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Merging an edit under web/services/vms/images/devbox/ reaches no machine until a snapshot is baked and the manifest bump lands, and nothing said so. Two agents promoting at once is worse: a promotion rewrites twelve entries in one file, so they collide there, and the merge a human or agent writes by hand has no bake behind it.

Each default entry already records the commit it was baked from, so all of this is derivable with no schema change and no provider credential.

--pin: states no bake can fix

  • A ladder assembled from two bakes. Valid JSON, one default per kind and size, and sm running a different image from md. This is the exact shape of a hand-resolved manifest.json conflict.
  • A default baked off main. CMUX_BAKE_ALLOW_BRANCH=1 records a commit that squash merging never puts on main and that disappears when the branch is deleted, so the image's lineage stops being verifiable.

Safe to make a required check, which is why the pull_request trigger loses its path filter here: a required check that never runs blocks a PR forever, so the job now always reports and decides internally what to run.

Drift: source ahead of the pinned image

Reports the image inputs that changed since the bake, and the promote commands. Expected right after an image source PR merges, and only a bake clears it, so this reports and never gates.

Both states are live on main today

The defaults were baked from 39bfc41fad, which exists only on feat-vm-guest-trust-dead-code; main carries that work as squash commit dfb0a6fef7. Main is also three image inputs ahead of that bake (Dockerfile, cmux-bashrc, build-devbox-freestyle.ts), so the Option+Backspace fix from #12099 is merged and on no machine. This workflow is not in the required set, so it reports both without blocking anyone; the honest fix is a bake from main.

Also adds skills/cmux-backend/references/devbox-image-deploys.md: what ships on merge (the manifest) versus what ships on a bake, the rule that a manifest conflict is re-promoted rather than hand-resolved (devbox:promote --image <snapshot-id> adopts a snapshot you already baked), and the fact that a bake is not reproducible, so every promotion carries unrelated agent and apt upgrades that the manifest diff is the place to review.

Follow-ups worth deciding separately: making this check required, and a push: main job that bakes, verifies and opens the manifest PR by itself.


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Changes VM image CI and manifest validation; --pin can fail builds if enabled as required, and full drift checks depend on complete git history in Actions.

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Adds devbox:drift:check so merged devbox image source edits cannot silently outpace what VMs actually boot. It compares each default manifest entry’s repoCommit to current image inputs (devbox templates, desktop files, build-devbox-freestyle.ts) and lists changed paths, with a separate --pin mode for manifest states baking cannot fix (mixed bakes per kind after a bad manifest.json merge, or defaults baked from commits not on main).

The Cloud VM image contract workflow now runs on every PR (path filter removed so a required check cannot skip forever), uses fetch-depth: 0 for historical file reads, runs --pin as a validating step, adds vm-image-drift.test.ts, and runs the full drift report as an informational step (workflow remains optional for merges). skills/cmux-backend/references/devbox-image-deploys.md documents merge vs bake shipping, promote flow, drift, and parallel-promotion conflicts.

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A merged edit under web/services/vms/images/devbox reaches no machine until a
snapshot is baked and the manifest bump lands, and nothing said so. Today's
default images were baked from 39bfc41 and main is three image inputs ahead
of them, including a shell-config fix that users are still waiting for.

Each default manifest entry already records the commit it was baked from, so
drift is the diff between the image inputs at that commit and the ones in the
tree. No schema change, no provider credential, no new state.

The Cloud VM image contract workflow reports it on every image-touching PR and
push. It is deliberately not a gate: baking needs a credential and real VMs, so
source and image are allowed to move apart, but never silently.

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The PR adds a devbox image drift checker. It compares baked image inputs with the current tree, tests the comparison logic, exposes a package script, and runs reporting in the image contract workflow.

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Devbox image drift validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Drift comparison and validation
web/scripts/check-devbox-image-drift.ts, web/tests/vm-image-drift.test.ts
The script compares manifest image inputs at recorded commits with the working tree. Tests cover changed, added, deleted, and unchanged inputs.
Workflow integration and deployment guidance
web/package.json, .github/workflows/cloud-vm-image-contract.yml, skills/cmux-backend/references/devbox-image-deploys.md
The package script exposes drift checking. The workflow fetches full history, runs the new tests, and reports drift without gating. The deployment reference documents image promotion and drift checks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions as GitHub Actions
  participant DriftCheck as check-devbox-image-drift.ts
  participant Manifest as Image manifest
  participant Git as Git history
  GitHubActions->>Git: Checkout full repository history
  GitHubActions->>DriftCheck: Run devbox:drift:check
  DriftCheck->>Manifest: Load default image entries
  DriftCheck->>Git: Read baked inputs at each repoCommit
  DriftCheck-->>GitHubActions: Report matching or drifted inputs
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7a6a5

The new drift check can incorrectly report that a baked devbox image matches the repository when a binary image asset changed, leaving stale image content undetected. Byte-level comparison and regression coverage are needed before merge.

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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only GitHub workflow, Markdown, JSON, and TypeScript files. The exact diff contains no Swift files or Swift actor-isolation declarations, so it does not introduce or wor…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS — the pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, JSON, and TypeScript files. The committed diff contains no Swift files and no Swift synchronization changes. The custom check therefore does not ap…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only the image-drift workflow, documentation, package script, drift script, and drift tests. The rule's target files, Sources/TerminalController.swift and `Packages/ma…
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Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The diff adds a devbox drift-reporting script and workflow wiring. It does not replace an authoritative read with a cache in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. The script reads the …
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- Line 52: Update the image comparison logic in the drift-check script to read
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buffers with Buffer.equals so binary changes such as wallpaper.jpg are detected
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Compare image inputs as bytes.

DEVBOX_DESKTOP_FILES includes wallpaper.jpg in web/scripts/devbox-image-common.ts, Lines 174-185. Lines 52 and 62 decode both revisions as UTF-8. Different invalid byte sequences can decode to the same replacement characters. A changed JPEG can then incorrectly report no drift.

Read files as Buffer values and compare non-null values with Buffer.equals. Add a binary-content regression test.

Also applies to: 62-62

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In `@web/scripts/check-devbox-image-drift.ts` at line 52, Update the image
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`devbox image drift: the default image(s) baked from ${commit.slice(0, 10)} predate ${changed.length} ` +
`image input change(s), so these edits are NOT on any machine:\n ${changed.join("\n ")}\n` +
` defaults: ${versions.join(", ")}\n` +
" Bake and promote (from web/, with the deployment's FREESTYLE_API_KEY):\n" +

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Remove the deployment environment-variable name from command output.

Line 112 exposes the internal FREESTYLE_API_KEY name in recovery guidance. Replace it with product-neutral promotion guidance.

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A promotion rewrites twelve manifest entries at once, so two agents promoting
in parallel collide in one file, and hand-resolving that conflict produces
valid JSON whose size ladder is half from each bake. A bake taken from a
feature branch is the other invisible state: squash merging never puts that
commit on main, and deleting the branch takes the lineage with it, so nothing
can later say what source the running image came from.

Neither is something a later bake fixes, so `--pin` reports them separately
from drift and is safe to require. The pull_request trigger loses its path
filter for that reason: a required check that never runs blocks a PR forever.

Both states are live today. The defaults were baked from 39bfc41, which
exists only on feat-vm-guest-trust-dead-code; main carries that work as the
squash commit dfb0a6f.
@lawrencecchen lawrencecchen changed the title Report when the devbox image predates its source Validate the devbox image pin and report image drift Sep 8, 2026

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HEAD fallback hides branch bakes

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isLanded treats a commit as landed if it is an ancestor of HEAD, even when it is not on origin/main. A branch bake being promoted in a PR is an ancestor of the PR merge commit, so --pin accepts the exact case it exists to reject. After a squash merge the SHA is gone from main and the check can only fail once the bad pin is already deployed.

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`${kind}: the size ladder mixes bakes: ${shown}. ` +
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Same-commit mix evades pin check

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pinProblems treats repoCommit as bake identity, so a hand-merged ladder from two promotions of the same main SHA looks like one bake. That is the usual collision: parallel promotes share a commit and differ in imageId and builtAt. Different sizes then boot different snapshots and --pin stays green.

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