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Why

A consumer of the app-host test product (the app-host shards, and the other peer_product_source.py fetch callers in ci-macos.yml) downloads 650-830 MB from GitHub in about 130 s p50 on an owned mini. It does so even when another owned mini already holds that exact object in its node-local product cache. Mini to mini over the LAN, the same object takes about 6-7 s: a 648 MB object moved cmux14 to cmux15 in 5.9 s, including sha256 on arrival, while cmux14's load average was about 42 (2026-09-25).

What

  • peer_product_source.py fetch first asks glaeda's LAN helper, /Library/Application Support/glaeda/bin/glaeda-lan-fetch product SHA256 DEST, using EXPECTED_SHA256. It does this only when all of these hold:

    • the runner is owned (<mini>-glaeda[-N], node_product_cache.OWNED_RUNNER);
    • the job is not root;
    • the helper is an executable regular file;
    • the helper and every directory above it, up to /, are root-owned, not symlinks, and not group- or other-writable, so no job can rewrite or rename it (_root_owned_chain);
    • os.access says the job user cannot write it (this catches ACLs).

    The helper is deliberately not under /Users/Shared/cmux-build-fleet. The fleet user owns that tree, so a job could rename a root-owned file there.

  • The helper is not trusted.

    • It is called with --max-bytes MAX_OBJECT_BYTES.
    • Its file counts only if it is a regular file with exactly one link, of at most MAX_OBJECT_BYTES, whose sha256 equals the digest GitHub recorded. The link count is checked before hashing, because a second name would let the helper change the file after the check. Anything else is a miss, and the existing trusted HTTPS peers, layers, R2 and GitHub run unchanged.
    • The helper runs with a minimal environment: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin, HOME and LANG, with no GITHUB_TOKEN or runtime tokens.
    • The file lands in a staging directory and moves into app-host-products/ only after that check, without replacing anything: the destination is claimed with mkdir, which fails if anything is there. Restore still verifies EXPECTED_SHA256 and runs the canonical product validation.
  • Metrics, and their contract.

    • The step outputs source=lan, lan_status, lan_seconds, lan_peer and transfer_seconds/bytes_transferred.
    • source=lan, lan_status, lan_seconds and lan_peer are documented in lan_fetch_exact as a contract: the fleet routing's admissions.jsonl reads them. Add new fields rather than renaming these.
    • The restore receipt reports route: "lan" and peer_source.
    • In node-cache metadata a LAN object is stored as source class peer, so consumers on older revisions (which delete entries with a class they don't know) keep it. lan is only a finalize input: it verifies the object against GitHub's artifact metadata rather than the same-run shortcut, because a LAN object can come from another run. lan also stays in the metrics.
  • Workflow: in each of the three consumers in ci-macos.yml, finalize maps a LAN hit to lan, and restore receives CMUX_PEER_PRODUCT_SOURCE.

This changes nothing until an operator installs the glaeda side (teamleaderleo/glaeda#1275):

  • the product mesh keys;
  • the lan-fetch broker LaunchAgent;
  • the root-owned helper, installed with glaeda-seed-lan helper-install HOST... --apply, which goes through the fleet Keychain sudo path.

Without the helper, or on Blacksmith or GitHub-hosted runners, lan_status is unavailable and the old path runs.

Local Network Privacy

A CI step on a mini cannot open LAN connections itself. macOS refuses every process that has a non-Apple ancestor in its launchd job, and runner jobs descend from Runner.Listener. I measured this with transient launchctl submit probes on cmux12s, removed afterwards:

Launchd job shape LAN connect
/bin/bash → Homebrew python3 → /usr/bin/nc refused
/bin/bash → /usr/bin/python3 connected
/bin/bash → /usr/bin/nc connected

So the glaeda helper hands the request to a broker LaunchAgent, which runs as /usr/bin/python3 -I and is reached through a Unix socket in a private directory. That broker is the process that opens the ssh connections. I have not observed this inside a real CI job yet; the first owned run will show it.

Tests

  • Tests-first commit: 5fa6a15 adds tests/test_lan_product_source.py and registers it in tests/test-execution.toml and ci-artifact-transport.yml in the same commit, so that commit is consistent.
    • On it, the registry check passes and the new test fails only because the behaviour is missing: lan_helper, lan_fetch_exact, LAN_FETCH_HELPER and SOURCE_CLASSES are absent, the workflow wiring is absent, and so is peer_source.
    • I checked this in a temporary worktree at that commit.
  • Change commit: 43e8caa makes the same file pass (python3 tests/test_lan_product_source.py: 15 tests OK). The tests cover:
    • a root-owned chain is accepted (lstat is stubbed, so no root is needed);
    • rejected, one case each:
      • a parent or grandparent directory owned by the job user;
      • a group-writable parent;
      • an other-writable /;
      • a symlinked parent;
      • a helper file that is owned by the job user, group-writable, not executable, or a symlink;
      • a missing parent, or a missing file;
      • an ACL that makes the helper writable;
      • the old /Users/Shared/cmux-build-fleet/bin location;
    • only owned, non-root runners use the helper;
    • a verified hit lands in the canonical layout;
    • the helper's environment carries no secrets;
    • wrong bytes, a helper that claims a hit without a file, and a helper that keeps a hard link to the file all turn into misses;
    • the helper gets --max-bytes;
    • a timeout, and an occupied destination;
    • LAN first, then fall through to the existing sources;
    • the output contract, the restore route, and the workflow wiring in all three consumers;
    • an end-to-end finalize(source_class="lan") publishes metadata with source_class: "peer", verified through the GitHub provider.
  • Existing tests, all pass:
    • test_node_product_cache.py, test_ci_r2_artifact.py, test_ci_selective_layer_wiring.py, test_ci_parallel_artifact_transport.py;
    • test_ci_test_execution_registry.py, test_ci_workflow_guards_are_wired.py, test_ci_change_areas.py, test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py;
    • python3 scripts/verify-local.py --affected mf/main (12/12).
  • Not run: native builds (none are affected).

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Walkthrough

The product fetch command now tries an eligible LAN helper before existing peer sources. Cache metadata and restore measurements distinguish LAN-sourced products from other peer-sourced products. New tests cover fetch validation, fallback, source reporting, and CI integration.

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LAN Product Source

Layer / File(s) Summary
LAN helper eligibility and verified fetch
scripts/ci/peer_product_source.py, tests/test_lan_product_source.py
The fetch module checks helper eligibility, runs the helper with a restricted environment, and validates the archive size and digest. Tests cover helper eligibility, fetch results, timeouts, and occupied destinations.
Source classification and CI integration
scripts/ci/node_product_cache.py, scripts/ci/restore-app-host-test-product.sh, .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml, .github/workflows/ci-artifact-transport.yml, tests/test-execution.toml, tests/test_lan_product_source.py
Cache finalization and restore records retain the LAN source classification. CI jobs pass through the source, and CI configuration registers and runs the new tests.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CIJob as macOS CI job
  participant FetchCommand as Peer product fetch command
  participant LANHelper as LAN helper
  participant HTTPSPeers as HTTPS peer sources
  participant ProductCache as Node product cache
  CIJob->>FetchCommand: Request product
  FetchCommand->>LANHelper: Try eligible LAN fetch
  LANHelper-->>FetchCommand: Return verified archive or miss
  FetchCommand->>HTTPSPeers: Fetch after LAN miss
  HTTPSPeers-->>FetchCommand: Return peer fetch result
  FetchCommand-->>CIJob: Return product source
  CIJob->>ProductCache: Finalize product with source class
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c7955

The change is mergeable with a narrow reporting risk: an unusual helper timing value can produce a nonstandard output. Normalize it before relying on LAN metrics.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7955

The new route checks downloaded bytes before use and retains the existing fallback. The authorization and installation of the LAN helper have not been established, so the full exposure of the new route remains uncertain.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new helper invocation makes LAN product requests reachable from eligible jobs, but the available evidence does not establish the broker-side caller authorization or product-request restrictions. This is an unresolved boundary question, not a demonstrated authorization bypass.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Client-side invocation is limited to jobs on matching owned runners with a qualifying installed helper. The broker’s independently attackable caller, peer, and asset scope cannot be determined from the available implementation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — LAN-delivered bytes are not accepted on the helper’s assertion alone: the client checks the staged file against the expected digest, and cache publication performs its own identity and archive checks. These controls address archive substitution but do not establish broker authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A helper miss or error retains the existing fetch route, and failed restoration aborts cache fill. This limits propagation of a bad or incomplete LAN transfer, subject to the existing occupied-destination behavior on same-workspace retries.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish and verify the deployed helper’s path permissions and the broker’s independent caller and product-request authorization before relying on the LAN route; exercise the unavailable-helper fallback during rollout.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes compiled-product artifact fetching, cache source classification, restore reporting, and CI tests. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui client, Ghos…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and no introduced Swift actor-isolation constructs. Therefore this …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files. It introduces no production Swift changes. The only added sleep is in the Python test fixture used to exe…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI, Python, shell, TOML, and LAN product-source test files. It does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift or `Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSocket/Sources/CmuxC…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files. It introduces no Swift changes, so the expensive synchronous Swift load condition does not apply.
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and tests. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript changes, so this cache-substitution check does not apply.
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds a bounded subprocess.run(..., timeout=LAN_FETCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS) for the LAN helper and records elapsed time with time.monotonic(); it does not add a sleep, timer, p…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds LAN helper eligibility checks, one helper invocation, linear SHA-256 verification of the archive, and source-class membership checks. The existing HTTPS peer loop remain…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only workflows, Python, shell, TOML, and Python tests. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or Objective-C source files, so it introduces no cmux-owned Swift concurr…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only YAML, Python, TOML, and shell files. It contains no Swift files or Swift async/concurrency changes, so the Swift @concurrent rule is not applicable.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files. It introduces no Swift or SwiftPM production changes, so the Swift package-boundary rule is not applicabl…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes only CI transport workflows, Python/Shell transport code, and tests. It does not change any cmux-owned .gitignore, Package.swift, Xcode project package references, or `Package.resol…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request changes no Swift files. The authoritative diff contains only workflow, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files, so it introduces or materially changes no production Swift logging.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The changed code is limited to CI workflows, artifact transport, cache metadata, restore measurements, and tests. Its new output goes to GitHub Actions step outputs, CI logs, step summaries, and…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR changes only CI workflows, CI transport/cache/receipt scripts, and tests. It adds no Swift, web, string-catalog, Info.plist, or locale files, and the patch contains no localization or locale-so…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and test files. The authoritative diff has no changed Swift source, so it introduces no SwiftUI state or layout pattern covered by the ru…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes no Swift files. The changed files are YAML, Python, shell, TOML, and Python tests, so the Swift architectural-rethink failure conditions do not apply.
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only CI workflows, Python, shell, TOML, and test files. It contains no Swift or standalone cmux-owned window changes, so the auxiliary-window close-shortcut rule does no…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. All seven changed paths are intentional source-control content: workflow and test-registry configuration, CI scripts, and a hand-written LAN product-source test. The new test contains an inline …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only workflow, Python, shell, TOML, and Python test files. It contains no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: fetching compiled products from another owned mini over the LAN before using other sources.
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"source_index": -1,
"object_key": identity.key(),
"archive_bytes": info.st_size,
"lookup_seconds": float(record.get("lookup_seconds") or 0.0) if isinstance(record.get("lookup_seconds"), (int, float)) else 0.0,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'admissions\.jsonl|lookup_seconds|peer-products.outputs' scripts/ci .github/workflows/ci-macos.yml | head -150
sed -n '605,632p' scripts/ci/peer_product_source.py

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Length of output: 8720


Handle non-finite lookup_seconds values before emitting fetch outputs.

When the helper returns NaN or Infinity, scripts/ci/peer_product_source.py:597 preserves the non-finite value. The fetch command then emits nan or inf in its JSON output. These are nonstandard JSON values and can be rejected by strict consumers. The admissions.jsonl failure path is not established.

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-        "lookup_seconds": float(record.get("lookup_seconds") or 0.0) if isinstance(record.get("lookup_seconds"), (int, float)) else 0.0,
+        "lookup_seconds": (
+            round(float(record["lookup_seconds"]), 6)
+            if isinstance(record.get("lookup_seconds"), (int, float))
+            and not isinstance(record.get("lookup_seconds"), bool)
+            and math.isfinite(record["lookup_seconds"])
+            and record["lookup_seconds"] >= 0
+            else 0.0
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In `@scripts/ci/peer_product_source.py` at line 597, Update the `lookup_seconds`
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teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 25, 2026 23:10
Failing first: peer_product_source.py has no LAN source yet. The test is
registered (test-execution.toml, ci-artifact-transport.yml) in this commit
so the commit is consistent and fails only for the missing behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On an owned Mac, peer_product_source.py fetch asks glaeda's LAN helper at
/Library/Application Support/glaeda/bin/glaeda-lan-fetch for the app-host
product by content digest before the HTTPS peers, R2 and GitHub. The helper
runs only when it and every directory up to / are root-owned and not group-
or other-writable, with a minimal environment (no tokens) and a max size.
Its file counts only when it is a single-link regular file that hashes to the
digest GitHub recorded; anything else is a miss and the existing sources run.
The file moves into place without replacing anything.

A LAN object is stored in the node cache as source class "peer", so older
consumers keep it, and is verified against GitHub's artifact metadata (a
"lan" finalize input). "lan" stays in the metrics: source=lan, lan_status,
lan_seconds and lan_peer are documented as a contract for the fleet's
admissions.jsonl, and restore reports the "lan" route.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge receipt for 43e8caa598: every check was green at merge (19 verified; 22 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
6319fbe PR catch-up: run automatically when main goes green (manaflow-ai#14790)
8e4e505 iOS: replace a silent control stream instead of closing a live connection (manaflow-ai#14695)
c4b36fd Code session snapshots on a main-sized stack to fix deep split SIGBUS (manaflow-ai#14787)
5a69850 ci: fetch compiled products from another owned mini over the LAN first (manaflow-ai#14779)
d3d8941 ci: record warm-state distance per owned admission, fit a cost model, route admission by it (manaflow-ai#14778)
ea5a166 Fix main-thread deadlock in session autosave via ghostty_surface_needs_confirm_quit (manaflow-ai#14784)
049eb4e Fix TextBox IME replacement range crash (manaflow-ai#14786)
afd8ec0 Bound process-tree recursion depth in cmux top payloads (manaflow-ai#14785)
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# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/ci-artifact-transport.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci-guards.yml
#	.github/workflows/ci-macos.yml
#	.github/workflows/pr-catch-up.yml
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