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Remove unreachable persistent-SSH resume binding code - #14560

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Summary

Deletes the persistent-SSH agent resume binding code. After the cmux-tui SSH migration no shipped path can reach it.

The code only ran when a workspace had transport == .ssh, preserveAfterTerminalExit, !skipDaemonBootstrap, and a persistentDaemonSlot. On current main:

The one remaining entry point is a hand-written workspace.remote.configure socket call. It still gets a persistent PTY slot, but agent resume is no longer registered or replayed for it, and its snapshot restores as blocked anyway. No docs mention these parameters, so the deprecation note is a code comment at the socket handler.

Removed

  • Workspace+RemoteSurfaceResumeBinding.swift: legacy migration, persistentSSHResumeContext, persistentSSHResumeCommand, approvedPersistentSSHResumeCommand, and the already-unused persistentSSHLiveOwnerNoticeCommand.
  • DockSplitStore.persistentSSHResumeRegistration.
  • The relay branch of ControlSurfaceResumeTarget.registeredBinding. A relay-originated surface.resume.set is now rejected, which was already the result for every shipped configuration.
  • SurfaceResumeBindingSnapshot.migratingLegacyPersistentSSH / registeredForPersistentSSH, and the wasDecodedWithoutLaunchFlavor flag that only the migration read.
  • In session restore: the resume command embedded in the remote PTY attach command, the admission fallback command, and DeferredAgentResumeRestore.remoteResumeCommandEmbedded with its admission checks.
  • The approved resume command on persistent PTY reattach. Reattach now only restarts the shell for an ended session.

Kept

  • SurfaceResumeLaunchFlavor.persistentSSH decode and encode, so old session files still load.
  • retargetingRemoteOwner, remote PTY attach and respawn, and relay MAC signing.

Tests

  • The Kiro session-start relay test now asserts rejection and that nothing is stored.
  • The relay success-path test, the migration test, and their fixtures are removed.
  • The reattach test asserts the resume command is no longer replayed.

Follow-up, not in this PR, now dead or write-only:

  • willRunStartupCommand is false at every call site.
  • TerminalSurface.setStartupRestoreAdmissionFallbackCommand has no app caller.
  • WorkspaceRemoteRelayCommandRewriter.authenticatesRemoteResumeParameters has only test callers, and ControlSurfaceResumeSetInputs.remoteRelayParameters is no longer read. The relay still signs the resume MAC.

Credit

Thanks to @ejc3 for the analysis in #8593, which traced the persistent-SSH binding-only restore path and led to this cleanup. The squash commit carries Co-authored-by: EJ <ej@campbell.name>.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Remote PTY sessions reconnect using the configured restart command rather than replaying a saved resume command.
    • Deferred agent restores consistently pass startup input to the restore process, including when a remote resume command is present.
    • Legacy remote resume bindings are no longer migrated or registered, and remote-workspace registrations no longer accept supplied resume bindings.

teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 25, 2026 07:35
TTY SSH moved to cmux-tui in #13866 and has no persistent daemon slot.
#14119 restores legacy persistent-SSH snapshots as blocked descriptors,
and the bundled CLI only sends a daemon slot for Freestyle cloud VMs,
which skip daemon bootstrap. No shipped path can reach the gate
(ssh + preserveAfterTerminalExit + !skipDaemonBootstrap + slot) that
the resume binding code needed.

Removes the Workspace resume helpers, the Dock registration, the relay
registration branch in ControlSurfaceResumeTarget, the legacy binding
migration, the embedded-resume-command admission path, and the
now write-only legacy decode flag. Old .persistentSSH bindings still
decode and encode.

Analysis from ejc3 in #8593.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Relayed surface.resume.set is now rejected, so the Kiro session-start
test asserts rejection and the success-path relay tests and the legacy
migration test are removed. Reattach no longer replays a resume command,
and DeferredAgentResumeRestore lost remoteResumeCommandEmbedded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Sources/ControlSurfaceResumeTarget.swift
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Remote persistent-SSH resume binding registration and command replay during PTY restoration are removed. Deferred agent restore admission retains its managed-session check and always passes startup input to runtime admission.

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Remote Resume and Agent Restore

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remote binding registration and migration
Sources/ControlSurfaceResumeTarget.swift, Sources/DockSplitStore+SurfaceResume.swift, Sources/SessionPersistence.swift, Sources/SurfaceResumeBindingSnapshot+Remote.swift, Sources/TerminalController+ControlWorkspaceContext.swift, cmuxTests/RemoteResumeBindingTests.swift, cmuxTests/SessionPersistenceResumeBindingTests.swift
Remote registrations return no binding. Legacy persistent-SSH migration helpers and missing-launch-flavor tracking are removed. Tests check registration rejection and the .local default.
Remote PTY restoration without resume commands
Sources/Workspace.swift, Sources/Workspace+PersistentRemotePTYReattach.swift, Sources/Workspace+RemoteSurfaceResumeBinding.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, cmuxTests/SSHDeepSleepReattachTests.swift
Restored remote PTYs attach without a remote command, and persistent SSH reattachment uses only the restarted-shell command. Resume helpers and project references are removed; the restart test checks that the resume command is not replayed.
Deferred agent restore admission
Sources/DockSplitStore+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift, Sources/Workspace+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift, Sources/RestorableAgentSession.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalStartupRestoreFailureTests.swift
Admission retains the managed-session check without requiring full binding snapshot equality. Startup input is always registered and passed to runtime admission. The embedded-command property and its test assertions are removed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 46ddc

Deferred restores may run outdated or no-longer-approved state, and older sessions may lose their remote binding semantics. These bounded but material risks should be addressed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46ddc

The change removes a remote agent-resume route and keeps the remaining deferred restore checks. No introduced security issue was established, but the legacy socket configuration remains reachable and restore behavior has not been verified across every runtime state.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed execution paths concern a workspace’s remote PTY and its restored agent session. The evidence does not establish a new cross-workspace or service-wide authority, but does not establish a maximum deployment-wide exposure either.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — A remote-workspace request cannot establish a surface-resume binding at the changed registration boundary. Deferred input is separately checked against the current managed session before reaching terminal runtime admission.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Persistent PTY reattach retains its existing-session requirement until a session is marked ended; failed respawn does not commit replacement panel ownership.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: removal of unreachable persistent-SSH resume binding code.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes a clear Summary and Tests section, explains the unreachable conditions, lists removed and retained behavior, and documents the updated test coverage. The Demo Video and Checkl…
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The diff removes legacy persistent-SSH resume registration and replay. It does not add a cmux-tui client, carrier, socket, snapshot refresh, or manual renderer gate. Session restore creates a pe…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff removes persistent-SSH helpers and state. It adds no Swift model, protocol, Sendable reference type, actor annotation, or background task. The remaining changed methods stay …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff does not introduce or expand any listed blocking or timing primitive. Added Swift lines only adjust resume-binding selection, startup-input registration, remote-command selection, …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The PR does not change the browser automation files covered by the rule: Sources/TerminalController.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift are unchanged. The changed socket-related code onl…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds no synchronous agent-history loader, large-file parse, directory scan, or per-record load. Added executable lines only update resume-binding and startup-input state, rem…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No cache substitution was introduced. The production diff removes legacy persistent-SSH migration, resume-command construction, and replay paths. Session restore still uses the persisted binding snaps…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only Swift sources/tests and an Xcode project file. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or other covered non-Swift runtime changes, and the diff adds no slee…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds no collection traversal, sorting, filtering, joins, or nested scans. Added logic is constant-time binding selection, startup-input registration, command-argument changes…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The PR removes legacy persistent-SSH and restore code. The added Swift lines introduce no DispatchQueue background work, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler API, or fire-and-forget …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The Swift diff introduces no async, nonisolated, @concurrent, Task, or actor-isolation changes. The changed entry points (registeredBinding, deferred restore admission, persistent PTY reatta…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The PR does not introduce or materially expand independently reusable domain logic in the app target. The production diff removes 313 lines, including the entire `Workspace+RemoteSurfaceResumeBi…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency files. Its only cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj change removes references to the deleted Swift source file…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff adds only control-flow changes and comments in production Swift. The added lines contain no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, file logging, or stdout/stder…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The changed relay path is a product control-socket/API path, but it returns only the generic existing message “Failed to set resume binding.” The production additions contain no provider names, …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The production diff adds no user-facing Swift text. Its only new prose is developer-only comments in ControlSurfaceResumeTarget.swift and TerminalController+ControlWorkspaceContext.swift; the rema…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The PR does not introduce or materially expand SwiftUI state or layout patterns covered by the rule. Added Swift lines only change resume/restore logic, comments, and tests. `Sources/Workspace.s…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The PR passes the Swift architectural rethink check. The diff removes obsolete persistent-SSH registration, migration, fallback, and replay paths. It adds no sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS — The PR does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. The changed Swift additions contain resume/restore logic, comments, and test fixtures only; no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWind…
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Without a replayed resume command, a restarted persistent PTY runs the
workspace's configured remote command like any restarted shell.

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🟠 Major · Restore the full binding check before admitting… · DockSplitStore+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift:42-110

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Restore the full binding check before admitting an embedded remote resume.

setSurfaceResumeBinding accepts a same-session refresh because acceptsRestoreBindingClaim(from:) checks only the managed-session identity. The lifecycle invalidation helper preserves the restore for that same session. While asynchronous admission waits, both resolvers keep the captured binding and now admit startup input built from it.

For remoteResumeCommandEmbedded, a same-session update can therefore run stale command, working directory, environment, or launch flavor, and can retain approval state that the current binding no longer grants. Revalidate the complete binding in both resolvers and cancel when it changed.

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--- a/Sources/DockSplitStore+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift
+++ b/Sources/DockSplitStore+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift
@@
                 guard let currentBinding = surfaceResumeBindingsByPanelId[panelId],
                       currentBinding.isAgentHookBinding,
                       currentBinding.isSameManagedSession(as: capturedBinding) else {
                     cancelDeferredAgentResumeRestore(panelId: panelId, restore: restore)
                     continue
                 }
+                if restore.remoteResumeCommandEmbedded,
+                   currentBinding != capturedBinding {
+                    cancelDeferredAgentResumeRestore(panelId: panelId, restore: restore)
+                    continue
+                }
--- a/Sources/Workspace+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift
+++ b/Sources/Workspace+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift
@@
                 guard let currentBinding = surfaceResumeBindingsByPanelId[panelId],
                       currentBinding.isAgentHookBinding,
                       currentBinding.isSameManagedSession(as: capturedBinding) else {
                     cancelDeferredAgentResumeRestore(panelId: panelId, restore: restore)
                     continue
                 }
+                if restore.remoteResumeCommandEmbedded,
+                   currentBinding != capturedBinding {
+                    cancelDeferredAgentResumeRestore(panelId: panelId, restore: restore)
+                    continue
+                }
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In `@Sources/DockSplitStore`+DeferredAgentRestoreAdmission.swift around lines 42 -
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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
Removes code left unreachable by #14560: willRunStartupCommand, setStartupRestoreAdmissionFallbackCommand, authenticatesRemoteResumeParameters, and ControlSurfaceResumeSetInputs.remoteRelayParameters.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
8538fa9 Add a Focus Last action that toggles between the two most recent focus positions (manaflow-ai#14700)
fba6c47 Don't leak the host's TERM_PROGRAM/COLORTERM into remote PTY sessions (manaflow-ai#9610)
10cdafe agent-chat: skip the launchd PATH prefix on Windows so agent CLIs resolve (manaflow-ai#12206)
9c8039a Add Reveal in Finder to the terminal context menu (manaflow-ai#14697)
d57f584 Remove dead resume code left by manaflow-ai#14560 (manaflow-ai#14693)
67debd6 Report the closed surface's own ref from surface.close (manaflow-ai#14698)
a75ab64 test(ios): fix stale CmuxMobileShell connection-recovery tests (manaflow-ai#14691)
ec7b2f1 Predicted echo: seed alternate screen from ghostty, guard stale erases (manaflow-ai#14686)
9aa850d refactor: move the Cloud surface models into CmuxCloud (manaflow-ai#14390)
da468e1 ci(e2e): order sibling waits by attempt start, adopt main's seed product (manaflow-ai#14684)
ff02854 Request badge authorization so the Dock badge renders (manaflow-ai#14242)
dc89b82 ci: iOS picker mints the routing token with the org runner permission (manaflow-ai#14690)
9650672 ci: label the org glaeda-minis runners with warm keys (manaflow-ai#14679)
992a2de Remove unreachable persistent-SSH resume binding code (manaflow-ai#14560)
6b4d976 ci(ios): read idle simulator minis live from the runners API (manaflow-ai#14542)
2f5d439 fix(ios): align hidden-marker and Iroh aggregation tests with build identity (manaflow-ai#14535)
bcf0122 Start a never-shown terminal before surface.read_text and read_screen (manaflow-ai#14673)
60469a3 ci: reuse unit xctestrun for numeric locale tests (manaflow-ai#13414)
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ec52ce4 test: give the restore surface-context test its own socket (manaflow-ai#14680)

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