fix(custom-sidebar): render Menu nodes so context-menu submenus appear

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Summary

In a JS custom sidebar, a Menu inside .contextMenu dropped its submenu: only the top-level buttons appeared, with no error. The runtime emits a "menu" scene node for Menu(...), but SceneNodeContent in SceneNodeView.swift had no case for it and drew EmptyView. It now renders a SwiftUI Menu with its children, which becomes a submenu inside a context menu and a menu button elsewhere. This matches RenderNodeView's existing .menu case and what docs/custom-sidebars.md already documents.

Fixes #14662.

The report also said a .contextMenu on an inner VStack that has .onTap never showed. That doesn't reproduce: in the tagged build, right-clicking that VStack's text opens its menu. Right-clicking the empty space beside it does nothing, because that space belongs to the row's Spacer, not the VStack; the menu attached to the outer HStack covers the whole row. That's standard SwiftUI scoping, so docs/custom-sidebars.md now says to attach the menu to the row's outer view.

Testing

• SceneNodeViewRenderingTests.contextMenuSubmenuRenders hosts the issue's repro row in a window and asks the hosting view for its context menu (menu(for:) with a right-mouse-down, the path a right-click takes). It checks for "Open chat", a separator, and "Move to project" with submenu items ["fun", "Landing"]. It fails against main's SceneNodeView ("Move to project" is missing) and passes with the fix (caa64db).
• swift test in Packages/macOS/CmuxSwiftRenderUI: 43 tests in 7 suites pass.
• python3 scripts/verify-local.py --swift-changed origin/main: 13/13 checks pass.
• ./scripts/reload.sh --tag fix-14662-submenu built successfully.
• Checked live in the tagged build (fix-14662-submenu, commit 4c53afb) with the issue's repro as a right-sidebar custom sidebar: right-clicking the row shows "Open chat", a divider, and "Move to project ▸"; hovering it opens the submenu with "fun" and "Landing".
• Second symptom, checked live with three rows (inner VStack with onTap + menu, inner VStack with menu only, outer HStack with onTap + menu): all three open their menu over their content; only the outer-HStack row opens it from the empty space to the right.
• Localization: no new user-facing strings; menu titles come from the user's script. The docs note is in docs/custom-sidebars.md, which has no localized copies.

Checklist

• Behavior changes have added or updated tests
• Docs updated
• Reviewed with a subagent before merge

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Menu items now appear as menu buttons, with nested menus displayed as submenus in context menus.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that context menus open when right-clicking their attached view, and recommended attaching them to the row’s outer layout so right-clicking empty space on the row also opens the menu.
• Tests
  • Added coverage verifying that context menus display sibling buttons, separators, and nested menu items.

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Walkthrough

SceneNodeContent renders menu nodes as labeled SwiftUI menus containing their children. A rendering test checks a submenu, its buttons, and sibling menu entries. The sidebar guide clarifies where to attach context menus to cover the full row.

Changes

Menu Node Rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Render and verify menu nodes Packages/macOS/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Sources/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Runtime/SceneNodeView.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Tests/CmuxSwiftRenderUITests/SceneNodeViewRenderingTests.swift, docs/custom-sidebars.md	SceneNodeContent renders a menu node as a SwiftUI Menu, using the node’s text as its label and its children as menu items. The test checks the context menu’s button, separator, submenu, and two submenu button titles. The guide recommends attaching the context menu to the row’s outer HStack so it also covers the Spacer area.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to caa64

The submenu is rendered and the test checks its items through the row’s context menu. No actionable merge risk remains after normal checks.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c6b4c

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: Packages, docs

Architecture concerns
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Systems and components

• observed — Packages (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Sources/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Runtime/SceneNodeView.swift: SceneNodeContent now handles menu nodes by rendering a labeled Menu containing their children; the menu acts as a submenu inside a context menu and as a menu button elsewhere.
• observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxSwiftRenderUI/Tests/CmuxSwiftRenderUITests/SceneNodeViewRenderingTests.swift: Adds SceneNodeViewRenderingTests and a helper that measures a node’s fitting size in an NSHostingView. The test verifies the runtime produces a submenu with two button children and expects both that submenu and its sibling button to render with nonzero dimensions.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/custom-sidebars.md: The context-menu guidance now specifies that menus open only over their attached view and recommends placing the modifier on the row’s outer HStack to cover the full row, including its Spacer area.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR adds new English prose to docs/custom-sidebars.md explaining context-menu scope. This is a public user guide: the production Custom Sidebars settings screen links users to `https://cmux.com/d…	Move the new documentation guidance into the public documentation's locale-specific content source and add translated entries for every supported locale: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, km, ko, no, pl, pt-BR,…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #14662 requires a nested Menu in a custom-sidebar .contextMenu to render its submenu, or to report a validation error if nesting is unsupported. SceneNodeContent now renders menu nodes a…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The production change and regression test directly implement issue #14662. The documentation change explains the context-menu attachment scope described by the issue. No unrelated change is demonstrat…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only custom-sidebar scene rendering, its rendering test, and custom-sidebar documentation. The diff introduces no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, manual ren…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The only production change adds Menu(...) { children } inside the existing private SceneNodeContent: View SwiftUI type. The actor-isolation rules explicitly allow SwiftUI view types and UI c…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The production Swift diff adds only a SwiftUI Menu case in SceneNodeViewContent; it introduces no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, timer, or manua…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only custom-sidebar scene rendering, its rendering test, and documentation. The diff does not modify browser socket commands, socketWorkerMethods, processV2Command, WebKit/App…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The authoritative diff adds a Menu(node.string("text") ?? "") { children } branch in SceneNodeContent, plus a test and documentation. The custom rule's prohibited loads are absent from the diff: t…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff only adds a case "menu" that renders Menu(node.string("text") ?? "") { children } in SceneNodeContent. It does not replace an authoritative read with a cache, and it do…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two Swift files and one Markdown file. It does not change TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime scripts covered by runtime-no-hacky-sleeps.md.…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The production diff adds only Menu(node.string("text") ?? "") { children } in SceneNodeView.swift. It introduces no loop, nested collection scan, sorting, filtering, batch rescan, join, or slower …
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS — The Swift runtime change only adds Menu(node.string("text") ?? "") { children } to SceneNodeContent. It adds no background queue, Combine state, completion-handler API, or fire-and-forget `…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The Swift diff adds only a synchronous case "menu" view branch and a synchronous @MainActor rendering test. It introduces no nonisolated async, @concurrent, async helper, or heavy async …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The production diff adds four lines to SceneNodeContent in the existing CmuxSwiftRenderUI SwiftPM target. The change maps a scene node to a SwiftUI Menu and renders its child views. This is smal…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only SceneNodeView.swift, its rendering test, and docs/custom-sidebars.md. It does not change a Package.swift dependency, any Package.resolved, an Xcode package reference,…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The PR adds no logging. The production Swift diff only adds a menu rendering case and comments. The new test adds no logging calls. The only FileHandle.standardError diagnostic in `SceneNodeView.s…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The pull request adds SwiftUI Menu rendering, a test, and documentation about context-menu scope. It does not add or change a user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery me…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The SwiftUI diff adds only a Menu(node.string("text") ?? "") { children } case. It introduces no ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, GeometryReader, rende…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The production change is a four-line local rendering case for the existing "menu" node. It uses the existing SceneNodeContent owner, SceneStore child traversal, and SceneEventSink path, …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS. The runtime change adds only a SwiftUI Menu case in SceneNodeContent; it does not add or change a cmux-owned standalone window. The only NSWindow in the diff is a test-only fixture in `Sce…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The PR changes only one Swift source file, one Swift test file, and the custom-sidebar documentation. The new test is a deliberate test-system source file, and the source and documentation changes are…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The only production Sources/ change adds a normal case "menu" that renders Menu(...) with its children. The diff adds no #if DEBUG or test-build block, debug/test-only member, widened vi…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rendering Menu nodes so custom-sidebar context-menu submenus appear.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the problem, implementation, testing results, live verification, localization note, documentation update, and review status. It omits the required Demo Video section or attach…

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds new English prose to docs/custom-sidebars.md explaining context-menu scope. This is a public user guide: the production Custom Sidebars settings screen links users to https://cmux.com/docs/custom-sidebars. The changed markdown is not sourced through a locale-specific system, and the PR changes no web/messages/ locale files. The Swift change only renders user-authored node.string("text"), matching the existing renderer, and the test strings are exempt.

Resolution

Move the new documentation guidance into the public documentation's locale-specific content source and add translated entries for every supported locale: ar, bs, da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, km, ko, no, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-CN, and zh-TW. Ensure the rendered page reads those entries through next-intl or an equivalent localized source instead of adding English-only prose to docs/custom-sidebars.md.

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Merged, thanks @aliyansajid :)

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