Cloud tree: flatten terminal tabs and surface Displays

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Problem

Cloud machine rows exposed pane tabs as terminal-under-terminal children, hid real tabs behind 1 more tab / +N, omitted the machine Displays category, and could bootstrap a fresh machine as shell with two terminals.

What changed

• Project workspace placements as flat sibling leaf rows with exact remote tab identities. Pane layout still controls ordering, while every terminal/tab remains visible and addressable.
• Remove hidden-tab labels and badges from the Cloud tree and CLI projection.
• Always render a machine-level Displays category. It lists every catalogued VNC display resource, survives reconnects, and uses an explicit empty/unavailable row when discovery has no result. Existing noVNC routing remains the open path; no unsupported display-creation control is exposed.
• Move initial Cloud workspace setup to the trusted-carrier daemon owner. Fresh owner sessions create workspace-1 with one terminal; later automatic names use the daemon sequence. Opening/reconnecting a machine reattaches its authoritative terminal instead of creating another. Explicit New Terminal remains a create action.
• Workspace and terminal rename paths continue to use the exact workspace/tab identity, preserving user custom names.

Validation

• Added behavior regressions for flat rows, stable tab identities, Displays population/empty state, CLI parity, and one-based bootstrap naming.
• Regression test and fix are separate commits so CI proves the regression.
• Hosted test-e2e.yml: cmuxTests/CloudTreeOneMachineManyWorkspacesTests (recording disabled for the unit lane).
• Hosted cmux-tui.yml: automatically_created_workspaces_use_one_based_sequence.
• python3 scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py, localization JSON validation, and diff checks pass locally without touching budget TSVs.

Runtime rollout note

The daemon-owner bootstrap behavior takes effect on newly baked images containing this cmux-tui revision. Existing baked snapshots require the normal image bake/promotion rollout; source changes alone do not mutate production snapshots.

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Medium Risk
Changes cloud machine open/reconnect and workspace bootstrap paths; incorrect catalog resolution could block opens or attach the wrong tab, though ambiguous cases fail closed with new errors.

Overview
Cloud tree and CLI now list every workspace tab as a flat sibling row (pane layout only affects order). Hidden-tab nesting, +N badges, and “more tabs” copy are removed; node IDs include the remote tab identity so each row stays addressable.

Displays is always a machine-level section (renamed from “VNC Displays”), with explicit loading/empty/unavailable placeholders and catalog-backed VNC rows even when desktop metadata is stale. The Displays group no longer exposes “Open Desktop”; asleep placeholders can wake the machine via opensMachine.

Opening a cloud machine (non–full-client) refreshes the catalog and projects the active workspace’s existing terminal via VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.resolveVMMachineTerminal; it calls surface.new_terminal only when the graph is authoritatively empty, and errors when sessions are ambiguous or unavailable.

Daemon / provider behavior: trusted-carrier remote sessions run an initial bootstrap (workspace-1 + one terminal); auto-created workspaces use a workspace-N sequence. Terminal/workspace creation defers workspace choice to the daemon (current) instead of inventing names from a stale Mac catalog.

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Summary by cubic

Flattens the Cloud tree so every terminal tab appears as a sibling leaf row with its exact remote identity, and makes Displays a machine-level category that always renders in the sidebar and CLI. Moves initial Cloud workspace setup into the daemon owner so opening or reconnecting a machine reattaches its existing terminal instead of creating a duplicate, and resolves workspace selection for new terminals inside the daemon so a stale client catalog can't bootstrap a second workspace.

• The CLI projection matches the flat rows and no longer shows (+N hidden) labels or nested tabs.
• Displays always appears under a machine, listing catalogued VNC screens or an explicit loading, empty, unavailable, or asleep state row; the old VNC Displays group and its Open Desktop action are removed.
• Catalogued displays stay visible even when machine metadata doesn't advertise the desktop capability.
• Fresh daemon sessions get workspace-1 with one terminal; later auto-created workspaces continue the daemon's workspace-N sequence, and user-renamed names are preserved.
• Explicit New Terminal still creates; CLI vm open reuses the machine's existing terminal and only creates when the graph is empty, failing closed with an error when sessions are unavailable or ambiguous.
• Clicking the asleep status placeholder wakes the machine; empty state rows no longer do.

Rollout

• Daemon-owner bootstrap applies to newly baked images; existing snapshots need the normal bake/promote rollout.

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• New Features

  • Cloud machine terminals now reuse existing sessions when available and clearly report empty or unavailable sessions.
  • Workspace tabs appear as individual rows for easier navigation.
  • Displays remain visible even when machine metadata is incomplete, with clear empty and unavailable states.
  • Sleeping machine placeholders indicate when opening an item will wake the machine.
  • Automatically created workspaces now use sequential names such as “workspace-1.”

• Improvements

  • Display terminology is simplified from “VNC Displays” to “Displays.”
  • Workspace creation can use automatically assigned names when no name is provided.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CLI now reuses existing machine terminals, workspace and tab rows render as flat siblings, displays remain visible with explicit empty states, and workspace creation delegates active-workspace resolution and automatic naming to the daemon.

Changes

Workspace resolution and cloud tree

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Active terminal resolution and VM opening CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift, CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift, CLI/VMMachineTerminalResolution.swift, cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderTests.swift	Plain-terminal opens reuse an available machine terminal, create one only for an authoritative empty graph, and report unavailable sessions otherwise.
Flat placements and display pools Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeNode.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeOutlineView.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeRowContentView.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/..., CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift, cmuxTests/CloudTreeOneMachineManyWorkspacesTests.swift	Workspace tabs render as sibling leaf rows. Hidden-tab metadata and pane expansion handling are removed. Displays remain visible as a machine-level pool with localized empty states.
Daemon workspace creation and naming Sources/Cloud/CloudTuiCommandLine.swift, Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviders.swift, Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSnapshotParser.swift, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/main.rs	Workspace names and active-workspace selection move to daemon responses. Default names use the highest existing workspace-N suffix, and trusted-carrier sessions initialize their first workspace before clients attach.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 17f47

Cloud machine opening and display presentation can still produce duplicate or incorrectly selected terminals, show non-authoritative workspace state, and omit Displays for unavailable empty machines. These behaviors should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant SurfaceCatalog
  participant VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver
  participant MachineSession
  CLI->>SurfaceCatalog: refresh machine state
  CLI->>VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver: resolve existing terminal
  VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver-->>CLI: resolved, empty, or unavailable
  alt resolved
    CLI->>MachineSession: open resolved workspace and tab
  else empty
    CLI->>MachineSession: create terminal
  end

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Possibly related PRs

• manaflow-ai/cmux#11773: Extends the related multi-workspace Cloud model with shared terminal resolution and flat workspace representations.
• manaflow-ai/cmux#10916: Uses the same Cloud tree, terminal parsing, and display terminology areas.

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❌ Failed checks (4 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The machine-open path now calls resolveVMMachineTerminal (CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift:463), which scans live terminal resources and then sorts all candidates before selecting one (`CLI/VMRemoteWorkspa…	Use a linear selection. Replace candidates.sorted { ... }.first with candidates.min(by: ...), or update the loop to retain the preferred candidate as it scans. Replace unavailableSelectors.sorted().first and `ambiguousSelectors.sorted…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The PR adds independent remote-session domain logic to the cmux-cli app target. CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift adds resolveVMMachineTerminal, which parses catalog protocol data and selects …	Extract the coherent catalog identity and terminal-selection slice from CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift, including VMMachineTerminalResolution and the pure helpers it calls, into the CmuxCore SwiftPM target (or a new small `CmuxVM…
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR changes Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, but the affected entries contain only en and ja. The catalog already contains 20 locale codes: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, `ja…	Add real translated stringUnit values, with translated state, for every supported catalog locale for all seven new keys and all three changed keys in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. Do not use copied English, placeholders, or empty val…
Cmux No Ambient Global State	❌ Error	The PR adds the internal static API CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.emptyDisplays(info:) at Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.swift:18. CloudMachineSurfacePresentation is an empty st…	Move emptyDisplays to a constructable, injectable presentation owner and construct that owner at the Cloud tree-building seam. Alternatively, keep the behavior as a private/fileprivate helper if its use can be confined to one file. Do not…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 68 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (20 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: flattening Cloud terminal tabs and exposing the Displays category. It is concise and specific.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and covers the problem, implementation, testing, rollout, and risk. It is mostly complete, but it does not include the template's Demo Video, Review Trigger, or Checklist s…
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	No changed-code match for the Swift actor-isolation failure conditions. The PR adds no service protocol, shared mutable Sendable reference type, logger, or background access to a UI-bound store. `VM…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The PR's production Swift diff adds no semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, timers, main-queue sync, manual locks, or polling loops. A direct audit of added non-test Swift lines found…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff from origin/main to HEAD changes Cloud tree/resource projection, VM workspace resolution, localization, and daemon bootstrap. It does not change `Sources/TerminalController.swift…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), SharedLiveAgentIndex, transcript, trajectory, hook-store, baseline, JSONL, directory-scan, or per-record syscall load. The new interac…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with an unsafe cache in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. The CLI now requests surface.catalog with refresh: true; terminal…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime script files. Its only changed non-Swift runtime files are Rust files that add workspace naming and trusted-carrier bootstrap lo…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff from origin/main adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler API, or fire-and-forget Task pattern in cmux-owned Swift. The only added concurrency …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff introduces no new nonisolated async function and does not add, remove, or misuse @concurrent. The existing JSON snapshot decoder remains @concurrent nonisolated and its impleme…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj within the policy scope, and the diff adds VMMachineTerminalResolution.swift as a source file and build entry. It does not add or change an…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff from origin/main to HEAD adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, os_log, or file/stdout diagnostic logging statements. The added lines.append calls build in…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR diff adds only generic user-facing copy such as “The machine’s sessions are unavailable. Refresh and retry.”, “Display discovery unavailable. Refresh to retry.”, and “No displays availabl…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no new ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, @ObservedObject, @Bindable, @Observable, GeometryReader, or lazy/list row pattern. `CloudTreeRo…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR does not introduce a failure condition from swift-architectural-rethink.md. The added Swift diff has no timing repairs, polling, locks, observers, singleton state, or delayed dispatch. …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR adds or changes no standalone cmux-owned window, panel, controller, Window, or WindowGroup. The Swift diff contains cloud tree, CLI, resolver, layout, and provider changes only; added lin…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull-request diff contains 18 paths, all in intentional source, test, localization, or Xcode project locations. The diff adds only one Swift source file, has no binary changes, no artifact-l…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed production Swift files under Sources/ add no #if DEBUG or test-build seam, no debug…/…ForTesting/…TestHook member, and no test-only wrapper accessor. The new public `Remote…

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 68 functions across 16 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The machine-open path now calls resolveVMMachineTerminal (CLI/CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift:463), which scans live terminal resources and then sorts all candidates before selecting one (CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift:156-162). This is O(T log T) for T user-owned terminal sessions. It also sorts unavailable and ambiguous selectors at lines 167-171. The path has no benchmark or size bound, and it can handle about 1000 sessions. The new machine-open routing therefore activates an avoidable slower algorithm.

Resolution

Use a linear selection. Replace candidates.sorted { ... }.first with candidates.min(by: ...), or update the loop to retain the preferred candidate as it scans. Replace unavailableSelectors.sorted().first and ambiguousSelectors.sorted().first with .min(). Add a scale test or measurement for the resolver with approximately 1000 terminal resources.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR adds independent remote-session domain logic to the cmux-cli app target. CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift adds resolveVMMachineTerminal, which parses catalog protocol data and selects an authoritative workspace, terminal, and tab without AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty state, or singletons. CLI/VMMachineTerminalResolution.swift adds its value result type. CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift then uses this logic to choose surface.project or surface.new_terminal. The Xcode project places both files in the CLI target and test target, while no SwiftPM target owns them. This matches the rule's independent domain and protocol/parsing logic conditions. The separate RemoteWorkspaceLayout.flatPlacementIndices change is already in the CmuxCore package and is not a violation.

Resolution

Extract the coherent catalog identity and terminal-selection slice from CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift, including VMMachineTerminalResolution and the pure helpers it calls, into the CmuxCore SwiftPM target (or a new small CmuxVMWorkspaceCore target). Expose VMMachineTerminalResolution as the first public value type and make the resolver API public. Keep CMUXCLI+VMTui.swift as the app-specific adapter for catalog transport, localized errors, and surface operations. Add package-level tests for connected, empty, focused, ambiguous, and unavailable catalog states.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR changes Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, but the affected entries contain only en and ja. The catalog already contains 20 locale codes: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant. The seven new keys (cli.vm.open.sessionsUnavailable, cli.vm.tree.noDisplays, and the five cloudTree.displays.* keys) and the three changed keys (cli.vm.tree.displays, cli.vm.tree.usage, and cloudTree.group.displays) therefore lack translated entries for the other catalog locales. The new Swift literals do use String(localized:defaultValue:), but the matching catalog coverage is incomplete.

Resolution

Add real translated stringUnit values, with translated state, for every supported catalog locale for all seven new keys and all three changed keys in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. Do not use copied English, placeholders, or empty values. Validate the catalog after adding the translations.

Full details: Cmux No Ambient Global State

Explanation

The PR adds the internal static API CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.emptyDisplays(info:) at Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.swift:18. CloudMachineSurfacePresentation is an empty struct whose API is entirely static helpers, so this change expands a static-only namespace. The aggregate diff against origin/main confirms that this method is new; the existing displays and emptyPorts methods predate the PR. This matches the rule's failure condition for a type used as a static-function namespace.

Resolution

Move emptyDisplays to a constructable, injectable presentation owner and construct that owner at the Cloud tree-building seam. Alternatively, keep the behavior as a private/fileprivate helper if its use can be confined to one file. Do not add the new behavior as another internal static method on the empty CloudMachineSurfacePresentation namespace.

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In `@CLI/CMUXCLI`+VMTui.swift:
- Line 1463: Update the localized entries for cli.vm.tree.displays and
cloudTree.group.displays to use the new “Displays” wording in English and
Japanese, or mark the affected translations as needing review until corrected;
keep the CLI display label aligned with these localization values.

In `@CLI/VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.swift`:
- Around line 21-22: Update the workspace selection logic in the resolver so an
unfocused graph is accepted only when exactly one workspace exists; return
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Preserve focused-workspace selection and the existing workspaceID validation,
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In `@cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/main.rs`:
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Make terminal bootstrap atomic.

surface.catalog and surface.new_terminal form a client-side check-then-create sequence. surface.new_terminal always calls CmuxTuiSurfaceProvider.createTerminal, which issues workspace ... run; pending creation tracking starts only after that request completes. Concurrent opens can therefore create separate terminals from the same empty snapshot.

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CloudMachineSurfacePresentation to pass the same info.linkState == .asleep
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In `@cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderTests.swift`:
- Around line 221-222: Update the disconnected/unfocused workspace fixture used
by VMRemoteWorkspaceResolver.resolveVMMachineTerminal to include link_state set
to connected, so the assertion reaches the multiple-unfocused-workspaces branch
instead of returning unavailable for missing connection state. Leave the
existing machine and workspace data unchanged.

In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeNode.swift`:
- Line 848: Update the Displays pool construction around the link-state
condition in CloudTreeNode so every catalogued machine always appends the
Displays category. When displays is empty, use
CloudMachineSurfacePresentation.emptyDisplays(info:) to provide the
state-specific placeholder instead of omitting the category; preserve existing
display rendering when items are present.

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