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Three Cloud tests fail on main in every app-host run today, and each also fails when its suite runs alone at main (run 35933811445, 72490a9). So these are real bugs, not cross-test contamination.

Refused family redialed; fallback started early. "Partial attach addresses retain the other discovered family" and "Successive browser connections reuse the working family and recover if it fails" broke with the hub connector's redial hedging from #13299 (638aaa7). One shared 50 ms tick relaunched every address. That had two effects:

  • An address that had already refused was dialed again while the other family was still waiting for its turn.
  • The 250 ms head start for the preferred family was cut to 50 ms, because the tick also started the fallback address.

Each address now has its own redial timer, which starts with its first attempt. An address that failed outright is redialed only when no other address is still waiting or in flight. When every address has refused (a new machine whose listener is not open yet), all of them are still redialed until the cap or the deadline. This is a product fix.

Carrier prepared while signed out. "A closed Cloud gate or an unauthenticated fleet read cannot prepare a tunnel" (enabled = true) has failed since 999693e (#13202). That commit made activation prepare the WireGuard carrier before the fleet read, whether or not an account was signed in. A signed-out Mac therefore enrolls, or starts a hub from a config that a previous account left on disk. Activation now prepares early only when hasCloudSession is true (production reads accountFlow.isAuthenticated). After an authenticated fleet read, discovery still prepares the carrier. This is a product fix; the test only gains the new hasCloudSession: { false } argument.

One stale test expectation. "Successive browser connections…" advances its manual clock 250 ms in one step, which also passes the 50 ms redial point. If the IPv4 refusal has not been read by then, the first connection legitimately redials IPv4 once. The assertion is now "at most 2 IPv4 dials across 3 connections". Dialing IPv4 for every connection gives at least 3, so reuse is still enforced.

Testing

  • Red: CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests at test commit 732a7fe fails the new refused-family test: IPv4 was dialed 2 times and the fallback started at 0.02 s (35933992268).

  • Fix commit 26de5ee (35933988947): these suites each passed alone:

    • CloudPrivateRouteSelectionTests (7 tests)
    • CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests (9)
    • CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests (5)
    • CloudLoopbackPortForwardTests (13)

    Only the address-reuse IPv4 count failed, which led to the test commit above.

  • Head 0bd8514: 35939793537, which was still queued for a macOS runner when this was written.

  • The hedged logic was also compiled and run on Linux (Swift 6.1, Swift 6 mode) against the existing and new hedge scenarios.

Not verified: the full app-host shard layout, and a live dual-stack Cloud machine.

This conflicts textually with open #13981, which rewrites the same hedged loop's redial schedule. #13981 does not fix these failures, because it still redials every address on a shared tick.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Cloud connection attempts now retry each address independently. An address that refuses a connection is skipped while another attempt is pending, and can be retried if all available addresses refuse.
    • The WireGuard hub no longer starts for cloud features when no account is signed in.
  • Tests
    • Updated connection tests to account for retry timing and verify fallback behavior when preferred addresses refuse connections.

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…head start

#13299 redialed every address on a shared 50 ms tick. A family that had
already refused was dialed again while the other family was still waiting
for its head start, and the tick started that fallback 200 ms early. Each
address now keeps its own redial timer from its first attempt, and a
refused address is redialed only once no other address is still pending.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…count

999693e (#13202) started carrier preparation whenever Cloud activation
allowed background work, before the fleet read. For a signed-out Mac that
enrolls, or starts a hub from a config a previous account left on disk,
which #13085's regression test forbids. Activation now prepares early only
with a Cloud session; discovery still prepares after an authenticated read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#13299 redials an address that has not answered after 50 ms. This test
advances its manual clock 250 ms in one step, so when the IPv4 refusal is
not read before the jump, the first connection redials IPv4 once. Address
reuse is still enforced: dialing IPv4 for every connection makes three.

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The hedged connector now schedules redials per address and tracks indexed attempt outcomes. The surface provider registry prepares the WireGuard hub only when a cloud session is authenticated. Tests and the known-failures list were also updated.

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Hedged connection redial

Layer / File(s) Summary
Per-address redial policy
Sources/Cloud/PortForward/CloudHubConnector.swift, cmuxTests/CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests.swift, cmuxTests/CloudPortForwardAddressReuseTests.swift, scripts/ci/app-host-known-failures.json
The connector tracks candidate state and schedules redials per address. Tests cover refused families and allow for an additional IPv4 attempt. Three test entries were removed from the known-failures list.

Cloud session gating

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Session-gated hub preparation
Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift, Sources/Surfaces/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry+Production.swift, cmuxTests/CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistryPollingTests.swift
The registry checks session state before preparing the WireGuard hub. Production wiring reads the account authentication state, and the polling test supplies a signed-out session.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 22c17

A Cloud connection may fail when one address is blackholed, and hub preparation can briefly use a previous account’s configuration after sign-out. Resolve these risks before merging.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ❌ Error The production diff materially expands timing-based synchronization in CloudHubConnector.hedged. The base implementation used one shared clock.sleep(for: redialInterval) tick to launch each redial… Replace the per-candidate clock.sleep timer tasks with a cancellation-aware scheduler or timer abstraction, async sequence, or explicit event-driven signal that emits redial events. Preserve the independent candidate timers, fallback head…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The changed Sources/Cloud/PortForward/CloudHubConnector.swift is part of the cmux app target and adds 76 lines of core hedged-connection scheduling logic. Its hedged state machine uses only gene… Create a small SwiftPM target, such as CmuxCloudPortForwardCore, for the hedging policy. Move the generic hedged state machine and its first public API, CloudHubHedger (or an equivalent public protocol/type), into that target. Keep th…
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Description check ✅ Passed The description explains both product fixes, the test changes, test results, known limitations, and the unresolved blackholed-family concern. It omits a demo video and leaves several checklist items u…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies both primary changes: stopping redials for refused families and skipping carrier preparation while signed out.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes Cloud private-route hedging and adds an authentication check before shared WireGuard hub preparation. It does not change cmux-tui terminal creation, manual renderer admission, i…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No actor-isolation failure is introduced. The production diff keeps CloudHubConnector as the existing Sendable value type and only adds local hedging state and Sendable event cases; it adds no i…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes Cloud hedging, carrier preparation, related tests, and the known-failures catalog. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff changes only Cloud hedging state/timers and a MainActor authentication gate for carrier preparation. It adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex, agent hook/session store, trans…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. CloudHubConnector.hedged changes redial scheduling only. The reg…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes Swift sources/tests and one JSON known-failures catalog. The rule applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts. The only changed non-Swift file is…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The changed production path does not introduce a disallowed scalable-collection algorithm. CloudHubConnector.hedged uses per-candidate state and one pending check, but production candidates come fro…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff does not introduce a prohibited legacy async pattern. CloudHubConnector.hedged adds per-candidate timers and attempts with the existing structured withThrowingTaskGroup/`…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The diff introduces no new UI-isolated heavy async helper without a hop. CloudHubConnector.connect and handshake retain their existing @concurrent boundaries, and production calls to hedged go…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed range changes only Cloud Swift sources/tests and CI JSON. It changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode project/workspace files, and the dependency/r…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS — The production Swift diff changes connection scheduling and Cloud session gating only. It adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout logging, Logger declaration, or diagnostic …
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS — The production diff changes connection retry state and signed-in session gating, but adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery copy. The changed comments are…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The changed production code only updates Cloud connection scheduling and authentication-gated carrier preparation. The remaining changes are tests, comments, and CI known-failure metadata. No user-fac…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not introduce or materially expand SwiftUI state or layout code. The authoritative diff changes Cloud connection hedging, registry session gating, and tests. The changed Sw…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce a prohibited architecture pattern. CloudHubConnector.hedged keeps scheduling state local to its existing task-group owner and documents the redial and fallback invariants…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The pull request changes Cloud connection logic, session gating, and tests. The Swift diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, or auxiliary window identifier as…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All seven changed paths are intentional Swift source, test source, or CI configuration files. The diff adds no logs, media, temporary directories, caches, build output, dependency checkout, or other a…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The PR adds no test or debug seam in production Swift. The changed Sources/Cloud/PortForward/CloudHubConnector.swift contains redial behavior only, with no DEBUG guard or test-shaped member. The r…
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The production diff materially expands timing-based synchronization in CloudHubConnector.hedged. The base implementation used one shared clock.sleep(for: redialInterval) tick to launch each redial round. The PR replaces it with a scheduleRedial(_:) task that starts an independent clock.sleep(for: redialInterval) for each candidate and schedules another timer after every redial. This is retry timing in shipped runtime code, which the rule flags by default. The registry changes only gate existing polling and do not add a new blocking primitive.

Resolution

Replace the per-candidate clock.sleep timer tasks with a cancellation-aware scheduler or timer abstraction, async sequence, or explicit event-driven signal that emits redial events. Preserve the independent candidate timers, fallback head start, cancellation behavior, timeout, and redial cap without adding sleep-based coordination in production code.

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The changed Sources/Cloud/PortForward/CloudHubConnector.swift is part of the cmux app target and adds 76 lines of core hedged-connection scheduling logic. Its hedged state machine uses only generic async attempts, Duration, and an injected Clock; the new cmuxTests/CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests.swift tests it without AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty, or app lifecycle state. This matches the rule for independently testable network/domain logic kept in the app target. The registry changes are app-lifecycle composition and are allowed.

Resolution

Create a small SwiftPM target, such as CmuxCloudPortForwardCore, for the hedging policy. Move the generic hedged state machine and its first public API, CloudHubHedger (or an equivalent public protocol/type), into that target. Keep the NWConnection handshake and CloudHubConnector.connect adapter in the app target. Move the focused hedge tests into the package test target, then make the app target depend on the package.

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Status: reviewing for merge. All three tests fail with their suite alone on main at 72490a9 (run 35933811445), so these are product bugs, not test pollution. At 26de5ee the route-selection, registry-polling, hedge and loopback suites passed; only the IPv4 dial count failed, and 0bd8514 loosens that count.

Waiting on the focused run at 0bd8514 (35939793537, queued for a macOS runner) and 3 pending checks. Note that #13981 rewrites the same redial code and will conflict with this; it does not fix these failures.

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Pushed 41bf832. It merges current main (19144b6), which brings the known-failure catalog from #14074, and removes this PR's three tests from that catalog: browserConnectionsReuseWorkingFamily, partialAddressesPreserveFallback(replacesIPv4:) and unavailableCloudDoesNotPrepare(enabled:). If any of them still fails, CI now goes red instead of tolerating it.

Checked locally: validate-catalog passes, catalog-diff against main reports 20 → 17 (shrink only), and test_ci_app_host_result_accounting.py passes. No Swift changed since 0bd8514, so the queued focused run 35939793537 still covers the fix.

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A family that refuses once is never redialed while the other family is blackholed.

At 41bf832, anotherCandidateIsPending treats any candidate with an attempt in flight as pending. A blackholed family keeps its attempt in flight until the handshake deadline. Suppose a new machine's IPv4 listener refuses the first dial and IPv6 never answers. IPv4 is then not dialed again, and the connect fails at the 15 s deadline even after the IPv4 listener has opened.

The connector's header names this case: a family can blackhole independently of the other after a VM joins its VPC. On main, #13299's redial rounds still dial the refused family every 50 ms, so this is a regression for that case.

Proposed fix, with a red test first. It is on branch axiom/14059-blackholed-family-redial, rebased on this PR's head; nothing is pushed here.

  • 22980a8 adds refusedFamilyIsRedialedWhileTheOtherIsBlackholed. In it, one family refuses until 150 ms and the other sleeps for 60 s.
  • 396c454 stops counting a candidate as pending once it has gone fallbackDelay without answering. Its own redial ticks measure that, so no clock reads are needed. An untried candidate still counts as pending, which keeps both the head start and this PR's burst behavior.
func anotherCandidateIsPending(besides index: Int) -> Bool {
    (0..<candidates).contains { other in
        guard other != index else { return false }
        guard started[other] else { return true }
        // Redial ticks measure how long the other family has gone
        // unanswered; past its head start it may be blackholed.
        return inFlight[other] > 0 && !failed[other] && redialInterval * redials[other] < fallbackDelay
    }
}

Verified in a standalone swiftc 6.3 harness. It runs hedged() copied verbatim from 41bf832, with and without the change, 5 runs each.

41bf832 with the fix
3 existing hedge tests, plus this PR's 2 new ones pass 5/5 each pass 5/5 each
New blackholed test 0/5: throws Refused at 2.09 s after one dial 5/5
Defaults: IPv4 listener opens at 400 ms, IPv6 silent fails at 15.7 s connects at 0.52 s
Defaults: refused-family dials when the working family answers after 5 / 240 / 260 / 300 / 500 ms 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 1 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 6

Not verified: the app-host suites.

  • browserConnectionsReuseWorkingFamily parks its manual clock, so the peer's redial count stays at 0 and its behavior does not change.
  • partialAddressesPreserveFallback runs on the real clock. It would count a second IPv4 dial if the fake hub's IPv6 handshake took more than about 260 ms on a loaded runner. That exposure is the cost of a fallbackDelay grace.
  • A longer grace removes that exposure, for example the peer's whole redial window (redials[other] < maxRedials, 3 s by default). The mixed case would then connect at about 3.25 s instead of 0.5 s.

It's your call whether to take this, and which grace to use.

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Needs changes: a refused family is never redialed while the other family is blackholed. This regresses a case that main handles.

At 26de41f, anotherCandidateIsPending(besides:) counts any candidate with an attempt in flight as pending. A blackholed family keeps an attempt in flight until the 15 s deadline. Take a new machine whose IPv4 listener refuses the first dial while IPv6 never answers:

  • On every .redial tick, failed[0] && anotherCandidateIsPending(besides: 0) is true, so IPv4 is skipped.
  • redials[0] += 1 still runs on each skipped tick, so the budget runs out after 60 ticks (3 s) and IPv4 stops being scheduled.
  • The connect fails at the deadline even after the IPv4 listener opens.

On main, #13299's shared tick redials every family every 50 ms, so that case recovers. The connector's own header names a family that blackholes independently of the other after a VM joins its VPC, so this is a real path, not a corner case. The PR's rule is right that a refusal is an answer while the other family is still answering. It is wrong once the other family has gone silent past its head start.

austinywang posted a fix with a red test first on axiom/14059-blackholed-family-redial: 22980a8 adds refusedFamilyIsRedialedWhileTheOtherIsBlackholed, and 396c454 stops counting a candidate as pending once it has gone fallbackDelay without answering. His harness numbers: the new test goes from 0/5 to 5/5, and "IPv4 opens at 400 ms, IPv6 silent" goes from failing at 15.7 s to connecting at 0.52 s. Taking those two commits, or an equivalent, resolves the CodeRabbit thread at CloudHubConnector.swift:117 too. The branch is 298 commits behind main, so cherry-pick rather than merge. He flagged one cost: partialAddressesPreserveFallback runs on the real clock and would count a second IPv4 dial if the fake hub's IPv6 handshake took over about 260 ms. The rerun after the fix needs to include that suite.

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  • CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests.swift:90, the wall-clock check. fallbackStart - began >= 180 ms is a lower bound on a real 200 ms sleep, which cannot return early, so it does not flake, and quality-determinism passed. A manual clock would still be cleaner. Resolve the thread either way.
  • CmuxTuiSurfaceProviderRegistry.swift:311, the sign-out fence. The race it describes, where a preparation already started outlives sign-out, exists on main too. This PR narrows it by gating activation on hasCloudSession. Take it as a follow-up issue, not in this PR.

The signed-out carrier fix (hasCloudSession) and the known-failure catalog shrink look correct.

Evidence: focused run 35963866017 at 77d56b3 built and ran the four Cloud suites green, and nothing in the PR's code has changed since. It does not cover the blackholed case, because no test exercises it. Required checks at 26de41f: CLA Assistant, CLA policy guard, Web complexity and web-validation pass. ci-status has not reported yet, because macOS compile admission is still pending.

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austinywang and others added 5 commits September 24, 2026 00:51
#14059 skips redialing a refused candidate while another candidate has an
attempt in flight. A blackholed family keeps an attempt in flight until the
deadline, so a family that refused once, because its listener was not open
yet, is never tried again. The connect then fails at the deadline even though
that family came up. The connector's own documentation names the case: a
family can blackhole independently of the other after a VM joins its VPC.

On the current connector this test throws the refusal at the 2 s timeout,
having dialed the refused family once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A refused candidate now waits only while another candidate is untried, or has
an attempt in flight that is younger than `fallbackDelay` and has not failed.
Redial ticks measure that age, so the rule needs no clock reads. After the head
start the silent family may be blackholed, and the refused family is dialed
again, which is how the connector behaved before #14059 for that case.

The burst behavior #14059 fixed is kept: while the other family answers within
its head start, as a working family does, the refused family is not redialed.
With the defaults (250 ms head start, 50 ms redials) a refused family is
redialed only after its peer has gone five redial ticks without answering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A refused family's redial tick that is skipped, because the other family is
still pending, still counts against maxRedials. With a small cap the refused
family spends every redial while it waits and is never dialed again, even
once its listener opens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A redial tick skipped because the other family is pending no longer counts
against maxRedials; a separate tick count still measures how long the other
family has gone unanswered. A refused family keeps its full redial budget for
after the other family outlives its head start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@austinywang thanks, this was a real regression. Your two commits are on the branch as cherry-picks: ec24027 (refusedFamilyIsRedialedWhileTheOtherIsBlackholed, red first) and 08ed83d (a candidate that has been in flight longer than fallbackDelay without answering stops counting as pending). One more fix on top: 472682f + 5c69671. Skipped ticks no longer spend redials, so a refused family keeps its whole budget for after the other family goes silent. A separate ticks count still measures the head start.

Evidence at a8949f7: the changed-suite run (35972383709) ran all 7 CloudHubConnectorHedgeTests green, including both new tests, plus CloudPortForwardAddressReuseTests and the registry polling suite. An independent review (reviewer subagent) traced the defaults (250 ms / 50 ms / 60 / 15 s). With IPv4 refusing and IPv6 blackholed, IPv4 is redialed from about 500 ms and connects once its listener opens, where the earlier head failed at the deadline.

Not covered by CI here: partialAddressesPreserveFallback. It is not a changed suite, and app-host-test-rerun.yml cannot reuse products from a pull_request run, because it expects the head SHA while CI builds the merge commit. The cost you flagged still applies: that test counts a second IPv4 dial if the fake hub's IPv6 handshake takes more than about 250 ms. Main's full suite will show it. One latent edge the review found: if maxRedials * redialInterval < fallbackDelay, the silent family's ticks freeze below the grace, and the refused family starves again. The defaults are far from that (3 s vs 250 ms). Treating redials[other] >= maxRedials as not pending would close it in a follow-up.

Merging.

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teamleaderleo merged commit 1858911 into main Sep 24, 2026
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