Report a non-running terminal as surface_unavailable in read_text

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Fixes Sentry CMUXTERM-MACOS-3JFD (~470k events on 0.64.25).

surface.read_text (cmux read-screen) returned internal_error: Failed to read terminal text when the target terminal had no live Ghostty surface. readTextAwaitsSurfaceStart deliberately skips the wait for hibernated agents and restores awaiting admission, so these reads fail in 0-25 ms (matches the Sentry socket_duration_ms). The same happens if a start misses the 2 s deadline.

The reply is now surface_unavailable with a localized message ("The terminal is not running right now…") and surface_id. surface_unavailable joins the routine CLI protocol outcomes in SentryNoiseFilter, next to not_found. A live surface that Ghostty refuses to read still returns internal_error, so real failures stay visible.

Commit 1 adds the failing SentryNoiseFilterTests expectation; commit 2 is the fix.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes Sentry CMUXTERM-MACOS-3JFD (~470k events): surface.read_text (cmux read-screen) now returns surface_unavailable with a localized, actionable message and surface_id when the target terminal has no live Ghostty surface, instead of internal_error. A live surface that Ghostty refuses to read still returns internal_error, so real failures stay visible.

• Applies to hibernated agents, restores awaiting admission, starts that miss the 2 s deadline, and surfaces still starting.
• Message translations for all catalog locales are included.
• surface_unavailable is now treated as a routine CLI protocol outcome in SentryNoiseFilter.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Terminal text reads now return a clear unavailable status when a terminal isn’t running or is still starting, rather than an internal error.
  • When available, the status includes the terminal’s ID to help identify which terminal could not be read.
• Documentation
  • Added translated guidance in 18 languages asking users to show the terminal in cmux and retry when it is unavailable.

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Walkthrough

Terminal text reads now return a localized surface_unavailable result when no live runtime surface is available or the surface is starting. The Sentry noise filter classifies this result as an expected CLI protocol outcome.

Changes

Terminal read outcomes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Return localized unavailable results Sources/TerminalController.swift, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings	Terminal text reads return a localized surface_unavailable result when no live runtime surface is available or the surface is starting. The result includes a surface ID when one is supplied. The localization entry provides messages in 18 locales.
Classify unavailable outcomes Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/SentryNoiseFilter.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/CmuxFoundationTests/SentryNoiseFilterTests.swift	The Sentry noise filter classifies surface_unavailable as an expected CLI protocol outcome. A test checks this classification.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1c3e8

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains from the reviewed changes.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1c3e8

Non-running terminal reads receive a more accurate response. The accompanying monitoring change could also hide unexpected failures reported with the same error code. No command-access bypass was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Adding surface_unavailable to a code-only telemetry filter suppresses structured CLI failures bearing that code regardless of method or message. An unexpected failure using the same code could therefore lose monitoring visibility.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed suppression can affect structured CLI errors from methods beyond read_text when they return surface_unavailable; it does not itself expand command reachability.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A structured response mislabeled surface_unavailable would be omitted from CLI error telemetry. Whether an untrusted peer can supply such a response was not established, so this is an observability concern, not a verified attacker-controlled path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The CLI marks decoded server error objects as structured protocol responses, and telemetry requires that designation before applying this outcome filter. Read-text target resolution and relay-currentness checks occur before the changed result is returned.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Both initial capture and event filtering omit structured outcomes classified as expected, making the classification consequential for monitoring visibility.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider binding suppression of surface_unavailable to the intended operation and lifecycle context, or retaining aggregate visibility for this code, if other producers can report actionable failures with it.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 23 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the problem, affected behavior, error classification, localization, and Sentry context. It does not follow the required template because it omits the Testing, Changelog, Demo …	Add the required template sections. Document the tests executed and their results, add a Changelog line beginning with Fixed:, provide a demo video or screenshots for this behavior change, and complete or explain the applicable checklist it…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary behavior change: reporting a non-running terminal as surface_unavailable from read_text.
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 pull request changes surface.read_text error classification, localization, and Sentry outcome filtering only. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transpo…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The production Swift diff adds only an explicit nonisolated localization property and an explicit private nonisolated pure result helper. TerminalController remains @MainActor, and the existin…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The production Swift diff adds only a localized message/helper and changes error classification from internal_error to surface_unavailable. It does not add or modify semaphores, waits, sleep…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only surface.read_text error handling, localization, and Sentry outcome classification. The added TerminalController code returns surface_unavailable for a terminal without …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR does not add or move an expensive synchronous agent-history load. The production Swift diff only adds a localized string lookup, changes surface.read_text error classification, and cons…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The pull request does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value. The changed surface.read_text path still calls liveSurfaceForGhosttyAccess and readText directl…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Swift source/tests and a localization catalog. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime code, so the runtime no-hacky-sleeps rule …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff adds only constant-time branching and a small optional-to-dictionary mapping. SentryNoiseFilter adds one switch case, and TerminalController adds a fixed-shape error help…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff adds only a localized message/helper, changes surface.read_text error results, updates the Sentry classification, and adds a test expectation. It does not introduce or expand `Dispatc…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The Swift diff adds only synchronous nonisolated message/result helpers and changes synchronous surface.read_text error branches. It does not add or modify any async declaration, `@concurr…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce an independently reusable domain feature in the app target. The Sources/TerminalController.swift changes are small surface.read_text response glue: they inspect `Termin…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The authoritative PR diff changes only Swift source, tests, and localization resources. It changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project/workspace, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency file…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The Swift diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc logging, or Logger declarations. The added terminalNotRunningMessage is CLI response text, not a diagnostic log. The chang…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The changed path reaches cmux users through the surface.read_text socket response and the cmux read-screen CLI. The new localized message only states that the terminal is not running and tells the…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The production text uses String(localized:defaultValue:) with key socket.terminal.notRunning. Resources/Localizable.xcstrings contains a matching English value and translated entries for all 20 …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not add or modify SwiftUI views or SwiftUI state/layout code. The Swift changes are in SentryNoiseFilter, its tests, and TerminalController; the diff adds protocol clas…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff is a small local result-mapping fix. TerminalController adds one localized error helper and maps existing no-live-surface outcomes to surface_unavailable; it adds no mutable state, owner,…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The Swift diff changes CLI outcome classification and terminal read error handling only. It adds no user-visible NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, window identi…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff changes only intentional product source, a unit test, and the localization catalog. The four paths are Swift source/test files and Resources/Localizable.xcstrings; no logs, screenshots, cac…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The production Swift diff adds product behavior for surface.read_text: a localized terminalNotRunningMessage and a private readTextTerminalNotRunningResult helper. These are not test/debug seams…

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The description explains the problem, affected behavior, error classification, localization, and Sentry context. It does not follow the required template because it omits the Testing, Changelog, Demo Video, and Checklist sections, including test commands and results, release-note text, and localization or review confirmations.

Resolution

Add the required template sections. Document the tests executed and their results, add a Changelog line beginning with Fixed:, provide a demo video or screenshots for this behavior change, and complete or explain the applicable checklist items.

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