fix: preserve Cloud projection identity during nightly restore

[austinywang]

Problem

Nightly session restore could lose Cloud terminal projection identity while a provider was reconnecting. The workspace and tab stayed visible, but an autosave serialized only resolved projections; a later restore then produced a bare shell or a blank pane. This is the same lifecycle seen in #12486 when cmux-tui returned selector.not_found for a stale tab_* selector.

Change

• Keep pending restored remote projections in a panel keyed store until their provider resource is published.
• Include pending identities in session projection capture, preserve one owner across replacement and workspace moves, and clear them on panel or machine teardown.
• Add durable nightly breadcrumbs for restore staging/commit, projection capture/assignment, and Cloud link start/success/failure.

This keeps terminal identity separate from ephemeral tab placement and prevents a partial restore from being saved as an anonymous shell.

Validation

• python3 scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py
• git diff --check
• ./scripts/setup.sh
• swiftc -frontend -parse on changed Swift files
• xcodebuild ... -scheme cmux-unit ... -only-testing:cmuxTests/CloudWorkspaceLiveProjectionTests test reached compilation but is blocked by the existing environment symbol mismatch GHOSTTY_ACTION_OPEN_URL_KIND_OSC8 in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift.
• Tagged ./scripts/reload.sh --tag issue-7867-nightly-restore-followup was started without launching; it was interrupted after the shared Xcode host remained in a long dependency/build queue. No app was launched.

Fixes #7867
Related to #12486

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved restoration of cloud projections received before their resources become available.
  • Pending projections now persist correctly through restore and autosave operations.
  • Prevented outdated projections from reappearing after projections are replaced, moved, closed, or removed.
  • Improved handling of pending projections when moving them between workspaces.

• Reliability

  • Added more complete startup and cloud-connection activity tracking to improve troubleshooting of connection and restoration issues.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore, updates SurfaceCatalog to manage pending projections through it, records restore and cloud-link breadcrumbs, registers the new source file, and adds projection persistence and ownership tests.

Changes

Session restore lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pending projection store Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Adds panel-keyed storage for staging, removing, moving, resolving, capturing, and merging pending projections. Registers the source file in the Xcode project.
Surface catalog integration Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceCatalog.swift, cmuxTests/CloudWorkspaceLiveProjectionTests.swift	Updates projection restore, movement, removal, record generation, machine lookup, and bulk resolution to use the store. Tests cover persistence, unique panel ownership, and removal of closed pending projections.
Restore lifecycle breadcrumbs Sources/TerminalStartupRestoreCoordinator.swift	Records structured breadcrumbs when panels are staged and committed during startup restore.
Cloud link breadcrumbs Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager.swift	Records cloud link start, successful connection, preflight failures, and connection failures with machine and diagnostic metadata.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to afa94

No actionable current-head regression remains; the pending projection cleanup path refreshes ownership state correctly.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The PR adds a per-workspace full scan of all pending projections. SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.records(for:) filters entriesByPanelID.values at `Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swi…	Index pending projections by workspace ID, or add a bulk capture API that groups all pending entries by workspace in one pass before serializing workspace snapshots. Keep panel-ID deduplication with a Set. Avoid scanning `entriesByPanelID.v…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The pull request adds independently testable restore-state logic to the app target. Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift is a new Sendable value type with pure stage, remove, move,…	Create a small SwiftPM target named CmuxSurfaceProjectionRestore. Move the restore store and the minimum pure projection identity/record value types that it needs into that target. Make SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore the first public typ…
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #7867 requires a regression test for the failing Codex restore path, reliable restore with stable and nightly instances, and startup-log events for binding lookup, resume command, and each panel…	Add a regression test that restores a Codex session across relaunch and covers stable and nightly instances sharing the user environment. Add startup-log events for binding found or missing, resume command issued, and the final outcome for …
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 58.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (21 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving Cloud projection identity during nightly restore.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, validation results, and linked issues. It omits the template headings for Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist, but the core summary …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The pending Cloud projection store, ownership handling, session capture, restore breadcrumbs, Cloud-link breadcrumbs, project registration, and focused tests support session-restore reliability or dia…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	No actor-isolation failure is introduced. The new SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore is a value-type Sendable store, not a shared mutable reference type. All of its accesses are contained by the explic…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR adds no prohibited blocking or timing primitive in production Swift. The authoritative diff adds breadcrumb calls, a value-type pending-projection store, and store call-site changes. It d…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only Cloud link breadcrumbs, surface projection restore storage, startup restore breadcrumbs, project registration, and related tests. `Sources/TerminalControll…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed production diff adds no synchronous agent-history loader or large-file read. It does not add or move RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), SharedLiveAgentIndex loading, hook-store…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff does not replace an authoritative persistence read with a cache. projectionRecords(forWorkspace:) still starts from the live projections set and only adds records explicitly staged …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only Swift source/tests and an Xcode project file. The custom rule applies to non-Swift TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and build/runtime scripts. No covered fil…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS — the PR adds no prohibited legacy async pattern. The changed Swift additions use synchronous store mutations, async/await already present in surrounding code, and synchronous `StartupBreadcr…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff adds no async, await, nonisolated async, or @concurrent declarations or call-site changes. connectMeasured(machineID:) remains an actor-isolated `async throws…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, or workflow file. Its only Xcode project change registers SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift as a source file; it does not add or modify…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds only calls to the existing StartupBreadcrumbLog destination. It adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc file/stdout logging, or Logger declaration. The changed f…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds structured StartupBreadcrumbLog entries and classified failure reasons. It does not add or change user-facing alerts, command output, API error bodies, or recovery copy. The new `m…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only Swift state management, project registration, tests, and structured startup breadcrumb records. The added strings (cloud.link.*, session.restore.*, fie…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no prohibited SwiftUI state or layout pattern. SurfaceCatalog already used @Observable in the base revision, and the new pendingRestoredProjections property is a plain value-ty…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce a prohibited architectural repair. SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore is a value type owned only by the @MainActor SurfaceCatalog; it centralizes pending projection state …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request does not introduce or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. The authoritative diff changes Cloud link logging, surface projection restore storage, startup breadcrum…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only Swift source files, a Swift test, and the Xcode project configuration. The new SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift is hand-written product source, and the add…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	No prohibited test or debug seam was added. The production changes add runtime breadcrumb logging and the internal SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore used by SurfaceCatalog for restore capture, resolut…
Cmux No Ambient Global State	✅ Passed	No ambient global state was introduced. The new production type, SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore, owns private instance state and exposes instance methods. The new Cloud helper is a private instance…

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Explanation

Issue #7867 requires a regression test for the failing Codex restore path, reliable restore with stable and nightly instances, and startup-log events for binding lookup, resume command, and each panel outcome. This PR adds tests for pending Cloud projection persistence and ownership. It adds projection and panel staging/commit breadcrumbs, plus Cloud-link breadcrumbs. The reviewed changes do not show a Codex restore regression test, stable/nightly coexistence coverage, or events for resume command issuance and final per-panel restore outcome. The reported test did not run because compilation stopped at the existing symbol mismatch.

Resolution

Add a regression test that restores a Codex session across relaunch and covers stable and nightly instances sharing the user environment. Add startup-log events for binding found or missing, resume command issued, and the final outcome for each restored panel. Run the regression test after resolving or independently bypassing the reported compilation blocker.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 58.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The PR adds a per-workspace full scan of all pending projections. SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.records(for:) filters entriesByPanelID.values at Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift:83. SurfaceCatalog.projectionRecords(forWorkspace:) calls it at Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceCatalog.swift:1328, and session capture invokes that path once for every restorable workspace through the TabManager workspace map at Sources/TabManager.swift:6480-6488. This creates O(W×P) work for W workspaces and P pending projections on each snapshot. The path runs during autosave, whose interval is 8 seconds, and the repository allows 128 workspaces and 512 panels per workspace. The PR provides no benchmark or measurement. The existing live-projection scan is pre-existing, but the pending-store scan is introduced by this diff.

Resolution

Index pending projections by workspace ID, or add a bulk capture API that groups all pending entries by workspace in one pass before serializing workspace snapshots. Keep panel-ID deduplication with a Set. Avoid scanning entriesByPanelID.values separately for each workspace.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The pull request adds independently testable restore-state logic to the app target. Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore.swift is a new Sendable value type with pure stage, remove, move, resolve, capture, and merge operations. It uses Foundation collections and projection identity values, not AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty, or app lifecycle composition. The Xcode project adds it to the cmux app Sources build phase. Its capture and restore behavior is persistence/state-transition logic, and it writes directly to the app-global StartupBreadcrumbLog. The added tests exercise it only through SurfaceCatalog, not as an isolated unit. The other changed files are app integration, lifecycle composition, logging additions, project wiring, or tests and do not independently trigger this check.

Resolution

Create a small SwiftPM target named CmuxSurfaceProjectionRestore. Move the restore store and the minimum pure projection identity/record value types that it needs into that target. Make SurfaceProjectionRestoreStore the first public type, with a value-oriented API for staging, moving, removing, capturing, resolving, and merging records. Replace the direct StartupBreadcrumbLog dependency with an injectable @Sendable event sink, then keep the app logger and SurfaceCatalog integration in the cmux app target. Add package-level unit tests for the store and leave only app-specific composition in Sources/Surfaces.

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CI validation note: the integration test job reached the app build and failed on the pre-existing GHOSTTY_ACTION_OPEN_URL_KIND_OSC8 symbol error in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, before running the selected suites. The local tagged reload reached the same shared Xcode build queue and was interrupted after no patch diagnostics appeared. Repository guards and Swift parse/budget checks pass.

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Merged origin/main and resolved the SurfaceCatalog conflict. The branch now retains main’s cloud projection index invalidation while using the panel-keyed pending restore store; the merge commit is 3dec5d2.

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In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager.swift`:
- Around line 153-156: Update connectMeasured(machineID:) to emit
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In `@Sources/Surfaces/SurfaceCatalog.swift`:
- Line 1163: Update the pending projection removal path in SurfaceCatalog so a
successful pendingRestoredProjections.remove(panelID:) is treated as a catalog
change and schedules notifyChange(), including when no ended projections exist.
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Resolved both CodeRabbit inline findings in commit afa94789bb: preflight link attempts now emit cloud.link.start and classified cloud.link.failed breadcrumbs without mutating retry state, and pending projection removal now invalidates the index and notifies observers even when no live projection exists. The nested pending-record merge now uses a single panel-ID Set.