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Opening a new Cloud machine took 6–7 s warm and 13 s cold: the Freestyle allocation itself is under a second, and the rest was work around it (two guest execs plus an upload on every create to install the guest cmux shim, CLI distribution, browser openers and resource reporter; a status probe plus five to seven execs and an upload on every attach to re-check them; a cmux vm new subprocess and a full catalog refresh in the app). This PR combines the four stream PRs from the plan so the whole path can be tested together on one dev backend and one tagged build. It replaces #13309, #13310, #13312 and #13326, which are closed in its favor; their descriptions carry the per-stream detail.

What changes

  1. Backend contract (from Cloud create response carries the attach route; attach route timing and probe skip #13309, web/): POST /api/vm returns status, address and an attach block (route, session, trustedCarrier, daemonBuild, guestToolsBaked, readiness: "dial") so a client can dial from the create response; old clients ignore the new keys. attach-endpoint records access_check, preflight_probe, provider_attach and lease in Server-Timing, skips the forced status probe for rows running less than 120 s (still re-probes on failure), and writes telemetry after the response. vmImageEntryEpoch and GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH live in the image resolver.
  2. Image bake and promotion (from Bake guest cmux tools into the devbox image; faster daemon start; IPv6 announce #13312): the devbox bake installs the guest cmux shim, the guest CLI distribution, the browser openers and the resource reporter, stamps epoch 2026-09-21-r1, and the manifest promotes the 12 rows (md desktop sh-2d4fcd3e944f494da99dba572f5eb516, cmux-tui a866e904). Daemon listen p50 went from 1214 ms to 675 ms on the new image. The verifier asserts the four guest-tool gates plus the parity command.
  3. Create/attach removal (from Cloud create and attach: no guest execs on baked images, one-exec attach, parallel createVm #13326, web/): on rows whose image epoch is at or past the baked epoch, create installs nothing in the guest and createVm's opening reads run concurrently; a healthy attach costs one guest exec (none when the client proves the attach); older epochs keep the existing install and heal paths.
  4. Mac app in-process create (from Cloud New Machine: in-process create, dial from the create response, no catalog refresh #13310): the New Machine sheet fires the create in the same main-actor turn as the optimistic reservation, with no CLI subprocess, dials from the create response with a bounded retry, and skips the catalog refresh; it falls back to GET /api/vm/[id] plus attach-endpoint when the response has no attach block. cmux vm new keeps its old path.

No new feature flag: Cloud stays behind cloud-machines-enabled-release, and rollback is a revert.

Measured (control plane, per-tag dev backends, n=10 per column)

bench-vm-startup.mjs staging --trials 5 --skip-pause --skip-exec, throwaway Pro user, size md, two rounds after a warm-up; every machine destroyed, every throwaway account deleted. before is the plan's baseline (parent branch at 67b3bfb97c8), base the branch point 8c3c6fc535, contract change 1 alone, after changes 1–3 with the promoted image.

metric before (n=10) base (n=10) contract (n=10) after (n=10)
create (client, ms) 1958 / 4001 / 5080 2234 / 2957 / 4403 2130 / 2668 / 3072 949 / 1278 / 1747
create server total 1352 / 3858 / 4750 2033 / 2785 / 3304 1945 / 2462 / 2704 581 / 866 / 965
create provider_create 1236 / 3822 / 4713 1950 / 2759 / 3280 1869 / 2080 / 2683 561 / 648 / 712
create resolve_network 2.7 / 248 / 280 3.2 / 248 / 248 2.7 / 251 / 270 3.7 / 244 / 246
first attach (client, ms) 1608 / 2385 / 3252 2089 / 2490 / 2872 2100 / 2326 / 2698 753 / 1316 / 1479
first attach server total – / – / – – / – / – 1518 / 1587 / 1712 309 / 385 / 405
first attach provider_attach – / – / – – / – / – 1477 / 1547 / 1560 294 / 373 / 396
first attach preflight_probe – / – / – – / – / – 0.0 / 0.1 / 0.3 0.0 / 0.1 / 0.1
create → attach ready (client) 3308 / 5699 / 7369 4259 / 5381 / 6613 4174 / 4932 / 5164 1798 / 2274 / 2309
warm attach (client, ms) 1152 / 2101 / 2108 2107 / 2606 / 3098 2103 / 2629 / 2856 554 / 1015 / 1414
warm attach provider_attach – / – / – – / – / – 1510 / 1606 / 1686 323 / 412 / 455
destroy (client, ms) 533 / 1043 / 1311 761 / 1163 / 1574 925 / 1022 / 1046 641 / 1067 / 1318

Cells are p50 / p90 / max.

Guest work per request, from each container's Freestyle request log attributed to the route request that made it:

backend POST /api/vm (each create) POST …/attach-endpoint (each attach)
before (67b3bfb97c8) 1 machine create + 2 guest execs + 1 upload (POST=3 PUT=1) 1 status GET + 5 guest execs
base (8c3c6fc535) 1 machine create + 3 guest execs + 1 upload (POST=4 PUT=1) 1 status GET + 7 guest execs + 1 upload
contract (PR #13309) 1 machine create + 2 guest execs + 1 upload (POST=3 PUT=1) 6 guest execs + 1 upload, no status probe
after (PR #13309 + #13312 + #13326) 1 machine create, 0 guest execs, 0 uploads (POST=1) 1 guest exec (POST=1), no probe, no upload

Every one of the 10 creates and 20 attach-endpoint requests per backend showed exactly these counts (the first create of each throwaway user adds one VPC POST). On the after backend the create route's only provider call is the machine create itself (provider_create p50 561 ms is the allocation alone), and the attach route's only provider call is the single attach exec (provider_attach p50 294 ms).

Functional parity on the after backend: a fresh machine from the new image passed the plan's parity command (guest cmux, coderouter, xdg-open routing, cmux-browser.desktop handler, cmux-resource-stats active, image stamp 2026-09-21-r1), its asserted form, cmux-tui agent hook status for claude and codex, and a real tmux login shell showing cmux@<machine-name>. An older-epoch machine (sh-0b6a5ee6…) on the same backend still installed at create, attached through the full heal path and passed the same checks. The bench never dials the daemon, so its attach always pays the one exec.

The same numbers are recorded in docs/cloud-startup-latency.md §4.6.

Verified so far

Test

  • Dev backend (running): tag issue-13070-new-machine-combined on cmux-dev-backend-1, https://cmux-dev-backend-1.tail137216.ts.net:4747/ (tailnet only). It runs this branch's web/ with the promoted image, routes pre-warmed.
  • Mac app: the fleet build with the same tag resolves that backend by tag. Pending: the cmux-ci controller was unreachable from the submitting Mac (LAN address, off-network), so the tagged build is not submitted yet; the HQ link lands here once it is. Command, from a checkout on the LAN: ~/.local/bin/cmux-ci build cmux --ref 73e1c9763f9b454e64a12010f1e3b267b5a4a2ed --tag issue-13070-new-machine-combined --workspace https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/pull/13368 --submitter austinywang, then wait and publish-hq.
  • What to check in the app: sign in, New Machine, first terminal prompt cmux@<machine-name> in about 1.5 s warm; the Displays row, cmux vm pause/resume then a shell, quit/relaunch and reopen the machine, and cmux vm new from the CLI (old path).

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Summary by cubic

Opening a Cloud machine now reaches a terminal in about 2.3 s warm (was 6–7 s warm, 13 s cold) instead of spending most of that time on installs, probes, and subprocess churn: the guest tools are baked into the image, the create response carries a dial-able attach block, and the Mac app creates in-process instead of through a cmux vm new subprocess. Combines the four stream PRs (#13309, #13310, #13312, #13326).

Backend and image

  • POST /api/vm returns status, address, and an attach block so a client can dial from the create response; old clients ignore the new keys.
  • The devbox image (epoch 2026-09-21-r1) bakes the guest cmux shim, CLI distribution, browser openers, and resource reporter, so create runs zero guest execs and a healthy attach costs one; older images keep the install and heal paths.
  • attach-endpoint skips the forced status probe for rows under 120 s old and reports per-stage Server-Timing timings.

Mac app

  • The New Machine sheet creates through POST /api/vm in the click's own turn with no CLI subprocess, dials from the create response with a bounded retry, and presents from a cached fleet page.
  • Falls back to GET /api/vm/[id] plus attach-endpoint when the response lacks an attach block.
  • No new feature flag (still behind cloud-machines-enabled-release); rollback is a revert.

Written for commit 73e1c97. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added in-app Cloud VM creation and opening with progress views, workspace integration, cancellation, and cleanup.
    • Added faster connections for newly created machines, including retry and recovery handling.
    • Added cached Cloud fleet data for quicker New Machine sheet loading.
    • Added support for preinstalled guest tools, trusted connections, and IPv4/IPv6 network announcements.
    • Added richer VM creation and attachment details, including private addresses and connection readiness.
  • Performance

    • Reduced setup work during VM creation and attachment when guest tools are already available.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Cloud startup-latency benchmarks and performance documentation.

austinywang and others added 27 commits September 20, 2026 19:27
The startup plan had to decide whether a machine's prompt name can travel
as Freestyle VM metadata and be read by the guest supervisor, or must be
written by a create-time exec. This throwaway probe creates one machine
from the md desktop default with a `cmux-vm-name` metadata entry, runs the
metadata-service token dance the supervisor uses against every plausible
path, updates the metadata through the API and reads again, and deletes
the machine before exit.

Result (2026-09-21, sh-0b6a5ee6edfd490795e0e5d556f5adf5): the guest's
metadata service exposes only hostname, instance-id, local-hostname and
vm-id; tags, user-data, dynamic and every custom path answer 404, and an
API-side metadata update is invisible in the guest. The prompt name
therefore stays a create-time exec, and the supervisor does not read
metadata.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…skip

Regression tests only; they fail until the next commit.

- POST /api/vm answers with `status`, `address` and `attach` (route, carrier
  trust, daemon build, guest-tools state), derived from the row and the
  checked-in manifest; no attach block without a private address or outside
  the manifest.
- The attach route reports `Server-Timing` stages and hands the workflow a
  timing sink and a defer sink.
- openVmCmuxRemote trusts a running row updated within 120 s (no status
  probe), still fails closed when the attach and the re-probe both fail,
  records the lease before returning, and defers the usage event and the
  address backfill.
- createVm hands its requested/created usage events to the defer sink and
  stamps the image epoch on the row; deferred units run in hand-in order.
- imageEpochAtLeast / vmImageEntryEpoch / GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH: no current
  manifest entry reads as guest-tools baked; every default is a trusted
  carrier; the bake script shares the resolver's epoch reader.
- The guest adapter upload no longer pays a separate libexec mkdir exec and
  heals a missing directory with one mkdir and one retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…be skip

The app opens a new Cloud machine with three round trips after the create:
a status GET for the address, then attach-endpoint, which probes the
provider's status before the attach. The create response now carries what
the client needs to dial the daemon directly, and the attach path costs
less when it is still needed.

- `POST /api/vm` adds `status`, `address` (the object the GET routes
  return) and `attach`: transport, route (IPv4 first, `[ipv6]` bracketed,
  the driver's rule), session, `trustedCarrier` (epoch >= 2026-09-10-r1),
  `daemonBuild.commit` from the manifest, `guestToolsBaked` (epoch >=
  GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH, false for every current image) and
  `readiness: "dial"`. Absent when the row has no private address or the
  image is outside the manifest; clients feature-detect and fall back to
  attach-endpoint. The image epoch is stamped on the row at create.
- attach-endpoint records `access_check`, `preflight_probe`,
  `provider_attach` and `lease` on the span and the `Server-Timing` header.
- openVmCmuxRemote trusts a running row updated within 120 s and skips the
  provider status probe; the re-probe after a failed attach still wakes a
  machine paused out of band, and a failed re-probe surfaces the attach
  error unchanged.
- Usage-event rows on create and attach, and the attach address backfill,
  run after the response (`runAfterResponse`); the lease stays synchronous.
  Deferred units run in hand-in order (requested before created).
- The guest adapter upload no longer pays a separate `mkdir -p
  /usr/local/libexec` exec (the bake creates it); a missing directory is
  created once and the upload retried.
- `vmImageEntryEpoch` lives in the image resolver; the bake script shares it.

No v2 socket method was added or changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The New Machine sheet's Create currently launches a `cmux vm new` subprocess
after the sheet's continuation resumes, then the CLI reads the fleet, calls
the attach endpoint, refreshes the whole catalog and opens the terminal
through six socket round trips. These tests describe the in-process path:

- the sheet's submit reserves, registers the pending row and launches in the
  same main-actor turn, and the sheet no longer waits for a fleet read once a
  plan is cached (NewMachineSheetPresenterTests);
- the coordinator exposes the operation id during the launch, returns it from
  startOperation, and awaitWorkspaceID resolves the exact receipt
  (MachineCreateOptimisticProjectionTests);
- InProcessMachineCreateLauncher parses the coordinator's argv, keys the create
  on the operation id, emits the receipt before the open, dials from the
  create response, falls back to a status read without `attach`, reports the
  machine on cancellation and redacts failures (InProcessMachineCreateLauncherTests);
- a create receipt with addresses registers a routable provider, the route,
  the carrier marker and a 10-minute attach cache with zero fleet reads
  (CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryCreationTests);
- connectFreshMachine retries on a fixed schedule inside an 8 s budget, then
  repairs through the control plane once (CloudPrivateRouteSelectionTests);
- the socket handler and the in-process create replace the loading pane
  through one function (CloudVMLoadingPanelTests);
- the stats poll waits for a running create, skips connecting links and
  staggers the rest (MachineCreateOptimisticProjectionTests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The startup bench still resolved `@stackframe/js`, which the lockfile no
longer carries since the app moved to `@hexclave/next`; it failed at import
before sending a request. Resolve `@hexclave/js` the way smoke-vm-api.mjs
and stress-vm-api.mjs already do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e IPv6 announce (#13070)

Opening a new Cloud machine spends three to four guest execs after
allocation uploading the in-VM `cmux` shim, downloading the Cloud CLI
distribution, writing the browser openers and installing the resource
reporter, then re-checks all four on every attach, ahead of the first
terminal. The tools are static per image epoch, like the daemon pin, so
they belong in the snapshot. A clone resumed from a parked snapshot also
waits the remainder of the supervisor's 1 s tick before its daemon is
started, and a private network that assigned an IPv6 address gets no
neighbor advertisement from the guest.

These tests fail until the bake installs the four tools with the driver's
own generators and proves each with the driver's own readiness gate, the
source digest (schema 3) covers their generated bytes, the container
recipe carries the same bytes from a rendered guest-tools/ directory, the
verifier proves all four plus the startup plan's parity command on a
booted machine, the supervisor polls at 100 ms while parked or until its
daemon is bound, and the announce sends one unsolicited neighbor
advertisement per global IPv6 address through the attach path's script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tick; IPv6 announce (#13070)

Opening a new Cloud machine paid three to four guest execs after allocation
for tools that are the same bytes on every machine of an image epoch: the
driver uploaded the in-VM `cmux` shim, downloaded the pinned Cloud CLI
distribution, wrote the browser openers and installed the resource reporter
unit on every create, then re-checked all four on every attach, ahead of
the first terminal.

The Freestyle bake now installs the four tools right after the daemon pin
with the driver's own generator commands and proves each with the driver's
own readiness gate as its own step, so a machine from the snapshot passes
ensureGuestCli and ensureResourceReporter without an upload or an install
exec (the driver keeps healing older images). The readiness gates the driver
runs are now exported next to the generators (guestCliShimReadyCommand,
guestResourceReporterReadyCommand, GUEST_BROWSER_VERSION) so the bake, the
verifier and the driver cannot disagree; the driver itself is untouched.
The source digest moves to schema 3 and covers the generated bytes of all
four (scripts/devbox-guest-tools.ts), so a change to any of them is a
re-promotion rather than a silent drift between the image and the driver.
The verifier proves the four gates on a booted machine and runs the startup
plan's parity command, asserted. The container recipe carries the same
bytes: the Dockerfile COPYs them from guest-tools/, rendered by
`bun run devbox:guest-tools:render` (gitignored: 180 KB of generated shell
the generators define) and installs the Cloud CLI archive from the rendered
pin with the same sha256 checks and release layout as the driver's
installer.

The boot supervisor polls at 100 ms while the machine is parked for a
snapshot or its daemon is not yet running bound to its own instance id, and
once a second otherwise, so a clone resumed from a parked snapshot starts
its daemon within 100 ms instead of inside the remainder of a 1 s tick. Its
announce also sends one unsolicited IPv6 neighbor advertisement per global
address through the attach path's own python announcer, which moves to
images/network.ts as PRIVATE_NETWORK_ANNOUNCE_SCRIPT (one implementation),
guarded by `command -v python3`.

The Dockerfile epoch and the manifest rows land with the promotion commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ate attach block

The attach route now reports its stages in Server-Timing like create does;
the bench keeps them per attempt (`attachStages`, `warmAttachStages`) and
summarizes them, and notes whether the create response carried the attach
block a client can dial from.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rehearsing the new bake steps on a machine from the current md default
(sh-0b6a5ee6edfd490795e0e5d556f5adf5, 2026-09-21) showed the opener gate
failing with "grep: /etc/zsh/zshenv: No such file or directory". The image
has no zsh; the installer appends its source line only to rc files that
exist, yet the gate demanded the line in /etc/zsh/zshenv. It could never
pass, so the driver re-installed the openers (seven uploads and the MIME
reconcile for every account) on every attach and every exec, and the bake
cannot prove them. This test fails until the gate mirrors the installer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gate now checks the source line only in the rc files that exist,
exactly the set the installer appends to. On every current devbox (no
zsh) the opener gate can pass for the first time, so ensureGuestCli's
attach and exec checks become the no-ops they were meant to be, and the
devbox bake can prove the baked openers with the driver's own gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rehearsal on sh-0b6a5ee6edfd490795e0e5d556f5adf5 (2026-09-21) passed
the parity check but left a cmux-tui SIGPIPE panic in the transcript:
grep -q closed the pipe on its first match while the daemon binary was
still printing. Capture the output instead and require it non-empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clicking Create in the New Machine sheet took 6-7 s to a terminal on a warm
backend: the click resumed a continuation behind the workspace mount and
sidebar rebuilds, then a `cmux vm new` subprocess made six socket round trips
into the busy main actor, called the attach endpoint although the create
response could already name the route, and read the whole empty machine
(`surface.catalog refresh:true`) before `surface.new_terminal`.

The sheet's Create now starts the create in the click's own main-actor turn:
the loading workspace's id is minted first, `POST /api/vm` leaves on a
detached task, and the workspace mounts behind it. The create runs in-process
(InProcessMachineCreateLauncher) through the coordinator's existing launch
contract, so the pending row, retry, cancel and tombstone cleanup are
unchanged. With an `attach` block in the response the registry registers the
provider from the response, saves the carrier marker, dials the route with a
bounded retry (0/150/300/500/800/1200/1600/2000 ms... within 8 s, 3 s per
attempt; one attach-endpoint repair after that), creates the terminal in the
machine's current workspace and projects it over the loading card through the
same catalog path `surface.new_terminal` uses. Without `attach` one status
read supplies the address and the existing link path connects.

- VMClient.createMachine parses `address` and `attach`; `create` keeps the
  summary-only shape for the socket and prewarmAuth resolves tokens on sheet
  open.
- CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.recordCreatedMachine(_:attach:scope:) keeps
  the receipt, the route, a 10-minute attach cache and the carrier marker;
  `vm.cmux_remote_info` answers from that cache for the CLI.
- CloudMachineLinkManager.connectFreshMachine ignores the retry backoff and
  the 60 s connect timeout for a machine created moments ago.
- TerminalController.replaceCloudVMLoadingPane is the one loading-pane
  function behind `workspace.cloud_vm_terminal_ready` and the in-process
  create.
- MachineCreateCoordinator exposes launchingOperationID, startOperation and
  awaitWorkspaceID; the tombstone destroys through VMClient.destroy with the
  CLI `vm rm` fallback.
- The sheet presents from the last fleet page and refreshes behind it; the
  stats poll waits for a running create, skips connecting links and staggers
  reads.

No new feature flag: Cloud Machines is already behind
cloud-machines-enabled-release and `cmux vm new` keeps the CLI path, so
rollback is a revert.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bake sh-841a6bbc80184621ace0b02125fc0ede (cmux-devbox-13070-guest-tools,
2026-09-21, from d280576bb0 with CMUX_BAKE_ALLOW_BRANCH=1), verified by
verify-devbox-image.ts (every check passed, the four guest-tool gates and
the parity command included; the baked daemon answered 0.8 s after the
first probe; two machines hold distinct daemon identities and SSH host
keys), then derived into the six sizes by derive-devbox-sizes.ts, each
booted and checked. Twelve manifest rows (desktop and base for
sm/md/lg/lgx/xl/2xl) become the defaults; the previous ladder is demoted
and kept for rollback. cmux-tui pin a866e90 (the current
files.cmux.com pin). Source digest schema 3 (4195d49daf5d…).

The shared dashboard slugs (cmux-devbox, cmux-devbox-<size>) stay on the
previous ladder; production resolves the ids from this manifest.

Rollback: revert this commit together with the source changes of the PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each fixture runs the real installer and the real gate several times
(dozens of sha256sum and grep processes); under load they exceed bun's
default 5 s per-test timeout, which showed as a spurious null status.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… timer

The determinism gate (scripts/check-test-determinism.py --strict) rejected
both tests in web/tests/vm-defer-sink.test.ts as sleep-then-assert: each
slept on setTimeout(0) and then asserted what the deferred units had done.

The ordering test now parks the first unit inside its work until the test
releases it, so "the second unit, started earlier, is still waiting" is
observed while the first is provably mid-work. The failed-unit test captures
the promise each scheduled unit returns and awaits those. Breaking the
sink's chaining on the previous unit still fails the ordering test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e parallel create

Regression tests only; they fail until the next commit.

- With `guestToolsBaked`, a Freestyle create uploads nothing and execs
  nothing; the prompt identity rides on the create call as a create-time
  exec (onExit continue, 3 s, root) and a failed one rolls the machine back.
- A healthy baked attach is one exec: the private-address announce folded
  in as best effort, no device list, no guest-tool checks; a daemon that is
  not settled or not trusted is still healed, without installing guest tools.
- The attach bundle without the device list calls only the probe and still
  parses to build and trust.
- The settle loop reads the instance id once and compares it every tick.
- createVm mints the row id and provisions the model-plane token
  concurrently with the insert; a replay or a failed insert revokes it, and
  a restore or fork (creates underneath) provisions for the minted id.
- createVm tells the provider when the image bakes the guest tools and
  records a preview lease after the response for a machine the client can
  dial directly (a third deferred unit next to the two usage-event batches);
  openVmCmuxRemote passes the same gate to the provider and answers a
  client-proven attach from the row and the manifest.
- attach-endpoint passes `readiness: "client-proven"` through.
- Direct resource reads coalesce for 30 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ach, parallel createVm

A Cloud create paid two guest execs on a still-booting machine (the guest
`cmux` shim, the CLI distribution, the browser openers and the resource
reporter, plus the prompt name) and the attach that followed paid an
announce exec, an attach-bundle exec with a double IMDS curl per settle
tick, and three no-op heal execs. On an image at or past
GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH (2026-09-21-r1) those tools are baked, so the
driver installs nothing on create and the prompt identity runs as the
platform's create-time exec on the same `vms.create` call (the metadata
probe showed Freestyle metadata is not readable in-guest); a failed
create-time exec still rolls the machine back.

- `CreateOptions.guestToolsBaked` and `CmuxRemoteAttachOptions.guestToolsBaked`;
  createVm derives the gate from the stamped image epoch.
- `openCmuxRemoteBaked` is the baked attach path (its own function, so
  `openCmuxRemote` keeps its complexity suppression): the private-address
  announce folded in as best effort, the settle gate reading the instance id
  once and comparing it every tick, and the attach bundle without the device
  list a trusted listener does not need. A daemon that is not settled or not
  trusted is still healed (`healTrustedListener`), minus the guest-tool
  installs; every heal path for older epochs is unchanged.
- `readiness: "client-proven"` on attach-endpoint: on a baked, running row
  the endpoint is minted from the row and the manifest, with the lease
  recorded and the attach event deferred, and no provider call. Below the
  baked epoch the provider path still runs.
- createVm mints the row id and runs the network lookup, the insert and the
  model-plane mint concurrently (`beginCreateConcurrently`); a failed insert
  or an idempotent replay revokes the minted token, and a mint failure fails
  the create before any credit is held. A machine with a private address gets
  one preview lease (`metadata.source: "create"`) after the response, so an
  in-process client that dials from the create response and never calls
  attach-endpoint still leaves the row sign-out revocation finds.
- Direct resource reads coalesce for 30 s (VM_RESOURCE_USAGE_DIRECT_READ_INTERVAL_MS).

No v2 socket method was added or changed; the remote CLI relay policy is untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sheet's Create starts the operation in the click's turn and awaits its
workspace receipt one hop later. A launcher that completed in between (the
in-process create's synchronous completion, and the test recorder) resolved
the receipt with no waiter registered, so awaitWorkspaceID returned nil and
presentNewMachineFetchingPlan lost the workspace; a caller cancelled in that
same gap returned nil without cancelling the running create.

The coordinator now keeps a receipt that arrives with no waiter and hands it
to the first awaitWorkspaceID call, releasing it when the operation retires,
and a wait that begins already cancelled cancels the operation like a wait
cancelled midway. Proven by NewMachineSheetPresenterTests, which failed on
the previous head in test-e2e run 35558135500.

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decodesTheCreateResponseAddressAndAttachBlock built its response as a Swift
dictionary literal, whose Int createdAt does not bridge to the Int64 the
decoder reads, so the decoder fell back to the request time and the test
failed (test-e2e run 35558130019). The fixture now goes through
JSONSerialization, the same parse createMachine applies to the HTTP body.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pendingRowStepsAsideOnceItsMachineHasARow predates #12919, which made a
created machine's own row inherit its stand-in's node id and lets a failed
create's row stand in for its machine. The test still expected the old node
ids, so it has failed on main since then; no required check executes
cmuxTests, and test-e2e run 35558140619 surfaced it here. The rows helper
now renders a machine's own row as "<machine id>@<node id>", so each
assertion states both which row is present and whose identity it carries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…create (#13070)

The in-guest metadata probe read the guest once, 1.5 s after `vm.update`, so
a slow propagation would have been recorded as invisible. It now re-reads
every path until the renamed value appears or 30 s pass, and records the
number of reads and the elapsed time. Re-run on sh-2d4fcd3e…: 23 reads over
32 s, still not visible, while the API returned the renamed value throughout.

A create that fails or outlives its 120 s bound can still have produced a
machine whose id this process never learned (seen today: "create exceeded
120000 ms"), so that path now lists the machines carrying the probe's own
metadata tag that were created since the run started and deletes them before
rethrowing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Section 4.3 gains the promotion-time run on the new md default (675 ms p50
to a bound listener, n=5, 02:54Z, quiet provider) and a same-session A/B
against the previous default: three alternating pairs of 5 trials, 1411 →
1026 ms p50 to a bound listener (n=15 each) under a noisy provider, with the
raw runs beside the document. Plan items 2 and 4 record what landed in
#13312 and what remains in #13326; Reproduce gains the two-image commands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
aSecondOpenPresentsFromTheCachedPlanBeforeTheFleetReadReturns lets the
presenter start a plan refresh behind the cached-plan sheet; its listPage seam
can resume after the test has returned and the harness is gone. The seams
captured the harness unowned, so that late resumption crashed the test host
("Attempted to read an unowned reference but object ... was already
deallocated", test-e2e run 35563808555) and took the rest of the suite with
it. Weak captures let a late seam call return nothing instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…new-machine

# Conflicts:
#	web/scripts/devbox-image-common.ts
Adds the before/base/contract/after control-plane numbers, the guest execs
per request, and the parity result from the 2026-09-21 measurement to
docs/cloud-startup-latency.md.

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Cloud client creation and connection

Layer / File(s) Summary
In-process creation and operation coordination
Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift, Sources/Cloud/MachineCreateCoordinator.swift, Sources/Cloud/MachineRowActions.swift
Supported vm new and vm open requests can run in process. Operations expose stable IDs, coordinate workspace receipts, preserve idempotency keys, and clean up cancelled machines.
New Machine sheet and fleet cache
Sources/Cloud/NewMachineSheetPresenter.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudFleetPageCache.swift, Sources/Cloud/MachinesPanelViewModel.swift
The sheet uses cached fleet pages, pre-mints workspace IDs, submits through the coordinator, prewarms cloud access, and refreshes cached plans in the background.
Fresh linking and surface registration
Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift, Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry+Creation.swift
Fresh machines use bounded dial retries, optional route repair, trusted-carrier recording, cached attach data, and immediate provider registration when addresses are available.
Terminal and project integration
Sources/TerminalController+CloudVMTerminalReady.swift, Sources/TerminalController+WorkspaceCreate.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Loading-pane replacement is shared by in-process creation and the socket handler. New Swift sources and tests are registered in the Xcode project.

VM API and provider workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Create and attach contracts
Sources/Cloud/VMClient+Create.swift, web/services/vms/attachContract.ts, web/services/vms/images/resolver.ts, web/services/vms/defer.ts
Create responses now decode attach metadata, addresses, and status. Web APIs derive attach blocks from image epochs and support ordered deferred work.
Concurrent creation and idempotency
web/services/vms/workflows.ts, web/services/vms/repository.ts, web/app/api/vm/route.ts
Creation mints row IDs before insertion, provisions resources concurrently, handles replay and rollback paths, stamps image epochs, and returns attach data with the response.
Fast attach and timing
web/app/api/vm/[id]/attach-endpoint/route.ts, web/services/vms/workflows.ts, web/services/vms/timings.ts
Attach requests report stage timings, accept client-proven readiness, use trusted-row fast paths, record leases before returning, and defer usage and address bookkeeping.

Baked guest tools and image runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guest-tool generation and image bake
web/scripts/devbox-guest-tools.ts, web/scripts/devbox-image-common.ts, web/services/vms/images/devbox/Dockerfile, web/services/vms/images/manifest.json
The image pipeline renders and verifies the cmux shim, Cloud CLI, browser openers, and resource reporter. The new image family uses epoch 2026-09-21-r1 and source schema 3.
Provider fast paths and network behavior
web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts, web/services/vms/images/network.ts, web/services/vms/images/devbox/cmux-devbox-boot
Baked images skip repeated guest setup. Older images retain healing paths. Network announcements include IPv6, and the daemon supervisor polls faster while parked or unbound.
Validation and measurements
web/tests/*, web/scripts/cloud-vm/bench-vm-startup.mjs, docs/cloud-startup-latency.md
Tests cover attach contracts, baked tools, provider behavior, deferred work, image polling, and startup measurements. Benchmark reports include attach stages and create attach metadata.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NewMachineSheetPresenter
  participant MachineCreateCoordinator
  participant InProcessMachineCreateLauncher
  participant VMClient
  participant CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry

  NewMachineSheetPresenter->>MachineCreateCoordinator: startOperation
  MachineCreateCoordinator->>InProcessMachineCreateLauncher: launch vm new
  InProcessMachineCreateLauncher->>VMClient: createMachine with idempotency key
  VMClient-->>InProcessMachineCreateLauncher: VMCreateResult with attach data
  InProcessMachineCreateLauncher->>CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry: recordCreatedMachine
  CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry-->>MachineCreateCoordinator: workspace receipt
  MachineCreateCoordinator-->>NewMachineSheetPresenter: workspace ID and completion
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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant AttachRoute
  participant openVmCmuxRemote
  participant Provider
  participant LeaseLedger

  Client->>AttachRoute: attach request with readiness
  AttachRoute->>openVmCmuxRemote: clientProven and timing data
  openVmCmuxRemote->>Provider: probe or attach when required
  Provider-->>openVmCmuxRemote: remote endpoint
  openVmCmuxRemote->>LeaseLedger: write lease
  LeaseLedger-->>AttachRoute: lease recorded
  AttachRoute-->>Client: endpoint with Server-Timing
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/fixed_issue_severity>Medium</fixed_issue_severity>

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 73e1c

Runtime limits can be bypassed and image validation or probe cleanup can fail in supported workflows. Resolve these issues before merging.


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❌ Failed checks (10 errors, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ❌ Error The new in-process Cloud create path violates early input and lease-fence requirements. NewMachineSheetPresenter.submit starts the operation, but the launcher only mounts a .cloudVMLoading surface… Make the in-process create reserve and focus an empty local manual Ghostty runtime before remote create, PTY creation, or attachment. Keep one stable surface identity and route all queued key, repeat, key-up, cancellation, geometry, and out…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ❌ Error The PR introduces a new detached-to-main-actor value transfer. InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.start creates Task<VMCreateResult, Error> with Task.detached (Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLa… Make the create-response transport models explicit at the concurrency boundary. Mark VMCreateResult and VMCreateAttach nonisolated, make VMCreateResult conform to Sendable, and make VMSummary plus its value-only member graph (`V…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ❌ Error The PR adds Task.sleep to shipped Swift code in two production paths. CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift:104 uses it between fixed retry offsets while connectFreshMachine waits for a new… Replace the fresh-connect retry sleeps with a cancellation-aware scheduler, timer abstraction, async sequence, or connection/readiness signal. Replace the stats polling delay loop with the approved scheduler or async-sequence mechanism, or …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ❌ Error The PR adds a production startup polling delay in web/services/vms/images/devbox/cmux-devbox-boot. It changes the supervisor from sleep 1 to sleep "$tick", sets tick=0.1 while the daemon is pa… Remove the adaptive sleep "$tick" readiness loop. Use a real readiness owner and signal, such as systemd daemon readiness/process or socket activation and an explicit clone-resume state transition, before starting or handing off the daemo…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ❌ Error The diff introduces an unowned lifecycle task in Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift:323-339. destroyMachineBestEffort starts Task { @mainactor in ... } for a real machine deletio… Make cancellation cleanup an owned async operation. Expose an async/throws cleanup operation or an operation handle, store its Task in the coordinator by operation ID, and cancel or await it during teardown. Do not start an untracked task…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The PR materially expands the app target with independently testable Cloud contract and policy logic. Sources/Cloud/VMClient+Create.swift adds VMCreateAttach, VMCreateResult, and nonisolated cre… Extend the existing Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudMachines SwiftPM target with the smallest independent cut: add a public CloudMachineCreateResponse (including a package-native CloudCreateAttach value), a response decoder/route validator, a…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ❌ Error The production diff adds a user-facing error path that can expose raw guest/provider output. For baked images, openCmuxRemoteBaked includes up to 500 characters of stderr or stdout in a new `Pro… Do not include guest stdout/stderr or raw provider messages in ProviderError messages returned through the API. Use stable, generic Cloud VM error text for create and attach failures. Keep raw output only in sanitized server-side diagnost…
Cmux Full Internationalization ❌ Error The PR adds three production Swift error strings without a localized API or catalog entries: Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift:204 (The create response did not name a machine.), `… Route each new user-facing error through a stable String(localized:defaultValue:) key. Add matching translated entries to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings for every locale already represented by that catalog: ar, bs, da, de, en…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The PR adds a second owner for fleet state in Sources/Cloud/CloudFleetPageCache.swift. The new @MainActor singleton stores a mutable lastPage and clears it through a notification observer. `Mach… Remove CloudFleetPageCache and its sign-out observer. Make MachinesPanelViewModel (or one dedicated fleet store) the single owner of the fleet snapshot and plan. Pass an immutable snapshot to NewMachineSheetPresenter through its prese…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ❌ Error The PR adds test-only seams to production Swift source. Sources/Cloud/NewMachineSheetPresenter.swift adds a production initializer with coordinator, reserveWorkspace, presentSheet, listPage,… Remove the test-only initializer overrides and the test-only dial injection from production source. Move the harness and test doubles into the test target or a test-support module. For state observation, widen only the required private de…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.07% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 191 functions across 50 files. (29 skippe… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (14 passed)
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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 Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, or browser policy tests. The only changed TerminalController code is the Cl…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS — The reviewed Swift diff does not add or move RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent hook/session-store reads, transcript or trajectory parsing, JSONL scans, directory walks, or per-record …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No explicitly disallowed cache substitution was introduced. CloudFleetPageCache only supplies a transient in-memory New Machine UI hint; a cold cache calls fetchFleetPage(), and cached-plan sheets…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed No introduced complexity violation is present. The new stats path performs linear scans over current machine and catalog snapshots, then uses a Set for membership; it does not rescan one collection fo…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed Swift diff adds no @concurrent misuse and no new nonisolated async production function that should leave its caller actor. The new pure helpers (parse, response decoding, and …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed No SwiftPM lockfile rule is violated. The PR changes no Package.swift or Package.resolved file, and its cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj changes only register Swift source and test files; no package-ref…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, or NSLog, and it adds no new Logger declarations or direct file/stdout writes. All new cmuxDebugLog calls are inside `#if D…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The Swift diff does not introduce a SwiftUI view, layout reader, lazy/list row store reference, or render-time state mutation. MachinesPanelViewModel remains the pre-existing `ObservableObject…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The Swift diff does not add a standalone cmux-owned window or close-shortcut workaround. NewMachineSheetPresenter changes create-flow seams, but its existing NSWindow(contentViewController:)…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The 79 changed paths contain source, tests, scripts, image configuration, documentation, and documented benchmark JSON assets. No changed path matches the rule's scratch, cache, log, screenshot,…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: baked guest tools, reduced create and attach work, and in-process Cloud machine creation. It is specific and related to the changeset, although somewh…
Description check ✅ Passed The description is comprehensive and covers the problem, backend and app changes, measured results, testing, compatibility, and follow-up verification. It does not use every template section and does …
Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 57.07% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 191 functions across 50 files. (29 skipped: 15 unsupported, 14 over the file limit.)

Full details: Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input

Explanation

The new in-process Cloud create path violates early input and lease-fence requirements. NewMachineSheetPresenter.submit starts the operation, but the launcher only mounts a .cloudVMLoading surface. InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.live calls replaceCloudVMLoadingPane(..., deferTerminal: true), and run waits for connect and surfaceNewTerminal before the real terminal exists. The focused user-created pane therefore has no empty Ghostty/manual runtime during remote PTY creation, so it cannot preserve early input. The same path also returns a usable create-response attach block before its lease is durable: createVm calls recordCreateDialLease, but web/app/api/vm/route.ts supplies orderedDeferSink(runAfterResponse), and recordCreateDialLease defers repo.recordLease. The code comments identify that lease as the sign-out revocation record. This creates a window where direct attachment can occur before the attachment lease exists. The PR does retain an operation idempotency key and authenticated VM access checks, and the normal persistent link manager reuses connected/in-flight links; those parts do not remove the two introduced failures.

Resolution

Make the in-process create reserve and focus an empty local manual Ghostty runtime before remote create, PTY creation, or attachment. Keep one stable surface identity and route all queued key, repeat, key-up, cancellation, geometry, and output events through its owner until the remote attachment succeeds; do not use a loading-only surface as the user-facing terminal. Keep local wrapper installation on the exec path. For direct create-response attachment, write the attachment lease before returning the attach block, or bind a response lease token to the attach contract and durably record it before exposure. Defer only non-security bookkeeping such as usage analytics and address backfill.

Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The PR introduces a new detached-to-main-actor value transfer. InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.start creates Task&lt;VMCreateResult, Error&gt; with Task.detached (Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift, around lines 284–294). The new VMCreateResult is a pure model without Sendable or nonisolated (Sources/Cloud/VMClient+Create.swift, lines 20–25), and it contains the pre-existing non-Sendable VMSummary. Swift 6 strict actor checking can diagnose this detached task boundary. VMCreateAttach is marked Sendable but is also not explicitly nonisolated. The explicitly @MainActor UI coordinators, stores, and actor-isolated link manager are allowed by the check.

Resolution

Make the create-response transport models explicit at the concurrency boundary. Mark VMCreateResult and VMCreateAttach nonisolated, make VMCreateResult conform to Sendable, and make VMSummary plus its value-only member graph (VMBaseSummary and any missing member conformances) nonisolated and Sendable; keep DaemonBuild explicitly nonisolated and Sendable. Alternatively, return a fully Sendable DTO from Task.detached and convert it to the UI model on MainActor, or remove the detached boundary and use an actor-safe task. Do not rely on implicit MainActor isolation for these models.

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The PR adds Task.sleep to shipped Swift code in two production paths. CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift:104 uses it between fixed retry offsets while connectFreshMachine waits for a new daemon. MachinesPanelViewModel+Stats.swift:43 uses it to stagger the new stats polling loop. Both files are new in the reviewed diff, and the paths are called by the in-process create flow and performRefresh. The repository rule explicitly fails production Task.sleep and polling. No semaphore or manual-lock failure was found; the NSLock match is test scaffolding.

Resolution

Replace the fresh-connect retry sleeps with a cancellation-aware scheduler, timer abstraction, async sequence, or connection/readiness signal. Replace the stats polling delay loop with the approved scheduler or async-sequence mechanism, or trigger reads from an explicit state transition. Keep synchronization owned by the actor/MainActor model and retain cancellation behavior.

Full details: Cmux No Hacky Sleeps

Explanation

The PR adds a production startup polling delay in web/services/vms/images/devbox/cmux-devbox-boot. It changes the supervisor from sleep 1 to sleep "$tick", sets tick=0.1 while the daemon is parked, unbound, or not running, and repeats the checks until the daemon appears bound. This uses wall-clock polling to hide clone-resume and daemon-start readiness races. The new test explicitly confirms the 100 ms polling behavior. The change matches the rule's prohibited fixed sleeps and polling used for startup readiness.

Resolution

Remove the adaptive sleep "$tick" readiness loop. Use a real readiness owner and signal, such as systemd daemon readiness/process or socket activation and an explicit clone-resume state transition, before starting or handing off the daemon. Keep any independent periodic network-announcement schedule separate from daemon readiness. Add tests for the readiness signal and handoff behavior.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

Explanation

The diff introduces an unowned lifecycle task in Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift:323-339. destroyMachineBestEffort starts Task { @mainactor in ... } for a real machine deletion and workspace cleanup, but it does not retain, cancel, or await that task. MachineCreateCoordinator now routes cancelled-create cleanup to this new method at MachineCreateCoordinator.swift:34, so the pull request activates the pattern. The new launcher also adds an app-owned callback-based start API (onCompletion and onCancellationReady) instead of an async result. No new Dispatch or Combine usage was found. The callback is not an OS or third-party boundary.

Resolution

Make cancellation cleanup an owned async operation. Expose an async/throws cleanup operation or an operation handle, store its Task in the coordinator by operation ID, and cancel or await it during teardown. Do not start an untracked task for machine deletion. Replace the new internal launcher completion callbacks with an async result/throws path, and keep callbacks only at the existing CLI boundary if that boundary still requires them.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR materially expands the app target with independently testable Cloud contract and policy logic. Sources/Cloud/VMClient+Create.swift adds VMCreateAttach, VMCreateResult, and nonisolated create-response decoders (lines 7-77). Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands+CmuxRemoteInfo.swift adds a nonisolated wire-payload builder (lines 6-47). Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift adds a pure retry schedule and fresh-connect policy, and Sources/Cloud/MachinesPanelViewModel+Stats.swift adds nonisolated polling selection and scheduling helpers. The new tests exercise these seams in cmuxTests, not in a package test target. The project diff registers the production files in the app Sources build phase, while the existing Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudMachines package and its isolated test target are unchanged. AppKit/SwiftUI presenter and launcher glue is allowed, but it does not justify keeping the response protocol, payload serialization, and retry/scheduling rules in the app module.

Resolution

Extend the existing Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudMachines SwiftPM target with the smallest independent cut: add a public CloudMachineCreateResponse (including a package-native CloudCreateAttach value), a response decoder/route validator, a CloudRemoteInfoPayload value or encoder, and a CloudFreshDialSchedule API. Add package tests for required fields, attach defaults and rejection, payload shape, and bounded retry offsets. Keep VMClient HTTP/auth/cache integration, CloudMachineLinkManager tunnel and link integration, SurfaceCatalog, TerminalController, InProcessMachineCreateLauncher, and NewMachineSheetPresenter in the app target. Map the package values to app-specific VMSummary and VMCmuxRemoteEndpoint types at that boundary.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The production diff adds a user-facing error path that can expose raw guest/provider output. For baked images, openCmuxRemoteBaked includes up to 500 characters of stderr or stdout in a new ProviderError, and assertCreateExecSucceeded includes up to 500 characters of create-time exec output. The workflow enables guestToolsBaked for images at or past the new baked epoch. The provider gateway wraps these errors, and vmProviderOperationErrorResponse places the resulting message in the API error reason and details.providerMessage. The Mac app calls /api/vm/[id]/attach-endpoint through VMClient.openCmuxRemote, so this API response reaches a cmux user. sanitizedProviderMessage only replaces freestyle and truncates the text; it does not redact arbitrary upstream messages, internal details, or sensitive payloads.

Resolution

Do not include guest stdout/stderr or raw provider messages in ProviderError messages returned through the API. Use stable, generic Cloud VM error text for create and attach failures. Keep raw output only in sanitized server-side diagnostics or telemetry. Remove or redact providerMessage from user-visible reason and details, and add tests proving that baked create and attach failures cannot expose provider names, internal details, tokens, headers, or unredacted payloads.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds three production Swift error strings without a localized API or catalog entries: Sources/Cloud/InProcessMachineCreateLauncher.swift:204 (The create response did not name a machine.), Sources/Cloud/VMClient+Create.swift:35 (Cloud VM create response was missing required fields.), and Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry+Creation.swift:97 (Cloud VM client is not available (not signed in).). The in-process launcher catches these errors and emits CloudMachineLink.errorText(error) in Completion.output; the coordinator then stores the output as failureOutput, so these strings can reach the New Machine UI. The changed files use no String(localized:defaultValue:) for these messages, and the PR changes no Resources/*.xcstrings file. Existing localized keys used elsewhere in the PR are present in the base catalog, so they do not fix these new strings.

Resolution

Route each new user-facing error through a stable String(localized:defaultValue:) key. Add matching translated entries to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings for every locale already represented by that catalog: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, km, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, and zh-Hant. Keep OK machine= and workspace= unchanged only as protocol or machine-marker output.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The PR adds a second owner for fleet state in Sources/Cloud/CloudFleetPageCache.swift. The new @MainActor singleton stores a mutable lastPage and clears it through a notification observer. MachinesPanelViewModel.performRefresh() records the page into this global cache, while NewMachineSheetPresenter reads and writes it independently to decide whether to skip GET /api/vm and to refresh the sheet. This creates a side channel between the panel and presenter, with cache validity dependent on notification ordering. It can present stale machine limits or team/account data before the panel or presenter performs a fresh read. This matches the rule's explicit failure condition for a new mutable cache, singleton, observer, and side channel that duplicates model-owned state.

Resolution

Remove CloudFleetPageCache and its sign-out observer. Make MachinesPanelViewModel (or one dedicated fleet store) the single owner of the fleet snapshot and plan. Pass an immutable snapshot to NewMachineSheetPresenter through its presentation API, and use an explicit refresh action for background updates. Apply account/team invalidation and generation checks in that owner. The first migration cut is to add the snapshot to the existing panel model, pass it to presentNewMachineFetchingPlan, and delete the cache's record, lastPage, and notification-based clearing paths; add a test that two presenters cannot share fleet state.

Full details: Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source

Explanation

The PR adds test-only seams to production Swift source. Sources/Cloud/NewMachineSheetPresenter.swift adds a production initializer with coordinator, reserveWorkspace, presentSheet, listPage, prewarm, launch, and fleetPages overrides, and explicitly labels them “Seams for tests.” cmuxTests/NewMachineSheetPresenterTests.swift constructs that initializer with test closures. Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift also adds the dial injection parameter and documents that it replaces the real link for tests; cmuxTests/CloudPrivateRouteSelectionTests.swift uses it. These additions encode test scaffolding in shipping source. The new #if DEBUG blocks only add product diagnostic logging, so they are not the failure.

Resolution

Remove the test-only initializer overrides and the test-only dial injection from production source. Move the harness and test doubles into the test target or a test-support module. For state observation, widen only the required private declarations to internal and read them from tests through @testable import, without adding production accessors or test hooks. If a debug-only facility is required, place it in a dedicated debug file or folder. See #6452.

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With the 2026-09-21-r1 rows promoted, the attach-contract pin that no
manifest entry was baked no longer holds; it now asserts that every current
default is baked and that older rows still are not, so the heal path stays
covered.

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not safe to merge until cancellation can reliably clean up a machine committed before the create response is received and the explicit repository-rule violations are addressed.

Findings

  1. P1 Cancellation Can Orphan Machines ▶
  2. P1 Stats delays accumulate ▶
  3. P1 Cancellation can orphan machines ▶
  4. P1 Stale limits block creation ▶
  5. P2 Readiness Uses Fixed Sleeps ▶
  6. P2 Test Seams Enter Production ▶
  7. P2 Cache Becomes Global State ▶
  8. P2 Launcher Is Static Namespace ▶
  9. P2 Stale Plans Remain Submittable ▶
  10. P2 Cache adds ambient state ▶

Summary

This PR substantially shortens Cloud-machine startup by baking guest tools into promoted images, returning attach details directly from create, reducing backend attach work, and replacing the Mac app’s CLI subprocess with an in-process create flow.

  • Adds a create-response attach contract and image-epoch capability gates.
  • Moves guest tooling into the devbox image while preserving legacy-image healing.
  • Adds direct app-side create, optimistic workspace reservation, and bounded fresh dialing.
  • Adds latency instrumentation, benchmark evidence, and focused backend/app tests.
  • The cancellation cleanup race and explicit repository-rule violations should be resolved before merge.

Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant UI as New Machine sheet
    participant App as In-process launcher
    participant API as POST /api/vm
    participant Provider as Freestyle
    participant Guest as Baked cmux-tui
    UI->>App: Submit + operation/idempotency key
    App->>API: Create machine
    API->>Provider: Allocate from promoted image
    Provider-->>API: VM ID + private address
    API-->>App: Summary + attach block
    App->>Guest: Dial trusted carrier through WireGuard
    alt Dial succeeds
        Guest-->>App: Persistent session
        App->>UI: Adopt loading workspace
    else Dial budget expires
        App->>API: attach-endpoint repair
        API->>Guest: One bundled probe/heal exec
        API-->>App: Repaired route
    end
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statsTask = Task {
for entry in schedule {
if entry.delay > .zero { try? await Task.sleep(for: entry.delay) }
guard !Task.isCancelled else { return }
_ = try? await client.stats(id: entry.id)

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P1 Stats delays accumulate

The schedule contains offsets from the start of the polling window, but this loop sleeps each offset relative to the previous request. For four machines, delays of 0, 5, 10, and 15 seconds therefore run at roughly 0, 5, 15, and 30 seconds instead of within 20 seconds. With five or more targets, the next 45-second fleet refresh can cancel the round before later machines are sampled, leaving their stats persistently stale.

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let created = try await dependencies.create(invocation, idempotencyKey(operationID: operationID))
machineID = created.summary.id

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P1 Cancellation can orphan machines

If the server has already committed the idempotent create when the user cancels the response read, cancellation throws before machineID is assigned. The resulting completion has no machine ID, so the coordinator cannot call the cleanup path after removing the pending operation. This can leave a paid machine running with no UI operation available to destroy it; cancellation needs a way to reconcile the operation key and recover the created ID.

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var page = fleetPages.lastPage
let presentsFromCache = page != nil
if page == nil {
page = await fetchFleetPage()
guard !Task.isCancelled, !isPresenting, pendingSelectionID == selectionID else {
finishSelection(selectionID, operationID: nil)
return nil
}
}
let plan = MachineSnapshotBuilder.planSnapshot(activeCount: page?.vms.count ?? 0, limits: page?.limits)
guard !(plan?.isAtLimit == true && plan?.isPaidPlan == false) else {
finishSelection(selectionID, request: nil)
ProUpgradePresenter.present(source: .newMachineAtLimit)
finishSelection(selectionID, operationID: nil)
presentPaywall()
return nil

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P1 Stale limits block creation

This treats the cached fleet page as authoritative for the at-limit check before any refresh runs. The cache is cleared only when Cloud access ends, not when a machine is deleted, so a free-plan user who frees capacity elsewhere can still be sent to the paywall until another surface updates the cache. An at-limit cached page must be refreshed before refusing to show the sheet.

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// Seams for tests; the app passes nothing and uses the shared collaborators.
private let coordinatorOverride: MachineCreateCoordinator?
private let reserveWorkspaceOverride: (@MainActor (String, NSWindow?) -> UUID?)?
private let presentSheetOverride: (@MainActor (NewMachineModel, NSWindow?) -> Void)?
private let listPageOverride: (@MainActor () async -> VMListPage?)?
private let prewarmOverride: (@MainActor () -> Void)?
private let launchOverride: MachineCreateCoordinator.CancellableLaunch?
private let fleetPages: CloudFleetPageCache

init(
coordinator: MachineCreateCoordinator? = nil,
reserveWorkspace: (@MainActor (String, NSWindow?) -> UUID?)? = nil,
presentSheet: (@MainActor (NewMachineModel, NSWindow?) -> Void)? = nil,
listPage: (@MainActor () async -> VMListPage?)? = nil,
prewarm: (@MainActor () -> Void)? = nil,
launch: MachineCreateCoordinator.CancellableLaunch? = nil,
fleetPages: CloudFleetPageCache? = nil

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P2 Production adds test seams

These collaborator overrides are explicitly introduced as “Seams for tests” inside a production Sources/ type. The repository directive prohibits new test-only seams in production source and requires tests to use internal state through @testable import or a dedicated test-support target. The injectable dial replacement in CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift is another instance of the same pattern. This repository requirement must be satisfied before merging.

Rule Used: Do not add new test/debug seams (ForTesting-style members, properties, or methods) to production source files under Sources/. Tests must reach internal state via @testable import instead. Existing occurrences are grandfathered but new ones are ... (source)

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let offsets = Self.freshDialOffsets(budget: budget)
let task = Task<CloudMachineLink.Connected, Error> {
let started = ContinuousClock.now
var currentRoute = route
var lastError: Error = CloudMachineLink.LinkError.timedOut
var attempts = 0
for offset in offsets {
try Task.checkCancellation()
let wait = offset - started.duration(to: .now)
if wait > .zero { try await Task.sleep(for: wait) }

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P2 Readiness uses fixed sleeps

The fresh-connect path coordinates daemon startup with a hand-tuned sequence of fixed Task.sleep offsets. The repository's blocking-runtime directive prohibits sleeps and timing-based polling for startup or readiness synchronization; this must use a readiness signal or a dedicated cancellation-aware retry abstraction with tests. The delayed stats loop adds another fixed-sleep polling site. This repository requirement must be satisfied before merging.

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final class CloudFleetPageCache {
static let shared = CloudFleetPageCache()

private(set) var lastPage: VMListPage?
private var accessObserver: NSObjectProtocol?

init(notificationCenter: NotificationCenter = .default) {
accessObserver = notificationCenter.addObserver(
forName: .cmuxCloudVMAccessDidEnd, object: nil, queue: .main

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P2 Cache adds ambient state

This stores mutable, account-scoped fleet data in a new process-wide singleton with its own notification observer, creating another source of truth beside the Cloud registry and panel state. The repository's ambient-state directive requires runtime state like this to be owned by and injected through a scoped app or session construct. InProcessMachineCreateLauncher also introduces a caseless static namespace instead of an owned launcher instance. This repository requirement must be satisfied before merging.

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onCancellationReady?(CloudVMActionLauncher.CancellationHandle {
request?.cancel()
task.cancel()
})

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P1 Cancellation can orphan machines

If the backend commits POST /api/vm before URLSession reports cancellation, this code cancels the request before the app decodes the response. The launcher records the machine ID and emits the OK machine= receipt only after a successful decode, so the cancelled completion can contain neither identifier. The coordinator then has no ID for tombstone cleanup, leaving the newly allocated machine running and billable. Preserve a way to reconcile the idempotency key after cancellation or otherwise recover the created machine ID before retiring cleanup.

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for offset in offsets {
try Task.checkCancellation()
let wait = offset - started.duration(to: .now)
if wait > .zero { try await Task.sleep(for: wait) }

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P2 Readiness uses fixed sleeps

Fresh connection attempts are driven by hard-coded offsets and Task.sleep instead of an authoritative daemon or transport readiness signal. This can delay an already-ready connection or miss readiness near the budget boundary. The same repository-rule violation appears in MachinesPanelViewModel+Stats.swift:43, where stats requests are staggered with another production Task.sleep. The repository requirement against production Swift sleeps and timing-based lifecycle synchronization must be satisfied before merging.

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// Seams for tests; the app passes nothing and uses the shared collaborators.
private let coordinatorOverride: MachineCreateCoordinator?
private let reserveWorkspaceOverride: (@MainActor (String, NSWindow?) -> UUID?)?
private let presentSheetOverride: (@MainActor (NewMachineModel, NSWindow?) -> Void)?
private let listPageOverride: (@MainActor () async -> VMListPage?)?
private let prewarmOverride: (@MainActor () -> Void)?
private let launchOverride: MachineCreateCoordinator.CancellableLaunch?
private let fleetPages: CloudFleetPageCache

init(
coordinator: MachineCreateCoordinator? = nil,
reserveWorkspace: (@MainActor (String, NSWindow?) -> UUID?)? = nil,
presentSheet: (@MainActor (NewMachineModel, NSWindow?) -> Void)? = nil,
listPage: (@MainActor () async -> VMListPage?)? = nil,
prewarm: (@MainActor () -> Void)? = nil,
launch: MachineCreateCoordinator.CancellableLaunch? = nil,
fleetPages: CloudFleetPageCache? = nil

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P2 Test seams enter production

These override collaborators are explicitly introduced as test seams in a production Sources/ file. The repository directive prohibits new test-only seams in production source and requires tests to use normal production dependency ownership or @testable import. The test-only dial replacement added to CloudMachineLinkManager+FreshConnect.swift:47-55 violates the same directive. This repository requirement must be satisfied before merging.

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/// Cleared at sign-out with every other account-scoped Cloud fact.
@MainActor
final class CloudFleetPageCache {
static let shared = CloudFleetPageCache()

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P2 Cache becomes global state

CloudFleetPageCache.shared makes account-session data process-global even though the presenter already accepts an injected cache. This violates the repository directive that new runtime state must be owned by a scoped, constructable object and injected at the app seam. Move the cache under the account or session owner before merging.

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@MainActor
enum InProcessMachineCreateLauncher {

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P2 Launcher is static namespace

InProcessMachineCreateLauncher is a caseless enum whose static methods own parsing, dependency construction, execution, launch lifecycle, and destruction. This violates the repository directive against static-only namespace types. Make this behavior an injectable instance owned at the machine-creation composition seam before merging.

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selectionWindowID: preferredWindow.flatMap { AppDelegate.shared?.mainWindowId(from: $0) },
submit: { [weak self] request in
guard let self, self.pendingSelectionID == selectionID else { return false }
guard let effectiveRequest = self.reserving(request, preferredWindow: preferredWindow) else { return false }
if let workspaceID = effectiveRequest.reservedWorkspaceID { onReservation(workspaceID) }
self.finishSelection(selectionID, request: effectiveRequest)
guard let operationID = self.submit(
request, preferredWindow: preferredWindow, coordinator: coordinator, onReservation: onReservation
) else { return false }
self.finishSelection(selectionID, operationID: operationID)
return true

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P2 Stale plans remain submittable

A cached fleet page can present obsolete free-plan, machine-limit, or size options, and the background refresh does not re-check or disable submission after fresh data shows that the account is over the limit. The backend still enforces entitlements atomically, so this does not bypass the limit, but users can start a request that is guaranteed to fail. Gate submission on the refreshed plan or give the cache an explicit freshness policy.

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🔵 Trivial · Reuse guestCliShimReadyCommand() in ensureGuestCli. · freestyle.ts:1786-1788

web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts:1786-1788
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse guestCliShimReadyCommand() in ensureGuestCli.

The helper is the documented create/attach gate used by the bake and image verifier. The inline check is equivalent today, but it can diverge later. That divergence would make ensureGuestCli take its reinstall path for an otherwise valid baked image, adding an upload/install during create or attach and potentially failing if repair fails.

♻️ Proposed refactor
   private async ensureGuestCli(vm: Vm, vmId: string, installReporter = true): Promise<void> {
-    const expected = createHash("sha256").update(GUEST_CMUX_SHIM).digest("hex");
-    const current = await this.execResult(vm, `test "$(sha256sum '${GUEST_CMUX_SHIM_PATH}' 2>/dev/null | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" = '${expected}' && ${guestBrowserReadyCommand} && ${guestCliDistributionCommand(true)}`);
+    const current = await this.execResult(vm, `${guestCliShimReadyCommand()} && ${guestBrowserReadyCommand} && ${guestCliDistributionCommand(true)}`);

Import guestCliShimReadyCommand from ../guestCli.

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In `@web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts` around lines 1786 - 1788, Update
ensureGuestCli to use the shared guestCliShimReadyCommand() helper instead of
calculating the shim hash and checking GUEST_CMUX_SHIM_PATH inline, while
preserving the existing browser and distribution readiness checks. Import
guestCliShimReadyCommand from ../guestCli.

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Inline comments:
In `@cmuxTests/CloudPrivateRouteSelectionTests.swift`:
- Around line 196-209: Update freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute to
replace the ContinuousClock wall-clock assertion with a DialLog-based invariant:
record routes inside the injected dial closure and assert log.routes is empty,
preserving the existing preflight error expectations.

In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudFleetPageCache.swift`:
- Around line 14-24: Store the injected notification center in
CloudFleetPageCache during init, then use that stored center in deinit to remove
accessObserver instead of NotificationCenter.default. Keep the existing observer
registration and weak capture behavior unchanged.

In `@web/scripts/cloud-vm/probe-metadata.ts`:
- Line 51: Update the timeout handling used by createProbeVm so a deadline does
not abandon fs.vms.create: continue awaiting the create operation after the
timeout and keep cleanup active until creation settles and provider listing is
consistent. If creation returns a VM, delete that VM directly, while retaining
the tagged cleanup sweep for responses that are lost.

In `@web/scripts/devbox-image-common.ts`:
- Line 463: Update the schema-3 digest inputs around
devboxGuestToolsDigestInputs and guestResourceReporterInstallCommand so the
vmEdgeAliasDomain deployment value is explicitly declared and consistently used
during both image baking and validation, or recorded as a deployment-specific
manifest input. Preserve the existing constant API-key input and ensure
differing CMUX_VM_EDGE_ALIAS_DOMAIN values cannot produce mismatched source
digests.

In `@web/scripts/verify-devbox-image.ts`:
- Around line 182-183: Update the guest-tools parity command near
GUEST_TOOL_CHECKS to guard both xdg-mime assertions with an availability check,
matching the bake behavior so they run only when xdg-mime is installed. Preserve
the existing hand-check command string unchanged because it is asserted exactly
by web/tests/vm-devbox-guest-tools.test.ts.

In `@web/services/vms/images/devbox/cmux-devbox-boot`:
- Around line 238-244: Bound the fast-tick retry logic in the daemon supervision
loop so consecutive unbound or non-running states increment a counter and use
0.1-second polling only for a small limit, then retain the 1-second tick; reset
the counter once the daemon is running and bound. Update the related assertion
in vm-devbox-image.test.ts to match the revised logic.

In `@web/services/vms/workflows.ts`:
- Around line 3531-3537: Ensure the client-proven fast path enforces the Go plan
runtime budget before returning through recordClientProvenAttach. Reuse or
extract the budget-check logic from preflightResumeIfSuspended so it runs for
both paths, including pausing the VM and raising VmUsageLimitExceededError when
remainingSeconds is exhausted; keep non-Go plans and available budgets
unchanged.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@web/services/vms/drivers/freestyle.ts`:
- Around line 1786-1788: Update ensureGuestCli to use the shared
guestCliShimReadyCommand() helper instead of calculating the shim hash and
checking GUEST_CMUX_SHIM_PATH inline, while preserving the existing browser and
distribution readiness checks. Import guestCliShimReadyCommand from ../guestCli.

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Comment on lines +196 to +209
@Test func freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute() async {
let started = ContinuousClock.now
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(
machineID: "vm-fresh", route: "ws://10.16.0.7:1337/v1/link", session: "cloud"
)
}
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(machineID: "vm-fresh", route: nil, session: "cloud", dial: { _, _ in
CloudMachineLink.Connected(socketPath: "/unused", session: "cloud")
})
}
#expect(ContinuousClock.now - started < .seconds(2), "preflight failures never enter the retry schedule")
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the wall-clock duration assertion with a logical invariant.

Line 208 asserts a measured elapsed time against an absolute 2-second ceiling. On shared CI this can fail for reasons unrelated to the code under test. The claim being tested is that a preflight failure never enters the retry schedule. A dial log proves that directly: no dial attempt is recorded.

As per coding guidelines: "An assertion on a measured wall-clock duration, or a hard absolute latency ceiling on shared CI" is not allowed in these test paths.

💚 Proposed fix
     `@Test` func freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute() async {
-        let started = ContinuousClock.now
+        let log = DialLog()
         await `#expect`(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
             try await manager().connectFreshMachine(
                 machineID: "vm-fresh", route: "ws://10.16.0.7:1337/v1/link", session: "cloud"
             )
         }
         await `#expect`(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
-            try await manager().connectFreshMachine(machineID: "vm-fresh", route: nil, session: "cloud", dial: { _, _ in
-                CloudMachineLink.Connected(socketPath: "/unused", session: "cloud")
+            try await manager().connectFreshMachine(machineID: "vm-fresh", route: nil, session: "cloud", dial: { route, _ in
+                _ = log.dialed(route)
+                return CloudMachineLink.Connected(socketPath: "/unused", session: "cloud")
             })
         }
-        `#expect`(ContinuousClock.now - started < .seconds(2), "preflight failures never enter the retry schedule")
+        `#expect`(log.routes.isEmpty, "preflight failures never enter the retry schedule")
     }
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@Test func freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute() async {
let started = ContinuousClock.now
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(
machineID: "vm-fresh", route: "ws://10.16.0.7:1337/v1/link", session: "cloud"
)
}
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(machineID: "vm-fresh", route: nil, session: "cloud", dial: { _, _ in
CloudMachineLink.Connected(socketPath: "/unused", session: "cloud")
})
}
#expect(ContinuousClock.now - started < .seconds(2), "preflight failures never enter the retry schedule")
}
@Test func freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute() async {
let log = DialLog()
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(
machineID: "vm-fresh", route: "ws://10.16.0.7:1337/v1/link", session: "cloud"
)
}
await #expect(throws: CloudMachineLinkManager.ManagerError.self) {
try await manager().connectFreshMachine(machineID: "vm-fresh", route: nil, session: "cloud", dial: { route, _ in
_ = log.dialed(route)
return CloudMachineLink.Connected(socketPath: "/unused", session: "cloud")
})
}
#expect(log.routes.isEmpty, "preflight failures never enter the retry schedule")
}
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In `@cmuxTests/CloudPrivateRouteSelectionTests.swift` around lines 196 - 209,
Update freshDialFailsFastWithoutAClientOrARoute to replace the ContinuousClock
wall-clock assertion with a DialLog-based invariant: record routes inside the
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init(notificationCenter: NotificationCenter = .default) {
accessObserver = notificationCenter.addObserver(
forName: .cmuxCloudVMAccessDidEnd, object: nil, queue: .main
) { [weak self] _ in
MainActor.assumeIsolated { self?.lastPage = nil }
}
}

deinit {
if let accessObserver { NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(accessObserver) }
}

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<title>Is removing a NotificationCenter observer that was created with closure syntax by name adequate?</title> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41924239/is-removing-a-notificationcenter-observer-that-was-created-with-closure-syntax-b # Is removing a NotificationCenter observer that was created with closure syntax by name adequate? - Tags: swift, nsnotificationcenter, observers - Score: 18 - Views: 12,477 - Answers: 3 - Asked by: Dan Beaulieu (20,006 rep) - Asked on: Jan 29, 2017 - Last active: Sep 19, 2018 - License: CC BY-SA 3.0 --- ## Question I have a few notifications that were created using block / trailing closure syntax which look like this: ``` NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChange, object: moc, queue: nil) { note in // implementation } ``` Which I was later removing by name, like this: ``` NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChange, object: moc) ``` ## My Question Is this adequate? Or do I absolutely need to save the `NSObjectProtocol` to it&`#39`;s own property and remove that property with the following syntax? ``` NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(didChangeNotification) ``` --- ## Accepted Answer — Score: 16 - By: Dave Weston (6,635 rep) - Answered on: Jan 29, 2017 You absolutely need to store the return value in a property and remove that later on. From [https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsnotificationcenter/1411723-addobserverforname](https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsnotificationcenter/1411723-addobserverforname): > ## Return Value > > An opaque object to act as the observer. When you call any one of the `removeObserver` methods, the first parameter is the observer to remove. When you set up a block to respond to a notification, `self` is **not** the observer, `NSNotificationCenter` creates its own observer object behind the scenes and returns it to you. > **Note**: as of iOS 9, you are no longer required to call `removeObserver` from `dealloc`/`deinit`, as that will happen automatically when the observer goes away. So, if you&`#39`;re only targeting iOS 9, this may all just work, but if you&`#39`;re not retaining the returned observer at all, the notification could be removed before you expect it to be. Better safe than sorry. --- ## Answer 2 — Score: 8 - By: Kostas Tsoleridis (924 rep) - Answered on: Sep 19, 2018 Here an example with code, for how a correct implementation looks like: Declare the variable that gets returned when you add the observer in your class A (the receiver of the notification or observer): ``` private var fetchTripsNotification: NSObjectProtocol? ``` In your init method add yourself as an observer: ``` init() { fetchTripsNotification = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .needsToFetchTrips, object: nil, queue: nil) { [weak self] _ in guard let `self` = self else { return } self.fetchTrips() } } ``` In the deinit method of your class, make sure to remove the observer: ``` deinit { NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(fetchTripsNotification as Any) } ``` In your class B (the poster of the notification) trigger the notification like usually: ``` NotificationCenter.default.post(name: .needsToFetchTrips, object: nil) ``` --- ## Answer 3 — Score: 7 - By: Vitalii (4,477 rep) - Answered on: Jul 26, 2018 To add to `@Dave`&`#39`;s answer, it looks like documentation isn&`#39`;t always 100% accurate. According to [this article by Ole Begemann](https://oleb.net/blog/2018/01/notificationcenter-removeobserver/) there is a contradiction in the doc and self-removing magic was not happening as of iOS 11.2 in his [test app](https://github.com/ole/NotificationUnregistering). So that the answer is still "Yes, one needs to remove that observer manually" (and yes, **self** is not the observer, the result of `addObserver()` method is the observer). <title>2013-12-02-nsnotification-and-nsnotificationcenter.md at master · NSHipster/articles</title> https://github.com/NSHipster/articles/blob/master/2013-12-02-nsnotification-and-nsnotificationcenter.md `NSNotificationCenter` provides a centralized hub through which any part of an application may notify and be notified of changes from any other part of the application. Observers register with a notification center to respond to particular events with a specified action. Each time an event occurs, the notification goes through its dispatch table, and messages any registered observers for that event. ... > Each running Cocoa program manages its own default notification center, so it&`#39`;s unusual for a new notification center to be instantiated separately. ... The traditional way to add an observer is `–addObserver:selector:name:object:`, in which an object (usually `self`) adds itself to have the specified selector performed when a matching notification is posted. ... The modern, block-based API for adding notification observers is `–addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock:`. Instead of registering an existing object as an observer for a notification, this method creates its own anonymous object to be the observer, which performs a block on the specified queue (or the calling thread, if `nil`) when a matching notification is posted. Unlike its similarly named `@selector`-based counterpart, this method actually returns the constructed observer object, which is necessary for unregistering the observer, as discussed in the next section. ... > Contrary to a recent article claiming otherwise, `–addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock:` should _not_ be considered harmful. It&`#39`;s perfectly safe and suitable for use in applications. Just make sure to understand memory management rules when referencing `self` in blocks. Any concerns in this respect are the same as for any other block ... based API. ... The `name` and `object` parameters of both methods are used to decide whether the criteria of a posted notification match the observer. If `name` is set, only notifications with that name will trigger, but if `nil` is set, then _all_ names will match. The same is true of `object`. So, if both `name` and `object` are set, only notifications with that name _and_ the specified object will trigger. However, if both `name` and `object` are `nil`, then _all_ notifications posted will trigger. ... ```swift let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() center.addObserverForName(nil, object: nil, queue: nil) { notification in print("\(notification.name): \(notification.userInfo ?? [:])") } ... [center addObserverForName:nil object:nil queue:nil usingBlock:^(NSNotification *notification) { NSLog(@"%@", notification.name); }]; ... ### Removing Observers ... It&`#39`;s important for objects to remove observers before they&`#39`;re deallocated, in order to prevent further messages from being sent. ... There are two methods for removing observers: `-removeObserver:` and `-removeObserver:name:object:`. Again, just as with adding observers, `name` and `object` are used to define scope. `-removeObserver:`, or `-removeObserver:name:object` with `nil` for both parameters, will remove the observer from the notification center dispatch table entirely, while specifying parameters for `-removeObserver:name:object:` will only remove the observer for registrations with that name and/or object. ... #### NSNotificationCenter ... ```swift func addObserver(observer: AnyObject, selector aSelector: Selector, name aName: String?, object anObject: AnyObject?) func addObserverForName(name: String?, object obj: AnyObject?, queue: NSOperationQueue?, usingBlock block: (NSNotification) -> Void) -> NSObjectProtocol ... ```objc - (void)addObserver:(id)notificationObserver selector:(SEL)notificationSelector name:(NSString *)notificationName object:(id)notificationSender - (id)addObserverForName:(NSString *)name object:(id)obj queue:(NSOperationQueue *)queue usingBlock:(void (^)(NSNotification *))block ... **Key-Value Observing adds observers for keypaths, while NSNotificationCenter adds observers for notifications.** Keep this…[truncated] <title>removeObserver(_:) | Apple Developer Documentation</title> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/notificationcenter/removeobserver(_:)-2yciv removeObserver(_:) | Apple Developer Documentation Skip Navigation Instance Method # removeObserver(_:) Removes all entries specifying an observer from the notification center’s dispatch table. ``` func removeObserver(_ observer: Any) ``` ## Parameters The observer to remove from the dispatch table. Specify an observer to remove only entries for this observer. ## Discussion Removing the observer stops it from receiving notifications. If you used addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) to create your observer, you should call this method or removeObserver(_:name:object:) before the system deallocates any object that addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) specifies. If your app targets iOS 9.0 and later or macOS 10.11 and later, and you used addObserver(_:selector:name:object:), you do not need to unregister the observer. If you forget or are unable to remove the observer, the system cleans up the next time it would have posted to it. When removing an observer, remove it with the most specific detail possible. For example, if you used a name and object to register the observer, use removeObserver(_:name:object:) with the name and object. The following example illustrates how to unregister`someObserver` for all previously registered notifications. This is safe to do in the dealloc method, but you shouldn’t use it otherwise (use removeObserver(_:name:object:) instead). ``` NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(someObserver) ``` ``` [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:someObserver]; ``` ## See Also ### Adding and removing notification observers func addObserver(forName: NSNotification.Name?, object: Any?, queue: OperationQueue?, using: (Notification) -> Void) -> any NSObjectProtocol Adds an entry to the notification center to receive notifications that passed to the provided block. func addObserver(Any, selector: Selector, name: NSNotification.Name?, object: Any?) Adds an entry to the notification center to call the provided selector with the notification. func removeObserver(Any, name: NSNotification.Name?, object: Any?) Removes matching entries from the notification center’s dispatch table. Current page is removeObserver(_:) <title>Do you have to manually unregister block-based NotificationCenter observers? – Ole Begemann</title> https://oleb.net/blog/2018/01/notificationcenter-removeobserver/ Do you have to manually unregister block-based NotificationCenter observers? – Ole Begemann tl;dr: yes. (Tested on iOS 11.2.) A few weeks ago, I asked this question on Twitter: In iOS 11, is it still necessary to unregister block-based notification center observers? Apple docs are ambiguous: docs for addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) say yes; removeObserver(_:) docs say it’s no longer necessary for iOS 9+. I received a lot of conflicting replies. The yes/no split was pretty close to 50/50. So let’s test what happens. # The problem The block-based API I’m talking about is NotificationCenter.​addObserver​(forName:​object:​queue:​using:). We register a function with the notification center that gets called when a matching notification comes in. The return value is an opaque token that represents the observation: ``` class MyObserver { var observation: Any? = nil init() { observation = NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( forName: myNotification, object: nil, queue: nil) { notification in print("Received \(notification.name.rawValue)") } } } ``` And the question is: will the notification center discard the block and stop notifying us when the`observation` token is destroyed (i.e. when the`MyObserver` instance is deallocated)? The new KeyPath-based KVO API works like this, so it would be somewhat understandable to expect notifications to work the same way. Or do we have to manually call NotificationCenter.​removeObserver(_:)(e.g. in`MyObserver`’s deinit)? # What the documentation says The selector-based observation API addObserver(_:​selector:​name:​object:) made manual unregistering optional in iOS 9/OS X 10.11. When that change was made, the Foundation release notes stated explicitly that the block-based observers still required manual work: Block based observers via the`-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver​ForName:​object:​queue:​usingBlock:]` method still need to be un-registered when no longer in use since the system still holds a strong reference to these observers. Has anything changed since then? The addObserver(forName:​object:​queue:​using:) documentation is also very clear that unregistering is required: You must invoke removeObserver(_:) or removeObserver(_:​name:​object:) before any object specified by`addObserver(forName:​object:​queue:​using:)` is deallocated. However, the removeObserver(_:) docs seem to contradict this: If your app targets iOS 9.0 and later or macOS 10.11 and later, you don’t need to unregister an observer in its`dealloc` method. This doesn’t make any distinction between the block-based and the selector-based API. # The test app I wrote a test app that allows you to inspect the behavior (via Xcode’s console) for various scenarios. The code is available on GitHub. Here’s what I found: Yes, you still have to unregister block-based observations manually (as of iOS 11.2). The documentation for`removeObserver(_:)` is at least misleading if not wrong. If you don’t unregister, the notification center will retain the observer block forever and keep invoking it for every incoming notification. Whether this will wreak havoc with your app depends on what you do in the block (and what objects the block has captured). If you do the unregistering in`deinit`, you must make sure not to capture`self` in your observer block. If you do, your`deinit` will never get called because the block retains`self`(preventing its destruction) and the notification center holds a strong reference to the block. Your object will live forever. # Automating unregistering What’s the best way to deal with this inconvenience? I suggest you write a small wrapper class for the observation token the notification center returns to you. The wrapper object stores the token and waits to be deallocated. Its only task is to call`removeObserver(_:)` in its own deinitializer: ``` /// Wraps the observer token received from /// NotificationCenter.addObserver(forName:object:queue:using:) /// and unregisters it in deinit. fi…[truncated] <title>iOS NotificationCenter unexpected retained closure</title> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56785291/ios-notificationcenter-unexpected-retained-closure # iOS NotificationCenter unexpected retained closure - Tags: ios, swift, nsnotificationcenter, notificationcenter, addobserver - Score: 1 - Views: 1,562 - Answers: 3 - Asked by: funct7 (3,621 rep) - Asked on: Jun 27, 2019 - Last active: Apr 16, 2020 - License: CC BY-SA 4.0 --- ## Question In the [documentation](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/notificationcenter/1411723-addobserver), it says: > The block is copied by the notification center and (the copy) held until the observer registration is removed. And it provides a one-time observer example code like so: ``` let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() let mainQueue = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() var token: NSObjectProtocol? token = center.addObserverForName("OneTimeNotification", object: nil, queue: mainQueue) { (note) in print("Received the notification!") center.removeObserver(token!) } ``` Now I expect the observer to be removed as `removeObserver(_:)` is called, so my code goes like this: ``` let nc = NotificationCenter.default var successToken: NSObjectProtocol? var failureToken: NSObjectProtocol? successToken = nc.addObserver( forName: .ContentLoadSuccess, object: nil, queue: .main) { (_) in nc.removeObserver(successToken!) nc.removeObserver(failureToken!) self.onSuccess(self, .contentData) } failureToken = nc.addObserver( forName: .ContentLoadFailure, object: nil, queue: .main) { (_) in nc.removeObserver(successToken!) nc.removeObserver(failureToken!) guard case .failed(let error) = ContentRepository.state else { GeneralError.invalidState.record() return } self.onFailure(self, .contentData, error) } ``` Surprisingly, the `self` is retained and not removed. What is going on? --- ## Answer 1 — Score: 1 - By: deekay (939 rep) - Answered on: Apr 16, 2020 Recently I&`#39`;ve run into similar problem myself. This does not seem a bug, but rather undocumented feature of the token which (as you&`#39`;ve already noticed) is of \_\_NSObserver type. [Looking closer at that type](https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/blob/master/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/__NSObserver.h) you can see that it holds the reference to a block. Since your blocks hold strong reference to the token itself (through optional var), you have a cycle. Try to set the optional token reference to nil once it is used: ``` let nc = NotificationCenter.default var successToken: NSObjectProtocol? var failureToken: NSObjectProtocol? successToken = nc.addObserver( forName: .ContentLoadSuccess, object: nil, queue: .main) { (_) in nc.removeObserver(successToken!) nc.removeObserver(failureToken!) successToken = nil // Break reference cycle failureToken = nil self.onSuccess(self, .contentData) } ``` --- ## Accepted Answer — Score: 0 - By: funct7 (3,621 rep) - Answered on: Jun 27, 2019 Confirmed some weird behavior going on. First, I put a breakpoint on the success observer closure, before observers are removed, and printed the memory address of tokens, and `NotificationCenter.default`. Printing `NotificationCenter.default` shows the registered observers. I won&`#39`;t post the log here since the list is very long. By the way, `self` was captured weakly in the closures. ``` Printing description of successToken: ▿ Optional<NSObject> - some : <__NSObserver: 0x60000384e940> Printing description of failureToken: ▿ Optional<NSObject> - some : <__NSObserver: 0x60000384ea30> ``` Also confirmed that observers were (supposedly) removed by printing `NotificationCenter.default` again after the `removeObserver(_:)`s were invoked. Next, I left the view controller and confirmed that the `self` in the quote code was deallocated. Finally, I turned on the debug memory graph and searched for the memory addresses and found this: [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/9HqKs.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/9HqKs.png) In the end, there was no retain cycle. It was just that the observers were not removed, and because the closures were alive, th…[truncated]

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Remove the observer from the center that registered it.

init accepts an injected notificationCenter, but deinit removes the observer from NotificationCenter.default. A cache created with another center can leave its block registration in that center after deinitialization. The weak capture prevents the cache from being retained, but the stale registration and closure remain until the injected center removes them.

Store the center, as MachineCreateCoordinator does.

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     private(set) var lastPage: VMListPage?
     private var accessObserver: NSObjectProtocol?
+    private let notificationCenter: NotificationCenter
 
     init(notificationCenter: NotificationCenter = .default) {
+        self.notificationCenter = notificationCenter
         accessObserver = notificationCenter.addObserver(
             forName: .cmuxCloudVMAccessDidEnd, object: nil, queue: .main
         ) { [weak self] _ in
             MainActor.assumeIsolated { self?.lastPage = nil }
         }
 
     deinit {
-        if let accessObserver { NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(accessObserver) }
+        if let accessObserver { notificationCenter.removeObserver(accessObserver) }
     }
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In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudFleetPageCache.swift` around lines 14 - 24, Store the
injected notification center in CloudFleetPageCache during init, then use that
stored center in deinit to remove accessObserver instead of
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const deadline = new Promise<never>((_, reject) => {
timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(`${label} exceeded ${ms} ms`)), ms);
});
return Promise.race([promise, deadline]).finally(() => clearTimeout(timer));

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not abandon the create operation after the timeout.

Promise.race rejects without cancelling or awaiting fs.vms.create. createProbeVm then runs one cleanup list immediately. The create can complete after that list and leave an untracked, billable VM.

Keep cleanup active until the create operation settles and provider listing becomes consistent. If the create eventually returns a VM, delete that VM directly. Also retain the tagged cleanup sweep for lost responses.

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In `@web/scripts/cloud-vm/probe-metadata.ts` at line 51, Update the timeout
handling used by createProbeVm so a deadline does not abandon fs.vms.create:
continue awaiting the create operation after the timeout and keep cleanup active
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shell.dockerfileInstructions = createHash("sha256").update(normalizedDockerfileInstructions(dockerfile)).digest("hex");
shell.bakeScript = createHash("sha256").update(normalizedBakeScript(bakeScript())).digest("hex");
}
if (schema >= 3) shell.guestTools = devboxGuestToolsDigestInputs();

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Make the reporter digest's deployment input explicit.

guestResourceReporterInstallCommand() embeds vmEdgeAliasDomain() and VM_PLACEHOLDER_API_KEY. The key is constant, but the domain reads CMUX_VM_EDGE_ALIAS_DOMAIN. If that value differs between baking and validation, the same checkout produces different schema-3 source digests, and devboxSourceDriftProblems rejects promotion. Use a declared, consistent domain input for both operations, or record the domain as a deployment-specific manifest input.

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inputs around devboxGuestToolsDigestInputs and
guestResourceReporterInstallCommand so the vmEdgeAliasDomain deployment value is
explicitly declared and consistently used during both image baking and
validation, or recorded as a deployment-specific manifest input. Preserve the
existing constant API-key input and ensure differing CMUX_VM_EDGE_ALIAS_DOMAIN
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Comment on lines +182 to +183
"sh -lc 'test -x /usr/local/bin/cmux && cmux --version; command -v coderouter cr; readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open; xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https; systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats; cat /etc/cmux/vm-name /etc/cmux/image-stamp'",
`[ -n "$(cmux --version 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$(command -v coderouter)" = /usr/local/bin/coderouter ] && [ "$(command -v cr)" = /usr/local/bin/cr ] && [ "$(readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open)" = /usr/local/bin/xdg-open ] && [ "$(xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(runuser -u ${DEVBOX_WORK_USER} -- xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats)" = active ] && [ "$(cat /etc/cmux/vm-name)" = cmux ] && echo guest-tools-parity-ok`,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the xdg-mime assertions the way the bake does.

The bake wraps the same MIME-handler assertion in if command -v xdg-mime >/dev/null 2>&1; then … fi because a base bake carries no xdg-utils (build-devbox-freestyle.ts, line 507). GUEST_TOOL_CHECKS runs in the freestyle runChecks call before FREESTYLE_BASE_CHECKS, so a base snapshot verification reaches line 183 without xdg-mime and fails on a condition the bake itself treats as optional. Line 182's hand check also emits a command not found line in that case.

Apply the bake's guard so the parity check proves the handler only where xdg-utils exists.

🛠️ Proposed guard
-  `[ -n "$(cmux --version 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$(command -v coderouter)" = /usr/local/bin/coderouter ] && [ "$(command -v cr)" = /usr/local/bin/cr ] && [ "$(readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open)" = /usr/local/bin/xdg-open ] && [ "$(xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(runuser -u ${DEVBOX_WORK_USER} -- xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats)" = active ] && [ "$(cat /etc/cmux/vm-name)" = cmux ] && echo guest-tools-parity-ok`,
+  `[ -n "$(cmux --version 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$(command -v coderouter)" = /usr/local/bin/coderouter ] && [ "$(command -v cr)" = /usr/local/bin/cr ] && [ "$(readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open)" = /usr/local/bin/xdg-open ] && if command -v xdg-mime >/dev/null 2>&1; then [ "$(xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(runuser -u ${DEVBOX_WORK_USER} -- xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ]; fi && [ "$(systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats)" = active ] && [ "$(cat /etc/cmux/vm-name)" = cmux ] && echo guest-tools-parity-ok`,

Note: web/tests/vm-devbox-guest-tools.test.ts line 113 asserts the exact text of the hand-check command at line 182, so keep that string unchanged.

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"sh -lc 'test -x /usr/local/bin/cmux && cmux --version; command -v coderouter cr; readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open; xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https; systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats; cat /etc/cmux/vm-name /etc/cmux/image-stamp'",
`[ -n "$(cmux --version 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$(command -v coderouter)" = /usr/local/bin/coderouter ] && [ "$(command -v cr)" = /usr/local/bin/cr ] && [ "$(readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open)" = /usr/local/bin/xdg-open ] && [ "$(xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(runuser -u ${DEVBOX_WORK_USER} -- xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats)" = active ] && [ "$(cat /etc/cmux/vm-name)" = cmux ] && echo guest-tools-parity-ok`,
"sh -lc 'test -x /usr/local/bin/cmux && cmux --version; command -v coderouter cr; readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open; xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https; systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats; cat /etc/cmux/vm-name /etc/cmux/image-stamp'",
`[ -n "$(cmux --version 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$(command -v coderouter)" = /usr/local/bin/coderouter ] && [ "$(command -v cr)" = /usr/local/bin/cr ] && [ "$(readlink -f /usr/local/bin/xdg-open)" = /usr/local/bin/xdg-open ] && if command -v xdg-mime >/dev/null 2>&1; then [ "$(xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ] && [ "$(runuser -u ${DEVBOX_WORK_USER} -- xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https)" = cmux-browser.desktop ]; fi && [ "$(systemctl is-active cmux-resource-stats)" = active ] && [ "$(cat /etc/cmux/vm-name)" = cmux ] && echo guest-tools-parity-ok`,
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In `@web/scripts/verify-devbox-image.ts` around lines 182 - 183, Update the
guest-tools parity command near GUEST_TOOL_CHECKS to guard both xdg-mime
assertions with an availability check, matching the bake behavior so they run
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Comment on lines +238 to +244
# Bound and running is the steady state; anything else (a start that
# did not take, an instance id the metadata service did not answer
# with yet) is retried on the fast tick.
if [ -z "$daemon_pid" ] || ! kill -0 "$daemon_pid" 2>/dev/null || [ "$id" != "$(cat "$BOUND_INSTANCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then tick=0.1; fi
fi
fi
sleep 1
sleep "$tick"

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the fast tick so a crash-looping daemon does not respawn at 10 Hz.

The fast tick now applies whenever the daemon is not running bound to this instance. That condition also holds when the daemon starts and exits immediately, for example after a corrupt or incompatible binary install. The loop then forks a new daemon every 100 ms with no bound and no backoff, where the previous code retried once per second. The machine burns CPU and grows its log at ten times the former rate, and the loop never returns to the steady state on its own.

Limit the fast tick to a small number of consecutive iterations, then fall back to the 1 s tick.

🛠️ Proposed fix
-      # Bound and running is the steady state; anything else (a start that
-      # did not take, an instance id the metadata service did not answer
-      # with yet) is retried on the fast tick.
-      if [ -z "$daemon_pid" ] || ! kill -0 "$daemon_pid" 2>/dev/null || [ "$id" != "$(cat "$BOUND_INSTANCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then tick=0.1; fi
+      # Bound and running is the steady state; anything else (a start that
+      # did not take, an instance id the metadata service did not answer
+      # with yet) is retried on the fast tick. The fast tick is bounded so a
+      # daemon that exits at once is not respawned ten times a second for
+      # the life of the machine.
+      if [ -z "$daemon_pid" ] || ! kill -0 "$daemon_pid" 2>/dev/null || [ "$id" != "$(cat "$BOUND_INSTANCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+        fast=$((${fast:-0} + 1))
+        [ "$fast" -gt 50 ] || tick=0.1
+      else
+        fast=0
+      fi

web/tests/vm-devbox-image.test.ts line 490 pins the current one-line condition, so update that assertion with the change.

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# Bound and running is the steady state; anything else (a start that
# did not take, an instance id the metadata service did not answer
# with yet) is retried on the fast tick.
if [ -z "$daemon_pid" ] || ! kill -0 "$daemon_pid" 2>/dev/null || [ "$id" != "$(cat "$BOUND_INSTANCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then tick=0.1; fi
fi
fi
sleep 1
sleep "$tick"
# Bound and running is the steady state; anything else (a start that
# did not take, an instance id the metadata service did not answer
# with yet) is retried on the fast tick. The fast tick is bounded so a
# daemon that exits at once is not respawned ten times a second for
# the life of the machine.
if [ -z "$daemon_pid" ] || ! kill -0 "$daemon_pid" 2>/dev/null || [ "$id" != "$(cat "$BOUND_INSTANCE_FILE" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
fast=$((${fast:-0} + 1))
[ "$fast" -gt 50 ] || tick=0.1
else
fast=0
fi
fi
fi
sleep "$tick"
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In `@web/services/vms/images/devbox/cmux-devbox-boot` around lines 238 - 244,
Bound the fast-tick retry logic in the daemon supervision loop so consecutive
unbound or non-running states increment a counter and use 0.1-second polling
only for a small limit, then retain the 1-second tick; reset the counter once
the daemon is running and bound. Update the related assertion in
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Comment on lines +3531 to +3537
if (input.clientProven && guestToolsBaked && vm.status === "running" && vm.providerVmId) {
const proven = clientProvenCmuxRemoteEndpoint({
entry: vmEntryFromRow(vm),
manifestEntry: findVmImageManifestEntry(vm.provider, vm.imageId),
});
if (proven) return yield* recordClientProvenAttach(repo, input, vm, proven);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

The client-proven fast path skips the "go" plan runtime-budget enforcement.

preflightResumeIfSuspended carries two responsibilities: the provider liveness probe and the billingPlanId === "go" runtime-budget gate. The gate runs at lines 2640-2649, before the vm.status === "running" && !forceProviderProbe early return, so every other attach path enforces it. The new fast path returns at line 3536 before line 3545, so the gate never runs.

Trigger: a caller on the "go" plan with remainingSeconds <= 0, a machine at or past GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH, and an attach body with readiness: "client-proven".

Consequence: the attach succeeds, a preview lease and a vm.attach event are recorded, pauseGoVm is not called, and VmUsageLimitExceededError is not raised. The machine keeps running past its included hours.

Run the budget check before the fast path, or restrict the fast path to non-"go" plans.

🐛 Proposed fix: extract the budget gate and run it before the fast path
     const guestToolsBaked = imageEpochAtLeast(rowImageEpoch(vm), GUEST_TOOLS_BAKED_EPOCH);
     if (input.clientProven && guestToolsBaked && vm.status === "running" && vm.providerVmId) {
+      // The runtime budget is plan enforcement, not a liveness probe: it must
+      // hold on the path that never reaches preflightResumeIfSuspended.
+      yield* requireGoRuntimeBudget(repo, providers, vm, input.providerVmId);
       const proven = clientProvenCmuxRemoteEndpoint({

Add the helper next to preflightResumeIfSuspended and call it from both places so one function owns the rule:

function requireGoRuntimeBudget(
  repo: VmRepositoryShape,
  providers: VmProviderGatewayShape,
  vm: CloudVmRow,
  providerVmId: string,
): Effect.Effect<void, VmWorkflowError> {
  return Effect.gen(function* () {
    if (vm.billingPlanId !== "go") return;
    const usage = yield* Effect.tryPromise({
      try: () => getGoVmUsage(vm.userId),
      catch: (cause) => new VmBillingError({ operation: "go_runtime", cause }),
    });
    if (!usage || usage.remainingSeconds > 0) return;
    yield* pauseGoVm(repo, providers, vm, providerVmId, usage.usedSeconds);
    return yield* Effect.fail(
      new VmUsageLimitExceededError({ includedHours: GO_INCLUDED_VM_HOURS, usedHours: GO_INCLUDED_VM_HOURS }),
    );
  });
}
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In `@web/services/vms/workflows.ts` around lines 3531 - 3537, Ensure the
client-proven fast path enforces the Go plan runtime budget before returning
through recordClientProvenAttach. Reuse or extract the budget-check logic from
preflightResumeIfSuspended so it runs for both paths, including pausing the VM
and raising VmUsageLimitExceededError when remainingSeconds is exhausted; keep
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