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Cloud VM create: remove redundant network announcement wait - #12687

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Problem

New Machine waited for a guest-side private-network announcement after Freestyle had already allocated the VM. In the Nightly trace for #12672, the POST /api/vm spent 2.07s in provider work and then failed because ip -j address show timed out inside the guest announcement command. The backend deleted the allocated VM and surfaced a generic 502, leaving the UI with a failed create row.

Fix

  • Validate provider-assigned VPC addresses as real IPv4/IPv6 values before publishing machine metadata; a missing or malformed address still rolls back before publication.
  • Remove the duplicate create-time announcement exec. The baked supervisor announces on clone boot and every 30 seconds.
  • Keep strict announcement/readiness on attach, where it gates handing out the private daemon route.
  • Add regression coverage for transient announcement timeout, create/restore ordering, and malformed address metadata.

This preserves idempotency and late attach reconciliation: a create response can return the durable machine row, while a later attach failure remains a created-but-opening-failed outcome rather than a second paid create.

Evidence

Captured Nightly trace 13c31e6600cd3540712a0b697fd4e6b6 / request bef37a64-83a0-41de-900e-2bc507efb528:

  • auth 0.23ms, billing 0.93ms, network resolution 103.61ms, model-plane 11.73ms
  • Freestyle allocation returned 201 in 1,205.91ms
  • guest shim/reporter calls completed, then ip -j address show timed out after 3s
  • rollback DELETE completed in 56.24ms; route returned 502 after 2,280ms

Axiom Nightly create aggregate (7-day window): 27 successful operation spans / 14 operation ids had median 4,397ms, p95 24,923ms, max 45,966ms; 6 error spans / 4 operation ids had median 2,170ms and max 30,166ms. These are observational baselines, not a claim that every operation was an independent workload.

Validation

  • bun test tests/freestyle-network-announcement.test.ts tests/vm-freestyle-provider.test.ts tests/vm-resource-reporter-install.test.ts (69 pass)
  • bun run typecheck
  • bun run lint:complexity
  • python3 scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py
  • bun scripts/cloud-vm/smoke-vm-api.mjs staging --create --paid --skip-attach (temporary paid account; old staging revision created in 2,047ms and was deleted in 1,134ms)
  • Tagged macOS build succeeded with CMUX_SKIP_ZIG_BUILD=1 /Users/austinwang/manaflow/cmuxterm-hq/scripts/reload-cloud.sh --tag issue-12672-machine-creation-latency --launch

The staging deployment used for the smoke predates this branch, so it is recorded as a cleanup-verified control rather than an after-runtime result. The fixed branch’s deterministic provider test proves the removed critical-path operation count (allocated -> published, zero guest announcement execs) and preserves attach-time readiness.

Commits intentionally separate the regression test from the fix so CI can prove the test catches the old behavior.

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Walkthrough

Private-network VM creation validates provider-assigned addresses without running a guest announcement before publication. Guest announcement and readiness remain deferred to attach. Restore retains its guest probe, and tests verify both operation paths.

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Private-network creation

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Address validation and announcement control
web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts, web/services/vms/drivers/freestyleNetworkAnnouncement.ts, web/tests/vm-freestyle-provider.test.ts
Address metadata now persists only valid IPv4 and IPv6 values. Private-network creation performs validation-only address checking and defers guest-side announcement to attach.
Creation ordering validation
web/tests/freestyle-network-announcement.test.ts
Create publishes after allocation without the guest probe. Restore still waits for the guest probe. Tests also verify the provider VM ID when the probe times out.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d1d7d

The change preserves provider-address validation, defers guest announcement during creation, and retains announcement and readiness checks for attach and restore.

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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The authoritative pull-request diff changes four TypeScript files only: two production drivers and two tests. It contains no Swift file changes, so it does not introduce or worsen Swift 6 actor-isolat…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The authoritative pull-request diff changes only four TypeScript files under web/services and web/tests. It contains no production Swift changes, so the Swift blocking-runtime check is not applica…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only four web TypeScript files for Freestyle VM networking and tests. The browser automation policy files and Swift browser socket routing files are unchanged. Added co…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative pull-request diff contains only four TypeScript files under web/ and no Swift files. Therefore, the custom check for expensive synchronous loads introduced by production Swif…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed diff changes only TypeScript files and does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache. It adds IP validation to provider data returned by vms.create, adds a `validateOnl…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The PR introduces no fixed sleep, timer, polling loop, delayed dispatch, or wall-clock wait. The production change adds immediate address validation and removes a guest announcement exec. Existi…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only two constant-size IP validations and an optional early return. The address path remains a linear pass over provider network addresses, followed by linear validation…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative pull-request diff changes four TypeScript test/service files and contains no Swift files. Therefore, it introduces no cmux-owned Swift concurrency pattern covered by the custom…
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Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only four TypeScript files under web/services and web/tests. It adds no Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project/workspace, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency …
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull-request diff changes four .ts files only. It contains no Swift files and no added or modified print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, or file/stdout logging statements. The Swift …
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds address validation and a validateOnly option. It adds no user-facing error, alert, API error text, command output, or recovery copy. The existing ProviderError text …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes backend Freestyle VM behavior and validation only. It adds no user-facing Swift or web text, message key, rendered markdown, changelog, catalog entry, or locale-dependent copy. Th…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The review-scoped diff changes only four TypeScript test/service files under web/. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI changes, so the SwiftUI state-layout check is not applicable.
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Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only four TypeScript files under web/services and web/tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup ch…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only four tracked TypeScript files under web/services/vms/drivers/ and web/tests/. The additions are hand-written provider logic and regression tests. All head…
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In `@web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts`:
- Around line 966-972: The create-boundary guard around
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austinywang merged commit 88945c8 into main Sep 15, 2026
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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 15, 2026
2066c07 iOS: preserve pixel scroll through reconnect gaps (manaflow-ai#12649)
88945c8 Cloud VM create: remove redundant network announcement wait (manaflow-ai#12687)
5b71a4f Harden production deployment rollback guards (manaflow-ai#12699)
15d375d Preserve older iOS access to v2 Macs and saved computer metadata (manaflow-ai#12693)
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