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Clear the password badge on runtime release and apply its settings live - #14905

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Follow-up to #14867.

Summary

  • Badge stuck after runtime release. When the runtime teardown coordinator frees a surface (explicit teardown, agent hibernation, stale-pointer quarantine) while echo is off, Ghostty never sends the OFF action, and the replacement runtime starts with echo on, so the badge stayed up. TerminalSurfacePaneHosting gains terminalSurfaceRuntimeDidRelease(), called on those three paths; GhosttySurfaceScrollView clears the badge there.
  • Settings apply live. The indicator read terminal.showPasswordInputIndicator / terminal.showPasswordInputDots only when echo turned off. It now observes UserDefaults.didChangeNotification while a prompt is active (and only then), so toggling either setting mid-prompt shows or hides the badge and dots at once. Idle terminals register no observer.
  • Docs. all-keys.md notes that pasted text is not counted in dots and that only local prompts are detected (an ssh password prompt counts; sudo inside an ssh session does not). No new UI strings.

Testing

  • swift test --filter TerminalSurfaceTeardownCallbackLifetimeTests in Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal: 15/15 pass, including two new tests that pin the pane host release notification on teardown and hibernation.
  • tests/test_cmux_schema_parity.py, tests/test_cmux_settings_supported_paths.py pass.
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Fixes the password input badge getting stuck after runtime release and makes the indicator settings apply live.

  • Pane hosts now get terminalSurfaceRuntimeDidRelease() on teardown, agent hibernation, and stale-pointer quarantine, clearing the badge since the released runtime never reports echo back on.
  • While a prompt is active, the indicator observes UserDefaults.didChangeNotification, so toggling terminal.showPasswordInputIndicator or terminal.showPasswordInputDots mid-prompt applies immediately; idle terminals don't observe.
  • Docs clarify that pasted text is not counted in dots and only local prompts are detected.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • The password-input indicator now clears when a terminal runtime is released and updates immediately when its display settings change.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that password-prompt detection applies to the local terminal, including SSH password prompts, but not prompts such as sudo within an SSH session.

When a terminal's runtime is freed (teardown, agent hibernation, or stale
pointer quarantine) while echo is off, Ghostty never reports echo back on,
so the badge stayed up over the replacement runtime. The pane host now gets
terminalSurfaceRuntimeDidRelease() on those paths and clears the badge.

While a prompt is active the indicator observes UserDefaults, so toggling
the indicator or dots setting shows or hides them at once. Idle terminals
do not observe.

Document that pasted text is not counted and that only local prompts are
detected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The pane-host protocol now reports runtime release across stale-surface invalidation, teardown, and agent-hibernation suspension. The password indicator reloads settings while a prompt is active and clears its state when the runtime is released.

Changes

Runtime release and password indicator

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime-release notification and validation
Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Hosting/TerminalSurfacePaneHosting.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Surface/TerminalSurface+RuntimeLifecycle.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/CmuxTerminalTests/FakeTerminalSurfacePaneHost.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Tests/CmuxTerminalTests/TerminalSurfaceTeardownCallbackLifetimeTests.swift
The pane-host protocol adds a runtime-release callback. Stale-runtime invalidation, teardown, and hibernation suspension call it after clearing the surface reference. Tests check that teardown and hibernation each notify the host once.
Password indicator settings and release state
Sources/GhosttyTerminalViewSupport.swift, skills/cmux-settings/references/all-keys.md
The indicator observes settings changes while echo is disabled, reloads changed values, and clears password-input state on runtime release. The setting descriptions specify local-terminal detection and immediate application to an open prompt.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a4471

Changing password-indicator settings during an open prompt can show an inaccurate dot count. This is a bounded visual issue that can be fixed before merge or accepted as follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a4471

The new release notification appears to clear a stale password badge without changing terminal input handling or recording password text. Risk remains low, rather than minimal, because the full security coverage and an end-to-end replacement-runtime check are unavailable.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The observed reset is pane-local: each release path calls its surface's pane host, and the host clears its own indicator. The inspected change does not show a new tenant, network, credential, or service authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The inspected settings observer affects badge rendering and optional keystroke counts; its handler does not forward terminal input or store the classified characters. This is a scoped observation, not proof about uninspected input paths.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Repeated deactivation resets the count, and the observer is removed when echo resumes. The supplied callback tests cover teardown and hibernation notification, but not badge state through a release-and-replacement sequence.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The new live-settings path adds a UserDefaults.didChangeNotification observer and a second mutable settings cache in TerminalPasswordInputIndicatorView. reloadSettings() reads the global `Termin… Keep the settings store or view coordinator as the single source of truth. Pass an immutable password-indicator settings snapshot to the indicator and update that snapshot through the existing settings observation path or an explicit coordi…
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description includes a clear Summary and Testing section, but it omits the required Demo Video section and the entire Checklist. It also does not state the required localization audit result for t… Add the Demo Video section with a video or screenshots, add the repository Checklist with each applicable item marked and resolved, and state the localization audit result in the description.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 53.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (22 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes both primary changes: clearing the password badge on runtime release and applying its settings live.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes runtime-release notifications, password-indicator settings, tests, and settings documentation. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui client, carrier…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production diff does not introduce a listed Swift 6 actor-isolation mistake. TerminalSurfacePaneHosting is already @MainActor, and all three new runtime-release calls occur inside @MainActor…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds a runtime-release callback and a UserDefaults notification observer. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, or manu…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes terminal runtime lifecycle, password-indicator settings, tests, and documentation. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift or `Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSo…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The PR adds runtime-release callbacks and two synchronous UserDefaults reads for password-indicator settings. The authoritative diff adds no agent-history loader, transcript/trajectory/workstr…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff does not replace a fresh read in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. TerminalPasswordInputIndicatorView still reads TerminalCatalogSection settings via .value(in: .standard)…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The authoritative diff changes five Swift files and one Markdown file. The rule explicitly scopes TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts; Swift timing is covered by a separ…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production changes add constant-time state updates and two settings reads in TerminalPasswordInputIndicatorView.reloadSettings(), plus observer registration/removal. The runtime lifecycle …
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce a prohibited legacy async pattern. The new NotificationCenter.addObserver closure uses queue: .main and MainActor.assumeIsolated, which is an allowed OS callback boun…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The Swift diff adds only synchronous, @MainActor-bound protocol callbacks and synchronous UI/settings handling. The new runtime-release calls occur inside existing @MainActor methods. The new Us…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The diff does not introduce independently testable domain logic in the app target. TerminalSurface+RuntimeLifecycle.swift and the new TerminalSurfacePaneHosting callback are already inside t…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes six Swift source/test and documentation files only. It contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, Xcode project/workspace, workflow, or dependency…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request adds no logging statements or logging destinations. The production Swift diff only adds runtime-release callbacks and UserDefaults observation for the password indicator. The existing…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds runtime-release callbacks, password-badge state handling, live settings observation, tests, and settings reference text. It does not add or change a user-facing error, aler…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR adds no new or changed user-facing Swift text. The existing password label still uses String(localized:defaultValue:) and has a translated Resources/Localizable.xcstrings entry; that code a…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The PR does not introduce a SwiftUI view or SwiftUI state/layout pattern. The changed indicator is an AppKit NSView, and the changed files add no ObservableObject, @Published, GeometryReader, …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes runtime lifecycle callbacks, test fixtures, and password-indicator settings. The authoritative diff adds no user-visible NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI W…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The PR changes six existing paths: Swift source, Swift tests, and a hand-maintained settings reference. The diff adds runtime lifecycle behavior, test coverage, and durable documentation. No local out…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds terminalSurfaceRuntimeDidRelease() as a real runtime lifecycle callback. TerminalSurface+RuntimeLifecycle.swift calls it on stale-surface invalidation, teardown, and…
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The description includes a clear Summary and Testing section, but it omits the required Demo Video section and the entire Checklist. It also does not state the required localization audit result for the user-facing settings and documentation changes.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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Docstring coverage is 53.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The new live-settings path adds a UserDefaults.didChangeNotification observer and a second mutable settings cache in TerminalPasswordInputIndicatorView. reloadSettings() reads the global TerminalCatalogSection values into showsIndicator and showsDots, while the settings UI already owns these values through DefaultsValueModel. This side channel makes the view another owner of store-backed state and reacts to every defaults change while a prompt is active. The runtime-release callback is a clear model-to-AppKit lifecycle bridge and is not the failure.

Resolution

Keep the settings store or view coordinator as the single source of truth. Pass an immutable password-indicator settings snapshot to the indicator and update that snapshot through the existing settings observation path or an explicit coordinator action. Remove settingsObserver and the view-local settings cache. The first migration cut is to add a coordinator-level subscription for the two catalog keys, inject the current snapshot into GhosttySurfaceScrollView, and have the indicator render only from that snapshot while TerminalSurface owns the runtime-release transition.

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let dots = terminal.showPasswordInputDots.value(in: .standard)
guard indicator != showsIndicator || dots != showsDots else { return false }
showsIndicator = indicator
showsDots = dots

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n 'wantsKeystrokes|setEchoDisabled|typedCount|setPasswordInputActive|classify|showsDots' Sources/GhosttyTerminalViewSupport.swift Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminalCore/Sources/CmuxTerminalCore/PromptDetection/TerminalPasswordInputIndicatorState.swift

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Keep typed-count tracking independent of display settings.

When the prompt is active, classify and record keystrokes regardless of showsIndicator and showsDots. The current wantsKeystrokes guard skips input when either setting is disabled. Re-enabling a setting during the same prompt then shows a stale count.

Keep the settings in render() only. Preserve setEchoDisabled(true) as the explicit new-prompt reset.

Suggested fix
     var wantsKeystrokes: Bool {
-        state.isActive && showsIndicator && showsDots
+        state.isActive
     }
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In @Sources/GhosttyTerminalViewSupport.swift at line 199, Update wantsKeystrokes
so keystrokes are classified and counted whenever the prompt is active,
independent of showsIndicator and showsDots; keep display settings in render()
and preserve setEchoDisabled(true) as the new-prompt reset.

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Merge receipt for a4471fe88d: every check was green at merge (22 verified; 17 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
4bee342 Clear the password badge on runtime release and apply its settings live (manaflow-ai#14905)
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