Fix main-thread freeze during SSH paste detection

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Fixes #15073

Pasting or dropping a file/image no longer runs /bin/ps synchronously from the main actor. Ad-hoc SSH target detection now enumerates TTY processes with proc_listpids(PROC_TTY_ONLY) and proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDTBSDINFO), reads candidate argv off-main, and returns .local after a bounded deadline if the lookup stalls. Paste, drop, runtime clipboard, composer attachments, and file-picker routes all await the same resolver.

Trade-offs

• The first ad-hoc SSH paste/drop can spend up to 250 ms resolving a remote target; a slow or wedged lookup falls back to a local path so the UI stays responsive.
• A worker stuck in KERN_PROCARGS2 is abandoned after the deadline. Its late result cannot mutate the transfer because the timeout gate completes the request once and the caller plans from the fallback target.
• Managed Cloud and workspace SSH routes remain synchronous authoritative state reads and do not use process detection.

Tests

• python3 scripts/verify-local.py
• python3 scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py
• python3 scripts/wire-app-sources.py --check
• Regression: CloudImagePasteRoutingTests/stalledAdHocSSHDetectionFallsBackToLocalPaste

Native compilation and runtime dogfood are being run against the exact pushed SHA through the approved Mac build fleet.

Changelog

• Fixed: file/image paste and drop no longer freeze cmux while detecting ad-hoc SSH sessions.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the main-thread freeze when pasting or dropping a file or image by moving ad-hoc SSH target detection off the main actor. Replaces the synchronous /bin/ps snapshot with proc_listpids(PROC_TTY_ONLY) and proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDTBSDINFO), reads candidate argv off-main, and falls back to a local target if the lookup takes longer than 250 ms. All paste, drop, runtime clipboard, composer attachment, and file-picker routes now await the resolved target and re-validate the terminal surface — surface identity, runtime generation, text view ownership, and the composer paste reservation where applicable — before completing; a stale surface or expired reservation rolls back and cleans up temporary files.

Trade-offs

• The first ad-hoc SSH paste or drop can take up to 250 ms to resolve; a wedged lookup is abandoned by a one-shot timeout gate and falls back to a local path so the UI stays responsive.
• Managed Cloud and workspace SSH routes still read state synchronously and don't use process detection.
• Adds a deterministic regression test that verifies a stalled SSH detection falls back to a local paste.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Image pastes now resolve SSH destinations asynchronously, keeping the interface responsive while detection runs.
  • If SSH detection is unavailable, delayed, or times out, image pastes continue using the local destination.
  • File-based image pastes handle delayed destination resolution while preserving paste behavior and cleaning up transferred temporary files when processing cannot continue.
  • Cloud-image and attachment pastes also verify that their destination is still valid before continuing, preventing stale transfers from proceeding.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

SSH detection and image-transfer target resolution now run asynchronously in paste paths. Paste callers pass resolved targets to transfer planning and check surface or text-view state before proceeding.

Changes

Image and File Paste Routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded SSH session detection Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector.swift, Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+ProcessInfo.swift, Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift, Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGate.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	The detector uses Darwin process APIs instead of launching ps. Async detection uses a timeout gate and a default timeout of 0.25 seconds. The Xcode project registers the new detector files.
Asynchronous transfer-target resolution Sources/TerminalSurface+ImageTransferTarget.swift	Target resolution selects a TTY only for local targets. It returns a detected remote target when detection succeeds and otherwise keeps the existing target.
Paste paths use resolved targets Sources/GhosttyApp+RuntimeClipboardRead.swift, Sources/GhosttyNSView+PreparedImageTransfer.swift, Sources/TextBoxInputContainer+CloudImagePaste.swift, Sources/TextBoxInputContainer+Paste.swift, cmuxTests/CloudImagePasteRoutingTests.swift, Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift	Clipboard, prepared image, cloud image, and attachment paste paths pass asynchronously resolved targets to transfer planning. A test checks local fallback when SSH detection stalls. GhosttyTerminalView.swift has a removed blank line.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• manaflow-ai/cmux#12495: Adds Cloud image-paste routing through TerminalSurface.resolvedImageTransferTarget, which this change updates.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 24717

Cancelling a clipboard request may still initiate its upload after SSH detection completes; this is localized but should be addressed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 24717

A canceled clipboard paste may still reach a remote-upload attempt after target detection finishes. The new deadline keeps the interface responsive, but the added pause makes request cancellation important to transfer safety.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: A runtime clipboard request invalidated during SSH detection can reach a remote-upload callback with an already-canceled operation when its surface identity remains unchanged. Whether the downstream upload transfers data is unverified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant exposure is a user-initiated file transfer from an affected terminal surface to its selected local, managed, or SSH destination. The inspected path does not establish a cross-tenant or infrastructure-privilege change.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If a clipboard request is invalidated while detection is suspended and the surface identity still matches, the caller can plan and invoke a remote upload despite the canceled operation. Completion and downstream cancellation controls may limit the outcome; actual transfer of data was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The initial target check excludes managed and workspace-remote routes from ad-hoc SSH detection. After the await, the resolver returns a detected SSH target without rechecking that target precedence; whether ownership can change during this interval without invalidating callers remains unresolved.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Deadline, cancellation, and detector results are arbitrated once per request. This contains late-result mutation but does not, by itself, prevent a caller from acting on the cancellation fallback.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Require an active clipboard request and uncanceled operation after target resolution, before planning or invoking any upload callback.
• proposed — Recheck authoritative target ownership after detection if managed or remote ownership can change while the lookup is pending.

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❌ Failed checks (3 errors, 2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	❌ Error	The PR adds try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds:) in Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift as the production default for the 250 ms SSH detection timeout. The new file is registered in `cmu…	Remove Task.sleep from the shipped timeout path. Use a cancellation-aware timer abstraction or another explicit timeout signal that does not add a forbidden sleep-based synchronization primitive, and preserve the one-shot actor gate so th…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	❌ Error	TerminalSSHSessionDetector.detectAsync is new nonisolated async work at Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift:18 and is awaited directly by the @MainActor `resolvedImageTransferTargetAs…	Annotate TerminalSSHSessionDetector.detectAsync with the project’s compatibility form before the declaration: #if compiler(>=6.2), @concurrent, #else, @Sendable, #endif. Keep the resolver @MainActor; keep the detached worker a…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The PR materially expands independently testable SSH detection logic in the app target. Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift, TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGate.swift, and `TerminalS…	Extract the detection core into a small macOS SwiftPM target such as Packages/macOS/CmuxSSHSessionDetection. The first public API should be DetectedSSHSession plus an SSHSessionDetector/TerminalSSHSessionDetector value API that expo…
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR removes two blank lines before #if DEBUG in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift. This whitespace-only change has no demonstrated connection to Issue #15073. The detector, caller, project, and…	Remove the unrelated blank-line change in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 7.69% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 10 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (20 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: preventing the main-thread freeze during SSH paste detection.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, resulting behavior, implementation approach, trade-offs, testing commands, regression test, and changelog entry. It omits the template's Demo Video and Checklist …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #15073 requires non-blocking TTY detection and bounded fallback behavior. The PR removes the synchronous /bin/ps path, uses proc_listpids(PROC_TTY_ONLY) and proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDTBSDINFO),…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS — the pull request does not change Cloud terminal creation, persistent cmux-tui transport, manual renderer admission, or Cloud auth/lease/revision protocols. The diff only changes SSH paste-tar…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff adds an actor-isolated TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGate and sends only DetectedSSHSession, which contains value-type fields, across detached tasks. UI access remain…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes clipboard, image-transfer, and SSH session detection code only. The rule-scoped browser automation files—Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift,…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed diff changes SSH process detection and paste routing only. It does not add or move RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent hook/session stores, transcripts, trajectories, workst…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	No cache substitution is introduced. The diff replaces the synchronous /bin/ps process read with fresh kernel reads through proc_listpids and proc_pidinfo, plus off-main KERN_PROCARGS2 reads. …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Swift source/tests and Xcode project registration. The custom check explicitly scopes out Swift timing and blocking primitives, and the .pbxproj changes only regi…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The new process lookup uses a linear scan of the PID buffer with geometric capacity growth capped at 4096. The changed paste and attachment paths use linear map/filter/reduce operations over fil…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The diff adds no background Dispatch queues, Combine state, or new completion-handler API. SSH detection uses Task.detached workers whose handles are stored in `TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGat…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The pull request does not change a SwiftPM manifest, package-local lockfile, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode package reference. The cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj changes only register new Swift so…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The PR adds or materially changes no prohibited logging. The changed Swift lines contain no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc diagnostic file/stdout logging, or new Logger declarations.…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed production paths handle paste/drop routing, asynchronous SSH detection, validation, and temporary-file cleanup. They add no user-facing error text, alert text, command output, API er…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Swift transfer/detection logic, project wiring, and tests. It adds no user-facing copy, app catalog entries, Info.plist entries, web UI, metadata, or changelog content. Added strin…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not introduce or materially expand SwiftUI state or layout patterns. The authoritative diff changes AppKit clipboard/drop/paste extensions, SSH detection actors/helpers, an…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR removes the synchronous /bin/ps path and uses one shared async target resolver across paste, drop, clipboard, and composer routes. TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGate owns the one-…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes SSH detection and image-transfer routing only. The added Swift files define detection actors/helpers, and the modified window-related file removes blank lines only. The diff adds …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All 12 changed paths are intentional Swift source, a Swift test, or Xcode project configuration. The three added files are registered source files, and the added test is a deliberate regression fixtur…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff adds no #if DEBUG or test-build guard, no test/debug-named member, and no widened state plus wrapper accessor. The new async detector and resolver use production callers an…

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The PR removes two blank lines before #if DEBUG in Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift. This whitespace-only change has no demonstrated connection to Issue #15073. The detector, caller, project, and test changes support the issue objective.

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The PR adds try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds:) in Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift as the production default for the 250 ms SSH detection timeout. The new file is registered in cmux.xcodeproj as an app source, and production paste, drop, clipboard, and composer paths call resolvedImageTransferTargetAsync(), which uses this default timeout sleeper. The rule explicitly fails Task.sleep in shipped runtime code, even inside an async function. The added DispatchSemaphore is confined to cmuxTests/CloudImagePasteRoutingTests.swift and is deterministic test scaffolding, so it is allowed.

Resolution

Remove Task.sleep from the shipped timeout path. Use a cancellation-aware timer abstraction or another explicit timeout signal that does not add a forbidden sleep-based synchronization primitive, and preserve the one-shot actor gate so the detector result or timeout completes the request exactly once. Keep any semaphore use confined to deterministic test-only scaffolding.

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

Explanation

TerminalSSHSessionDetector.detectAsync is new nonisolated async work at Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift:18 and is awaited directly by the @MainActor resolvedImageTransferTargetAsync at Sources/TerminalSurface+ImageTransferTarget.swift:48. Its purpose is to leave the caller actor, but it has no @concurrent annotation. The synchronous process and argument lookup runs in detached tasks, but the async bridge itself can still begin on the caller actor under Swift 6.2 NonisolatedNonsendingByDefault. Existing off-main async helpers use the conditional @concurrent/@Sendable form. The @MainActor resolver and explicit detached tasks are otherwise intentional and valid.

Resolution

Annotate TerminalSSHSessionDetector.detectAsync with the project’s compatibility form before the declaration: #if compiler(>=6.2), @concurrent, #else, @Sendable, #endif. Keep the resolver @MainActor; keep the detached worker and timeout tasks for the blocking detector and deadline.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR materially expands independently testable SSH detection logic in the app target. Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift, TerminalSSHSessionDetectionTimeoutGate.swift, and TerminalSSHSessionDetector+ProcessInfo.swift add Foundation/Swift concurrency/Darwin logic for timeout coordination, TTY process enumeration, and SSH detection. This logic does not require AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty state, or app lifecycle state. The regression test also injects the detector and timeout sleeper, which confirms a standalone test seam. All new production files remain in the root Sources/ app target, and the PR adds no SwiftPM package or package target. The paste and surface files are app glue, but the SSH session detection core crosses the package boundary described by the rule.

Resolution

Extract the detection core into a small macOS SwiftPM target such as Packages/macOS/CmuxSSHSessionDetection. The first public API should be DetectedSSHSession plus an SSHSessionDetector/TerminalSSHSessionDetector value API that exposes TTY detection and bounded async detection. Move the pure SSH argument parsing, ProcessSnapshot, proc_listpids(PROC_TTY_ONLY)/proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDTBSDINFO) lookup, and timeout gate into that target with standalone package tests. Keep TerminalSurface+ImageTransferTarget.swift, paste/drop routing, upload execution, managed-policy handling, and other AppKit/Ghostty/workspace composition in the app target. Add the package product to the app and test targets and remove the extracted files from the root Sources/ membership.

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- Around line 188-189: After resolving the target with
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Review follow-up for the current head 34b95f550c:

Review ask	Disposition	Evidence
Recheck clipboard cancellation and surface identity after target detection	fix	34b95f550c; cancellation and identity are checked before planning, with cleanup on early return
Avoid duplicate PID inspection and preserve the cap result	fix	34b95f550c; process snapshots are mapped after the buffer is final and the 4096 entry cap returns a best-effort result
Restore the composer helper's compile-safe result handling	fix	7e61675b87; helper returns Bool and the async caller discards it
Revalidate composer ownership/token after the await	fix	3438d7f05e; ownership, generation, and validation token are checked before attachment/upload handling
Delete standardized URLs when a file-picker composer task is abandoned	disagree	These are user-selected URLs, not cmux-owned temporary files; deleting them could delete user data
Remove the production Task.sleep timeout	fix	34b95f550c; the genuine deadline uses cancellation-aware ContinuousClock sleep, with the timeout sleeper injectable in tests
Add the Swift 6.2 @concurrent compatibility form	fix	34b95f550c; detectAsync uses the compiler-conditional @concurrent/@Sendable form
Extract the detector into a new Swift package	disagree	The detector directly depends on app-owned RemoteShellTransport, restore bindings, and SSH parsing types. Extracting it would widen this scoped main-thread fix into a package migration without improving the affected invariant
Remove unrelated GhosttyTerminalView.swift whitespace churn	already-fixed	The original blank-line layout is restored at the current head
Raise docstring coverage to 80%	disagree	The change adds no public package API; app-target internal helpers follow the existing local documentation level, and adding broad prose solely for the metric would expand this bug fix

The focused hosted test cmuxTests/CloudImagePasteRoutingTests/stalledAdHocSSHDetectionFallsBackToLocalPaste() passed on the prior behavior-equivalent head; the current head has only deadline implementation, cancellation, and warning cleanup changes since that run. The current hosted compile is running for the exact head.

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Comment / author	File:line	Ask	Disposition	Commit
CodeRabbit #4118365911	Sources/GhosttyApp+RuntimeClipboardRead.swift:189	Recheck cancellation and surface identity after async detection	fix	34b95f550c
CodeRabbit #4118365922	Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+ProcessInfo.swift:10	Avoid duplicate PID scans and keep the cap result	fix	34b95f550c
CodeRabbit #4118365927	Sources/TextBoxInputContainer+CloudImagePaste.swift:32	Remove invalid value returns from the helper	fix	7e61675b87
CodeRabbit #4118365931	Sources/TextBoxInputContainer+Paste.swift:64	Revalidate composer ownership/token after await	fix	3438d7f05e
CodeRabbit #4118528251	Sources/TextBoxInputContainer+CloudImagePaste.swift:20	Delete standardized URLs when abandoned	disagree	34b95f550c
CodeRabbit architecture review	Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift	Avoid production Task.sleep and annotate off-actor async work	fix	34b95f550c
CodeRabbit architecture review	detector files	Extract into a new Swift package	disagree	34b95f550c
CodeRabbit architecture review	Sources/GhosttyTerminalView.swift	Remove unrelated whitespace churn	already-fixed	34b95f550c
Codex review	paste/drop caller paths	Revalidate surface generation after await	fix	8d01fb1edd
Codex review	bounded detector	Avoid a process-wide limiter that permanently disables detection	disagree with prior design; removed	3438d7f05e

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Review: concurrency review, since moving blocking work off the main thread is an easy place to trade a freeze for a race. I did not find one. Merging, with two non-blocking notes.

What I checked

No unsafe escape hatches in production code. The only @unchecked Sendable and DispatchSemaphore in the diff are DetectionBlocker in cmuxTests/CloudImagePasteRoutingTests.swift, which exists to deliberately wedge a detection so the timeout path can be tested. That is the right place for it. Production adds only two Task.detached in TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift.

The detection gate is exactly-once and race-free, and all five call sites that gained an await re-validate before acting: GhosttyApp+RuntimeClipboardRead.swift, GhosttyNSView+PreparedImageTransfer.swift, TextBoxInputContainer+CloudImagePaste.swift and both paths in TextBoxInputContainer+Paste.swift all re-check surface identity, runtimeSurfaceGeneration, ownsTextView or canAcceptPendingAttachmentUpload(validationToken:) after the suspension, and clean up temp files when the check fails. That is the part I most expected to be wrong and it is consistently right.

No unsynchronized mutable TerminalSurface state is touched off-main. The detection functions themselves (TerminalSSHSessionDetector+ProcessInfo.swift, CmuxTopProcessEnumeration.swift) are stateless syscall wrappers, safe to run off the main thread. No new lock or .sync anywhere, so no new deadlock surface. Paste ordering holds because the gate is per-request rather than a shared queue, so no torn sequence and no paste-start without its paste-end.

Also worth saying: the branch history shows you added a TerminalSSHSessionDetectionLimiter actor in 00377d4885e and then removed it in 8d01fb1e. Removing it was correct. That limiter made every overlapping detection past the first return nil immediately, which would have silently reported a real SSH pane as local. Good catch on your own change. Anyone cherry-picking an intermediate commit here should know not to take that one.

Fixed: nothing needed.

Left, both follow-ups, neither worth holding the fix for:

1. Sources/GhosttyApp+RuntimeClipboardRead.swift:187-197. The new await resolvedImageTransferTargetAsync() in the .fileURLs branch is followed by !operation.isCancelled and a surface identity check, but not !Task.isCancelled, unlike the two earlier await points in the same function which do check it. If a second clipboard request on the same surface calls invalidateRuntimeClipboardRequest during the up-to-250ms resolve, that cancels the stored preparationTask, but cancellation is cooperative and nothing checks it here, so the cancelled task still runs TerminalImageTransferPlanner.plan, shows the transfer indicator and can start an upload for a request that is already dead. It cannot double-complete, because completeRuntimeClipboardRequest is idempotent per requestID, so this is wasted work and possibly a stray upload rather than a correctness bug. One line.

2. Sources/TerminalSSHSessionDetector+Async.swift has no cap on concurrent detached lookups now that the limiter is gone. Each paste or drop on an SSH-capable surface spawns a fresh Task.detached running the synchronous detector, and as your own doc comment says, a worker stuck in KERN_PROCARGS2 is abandoned rather than killed, because cancelling a detached task does not interrupt a blocking syscall. Enough wedged workers could starve the cooperative thread pool. This is reasoning from documented behavior, not something I reproduced, and it needs a genuinely hung syscall plus repeated pastes, so it is unlikely. But if you do want a limiter back, it has to be one that queues rather than one that returns nil, which is the trap you already hit.

On tests: stalledAdHocSSHDetectionFallsBackToLocalPaste covers the timeout-beats-stalled-worker path well. Nothing covers mid-flight cancellation, the generation guard actually firing a rollback, or two overlapping pastes. Worth adding alongside finding 1.

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Merge receipt for 34b95f550c: every check was green at merge (15 verified; 17 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.