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fix(ios): present the todo surface instead of a black screen in terminal-less workspaces - #10464

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Opening a workspace whose only Mac pane is a todo panel showed a solid black screen on iOS. The detail view only mounts a non-terminal Mac surface after an explicit picker selection; with no selection it derives the terminal surface, and a workspace with zero terminals renders the bare terminal background.

selectedMacSurface(id:) now falls back to the first non-terminal surface when the workspace has no terminals, so the native todo checklist (mobile.todo.v1) mounts by default, and other kinds get their per-kind fallback card instead of a void. The terminal picker resolves its checkmark through the same lookup, so the auto-presented surface shows as selected. Commits 1+2 are red/green: failing regression tests first, then the fix.

Phone dogfood on the first build surfaced two more failures, fixed in the third commit:

  1. Every checklist mutation alerted "Couldn't Update Checklist". The Mac advertises todo.v1, surface.focus.v1, and panel.artifact.v1 and has the handlers, but the mobile v2 method switch never routed mobile.todo.*, mobile.status.*, mobile.surface.focus, or mobile.panel.artifact.*, so every call returned method_not_found and the phone rolled back its optimistic change. The routes are now wired.

  2. While the connection recovered, the checklist swapped to the "rendered by cmux on your Mac" fallback card because the renderer gated on the per-connection capability set, which empties during recovery. The synced snapshot now keeps rendering (like the terminal's last frame) with the same reconnect status pill the terminal shows, and the capability only disables mutating controls while the Mac can't take mutations.

swift test in CmuxMobileShellModel passes (307 tests). Verified on an isolated simulator: the todo-only workspace renders the native checklist by default (previously solid black).

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  • New Features

    • Added support for additional mobile actions, including todo updates, status changes, surface focus, and panel interactions.
    • Added reconnect controls and connection-status indicators while preserving Mac surface content during recovery.
    • Workspaces now select a suitable non-terminal surface automatically when no valid selection exists.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Todo checklists remain visible and readable when editing is unavailable.
    • Todo surfaces with synced content now render correctly even when capabilities are temporarily unavailable.
    • Terminal surfaces are excluded from automatic Mac surface selection.

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…ault

A workspace whose only Mac pane is a todo panel has no terminal to
stream, and with no explicit picker selection the detail view renders a
bare terminal background (solid black). These tests pin the expected
fallback: with zero terminals, selectedMacSurface(id: nil) returns the
first non-terminal surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nal-less workspaces

A workspace whose only Mac pane is a todo panel (or any non-terminal
surface) has no terminal to stream. With no explicit picker selection
the detail view derived .terminal, and detailContent() rendered the
bare terminal background: a solid black screen.

selectedMacSurface(id:) now falls back to the first non-terminal
surface when the workspace has no terminals, so the native todo
checklist (or the per-kind fallback card) mounts by default. The
terminal picker resolves its checkmark through the same lookup, so the
auto-presented surface shows as selected. Workspaces with terminals
keep their existing terminal-first behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The workspace model now resolves a default non-terminal surface when no terminal exists. Surface content remains visible during connection recovery. Todo mutations are gated by capability state, and mobile RPC dispatch supports additional surface operations.

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Mobile surface recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and display fallback Mac surfaces
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Sources/CmuxMobileShellModel/MobileWorkspacePreview.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Tests/CmuxMobileShellModelTests/MobileWorkspacePreviewDefaultSurfaceTests.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView.swift
selectedMacSurface falls back to the first non-terminal surface for terminal-free workspaces. Tests cover selection rules. The picker uses the resolved surface ID, and reconnect support is available to the surface overlay.
Preserve surfaces during connection recovery
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Sources/CmuxMobileShellModel/MacSurfaceRenderer.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Tests/CmuxMobileShellModelTests/MacSurfaceRendererTests.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView+Surfaces.swift
Todo snapshots render when present even if Todo capability is unavailable. Mac surfaces show connection status and reconnect support.
Gate Todo mutations at the view layer
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/TodoSurfaceView.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView+Surfaces.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/MacSurfaceGalleryPreviewView.swift
TodoSurfaceView disables status changes, row actions, item creation, and mutation dispatch when mutations are unavailable. The synced checklist remains visible. The gallery enables mutations explicitly.
Dispatch mobile surface operations
Sources/TerminalController.swift
mobileHostHandleRPC now dispatches Todo, status, surface-focus, and panel-artifact methods. Panel-artifact requests forward execution context to the asynchronous handler.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2bd52

The PR fixes default todo-surface presentation and reconnect/update behavior, with targeted regression coverage and passing tests; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceDetailView
  participant MobileWorkspacePreview
  participant MacSurfaceRenderer
  participant TodoSurfaceView
  participant TerminalController

  WorkspaceDetailView->>MobileWorkspacePreview: Resolve selected Mac surface
  MobileWorkspacePreview-->>WorkspaceDetailView: Return explicit or default non-terminal surface
  WorkspaceDetailView->>MacSurfaceRenderer: Render synced surface snapshot
  MacSurfaceRenderer-->>WorkspaceDetailView: Return Todo snapshot during recovery
  WorkspaceDetailView->>TodoSurfaceView: Pass allowsMutations from Todo capability
  TodoSurfaceView->>TerminalController: Dispatch allowed Todo mutation
  TerminalController-->>TodoSurfaceView: Handle mobile Todo RPC
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The PR fixes terminal-less iOS workspaces by selecting an available non-terminal Mac surface and keeps synced todo content visible while reconnecting.

  • Falls back from missing or stale surface selections to the first non-terminal surface when no terminal exists.
  • Keeps todo snapshots rendered during recovery while disabling mutations.
  • Routes todo, status, surface-focus, and panel-artifact mobile RPC methods through the Mac host dispatcher.
  • Reuses the resolved surface identity for presentation and picker state.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains; the previously reported stale-selection path now falls back to an existing non-terminal surface, and all relevant presentation and picker paths share that resolution.

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Filename Overview
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Sources/CmuxMobileShellModel/MobileWorkspacePreview.swift Resolves absent and stale Mac-surface selections to the first non-terminal surface only when the workspace has no terminals, fixing the previously reported black-screen path.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellModel/Sources/CmuxMobileShellModel/MacSurfaceRenderer.swift Decouples rendering a synced todo snapshot from the transient todo mutation capability.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/TodoSurfaceView.swift Keeps todo content readable while consistently disabling all mutation entry points when mutations are unavailable.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView+Surfaces.swift Adds recovery status chrome to Mac surfaces and passes mutation availability into the todo renderer.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView.swift Uses the resolved Mac-surface identity for the picker checkmark so automatic fallback presentation and picker state agree.
Sources/TerminalController.swift Adds the missing mobile host dispatch routes for todo, status, surface focus, and panel artifact operations.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  Snapshot["Workspace snapshot"] --> Resolve["Resolve selected Mac surface"]
  Resolve -->|"Valid explicit selection"| Surface["Present selected surface"]
  Resolve -->|"Missing/stale selection and no terminals"| Fallback["Choose first non-terminal surface"]
  Resolve -->|"Terminals available"| Terminal["Present terminal"]
  Fallback --> Renderer["Resolve native renderer"]
  Renderer --> Todo["Render synced todo snapshot"]
  Todo --> Capability{"Todo mutation capability?"}
  Capability -->|Yes| Enabled["Enable mutation controls"]
  Capability -->|"No / reconnecting"| Disabled["Keep snapshot visible; disable mutations"]
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guard let id else { return defaultMacSurface }
return surfaces.first { $0.id == id && !$0.kind.isTerminal }

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P1 Stale selection bypasses fallback

When a selected non-terminal surface disappears during a same-workspace update, the retained non-nil ID bypasses defaultMacSurface and resolves to nil, causing a terminal-less workspace to render the black terminal background and lose its picker checkmark.

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guard let id else { return defaultMacSurface }
return surfaces.first { $0.id == id && !$0.kind.isTerminal }
guard let id else { return defaultMacSurface }
return surfaces.first { $0.id == id && !$0.kind.isTerminal } ?? defaultMacSurface

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… the checklist during reconnect

Dogfood on the phone surfaced two failures in the todo surface:

1. Every checklist mutation showed "Couldn't Update Checklist". The Mac
   advertises todo.v1, surface.focus.v1, and panel.artifact.v1, and the
   handlers (v2MobileTodoDispatch, v2MobileSurfaceFocus,
   v2MobilePanelArtifactDispatch) exist, but the mobile v2 method switch
   never routed mobile.todo.*, mobile.status.*, mobile.surface.focus, or
   mobile.panel.artifact.*, so every call died with method_not_found and
   the phone rolled back its optimistic change. Wire the four routes.

2. While the connection recovered, the checklist swapped to the
   "rendered by cmux on your Mac" card because the capability set
   empties during recovery and the renderer gated on it. Render the
   synced snapshot whenever it exists (like the terminal's last frame),
   overlay the same reconnect status pill the terminal uses, and use the
   capability only to disable mutating controls while the Mac can't take
   mutations.

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…utations; ordering tests

A retained selection whose surface closed on the Mac resolved to nil and
bypassed the terminal-less fallback, re-rendering the black background
(Greptile P1). TodoSurfaceView's allowsMutations loses its default so no
call site silently re-enables mutations during reconnect (CodeRabbit),
and the fallback tests now pin first-in-spatial-order with two
non-terminal surfaces present.

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