cmux-tui: inject Claude hooks through a PATH shim, including under sr

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Summary

Claude Code started in a cmux-tui terminal only reports to the session when cmux-tui agent hook install claude wrote hooks into ~/.claude/settings.json. Launchers that resolve claude from PATH and bring their own config, such as a proxy or account-switching launcher (an isolated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR plus its own --settings <file>), never load those hooks, so the sidebar shows nothing for them. This matters on the default cmux ssh path, where panes run under the cmux-tui remote.

Now every cmux-tui terminal gets a claude shim first on PATH, and Claude Code started there fires the session's hooks under any config directory or launcher.

Change

• At server startup, cmux-tui writes ~/.local/share/cmux-tui/shims/claude (0700 in a 0700 directory, rewritten only when its content changes) and prepends that directory to the pane PATH, next to the existing CMUX_TUI_HOOK export. The shim execs the cmux-tui binary's absolute path with the hidden verb agent claude-wrapper "$@". If that binary is gone, it runs the next claude on PATH instead.
• cmux-tui agent claude-wrapper (new claude_wrapper.rs, dispatched at the top of run_main because Claude's arguments are neither cmux-tui flags nor guaranteed UTF-8):
  • resolves the real claude from PATH, skipping the shim directory and any claude that is or links to the shim;
  • when the terminal has CMUX_TUI_TERMINAL_ID and a live CMUX_TUI_SOCKET, CMUX_TUI_CLAUDE_HOOKS_DISABLED is not 1, it is not a re-entry, and the arguments start a session, folds every --settings value (file or inline JSON) into one content-hashed private file (0600 in 0700, modes re-asserted on reuse, copies idle over 7 days pruned) with the Claude hook groups and preferredNotifChannel: notifications_disabled. Claude Code applies only the last --settings, so objects merge recursively and arrays, including hook groups, concatenate;
  • execs the real claude with the shim directory removed from PATH and CMUX_TUI_CLAUDE_WRAPPER_ACTIVE=1, so a launcher that re-resolves claude passes through;
  • passes --version, --help, and management subcommands (mcp, doctor, update, agents --json, daemon status, ...) through unchanged, using the same classification as the Go relay wrapper;
  • on any failure starts claude unchanged with one localized line (English and Japanese catalog entries).
• The hook groups come from agent_hook_install itself (claude_session_hook_settings runs the installer's own rewrite_json_hooks for the Claude provider), so events, timeout and async match agent hook install. When the cmux-tui-hook helper exists (the installed copy at ~/.local/share/cmux-tui/bin/cmux-tui-hook, else the one beside the binary), the commands are byte-identical to the installed ones and the wrapper points CMUX_TUI_HOOK at the helper's absolute path. Claude Code deduplicates identical hook commands, so a user with both the install and the shim gets one event. Without a helper, each command runs '<cmux-tui>' agent hook emit --source claude --event <E> with its stdout discarded.
• Docs: new cmux-tui/docs/agent-hooks.md, including the caveat that a shell startup file that prepends a directory holding claude (commonly ~/.local/bin) puts the real binary ahead of the shim and bypasses it.

Related

Part 1 of the cmux-tui remote hooks work. The relay-transport counterpart is #14874; publishing the session id and the Mac-side consumer are separate PRs.

Complements #14902, which runs agent hook install on the remote host during remote-link. That install writes ~/.claude/settings.json, which a launcher with its own CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and --settings never reads; this PR covers those launches. The wrapper prefers the helper path that install writes, so both produce identical hook commands. The two branches touch agent_hook_install.rs and main.rs in separate hunks.

Testing

Hosted focused verification passed on f351174: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36309154819 (./scripts/verify-cmux-tui-hosted.sh --filter claude_wrapper). It ran rustfmt, clippy with -D warnings, the 1.91 MSRV check, and the nine claude_wrapper_* unit tests on hosted Linux and macOS, plus the dogfood artifact build. The tests cover: an sr-style --settings file plus an inline --settings merging into one file that keeps the launcher keys and both hook sets; installed-command parity and the emit fallback; a bare trailing --settings, a missing file, and non-object or invalid JSON skipping injection; resolving the real claude past the shim directory, a copy of the shim, and a symlink to it; re-entry, the disable variable, a missing terminal id, and a dead socket passing through; --version, -h, mcp list, doctor, agents --json, and daemon status passing through; cache file and directory modes restored on reuse, idle copies pruned; the shim's content, modes, idempotent rewrite, exec of the wrapper, and fallback to the next claude when the binary is gone; and PATH ordering.

Not covered here: a live run under such a launcher on a remote host. The unit tests exercise the merge on a launcher-shaped --settings file plus an inline --settings, and run the shim itself through /bin/sh.

Localization: the wrapper's three stderr lines are new AgentWrapperMessages entries in the cmux-tui catalog (localization.rs) with English and Japanese text; they name no vendor, environment variable, or raw error. The new doc is English, like the rest of cmux-tui/docs.

Demo Video

Not applicable: no UI change. The behavior is covered by the tests above.

Checklist

• Behavior changes have added or updated tests, or Testing says why not
• UI, settings, menu, schema, help-text or user-facing docs change: localization audited, and the result is stated above
• Docs and changelog updated if needed (docs added; the changelog line lands with the merge)
• Reviewed with a subagent before merge, and all bot and human review comments resolved

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Claude Code sessions launched in eligible terminals now receive session hooks automatically, while existing settings are preserved and combined with the hook configuration.
  • Hook setup failures won’t prevent Claude Code from starting.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for installing and checking agent hooks, restarting agents, and understanding when Claude Code hooks are applied.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

cmux-tui adds a Claude wrapper and PATH shim for eligible terminal launches. The wrapper merges Claude settings with session hooks, writes private settings files, and launches Claude with shim paths removed. Unix startup routes wrapper invocations, and the documentation describes installation and bypass conditions.

Changes

Claude Code session hook wrapper

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hook settings and helper access cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/agent_hook_install.rs	Exposes helper functions to the wrapper and adds Claude session hook settings with optional agent hook emit commands.
Wrapper launch, settings, and shim cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/claude_wrapper.rs	Adds launch classification, hook eligibility checks, settings merging and caching, real-Claude resolution, and shim fallback behavior. Tests cover settings, filtering, file permissions, pruning, and shim behavior.
Terminal wiring and documentation cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/main.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/localization.rs, cmux-tui/README.md, cmux-tui/docs/README.md, cmux-tui/docs/agent-hooks.md	Routes wrapper invocations through Unix startup, adds the shim to child PATH, adds English and Japanese wrapper messages, and documents agent hooks and the Claude shim.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Terminal
  participant Shim as Claude shim
  participant Main as cmux-tui run_main
  participant Wrapper as claude_wrapper
  participant Claude as Real Claude executable
  Terminal->>Shim: Run claude
  Shim->>Main: Dispatch agent claude-wrapper
  Main->>Wrapper: Pass wrapper arguments
  Wrapper->>Claude: Launch with merged settings and shim-free PATH

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4df1

Claude can fail to start when a PATH entry contains a directory named claude ahead of the executable. Reject directory candidates before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4df1

Claude launches from more terminal workflows will report session activity, but launcher-provided settings can now be copied into a persistent private cache. The cache is access-restricted; its treatment of sensitive inline settings warrants review.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: When a launcher supplies sensitive inline --settings JSON, the wrapper creates a durable copy in its reusable settings cache. Stale-file pruning does not provide a guaranteed deletion time without a later launch.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The effective change spans Claude launches in cmux-tui child processes that inherit its PATH and satisfy the session checks, including previously isolated launcher configurations. The evidence does not establish a new cross-user privilege.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An inline settings value containing a secret can move from a launcher argument into a persistent cache file. Mode 0600 restricts access by other users, but does not remove the longer-lived same-user or backup exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The wrapper checks session eligibility and stores generated settings in a 0700 directory as 0600 files. The pre-existing helper reads terminal identity from the environment; server-side binding of that identity to the socket caller was not established by the inspected path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — On settings-preparation failure the wrapper launches Claude without injected hooks rather than passing malformed generated settings. This preserves launch availability but makes hook reporting conditional on successful preparation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define a bounded retention policy for generated settings that may contain inline secrets, including cleanup when no subsequent Claude launch occurs.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 88.89% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 63 functions across 4 files.
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 authoritative diff changes only cmux-tui Claude hook installation, a Claude PATH shim/wrapper, localization, and documentation. The main.rs changes only dispatch the wrapper and add its PA…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust and Markdown files. It contains no .swift paths and no Swift actor-isolation changes. The custom check is therefore not applicable.
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust and Markdown files. It introduces no Swift source or Swift project changes, so the Swift blocking-runtime check does not apply.
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The pull request does not change the rule-scoped browser automation files: Sources/TerminalController.swift and `Packages/macOS/CmuxControlSocket/Sources/CmuxControlSocket/Wire/ControlCommandExecuti…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust and Markdown files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files, SwiftUI or MainActor code, or the specified agent-history load and storage patterns. The Sw…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes four Rust files and three Markdown files. It contains no production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript changes, so the cache substitution correctness co…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes Rust source files and Markdown documentation only. The rule applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts, so it is not applicable. The c…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	No explicit algorithmic-complexity failure is introduced. The new runtime code uses linear passes over PATH, launch arguments, JSON settings, and the settings-cache directory. It does not nest full sc…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff changes only Rust, Markdown, and documentation files. It contains no Swift files or cmux-owned Swift code, so it does not introduce or expand any legacy Swift concurrency pattern cov…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Markdown and Rust files. It contains no Swift files, Swift functions, or Swift concurrency annotations, so the cmux Swift @concurrent check is not applicable.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust, Markdown, and documentation files. It adds no Swift, SwiftPM package, Xcode project, or app-target production files. The Swift package-boundaries check is therefore…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only cmux-tui Rust, Markdown, and README files. It contains no SwiftPM package, Xcode project, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency changes, so the Package.resolved…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes Rust and Markdown files only. The authoritative diff contains no Swift paths, so it adds or materially changes no production Swift logging covered by `.github/review-bot-rules…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The changed wrapper has a concrete end-user path: main.rs dispatches agent claude-wrapper, and claude_wrapper::run prints three new terminal messages. Those messages are generic: “starting the a…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The changed Claude wrapper routes its three user-facing failure messages through the existing localization catalog. The PR adds English and Japanese entries, and locale selection supports those catalo…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust, Markdown, and documentation files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI files and introduces no SwiftUI state, layout, or view changes. The SwiftUI-s…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The review-scoped diff changes only Rust and Markdown files. It contains no Swift, Xcode project, or SwiftUI/AppKit bridge changes. Therefore the Swift architectural-rethink failure conditions do not …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust, Markdown, and documentation files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, storyboard, XIB, Xcode project, or workspace changes. Therefore, it does not add or mat…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust source, localization, and Markdown documentation paths. The diff adds no logs, screenshots, recordings, temporary or cache directories, dependency checkouts, build o…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only Rust, Markdown, and README files. It changes no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: injecting Claude hooks through a PATH shim, including support for sr-style launchers.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is substantially complete. It explains the problem, implementation, behavior, testing, known coverage limitation, localization, documentation, and checklist status. The only unchecked …

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<Skip candidates that the current process cannot execute.

On Unix, is_executable_file checks for any execute bit, not whether the current process can execute the file. An earlier inaccessible claude candidate can be selected, causing run to return 126 without trying a later usable candidate. Check current-process execute access during resolution or continue after an inaccessible candidate.

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Fixed the remaining executable-resolution review finding in c4df1da. find_real_claude now requires X_OK for the current process before accepting a PATH candidate, using the existing libc dependency. The regression puts an owner-inaccessible claude with an execute bit ahead of the real binary and verifies resolution continues to the usable candidate. Pushed so the hosted/PR checks can judge the exact head.

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