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Keep SSH workspace titles when cmux-tui creates the remote workspace - #14976

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An SSH workspace loses its title as soon as it connects: cmux ssh --name X, cmux mosh-tmux --name X, and a workspace restored with a custom title all end up named workspace-N.

Cause

SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach creates and binds the cmux-tui remote workspace without ever telling the daemon the local title. Once the workspace is bound, the daemon graph owns the name (#12986), and CloudWorkspaceRenameService.reconcileRemoteWorkspaceName projects the daemon default onto the local title.

Reproduced on a fleet build of current main, against a Linux SSH host: cmux mosh-tmux big-red --transport ssh --session … --name "native-14938 @big-red" returned OK workspace:…, and cmux list-workspaces then showed the workspace as workspace-2. The same happens to workspaces restored from 0.64.25 once #14938 lets them reattach.

Fix

Right before binding, attach enqueues the local title as a workspace.rename through SurfaceCatalog.enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename. The pending rename keeps reconciliation from painting workspace-N in the meantime, and once it lands the graph name equals the local title, so .user provenance is kept.

  • The create stays unnamed. Its idempotency key is per workspace (ssh-workspace-<stableId>), and the daemon includes name in the creation fingerprint. A named create would therefore fail permanently with creation.conflict if the title changed between a committed create and a retry. That was review feedback on the first version of this PR.
  • Auto titles are not published, because they are derived locally.
  • Titles over the daemon's 1024-byte limit are not sent.

Tests

SSHTuiMigrationTests.attachPublishesLocalTitleToRemoteWorkspace covers:

  • A user title is the title to publish.
  • An untitled, auto-titled or oversized title publishes nothing.
  • The create request is unnamed and byte-identical before and after a title edit, so replays keep one fingerprint.

Regression commits (CI lane macos / app-host unit tests (changed suites), selector cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests):

  • 7e34809b6b (the request and title helpers with main's behavior, plus the test): fails with 1 issue, remoteWorkspaceTitleToPublish(for:) returning nil instead of "s655 @big-red". The other 20 tests pass. run 36319212251
  • Head a0863b7475 (the fix, a failure log line, and a main merge): green. The test passes, and the job reports "Test run with 458 tests in 21 suites passed". Compile admission is green. run 36323919173

The final follow-up only removes the hand-edited CHANGELOG.md entry; release notes remain below. App and test sources are identical to the native-tested a0863b7475 head. Final-head native CI also passed; app-host job includes the title-publication regression. Scoped verification passed 3/3 checks (Swift syntax, test wiring, feature flags).

Dogfood

Fleet build job 887e484776f24520c864bfaf built fb8b8839fa, the fix before the logging-only commit and the main merge. It used --backend-mode local, because the dev backend doesn't resolve from the submitting Mac and nothing here touches the Cloud backend. The cloud-mac route is ACL-blocked for this account, so the build ran on a developer Mac as its own tagged bundle and socket, against a Linux SSH host. The Mac's installed cmux was left alone.

  1. cmux mosh-tmux big-red --transport ssh --session cc-dogfood-14976 --name "named-14976 @big-red": list-workspaces shows named-14976 @big-red, connected. The same command on a main build gave workspace-2.
  2. Quit and relaunch: still named-14976 @big-red, on the same remote workspace.
  3. cmux rename-workspace … "renamed-14976 @big-red" after connect, then quit and relaunch: the rename is kept, so it reached the daemon. The daemon's own workspace list shows the same name.
  4. Combined with Reattach 0.64.25 tmux-profile SSH workspaces after upgrading #14938: a restored cmux-tui-owned snapshot with a user title and no remote binding is the state Reattach 0.64.25 tmux-profile SSH workspaces after upgrading #14938's adoption produces. It connected, kept adopted-14938+14976 @big-red locally and in the daemon, and reattached the running tmux workload.

Not yet checked:

  • A fleet build of the combined branch. It failed twice with exit status 1, and the worker's log is not reachable from this account. Both PRs build on their own.
  • A GUI look at the sidebar.
  • A rename that fails on the daemon side. It should degrade to workspace-N and log.

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Fixed: An SSH workspace opened with cmux ssh --name or cmux mosh-tmux --name, or restored with a custom title, keeps that title instead of turning into workspace-N when it connects.

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  • New Features
    • Custom workspace titles are now carried over when attaching to a remote SSH workspace, provided the title is within the supported length limit.
    • Automatically generated titles and titles that exceed the limit are not carried over.

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Walkthrough

SSH workspace creation uses a dedicated builder that preserves the workspace-specific idempotency key and sends an unnamed request. After remote terminal creation, attach publishes eligible custom titles. Rename failures are logged and do not fail attach.

Changes

SSH workspace title publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve unnamed workspace creation request
Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift, cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift
A dedicated request builder creates an empty workspace request and applies the per-workspace idempotency key. The test checks that title edits do not change the request.
Select and publish eligible titles
Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift, cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift
Attach publishes trimmed, non-auto titles that are nonempty and no more than 1024 UTF-8 bytes. It logs rename failures without failing attach. Tests cover title eligibility.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff3ad

The change is mergeable with owner awareness that the new test does not protect title publication during SSH attach.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ff3ad

The new title publication is limited to the workspace created during attach and uses the existing rename path. No introduced authorization bypass was identified. A failed rename can still leave the workspace with the remote default title.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new write targets one newly created workspace on the connected provider machine. No path in the inspected attach branch accepts an arbitrary rename target from the title or SSH peer.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The local custom title crosses to the remote daemon through the existing machine-specific provider. The provider checks that the workspace appears in a fresh graph and submits the rename against an observed revision; daemon-side access control remains unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Rename operations are serialized by machine and track the newest pending name; reconciliation defers a differing remote name while that intent is pending. These controls do not make a failed publication durable.

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❌ Failed checks (3 errors, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ❌ Error The production diff adds the file-scoped sshTuiWorkspaceLogger without nonisolated in Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift:8. The actor-isolation rule explicitly requires pure file… Declare the logger as nonisolated private let sshTuiWorkspaceLogger = Logger(...). Keep the @MainActor coordinator and its Workspace-accessing helpers unchanged.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The diff adds independently testable SSH attach policy and protocol-request logic to the app target in Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift. remoteWorkspaceCreationRequest builds the… Move the pure SSH attach policy into the existing CmuxCloudTui SwiftPM target. Expose a small public CloudTuiSSHWorkspaceAttachPolicy type that accepts a stable workspace ID, socket path, title string, and title-source value, and return…
Cmux Swift Logging ❌ Error The production diff adds a file-scoped logger at Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift:8 as private let, while the coordinator is @MainActor. The logging policy requires MainActor-c… Change the declaration to nonisolated private let sshTuiWorkspaceLogger = Logger(subsystem: "com.cmuxterm.app", category: "SSHTuiWorkspace"). Keep the diagnostic on the existing unified Logger destination.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (21 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
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 The diff does not trigger any stated failure condition. SSH attach still reserves the local terminal before awaiting remote work, and the new rename is queued after terminal creation without adding a …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff adds an asynchronous rename enqueue and title/request helpers. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, or manual lock. The test…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The pull request changes only SSH TUI workspace coordination and migration tests. The diff does not modify browser socket commands, TerminalController.swift, the control-command policy, or worker br…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The PR does not add or move an expensive synchronous agent-history load. The production diff adds title trimming and byte-count validation, an unnamed request builder, and an asynchronous `enqueueRemo…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache. It moves the unchanged workspace.create arguments into a helper and reads the current in-memory Workspace title before enqu…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Swift files: Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift and cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift. The configured check applies to non-Swift TypeScript, …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds one remote-workspace request builder, one conditional rename enqueue, and a title helper. These perform constant-size dictionary/request work plus a single bounded strin…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff adds no DispatchQueue, Combine, or completion-handler API. It uses the existing SurfaceCatalog.enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename async lane, whose coordinator retains and manages the returned `T…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce a missing or invalid @concurrent annotation. SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator and its attach method remain intentionally @MainActor because they mutate Workspace and `S…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The authoritative PR diff changes only Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift and cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift. It contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The production change adds one os.Logger failure record in SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator; it does not add UI copy, CLI output, or an API response. The failure callback receives the rename error…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR adds no new user-facing Swift UI, menu, alert, command, or localized data text. Its only production string literal is an OSLog failure message in SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift; the title p…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator and migration tests, not SwiftUI views. The production file imports no SwiftUI and adds request/title helpers plus logging. The changed fi…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The PR is a small correctness fix with clear owners and invariants. SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator uses the existing SurfaceCatalog.enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename path, which owns remote rename or…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only SSH workspace coordination and migration tests. The diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, close-shortcut handling, or aux…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift and cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift. Both are intentional hand-written product source and test code. No local …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The only production file changed is Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift. The added members, remoteWorkspaceCreationRequest and remoteWorkspaceTitleToPublish, are internal im…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving SSH workspace titles when cmux-tui creates the remote workspace.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed problem statement, cause, fix, testing results, dogfood evidence, known gaps, and a changelog entry. It is mostly complete, but it does not use the template's Summa…
Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The production diff adds the file-scoped sshTuiWorkspaceLogger without nonisolated in Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift:8. The actor-isolation rule explicitly requires pure file-scoped Logger constants to opt out of unnecessary MainActor coupling. Existing production code uses nonisolated private let for this logger pattern. The changed helpers access the MainActor-bound Workspace and remain appropriately within the @MainActor coordinator.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The diff adds independently testable SSH attach policy and protocol-request logic to the app target in Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift. remoteWorkspaceCreationRequest builds the idempotent workspace.create request, and remoteWorkspaceTitleToPublish applies title-source, trimming, and UTF-8 length rules. The new test calls both helpers directly. These rules need only value inputs, but the helpers currently take the app-only Workspace type, which imports SwiftUI/AppKit/WebKit. No SwiftPM package changes isolate this logic. The actual catalog enqueue and attach lifecycle can remain app composition glue.

Resolution

Move the pure SSH attach policy into the existing CmuxCloudTui SwiftPM target. Expose a small public CloudTuiSSHWorkspaceAttachPolicy type that accepts a stable workspace ID, socket path, title string, and title-source value, and returns the creation request or publishable title. Move the helper tests into CmuxCloudTuiTests. Keep SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach, SurfaceCatalog.enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename, and the failure logger in the app target, mapping Workspace values into the package API at the composition boundary.

Full details: Cmux Swift Logging

Explanation

The production diff adds a file-scoped logger at Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.swift:8 as private let, while the coordinator is @MainActor. The logging policy requires MainActor-coupled file-scoped Logger constants to use nonisolated private let. The new failure log uses Logger, so it does not violate the print/stdout rules, but its logger declaration violates the actor-isolation logging rule.

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teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 27, 2026 05:29
`cmux ssh --name`, `cmux mosh-tmux --name` and a restored user title reach
SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach as the local custom title, but attach never
tells the daemon, and workspace-name reconciliation then projects the daemon
default (`workspace-N`) over it. Extract the create request and the title to
publish so the regression is observable; behavior is unchanged in this commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach bound a new cmux-tui remote workspace without
telling the daemon the local title, and workspace-name reconciliation then
projected the daemon default (workspace-N) over it, so `cmux ssh --name`,
`cmux mosh-tmux --name`, and restored titles were lost on connect. Enqueue the
title as a workspace rename before binding. The create itself stays unnamed so
replays of its per-workspace idempotency key keep the same fingerprint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@Test("An SSH attach publishes the local workspace title to the remote workspace it creates")
func attachPublishesLocalTitleToRemoteWorkspace() throws {

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Exercise attach in the title publication test.

attachPublishesLocalTitleToRemoteWorkspace calls only the title and request helpers. It does not run SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach or observe enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename. Add a controlled-provider test that invokes the attach entry point and confirms the eligible title is queued before the workspace binding. Otherwise, the test passes if attach stops publishing titles.

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In @cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift around lines 137 - 138, Update
attachPublishesLocalTitleToRemoteWorkspace to exercise
SSHTuiWorkspaceCoordinator.attach using a controlled provider, and verify an
eligible title is queued via enqueueRemoteWorkspaceRename before the workspace
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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
8efe28d Add terminal.confirmUnsafePaste to confirm unsafe pastes in a window sheet (manaflow-ai#14951)
368ec9f fix(ci): restore app-host artifact rerun setup (manaflow-ai#15029)
e67ea0f perf: stop launching the cmux CLI for every queued Claude hook (manaflow-ai#14931)
badf9f6 test: give the tmux split mapping test its own portal authority (manaflow-ai#15028)
41a0c37 current-work: preserve remote machine kinds (manaflow-ai#14914)
c842f7d test(hermes): wait for the hook installer instead of racing a 1 s deadline (manaflow-ai#15027)
810ffba fix(ci): resolve binary modules in detached test reruns (manaflow-ai#15026)
d363290 test: await fork probe fixture start signals (manaflow-ai#15025)
8c98e64 Add cmux import for settings from other terminals (manaflow-ai#15004)
30aa6c1 Keep SSH workspace titles when cmux-tui creates the remote workspace (manaflow-ai#14976)
b33c467 Restore workspace group color and icon key handling from manaflow-ai#13877 (manaflow-ai#15000)

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