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perf(codex-wrapper): verify the cmux-cua client path with one stat process - #14835
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…ocess The trust check spawned two stat processes and two subshells for every ancestor directory of the cmux-cua helper (12 directories for the installed helper), plus id and a tr|sed|cut pipeline. Under load that was most of the wrapper's time before Codex started. One stat call now covers the file and all ancestors with the same owner and group/world-write rules, EUID replaces id -u, and an already-clean runtime scope skips the sanitizing pipeline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe wrapper caches and validates the effective UID. It uses that UID in client trust checks, auth-token ownership checks, and runtime argument generation. Valid runtime scopes bypass sanitization. ChangesWrapper identity and runtime scoping
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Refactor Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The wrapper remains usable, but repeated UID lookups reduce the intended launch-speed improvement. Prime the cache in the emitter before merging if that improvement is important. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 1 system. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review detailsSystems and components
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macOS /bin/bash 3.2 takes EUID from the environment, so an exported EUID changed which owner the cmux-cua trust check and the auth-token check accepted, and which /tmp socket directory was used. Read `id -u` once into a wrapper-local variable cleared at startup and share it across all three call sites: one process instead of main's per-check spawns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🔵 Trivial · Prime the UID cache before the helper substitutions. · cmux-codex-wrapper:378-380
Resources/bin/cmux-codex-wrapper:378-380
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPrime the UID cache before the helper substitutions.
cmux_codex_emit_computer_use_argsruns in a process-substitution shell. Itsclient="$(...)"andauth_token="$(...)"calls run the helpers in child shells. UID assignments made there do not update the emitter shell. The emitter can therefore run/usr/bin/id -uup to three times on the normal path when the token file is used. The direct call below primes the cache before those substitutions and emits no output.♻️ Suggested fix
local client default_session runtime_scope runtime_uid cua_socket state_dir auth_token + cmux_codex_wrapper_effective_uid || return 1 client="$(cmux_computer_use_resolve_client)" || return 1 auth_token="$(cmux_computer_use_auth_token)" || return 1🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Resources/bin/cmux-codex-wrapper`:
- Around line 378-380: In cmux_codex_emit_computer_use_args, call
cmux_codex_wrapper_effective_uid directly before the client and auth_token
command substitutions so the emitter shell primes and reuses the UID cache.
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e7f1c40 Keep the remote daemon's Claude restore preload out of TMPDIR (manaflow-ai#14851) 37187d5 perf(codex-wrapper): verify the cmux-cua client path with one stat process (manaflow-ai#14835) 680fea3 Pace unfocused terminal surfaces to about 30 FPS (manaflow-ai#14843) d90b0c8 fix: keep the checklist popover when its detach close finishes after reattach (manaflow-ai#14830) db5103d perf: skip no-op UserDefaults writes on every session autosave (manaflow-ai#14822) 788fe48 Route palette copy mode visibility and focus restore through the focused Dock (manaflow-ai#14848) edf54b1 Changelog: Unreleased entries for today's contributor merges; keep Unreleased current (manaflow-ai#14849) # Conflicts: # .github/workflows/build-ghosttykit.yml
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The Codex wrapper spends most of its pre-launch time proving the cmux-cua helper path is trusted. For every ancestor directory of the installed helper (12 of them for
~/Library/Application Support/cmux/cmux-cua/helper/.../cmux Computer Use.app/Contents/MacOS/cmux-cua) it ran twostatprocesses inside two command substitutions, thenstattwice more andid -utwice for the file itself, plus atr | sed | cutpipeline to sanitize the runtime scope. That is roughly 30 process launches and 30 subshells beforecodexstarts.This change keeps the same trust rules and does the work in one
statcall:stat -f '%u %Lp'(GNU-c '%u %a'fallback) covers the client file and every ancestor directory. Each line must be owned by root or the current user and be neither group- nor world-writable, and the line count must match the number of paths, so a partial or failedstatstill fails closed.EUIDreplacesid -u.The emitted Codex argv is byte-identical to main apart from the per-process PID field.
Measurements
Air Blue (10 cores), same fake
codextarget, wrapper run from a copy of the bundle layout, 9 runs each, load average about 150 at the time:A
bash -xtimestamp trace put 0.7 to 1.1 s of the main wrapper's roughly 1.0 to 1.8 s incmux_codex_emit_computer_use_args; on this branch the whole wrapper reachesexecin about 0.29 s.Validation
python3 tests/test_codex_wrapper_computer_use_mcp.py: pass, including the group-writable ancestor and group-writable override rejections.python3 tests/test_codex_wrapper_resume_hooks.py,python3 tests/test_codex_autoresume_chain.py: pass.tests/test_codex_wrapper_hook_append.pyneeds a built CLI and is left to CI.No app or Swift changes.
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Speeds up the Codex wrapper's pre-launch trust check from roughly 30 process launches to one
statcall, cutting median wall time before Codex starts from about 2.6 s to about 1.0 s.stat -f '%u %Lp'(GNU-c '%u %a'fallback) covers the client file and every ancestor directory; each line must be owned by root or the current user, be neither group- nor world-writable, and the line count must match the path count so partial or failedstatstill fails closed.id -ucall and shared across all checks;$EUIDis avoided because macOS bash 3.2 takes it from the environment, which would change the accepted owner and socket path.tr | sed | cutsanitizing pipeline.Written for commit 8663461. Summary will update on new commits.
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