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Extracted from #13403 (austinywang) so it can land on its own. #13403 is a 69-file repair of main's full macOS suite that is currently conflicting with all six app-host shards red; the failure below stays on main until it lands. This PR carries one of its fixes, unchanged in intent.

Problem

CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests /
"A closed Cloud gate or an unauthenticated fleet read cannot prepare a tunnel"
fails on main for its enabled → true case.

999693e015 ("perf: prewarm cloud carrier before first machine") added an unconditional Task { await wireGuardHub?.prepareForCloudUse() } to syncPollingToActivationPolicy(). That fires as soon as isCloudEnabled() and allowsBackgroundWork() are both true — one gate short of the contract #12160 established: no carrier or NetworkExtension work until Cloud Machines is on and the account's fleet has been read. A user with the beta toggle on but a signed-out or failing fleet read enrolled a private-network identity and spawned the userspace helper anyway. The test asserts zero enrollment attempts and zero spawns; it sees one of each.

Resulting behavior

Activation no longer prepares the carrier. performDiscovery already calls prepareForCloudUse() on the far side of listPage(), so:

The cost is one fleet-list round trip before enrollment starts. prepareForCloudUse() only schedules, so enrollment still overlaps every step after that read.

The judgement call: remove the prewarm, or relax the older test?

The alternative was to keep 999693e015 and update unavailableCloudDoesNotPrepare to accept an enrollment attempt when Cloud is enabled but the fleet read returns nil. I did not take it, for three reasons:

  1. The older test states a shipped product requirement, not an implementation detail. Cloud tunnel: no NetworkExtension work until Cloud Machines is on and a machine exists; Cloud Machines is beta-toggle only #12160's whole thesis is that nothing touches the carrier before the account is known to be real. Relaxing the assertion would delete that guarantee rather than re-examine it.
  2. Prepare Cloud tunnels before first use and avoid LAN permission #13085, the PR that introduced carrier preparation, describes the gated behavior. Its summary says preparation happens after an authenticated fleet read. The syncPollingToActivationPolicy() call site contradicts the PR that added it; performDiscovery's call site implements it. The prewarm reads as a perf follow-on that overshot, not a deliberate policy change — nothing in Prepare Cloud tunnels before first use and avoid LAN permission #13085 or Cloud tunnel: no NetworkExtension work until Cloud Machines is on and a machine exists; Cloud Machines is beta-toggle only #12160 was amended to describe an ungated prewarm.
  3. The author already changed his mind. 999693e015 is austinywang's commit, and Repair main's full macOS suite: package test compile and app-host regressions #13403 — also austinywang — reverts exactly this line. Extracting his own revert is following the author's revised intent, not overriding it.

The residual is a real trade-off and worth naming: first-machine open loses the head start of one GET /api/vm. That is the price of the gate, and #13085's own measurements put the dominant cost elsewhere (a ~50 s cmux_remote_info), not in this overlap.

Divergence from #13403

One. #13403 reorders activationStartsCarrierBeforeFleetReadFinishes so the enrollment check follows the fleet read, but keeps the name — which then asserts the opposite of what it says. I kept the reorder and renamed it to activationPreparesCarrierAfterTheFleetReadResolves, display name "Cloud activation prepares the carrier after the fleet read resolves, not before", with a doc comment pointing at #12160. No other behavior change.

The PR's other two target hunks turned out to be unnecessary: #13643 ("Make app-host unit tests green on main") already landed both the WorkspaceContentViewVisibilityTests minimal-mode fixture rework and the endingAccessCancelsPendingPreparation refresh-task hunk. Only the Cloud gate was left.

Validation and remaining gap

The tests are not executed here. I am on Linux; these are macOS app-host tests, and Linux cannot even type-check AppKit. This PR's own lanes are the first real check of the assertion.

What did run locally:

  • swiftc -parse on both changed files — clean. This is a syntax check only, not a type-check or a build.
  • scripts/sync-test-wiring --check and scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh: ok, 1038 test files. No file was added or renamed, so no wiring change was needed; confirmed rather than assumed.
  • scripts/ci/cmux_unit_test_shard.py --validate (2795 selectors), scripts/ci/validate_test_execution_registry.py (256 tests), tests/test_ci_self_hosted_guard.sh, test_ci_change_areas.py, test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py, test_ci_merge_queue_required_checks.py, test_ci_reusable_workflow_permissions.py: all pass.
  • scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py: passes. The registry file sits exactly on its 553-line budget, which is why the replacement comment is one line.

The lane that matters is macos / app-host unit tests; full-ci is added for it.

Not verified: runtime behavior in a build. The timing claim above ("one fleet-list round trip") is read off the call sites, not measured.

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Summary by cubic

Removes the Cloud carrier prewarm so activation no longer starts carrier preparation until the account's fleet read authenticates. syncPollingToActivationPolicy() no longer calls prepareForCloudUse(); performDiscovery owns that call after its fleet read, restoring the #12160 gate — an unauthenticated or failing fleet read now prepares nothing, while an authenticated empty fleet still prepares the carrier.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • When background Cloud work is allowed, carrier enrollment now begins after fleet discovery completes, rather than while the fleet read is still in progress.
    • Background polling continues to follow the activation policy, with Cloud preparation performed as part of discovery. This provides a more consistent sequence when Cloud features are activated.

Turning Cloud Machines on enrolled the WireGuard carrier and spawned its
helper immediately, before any fleet read proved the account was signed in.
`syncPollingToActivationPolicy()` called `prepareForCloudUse()` unconditionally
once `isCloudEnabled()` and `allowsBackgroundWork()` were true, which is one
gate short of the contract #12160 established: no carrier or NetworkExtension
work until Cloud Machines is on *and* the account's fleet has been read.

Activation now leaves preparation to `performDiscovery`, which already calls
`prepareForCloudUse()` on the far side of `listPage()`, so an empty but
authenticated fleet still prepares (#13085's actual claim) while a signed-out
or failing fleet read prepares nothing. The cost is one fleet-list round trip
before enrollment starts; enrollment still overlaps everything after it.

`unavailableCloudDoesNotPrepare(enabled: true)` asserts exactly this and has
been failing on main since the prewarm landed. Its newer counterpart asserted
the opposite ordering; it now checks that enrollment begins after the fleet
read resolves, and is renamed to say so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Added full-ci.

The diff touches cmuxTests/, so suite-coverage fails any run that skipped the macOS suite. The lane that has to actually execute is macos / app-host unit tests — it owns CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests, where both the failing assertion ("A closed Cloud gate or an unauthenticated fleet read cannot prepare a tunnel", enabled → true) and the reordered test live. Nothing else in the change reaches another lane; the production edit is one line in CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift.

I did not run those tests — they are macOS app-host tests and I am on Linux, where AppKit cannot even be type-checked. This lane is the first execution of the assertion.

Closing and reopening now so a fresh event run picks the label up; the label does not apply to the existing run.

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Carrier preparation now runs after the fleet read in performDiscovery() when background work is allowed. The polling test verifies that enrollment starts after the read resolves.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Prepare carrier after fleet read
Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift, cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift
performDiscovery() prepares the carrier after the fleet read when background work is allowed. The polling test verifies that enrollment starts after the read resolves.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

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The ordering test could pass even if carrier preparation starts before the fleet read completes, leaving that regression undetected. Strengthen the assertion; the remaining merge risk is limited to this coverage gap.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: Cloud carrier preparation now occurs only after an authenticated fleet read.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides detailed problem, rationale, resulting behavior, testing performed, validation limits, and affected CI lane. It does not include the template checklist or a demo video, but th…
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The diff only removes an activation-time prepareForCloudUse() call and updates the polling test. performDiscovery() still prepares the existing carrier after listPage() and keeps the exist…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff only removes a fire-and-forget prepareForCloudUse() call and adds a comment. It does not add or alter Swift declarations, Sendable reference types, service protocols, or UI…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff removes the fire-and-forget prepareForCloudUse() task and adds a comment. It does not add or expand a semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, sync dispatch, polling lo…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Cloud polling and its test. The diff contains no browser.* socket command, WebKit/AppKit wait, processV2Command, socketWorkerMethods, or worker browser-router chang…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff removes a Cloud carrier-preparation task and adds a comment. The existing performDiscovery call remains unchanged after await listPage(). The diff adds no `RestorableAgen…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff does not replace an authoritative read with a cache. It removes an opportunistic prepareForCloudUse() task from syncPollingToActivationPolicy() and retains preparation in `performDiscover…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only two Swift files. It removes a Swift carrier-preparation task, adds a comment, and reorders a Swift test expectation. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Sw…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes a fire-and-forget prepareForCloudUse() call and adds a comment. It does not add collection scans, sorting, filtering, joins, or a slower algorithm. The existing `pe…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes the fire-and-forget Task { await wireGuardHub?.prepareForCloudUse() } from syncPollingToActivationPolicy(). The retained preparation call is awaited inside `perfo…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes the fire-and-forget preparation call and adds only a comment. It does not add or change any nonisolated async function, @concurrent annotation, or actor isolation…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes one fire-and-forget call from CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.syncPollingToActivationPolicy() and adds a comment. It does not introduce or materially expand independ…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes only two Swift source/test files. It does not change Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, Xcode project package references, workflows, or dependencies. The SwiftPM lockfile poli…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes a carrier-preparation Task and adds a comment. The test diff only changes test sequencing and wording. No print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc diagnostic lo…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only Cloud carrier timing and a polling test. The production diff removes a background preparation task and adds a developer comment; it adds or changes no user-facing error, aler…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes one production Swift call site by removing an ungated carrier-preparation call and adding a developer-only comment. The other changed file is a test. No user-facing Swi…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes a MainActor Cloud registry and its polling test. It does not add or modify SwiftUI views, ObservableObject/@published state, GeometryReader, lazy/list row subtrees, or r…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes the extra fire-and-forget carrier preparation from syncPollingToActivationPolicy(). performDiscovery() remains the single owner and calls prepareForCloudUse() o…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The pull request changes Cloud polling and a polling test only. It does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup. Ther…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only two intentional Swift source paths: Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift and cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift. The diff con…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff only removes an unconditional Task { await wireGuardHub?.prepareForCloudUse() } and adds a comment at syncPollingToActivationPolicy(). It adds no #if DEBUG block, test/…
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#expect(await received(enrollmentStarted))
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the test prove the ordering.

received(enrollmentStarted) runs only after releaseList.resolve(true). If eager preparation resolved the signal while listPage was blocked, this wait still succeeds. The test checks eventual enrollment, not the required order.

Use a controlled preparation observer or barrier to record when listPage returns and when preparation starts. Assert that the read returns first. Do not use a timed wait to infer that preparation has not started.

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In `@cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift` at line 153,
Update the ordering test around received(enrollmentStarted) to use a controlled
observer or barrier that records when listPage returns and when preparation
starts. Assert that listPage returns before preparation begins; do not infer
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Closing in favour of #13403, which now carries this.

This PR existed because #13403 was conflicting and 250 commits behind, so its Cloud-carrier fix could not land. That is no longer true: I merged current main into #13403 (0465320) and it is MERGEABLE, with 27 checks passing and none failing so far.

Both PRs modify CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift, so leaving both open guarantees one conflicts with the other. #13403 carries the same fix — this was extracted from it, unchanged in intent — plus 68 other files of @austinywang's suite repair, so keeping the original keeps the repair whole and keeps the authorship where it belongs.

Nothing here is lost. Reopen if #13403 stalls again and the extraction is needed after all.

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Verified — with an explicit pass, and a retraction of my own retraction

I previously said this PR's target was unverified because the suite appeared in no shard's failure list and I could not show it had run. That was wrong, and wrong in the same shape as the error it was meant to correct. I had extracted failing sets by grepping the two failure patterns (✘ Test … recorded an issue and Test Case '-[…]' failed), then read the suite's absence from those results as "never selected." A suite that passes matches neither pattern. Absence from a failure-pattern grep is exactly what a pass looks like.

Here is the direct evidence, run 35828371879, shard 1/7, job 107082913266:

◇ Suite CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests started.
◇ Test "A closed Cloud gate or an unauthenticated fleet read cannot prepare a tunnel" started.
◇ Test case passing 1 argument enabled → false to "A closed Cloud gate …"
◇ Test case passing 1 argument enabled → true  to "A closed Cloud gate …"
✔ Test "A closed Cloud gate or an unauthenticated fleet read cannot prepare a tunnel" with 2 test cases passed
✔ Suite CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests passed after 0.063 seconds.

Both parameterized cases of the exact named failure ran and passed. That is a positive result, not an inference from silence.

Two details I checked rather than assumed:

The 0.063 s looked wrong and isn't. scripts/ci/cmux-unit-test-timings.json:293 budgets this suite at 9202 ms, so a sub-tenth-of-a-second pass reads like a suite that matched nothing — the failure mode where a bad -only-testing selector runs zero tests and still exits ** TEST SUCCEEDED **. It isn't: the per-case ◇ started / ✔ passed lines are present for both arguments, so the work really happened. The catalog entry is a stale worst-case from when this suite waited out real timeouts.

It was shard 1, not shard 2. I had computed the owning shard locally with cmux_unit_test_shard.py --shard-index N --shard-total 7 and got 2. CI does not partition that way — it splits into logical shards and packs them onto physical ones (physical-2 carried logical-2 and logical-8 on this run), so a 7-way local split does not reproduce the real assignment. Anyone reasoning about "which shard owns this test" from a bare --shard-total 7 is reading a different partition than CI ran.

Method, for reuse: the run's inventory artifact is only 460 KB (cmux-app-host-test-inventory-<run>-1) and settles "was this enumerated at all" offline in seconds. Each shard's -only-testing selectors are recoverable from the diagnostics artifact's .meta argv. Neither needs a Mac and neither needs another CI round trip.

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