Fix Cloud VM creation, access, resizing, and routing

[austinywang]

Summary

The 50-machine allowance and removal of shared CPU/memory/storage pool enforcement are already on main through #12024. Team resume allowance propagation and Base conflict handling are already on main through #12006. This PR fixes the remaining failures found while verifying Cloud machines:

• Make the pinned cmux-tui client executable by ubuntu. Older snapshots linked /usr/local/bin/cmux-tui into /root (0700). Publish an atomic executable copy, repair it during create/restore/attach/recovery, and verify it as ubuntu during image baking. Isolate the readiness helper's shell exit so healthy attach cannot skip publication.
• Serialize first-use network persistence per owner in Postgres. Concurrent creates can otherwise collide on the provider-network unique index before the owner/provider upsert handles its conflict. Cross-owner conflicts still fail closed.
• Read Freestyle provisioned-resource statistics so disk resize can proceed instead of returning 501. Statistics reads do not wake a sleeping guest.
• Share canonical terminal-ID resolution between the CLI and native app through CmuxFoundation. A stale key can no longer override an exact resource ID; malformed or foreign canonical IDs fail closed.
• Use one IPv6 host formatter for browser, desktop, and port URLs. Accept bracketed loopback URLs, and preserve scheme, port, path, query, and fragment when replacing the host.
• Preserve cancellation when the socket waiter resumes without a value, rather than reporting a canceled connection as a timeout.

Complete five native pricing keys across 20 locales and use 50 machines per paid Team seat consistently in native and English/Japanese web pricing. Correct stale native fixtures to match the current graph and persisted identifier format, and replace the connect-cancellation test's polling with an explicit child-start signal.

Pulled origin/main at c49e5af397 and merged it cleanly in 69083b695b, including main's snapshot-parser crash fix from #12034. Image IDs, binary pins, and private-home permissions are unchanged by this PR.

Validation

• 824 VM/pricing/environment tests passed with Bun 1.3.14 and real Postgres during the backend verification. The merged main revision subsequently passed 106 focused VM/pricing tests, typecheck, focused ESLint, and the complexity gate.
• Live staging verified three simultaneous Base/Desktop creates from a cold four-seat Team with maxActiveVms: 200, cmux-tui --version as ubuntu on all three machines, idempotent retry, guest execution, and disk resize to 65536 MB. All disposable machines, the Team, and user were deleted. Staging is refreshed to merged backend revision 69083b695b (dpl_HMLqqTEyszCkh572MYsafAUNZNQF).
• Both reported user machines were repaired in place using their existing pinned binary, without restarting the daemon.
• Regression-only commits precede the runtime fixes. Native coverage exercises canonical identity, IPv6 URL generation, cancellation cleanup, legacy persistence, reverse tab edges, and main's snapshot row ordering. Final revision 914242de57 passed all 70 selected native app tests and all 14 shared-package tests. The native app and bundled CLI build passed on that same revision.
• Localization audit: all five native pricing keys have translated values in all 20 supported locales; English fallbacks match the catalog, and English/Japanese web pricing uses paid-seat wording. The native routing fixes add no display strings.
• Tagged native dogfood build, refreshed after runtime changes. Backend behavior is verified separately on staging.

The five inline review findings on #12024 and three posted findings on this PR are addressed. The production follow-up has not been deployed or merged.

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Medium Risk
Changes VM create/restore/attach paths, terminal routing, and network persistence under concurrency; failures roll back creates but incorrect routing or publication would break Cloud access.

Overview
Fixes Cloud VM access and routing so the work user can run cmux-tui, terminal opens use one identity policy, and backend operations stop failing on races or missing stats.

Guest cmux-tui access: The installer and Freestyle driver no longer symlink /usr/local/bin/cmux-tui into /root. They publish an atomic 755 copy of the pinned binary and re-run that repair on create, restore, attach, and daemon heal; create/restore roll back if publication fails. Devbox bake and verify steps assert ubuntu can run --version.

Terminal routing (CLI + app): Duplicate vmTerminalID logic is replaced by shared CmuxCloudTerminalIdentity in CmuxFoundation so a canonical id wins over a stale key, with fail-closed handling for foreign or path-like IDs.

URLs and links: CmuxInternalHostnames.urlHost centralizes IPv6 bracketing for direct port URLs and private browser URL rewriting (including [::1] loopback). CloudMachineLink calls Task.checkCancellation() so a canceled connect is not reported as a timeout.

Backend: Freestyle adds getStats (API read only, no guest exec) for resize flows. upsertNetwork uses a per-owner Postgres advisory lock to avoid concurrent first-insert collisions on the provider-network unique index.

Copy: Native and web (en/ja) pricing strings switch Team limits to 50 per paid seat and refresh related VM resource wording across locales.

Tests and fixtures were updated for the new contracts (public client attach, network race, stats, canonical terminal IDs, cancellation timing).

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Cloud VM pricing copy now uses paid-seat terminology and includes resource details. Freestyle providers expose VM statistics and publish a public client executable. Network upserts serialize concurrent first inserts. VM tests cover races, cleanup, team-plan behavior, workflow regressions, and client installation.

Changes

Cloud VM pricing and provider updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pricing copy and localization Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift, web/messages/*.json, web/services/vms/README.md, web/tests/pricing-page.test.tsx, web/tests/pro-pricing.test.ts	Pricing screens, FAQs, documentation, localized strings, and tests describe Team Cloud VM limits per paid seat and specify VM resources.
Freestyle provider statistics web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts, web/tests/vm-freestyle-stats.test.ts	FreestyleProvider.getStats reads VM state and provisioned resources without waking the VM. Tests cover state mapping and provider failures.
Network persistence concurrency web/services/vms/repository.ts, web/tests/vm-network-race.test.ts, web/tests/vm-workflows.test.ts	upsertNetwork uses an advisory transaction lock before the network upsert. Database tests cover concurrent first-use persistence and cleanup.
Public client publication and provider integration web/services/vms/drivers/cmuxTuiDaemon.ts, web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts, web/tests/vm-public-client-install.test.ts, web/tests/vm-freestyle-provider.test.ts, web/tests/vm-cmux-tui.test.ts	The installer publishes an atomic executable copy at /usr/local/bin/cmux-tui. Create, restore, attach, and daemon healing publish the client. Failure tests cover rollback behavior.
VM workflow and fixture validation web/tests/vm-independent-limits.test.ts, web/tests/vm-route-auth.test.ts, web/services/vms/workflows.ts, web/tests/vm-review-regressions.test.ts, web/scripts/*	VM tests add failure-safe cleanup, team seat metadata, deterministic fixtures, port and fork cases, and allowance-based route expectations. Image build and verification scripts check the client as the ubuntu user.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FreestyleProvider
  participant GuestVM
  participant PublicClientPath
  FreestyleProvider->>GuestVM: run public client publication command
  GuestVM->>PublicClientPath: atomically copy and chmod executable
  PublicClientPath-->>GuestVM: publish client
  GuestVM-->>FreestyleProvider: return command status

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9b062

Attaching to a healthy legacy VM can still leave cmux-tui inaccessible to the work user, so the readiness gate should be corrected before merge. The public-client installation test also retains a path-quoting risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 14 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 46.15% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 21 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (14 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
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 PR changes one production Swift file, Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift, but the diff only replaces four String(localized:..., defaultValue:) text literals. It adds or modifies no Swift s…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only copy in its sole modified Swift file, Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift. The diff updates pricing strings and introduces no semaphores, waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, poll…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes no browser automation files. Sources/TerminalController.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift are unchanged from origin/main, and the patch contains no bro…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The PR changes one production Swift file, Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift. Its four changed lines only replace pricing defaultValue string literals. The actual diff adds no agent-history loader, …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached value in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. upsertNetwork still writes to the database and now adds a transac…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff introduces no fixed sleep, timer, delayed dispatch, polling loop, or wall-clock wait in covered production TypeScript or runtime scripts. The changed runtime code adds public-client …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff introduces no prohibited scalable collection scans. The production changes add direct VM stat field reads, a constant-time database advisory lock plus one upsert, bounded shell verifica…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff changes Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift only in two String(localized:defaultValue:) pricing strings. It adds no Dispatch, Task, Combine, completion-handler, async, await, a…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The only changed Swift file is Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift, and its diff changes pricing string literals only. It does not add or modify async, nonisolated, @concurrent, actor isola…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The only production Swift change is Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift, and the diff changes pricing display strings and one comparison-table fallback from “per user” to “per paid seat.” It adds no do…
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the changes, rationale, validation results, staging verification, localization audit, and deployment status. It does not include the template's Demo Video, Review Trig…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main Cloud VM fixes for creation, access, resizing, and routing. It does not mention pricing and localization changes, but those are secondary to the primary VM cha…

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Docstring coverage is 46.15% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 21 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@web/tests/vm-public-client-install.test.ts`:
- Around line 39-42: Update the vm-public-client-install test around commandPath
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[lawrencecchen]

Mac fleet instructions for head 7605d1c897eaaa60e8ea6454f6460164ca9b1eb4. Planned tag: pr-12026-7605d1c8; this is not yet a published build.

JOB_JSON=$(~/.local/bin/cmux-ci submit --kind cmux --command 'CMUX_FLEET_BUILD_TAG=pr-12026-7605d1c8 /Users/Shared/cmux-build-fleet/recipes/cmux.sh https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux.git 7605d1c897eaaa60e8ea6454f6460164ca9b1eb4' --artifact artifacts/cmux.app.zip --workspace https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/pull/12026 --source-digest 7605d1c897eaaa60e8ea6454f6460164ca9b1eb4 --cache-key cmux:pr-12026 --min-free-bytes 268435456000 --label cmux --label ram48)
JOB_ID=$(python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)["id"])' <<<"$JOB_JSON")
~/.local/bin/cmux-ci wait "$JOB_ID" --receipt artifacts/fleet/$JOB_ID.json
~/.local/bin/cmux-ci publish-hq "$JOB_ID"

Use an existing campaign job ID if one is already posted; do not submit a duplicate. A wait timeout leaves the remote job running. Published results will include an exact-head artifact link and timing/disk receipt. This recipe validates the macOS app only, not iOS or tests. Never use maclease or put credentials in a PR comment.

[teamleaderleo]

Several Cloud VM paths here are covered by merged #12268; leaving this open for the remaining client-access, resize, identity, and cancellation fixes.