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Fixes #11094.

Two gates disagreed for an existing paused machine on a free plan: requireAccessibleUserVm keeps it reachable inside the 7-day access window, but reservePausedResume enforced the create ceiling (0 on free), so every resume threw VmLimitExceededError(limit: 0). The machine was visible, in-window, and permanently un-resumable.

Mechanism: resume now uses maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, the plan's create ceiling floored at 1. Resume is not create: it only revives a machine the caller already owns. The floor never outlives the window (expired machines still fail in requireAccessibleUserVm with the paywall response) and never raises a paid plan's limit. Demo allowances above 1 via CMUX_VM_FREE_MAX_ACTIVE_VMS are preserved.

Commit 1 is the failing regression test (verified red locally without the fix), commit 2 the fix plus entitlement unit tests.

Verification: vm-workflows and vm-billing-limit-paywall pass locally, tsgo typecheck clean. Local full suite has a pre-existing failing baseline unrelated to this branch; hosted CI is authoritative.


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Summary by cubic

Fixes #11094: a free-plan paused VM inside its 7-day access window could never resume because the resume path enforced the plan's create ceiling (0 on free), throwing VmLimitExceededError(limit: 0).

Bug Fixes

  • Resume now uses maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, the create ceiling floored at 1, since resume revives a machine the caller already owns rather than creating one.
  • Expired free machines still fail with the paywall response, and paid plan limits are unchanged.
  • Demo allowances above 1 via CMUX_VM_FREE_MAX_ACTIVE_VMS are preserved, but only behind the CMUX_VM_ALLOW_FREE_PROVISIONING escape hatch from vm: gate Cloud VM provisioning behind paid plans #11332.
  • Added a regression test that fails without the fix, plus unit tests for the new entitlement function.

Written for commit cfadbaf. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Free-plan customers can resume a paused virtual machine during the permitted access window, even when the new-machine creation limit is zero.
    • Resume limits now preserve paid-plan allowances and apply the correct minimum limit for free plans.
    • Environment-configured free-plan allowances continue to apply when free provisioning is enabled.
    • Existing machine limits remain unchanged for standard creation workflows.

Red half of the regression pair: resume of an existing paused machine
currently inherits the free plan's create ceiling of 0, so it can never
succeed even inside the 7-day access window.
…11094)

reservePausedResume enforced maxActiveVmsForPlan, which is 0 on free, so
an existing paused machine was visible and in-window yet permanently
un-resumable. Resume now uses maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, the create
ceiling floored at 1. requireAccessibleUserVm still blocks every access
verb once the window expires, and paid limits are unchanged.
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The change adds a resume-specific VM ceiling. Free plans receive a minimum ceiling of one for existing paused machines. Paid plans retain their configured limits. The billing-team resume workflow uses this ceiling.

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Paused VM resume

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resume entitlement contract
web/services/vms/entitlements.ts, web/tests/vm-billing-limit-paywall.test.ts
Adds maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan. The helper preserves uncapped plans, floors capped plans at one, and retains paid-plan limits. Tests cover free-plan environment settings and paid plans.
Resume workflow integration
web/services/vms/workflows.ts, web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts
Passes the resume-specific ceiling to reservePausedResume. A workflow test verifies that a free-plan paused VM resumes with a ceiling of 1 inside its access window. The change also removes an obsolete test comment.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant execVm
  participant reservePausedResumeIfTeam
  participant maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan
  participant reservePausedResume
  execVm->>reservePausedResumeIfTeam: resume paused VM
  reservePausedResumeIfTeam->>maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan: calculate resume ceiling
  maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan-->>reservePausedResumeIfTeam: return ceiling 1
  reservePausedResumeIfTeam->>reservePausedResume: reserve with maxActiveVms 1
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cfadb

Eligible free-plan paused VMs remain blocked on the normal resume route, defeating the central behavior change. The regression test also relies on wall-clock time; fix both before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: allowing an in-window free-plan VM to resume despite a zero create ceiling.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The change meets #11094. maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan derives the create limit and floors a finite resume limit at 1. reservePausedResumeIfTeam uses this helper, so a free-plan paused machine can res…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #11094. They add the resume-specific entitlement helper, apply it only to paused-machine resume, and add regression and entitlement tests. The removed test comment is related c…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The pull-request diff changes only four TypeScript files under web/services/vms and web/tests. It contains no Swift, Swift interface, Objective-C, or Objective-C++ changes. Therefore it cannot i…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only four TypeScript files under web/services/vms and web/tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift changes, and no added/removed lines contain the …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only TypeScript VM entitlements, VM workflows, and VM tests under web/. The diff adds maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan and changes the paused-VM billing limit; it does not …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative pull-request diff changes only four files under web/: TypeScript VM entitlement/workflow code and TypeScript tests. It adds no Swift, Objective-C, or Objective-C++ files. The…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff only adds a plan-limit helper and changes the paused-resume limit calculation from maxActiveVmsForPlan to maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan. It does not replace a fresh authoritative…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes VM entitlement and resume-limit logic only. Added production code contains no sleep, timer, polling, fixed backoff, or wall-clock wait. The changed workflow line only re…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds only constant-time entitlement arithmetic and changes one scalar limit passed to reservePausedResume. maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan calls maxActiveVmsForPlan and `Math…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The pull request changes only TypeScript files under web/services/vms and web/tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or Swift project files, so it introduces no cmux-owned Swift concurrency p…
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Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The reviewed diff changes only TypeScript files under web/services and web/tests. It introduces no production Swift, SwiftPM package, or app-target changes, so the Swift package boundary check is not …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The custom SwiftPM lockfile check is not applicable to this pull request. The authoritative diff changes only four TypeScript files under web/services and web/tests. It contains no Package.swift, Pack…
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Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only an internal entitlement helper and passes its numeric ceiling to the existing resume reservation path. It adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API erro…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes VM entitlement logic and workflow tests only. The production diff adds a numeric resume ceiling and switches the paused-VM reservation to it; it adds no user-facing text, API copy…
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Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed range changes only four TypeScript files under web/services/vms and web/tests; it contains no Swift, Xcode, or SwiftUI/AppKit files. The patch adds a plan entitlement helper, ch…
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In `@web/services/vms/workflows.ts`:
- Line 2446: Update the resume limit handling in preflightResumeIfSuspended and
reservePausedResumeIfTeam so an explicit free-plan limit of 0 is normalized to
maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, while preserving explicit paid/team limits; ensure
paused-VM reservations use the resume ceiling rather than the create ceiling.

In `@web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts`:
- Line 1010: Update the test setup around testCloudVmRow so createdAt derives
from a controlled/frozen test clock before execVm runs, ensuring
requireAccessibleUserVm and isVmFreeAccessExpired evaluate consistently.
Preserve the existing VM setup and resume assertions.

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vm: CloudVmRow,
providerVmId: string,
maxActiveVms: number | null = maxActiveVmsForPlan(vm.billingPlanId),
maxActiveVms: number | null = maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan(vm.billingPlanId),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Inspect the resume preflight and all execVm call sites for explicit maxActiveVms values.
rg -n --type=ts -C 8 '\bpreflightResumeIfSuspended\s*\(' web/services/vms/workflows.ts
rg -n --type=ts -C 8 '\bexecVm\s*\(' web
rg -n --type=ts -C 8 '\bmaxActiveVms\s*:' web

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- workflow default and preflight ---'
sed -n '2425,2585p' web/services/vms/workflows.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- resume workflow declarations and callers ---'
rg -n -C 5 'export function (resumeVm|restoreVm)|resumeVm\\(|restoreVm\\(|maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan|reservePausedResume' web/services/vms web/app
printf '%s\n' '--- entitlement limit definitions ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- limit and reservation definitions ---'
rg -n -C 5 'maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan|reservePausedResume' web
printf '%s\n' '--- public resume declarations and callers ---'
rg -n -C 5 'resumeVm|restoreVm' web/services/vms web/app
printf '%s\n' '--- maxActiveVms route inputs ---'
rg -n -C 5 'maxActiveVms' web/app web/services | head -n 240

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- entitlement ceilings ---'
sed -n '250,345p' web/services/vms/entitlements.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- route account entitlement mapping ---'
rg -n -C 10 'resolveVmRouteAccountScope|resolveVmProvisioningAccountScope|maxActiveVms:' web/services/vms/routeHelpers.ts web/services/vms
printf '%s\n' '--- reservation limit comparison ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- free active-limit implementation ---'
rg -n -C 12 'function activeVmLimitForPlan|activeVmLimitForPlan|CMUX_VM_ALLOW_FREE_PROVISIONING|FREE_MAX_ACTIVE' web/services/vms/entitlements.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- paused-resume reservation implementation ---'
sed -n '2199,2258p' web/services/vms/repository.ts

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Use the resume ceiling for paused-VM reservations. resumeVm passes account.entitlements.maxActiveVms into preflightResumeIfSuspended. Free plans resolve this create ceiling to 0; the explicit 0 bypasses reservePausedResumeIfTeam’s default maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, and reservePausedResume rejects because every active count satisfies activeCount >= 0. Normalize explicit resume limits to the resume ceiling, while preserving paid/team limits.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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minimal, and validate.

In `@web/services/vms/workflows.ts` at line 2446, Update the resume limit handling
in preflightResumeIfSuspended and reservePausedResumeIfTeam so an explicit
free-plan limit of 0 is normalized to maxResumeActiveVmsForPlan, while
preserving explicit paid/team limits; ensure paused-VM reservations use the
resume ceiling rather than the create ceiling.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

});

test("a free-plan paused VM inside its access window resumes despite the zero create ceiling", async () => {
const vm = testCloudVmRow({

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '995,1070p' web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts
sed -n '6475,6520p' web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts
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printf '%s\n' '--- exec and resume path ---'
sed -n '2890,3035p' web/services/vms/workflows.ts
sed -n '3735,3790p' web/services/vms/workflows.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- helper definitions ---'
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Control the access-window clock.

execVm calls requireAccessibleUserVm, which evaluates isVmFreeAccessExpired before resuming the paused VM. testCloudVmRow supplies createdAt from new Date(), while the expiry check uses Date.now() and the test has no clock control. Set createdAt relative to a controlled test clock.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts` at line 1010, Update the test setup around
testCloudVmRow so createdAt derives from a controlled/frozen test clock before
execVm runs, ensuring requireAccessibleUserVm and isVmFreeAccessExpired evaluate
consistently. Preserve the existing VM setup and resume assertions.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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Fleet instruction update for head cfadbaf1995c4d08224e8cf5b6c6b27b932e7efb: this PR is classified other. No macOS build tag is claimed. The current controller app recipe does not establish iOS/test readiness; that requires the appropriate validated recipe. Use cmux-ci for supported jobs, retain the returned ID and receipt, and wait on the same ID after any timeout. Do not use retired maclease allocation or post credentials. Exact-head tags will be posted only after the applicable build succeeds.

@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo added area: cloud Cloud machines and workspaces, relay transport S2: major A crash, hang, lost state, broken connection, or a regression on a path people use ready-to-land Reviewed and ready to land when CI is green labels Sep 30, 2026
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Still live and marked ready-to-land; the resume-limit and controlled-clock test findings from review remain to be addressed.

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