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TerminalPlainTextPasteStartupTests/realPTYDelivery() fails on the owned Mac minis (macOS 26.5.1, live window server) and passes on Blacksmith macos-26 (26.3). Main has been red on it since app-host shards moved to the minis (#14796). This PR changes only the test and its fixture. There were two separate problems, both in the test harness.

1. Cmd+V went to a terminal that wasn't first responder. A diagnostic commit printed the state on cmux11s: firstResponder=<NSWindow> key=false appActive=false. Ghostty still reported Cmd+V as its paste binding (flags=9, US layout). The fixture window isn't key on a live window server, so cmux's focus handling had moved the responder off the terminal, and performKeyEquivalent correctly refused the key. The test now makes the terminal first responder before each synthesized Cmd+V, as a real keystroke through the key window would find it.

2. The first worker launched through the fixture's counting wrapper was slow enough to be dropped. With (1) fixed, the unoptimized trial 0 still sometimes received nothing. A temporary diagnostic (the paste service's failure signal plus timing inside the wrapper) showed:

  • On cmuxs-mac-mini-3 the service reported deadlineExceeded 5 s after the Cmd+V, and the first worker never finished (PR CI run 36250247238).
  • On idle minis that first worker spent 0.72-0.86 s inside the wrapper; every later wrapper launch took 13-46 ms.
  • The same binary launched directly, as the app launches it, answered the same general-pasteboard paste request in 51-56 ms, and warming that direct path didn't help.

So the cost is specific to the first launch of the app binary through the fixture's fresh launch-counting shell script, which the product never does. The fixture now runs one preparation through its own wrapper client before the trials, outside the paste service and its 5 s deadline, then clears the launch log so the per-trial launch counts (6 full, 6 text) are unchanged. It prints the warm-up time as PASTE_PTY_WARMUP.

Validation on the owned-mini lane at bd99391e, all 8 suite tests passing each time:

Run Mini Warm-up Unoptimized trial 0
36252915966 (focused) cmux14 1.09 s 47 ms
36253383775 (focused) cmuxs-mac-mini-5 0.96 s 46 ms
36252889600 (PR CI changed suites) cmux10s 1.11 s 46 ms

Before this change, trial 0 took 1.1 s on an idle mini and was dropped on loaded ones (cmux8s, cmuxs-mac-mini-3, cmux9s). Not run locally; this Mac is under the fork-CI-only rule.

I didn't find what makes that first wrapper-mediated launch slow. The app's own direct re-exec measured ~50 ms here, so I don't see a product regression. Real first pastes weren't measured on a loaded machine, though.

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realPTYDelivery fails on every owned mini (macOS 26.5.1, Aqua gui
runners) and passes on Blacksmith macOS 26.3: GhosttyNSView
performKeyEquivalent returns false for the synthesized Cmd+V. Record
first-responder, activation, input source and Ghostty binding state
when that happens so the CI log names the refusing guard.

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The PTY fixture retains the worker client and adds a pasteboard warm-up that checks the worker’s insertion result. The test runs the warm-up after fixture readiness and makes the fixture view first responder before sending Cmd+V.

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PTY paste test

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Pasteboard warm-up
cmuxTests/PlainPastePTYFixture.swift, cmuxTests/TerminalPlainTextPastePTYTests.swift
The fixture stores the worker client, writes known text to the general pasteboard, and prepares a terminal paste through the worker. It records elapsed time and checks the insertion result. The PTY test runs the warm-up after fixture readiness.
Paste key-equivalent handling
cmuxTests/TerminalPlainTextPastePTYTests.swift
Before sending Cmd+V, the test makes the fixture view first responder. If the key equivalent is not handled, the failure message includes the current first responder.

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The test setup exercises the intended worker path, and a non-key window does not block its direct Cmd+V call. No additional change is needed before merging.

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On the owned Mac runners (live window server, macOS 26.5.1) the fixture
window is not key when trial 0 runs, and cmux's focus handling has
already yielded the terminal's first responder to the window. The CI
diagnostic from the previous commit showed firstResponder=<NSWindow>,
key=false, appActive=false, while Ghostty did report Cmd+V as a
consumed, performable binding. performKeyEquivalent then correctly
refuses a key its terminal no longer owns.

A real Cmd+V arrives through the key window, where the terminal is first
responder, so the test restores that precondition before each synthesized
keystroke and drops the diagnostic. Blacksmith's inactive VM host never
moved the responder, which is why the test only failed on the minis.

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@teamleaderleo teamleaderleo changed the title Fix Cmd+V PTY paste test on the owned Mac runners Send the PTY paste test's Cmd+V to a first-responder terminal Sep 26, 2026
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PR CI at 93c7134 lost the first unoptimized Cmd+V on cmux8s: trial 0's
receipt stayed empty for the receiver's 20 s, trial 1 took 2.8 s and
later trials ~55 ms. Temporarily time each worker run through the
launch wrappers, keep the preparation service's failure signals, and
print both with the pasteboard change count per trial, so the next mini
run shows whether the 5 s preparation deadline or something else drops
the paste.

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The diagnostic commit showed why the unoptimized trial 0 still failed on
the owned Mac runners. On cmuxs-mac-mini-3 (PR CI run 36250247238) the
paste service reported deadlineExceeded 5 s after the Cmd+V: the first
full worker never finished its read of the real general pasteboard, so
the 5 s preparation deadline dropped the paste and the receiver waited
out its 20 s. On idle minis that same first worker took 0.72-0.86 s,
while every later worker, full or plain-text, took 13-46 ms and the
same binary answers a synthetic-pasteboard request in ~80 ms.

The test is about per-paste delivery through each entry point, so the
fixture now runs one full worker against the general pasteboard before
the trials, outside the paste service and its deadline, calling the app
binary directly so the per-trial launch counts are unchanged. It prints
PASTE_PTY_WARMUP with the time that first read took. The timing wrappers
and per-trial diagnostic from the previous commit are removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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In `@cmuxTests/PlainPastePTYFixture.swift`:
- Around line 142-146: Add a finite, independent deadline around the
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Comment thread cmuxTests/PlainPastePTYFixture.swift Outdated
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let result = try await client.prepare(TerminalPastePreparationRequest(
pasteboard: TerminalPasteboardReadRequest(pasteboard: NSPasteboard.general),
mode: .paste,
destination: .terminal
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Add an independent deadline for the warm-up worker.

warmPasteboardAccess() awaits client.prepare directly. runWorker awaits TerminalPastePreparationProcess.run(), which has no deadline. A stalled pasteboard read can therefore leave realPTYDelivery() waiting indefinitely. Add a finite timeout that terminates and reaps the worker. Keep it separate from the five-second paste-service deadline.

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In `@cmuxTests/PlainPastePTYFixture.swift` around lines 142 - 146, Add a finite,
independent deadline around the `client.prepare` call in `warmPasteboardAccess`,
separate from the five-second paste-service deadline. If preparation times out,
terminate and reap the worker before returning so `realPTYDelivery()` cannot
wait indefinitely.

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The direct warm-up in 1a2a13a did not help. It read the general
pasteboard through the app binary in 51-56 ms, yet trial 0 still took
1.1 s on cmux10s (run 36251657677) and was dropped again on cmux9s (PR
CI run 36251592489). With the timing wrappers from e67823c, the first
worker launched through the fixture's launch-counting shell wrapper spent
0.72-0.86 s inside the wrapper, and later wrapper launches 13-46 ms.

So the slow step is the first launch of the app binary through the fresh
wrapper script, which the app never does; it exec's itself directly.
Warm that exact path: run one preparation through the fixture's own
client (the wrapper) outside the paste service and its 5 s deadline,
then clear the launch log so per-trial launch counts are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
413ece1 CI tooling, guard and test hardening (manaflow-ai#14864)
a4e4aa4 Keep set-buffer text exact and read it from stdin (manaflow-ai#14836)
83ed511 Tighten welcome, cmux-cua build, and codex wrapper follow-ups (manaflow-ai#14857)
8c9d2c9 perf: keep the durable event log open across flushes (manaflow-ai#14829)
6d876f9 Send the PTY paste test's Cmd+V to a first-responder terminal (manaflow-ai#14825)
f190c87 Re-supply user-declared external agent launchers on resume (manaflow-ai#10503)
d522606 web: render changelog features as patch notes cards (manaflow-ai#14869)
b5d0bff Stop other bundles and scripts from killing the running cmux (manaflow-ai#14831)

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…md+V (#15201)

clipboardRestorationAfterNativePaste (#14549) sends a synthesized Cmd+V
straight to GhosttyNSView.performKeyEquivalent after a 600 ms wait. On a
live window server the fixture window is not key, and cmux's focus
handling yields the terminal's responder to the window during that wait,
so performKeyEquivalent correctly refuses the key and the test fails on
every owned Mac runner. realPTYDelivery hit the same thing and #14825
fixed it by restoring the first responder before each keystroke. Do the
same here and name the responder when the key is refused.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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