopen, observed in the tap) and a resize (the reopened surface is resized to the new window) must each reset the applied bookkeeping so the next frame re-derives and re-emits the canonical host state. One passes today: a full-TUI client must not have its bookkeeping disturbed by focus-in. The follow-up commit adds the re-assert.
…size A scoped attach client mirrors the inner terminal's input modes onto the host, but the host can silently drop them: app-side session restore can write a reset into the Ghostty surface after the client's capture-on burst, or the host can re-initialize the surface on relaunch. The per-frame capture sync is edge-triggered on host_mouse_capture_applied, so once the client has applied capture it never re-emits, and a dropped mode stays dropped until the inner application toggles modes. btop never does, so a reattached bridge tab renders but every click and drag is dead until the tab is recreated. reassert_scoped_host_terminal_state clears the applied host-capture (and outer-cursor) bookkeeping so the next frame re-derives the canonical inner state and re-emits it. It runs on the two host-visible signals that the host may have re-initialized: focus-in (Ghostty sends a focus report on every window re-activation and app reopen, observed byte-level in the real path) and resize (the reattached surface is resized to the new window geometry). Scoped clients only; a full TUI re-emits through its own lifecycle. This is client-only and belt-and-braces: byte-level measurement of the real app showed the client already asserts 1002h correctly on reattach and Ghostty forwards SGR clicks, so the only remaining failure mode is a host-side reset the client cannot observe. The re-assert closes that last latch. The durable fix is the native CMTH renderer, which removes the nested-PTY host mode-mirroring entirely.
…ding btop enables 1002h, 1015h, 1006h in that order; xterm semantics make the last-set extended-coordinate mode (SGR) the active encoding, and btop parses only SGR responses. The daemon replay serializes the mode flags as a numeric dump (1002, 1006, 1015), so a mirror rebuilt from replay ends with urxvt (1015) active and the scoped attach client re-encodes forwarded clicks as urxvt, which btop ignores: fresh attach clicks work, every reattach goes mouse-dead. Red tests (fail today): - ghostty-vt: replay round-trip must keep SGR active when SGR was set last (press, release, and wheel); the urxvt-last mirror case passes today and pins the opposite ordering. - remote surface: the daemon's real theme-portable attach replay must keep forwarded clicks SGR-encoded, and a legacy numeric flag-dump replay from an old daemon must prefer SGR over urxvt when both are flagged.
The extended-coordinate DEC modes (1005/1006/1015/1016) are one last-set-wins selector, but the replay formatter dumps them as numeric flags, so a mirror rebuilt from daemon replay ended with urxvt (1015) active whenever the app had also enabled SGR (1006) earlier in numeric order but later in time. btop enables 1002h,1015h,1006h and parses only SGR; after every reattach the scoped attach client re-encoded forwarded clicks as urxvt and they vanished. Three layers, all keyed on Ghostty's own parsed state: - ghostty-vt now tracks the ACTIVE wire format per terminal (MouseWireFormat) by probing Ghostty's mouse encoder whenever the mouse-mode revision refreshes, and exposes it on TerminalPointerSemanticSnapshot. The probe reads the terminal's real last-set-wins format; it never guesses from the boolean flags. - replay serialization (all daemon attach/resize/checkpoint paths) appends a correction suffix whenever the numeric flag dump would activate the wrong format: reset every non-active format flag, then re-assert the active selector last. Replays now carry only the active selector, reproducing the semantic instead of the flag dump. - the attach client's mirror normalizes replays from daemons that predate the suffix: when a replay leaves both 1006 and 1015 flagged, the dump order proves 1015 stole the active slot, so the mirror re-asserts SGR (every known app that sets both prefers SGR and btop parses only SGR). Fixed daemons never leave both flagged, so a deliberate urxvt-last choice survives (pinned by test). Press, release, wheel, and motion all encode through encoders synced from the same terminal state, so every forwarded-event path inherits the correct encoding. Turns the round-6 red tests green; adds guards for last-set-wins tracking, the suffix no-op on single-format apps, and the deliberate-urxvt reattach.
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings (the full hosted merge gate) rejects the round-5 debugging commits: cmux-tui-pty-tap's CSI scanner had two identical if branches (if_same_then_else) and the full-TUI focus-reassert test cloned a Mux it never used again (redundant_clone). Collapse the branches and drop the clone; no behavior change.
… encoding TuiBridgeReattachMouseUITests drives the round-6 dogfood loop in hosted CI: launch the app with the tuiBackend flag pointing at a freshly built cmux-tui, open a daemon-backed tab, run a fixture that enables mouse tracking in btop's order (1002h, 1015h, 1006h; SGR last) and execs cat -v, click (real window-server event) and assert the forwarded bytes echo as SGR (^[[<0;...), quit through the Keep Sessions dialog, relaunch, click the reattached terminal, and assert the click still arrives as SGR and never urxvt (^[[32;). Cleanup quits through Stop Sessions. The reattach assertion fails on this branch's cmux-tui (the daemon serializes mouse-mode flags as a numeric dump, so the reattached client re-encodes clicks as urxvt); it goes green with the encoding fix on PR #10428. test-e2e.yml gains a conditional step that builds cmux-tui when the filter targets TuiBridge tests; the test resolves the binary via GITHUB_WORKSPACE (or CMUX_UI_TEST_TUI_BINARY) and skips when absent.
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Brings PR 10428's cmux-tui fix (replay preserves the last-set extended mouse encoding; client SGR fallback against old daemons) into the spike tree so TuiBridgeReattachMouseUITests can run green in hosted CI. Once 10428 lands on main these commits drop out of this PR's diff.
…ER_ env xcodebuild does not forward its plain environment into the UI-test runner process, so TuiBridgeReattachMouseUITests resolved no binary candidates and skipped (run 32372815026). Only TEST_RUNNER_-prefixed variables cross that boundary; export the built binary's path as TEST_RUNNER_CMUX_UI_TEST_TUI_BINARY when it exists.
Run 32374891250 failed at app.launch() with 'Failed to activate application ... (current state: Running Background)', the known transient on headless CI sessions that RemoteTmuxSizingUITests already absorbs. This test genuinely needs the foreground (real clicks, the quit dialog), so absorb the launch-time activation failure non-strictly and retry activate() for up to 45s before asserting foreground.
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New-surface provisioning builds the attach command without a config path, so only reattach commands carry the env CMUX_TUI_CONFIG=... prefix. A brand-new tab's attach client therefore parses the user's interactive ~/.config/cmux/cmux-tui.json; with a machine_provider block there the client enters provider mode and dies at spawn with "machine provider mode cannot be combined with attach, --session". This test pins the isolation prefix on the configless (new-surface) attachCommand shape and fails before the fix.
Two spawn-boundary gaps in the tui-attach bridge:
1. attachCommand only prefixed env CMUX_TUI_CONFIG=<bridge config> when
a configPath was passed, and only the reattach call site passed one.
Brand-new tabs therefore parsed the user's interactive
~/.config/cmux/cmux-tui.json; with a machine_provider block there the
attach client enters provider mode and dies at spawn ("machine
provider mode cannot be combined with attach, --session"). configPath
is now a required parameter (the configless overload is gone, so the
type system pins the regression) and the prefix is unconditional.
cmux-tui treats an EMPTY CMUX_TUI_CONFIG as unset, so the policy
asserts non-empty.
2. The app-spawned daemon started without --term, so its child shells
inherited the app's TERM instead of the xterm-ghostty terminfo the
rendering surfaces speak. server start now runs through
TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.daemonStartArguments, which appends
--term xterm-ghostty (a start option, positioned after server start).
CLI subprocesses already ran with CMUX_TUI_CONFIG via bridgeEnvironment;
daemon spawn keeps that too, so all three boundaries (surface command,
daemon spawn, CLI calls) are now isolated without depending on any
wrapper script on the host.
The daemon spawn and every CLI call already ran with CMUX_TUI_CONFIG pointing at the app-managed config via bridgeEnvironment; expose that computed environment internally and pin it (non-empty, equal to bridgeConfigPath) so a regression at the env boundary cannot land silently.
# Conflicts: # Sources/QuitConfirmationAlertPresenter.swift # Sources/Workspace.swift # cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/app.rs # cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/session/cursor_provenance.rs # cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/session/remote.rs # cmux-tui/crates/ghostty-vt/src/terminal.rs
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Closing this obsolete Tier-A spike. Its own description marks it as a deletable bridge, and the branch is conflicting. The surviving implementation work is tracked in the descendant cloud/manual-IO stack #11062, while the local daemon pieces need a fresh, selective rebase. No code from this conflicting spike is being merged. |
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Superseded by the current selective relay stack; see the preceding evidence comment. |
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Tier-A spike from the cmux-tui GUI-frontend migration plan: prove that a cmux DEV terminal can survive quitting the app by backing it with a cmux-tui daemon terminal. This is a deletable bridge, not a feature. The agreed shipped data path is the native CMTH renderer inside GhosttyKit; this PR exists only to validate daemon supervision, reattach, and exit semantics ahead of that work. Deletion criterion is recorded in the migration working doc (tier-A spike section).
What it does
Behind
terminal.beta.tuiBackend.enabled(off by default, Settings > Beta Features > "cmux-tui Terminal Backend"):workspace createagainst a cmux-tui daemon session namedcmux-<tag>(spawningserver start --session cmux-<tag> --headlessif the socket under$TMPDIR/cmux-tui-<uid>/is absent), then the Ghostty surface command becomes<cmux-tui-bin> attach --session cmux-<tag> --terminal <id>instead of the shell.terminal_idpersists inSessionTerminalPanelSnapshot.tuiTerminalID. On session restore, if the daemon socket is alive andterminal liststill has that id, the surface reattaches; any missing link falls back to today's fresh spawn (which, with the flag on, provisions a new daemon terminal).TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.shouldProvisionNewTerminal/restoreDecisionwhich return the legacy path immediately.Key files:
Sources/TuiTerminalAttachPolicy.swift- pure decision logic (unit-tested)Sources/TuiTerminalAttachBridge.swift- daemon ensure + CLI calls (spike-only I/O)Sources/Workspace.swift- creation hook innewTerminalSurfaceLocal, snapshot capture, restore reattachSources/SessionPersistence.swift- new optionaltuiTerminalIDsnapshot field (legacy snapshots decode unchanged)Spike-only shortcuts (deliberate, documented)
terminal.beta.tuiBackend.binaryPath) defaulting to/Users/lawrence/.local/bin/cmux-tui-npm. There is no bundled cmux-tui artifact yet; embedding one is build item 1 in the migration plan.terminal createis build item 4).splitPaneWithNewTerminaland the split creation function), dock terminals, SSH/remote workspaces, and agent-command terminals keep today's local spawn path. Closing a daemon-backed tab leaves the daemon terminal running (orphan). Working directory is not propagated to the daemon shell (workspace createhas no cwd flag in the pinned binary). All acceptable for a dev-flag spike.Preflight evidence (tag
tuispk)All driven headlessly through the tagged debug socket (
/tmp/cmux-debug-tuispk.sock), never the user's cmux; daemon sessioncmux-tuispk, untouched pre-existing sessions (hq,cloud-demo,demo-14).cmux DEV tuispkwithterminal.beta.tuiBackend.enabled = true(temporarydefaults writeon the tagged bundle id, which is the flag's real settings store).tab-action --action new-terminal-rightcreated a new tab; debug log showstuiAttachSpike.daemon.start session=cmux-tuispkthenprovision.ok terminal=term_ee51ed...(daemon cold start + provision took ~240ms). Daemon-sideterminal listshowed the terminal resized to the surface's 108x45, proving the attach client owns the PTY.echo spike-alive && sleep 999+ Enter through the socket. GUIread-screenof the surface showed the prompt line andspike-alive; daemonscreen readshowed the same. Recordedsleeppid 61184.pkillthe tagged binary; the 8s autosave had already persistedtuiTerminalIDintosession-com.cmuxterm.app.debug.tuispk.json, verified by parsing the file). Daemon pid andsleeppid survived the app exit.tuiAttachSpike.restore.decision terminal=term_ee51ed... alive=true decision=reattach.read-screenof the restored surface (same tab position) showed the original scrollback (echo spike-alive && sleep 999/spike-alive) andpsconfirmed the samesleeppid 61184 still running, started before the quit.Round 2 on the pushed HEAD (includes the scrollback-replay fix): new tab ->
echo spike-round2 && sleep 888(pid 90288) -> autosave persistedterm_19e663...-> app killed -> pid 90288 confirmed alive -> relaunch ->restore.decision ... decision=reattachfor all four persisted terminals ->read-screenshowedspike-round2scrollback in the same tab position with no duplicated scrollback, and bothsleep 888(pid 90288) and round-1'ssleep 999(pid 61184) still running.Every app instance I launched was killed afterward. The
cmux-tuispkdaemon session is deliberately left running so the deeplinked build reattaches to the demo terminals on first launch;cmux-tui-npm server stop --session cmux-tuispkremoves it.Tests
cmuxTests/TuiTerminalAttachSpikeTests.swift: reattach-vs-fresh-spawn decision matrix, provisioning gate, session naming, attach-command quoting, CLI JSON parsing, andSessionTerminalPanelSnapshotround trip including legacy decode. Pure unit tests; they run in CI (not run locally per the local-test ban).Localization audit: the new Settings strings (
settings.betaFeatures.tuiTerminalBackend*) are inResources/Localizable.xcstringswith en and ja translations; the curated settings-search entry is registered. No other user-facing strings added.Quit dialog (round 3)
With the flag on and the daemon owning at least one live terminal, every quit path (
applicationShouldTerminate, plus the Cmd+Q shortcut warning path, which defers to it) asks keep-vs-stop: "Keep Sessions and Quit" (default), "Stop Sessions and Quit", "Cancel". The dialog replaces the generic quit warning, never stacks on it. Stop closes every daemon terminal first and then runsserver stop, becauseserver stopalone leaves PTY hosts adoptable by a later daemon; the close-then-stop sequence was verified empirically on a throwaway session (terminal listempty, no__terminal-hostprocesses left). The stop runs as owned async work behindterminateLater. Presenting before terminate on the shortcut path also fixes a pre-existing wedge: socket-drivensimulate_shortcut cmd+qcalledNSApp.terminateinside a main-queue drain and deadlocked_shouldTerminate, whose terminate reply is itself a main-queue task.Known bridge gap (found today, not fixed this round): attach clients do not reconnect when the daemon restarts underneath a running app; the surfaces show dead attach processes until a full app relaunch, which then reattaches normally. Tracked for the bridge-deletion milestone rather than patched in the spike.
Close semantics (round 4)
Two user-visible cuts fixed on daemon-backed tabs:
panelNeedsConfirmClosepath (tab close, pane close, workspace close, ghostty runtime close requests) now consults the DAEMON terminal's real process state viaterminal <id> process show --json: prompt when the shell has a child process or when the root process is not a shell at all, skip the prompt for an idle shell. If the daemon cannot be queried (dead socket, missing binary, CLI error, malformed payload) the decision is "unknown" and the existing prompting behavior stands, so the daemon path can never silently skip a confirmation it cannot justify. Decisions are cached 2s per terminal so one close gesture costs one bounded CLI call.terminal <id> close(fire-and-forget off the main actor) from the shared panel-discard path, fixing the known "close orphans the daemon terminal" cut. Two deliberate exceptions, decided by a pure policy function: detach transfers (moving the tab to another workspace/window) carrytuiTerminalIDinsideDetachedSurfaceTransferso the destination keeps daemon-aware close behavior and closes the terminal when the tab finally closes; and app termination never closes terminals from panel teardown, because quit owns keep-vs-stop through its round-3 dialog. Detach-without-close therefore stays available only through quit (Keep Sessions).Decision logic lives in
TuiTerminalAttachPolicyas pure functions (closeConfirmationDecision(fromProcessShowJSON:),processShowArguments,terminalCloseArguments,shouldCloseDaemonTerminalOnPanelDiscard) with unit tests covering the idle/child/non-shell/login-shell/malformed-payload matrix and the discard truth table. No new user-facing strings; the existing localizeddialog.closeTab.*confirmation is reused, so no xcstrings changes were needed.Remaining cuts, stated not hidden: closing the daemon terminal leaves its empty daemon-side workspace behind (
workspace closedoes not end processes; cleanup needs a terminal-to-workspace round trip; daemon-side junk only, invisible to the GUI). A daemon-backed tab moved into the Dock loses the mapping (docks have notuiTerminalIDsByPanelId), reverting that one tab to pre-fix behavior.respawnTerminalSurfaceon a daemon-backed tab replaces it with a plain local shell and orphans the daemon terminal (pre-existing).This round also commits an env(1) fix found uncommitted in the spike worktree: ghostty wraps surface commands in
bash -c "exec -l <cmd>", where a leadingCMUX_TUI_CONFIG=...prefix parses as the program name and reattach fails to launch; the attach command now usesenv CMUX_TUI_CONFIG=... <bin> attach ..., with the quoting test updated to the new shape.Preflight evidence (round 4, tag
tuispk, PR head build)Driven through the tagged debug socket only; the user's two live workspaces and all 10 daemon terminals were left untouched (verified identical terminal-id set before and after).
tui-close-preflight,new-surface --type terminalprovisionedterm_7f3bf397...(provision.okbreadcrumb), daemonprocess showreportedchildren: [].debug.shortcut.simulate cmd+won the focused tab closed it with NO dialog (screenshot captured), breadcrumbscloseConfirm.decision ... required=0thensurfaceClose.done ... ok=1, and the terminal disappeared from daemonterminal list.term_c058ca34...), ransleep 500(child pid visible inprocess show), cmd+w showed the "Close tab?" dialog (screenshot captured; breadcrumbrequired=1); Escape canceled and the tab survived.close-surfaceis non-interactive BY DESIGN (force: true, "Socket API must be non-interactive"), so it bypasses the GUI confirmation; the policy decision for this tab was verified through the cmd+w dialog and therequired=1breadcrumb instead. The socket close still went through the shared discard path:surfaceClose.done ok=1, the daemon terminal leftterminal list, and thesleep 500process ended.restore.decision ... decision=reattachfor all three persisted terminals).CI on this head (run 32346908229):
TuiTerminalAttachSpikeTestspassed (suite log: "passed after 44.316 seconds", shard 4). The dispatch run itself is red with the same broad pre-existing unit-failure set as the previous head's run (32328403367): ~140 failing tests across AppDelegateIssue2907Routing/Browser lifecycle/CLINotify integration suites, identical by name modulo a handful of known-flaky SSH/hook-install tests, none touching this round's files. That set predates this commit and is branch-level drift, not introduced here.Need help on this PR? Tag
@codesmith-botwith what you need. Autofix is disabled.Summary by cubic
Adds a beta
cmux-tuidaemon terminal backend so new plain local main-grid terminals survive app quit and reattach on relaunch. Previously these terminals exited with the app; with the flag on, a daemon terminal backs each new tab, preserving shell, scrollback, input, mouse, and cursor state across quit and reattach.Behavior
terminalID, skips scrollback replay, reasserts host mouse capture on focus-in and resize, and preserves the last-set extended mouse encoding (SGR, with an SGR-preferring fallback for old daemons).CMUX_TUI_CONFIG, never the user's config.Rollout and tests
terminal.beta.tuiBackend.enabled(default off) and pointterminal.beta.tuiBackend.binaryPathat acmux-tuibinary.TuiBridgeReattachMouseUITestsdrives the full Keep-quit→relaunch→click loop in CI; CI conditionally buildscmux-tuiand exportsTEST_RUNNER_CMUX_UI_TEST_TUI_BINARY.Written for commit 71830ef. Summary will update on new commits.
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New Features
Bug Fixes
Tests
Round 6: TuiBridgeReattachMouseUITests (CI closure of the quit→relaunch→click loop)
103d77ab7fadds an XCUITest that drives the whole round-6 dogfood loop in hostedtest-e2e.yml: launch the tagged app with the bridge flag pointing at a CI-built cmux-tui, open a daemon-backed tab, run a fixture that enables mouse tracking in btop's order (1002h,1015h,1006h, SGR last) and execscat -v, click with a real window-server event and assert the forwarded bytes echo as SGR (^[[<0;), quit through the Keep Sessions and Quit dialog (the app is frontmost under XCUITest, so the dialog holds), relaunch, click the reattached terminal, and assert the click still arrives as SGR and never urxvt (^[[32;). Cleanup quits through Stop Sessions and Quit, which also stops the per-run daemon session.test-e2e.ymlgains a conditional step that builds cmux-tui when the filter targetsTuiBridge*; the test resolves the binary viaGITHUB_WORKSPACE(orCMUX_UI_TEST_TUI_BINARY) and skips when absent.Runs: RED — the test against this branch's pre-fix cmux-tui (
103d77ab7f) fails at the reattach assertion ("Timed out waiting for reattach click forwarded as SGR, not urxvt", with the fresh-attach SGR click visible on the captured screen), i.e. the user's bug reproduced end-to-end in CI: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/32374888567. GREEN — with #10428 cmux-tui merged into this branch (20e8436fa6, plusbdfa13d327passing the built binary to the UI-test runner viaTEST_RUNNER_env, and624b82d85fabsorbing the headless-CI launch-activation flake that failed run 32374891250 before the test body started): https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/32377571125.Ordering: land 10428 first; its commits then drop out of this PR's diff. The merge exists only so CI could prove green here.