test: fix the dead-key crash and sidebar AX walk failing on main

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Two tests that landed on main this morning fail every full app-host run (seen on #14379, run 36099432041, all three attempts).

• Shard 2 crash, from fix: avoid redundant refresh on warm SSH workspace reveal #14044. installOptionAsAltConfiguration loaded a string into GhosttyApp's live, already finalized config. The load failed with error.OutOfMemory, then the host crashed on a null dereference and the rest of the shard died. The helper now clones the config, loads and finalizes the clone, and installs it through a new DEBUG GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting. This is the same clone, load, finalize sequence the iOS theme path already ships. The restore closure puts the original back and frees the clone.
• Shard 5, from Fix sidebar accessibility children cycle #14382. mountedSidebarAndProjectPanelAccessibilityWalkIsAcyclic expected the project panel's SwiftUI rows (Context.swift) in the accessibility walk. With no assistive client attached, SwiftUI does not vend them in the app host: after a 5 s wait the walk still saw only the sidebar row's text (job 107980861038). Fix sidebar accessibility children cycle #14382 merged with its app-host job cancelled, so this check never passed in CI. The assertion is removed; the walk still descends into the hosting view for the cycle and depth checks, and the sidebar row and link reachability checks stay.

Dead-key suite on this branch: both tests pass in the changed-suites lane of run 36105752649, no crash.

Receipts: shard 2 jobs of run 36099432041 (crash log posted on #14044), shard 5 jobs 107961430004, 107967261552, 107969348604.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes two test failures that, on main, broke every full app-host run.

• installOptionAsAltConfiguration no longer loads into the live config, which is finalized and crashes on a null dereference; it clones the config, loads and finalizes the clone, and installs it through a DEBUG-only swapConfigForTesting seam, restoring the original afterward.
• The sidebar accessibility walk no longer asserts the project panel's SwiftUI rows: without an assistive client, SwiftUI doesn't vend them in the app host. The walk still descends into the hosting view for the cycle and depth checks.

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• Tests
  • Updated keyboard-input tests to apply configuration changes to an isolated copy and restore the previous configuration afterward.
  • Adjusted accessibility-tree test expectations to match the content currently exposed by the project sidebar.
  • Added a test-only configuration swap capability to support these checks.

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The changes add a DEBUG-only Ghostty app config-swap method, update the option-as-alt test helper to install and restore cloned configs, and remove a project-panel SwiftUI row assertion from an accessibility test.

Changes

Test configuration swapping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Swap configs for option-as-alt tests Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, cmuxTests/CJKIMEInputTests+DeadKeyComposition.swift	A DEBUG-only method swaps the app config and returns the previous config. The test helper installs a finalized clone, restores the original config, and frees the installed config. It reports test failures when the app config, clone, or swap is unavailable.

Sidebar accessibility test

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update project-panel accessibility expectation cmuxTests/SidebarAccessibilityTreeTests.swift	The test no longer expects the accessibility walk to find Context.swift. Its comment states that the walk still checks the hosting view for cycles and depth, but does not assert on SwiftUI rows without an assistive client.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8be11

The dead-key test configuration has a separate, incomplete installation path, and the accessibility test no longer verifies that its walk reaches the project panel. Address these gaps before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8be11

The configuration change is limited to debug and test use. The identified caller restores the original configuration after the test, and no new production security path is evident. Some ownership behavior remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified new config flow affects the debug/test process rather than a non-DEBUG runtime path; it changes shared config state within that process.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The test controls the config value and installs it through a DEBUG-only method; the identified caller uses an exclusive app-context gate and deferred cleanup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Normal deferred cleanup restores the config, but the closure does not enforce single use or check that its clone is still installed. No repeated or competing invocation is evidenced.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	❌ Error	Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift adds the #if DEBUG member GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting. The only callers are the changed dead-key test; no production caller exists. This is a test-only `…Fo…	Remove swapConfigForTesting from Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift. Move the test setup into the test target and use @testable import, widening private to internal only where the test must access or replace state. If a genuinely u…
Docstring Coverage	❓ Inconclusive	Docstring coverage is 33.33% 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. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Ghostty test configuration handling and sidebar accessibility tests. It does not change Cloud terminal creation, persistent cmux-tui transport, manual renderer admi…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The production diff adds only a DEBUG test seam to the existing non-Sendable GhosttyApp class. It does not add an implicitly MainActor value model or service protocol, a Sendable shared mutable re…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The only non-test Swift change is a DEBUG-only GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting(_:) helper. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, or manua…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Ghostty test configuration handling and sidebar accessibility tests. The authoritative diff contains no browser socket automation commands, WebKit wait paths, `processV2C…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff only adds a DEBUG GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting helper that swaps a Ghostty config pointer. It does not add or move RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent stores, tr…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The only production-file change adds a DEBUG-only GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting test seam that swaps an in-memory Ghostty configuration pointer. The other changes are test files. The diff do…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff changes only three Swift files. The custom check applies to non-Swift TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and build/runtime scripts. The production change adds a DEBUG-only Swi…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS — The only production change adds GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift. It performs a constant-time config pointer swap and one update call; it does not scan o…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The pull request does not introduce a custom-check failure. The authoritative diff adds a synchronous DEBUG config-swap helper, synchronous config clone/load/finalize/restore logic, and removes an acc…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds only synchronous Swift functions: GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting and the synchronous installOptionAsAltConfiguration. It adds no nonisolated async work, no @concurrent ann…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The only production change adds a DEBUG-only GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting helper that swaps a Ghostty config through the app singleton and calls the Ghostty C API. This is small Ghostty int…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift and two test files. It changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project, .gitignore, workflow, or depend…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc logging, or new Logger declaration. The production change is a DEBUG-only GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting config helper. The oth…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only test code and a #if DEBUG testing seam. Added comments, XCTest failure text, and test configuration names have no concrete path to a cmux end user. No production user-facin…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The PR changes only a DEBUG test seam and test code. The added Swift text is developer-only documentation and test diagnostics, and the config strings are literal protocol/config tokens. No user-facin…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR introduces no prohibited SwiftUI state or layout pattern. The only source addition is GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting in the AppKit/engine bridge, with no ObservableObject, `@Publishe…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds no new sleep, polling, delayed dispatch, lock, observer, or lifecycle owner. swapConfigForTesting is #if DEBUG test infrastructure. It keeps config ownership in GhosttyApp, s…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Ghostty configuration test plumbing and accessibility test assertions. The Swift production change adds DEBUG-only GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting; it does not add or materially …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All three changed paths are intentional Swift source or test files: Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift, cmuxTests/CJKIMEInputTests+DeadKeyComposition.swift, and `cmuxTests/SidebarAccessibilityTreeT…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies both main changes: the dead-key crash fix and the sidebar accessibility-walk test fix.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains both failures, the implementation changes, and the test evidence. It does not use the template headings or checklist, but it includes the key Summary and Testing infor…

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% 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. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

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

Explanation

Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift adds the #if DEBUG member GhosttyApp.swapConfigForTesting. The only callers are the changed dead-key test; no production caller exists. This is a test-only …ForTesting seam added inline to production source, which matches the rule's explicit failure conditions.

Resolution

Remove swapConfigForTesting from Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift. Move the test setup into the test target and use @testable import, widening private to internal only where the test must access or replace state. If a genuinely unavoidable debug facility remains, isolate it in a dedicated debug file or folder. Follow the reference fix: #6452.

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Inline comments:
In `@cmuxTests/SidebarAccessibilityTreeTests.swift`:
- Around line 98-101: Add an assertion in the sidebar accessibility tree test
that `walk.visited` contains `ObjectIdentifier(projectView)`, so the test
verifies the walk actually visits the project panel hosting view.

In `@Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift`:
- Around line 358-370: Replace the test-only swapConfigForTesting path with one
internal production config-commit method, and call it from
performConfigurationReload and tests. The shared method must suppress reload
actions while updating the app, then update config and
appliedConfigurationContentIdentity together and return the previous config to
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Assert that the walk visits projectView.

SidebarAccessibilityTreeWalk follows only the children returned by NSView.accessibilityChildren(). The cycle and depth assertions can pass even when projectView is not returned or visited.

🐛 Suggested fix

         `#expect`(walk.visited.contains(ObjectIdentifier(textView)))
         `#expect`(walk.visited.contains(ObjectIdentifier(link)))
+        `#expect`(
+            walk.visited.contains(ObjectIdentifier(projectView)),
+            "Accessibility walk must visit the project panel hosting view."
+        )

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In `@cmuxTests/SidebarAccessibilityTreeTests.swift` around lines 98 - 101, Add an
assertion in the sidebar accessibility tree test that `walk.visited` contains
`ObjectIdentifier(projectView)`, so the test verifies the walk actually visits
the project panel hosting view.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the swapConfigForTesting seam with a shared production config-install path.

swapConfigForTesting is a #if DEBUG member. It is named …ForTesting, and no production code calls it. The repository rule for production Sources/ files rejects this pattern.

The method also creates a second path that writes config. That path skips the rules that performConfigurationReload enforces at Lines 2135-2148:

• The reload path calls ghostty_app_update_config_without_surface_propagation inside suppressGhosttyReloadActions. The seam does not. Native reload or config-change actions that the update emits then reach handleAction without suppression.
• The reload path updates appliedConfigurationContentIdentity together with config. The seam does not. While a test config is installed, the stored identity describes a different config than the one the app holds.

Fix: Move the commit step into one internal production method. Call it from performConfigurationReload, and call it from tests through @testable import. The app then has one code path that owns config replacement. The first step is to call this method from the reload path; if the dead-key tests still pass, the seam can be deleted.

♻️ Proposed refactor

-#if DEBUG
-    /// Installs `newConfig` as the app config and returns the previous one,
-    /// which the caller then owns. Tests change a setting on a clone through
-    /// this instead of re-loading into the live config, which is finalized.
-    func swapConfigForTesting(_ newConfig: ghostty_config_t) -> ghostty_config_t? {
-        if let app {
-            ghostty_app_update_config_without_surface_propagation(app, newConfig)
-        }
-        let previous = config
-        config = newConfig
-        return previous
-    }
-#endif
+    /// Commits a finalized config as the app config. Returns the previous
+    /// config; the caller then owns it and must free it.
+    `@MainActor`
+    func commitConfiguration(_ newConfig: ghostty_config_t) -> ghostty_config_t? {
+        if let app {
+            suppressGhosttyReloadActions {
+                ghostty_app_update_config_without_surface_propagation(app, newConfig)
+            }
+        }
+        let previous = config
+        config = newConfig
+        appliedConfigurationContentIdentity = GhosttyConfigurationContentIdentity(newConfig)
+        return previous
+    }

Change the configurationChanged branch in performConfigurationReload to use the same method:

if configurationChanged {
    if let oldConfig = commitConfiguration(newConfig) {
        ghostty_config_free(oldConfig)
    }
}

In cmuxTests/CJKIMEInputTests+DeadKeyComposition.swift, replace both swapConfigForTesting calls with commitConfiguration.

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	#if DEBUG
	/// Installs `newConfig` as the app config and returns the previous one,
	/// which the caller then owns. Tests change a setting on a clone through
	/// this instead of re-loading into the live config, which is finalized.
	func swapConfigForTesting(_ newConfig: ghostty_config_t) -> ghostty_config_t? {
	if let app {
	ghostty_app_update_config_without_surface_propagation(app, newConfig)
	}
	let previous = config
	config = newConfig
	return previous
	}
	#endif
	/// Commits a finalized config as the app config. Returns the previous
	/// config; the caller then owns it and must free it.
	@MainActor
	func commitConfiguration(_ newConfig: ghostty_config_t) -> ghostty_config_t? {
	if let app {
	suppressGhosttyReloadActions {
	ghostty_app_update_config_without_surface_propagation(app, newConfig)
	}
	}
	let previous = config
	config = newConfig
	appliedConfigurationContentIdentity = GhosttyConfigurationContentIdentity(newConfig)
	return previous
	}

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In `@Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift` around lines 358 - 370, Replace the
test-only swapConfigForTesting path with one internal production config-commit
method, and call it from performConfigurationReload and tests. The shared method
must suppress reload actions while updating the app, then update config and
appliedConfigurationContentIdentity together and return the previous config to
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