Fix nightly macOS build: repair what the #11789 squash merge broke

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Summary

Every Nightly macOS build run on main since 19f51d5 (PR #11789, merged 2026-09-05 01:28Z) fails in build-nightly-app:

CLI/cmux.swift:13798:40: error: type 'CMUXCLI' has no member 'vmAttachTransportUnsupportedCode'

That line is the only real error in the nightly log; the rest of the "(5 failures)" list is the other architecture slice plus sibling compiles cancelled with it. The last green nightly was 866282e, the commit right before the merge.

Fixing that one constant is not enough. A local tagged build then hit three more casualties of the same merge, one layer at a time. Five fixes, one commit each:

1. Restore vmAttachTransportUnsupportedCode in CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift. The control plane still answers 409 vm_attach_transport_unsupported (web/services/vms/routeHelpers.ts) and shouldFallbackFromForcedSSH reads it to route a forced cmux vm ssh back through the managed cmux-remote path.
2. Drop three stale SystemDefaultBrowserDetector.swift project entries. The CEF revert (Revert "feat(browser): Chromium browser panes via in-process CEF, with extensions" #11966) deleted the file and its entries; the merge kept the PBXBuildFile, PBXFileReference, and Sources entry without any group, so Xcode resolves it against the project root: Build input file cannot be found. No other file reference in the project is orphaned.
3. Re-merge Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift. The merge left a guard catalog.replaceResources( with no else and Void returns inside a -> Bool function (the app target did not even parse), dropped main's stop() resets, the replaceUnavailableCloudState asleep path and the eventsFeedWarning error reporting, and kept calls to a refreshDebounce property main had removed.
4. Re-merge Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLink.swift. The merge dropped all eight events-subscription stored properties (eventsRecoveryClock, eventsRecoveryPolicy, eventsSubscriptionID, …) while every use survived, plus the recovery resets in connect/disconnect/linkProcessDidExit and the subscription id/cursor in startEventsSubscription.
5. Restore the network_addresses plumbing and the vm terminal rename contract row. The app's vm.cmux_remote_info reply and cmux vm open --json output lost the addresses that CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift still parses; the CLI contract table lost one row.

Root cause

Two mechanisms, both from how the VPN branch merged main:

• Semantic conflict, no textual conflict (fix 1). The VPN branch deleted the cmux-tui fallback helpers, including the constant, in c9272d3 (2026-09-04 07:01Z). Five hours later main added a new use of the constant in shouldFallbackFromForcedSSH (c8098d7). Later merges of main combined both sides cleanly. The branch was already broken before merging: the manual nightly dispatch on it at 23:53Z (run 33931128749) shows the identical error.
• Hand-resolved conflicts that took the branch side (fixes 2 to 5). The merge commit 0ecbf91 (Merge origin/main into cloud tunnel PR branch) had 49 conflicted files. Comparing it against git merge-tree shows the committed result deviates from the automatic merge only by deletions, in 47 files. In the Swift files main's side was partly or wholly discarded. Fixes 3 and 4 redo those two files from git's automatic merge: main's structure and logic stay, and the branch's intended changes (WireGuard hub lease, private-link port scan, private desktop URL, terminateAndWait for the events child, async disconnect) are applied on top.

What stays removed on purpose

The VPN design removes the provider preview-endpoint minting (endpoints, prefetchDesktopEndpoint, endpointURL), the exec-based port scan, the cmux-tui-unavailable fallback helpers, and the VMTunnelManager.privateRouteBlocker() error prefix (that API no longer exists). None of that comes back here.

Why PR CI did not block it

• ci.yml runs on pull_request only for a short list of routed paths. Cloud VPN: app-managed WireGuard tunnel via a NetworkExtension system extension, on-demand only #11789 touched .github/workflows/ci.yml, so the full CI ran on its final head 6461410 (run 33936131502).
• In that run web-typecheck failed, so the linux-preflight gate failed and every macOS job (app-host unit tests, swift-package-tests, tests-build-and-lag, release-build) was skipped. No Swift compile ever ran.
• The CI status fallback workflow also ran on the same head and reported a green ci-status within ten seconds. ci-status is the required check on main, and auto-merge fired at 01:28:41Z, twenty minutes before the real CI's ci-status reported failure.

The nightly is currently the first lane that compiles main after a merge. This PR also gets only the fallback check, which is why verification is a manual ci.yml dispatch (below).

Follow-ups outside this PR

• The same merge dropped main-side lines in non-Swift conflicted files that still need a look: web/services/vms/README.md (28 lines), web/tests/vm-private-network.test.ts (14), web/services/vms/routeHelpers.ts (2), web/services/vms/repository.ts (1), docs/cloud-cmux-tui-daemon.md (5). Localization keys are intact (0 missing).
• CI: stop the CI status fallback workflow from satisfying ci-status while the real CI runs on the same head, and consider not skipping the macOS jobs when only web-typecheck fails.

Testing

• Nightly lane, full fix head 82cd431, run 33941558929: xcodebuild reports ** BUILD SUCCEEDED ** for the same universal Release build the nightly ships. The job then failed one step later, installing the bundled cmux-tui client: the manifest for main's newest cmux-tui commit fc6919b (Keep Iroh enabled for the terminal client ABI #11989) is a 404 because its cmux-tui artifacts run (33937763187) failed on "Install Linux build dependencies". That step is broken independently of this PR: the job checks out with depth 1, so git log -1 -- cmux-tui always answers HEAD and the download 404s on almost every push. Fix nightly/release client bundling and VM CI regressions #12006 fixes it (shallow-safe resolver with fallback). A nightly on main goes green only with both PRs.
• Nightly dispatch on the first two fixes alone, run 33941008229, fails on Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift:469: expected 'else' after 'guard' condition, which is why fixes 3 to 5 are in this PR.
• Nightly dispatch on the current head 19424ed (review fix + main merge): run 33943122606. The Nightly workflow never publishes from a non-main ref.
• Manual ci.yml dispatches on this branch (33941524699) skip every macOS job because workflow-guard-tests fails check-test-determinism.py --strict on cmuxTests/MobileHostConnectionLifecycleTests.swift:236 (sleep-then-assert), a file this PR does not touch. That gate needs a separate fix on main.
• Local tagged Debug build surfaced fixes 2 to 4 one after another; after fix 4 the Mac's disk filled and the build died on No space left on device, so the local build is not a complete proof on its own.
• scripts/check-pbxproj.sh and scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh pass. No user-facing strings changed, so no localization audit applies.
• Review follow-up: coderabbit's "serialize event-subscription replacement" finding is addressed in 19424ed (see the thread reply).

Demo Video

N/A. Compile and merge repair, no UI change.

Checklist

• I tested the change locally (partial: local build blocked on disk; CI dispatch is the compile proof)
• I added or updated tests for behavior changes (none needed: the compiler is the regression signal; the existing VMSSH test covers the fallback behavior)
• I updated docs/changelog if needed (docs/cli-contract.md row restored)
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Summary by cubic

Fixes the nightly macOS build and repairs a broken merge of main that dropped main-side code across the app target, so main compiles again.

• Restores CMUXCLI.vmAttachTransportUnsupportedCode in CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift; shouldFallbackFromForcedSSH reads it and the control plane still returns vm_attach_transport_unsupported.
• Removes three stale SystemDefaultBrowserDetector.swift entries from cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj that would otherwise fail the build.
• Re-merges CloudMachineLink.swift and CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift to restore main's events-recovery state and refresh/stop logic that the VPN branch's conflict resolution dropped, keeping the branch's hub-lease and terminateAndWait changes.
• Restores network_addresses in the vm.cmux_remote_info socket reply and cmux vm open --json, and the vm terminal rename row in docs/cli-contract.md.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements

  • Improved handling of machine attachment requests when the legacy connection method is unavailable.
  • Requests can now continue through the supported managed connection route instead of failing immediately.

• Chores

  • Updated the desktop project configuration to remove an unused system browser component.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change updates VM network response payloads, asynchronous cloud event recovery, cmux-tui surface refresh behavior, CLI documentation, and Xcode project references.

Changes

VM network contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update VM network payloads CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift, CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift	Defines the unsupported legacy attach code and conditionally adds IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to VM responses.

Cloud event recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manage event recovery lifecycle Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLink.swift	Makes event subscription operations asynchronous and adds cursor, reader, recovery, stability, and cleanup state.

Surface resource state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refresh surface resources Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift	Centralizes desktop resource creation, updates port refresh handling, publishes unavailable state, and applies event-feed warnings.

Project and CLI contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update project and CLI contracts cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, docs/cli-contract.md	Removes obsolete browser detector references and documents the terminal rename command.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 594e7

Concurrent subscription recovery or teardown can leave stale event readers running and cause cloud event updates to be lost. This lifecycle race should be fixed before merge.

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The new unavailable/asleep refresh branch adds a non-linear projection path. Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift:459 calls CmuxTuiSnapshotParser.resources(from: cloudState). That parser…	Avoid reparsing the full snapshot in the unavailable/asleep refresh path. Reuse a cached resource projection or preserved catalog resources. If a rebuild is required, pre-index tabs by terminal content ID in one pass and use a cached or lin…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The PR activates and materially expands event-feed recovery in Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLink.swift, which the Xcode app target compiles directly. The diff adds subscription identity, cursor/recover…	Extract the event-feed recovery core from CloudMachineLink into a new small SwiftPM target named CmuxCloudLinkCore. Make CloudEventsRecoveryStateMachine the first public type, with the recovery policy, phase transitions, cursor bounda…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (12 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: repairing the nightly macOS build after a broken #11789 merge.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and relevant. It includes the required Summary, Testing, Demo Video, and Checklist sections, explains the root cause and affected files, and documents verification. The Rev…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The production changes do not introduce a stated actor-isolation failure. CloudMachineLink remains an actor, and its new recovery state is actor-owned. CmuxTuiSurfaceProvider and its registr…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS. The Swift diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or manual-lock primitive. CloudMachineLink retains the existing Task.sleep, clock.sleep,…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff against its target-main parent (c27da77f808) changes only CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift, CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/Cloud/*, Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift, `cmux.xc…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The production Swift diff adds only the VM attach constant, network-address payload fields, and Cloud event/refresh state changes. It adds or moves no RestorableAgentSessionIndex, `SharedLiveA…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	No matching cache-substitution failure was introduced. The PR keeps the authoritative link.run(...snapshotArguments...) read and installSnapshotIfNewer ordering checks. The only cache-related prov…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull-request diff contains Swift source changes, plus only cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj and docs/cli-contract.md outside Swift. The project-file change removes stale Swift references, …
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine, or completion-handler patterns. The restored event-feed tasks are stored in eventsReaderTask, eventsRecoveryTask, and `eventsSt…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no @concurrent annotations and no changed nonisolated async declarations. The changed event-feed methods belong to the CloudMachineLink actor, which must access actor-isolated …

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 1 unsupported, 1 too large.)

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The new unavailable/asleep refresh branch adds a non-linear projection path. Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift:459 calls CmuxTuiSnapshotParser.resources(from: cloudState). That parser loops over every terminal and scans all ordered tabs for each terminal at Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSnapshotParser.swift:1375-1387, then sorts the resulting resources at line 1490. The path is O(terminals × tabs + resources log resources). The PR activates this path during refresh; the base branch preserved existing catalog resources instead. This violates the nested full-collection scan rule for machines with about 1000 user-owned records. No benchmark or size bound is documented.

Resolution

Avoid reparsing the full snapshot in the unavailable/asleep refresh path. Reuse a cached resource projection or preserved catalog resources. If a rebuild is required, pre-index tabs by terminal content ID in one pass and use a cached or linear projection, then add a benchmark for the expected 1000-record scale.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR activates and materially expands event-feed recovery in Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLink.swift, which the Xcode app target compiles directly. The diff adds subscription identity, cursor/recovery/stability task state, bounded retry scheduling, cleanup, and asynchronous restart/resume coordination. This is independently testable cloud transport state-machine logic. The file imports only Foundation, injects a Clock and recovery policy, and serves multiple app consumers. No SwiftPM target or package tests were added. The existing recovery declarations and app tests predate the PR, but the PR restores the missing state and async calls that make this production logic active. The @MainActor surface refresh changes and the small CLI/socket payload additions are app composition or serialization glue and do not independently trigger this check.

Resolution

Extract the event-feed recovery core from CloudMachineLink into a new small SwiftPM target named CmuxCloudLinkCore. Make CloudEventsRecoveryStateMachine the first public type, with the recovery policy, phase transitions, cursor boundary values, retry decisions, and stability-window behavior in that package. Add package unit tests for capped backoff, exhausted and snapshot-only phases, snapshot resume, and stable-stream reset. Keep Foundation Process management, pipe reading, app lifecycle cleanup, CloudMachineLinkManager, and surface/catalog integration in the app target. Have CloudMachineLink adapt those app-specific operations through the package type.

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