docs: add protected-folder diagnostics for tmux sessions

[haung921209]

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Changed tmux diagnostics documentation to cover protected folders.

Summary

Add a protected-folder troubleshooting section to the local tmux guide. It explains how to identify the affected socket and running server version, preserve the failure before restarting, and report a same-file comparison without assuming an EPERM root cause.

Related to #2866. The guide distinguishes the cmux local-tmux profile from externally managed tmux sessions and makes no runtime or permission-policy change.

Testing

• Validated the documented display-message format for socket, server PID, and running-server version.
• Confirmed local-tmux list --json exposes socket_path in CLI/CMUXCLI+LocalTmuxLifecycle.swift.
• git diff --check.
• Localization audit: changed repository Markdown only; no app strings, web-rendered message keys, or localization catalogs changed. No localized counterpart to this Markdown page was found in the checkout.
• No app build: documentation-only change. This PR makes no claim to reproduce or fix a permission failure.

Demo Video

Not applicable: no UI or runtime behavior change.

Checklist

• I tested the documented diagnostic command locally
• I updated the relevant documentation
• Maintainer review

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Summary by cubic

Adds a protected-folder troubleshooting section to the local tmux guide so Operation not permitted errors can be diagnosed reproducibly and reported without assuming an EPERM root cause. The docs show how to identify the affected socket and server version, preserve the failure before restarting, and run exact same-path commands in each shell context.

• Records the server PID, start time, and mapped executables via read-only commands.
• Includes repeatable POSIX-shell snippets for directory-listing and file-read checks that capture exit status and exact error text.
• Distinguishes EPERM from EACCES and notes when a failure should be reported as non-reproducible.
• Relates to the protected-folder investigation in macOS Tahoe: ls fails with "Operation not permitted" inside cmux in protected directories #2866.
• Documentation-only change; no runtime or permission-policy behavior changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added troubleshooting guidance for protected-folder access errors in local tmux environments.
  • Documented how to capture diagnostic details, identify the affected tmux server, and gather process information.
  • Added examples for investigating directory-listing and file-read failures across panes and terminal applications.
  • Clarified distinctions between permission errors and limitations of interpreting process ownership.
  • Included reporting recommendations and links to relevant Apple guidance and issue information.

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Protected-folder diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add protected-folder diagnostic procedure docs/local-tmux.md	Adds instructions to capture failure details, identify the affected tmux server, inspect processes, run directory-listing and file-read tests, report results, and distinguish EPERM from EACCES.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4f9db

The troubleshooting commands may alter tmux state rather than only inspect it, but the impact is limited to the diagnostic workflow.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR adds 92 lines of English troubleshooting prose to docs/local-tmux.md, including the new user-facing diagnostics section. The public README.md links this file directly, so it is rendered doc…	Put this troubleshooting content in the locale-aware documentation surface. Read the prose from next-intl (or an equivalent locale-specific source), add matching entries for every locale in web/i18n/routing.ts, and update the rendered d…

✅ Passed checks (24 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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 pull-request range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Swift files or production Swift changes, so it cannot introduce or worsen the specified Swift actor-isolation…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines) and contains no Swift changes. The added documentation contains no synchronization or timing implementation such as semaphore…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift, the control-command policy, worker routing, or policy tests, and the …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md. It adds documentation and does not add or move production Swift code, agent-history loading, synchronous workspace parsing, or any in…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines) and contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript changes. It does not replace any authoritative read with a cache …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines) and introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime code. The added shell snippets run diagnostic commands and …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It adds documentation and shell command examples, but no production Swift, TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or runtime file. Therefore, it…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines) and contains no Swift-file changes. Added lines contain no DispatchQueue, Combine, Task, completion-handler, or rela…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Swift, Objective-C, or header changes, and therefore introduces no @concurrent annotation or a…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains documentation and shell examples only; it introduces no production Swift code, app-target logic, or SwiftPM boundary…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project/workspace, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency change…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (92 added lines, no Swift or runtime files). The documentation adds shell diagnostics, not production Swift logging. No changed Swift logging…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). The added diagnostics contain safe command examples and generic errno/error text, with no credentials, tokens, headers, IDs,…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines) and contains no Swift, Objective-C, or SwiftUI source changes. Therefore it introduces no ObservableObject/@published state, …
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Swift or source-code changes and introduces no timing repair paths, mutable state owners, duplicate wirin…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The authoritative pull-request diff changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Swift files or Swift window declarations, and no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, `WindowG…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). The added content is hand-written troubleshooting documentation with shell examples, which the rule explicitly permits as an intentional…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative pull-request range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It changes no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so it cannot add a production test/debug seam cov…
Cmux No Ambient Global State	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed range changes only docs/local-tmux.md (+92 lines). It contains no Swift or other production source changes, no new functions, mutable globals, static-only namespaces, or singleton…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main documentation change: adding protected-folder diagnostics for tmux sessions.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required Summary, Testing, Changelog, Demo Video, and Checklist sections. It explains the user-facing change, documents validation, identifies the documentation-only scope…

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The PR adds 92 lines of English troubleshooting prose to docs/local-tmux.md, including the new user-facing diagnostics section. The public README.md links this file directly, so it is rendered documentation shown to users, not an internal operational document. The authoritative diff changes no locale-aware source or web/messages/*.json files, while web/i18n/routing.ts lists 20 supported locales. The added text therefore does not satisfy the rule for rendered Markdown localization.

Resolution

Put this troubleshooting content in the locale-aware documentation surface. Read the prose from next-intl (or an equivalent locale-specific source), add matching entries for every locale in web/i18n/routing.ts, and update the rendered docs page and metadata consistently. If the file is intended to remain internal operational documentation, remove the public README links and keep it out of user-facing rendered documentation.

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Please comment I have read the CLA Document v2.2 and I hereby sign the CLA so the CLA check can pass. Once that is in place, this docs PR can proceed :)

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Thanks @haung921209, these diagnostics are a useful addition to the tmux guide :) CLA Assistant is failing on this head, so please complete the CLA step before we can merge.

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Taking this: checking the protected-folder diagnostics and making the socket-selection examples explicitly read-only, then verifying review and CI. Thanks @haung921209 for keeping this guide focused on reproducible evidence.

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Thanks @haung921209. Updated with main at 8b8762a and fixed the socket-selection examples so they run display-message explicitly. The bot thread is resolved. Independent review found no remaining documentation issue at 6c264e1; a temporary tmux 3.6 server confirmed both socket forms report the expected socket, PID, and version without creating another session.

Diff checks pass. Localization audit: repository documentation and invariant command literals only, with no app or web messages changed. CI is approved, but the CLA check is still red; the documentation-only merge gate also awaits the maintainer’s decision, so this stays open.

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