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  • What changed? pane.list responses are cached per workspace for the lifetime of a SocketClient, and the read-only tmux compatibility lookups (tmuxCanonicalPaneId, tmuxFormatContext, and the display-message geometry enrichment) go through that cache.
  • Why? display-message -t <pane> still fails with rate_limited after Fix tmux compatibility read fan-out rate limiting #12061. Resolving the target re-reads the same workspace's pane list three times before the format fan-out runs, so a single connection spends 10 read-plane tokens against a burst of 9.

#11803 was fixed for the untargeted form only. #12061's test models tmuxFormatContext, which is the path taken without -t; adding -t introduces target resolution on top of it, and that is what goes over budget.

Measured on origin/main (309513b) with one workspace and one pane — the smallest possible setup:

command before after
display-message -p '#{session_name}:#{window_index}' 7 reads, ok 6 reads, ok
display-message -t "$TMUX_PANE" -p '#{session_name}:#{window_index}' 10 reads, rate_limited 6 reads, ok
list-panes -t "$TMUX_PANE" 8 reads, ok 6 reads, ok

Read order before the fix:

pane.list → pane.list → pane.list → pane.surfaces → workspace.list
→ surface.current → surface.list → pane.list → surface.list → pane.list

Pane topology cannot change while one read-only command runs, so the reused payload is identical. A command that mutates the workspace is a different matter: split-window -t <pane> loads the pane list while resolving the target, and its -P format context reads it again after surface.split. The cache is therefore dropped at the SocketClient.sendV2 boundary — only methods that cannot change which panes exist, where they sit, or which one is active keep it, and anything else, including a method the set does not recognise, invalidates. A future mutating RPC fails safe rather than silently serving a stale list.

Testing

tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_targeted_read_budget.py runs the real CLI against a fake control socket that applies the same token bucket, following the shape of tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_split_window_surface_ref.py. It resolves the pane handle the way a shell in the pane would (list-panes -F '#{pane_id}') and then exercises the reported failure, display-message -t "$TMUX_PANE".

The burst and the polling method names are parsed from ControlClientRateLimiter.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy+ReadPlane.swift rather than copied, so the test cannot drift from the limiter it models, and it fails loudly if those declarations move.

It covers both directions: the targeted read fan-out stays inside one burst, and split-window -P describes the pane the split created rather than the pre-split layout.

Verified against four CLI builds from this branch:

build result
unpatched origin/main FAIL … polling calls=10 (burst=9), exit 1
cache in tmuxCanonicalPaneId only PASS (8 reads), exit 0
cache without the boundary invalidation FAIL … split-window -P described the new pane with the pre-split layout, exit 1
this PR PASS (6 reads), exit 0

The stale case printed %6298629473962215337 1 for #{pane_id} #{pane_index} #{pane_active}: the id was right because it comes from the surface.split response, while the index and active flag came from the pane list loaded before the split.

The script sets no subprocess deadline, so a slow runner cannot turn a correct command into a failure; hangs stay bounded by the timeout-minutes guard on the CI job. CMUX_CLI_TEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS adds one back for running the file by hand.

Also verified manually against a debug build over its control socket, five runs each: unpatched failed 5/5, patched succeeded 5/5, with byte-identical output for every command the unpatched build could complete (display-message with and without -t, list-panes -a, list-panes -t, list-windows, and geometry formats such as #{pane_width}x#{pane_height}).

Existing tests/test_cli_*tmux* results are unchanged by this patch: test_cli_claude_teams_tmux_sequence.py passes before and after, and the other three fail identically before and after in my environment for unrelated setup reasons.

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Fixes display-message -t <pane> failing with rate_limited by caching the workspace pane list in SocketClient and dropping that cache whenever a command can change pane topology, so targeted tmux-compat reads fit within the read-plane burst.

  • Target resolution previously re-read the same workspace's pane.list three times, spending 10 read-plane tokens against a burst of 9; the cache drops the targeted fan-out to 6 reads.
  • Read-only lookups (tmuxCanonicalPaneId, tmuxFormatContext, geometry enrichment) reuse the cached payload; the cache is invalidated automatically at the RPC boundary unless the method belongs to a fixed set of pane-topology-preserving methods, so mutations like surface.split are always observed.
  • Adds a regression test that runs the real CLI against a fake control socket applying the same token bucket, parsing the burst and polling method names from their Swift sources; the fake validates that every call targets the hosted workspace, pane, and surface. It asserts that split-window -P describes the pane the split created and imposes no wall-clock deadline, so slow runners can't fail a correct command (hangs are caught by the CI job timeout; CMUX_CLI_TEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS adds one for manual runs).

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  • Performance

    • Improved responsiveness for tmux-compatible commands by reusing pane information when appropriate.
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    • Reduced redundant pane-list requests while ensuring newly split panes are reflected immediately.
    • Improved reliability of targeted display-message commands within connection polling limits.
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    • Added coverage for rate limiting, unsupported commands, malformed responses, error handling, and accurate pane reporting.

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The CLI caches pane.list responses by workspace during tmux compatibility target resolution. A Python harness uses a rate-limited Unix socket to verify targeted commands and split-pane reporting.

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Pane List Read-Budget Compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pane list cache integration
CLI/cmux.swift
The client caches pane-list payloads by workspace, invalidates the cache after topology-changing methods, and routes three target-resolution calls through the cache.
Fake read-plane server
tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_targeted_read_budget.py
The test harness reads read-plane settings and serves simulated control responses through a rate-limited Unix socket.
Targeted budget checks
tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_targeted_read_budget.py
The test runs untargeted and targeted display-message commands, checks one-burst polling limits, and verifies that split-window reports the newly created pane.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 281b2

No actionable merge-blocking issue remains in the targeted pane-cache and regression-harness changes.

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`display-message -t <pane>` resolves the target before formatting, and that
resolution re-reads the same workspace's pane list several times: once to pick
the workspace, again for the pane id, and again while enriching geometry.
Together with the format fan-out this spends 10 read-plane tokens on a single
connection, one past the burst, so the command fails with `rate_limited`.

Cache `pane.list` per workspace for the lifetime of a `SocketClient` and route
the read-only tmux compatibility lookups through it. Pane topology cannot
change while one read-only command runs, so the reused payload is identical;
paths that mutate topology keep calling `pane.list` directly and can drop the
cache through `invalidatePaneListCache()`. The targeted fan-out drops from 10
reads to 6.

The regression test drives the real CLI against a fake control socket that
applies the same token bucket, reading the burst and the polling method names
from their Swift definitions so it cannot drift from the limiter it models.

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In `@CLI/cmux.swift`:
- Around line 4039-4052: Update SocketClient.sendV2 to clear paneListCache after
successful pane-topology-changing RPCs, including surface.split, surface.close,
surface.respawn, pane.swap, pane.join, and pane.break. Revise paneListSnapshot
and invalidatePaneListCache documentation to describe centralized sendV2
invalidation rather than requiring individual callers to invalidate the cache.

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Target resolution loads the pane list before the mutation runs, so a command
that resolves `-t`, mutates, then formats could describe the pre-mutation
layout. `split-window -t <pane> -P -F '#{pane_id} #{pane_index} #{pane_active}'`
reported the new pane's id with an empty index, because the id comes from the
`surface.split` response while the index came from the cached list.

Invalidate at the `SocketClient` RPC boundary: only methods that cannot change
which panes exist, where they sit, or which one is active keep the cache, and
anything else — including an unrecognized method — drops it. Read-only commands
still make a single `pane.list` call.

The regression test now covers both directions: the targeted read fan-out stays
within one burst, and `split-window -P` describes the pane the split created.
Its subprocess timeout is a hang guard rather than a latency ceiling, so it no
longer fails a correct command on a slow runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The assertions count how many reads a command issues, so a slow runner must
never turn a correct command into a failure. Hangs are already caught by the
`timeout-minutes` guard on the CI job that runs these scripts, so the script
waits for completion instead of imposing its own deadline.
CMUX_CLI_TEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS adds one back for running the file by hand.

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Validate target parameters in the fake control socket. pane.list and surface.list return the fixed state without checking params. surface.split creates the new pane without checking workspace_id or surface_id. The CLI uses these calls during targeted resolution and splitting, but the assertions check only output and call success. A wrong target can therefore still produce cmux:0 or a valid new-pane report. Reject missing or unexpected workspace, pane, and surface IDs in the relevant fake handlers.

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The fake answered every call from its fixed state, so a command that resolved
the wrong workspace, pane, or surface would still have produced the expected
output. Validate the target the way the split-window fake already does: every
workspace-scoped method must name the hosted workspace, `pane.surfaces` must
name a pane that exists at that point in the scenario, and `surface.split` and
`surface.send_text` must name the surface the scenario expects.

This matters for a cached pane list in particular, since a cache keyed by the
wrong workspace would otherwise go unnoticed.

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Addressed the outside-diff finding on the fake control socket in 281b285.

The fake now rejects a call aimed at anything it does not host, following the same shape tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_split_window_surface_ref.py already uses: every workspace-scoped method must name the hosted workspace, pane.surfaces must name a pane that exists at that point in the scenario (so the new pane is only valid after the split), and surface.split/surface.send_text must name the expected surface. Verified each rejection directly, and the three builds still separate as before — unpatched main fails on the read budget, the cache-without-invalidation build fails on the stale split output, and this branch passes.

You were right that it mattered here specifically: a pane-list cache keyed by the wrong workspace would have gone unnoticed under the old fake.

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Closing this — it landed in main under your own issue, and the current shape is better than mine.

For anyone finding this later: df3ea682 added a per-connection pane list cache with a topology-preserving method set, then ae639d38 removed it in favour of honouring the limiter's retry hint inside the CLI request deadline (SocketClient+V2.swift). Current main keeps all 10 pane.list call sites and survives the burst by waiting rather than by spending fewer tokens.

One thing I want to flag as clearly better than what I wrote: the ProductionLimiter in tests/test_cli_tmux_compat_targeted_read_budget.py compiles ControlClientRateLimiter.swift and the execution-policy sources and runs the real admission decisions. My version regex-parsed the burst and the polling method names out of the Swift source, which was already the weaker half of my patch — the docstring "never parse Swift source" is the right call, and I'd have gotten there eventually via a drift bug rather than by design.

Genuine question, no agenda: what moved you off the cache within a day? I read the two as complementary rather than competing — backpressure keeps the command correct under any fan-out, while cutting the targeted path from 10 reads to 6 means the retry usually never fires. If the cache had a failure mode I did not hit in my testing, I would like to know what it was, since I reported the original issue from a machine that hits this path constantly.

Either way, thanks for picking it up.

@robinhur robinhur closed this Sep 19, 2026
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@robinhur Thank you so much for all the work you put into this, and for being so gracious in your follow-up!!!

I can ask Austin about this. I’m not sure what happened, but I really appreciate you raising it the way you did.

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