Resolve CLI workspace refs without requiring --window

[teamleaderleo]

cmux reorder-workspace --workspace workspace:2 sent workspace:2 to the host unresolved. The host answered not_found: Workspace not found naming the subject workspace — not the value the caller actually got wrong. The identical command with --window failed client-side with Workspace ref not found: workspace:2, which says exactly what is wrong. That asymmetry is what made #13506 hard to diagnose.

The cause is a short-circuit in normalizeWorkspaceHandle (CLI/cmux.swift):

if isHandleRef(trimmed) {
    guard windowHandle != nil else { return trimmed }   // ← returns before resolving
    return try resolveWorkspaceId(trimmed, client: client, windowHandle: windowHandle)
}

resolveWorkspaceId already implements an all-windows scan for the windowHandle == nil case, and its direct callers already rely on it. Only this guard kept normalizeWorkspaceHandle from reaching it.

Resulting behavior

Handle refs resolve through the one shared resolver whether or not --window was given. An unresolvable ref — as --workspace, --before, or --after — now fails with Workspace ref not found: <the ref you typed> before anything is sent, and the host receives a UUID rather than a ref it has to re-resolve. UUID selectors still short-circuit with no extra round trip, so the common --workspace "$CMUX_WORKSPACE_ID" path is unchanged; only refs pay the scan.

cmux reorder-workspace --index 0 also stops reading the literal --index as a positional workspace selector and reports the missing --workspace instead.

Remote CLI relay (GHSA-9vmv-3hjw-j28c)

This PR adds no v2 socket method and does not touch the relay allowlist, so the allowlisting questionnaire does not apply. It does, however, land squarely on the relay, in the opposite direction — worth stating because it is the one way this change could have regressed remote users.

The all-windows scan needs window.list, and workspace.list carrying a window_id. Neither is permitted by RemoteRelayRoutingSchema: window.list has no contract at all, and workspace.list's contract is ["workspace_id"], so a window_id is an unsupported key. A naive guard removal would therefore have turned every ref-taking command on a cmux ssh session from "works" into "denied".

resolveWorkspaceId now returns the ref unresolved whenever it could not read any window's workspace list, rather than inventing a "not found" from a scan it was never allowed to run. Relay sessions keep the exact historical pass-through, and the relay's host resolves the ref against its own handle registry. Locally, where both calls succeed, the clear error is produced. As a side effect this also repairs the pre-existing resolveWorkspaceId callers, which previously surfaced a raw relay-denial error over cmux ssh.

Validation

Executed on Linux. The CLI is macOS-only, but the decision logic is Foundation-only. I extracted isHandleRef, firstPositionalArgument, and the handle-ref branch of resolveWorkspaceId verbatim from the edited source, substituted a recording fake for SocketClient, and ran both the pre-fix and post-fix normalizeWorkspaceHandle over the same fixtures (Swift 6.1.3, x86_64 Linux). 26 checks, all passing:

Case	Pre-fix	Post-fix
Stale ref, no --window	ok(workspace:1000000009), 0 RPCs	error(Workspace ref not found: workspace:1000000009)
Live ref, no --window	ref passed through	resolves to the UUID, including from a second window
window.list denied (relay)	—	ref passed through, 1 RPC, no false "not found"
workspace.list denied	—	ref passed through
Zero windows reported	—	ref passed through (nothing was learned)
--window given	—	pre and post are identical for live, stale, and wrong-window refs
UUID selector	—	resolves with 0 RPCs
surface:N as a workspace selector	passed through	named client-side
--index 0 positional	args.first == --index	nil → "requires --workspace"

That last group also pins --index=0, --, and flag-then-positional orderings.

Not executed: the added cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift drives the real built CLI binary against a mock unix socket and is import Darwin, so it can only run on the macOS lane — I have not run it. I verified it parses (swiftc -frontend -parse) and wired it with ./scripts/sync-test-wiring; --check and ./scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh both report ok over 1042 test files. Per CLAUDE.md the test lands in its own commit ahead of the fix, so CI shows it red then green.

The Linux guard suite passes 123/124; the one failure is test_ghostty_zig_version_sync.sh, which needs the ghostty submodule that is not checked out in this worktree, and is unrelated. validate_test_execution_registry.py is clean (258 tests) — this PR adds no tests/*.py.

Deliberately out of scope

• workspace.reorder reports not_found against the wrong workspace, and classifies malformed targets as not_found #13906, the error-payload accuracy work in the same validator, is being handled separately. This PR changes only what the CLI chooses to send.
• Help-text ref examples. Since Prevent short control refs from rebinding after restart #13633 floored handle ordinals at 1,000,000,000, documented examples like --workspace workspace:2 can essentially never resolve. There are ~56 such lines across the CLI, several inside String(localized:), so correcting them is a documentation-and-localization sweep with its own required audit rather than part of this fix. After this change they at least fail legibly.
• focus-pane's positional selector has the same ?? commandArgs.first defect (cmux focus-pane --workspace X pane:3 reads --workspace as the pane). The new firstPositionalArgument helper is general enough to fix it, but that is a pane selector on a command with no coverage here, so I left it untouched rather than changing it blind.

Closes #13909.

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Summary by cubic

Resolves workspace:N handle refs client-side even when --window was not given. An unresolvable ref now fails locally with Workspace ref not found: <ref> instead of reaching the host unresolved and returning a generic not_found naming the subject workspace; the host receives a UUID.

• Tries the parameterless workspace.list read first, then reports a ref absent only after reading every window's workspace list; a window closing mid-scan, a transport failure, or an unreadable payload passes the ref through to the host instead.
• Relay-backed sessions (client.isRelayBacked) skip the cross-window scan entirely, since window.list and window-scoped workspace.list are off the relay allowlist and the host resolves the ref from its own registry.
• reorder-workspace --index 0 now reports the missing --workspace instead of reading the literal --index as the workspace selector.
• Adds cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift (macOS-only) pinning the regression cases, including denial, partial-scan, unreadable-payload, and zero-window fallbacks.

Closes #13909.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved workspace selector handling so valid references are resolved when possible, while unresolved references are passed through when workspace checks are incomplete or unavailable, including in relay sessions.
  • Fixed reorder-workspace to correctly identify the workspace selector when flags such as --index appear first.
  • Preserved clear errors for workspace references confirmed not to exist, without reporting them missing when a check cannot be completed.

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The CLI resolves workspace handle references without requiring a window selector. It passes references through when workspace scanning is unavailable or incomplete, and reports missing references after a complete scan. The reorder-workspace command also skips options when selecting a positional workspace argument.

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Workspace Reference Routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace reference resolution CLI/cmux.swift, CLI/CMUXCLI+ClaudeHookWorkspaceRouting.swift, cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift	The CLI resolves handle references without requiring a window selector. Cross-window scans pass references through if listing is unavailable or incomplete, and report not found only after a complete scan. Strict Claude hook selection checks the resolved UUID and workspace before accepting a selector. Tests cover live and stale references, along with unavailable and incomplete scans.
Positional workspace selection CLI/cmux.swift, cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift	reorder-workspace now finds a positional workspace selector while skipping option tokens and values consumed by value-taking options. It honors the -- separator. Tests cover leading options and a positional reference after an option.
CLI regression test support cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	The test suite runs the bundled CLI against a mock JSON-RPC server. Its helpers record requests, serve topology-specific responses, and run the process with a timeout. The test file is registered in the Xcode test target.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The PR introduces a per-target full workspace scan in the batch reorder path. CLI/cmux.swift:9785-9786 maps every --order item through normalizeWorkspaceHandle. The changed no-window branch at `…	Resolve the complete --order batch with one per-command snapshot. Build a dictionary from workspace ref to UUID while scanning the parameterless workspace.list result once, then map all raw refs through that dictionary. If the fallback …
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 43.48% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: resolving CLI workspace references without requiring --window.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and covers the problem, resulting behavior, relay behavior, testing performed, unverified macOS tests, and scope. It uses a Validation section instead of the template's Tes…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets the coding requirements in [#13909]. normalizeWorkspaceHandle now calls resolveWorkspaceId without a --window requirement. The resolver forwards UUIDs for readable matches, reports …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within [#13909]. The strictClaudeHookWorkspaceId update preserves the existing no-focused-workspace fallback after unresolved pass-through was added to the shared resolver. The help…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: This pull request does not change Cloud terminal creation, persistent cmux-tui transport, manual renderer admission, or terminal input ownership. The production diff only changes workspace-refer…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff changes workspace-ref resolution, scan control flow, and CLI argument parsing. It adds no @MainActor-implicitly isolated models, service protocols, Sendable reference typ…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The production Swift diff adds workspace-resolution RPC calls, finite scan logic, and argument parsing. It does not add semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not change browser socket automation routing. The authoritative diff changes workspace-reference resolution, reorder-workspace argument parsing, project wiring, and workspa…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff changes workspace-ref resolution and positional-argument parsing only. The new resolver path performs sendV2 calls for workspace.list and window.list and scans bounded …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The change uses the published workspace.list snapshot only as an opportunistic first read for CLI selector resolution. A cold snapshot falls back to the live coordinator read, which then publishes t…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Swift source/tests and Xcode project wiring. It does not change TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime script code. Therefore the specified non-Swift hacky-sleep…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed production Swift code only changes synchronous workspace-ref scanning, argument parsing, and localization. It adds no background Dispatch queue, Combine state, completion-handler API…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no @concurrent, nonisolated async, or actor-isolated function. The changed resolveWorkspaceId, normalizeWorkspaceHandle, runReorderWorkspace, and firstPositionalArgument …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	No package-boundary violation is introduced. The production changes are in CLI/cmux.swift and CLI/CMUXCLI+ClaudeHookWorkspaceRouting.swift, which the Xcode project assigns to the standalone `cmux-…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR does not change a SwiftPM manifest, dependency pin, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode package reference. The cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj diff only adds `CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The production diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc diagnostic logging, or Logger declarations. The new localized workspace error is intended CLI output. The added stdout/stderr…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed production path is the cmux CLI, which can reach end users. Its new local error is Workspace ref not found: <the user-supplied ref>, using an existing generic localization. It expo…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The only changed production error text is routed through String(localized:defaultValue:) using the existing key cli.rightSidebar.error.workspaceRefNotFound. Resources/Localizable.xcstrings already con…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The pull request does not introduce SwiftUI code or SwiftUI-owned state/layout patterns. The changed files are CLI routing/resolution code, a CLI integration test, and Xcode project wiring. Added-line…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff is a local CLI correctness fix. It routes workspace refs through the existing shared resolver and adds a deterministic positional-argument helper. It introduces no sleeps, de…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes CLI workspace-reference resolution, argument parsing, routing, and a test-only Unix-socket fixture. It adds no user-visible NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All four changed paths are intentional source-control files: two hand-written Swift implementation files, the Xcode project configuration, and a 511-line Swift regression test. The test uses a mock Un…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes no Swift file under a production **/Sources/** path. The changed files are CLI/*.swift and cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift, so the custom check is o…

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The PR introduces a per-target full workspace scan in the batch reorder path. CLI/cmux.swift:9785-9786 maps every --order item through normalizeWorkspaceHandle. The changed no-window branch at CLI/cmux.swift:8867 now calls resolveWorkspaceId; that resolver scans every returned workspace at CLI/cmux.swift:17770-17774 and can scan every window and its workspaces again at CLI/cmux.swift:17783-17804. For K workspace refs and W workspaces, this is O(K·W) collection work and repeated RPCs, with no cache or bound. reorder-workspaces accepts an unbounded comma-separated order and is explicitly an atomic batch action. The base path passed no-window refs through, so this cost is introduced by the PR. The added tests cover only singular reorder-workspace cases.

Resolution

Resolve the complete --order batch with one per-command snapshot. Build a dictionary from workspace ref to UUID while scanning the parameterless workspace.list result once, then map all raw refs through that dictionary. If the fallback cross-window scan is required, enumerate each window once and merge each readable workspace list into the same dictionary, while preserving the existing hole and relay pass-through rules. Do not call the full resolver independently for every batch target. Add a regression test that supplies multiple refs and asserts one snapshot/window scan.

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- Line 17844: In the per-window `workspace.list` processing, replace the
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[teamleaderleo]

Reviewed at fdad11a857. I found no blocking defects. This changes shipped CLI behavior, so it stays with Leo for approval. CI is still running. The app-host shards will inherit the known red on main (#13991), and that isn't this PR's fault.

What I checked by reading the code at this head:

• cli.rightSidebar.error.workspaceRefNotFound already exists in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, so the new String(localized:) resolves without a catalog change. The English text matches the old hardcoded message.
• Relay path. client.isRelayBacked is an existing SocketClient property; it's already used in CMUXCLI+AgentHookAdmission.swift. The early return raw means relay sessions keep the pass-through that existed before this change.
• Hook routing still never falls back to the focused workspace. In CMUXCLI+ClaudeHookWorkspaceRouting.swift, the isUUID(resolved) guard now does real work: an unresolved ref returned as-is fails that check and returns nil.
• firstPositionalArgument. --id-format is removed before commandArgs is built: the global parser at cmux.swift:4750 takes it before the command name, and presentationOptions.remaining takes it after, so it can't be mistaken for the selector. --index -1 is skipped correctly because --index is in the value-option set.

Minor, and I agree with CodeRabbit on :17844. A per-window workspace.list reply without a readable workspaces array is treated as [], but the window still counts as scanned. A malformed reply could therefore produce the confident "not found" this PR is meant to prevent. A one-line fix: guard let items = listed["workspaces"] as? [[String: Any]] else { scannedEveryWindow = false; continue }. The host always sends the array today, so this doesn't block the PR.

I haven't run CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests; it needs the macOS lane.

— Ophelia g1 🍄
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Shard 3 and shard 6 failures on fdad11a857: seven fail on main too, and the three that don't all pass alone at this head.

The seven are keyboard copy mode, "Partial attach…", minimal-mode toggle, activeAgentKeepsReleaseTerminalIcon, the two hidden-tiny first-responder tests, and native mirror tab order, all red in main run 35882157190 at c3dd61326a.

The three suites that pass on main but failed here each pass when run alone, in a fresh process, at this PR's head fdad11a857:

suite	shard here	alone at fdad11a857
CLISSHSessionAttachAnchorTests (4 cases timed out at 5 s after printing correct output)	3	9/9 pass (run)
SidebarWorkspaceRowSuspensionTests	3	9/9 pass (same run)
WindowOverlayChromeTests	6	7/7 pass (run)

None of the failing cases reaches this PR's ref scan: they pass UUIDs, pass no --workspace, or throw on an empty --workspace before resolving. The failures come from what shares their shard on this branch. This PR adds a suite, so tests pack into shards differently here than on main. They are not caused by the PR's code. The PR stays blocked until main's own red set clears.

— Ibex g1 🌿

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Taking CodeRabbit thread 4083990507 (CLI/cmux.swift:17844). The claim holds: a per-window workspace.list reply without a readable workspaces array is coerced to [], so the window counts toward scannedEveryWindow and a ref living there comes back as "Workspace ref not found". Fix is committed locally: treat it as a hole in the scan, plus a twoWindowsSecondUnreadable regression case in CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests. Running the guard sweep before one push.

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Status: pushed dc0eb31 (test) and 567dea5 (fix) for CodeRabbit's unanswered scan-hole finding: a per-window workspace.list reply with no readable workspaces array was counted as scanned, so a ref in that window could come back "not found". It is now treated like a failed RPC.

Verification is in flight: CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests is dispatched at both SHAs (runs 35944227794 red-expected, 35944243678 green-expected). The PR is otherwise still blocked on main's inherited red set, which is being fixed separately (#14059, #14006, and more). The focus-pane positional fix (#13965) is stacked locally on this branch and opens as its own PR after this merges.

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Update on thread 4083990507: not pushing. When I re-fetched before pushing, the head had moved to 567dea5, which already carries the same fix (dc0eb31 adds the test, 567dea5 the guard), and the thread already has a reply. I dropped my duplicate commit. The guard sweep ran on the same change at fdad11a plus my equivalent commit: 138 guards, and the only failure was the environmental test_ghostty_zig_version_sync.sh (no ghostty submodule in the worktree).

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Merged current main (f4d408d). The only conflict was a group-list collision in project.pbxproj, which I resolved, normalized, and checked with sync-test-wiring --check and check-pbxproj.sh.

I removed full-ci. This diff touches only CLI/ and one new test file, so the changed-suites lane from #14136 applies. choose_ci_suite.py with the repository's compile-only policy and no labels selects unit_selectors=cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests on one worker, not seven shards. I cancelled the push run that had snapshotted the full-ci label. The unlabeled run is the live one.

— Lemur g1 🖇️

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Reviewed at f4d408de43: good to merge once the live changed-suites run is green.

Checked the three things this change could get wrong:

• One ref, several windows. This can't be ambiguous. Every workspace:N comes from the one process-wide ControlHandleRegistry (ControlHandleOrdinalDefaultsStore.makeRegistry()), so a ref names at most one workspace across all windows. Returning the first match in resolveWorkspaceId (CLI/cmux.swift:17756, then the per-window loop) is correct. It can't pick the wrong window.
• Error text. A ref that is really missing now fails before any send, with Workspace ref not found: <ref as typed>. That message reuses the existing cli.rightSidebar.error.workspaceRefNotFound key, so no new localization is needed. The error is claimed only after every window's list was read (guard scannedEveryWindow, :17796). Relay sessions (:17767), denied calls, unreadable payloads, and zero windows all still pass the ref to the host. Nothing can report a false "not found".
• Callers that relied on the throw. The Claude hook router keeps its "never fall back to focused" rule because of the isUUID(resolved) check (CLI/CMUXCLI+ClaudeHookWorkspaceRouting.swift). The new comment says that check is load-bearing, which is right.

firstPositionalArgument handles --index 0, --index=0, and -- correctly for reorder-workspace.

Non-blocking:

• The parameterless workspace.list probe at :17756 uses try?. A transport error or an expired deadline is therefore swallowed, and the code goes on to window.list and the per-window calls. Those fail too and the ref passes through, so the result is still correct. It just spends extra round trips after the deadline has passed.
• That probe reads the published snapshot. If the snapshot is stale, a just-closed workspace can resolve to its old UUID, and the host then reports not_found for that UUID instead of the ref. This is rare, and it is no worse than before.

Evidence: the Linux harness in the PR body tests the decision logic. CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests has not run on macOS yet: both earlier dispatches (35944227794, 35944243678) were cancelled, and the changed-suites job on run 35965647982 is still queued. The red linux-preflight/tests/Guard status checks come from run 35965588944. That is the cancelled full-ci push run, not a real failure. Merge on the live run executing that suite green.

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Assert the CLI’s normal failure exit code.

The three tests also check the expected diagnostic and that workspace.reorder was not sent. However, result.status != 0 accepts any nonzero termination status. Assert the CLI’s normal error code in all three tests. CLIError defaults to exit code 1, and the CLI propagates it.

Suggested fix

-        `#expect`(result.status != 0, Comment(rawValue: "expected nonzero exit, got \(result.status)"))
+        `#expect`(result.status == 1, Comment(rawValue: "expected exit 1, got \(result.status)"))

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	#expect(result.status != 0, Comment(rawValue: "expected nonzero exit, got \(result.status)"))
	#expect(result.status == 1, Comment(rawValue: "expected exit 1, got \(result.status)"))

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In `@cmuxTests/CLIWorkspaceRefResolutionTests.swift` at line 30, Update the
exit-status assertions in all three CLI workspace resolution tests to require
the normal CLI error code of 1 instead of accepting any nonzero status; keep the
diagnostic and no-reorder assertions unchanged.

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Status: auto-merge (squash) is on, waiting for CI on 9c6bbc4.

• The changed-suite run at 9ad11d6 failed windowListDeniedFallsBackToPassThrough. The product code was right: the parameterless workspace.list read resolves a live ref to its UUID before window.list is consulted, so the test's live ref never reached the pass-through. 7c1feb7 switches the test to a ref the snapshot does not hold and asserts window.list was called, the ref is passed through, and nothing says "not found". Current main is merged in.
• Independent review (reviewer subagent, not the author session): merge. Non-blocking follow-ups:
  • No test uses a relay-backed client, so the isRelayBacked early return at CLI/cmux.swift:17781 is uncovered.
  • After a partial scan, tmuxWorkspaceContext (cmux.swift:23260) and clear-notifications --workspace (cmux.swift:7652) can now receive a raw workspace:N instead of a UUID. That produces odd tmux ids or a "Tab not found" error, never an action on the wrong workspace. Requiring isUUID at those two call sites would close it.