Choose the external browser application

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Closes #11481

Add a Browser setting for choosing the application used when cmux opens URLs outside its embedded browser. The value accepts an application name, bundle identifier, or .app path; empty or unresolved values fall back to the macOS default browser. The shared opener is used by browser fallbacks, terminal links, browser actions, sidebar links, auth/browser handoffs, and the open wrapper. Settings, cmux.json, schema, search, docs, and macOS/localized strings are wired through.

Validation: focused CmuxSettings package build, Swift syntax checks, localization parity, PBX test wiring, tests/test_open_wrapper.py, and git diff --check.

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Summary by cubic

Adds a Browser setting that chooses the external app cmux uses for HTTP(S) URLs opened outside its embedded browser. The value accepts an app name, bundle identifier, or .app path; empty or unresolvable values fall back to the macOS default browser. Closes #11481.

• Routes external URL opening through BrowserExternalAppOpener across browser fallbacks, terminal links, auth/browser handoffs, pricing screens, help and sidebar links, the session index, context menus, and the open shell wrapper; the wrapper keeps mixed argument lists intact while sending HTTP(S) URLs to the configured app and other targets to their system handlers.
• Leaves non-web schemes (mailto, file URLs, custom schemes) on their own system handlers.
• Wires the setting into the Settings UI, cmux.json (browser.externalApplication), schema, search index, docs, and localized strings; the insecure HTTP warning now refers to the external browser.
• Adds unit tests for the opener, settings mirroring, the settings row anchor, and the open wrapper, and stabilizes shared macOS regression fixtures including CLI socket autodiscovery, nushell hook, and workspace recovery tests.

Bug Fixes

• Closes a Codex monitor wake gap: a transcript append during the notification-delivery window could be missed, leaving the monitor asleep until its next parse. The monitor is now reused within a turn so post-parse appends wake the next parse.

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• New Features
  • Choose an external browser for HTTP(S) links opened outside cmux by entering an app name, bundle identifier, or .app path. If the setting is empty or the app can’t be resolved, links open with the system default.
  • Configure the browser in Settings or with the browser.externalApplication setting.
• Improvements
  • Links opened from sign-in flows, panels, menus, and other parts of the app now follow your external browser setting.
  • Updated the plain-HTTP warning to refer to opening links in an external browser.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a browser setting for selecting an external application and a shared opener that uses it for HTTP(S) URLs. Updates application URL actions and command-line wrapper fallbacks to use the configured application, while non-web URLs and unresolved settings continue to use the system handler.

Changes

External Browser

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Setting contract and settings surfaces Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/..., Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/..., Sources/CmuxSettingsFileStore+SupportedPaths.swift, Sources/CmuxSettingsJSONPathSupport.swift, Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore+Template.swift, Sources/SettingsSearch*.swift, web/data/cmux.schema.json, web/messages/*.json, skills/cmux-settings/references/all-keys.md	Adds browser.externalApplication as a string setting with an empty default. Adds settings UI, search entries, settings-file support, localized descriptions, and tests for trimming and row reachability.
External application resolution and opening Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/...	Adds synchronous and asynchronous opener APIs. They use a configured application for HTTP(S) URLs when it resolves, and otherwise use the system handler. Non-web URLs use the system handler. Adds tests for configured, fallback, and non-web URL handling.
Application URL-opening callers Sources/App/CmuxHelpCommands.swift, Sources/Auth/..., Sources/BrowserActionDispatcher.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudGuestURLService.swift, Sources/ContentView.swift, Sources/DockEmptyView.swift, Sources/HostSettingsActions.swift, Sources/PricingPlansScreen.swift, Sources/SessionIndexView.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupConfigOpener.swift, Sources/TextBoxSubmitActions.swift, Sources/TerminalLinkOpenCoordinator.swift, Sources/TerminalController.swift, Sources/CmuxSidebarActionDispatch.swift	Routes sign-in, cloud URL delivery, documentation, pricing, session, sidebar, and other application URL actions through BrowserExternalAppOpener. Existing success handling remains where described.
Browser, workspace, and terminal fallbacks Sources/DockSplitStore.swift, Sources/Panels/..., Sources/ProWelcomeChecklist.swift, Sources/TerminalController+Control*.swift, Sources/Workspace.swift, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings	Routes browser navigation and browser-disabled fallbacks through the shared opener. Updates insecure-HTTP alert wording to identify the external browser.
Command-line open wrapper Resources/bin/open, tests/test_open_wrapper.py	Routes HTTP(S) targets to a configured application in wrapper fallback paths, while passing other arguments to system open. Adds tests for configured browsers, mixed URL/file arguments, and file: URLs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant URLCaller
  participant BrowserExternalAppOpener
  participant UserDefaults
  participant LaunchServices
  URLCaller->>BrowserExternalAppOpener: open URL
  BrowserExternalAppOpener->>UserDefaults: read external application setting
  BrowserExternalAppOpener->>LaunchServices: resolve application and open URL
  LaunchServices-->>BrowserExternalAppOpener: return open result

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fa76b

The configured browser preference is applied in the reviewed fallback paths, and the setting descriptions and warning text match that behavior. No known issue remains that should block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fa76b

External browser selection now also applies to sign-in links. The setting is local and the sign-in callback remains separately checked, but a configured application that is not a trustworthy browser can receive the sign-in URL.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The authentication handoff now sends its state-bearing HTTPS sign-in URL to the configured application, which need only resolve as an application, not be a browser. An unsuitable or malicious locally selected application could observe the URL or fail to complete the handoff. The callback-state check limits, but does not eliminate, this change in recipient trust.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed recipient for sign-in URLs is the selected application on the local installation. Evidence does not establish remote control of that selection or exposure across users or tenants.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If an unsuitable or malicious application is locally selected, it can receive the sign-in initiation URL through the new handoff. This does not establish that it can satisfy the separately validated callback or take over an account.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The opener limits configured-application delivery to HTTP(S) and checks that application identifiers resolve; browser external-navigation policy also excludes app-owned callback schemes. Resolution does not establish that an application is a trustworthy browser.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Removed imported settings restore backed-up ownership values, while absent or blank effective selections return web URLs to the system handler. An interrupted write sequence was not exercised.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider making use of the configured application for authentication an explicit choice, or retaining the system browser for that handoff, so ordinary link preferences do not implicitly change the recipient of sign-in URLs.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 2 warnings, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	❌ Error	The PR adds a test-observability seam to shipping source in Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/ExternalBrowser/BrowserExternalAppOpener.swift. Its internal initializer accepts injected r…	Remove the test-only injected-closure initializer and its production-only hook storage/typealiases. Keep the public initializer and real Launch Services implementation in production. Move test doubles and observation into the test target; u…
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the feature and lists validation, but it does not follow the required template fully. It lacks an explicit Testing section with commands and results, a Demo Video or screensho…	Add the missing template sections. Document each executed test command and its result under Testing. Include a demo video or screenshots for the UI and behavior changes. Complete the Checklist, including localization audit status, documenta…
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR retains changes to Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSocket/Sources/CmuxControlSocket/Wire/EventStreamReconnectPolicy.swift. The reported lint exemption and related comments concern reconnect handlin…	Remove the unrelated EventStreamReconnectPolicy.swift changes, or provide concrete evidence that the changes are required by the external browser implementation.
Docstring Coverage	❓ Inconclusive	Docstring coverage is 26.98% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 63 functions across 42 files. (6 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (21 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding support to choose the external browser application.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies issue #11481. It adds the browser.externalApplication setting and supports application names, bundle identifiers, and .app paths. It uses the configured application for HTTP(S) UR…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR does not introduce Cloud terminal creation, persistent transport, manual-pane, PTY readiness, or early-input behavior. The only Cloud file change replaces NSWorkspace URL opening with `…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	No actor-isolation failure is introduced. BrowserExternalAppOpener is explicitly @MainActor and wraps AppKit NSWorkspace access. Its closure types and asynchronous methods also use explicit main…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	No new blocking or timing-based synchronization is introduced. BrowserExternalAppOpener uses withCheckedContinuation with NSWorkspace completion callbacks, which suspends an async task instead o…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR does not add or move a browser automation command. The only change in Sources/TerminalController.swift replaces NSWorkspace.shared.open in the existing disabled-browser fallback with …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative diff adds browser-setting and URL-opening logic, not an expensive agent-history load. BrowserExternalAppOpener performs only single-application resolution and Launch Services…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff adds a direct UserDefaults read through BrowserExternalApplicationSettings.applicationIdentifier; BrowserExternalAppOpener reads the setting when each open operation ru…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The only changed production shell/runtime file is Resources/bin/open. Its diff adds argument routing and external-application fallback logic, but no sleep, usleep, timer, polling loop, fix…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The PR does not introduce a complexity violation. BrowserExternalAppOpener performs constant-time routing and application resolution per URL, with no scalable collection scans, sorting, or filtering…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	No failure condition is introduced. The new BrowserExternalAppOpener uses withCheckedContinuation only to adapt AppKit NSWorkspace completion callbacks, which is an allowed OS boundary. `CloudGu…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The changed asynchronous work is intentionally main-actor UI work. BrowserExternalAppOpener is explicitly @MainActor; its async method only awaits NSWorkspace completion callbacks, and applicati…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request places the reusable external-browser logic in the CmuxBrowser SwiftPM target (BrowserExternalAppOpener) and places the settings reader in the CmuxSettings target. Both hav…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS — The authoritative PR diff contains no SwiftPM package manifest, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode project/workspace changes. It also contains no dependency or package-reference c…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed Swift diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, os_log, or ad hoc file/stdout logging. Existing Logger declarations and NSLog statements in changed files are …
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed user-facing text is limited to external-browser setting help, schema documentation, localized search text, and an existing insecure-HTTP warning whose wording changes from “default b…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The changed Swift UI and alert text uses String(localized:defaultValue:) with matching catalog keys. The four new CmuxSettingsUI catalog keys and two changed main catalog keys contain non-empty tr…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The SwiftUI change adds @State for DefaultsValueModel<String>, and DefaultsValueModel is already @Observable, which matches the modern @Observable plus @State shape. The new row is i…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds one shared @MainActor BrowserExternalAppOpener that owns external URL routing and reads BrowserExternalApplicationSettings as the source of truth. Production call sites deleg…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff adds no standalone NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup code. The changes to BrowserPopupWindowController only replace external URL o…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All 69 changed paths are intentional source, test, script, configuration, documentation, schema, or localization files. The embedded schema file is explicitly generated from web/data/cmux.schema.json …

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains the feature and lists validation, but it does not follow the required template fully. It lacks an explicit Testing section with commands and results, a Demo Video or screenshot attachment, and the required Checklist responses.

Resolution

Add the missing template sections. Document each executed test command and its result under Testing. Include a demo video or screenshots for the UI and behavior changes. Complete the Checklist, including localization audit status, documentation and changelog status, review status, and any applicable exemptions or confirmations.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The PR retains changes to Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSocket/Sources/CmuxControlSocket/Wire/EventStreamReconnectPolicy.swift. The reported lint exemption and related comments concern reconnect handling. The available evidence does not connect these changes to external browser selection or issue #11481.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 26.98% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 63 functions across 42 files. (6 skipped: 3 unsupported, 3 too large.)

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

Explanation

The PR adds a test-observability seam to shipping source in Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/ExternalBrowser/BrowserExternalAppOpener.swift. Its internal initializer accepts injected resolver, configured-opener, and system-default-opener closures (lines 30-44), while no production caller supplies those parameters. The new test target calls that initializer through @testable import CmuxBrowser and replaces the Launch Services operations (lines 17-131 of BrowserExternalAppOpenerTests.swift). This is a changed production test seam.

Resolution

Remove the test-only injected-closure initializer and its production-only hook storage/typealiases. Keep the public initializer and real Launch Services implementation in production. Move test doubles and observation into the test target; use @testable import with only the smallest necessary private to internal widening, without leaving a test accessor or hook in production. If a genuinely debug-only facility is required, isolate it in a dedicated debug file or folder. See #6452.

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In `@Resources/bin/open`:
- Line 512: Read the browser preference before the cmux CLI-unavailable fallback
so `browser_system_open` uses the configured application for HTTP URLs instead
of the system default; keep the existing fallback behavior otherwise unchanged.
- Around line 484-485: Update the early fallback branches in Resources/bin/open
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In `@Sources/BrowserExternalAppOpener.swift`:
- Around line 49-51: Update BrowserExternalAppOpener and its callers, including
BrowserExternalNavigationHandler, TerminalLinkOpenCoordinator, and
CloudGuestURLService, to propagate NSWorkspace’s completion-confirmed open
result instead of returning success when the request is submitted. Keep the flow
asynchronous without blocking the main actor, and report success only when the
completion provides a non-nil application.
- Around line 54-67: Update the absolute-path branch in resolveApplication to
return a URL only when the path has a .app extension and exists as a directory;
return nil for other paths so the system fallback can be used.

In `@Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift`:
- Line 5864: Update the shared browser.error.insecure.message and
browser.openInDefaultBrowser localization entries in Localizable.xcstrings for
all supported locales to say “external browser” rather than “default browser”;
keep BrowserPanel and BrowserPopupWindowController using these shared keys.

In `@web/messages/en.json`:
- Line 2606: Update every locale’s externalApplication description to clarify
that the configured application is used only for HTTP(S) URLs opened outside
cmux, and that leaving the setting empty or using an unresolved value uses the
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In `@Resources/Localizable.xcstrings`:
- Line 55376: In the Russian HTTP warning string and the corresponding “Открыть
в внешнем браузере” user-facing string, update the preposition to “во внешнем
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In `@Sources/Cloud/CloudGuestURLService.swift`:
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BrowserExternalAppOpener.open so it awaits a completion-based async entry point.
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only when completion provides a non-nil application.

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Addressed the remaining review findings on 3bf7419 (with behavioral fixes in 3ee0ec9):\n\n- added completion-confirmed async opening for CloudGuestURLService, retaining configured-browser and system-default routing;\n- aligned the generated schema fallback wording;\n- corrected the Russian external-browser prepositions;\n- removed the unrelated EventStreamReconnectPolicy annotation;\n- verified the catalog with python3 scripts/localization_catalog.py check and the focused CmuxBrowser suite (5 tests passed).\n\nThe earlier locale and wrapper findings were fixed in 3ec71b9 and are resolved in their review threads.

[austinywang]

Follow-up on the reconnect-policy note: removing the annotation caused the repository package-conventions guard to fail on the existing pure namespace (), which also failed the dependent iOS routing check. Commit 70f39ff restores the required lint exemption; this is retained solely for that guard and remains unrelated to browser behavior.

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[github-actions]

Automatic catch-up couldn't merge main (551a923a7a1b): CLI/cmux.swift (both sides changed the same lines). Nothing was pushed; merge it by hand. A new push or /catch-up tries again.

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