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Surfaces automation rules in Settings with their current status and controls, using the existing automation owner.

What changed

  • add a small Automation Rules card to Settings > Automation
  • show total/enabled/disabled rule counts from the existing AutomationConfigStore
  • expose Edit Rules for ~/.cmuxterm/automations.json through the existing preferred-editor service
  • expose Reload by routing directly to the existing AutomationEngine path
  • keep rule editing, testing, and logs on the existing JSON/cmux automation implementation

Tests

  • unit coverage for host-side rule counts and invalid-config status
  • Settings UI coverage for card discoverability and reload routing

Upstream base SHA: 4c67b4d8c59bc395ba2b75dc66bd688e5b846a6d

Tact Lane E: teamleaderleo/Tact#79


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Summary by cubic

Adds an Automation Rules card to Settings > Automation so users can view the existing JSON-backed config without leaving Settings. It shows rule counts and safe status messages for missing or malformed files, while Edit Rules creates and opens the config when needed and Reload asks the running engine to reload it.

  • Refreshes status on view load and after actions, reporting unavailable engines without exposing raw errors.
  • Bundles translated settings strings with CmuxSettingsUI.
  • Adds host and UI coverage for counts, errors, actions, reload routing, and localization.

Written for commit a44a244. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Added an Automation Rules card to Settings.
    • View rule counts, enabled and disabled rules, configuration status, missing files, and errors.
    • Edit automation rules in an external editor, creating the configuration when needed.
    • Reload automation rules directly from Settings and receive an action status.
    • Added localized Automation Rules interface text in 18 languages.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for rule status reporting, configuration errors, editing, and reloading.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The settings host now reports automation-rule status, opens the configuration in an external editor, and requests engine reloads. The Automation section displays rule counts and action results. Localization, bundled resources, unit tests, and UI tests cover the new behavior.

Changes

Automation Rules Settings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Automation rules contract
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Environment/SettingsHostActions.swift
Adds AutomationRulesStatus and protocol operations with default implementations.
Host automation integration
Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift, cmuxTests/HostSettingsShortcutNotificationTests.swift
Loads rule configuration, opens missing configurations through the preferred editor, requests engine reloads, and tests valid and invalid configurations.
Automation rules settings card
Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AutomationSection.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Package.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, cmuxUITests/SettingsAutomationBehaviorUITests.swift
Adds status display, Edit Rules and Reload actions, localized resources, bundled resource processing, action feedback, and UI coverage for the card and reload flow.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AutomationSection
  participant HostSettingsActions
  participant AutomationConfigStore
  participant TerminalController
  AutomationSection->>HostSettingsActions: request rule status
  HostSettingsActions->>AutomationConfigStore: load automations.json
  AutomationConfigStore-->>HostSettingsActions: return configuration or error
  HostSettingsActions-->>AutomationSection: display rule counts or error
  AutomationSection->>HostSettingsActions: request engine reload
  HostSettingsActions->>TerminalController: call v2AutomationReload()
  TerminalController-->>HostSettingsActions: return reload result
  AutomationSection-->>AutomationSection: display action result
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Suggested reviewers: azooz2003-bit, austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to a44a2

The Settings UI code in this change contains leftover lines that make the app fail to build, so the new Automation Rules card cannot ship until they are removed.


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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ❌ Error The PR adds AutomationRulesStatus as a pure public Equatable, Sendable value model without nonisolated in SettingsHostActions.swift. In the Swift 6 Settings UI context, this leaves the model i… Declare AutomationRulesStatus as public nonisolated struct AutomationRulesStatus: Equatable, Sendable (or move it to an explicitly nonisolated model file). Keep its value-only properties and initializer nonisolated so the async host res…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The diff introduces duplicate and split lifecycle wiring in AutomationSection. It adds a new startSettingsObservation task, a task(id: automationRulesRefreshID) task, and a `ManagedDevicePolicy.… Keep one lifecycle modifier chain in body. Move the existing settings-observation and policy-signal tasks into that chain, and remove the stray duplicate modifiers after refreshAutomationRulesStatus(). Remove automationRulesRefreshID …
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 76.47% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 6 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (22 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: exposing automation rules in Settings.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the change and includes testing coverage and manual verification details. It does not include the template's Demo Video, Review Trigger, or Checklist sections, but the…
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 Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not change Cloud terminal creation or persistent transport behavior covered by the rule. The authoritative diff contains only Settings UI/host actions, localization resourc…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, timer, polling loop, main-queue sync, or manual lock. The new status path uses async/await and the existing a…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: This pull request does not change browser socket automation routing. The authoritative diff changes Settings UI, SettingsHostActions, HostSettingsActions, localization, and related tests onl…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The PR does not add a synchronous agent-history load to an interactive main-actor path. AutomationSection starts status refresh from .task, and HostSettingsActions.automationRulesStatus() …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No cache substitution is introduced. The new Settings status reads the authoritative automations.json through automationConfigStore.loadOffMain() and AutomationConfigStore.load(), which checks t…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only Swift files and an .xcstrings resource. It introduces no non-Swift app/runtime code or fixed wall-clock delay. The production Settings code uses SwiftUI `.t…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff adds one linear pass over configuration.rules in Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift:190 to count enabled rules. It does not scan the same collection per item, sort or filter a c…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed No custom-check failure condition is introduced. The diff adds async/await for automationRulesStatus() and calls the existing AutomationConfigStore.loadOffMain() API. The new refresh uses SwiftUI …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed No changed code violates the Swift concurrency rule. SettingsHostActions is @MainActor, and the new async status methods in the protocol, default implementation, AutomationSection, and `HostSett…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce a new independent automation domain implementation in the app target. The UI and AutomationRulesStatus seam are in the existing CmuxSettingsUI SwiftPM target. The added…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Package.swift only to process the existing Resources directory. Its dependency declarations are unchanged and remain local path dependencies. The…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The only added production diagnostic is hostSettingsLogger.error(...) in Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift, which uses the existing unified Logger and marks the error value .private. The…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The changed Settings copy uses product terms and generic recovery actions. Malformed configuration maps to “The automation rules file could not be loaded. Edit the JSON file and reload.” Reload failur…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR fully internationalizes the new Automation Rules UI. All 11 new localization keys use String(localized:defaultValue:, bundle: .module), and each key has a matching Localizable.xcstrings entry. …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The SwiftUI diff adds only value-backed @State properties for AutomationRulesStatus, messages, and a refresh ID. It adds no ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The PR adds an Automation Rules card and host actions, not a standalone cmux-owned window. The changed Swift additions contain no new NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, Windo…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All seven changed paths are intentional source, test, package configuration, or localization files. The new Localizable.xcstrings is a valid localization catalog under the package Resources direct…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The changed production Swift files add the Automation Rules Settings UI and its host actions. automationRulesStatus, openAutomationRulesInExternalEditor, and reloadAutomationRules have rea…
Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The PR adds AutomationRulesStatus as a pure public Equatable, Sendable value model without nonisolated in SettingsHostActions.swift. In the Swift 6 Settings UI context, this leaves the model implicitly MainActor-isolated. The model is a value-only result for the async host bridge and does not use UI state, so it matches the rule for implicit MainActor value models. AutomationSection and HostSettingsActions are explicitly @MainActor UI/host types, which are allowed. The existing SettingsHostActions MainActor protocol and other model debt predate this PR.

Resolution

Declare AutomationRulesStatus as public nonisolated struct AutomationRulesStatus: Equatable, Sendable (or move it to an explicitly nonisolated model file). Keep its value-only properties and initializer nonisolated so the async host result does not acquire unnecessary MainActor isolation.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The diff introduces duplicate and split lifecycle wiring in AutomationSection. It adds a new startSettingsObservation task, a task(id: automationRulesRefreshID) task, and a ManagedDevicePolicy.changeSignals() task at lines 132-142. It leaves the pre-existing observation tasks after refreshAutomationRulesStatus() at lines 231-236. The head source therefore wires the same observers twice and leaves .task modifiers after the async method closes. The new @State automationRulesRefreshID is also a side channel that forces status refreshes after both actions. This matches the rule's explicit failures for duplicate entrypoint wiring, side channels, and split UI lifecycle ownership. The resulting bug class includes duplicate observers, invalid lifecycle placement, cancellation inconsistencies, and stale status. AutomationConfigStore already owns configuration reads, and TerminalController.v2AutomationReload() already owns engine reloads.

Resolution

Keep one lifecycle modifier chain in body. Move the existing settings-observation and policy-signal tasks into that chain, and remove the stray duplicate modifiers after refreshAutomationRulesStatus(). Remove automationRulesRefreshID as a refresh side channel. Make one explicit automation-rules coordinator or view model own the status snapshot and refresh transition, while AutomationConfigStore remains the configuration source of truth and TerminalController remains the engine reload owner. Pass the view only the value snapshot and action closures.

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Local UI verification — September 19, 2026

Tested 029bc986e2597a7c42f3f1e0946f1cab4150b05b.

  • Tagged app build passed.
  • Missing configuration shows No rules file yet.
  • Reload shows Reload requested.
  • Edit Rules creates valid empty v1 JSON and changes the status to No rules configured yet.
  • A temporary malformed JSON fixture produces the safe error message below.
  • Restoring the original absent-file state and reloading clears the error.

The temporary fixtures were removed from the live configuration path after testing; no existing user rules were overwritten. External editor handoff and nonzero rule counts were not independently verified in this pass.

Built as an isolated tagged Debug app. The only local overlay was the two build-script files from #12973 to enable CMUX_DEV_BACKEND_MODE=local; application and Settings source matched the commit above.

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Missing rules configuration

Missing rules configuration

Reload feedback

Reload feedback

Malformed configuration error

Malformed configuration error

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not safe to merge until the malformed task modifiers in AutomationSection.swift are removed so the settings package can compile.

Summary

This PR exposes the existing JSON-backed automation rules in Settings, including rule counts, external editing, reload routing, localized status copy, and focused host/UI coverage.

  • Adds an Automation Rules card under Settings > Automation.
  • Reads counts through AutomationConfigStore and routes reloads through the attached automation engine.
  • Adds a package-local string catalog with translated UI copy.
  • Currently contains malformed duplicated SwiftUI task modifiers that prevent CmuxSettingsUI from compiling.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  UI[Settings Automation Rules card] --> Host[SettingsHostActions]
  Host --> Store[AutomationConfigStore]
  Store --> File["~/.cmuxterm/automations.json"]
  UI --> Reload[Reload action]
  Reload --> Controller[TerminalController]
  Controller --> Engine[AutomationEngine]
  Engine --> File
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  • P1 Malformed task modifiers break build Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AutomationSection.swift:237 ▶

    The closing brace ends refreshAutomationRulesStatus() before the duplicated .task modifiers, leaving those modifiers without a base expression and another unmatched closing brace below. As a result, AutomationSection.swift cannot compile. The same observation tasks are already correctly attached to the section body on lines 132–142, so this helper should end after updating automationRulesStatus.

        /// Refreshes the card from the authoritative config store through the host bridge.
        private func refreshAutomationRulesStatus() async {
            automationRulesStatus = await hostActions.automationRulesStatus()
        }
    

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🔴 Critical · Remove the stale .task modifiers after… · AutomationSection.swift:231-235

Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AutomationSection.swift:231-235
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale .task modifiers after refreshAutomationRulesStatus().

The method ends at line 231, but the following .task modifiers are outside a view expression and make the Swift file fail to parse. The existing view-level tasks at lines 132–140 already provide these behaviors. End the method with } only.

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In
`@Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AutomationSection.swift`
around lines 231 - 235, Remove the trailing .task modifiers immediately after
refreshAutomationRulesStatus() and end the method with its closing brace only.
Preserve the existing view-level tasks elsewhere, including the
ManagedDevicePolicy observation and settings observation behavior.

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- Around line 231-235: Remove the trailing .task modifiers immediately after
refreshAutomationRulesStatus() and end the method with its closing brace only.
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Replaced by #13223: same commits, head branch moved into the org.

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