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Stop internal memory pressure diagnostics from creating notifications - #12667

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Summary

Aggregate usage above the pressure threshold repeatedly posted diagnostics into the selected workspace’s notification pipeline, including unrelated SSH workspaces. Sustained critical pressure used the same pipeline. Remove both producers per the maintainer direction, so neither path creates feed items, unread badges, desktop/sound effects, pane flash, or workspace attention/reordering.

  • Remove both AppDelegate notification methods and their callbacks. Sustained-critical detection remains an internal log event.
  • Preserve monitoring, separate system/aggregate dispatch, resource responders, and idle-agent confirmation/recovery. No setting, filter, config hook, or replacement banner/toast.
  • Remove six unused localized notification keys and the obsolete notification promise in the configuration documentation.

Fixes #12651.

Why this resurfaced

#6619 (c19767ab15, June 22) removed the per-pane warning UI for #6614. Later work introduced separate central-monitor notification producers:

#12658 changed only the per-pane runaway guardrail default; these independent monitor registrations were unaffected. This PR is authored by @austinywang.

Validation

  • Red baseline: 532ccdc333 integration run compiled and executed 78 agent-notification tests. The new pressure test was the sole failing test: 75 assertions exposed three aggregate messages, one persistent-critical message, unread/pane indicators, and workspace reordering. Its aggregate hibernation/recovery control passed.
  • Runtime fix: 07e8f762a3 integration run passed both new pressure tests. Its sole failure was an existing ambiguous relay test, now repaired on main.
  • Unaffected safety behavior: Focused hosted run passed all 40 tests: 9 state-tracker, 11 monitor, 5 responder-registry, and 15 hibernation-planner tests.
  • Full integration: 78bb40d965a run passed all 105 tests, including both pressure tests, the relay repair, and ordinary agent delivery suites.
  • Current HEAD integration: 6b19260dead run, validating the branch after syncing with main.
  • Static checks passed: Swift file lengths, pbxproj normalization, test wiring, and localization parity (six catalogs, nine locales). No new Swift warnings were introduced; the earlier relay fixture deprecation warning also exists in the test-only baseline, and that file now matches main exactly. Neither budget TSV changed.
  • Canonical autoreview: autoreview --mode branch --base origin/main exited 0 on current HEAD 6b19260dead; no actionable findings, merge conflicts, or cmux policy findings.

The tests execute real production pressure registration and the notification store with observable effect admission, synthetic pressure, and aged cooldown timestamps. They cover repeated events beyond 300 seconds, cache cleanup, hibernation scheduling/coalescing, recovery confirmation isolation, and ordinary user/agent notification controls. A user message containing the former warning title still delivers. Existing startup/registry state is exposed internally for @testable access and restored after the test; no runtime test hook was added.

Test isolation and upstream compatibility

The pressure fixture restores the shared registry and recovery callback after execution. Main independently repaired the ambiguous relay assertion by testing workspace and surface selectors separately. This branch retains main’s complete relay test file, so the final PR diff has no relay test or production authorization changes.

Historical entries and verification limits

Existing history is preserved: chronological feed records persist neither a correlation key nor a diagnostic kind. Generic session correlation keys cannot identify all retained feed entries independently of localized text. No broad deletion or global filter is installed.

Verification uses isolated hosted Macs and synthetic inputs. No local app launch, real memory-exhaustion workload, or UI demo was used. User dogfood and merge approval remain pending. From the clone root, the later user-authorized build command is:

CMUX_SKIP_ZIG_BUILD=1 /Users/austinwang/manaflow/cmuxterm-hq/scripts/reload-cloud.sh --tag issue-12651-memory-pressure-notifications --launch

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Aggregate and persistent-critical memory-pressure diagnostics no longer create user notifications. Aggregate pressure still schedules idle-agent evaluation, and persistent-critical pressure is logged. New tests cover notification suppression and safety-state lifecycles.

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Memory pressure notification removal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pressure handling and notification wiring
Sources/App/AggregateMemoryPressureResponder.swift, Sources/App/MemoryPressureMonitor.swift, Sources/App/MemoryPressureStateTracker.swift, Sources/AppDelegate+PaneMemoryGuardrail.swift
Aggregate pressure no longer invokes a warning callback. Persistent-critical pressure writes an internal log notice. App wiring removes both notification handlers while retaining monitor startup and aggregate-clear handling.
Notification regression coverage
Sources/App/MemoryPressureResponderRegistry.swift, cmuxTests/MemoryPressureNotificationTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
The responder registry is accessible to module tests. New tests verify that memory-pressure events do not create notification effects and that aggregate evaluation and confirmation state retain their safety lifecycle. The test file is added to the Xcode test target.
Policy text and localization cleanup
docs/configuration.md, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings
Configuration documentation states that memory-pressure diagnostics remain in internal logs. Aggregate and critical memory-pressure localization entries are removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6b192

Memory-pressure diagnostics no longer create user-facing notifications, while the retained safety response and regression-test wiring are covered by the supplied evidence. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 23 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The memory-pressure responder, monitor, guardrail, localization, documentation, project, and regression-test changes support #12651. The reported change to `cmuxTests/AgentRelayTTYOwnershipTests.swift… Remove the unrelated cmuxTests/AgentRelayTTYOwnershipTests.swift change, or provide a directly linked coding requirement that requires the relay test change.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 9.09% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (23 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address #12651 by removing aggregate and sustained-critical memory-pressure diagnostics from the user notification pipeline. The diagnostics no longer create workspace-attached items, repe…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production changes do not introduce or worsen the listed Swift actor-isolation mistakes. AggregateMemoryPressureResponder, MemoryPressureMonitor, MemoryPressureResponderRegistry, and `…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce or expand blocking runtime synchronization. Production changes remove notification callbacks, add one Logger.notice call, and expose existing registry/test setup;…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only memory-pressure handling, localization, project wiring, tests, and documentation. It does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift, `ControlCommandExecutionPol…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds no agent-history loader, file read, JSON/JSONL parse, directory scan, or syscall loop. It removes notification callbacks, logs persistent critical pressure, change…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff removes notification callbacks and notification-producing methods, changes a log message, exposes the responder registry for test restoration, and adds regression tests…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes Swift sources/tests, localization, documentation, and Xcode project wiring. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime-script code, so the…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce an algorithmic-complexity violation. Production changes remove notification callbacks and two notification-producing methods, add one log call, and widen one proper…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce or materially expand any checked legacy concurrency pattern. Added Swift code contains no new DispatchQueue/DispatchGroup, Combine, completion-handler API, or fire-and-forg…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request introduces no changed async or nonisolated async declarations and no new @concurrent usage. The existing CPU-bound captureAggregateSample helper remains nonisolated an…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce or materially expand package-worthy domain logic in the app target. Production changes mainly remove notification callbacks and two AppDelegate notification helpers, replac…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed range changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency files. The only Xcode project change adds MemoryPressureNotificationTests.swift to the file gro…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The changed production logging is limited to Self.logger.notice("memoryPressure.persistentCritical") in Sources/App/MemoryPressureMonitor.swift. It uses the existing OSLog.Logger destination and…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff removes the aggregate and persistent-critical notification producers, their localized titles/subtitles/bodies, and the related user-facing documentation promise. The only add…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes the two notification producers and their six localized keys; it adds no user-facing Swift text. The only new literal is memoryPressure.persistentCritical in an inte…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The PR does not introduce or materially expand SwiftUI state or layout code. The authoritative diff changes memory-pressure responders, monitor logic, AppDelegate wiring, registry access, locali…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The diff removes the two notification producers and keeps one production memory-pressure registration path. It does not add sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, observers, side channels, du…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed Swift diff changes memory-pressure responders, monitoring, registry access, and guardrail notification wiring. It adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, Wind…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All nine changed paths are intentional repository content: Swift production source, a Swift test and its Xcode source registration, a localization catalog, and configuration documentation. The new tes…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds no test-build guard, debug/test-named member, or wrapper accessor. MemoryPressureResponderRegistry.respondersByID changes from private to internal, and the new tes…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed The production diff adds no top-level functions, mutable globals, namespace-only types, or singleton state. It removes callback state, changes MemoryPressureResponderRegistry.respondersByID from pri…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing internal memory-pressure diagnostics from creating notifications.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed summary, rationale, implementation scope, testing results, limitations, and linked issue context. The Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist sections are not inc…
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The memory-pressure responder, monitor, guardrail, localization, documentation, project, and regression-test changes support #12651. The reported change to cmuxTests/AgentRelayTTYOwnershipTests.swift repairs relay authorization test coverage and verifies TTY state. It does not relate to aggregate memory-pressure notifications or a coding requirement in #12651.

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Addressed the review in 4493335: the regression test restores both the shared responder registry and aggregate-recovery callback. I also narrowed docs/configuration.md to removal of the obsolete warning/notification promise; the patch adds no new documentation message to translate. The six removed notification catalog keys remain audited across all supported app locales. The docstring percentage is not an actionable API gap here: this change adds no public package API, and the test/startup invariant is documented inline. Updated hosted checks and canonical autoreview are running for this HEAD.

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The relay test change is required CI repair within this task’s explicitly requested scope. Both https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/34924473504 and https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/34925286544 passed the two new memory-pressure tests and failed only the ambiguous relay denial-code assertion. Commit 78bb40d isolates workspace and surface denial cases and checks no TTY mutation after each; production relay policy is untouched. Retaining this bounded repair makes the required integration check deterministic. The remaining docstring-percentage warning adds no public-API requirement: this PR introduces no public package API. Canonical autoreview on 78bb40d is clean.

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Commit 6b19260 syncs with main and retains main’s independently repaired relay test file byte-for-byte. AgentRelayTTYOwnershipTests.swift is now absent from this PR’s diff, resolving the scope warning. The registry teardown repair remains in place. Canonical autoreview on 6b19260 passed with no actionable or cmux policy findings; current-HEAD integration is running at https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/34928317076.

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6052c56 Allow deleting non-Iroh mobile routes (manaflow-ai#12691)
0447a31 Stop internal memory pressure diagnostics from creating notifications (manaflow-ai#12667)
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Aggregate memory-pressure warning is posted onto remote SSH workspaces (selected tab), repeats every 5 min, no opt-out

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