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Fixes #10482.

Root cause

The dogfood report bundled four symptoms (94% CPU, repeated "Reconnecting", frozen scrolling, the files-changed popup re-presenting, eventual kick-out). Tracing the scene-phase → reconnect path in Packages/iOS showed the connection layer is already single-flight and bounded (the MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner, the secondary control pool at ≤5 sessions, exponential backoff on the automatic/secondary retries). The hypothesized "multiplication of connection cycles" was not the mechanism, so this does not over-fit to it.

The actual driver is a delay-free redial loop on one edge:

  1. On foreground, resumeForegroundRefresh() → healthy probe → resyncTerminalOutput(restartEventStream: true) starts a terminal event-stream listener.
  2. If that stream ends — or its mobile.events.subscribe enable handshake is rejected — before delivering any event, handleTerminalEventStreamEnded / beginTerminalEventSubscriptionStart call recoverDeadConnection(.eventStreamEnded / .subscriptionStartFailed).
  3. recoverDeadConnection redials, the redial succeeds, startTerminalRefreshPolling restarts the same failing stream, and it ends barren again → loop at scheduler speed.

That edge had no backoff: .eventStreamEnded/.subscriptionStartFailed hit a no-op break in recoverMobileConnection, and recoverDeadConnection bypasses the automatic backoff entirely (which only applies to disconnected redials carrying a Retry-After). Each iteration flips connectionState/macConnectionStatus/isRecoveringConnection/workspaces — all @Observable and read by the workspace sidebar — so the SwiftUI shell rebuilt many times per second (the os_log localization-key storm), pinning the main thread (which is why touch scrolling dies) and full-replaying terminal scrollback each cycle (the ~20MB cellular bursts). The render-grid liveness watchdog had this exact class of bug before and was fixed with a 2-strike + probe gate; this sibling edge lacked the same guard.

The fixes (commit 2)

  1. Rate-limit the dead-stream redial edge — new MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff. A stream that ended barren recovers immediately the first time (a real blip should heal fast), then backs off exponentially (1s → 30s) on the control-plane clock; a delivered event or a fresh foreground return clears the streak. A stream that proved itself alive still recovers immediately. The status pill shows "Reconnecting" once during the wait instead of flipping every cycle.
  2. Preserve the files-changed chips across a transient reconnect — the disconnect edge now cancels in-flight summary fetches but keeps the last-known chips + reuse-window cache instead of wiping them to zero. prune/evict still drop chips for workspaces that actually leave the list, and the not-capable path still clears them.
  3. Resume the terminal instead of re-hydrating full scrollback on reconnect — a connection swap clears each surface's delivery cursor, which forced the next screen-anchored replay to re-download the whole local scrollback. Surfaces whose on-screen mirror survived the swap now request a history-preserving repaint (max_scrollback_rows = 0); a genuinely rebuilt-blank surface still hydrates.

Acceptance criteria

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Backgrounding/returning resumes with at most ONE visible reconnect; no full replay when valid Fix 1 (single visible "Reconnecting" during backoff) + Fix 3 (resume, not re-hydrate) reconnectWithLiveMirrorResumesWithoutFullScrollbackReplay
No reconnect storm: retry uses backoff; foreground cancels in-flight retry before starting new (single-flight) Fix 1 (exp backoff; foreground reset + background cancel) foregroundDeadEventStreamRedialLoopIsRateLimited
Terminal scrolling works immediately after reconnect; viewport/scroll state survives Fix 1 (main thread no longer pinned) + reported viewport survives the reset deadStreamStormDoesNotRepeatedlyReplayAndKeepsViewport
Files-changed popup only presents when content changes, never as a reconnect side effect Fix 2 (chips preserved; no N→0→N churn) workspaceChangesChipsSurviveTransientReconnect
No sustained CPU spin; scene-phase flap does not multiply active connection cycles Fix 1 (the loop parks on backoff) foregroundDeadEventStreamRedialLoopIsRateLimited
Cellular data per foreground transition bounded; no multi-MB replays on an idle workspace Fix 3 (max_scrollback_rows = 0 on reconnect) + Fix 1 (no repeated replays) reconnectWithLiveMirrorResumesWithoutFullScrollbackReplay

Test structure (two commits, per repo policy)

  • Commit 1 adds the four store-level regression tests (RED on current main), plus the two test-support hooks they need (LivenessHostRouter.failNextSubscribeRequests, capturing max_scrollback_rows on recorded replay requests). Verified each fails on main for the right reason (backoff never engages; chip wiped to 0; reconnect replay re-hydrates 4000 rows).
  • Commit 2 adds the fixes; all four now pass.

Local validation

swift test for the CmuxMobileShell package: the four new tests pass, and the full MobileShellForegroundResumeTests / MobileShellForegroundConnectionRecoveryTests suite (the closest neighbours to fix 1 — including the coalescing / single-flight probe tests) passes with the fixes.

A handful of pre-existing terminal-liveness / input-ack / pool tests that rely on real-time Task scheduling flake on my local machine under heavy load (concurrent agents, load avg ~28); I verified they fail identically on clean main (by stashing the fix), so they are not regressions from this change. CI on the dedicated builders is the authority for the full suite.

Localization

No new user-facing strings — fix 1 reuses the existing .reconnecting status; nothing else touches UI copy. No Localizable.xcstrings or web message-catalog changes required.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes #10482: previously, a terminal event stream that ended before delivering an event redialed immediately at scheduler speed; it now uses bounded exponential backoff. This prevents the foreground reconnect storm from pinning the main thread and repeatedly downloading scrollback while preserving terminal and workspace-change state across transient reconnects.

Reconnect behavior

  • The first barren stream retries immediately; later failures back off for 1–30 seconds and coalesce into one retry.
  • Delivered events and fresh foreground or session boundaries reset the streak; backgrounding parks the pending redial and foreground replays it before the generic probe.
  • Files-changed chips, shown hints, and viewport geometry survive transient disconnects, while generation guards block stale summary responses.
  • Retained terminal mirrors request max_scrollback_rows=0 when producer and history metadata still match; changed producers and reused surface IDs receive full hydration.
  • Adds regression coverage for backoff, state retention, mirror freshness, surface reuse, viewport survival, and stale summary cancellation.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery from interrupted terminal connections with immediate and progressively delayed retries.
    • Preserved terminal views, scroll position, and workspace change indicators during temporary disconnects.
    • Resumed terminal output more smoothly after returning to the foreground.
    • Prevented stale workspace updates and invalid terminal content from appearing after reconnects.
    • Reduced unnecessary replay and hydration activity during connection recovery.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for reconnect storms, terminal mirror restoration, workspace indicators, and foreground/background transitions.

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Medium Risk
Touches main-actor connection recovery, terminal replay hydration, and observable shell state on a hot path; behavior is heavily regression-tested but mistakes could still cause missed resyncs or wrong scrollback after reconnect.

Overview
Fixes the foreground reconnect storm (#10482) when a terminal event subscription ends or is rejected before delivering any event. Those paths now go through recoverDeadTerminalEventStream with MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff (immediate first barren retry, then 1s→30s exponential backoff on the control-plane clock, coalesced on MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner). Delivered events, foreground resume, and session boundaries reset the streak; backgrounding cancels the pending timer and parks eventStreamEnded for replay before the generic healthy probe.

Transient reconnect UX no longer wipes workspace files-changed chips or re-arms the hint banner on every cycle: disconnect suspends summary fetches while preserving chips, clearRemoteConnectionContext can retain mirror/chip state during recovery, and WorkspaceChangesHintRefreshPolicy keeps an already-shown hint across brief unavailability.

Terminal output adds MobileTerminalMirrorState so a mounted mirror can survive a same-session swap and request max_scrollback_rows = 0 when producer/history still match; stale producers, surface-ID reuse, and capability resets still force full hydration. Regression tests cover backoff, chips, mirror resume, viewport survival, and stale summary cancellation.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds bounded recovery for barren terminal event streams, preserves workspace-change chips across transient disconnects, and retains mounted terminal mirrors across connection swaps. Replay freshness checks, stale-task guards, foreground lifecycle handling, and regression coverage are included.

Changes

iOS reconnect recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dead-stream redial backoff
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileSupport/..., Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ConnectionRecovery.swift
Barren terminal streams use immediate recovery once, then cancellable exponential backoff with generation and client checks. Streams that deliver events reset the backoff.
Terminal mirror retention and replay
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileTerminalMirrorState.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+TerminalMirrorLifecycle.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+TerminalOutputDelivery.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift
Mounted mirrors retain producer metadata across reconnects. Replay uses zero scrollback rows when metadata is fresh and retries with full hydration when freshness validation fails.
Reconnect state preservation
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+WorkspaceChangesPruning.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+WorkspaceChanges.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ReconnectRoutes.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ConnectionRecovery.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift
Foreground transitions reset or cancel dead-stream retries. Transient disconnects preserve workspace chips. Superseded workspace summary tasks cannot publish stale chips. Session and client replacement boundaries reset retained state.
Reconnect regression coverage
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/*, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Package.swift
Tests cover retry backoff, chip persistence, mirror reuse, hydration fallback, replay suppression, viewport preservation, and stale summary responses. Test support records replay parameters and scripts stream and summary failures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8c8c8

The reconnect changes are merge-ready after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TerminalEventStream
  participant MobileShellComposite
  participant MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner
  participant TerminalReplay
  TerminalEventStream->>MobileShellComposite: end with event-delivery status
  MobileShellComposite->>MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner: schedule guarded recovery
  MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner-->>MobileShellComposite: execute immediate or delayed redial
  MobileShellComposite->>TerminalReplay: request retained or hydrated replay
  TerminalReplay-->>MobileShellComposite: return render grid
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The diff adds MobileTerminalMirrorState under Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell. This type is pure Sendable state logic. It imports only CMUXMobileCore and Foundation, and… Move MobileTerminalMirrorState and its focused unit tests behind a small SwiftPM boundary. The smallest extraction is the existing CmuxMobileTerminalKit target, which already depends only on CMUXMobileCore: make `MobileTerminalMirrorS…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 73.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 64 functions across 14 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the iOS foreground reconnect storm as the primary change and references issue #10482.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and covers the root cause, fixes, acceptance criteria, tests, validation, and localization impact. It does not include the template checklist or demo video, but these omiss…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #10482 by adding barren-stream backoff, preserving workspace-change chips, retaining valid terminal mirrors, protecting viewport state, canceling pending retries, and adding …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The source changes, test-support changes, package dependency update, and regression tests directly support the reconnect-storm fixes and their validation. No unrelated code changes are evident.
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS — The production changes do not introduce a checked actor-isolation mistake. MobileShellComposite and MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner are explicitly @MainActor; new store accesses and recover…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, Task.sleep, delayed dispatch, main-queue sync, or manual lock. The only new timing call is try await clock.sleep(for: delay) in `MobileConnect…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only iOS mobile connection recovery, terminal mirror state, workspace-change handling, support backoff logic, and related tests. The diff has no browser automation comma…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The production Swift diff adds reconnect backoff, terminal-mirror state, and workspace-summary task guards. It adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex, agent hook/session store, transcript, trajec…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No unhandled cache substitution was introduced. The reconnect replay path uses the in-memory mirror state to request zero scrollback, but cold state falls back to hydration (?? true). The response i…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS — this check is not applicable. The complete PR diff changes only Swift sources/tests plus Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Package.swift. The Package.swift change only adds the `CmuxMobileSuppor…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff does not introduce a prohibited algorithm. New mirror-state work uses linear dictionary/set operations (MobileShellComposite+TerminalMirrorLifecycle.swift:8 and `MobileShel…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The production diff adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine, or completion-handler API. Its only new production Task is stored in `MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner.deadTerminalEventStreamRedialTask…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The diff adds no @concurrent or nonisolated async declaration, so it does not introduce an annotation mismatch. The new redial task is explicitly Task { @mainactor ... } and only sleeps be…
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The description is detailed and covers the root cause, fixes, acceptance criteria, tests, validation, and localization impact. It does not include the template checklist or demo video, but these omissions are non-critical because the required change and testing information is complete.

Full details: Linked Issues check

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The changes address issue #10482 by adding barren-stream backoff, preserving workspace-change chips, retaining valid terminal mirrors, protecting viewport state, canceling pending retries, and adding regression tests for the reported reconnect, CPU, scrolling, popup, and data-usage problems.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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Docstring coverage is 73.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 64 functions across 14 files. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

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PASS — The production changes do not introduce a checked actor-isolation mistake. MobileShellComposite and MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner are explicitly @MainActor; new store accesses and recovery callbacks run in Task { @mainactor ... } closures. The new MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff and MobileTerminalMirrorState types are value-type Sendable models, not shared mutable reference types. No new service protocol or unisolated UI-store access appears in the diff. Existing pure Sendable model conventions also use top-level structs without implicit MainActor isolation.

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

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The production diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, Task.sleep, delayed dispatch, main-queue sync, or manual lock. The only new timing call is try await clock.sleep(for: delay) in MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner. It uses an injected any Clock<Duration> inside a cancellable @MainActor task, with cancellation and generation checks, for the retry backoff. This matches the rule's required cancellation-aware scheduler or timer abstraction. The added pollUntil usage is test-only scaffolding, and the production polling loops and locks are not newly added.

Full details: Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main

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PASS: The pull request changes only iOS mobile connection recovery, terminal mirror state, workspace-change handling, support backoff logic, and related tests. The diff has no browser automation commands, WebKit/AppKit usage, socketWorkerMethods, processV2Command, or worker browser router changes. Therefore the custom check's browser socket routing and worker-lane failure conditions do not apply.

Full details: Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load

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PASS: The production Swift diff adds reconnect backoff, terminal-mirror state, and workspace-summary task guards. It adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex, agent hook/session store, transcript, trajectory, workstream/JSONL file, directory scan, per-record syscall, Data(contentsOf:), file read, or broad JSON parser. The only workspace JSON decoding remains the existing RPC response path and is not agent-history loading. No expensive synchronous agent-history load moves onto a @MainActor or interactive path.

Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness

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No unhandled cache substitution was introduced. The reconnect replay path uses the in-memory mirror state to request zero scrollback, but cold state falls back to hydration (?? true). The response is freshness-checked against producer epoch, history rows, and row-space revision, and missing metadata fails closed. Mirror metadata updates only after accepted frames, and mount, unmount, and session-boundary paths invalidate or remove it. Workspace chips remain transient, non-persisted UI hints, and summary task-generation guards prevent stale responses from publishing. The added lifecycle tests cover cold hydration, producer/history changes, and surface-ID reuse.

Full details: Cmux No Hacky Sleeps

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PASS — this check is not applicable. The complete PR diff changes only Swift sources/tests plus Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Package.swift. The Package.swift change only adds the CmuxMobileSupport test dependency. The new retry timing uses Swift Clock.sleep/Duration in Swift code, which the rule explicitly assigns to the Swift blocking-runtime check. No TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift runtime-script delay was introduced.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

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PASS: The production diff does not introduce a prohibited algorithm. New mirror-state work uses linear dictionary/set operations (MobileShellComposite+TerminalMirrorLifecycle.swift:8 and MobileShellComposite.swift around resetTerminalOutputTracking), with no nested scan or per-target rescan. Workspace summary batching and its existing sort/filter behavior are unchanged in algorithmic shape; the PR adds task-generation guards and cancellation only. The backoff and lifecycle state use constant-time operations. Tests and fixtures are not relevant to this production-code check.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

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The production diff adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine, or completion-handler API. Its only new production Task is stored in MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner.deadTerminalEventStreamRedialTask, runs on @MainActor, and is canceled on replacement, owner cancellation, background suspension, and teardown/session resets. The callback is a main-actor operation for this lifecycle-owned one-shot scheduler, not a completion-handler API for ordinary async work. The new workspace-summary path uses async/await with task-generation guards. The added test Task is test-only and allowed by the rule.

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

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PASS. The diff adds no @concurrent or nonisolated async declaration, so it does not introduce an annotation mismatch. The new redial task is explicitly Task { @mainactor ... } and only sleeps before invoking a main-actor recovery callback, which is intentional UI-bound work. The workspace-summary async body still runs in the existing @MainActor MobileShellComposite and retains its required isolated chip state; the PR adds generation guards and a wrapper, not new heavy work or a new execution context. No changed production call site adds CPU-, file-, parsing-, or network-heavy work without an explicit actor boundary.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

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The diff adds MobileTerminalMirrorState under Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell. This type is pure Sendable state logic. It imports only CMUXMobileCore and Foundation, and its hydration, reconnect-retention, and producer-freshness rules do not depend on SwiftUI, AppKit, Ghostty, or shell lifecycle. The new test exercises it independently of MobileShellComposite. This matches the policy failure for independently testable domain logic kept in the app/module target. The dead-stream backoff does not cause this finding because the PR correctly places it in CmuxMobileSupport.

Resolution

Move MobileTerminalMirrorState and its focused unit tests behind a small SwiftPM boundary. The smallest extraction is the existing CmuxMobileTerminalKit target, which already depends only on CMUXMobileCore: make MobileTerminalMirrorState public there, add the type's unit tests to CmuxMobileTerminalKitTests, and add that package target as a dependency of CmuxMobileShell. Keep MobileShellComposite+TerminalMirrorLifecycle and the shell-owned per-surface dictionary in CmuxMobileShell; those methods are app-lifecycle composition glue.

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The PR rate-limits barren terminal-event-stream redials and preserves reconnect UI state.

  • Adds bounded exponential backoff for repeated dead-stream recovery.
  • Keeps workspace-change chips across transient disconnects.
  • Uses history-preserving terminal repaint requests when an on-screen mirror survives reconnect.
  • Adds reconnect-storm, chip-preservation, and terminal-replay regression coverage.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because a remounted terminal can still skip required scrollback hydration after a connection swap.

The retained-mirror set survives terminal unregistration even though unregistration clears the delivery cursor and hydration state; remount then consumes that stale membership to request zero scrollback, leaving the replacement surface without prior history.

Files Needing Attention: Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift

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Filename Overview
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff.swift Introduces a bounded exponential backoff state machine for repeated barren event streams.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ConnectionRecovery.swift Routes dead terminal streams through a cancellation-aware delayed-redial gate.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ReconnectRoutes.swift Resets or cancels pending dead-stream retries at foreground lifecycle boundaries.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+WorkspaceChangesPruning.swift Adds transient-disconnect suspension that preserves cached workspace-change chips.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift Preserves reconnect state and terminal mirrors, but the previously reported stale retained-mirror lifecycle defect remains.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/MobileForegroundReconnectStormTests.swift Adds store-level regression coverage for reconnect backoff, chip preservation, replay size, and viewport continuity.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/MobileShellRenderGridLivenessTestSupport.swift Extends terminal test support to reject subscription handshakes and record replay scrollback limits.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant Stream as Terminal event stream
  participant Shell as MobileShellComposite
  participant Backoff as Dead-stream backoff
  participant Mac as Paired Mac
  Stream-->>Shell: Ends before first event
  Shell->>Backoff: Request next redial delay
  alt First barren stream
    Backoff-->>Shell: Immediate
  else Repeated barren stream
    Backoff-->>Shell: 1–30 second delay
    Shell->>Shell: Show reconnecting once
  end
  Shell->>Mac: Redial stored connection
  Mac-->>Shell: Replacement connection
  Shell->>Shell: Restart event stream and terminal replay
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`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite`+ConnectionRecovery.swift:
- Around line 244-249: Move the dead-terminal-event-stream redial delay and
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Address review feedback on PR #10491:

- cancelDeadTerminalEventStreamRedial() now clears the backoff's scheduled
  flag, so a cancelled redial is not left marked scheduled (which would
  coalesce the next barren stream into a dead timer), and pair it with every
  connectionRecoveryOwner.cancel() (method change, account boundary, explicit
  connect, deinit). The single recovery owner's lifecycle now invalidates the
  pending dead-stream redial instead of leaving an independent task alive.
- Test: replace the fixed Task.sleep in the parked-reconnect assertion with a
  bounded router.waitForCount(recordIssueOnTimeout: false) that asserts no
  further replay lands.

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227-230: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve workspace change chips during client teardown.

resetTerminalOutputTracking() clears supportedHostCapabilities, whose setter calls resetWorkspaceChangesState() and clears workspaceChangeChipsByWorkspaceID. This still causes N → 0 → N churn during reconnect. Preserve the chips through capability reset, and extend the chip test to cover client replacement.

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Clear retained terminal mirrors during sign-out.

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249-252: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not add a sleep-based retry path in production Swift.

clock.sleep(for: delay) introduces a delayed coordination path for retry backoff. The supplied Swift guidance explicitly prohibits Task.sleep-style waits for retry backoff in non-test runtime code.

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Validate the client identity before mutating backoff state.

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Preserve workspace-change chips during transient redial

clearRemoteConnectionContext() sets remoteClient to nil after the disconnect branch preserves the chips. The resulting resetTerminalOutputTracking() clears supportedHostCapabilities, whose observer calls resetWorkspaceChangesState() and clears the chips. Limit this full reset to account or intentional teardown, or preserve workspace-change state during transient redial.

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Addressing the top-level review findings from CodeRabbit (comment 5352072038) and Greptile (comment 5352095585). All dispositions below are implemented at HEAD bc64cb77a1.

  • Mirror retention / surface-ID reuse: fixed. The standalone terminalSurfacesRetainingMirrorAcrossReconnect side channel is removed. MobileTerminalMirrorState is the per-mounted-surface source of truth; registration creates a fresh state, unregistration removes it, and intentional account/teardown paths invalidate it. A retained reconnect replay is accepted only when producer renderEpoch, historyRows, and rowSpaceRevision still match; otherwise the bounded replay retry requests hydration.
  • Account/session boundaries: fixed. Sign-out, pairing-attempt setup, focused teardown, and intentional connection clearing invalidate mounted mirror state and clear workspace-change state before the client is retired. A prior account or reused surface ID therefore cannot inherit zero-row replay state.
  • Workspace-change chips: fixed. Transient recovery calls preserve chips and cancel only in-flight summary work; capability clearing during that transport reset is guarded so it cannot erase the snapshot. Intentional teardown still calls resetWorkspaceChangesState(). Coverage includes client replacement and stale summary publication.
  • Package boundary: fixed. MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff now lives in the Foundation-only CmuxMobileSupport package as a documented public value type, with an explicit shell test-target dependency/import.
  • Retry ownership/scheduling: fixed. Backoff state, generation, cancellation, and the injected-clock one-shot deadline are owned by MobileConnectionRecoveryOwner; the composite supplies only the recovery callback. This keeps owner cancellation single-flight while retaining a cancellable genuine retry deadline.
  • Stale callback mutation: fixed. recoverDeadTerminalEventStream validates the expected client and connected state before touching backoff state.
  • Summary fetch race: fixed. The fetch task ID is revalidated immediately before chip publication (and at each suspension boundary), with behavior coverage.
  • Documentation: added for the new public API and touched lifecycle seams.

Verification: the shell module and test target compiled on the AWS M4 Pro builder; each focused reconnect/lifecycle test passed individually, including foregroundDeadEventStreamRedialLoopIsRateLimited, deadStreamStormDoesNotRepeatedlyReplayAndKeepsViewport, workspaceChangesChipsSurviveTransientReconnect, canceledWorkspaceSummaryCannotPublishStaleChips, reconnectWithLiveMirrorResumesWithoutFullScrollbackReplay, terminalSurfaceIDReuseStartsFreshHydration, and retainedMirrorFreshnessFailsClosed. No local Xcode/XCUITest run was used.

Trade-off: freshness metadata is deliberately fail-closed—hosts that omit it take the full bounded hydration path, costing one extra replay but preventing stale scrollback. The workspace-group checker also reports an existing CmuxPhonePush entry drift on origin/main; it is unrelated and was not folded into this PR.

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Address review feedback on PR #10491:

- cancelDeadTerminalEventStreamRedial() now clears the backoff's scheduled
  flag, so a cancelled redial is not left marked scheduled (which would
  coalesce the next barren stream into a dead timer), and pair it with every
  connectionRecoveryOwner.cancel() (method change, account boundary, explicit
  connect, deinit). The single recovery owner's lifecycle now invalidates the
  pending dead-stream redial instead of leaving an independent task alive.
- Test: replace the fixed Task.sleep in the parked-reconnect assertion with a
  bounded router.waitForCount(recordIssueOnTimeout: false) that asserts no
  further replay lands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Address review feedback on PR #10491:

- cancelDeadTerminalEventStreamRedial() now clears the backoff's scheduled
  flag, so a cancelled redial is not left marked scheduled (which would
  coalesce the next barren stream into a dead timer), and pair it with every
  connectionRecoveryOwner.cancel() (method change, account boundary, explicit
  connect, deinit). The single recovery owner's lifecycle now invalidates the
  pending dead-stream redial instead of leaving an independent task alive.
- Test: replace the fixed Task.sleep in the parked-reconnect assertion with a
  bounded router.waitForCount(recordIssueOnTimeout: false) that asserts no
  further replay lands.

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Four store-level regression tests that FAIL on current main, one per
acceptance criterion of the dogfood report:

- foregroundDeadEventStreamRedialLoopIsRateLimited: a subscription that
  keeps ending/being-rejected before delivering any event drives an
  unbounded, back-off-free recoverDeadConnection redial loop.
- workspaceChangesChipsSurviveTransientReconnect: a transient
  disconnect wipes the files-changed chips (51 -> 0), which re-presents
  the changes hint on every reconnect cycle.
- reconnectWithLiveMirrorResumesWithoutFullScrollbackReplay: a reconnect
  that keeps a live on-screen mirror re-hydrates the full scrollback
  (max_scrollback_rows 4000) instead of a cheap repaint.
- deadStreamStormDoesNotRepeatedlyReplayAndKeepsViewport: the storm
  never settles onto a backoff, so the main thread stays pinned.

Adds LivenessHostRouter.failNextSubscribeRequests and captures
max_scrollback_rows on recorded replay requests.

Regression policy: this commit is intentionally red; the fix follows.
Three coordinated fixes for the dogfood-reported storm when foregrounding
the iOS app after a background.

1. Rate-limit the dead terminal-event-stream redial edge (root cause).
   A subscription that ends — or is rejected — before delivering any event
   drove recoverDeadConnection(.eventStreamEnded/.subscriptionStartFailed)
   with no backoff: the redial succeeded, restarted the same failing stream,
   and re-ended at scheduler speed, pinning the main thread at ~94% CPU (which
   froze scrolling) and full-replaying scrollback every cycle. Route those
   edges (and the rejected-subscribe-ack edge) through a new
   MobileDeadStreamRedialBackoff: the first barren stream still recovers
   immediately, each subsequent barren stream backs off exponentially
   (1s..30s) on the control-plane clock, and a delivered event or a fresh
   foreground return clears the streak. The status pill shows Reconnecting
   once during the wait instead of flipping every cycle.

2. Preserve the files-changed chips across a transient reconnect. The
   disconnect edge wiped every chip (filesChanged N -> 0) and the reconnect
   refetch restored it; that N -> 0 -> N churn re-presented the changes hint
   and re-showed the toolbar chip on every reconnect cycle. Cancel in-flight
   fetches on disconnect but keep the last-known chips and reuse-window cache;
   prune/evict still drop chips for workspaces that actually leave the list.

3. Resume the terminal instead of re-hydrating the full scrollback on
   reconnect. A connection swap clears each surface's delivery cursor, which
   forced the next screen-anchored replay to re-download the entire local
   scrollback (~20MB per reconnect on cellular). Remember surfaces whose
   on-screen mirror survived the swap and request a history-preserving repaint
   (max_scrollback_rows 0) for them; a genuinely rebuilt-blank surface still
   hydrates.
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Address review feedback on PR #10491:

- cancelDeadTerminalEventStreamRedial() now clears the backoff's scheduled
  flag, so a cancelled redial is not left marked scheduled (which would
  coalesce the next barren stream into a dead timer), and pair it with every
  connectionRecoveryOwner.cancel() (method change, account boundary, explicit
  connect, deinit). The single recovery owner's lifecycle now invalidates the
  pending dead-stream redial instead of leaving an independent task alive.
- Test: replace the fixed Task.sleep in the parked-reconnect assertion with a
  bounded router.waitForCount(recordIssueOnTimeout: false) that asserts no
  further replay lands.
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resetDeadTerminalEventStreamBackoff() at the fresh-start boundaries — sign-out,
new pairing attempt, and connection-method change — while a same-session
background suspend still keeps the accrued streak. Adds a unit test that reset
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3819067582 coderabbitai Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+ConnectionRecovery.swift:249 Couple dead-stream redial cancellation to recovery-owner lifecycle without losing scheduling state fix 1d3981e453
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3819335128 coderabbitai Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift:1918 Reset barren-stream backoff at session boundaries fix 51b0fae443
3827992103 coderabbitai Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Tests/CmuxMobileShellTests/MobileForegroundReconnectStormTests.swift:112 Exercise reset() while a delayed redial is still pending fix bc64cb77a1
3834573649 coderabbitai Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+WorkspaceChangesPruning.swift:25 Prevent a superseded summary fetch from publishing stale chips fix bc64cb77a1
3953373972 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/MobileTerminalMirrorState.swift:85 Fail closed when live frames change or omit retained producer/history metadata fix 4da5488cad
3954187303 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+WorkspaceChangesPruning.swift:29 Release the summary single-flight marker after a canceled reconnect fetch fix 4da5488cad
3954469323 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/MobileTerminalMirrorState.swift:85 Keep alternate-screen and viewport frames from satisfying primary scrollback hydration fix 6d7e54bcc7
3959292675 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite+TerminalOutputDelivery.swift:364 Preserve the replay barrier when a changed-producer live frame arrives first fix 7957ec67e0
3959817538 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShell/Sources/CmuxMobileShell/MobileShellComposite.swift:11445 Do not re-arm the workspace-changes hint after transient reconnect already-fixed 1bc98f7a7c
3959817553 cursor Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/MobileTerminalMirrorState.swift:85 Reject a later producer change after a matching zero-row replay while allowing same-producer growth fix 62c3fbedc2 + 6d7e54bcc7
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5352072038 coderabbitai top-level review Latest CodeRabbit summary had no additional actionable findings already-fixed bc64cb77a1
5352095585 greptile-apps top-level review Ensure remounted surfaces cannot reuse stale retained-mirror state without hydration fix 4da5488cad
5501609872 austinywang top-level review consolidation Consolidate and document all CodeRabbit/Greptile dispositions already-fixed bc64cb77a1

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