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Summary

Releasing an AppDelegate off the main thread crashes the process. Three crash reports show SIGTRAP in MainActor.assumeIsolated inside AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit, called from AppDelegate.__ivar_destroyer. Unit tests that create their own AppDelegate can release it from a Swift concurrency thread.

The deinit stops the prose wake driver and streamer inside MainActor.assumeIsolated, which assumes the service is always released on the main actor.

The deinit still stops both synchronously on the main thread. Anywhere else it hands them to a main-actor task that stops them there.

Testing

  • In a full run of the unit tests at main 4638e5b1ea plus the compile fixes in Fix the compile errors that keep main and its unit tests from building #12584, through scripts/ci/run-app-host-xcodebuild.sh in 12 batches the way CI runs app-host tests, three crash reports show this trap, and hosts died in batches 9, 11 and 12.
  • The same 12 batches with the crash fixes applied: batches 11 and 12 ran without a host death, and no log line shows the assumeIsolated trap.
  • The same 12 batches with all seven crash fixes applied, run again after the review changes: no log line shows the assumeIsolated trap, and macOS saved no crash report for this teardown.

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Fixes a crash when AgentChatTranscriptService is released off the main thread. Previously deinit assumed it ran on the main actor and trapped in MainActor.assumeIsolated, crashing the test host when a test-owned AppDelegate was released from a Swift concurrency thread. The service now stops the prose wake driver and streamer synchronously on the main thread when possible, and otherwise hands them to a main-actor task to stop there. Adds a regression test that releases the service from a background thread and waits for that release without blocking the main actor.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved cleanup of chat transcript streaming components when leaving a chat.
    • Ensured cleanup completes reliably whether a chat is closed on or off the main thread.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause chat transcript services to remain active or fail during background-thread release.
    • Improved reliability when ending chats, helping prevent lingering streaming activity and ensuring a cleaner transition after leaving a conversation.

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AgentChatTranscriptService now performs thread-aware deinitialization. A regression test verifies release from a background thread and allows main-actor cleanup to complete.

Changes

Transcript teardown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Thread-aware teardown
Sources/Mobile/AgentChat/AgentChatTranscriptService.swift, cmuxTests/AgentChatSessionRegistryLifecycleReviewRegressionTests.swift
Deinitialization stops the prose wake driver and streamer directly on the main thread or through a main-actor helper from other threads. The regression test releases the service from a background thread and waits for cleanup.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The regression test may pass before transcript cleanup completes, reducing confidence that future teardown regressions will be detected. Merge risk is low, but the test should await cleanup explicitly.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Concurrency ❌ Error The production diff adds an unstructured fire-and-forget Task { @mainactor in ... } in AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit. The task performs meaningful resource teardown (wakeDriver.stop() and `s… Replace the unowned teardown task with an explicit owner-managed cleanup operation that has a stored and cancellable task handle, or use a narrowly scoped allowed main-queue/actor hop for this required isolation boundary without introducing…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing an off-main-thread crash during agent chat teardown.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains what changed and why, documents extensive testing, includes the review trigger, and addresses the non-visual behavior change. It also adds a regression test, although the corr…
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 production diff changes teardown only inside the explicitly @MainActor AgentChatTranscriptService and schedules off-main cleanup with an explicit Task { @mainactor in ... } boundary. I…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds no blocking or timing primitive listed by the policy. AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit only checks Thread.isMainThread, performs synchronous teardown on the main th…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only Sources/Mobile/AgentChat/AgentChatTranscriptService.swift and cmuxTests/AgentChatSessionRegistryLifecycleReviewRegressionTests.swift. The browser rule …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit teardown and adds a regression test. The production additions capture proseWakeDriver and proseStreamer, then call `st…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff changes only AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit teardown. It captures proseWakeDriver and proseStreamer references, then stops them on the main thread or schedules the s…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only two Swift files. The production change uses Task { @mainactor ... } and the test uses withCheckedContinuation and Task.yield(). It introduces no fixed sleep, …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS — The production diff only copies two references, branches on Thread.isMainThread, and invokes the existing two-component teardown either directly or in one @MainActor task. It adds no nested…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The diff adds no @concurrent or nonisolated async work. The only new asynchronous teardown path is Task { @mainactor in ... }, which explicitly hops to the main actor for UI-bound cleanup.…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff only changes AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit to stop existing streaming components on the main thread or schedule cleanup on MainActor, plus a private helper. It does n…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only Sources/Mobile/AgentChat/AgentChatTranscriptService.swift and cmuxTests/AgentChatSessionRegistryLifecycleReviewRegressionTests.swift. It changes no `Pa…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The pull-request diff adds teardown and regression-test code only. It adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, file logging, stdout/stderr diagnostics, or sensitive-data logging…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The authoritative diff changes only teardown logic in AgentChatTranscriptService and adds a regression test. The production additions capture streaming objects, stop them on the main thread, or sche…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The production diff changes deinitialization control flow and adds a private teardown helper. It introduces no user-facing Swift text, localization key, catalog entry, web message, metadata, or change…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes AgentChatTranscriptService teardown and adds a lifecycle regression test. The authoritative diff adds no SwiftUI views, ObservableObject, @Published, property-wrap…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The production change is a small teardown correctness fix with a clear owner: AgentChatProseStreamWakeDriver and AgentChatProseStreamer remain @MainActor owned. deinit stops them synchro…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only AgentChatTranscriptService teardown and a regression test. The diff introduces no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window/WindowGroup, window identifier, or clo…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The authoritative diff changes only Sources/Mobile/AgentChat/AgentChatTranscriptService.swift and cmuxTests/AgentChatSessionRegistryLifecycleReviewRegressionTests.swift. The changes are hand-writt…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The PR adds no test or debug seam to production source. The only changed Sources/ code updates AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit and adds the private stopProseStreaming teardown helper; the help…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only private static func stopProseStreaming(...) inside the existing constructable @MainActor final class AgentChatTranscriptService; it does not add a top-level API…
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Explanation

The production diff adds an unstructured fire-and-forget Task { @mainactor in ... } in AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit. The task performs meaningful resource teardown (wakeDriver.stop() and streamer.stopAll()), but the task is not stored or cancellable and is not tied to a caller-owned operation after the service is deinitialized. The base revision performed this teardown synchronously and did not launch this task. The new test uses a background Thread, but the rules explicitly allow test-only controlled interleavings, so it is not the finding.

Resolution

Replace the unowned teardown task with an explicit owner-managed cleanup operation that has a stored and cancellable task handle, or use a narrowly scoped allowed main-queue/actor hop for this required isolation boundary without introducing an untracked task. Preserve synchronous teardown when already on the main thread.

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Comment thread Sources/Mobile/AgentChat/AgentChatTranscriptService.swift
`AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit` stops its prose streaming inside
`MainActor.assumeIsolated`, which traps when the last reference is dropped on
another thread. An `AppDelegate` created by a unit test can be released from a
Swift concurrency thread, and three test-host crashes came from this deinit.

This test creates the service on the main actor, keeps only an unmanaged
reference, and releases it from a background thread. It crashes the test host
until the next commit makes the deinit safe off the main thread.
…n thread

`AgentChatTranscriptService.deinit` stops its prose wake driver and streamer
inside `MainActor.assumeIsolated`, on the assumption that the service is
always released on the main actor. `AppDelegate` owns the service, and an
`AppDelegate` created by a unit test can be released from a Swift concurrency
thread. When that happened, `assumeIsolated` trapped during
`AppDelegate.__ivar_destroyer` and crashed the test host.

Keep the synchronous stop on the main thread, and otherwise hand both objects
to a main-actor task that stops them there.
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Thank you for this! You had it first, and main has the same fix now (b65dde5), so I'm closing this one as done. Appreciate it :)

@github-project-automation github-project-automation Bot moved this from Todo to Done in cmux backlog Sep 25, 2026
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