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Fix Cloud terminal garble during pane resize - #12918

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Summary

  • Keep the legacy scrollbar gutter present across Ghostty scrollback reset/replay cycles so Cloud terminal grid width stays stable during pane resize.
  • Add a package-owned, AppKit-free scrollbar presence policy and runtime gutter regression coverage.
  • Handle the optional Cloud capability probe so the current base branch builds cleanly.

Research and reproduction

  • Research found the scrollbar-presence feedback loop documented by the author of issue 12885, but this PR author did not independently reproduce the live Cloud failure: a reset temporarily empties scrollback, AppKit releases the legacy gutter, the grid width changes, and the remote replay causes another resize.
  • The existing PR 12903 confirmed the same root cause but left the policy in the app target, which failed the package-boundary check. This branch moves it into CmuxTerminalCore.

Testing

  • swift test --disable-sandbox in Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore (331 tests passed).
  • ./scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh (967 test files checked).
  • python3 scripts/check-workspace-package-groups.py --check.
  • python3 scripts/check-package-resolved-policy.py.
  • Tagged fleet build: vrsfix2 succeeded on cmux8s-Mac-mini.local.1; installed artifact at the tag opener.
  • Correction (2026-09-18): the local app opened and 300 lines were seeded, but the attempted divider drags selected text without changing the split geometry. This was not a valid resize verification. No reliable live Cloud before/after reproduction was completed by this PR author; the shared backend failed provisioning. The package tests and tagged build passed; app-host gutter tests were added but did not run in this local session.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes Cloud terminal garble during pane resize by keeping the legacy scrollbar gutter stable across Ghostty scrollback reset/replay cycles. Previously a reset emptied scrollback, AppKit released the gutter, the grid width changed, and the remote replay triggered another resize. Closes #12885.

  • Adds a package-owned, AppKit-free scrollbar presence policy in CmuxTerminalCore; legacy scrollers stay present regardless of scrollback, while overlay scrollers still follow scrollback.
  • Adds runtime gutter stability coverage that publishes Ghostty scrollbar packets through a real hosted scroll view.
  • Makes the Cloud capability probe optional so the current base branch builds cleanly.

Written for commit 550311d. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for distinguishing legacy and overlay scrollbar styles.
    • Scrollbar visibility now respects settings, scroller style, and scrollback availability.
    • Legacy scrollbars preserve terminal content width by retaining their gutter.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling when remote client capability checks are unavailable.
    • Prevented unexpected layout changes while scrollback state is being initialized.

austinywang and others added 3 commits September 17, 2026 17:58
…scrollers

Adds a hosted-view behavior test that hosts a real GhosttySurfaceScrollView in
an offscreen window, pins the legacy scroller style on its scroll view, and
publishes Ghostty scrollbar packets the way the runtime does: history present,
then emptied (the Cloud mirror's replay reset), then refilled (the replay). It
asserts the terminal surface keeps the same content width throughout. On main
the scroller hides and shows with scrollback, so the legacy gutter comes and
goes and the grid width moves by the gutter each time; for a Cloud mirror that
turns every remote `resized` replay into a new size report and an endless
remote resize loop (#12885).

Also adds TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy (not yet used by the view) with its
own unit test.

Refs #12885

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds scrollbar style and presence policies, integrates them into terminal rendering, and adds gutter regression tests. It also hardens cloud capability handling when client probes are unavailable.

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Scrollbar behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scrollbar policy contract and validation
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Sources/CmuxTerminalCore/Scrollbar/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Tests/CmuxTerminalCoreTests/TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicyTests.swift
Adds TerminalScrollerStyle and TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy. Tests cover legacy, overlay, scrollback, and settings states.
Terminal integration and gutter regression coverage
Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalScrollBarGutterStabilityTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Routes scrollbar presence through the policy. Adds AppKit tests for legacy gutter stability and overlay width behavior. Registers the tests in the Xcode project.

Cloud capability handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capability probe fallback
Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager.swift
Treats failed capability probes as unsupported and passes an empty capability list when preparing a trusted listener.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 55031

Cloud browser-proxy setup can use inconsistent capability information if the client changes or becomes unavailable between two probes. This is a bounded edge-case integration risk.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 37.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 1… 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 user-facing fix: preventing Cloud terminal garbling during pane resizing. It is concise and specific.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the cause, solution, issue reference, and testing performed. It omits the template's Demo Video, Review Trigger, and Checklist sections, but the core description is co…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #12885 requires clean Cloud terminal relayout after pane resizing. The new TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy keeps legacy scrollbar presence independent of scrollback resets and replay. `Ghostty…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay connected to issue #12885. The policy and runtime regression tests support stable Cloud terminal layout. The CloudMachineLinkManager capability-probe handling supports the Cloud con…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The Cloud diff only makes the optional capability probe fail closed for browser-proxy support and supplies an empty capability list to the existing authenticated openCmuxRemote call when a lat…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No actor-isolation failure is introduced. The new TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy and TerminalScrollerStyle are pure Sendable value types in the Swift 6 CmuxTerminalCore package, which has no …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds a pure scrollbar presence policy and optional capability handling. It does not add semaphores, waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, main-queue sync, polling, or manual locks…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The PR does not change browser socket automation routing. The authoritative diff has no changes to Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift. The only browser-r…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed production diff adds only a scrollbar-presence policy, style selection, and optional handling around the existing Cloud capability probe. It does not add or move `RestorableAgentSes…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. GhosttySurfaceScrollView still obtains scrollback from `surfaceHasScrollbac…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only Swift source/tests and Xcode project wiring. The custom rule covers TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts; it explicitly excludes Swift timing an…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed No algorithmic-complexity failure is introduced. The new scrollbar policy is constant-time branching over scalar and enum inputs, and the Ghostty integration calls it once per scrollbar update without…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The diff adds only synchronous, stateless scrollbar policy code and synchronous tests. The Cloud changes only make the existing capability probe optional and provide an empty fallback; they do n…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The pull request introduces no async or nonisolated async functions and no @concurrent annotations. The new scrollbar policy is a synchronous pure helper. The added @MainActor test performs sy…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The diff places the independently testable scrollbar domain logic in the existing CmuxTerminalCore SwiftPM target. TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy and TerminalScrollerStyle are AppKit-free publi…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request does not change any Package.swift, Package.resolved, or package .gitignore file. Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Package.swift is unchanged, and its package has no local Package…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds or changes no production logging. The changed Swift hunks contain scrollbar policy logic, capability handling, and tests only. No added print, debugPrint, dump, `NSLo…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery text. The only changed error path retains the existing generic message, “Update cmux to connect …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The authoritative diff adds no production user-facing copy. The new Swift production files contain only scrollbar policy code and developer comments. The Cloud change only changes optional capability …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The PR does not introduce or materially expand SwiftUI state or layout patterns covered by the rule. The changed runtime code is in GhosttySurfaceScrollView: NSView and delegates scrollbar pre…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds a stateless TerminalScrollBarPresencePolicy with a clear invariant: legacy scroller presence does not depend on scrollback, so the layout gutter stays stable. `GhosttySurfaceScroll…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. Production changes affect terminal scrollbar behavior and Cloud capability handling. The only new NSWindow is…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff contains only Swift source files, Swift unit/runtime tests, and required Xcode project wiring. The new test file is a deliberate regression test, and the project-file entr…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds no #if DEBUG/test-build extension or member, no debug/test-seam-named accessor, and no visibility-widening wrapper for tests. The new `TerminalScrollBarPresenceP…
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In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager.swift`:
- Line 334: Update browserProxy to bind the successful clientCapabilities result
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guard let clientURL, let hub else { throw ManagerError.wireGuardHubMissing }
guard Self.clientCapabilities(clientURL: clientURL).contains("browser-proxy") else {
guard Self.clientCapabilities(clientURL: clientURL)?.contains("browser-proxy") == true else {

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Reuse one capability snapshot for the full browser-proxy attempt.

browserProxy probes clientCapabilities for the browser-proxy guard, then probes it again before openCmuxRemote. If the second probe fails or returns a different list, VMClient.openCmuxRemote receives [] and omits clientCapabilities from /api/vm/{id}/attach-endpoint. The request can therefore carry different capability state from the preflight that allowed the attempt to proceed. Bind the first successful probe result and reuse it for openCmuxRemote instead of falling back to []. This keeps one capability snapshot as the source of truth for the operation.

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In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager.swift` at line 334, Update browserProxy
to bind the successful clientCapabilities result used by the browser-proxy
guard, then pass that same capability snapshot to VMClient.openCmuxRemote
instead of probing again or falling back to an empty list.

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lawrencecchen deleted the feat-video-resize-routing branch September 18, 2026 02:44
austinywang added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
#12918 fixed the CloudMachineLinkManager compile error on main with an
equivalent change; resolve the conflict to main's text so this branch's copy
of the fix drops out. Also picks up #12384, #12879 and #11572. Ghostty pin
unchanged at 35ae29b7c2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
0144de2 Encrypt push notifications and reply relays end to end (manaflow-ai#12384)
a9a8074 Trace terminal replay latency across mobile and host (manaflow-ai#12879)
fe8872e Fix Cloud terminal garble during pane resize (manaflow-ai#12918)
97bcf19 feat(ios): Sentry session replay with always-masked content surfaces (manaflow-ai#11572)
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