Keep browser page state when Memory Saver frees a hidden pane

[austinywang]

Fixes #15069. Covers the ask in #9561.

Summary

Browser Memory Saver used to free a hidden pane after a fixed delay and bring it back by loading the URL again. That lost scroll position, typed input, SPA routes and native back/forward, and the page visibly reloaded. Now a hidden pane that gets freed comes back the way it was left, and cmux frees hidden panes only when they use more memory than a budget, like Chrome's tab discard.

State-preserving restore. Before a hidden pane is dropped, cmux captures:

• WebKit's interactionState, which holds back/forward history, scroll position and form state;
• the zoom level;
• a snapshot image;
• typed form values, reported by an isolated-world user script (WKUserScript.browserFormStateObserver()).

A restore:

1. Gives the interaction state to the new web view.
2. Paints the snapshot with a "Restoring" label until the first paint.
3. Replays form values once the document loads.

Loading the URL is still the fallback when:

• nothing was captured;
• the state belongs to another document;
• WebKit doesn't start a load from the state.

Session snapshots store the interaction state, so relaunch restores history, route and scroll the same way. Typed values on the current page are kept in memory only, so they survive a discard but not a relaunch. The interaction state isn't stored for private profiles, form submissions, or state over the size limit. The capture and restore code lives in the new CmuxBrowser/PageRestoration/ files and BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift.

Memory budget, oldest hidden first.

• New default mode: browser.hiddenWebViewDiscardMode = "budget", with browser.hiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetMB defaulting to 2048.
• BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator runs on each memory monitor sample. It adds up the physical footprint of hidden panes' WebContent processes and frees the pane hidden longest until the total fits the budget.
• A process shared with a visible pane is never counted as freeable.
• The old timer is opt-in as "timer". The system memory-pressure responder is unchanged.

What keeps a hidden pane alive. These existing rules are unchanged: playing media, camera or microphone capture (#4909, #5409), downloads, popups, developer tools, fullscreen and loading pages. This PR adds:

• Typed input a restore can't bring back, such as a password or a rich-text edit. It blocks a routine discard, but system memory pressure still frees the pane.
• Picture in Picture, even when paused.
• Display and system-audio capture.
• A per-pane "Keep Page Active While Hidden" pin in the command palette. A pinned pane is never freed, not even under memory pressure, and the pin survives relaunch.

WebContent process ending while hidden. Previously the pane came back behind the manual Reload overlay. Now showing the pane restores it from its last interaction state, with no reload of the URL. If the process crashes while the pane is visible, the Reload overlay still appears, so a page that crashes its own process can't reload in a loop.

Agent commands on a hidden pane. A browser socket or CLI command on a hidden pane whose WebContent process had ended failed until the user showed the pane. The dead web view still reported its URL, so the command's wait for a document timed out after 3 s. Now, when a command resolves such a pane, cmux turns it into an unloaded pane, as showing it would. The command's document wait then restores it from the interaction state without showing it, whatever browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages is set to. A pane freed for memory, or deferred at relaunch, already came back this way. A command also counts as use of a hidden pane. The hidden delay and the budget's oldest-first order count from the later of the hide and the last command, so Memory Saver doesn't free a page an agent is driving (webViewForAutomationCommand() in BrowserPanel+AutomationRecovery.swift).

A pane that isn't on screen no longer counts as visible. SwiftUI can build a browser panel view or portal host that never enters a window, then tear it down. That view's visible report left a hidden pane marked visible, so Memory Saver never freed it. Dogfood found this: a pane in a background workspace stayed live_visible long past the delay. Visible reports now require the view to be in a window, and a view reports visible when it enters one (BrowserPanelWindowPresence.swift and the portal lifecycle in BrowserPanelView.swift). Hidden reports are unchanged, so a stale view can't mark a shown pane hidden.

Manual restore (#9561). browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages (default true, in Settings > Browser and cmux.json) controls both cases above: a pane freed for memory and one whose process ended while hidden. When it's off, a shown pane keeps its last snapshot, dimmed, with a Restore button. The button restores history, scroll and typed input the same way an automatic restore does. #9561 suggested the name autoReloadOnContentLoss. I went with a different name because the restore no longer reloads, and the setting covers memory unloads as well as content loss.

No Ghostty config setting covers any of this, since browser panes are cmux-only.

Trade-offs and limits

• A restore re-creates the document. As with a Chrome discarded tab, in-page JavaScript state starts fresh, such as an open WebSocket, timers, or unsaved state outside form fields. Cookies and storage are kept, so logins survive. A page that must keep its live state can be pinned.
• Typed-input detection has gaps.
  • The form observer doesn't see iframes or closed shadow roots.
  • A contenteditable edit counts as unrestorable until the page navigates.
  • Text in an autocomplete="off" field blocks a budget discard, because the restore doesn't replay it.
• Some media and capture states can't be observed.
  • A WebRTC data channel alone, such as a peer connection with no camera or microphone, is invisible to the blocker.
  • Display capture has no KVO, so cmux reads it on each discard check through WebKit's capture-state selectors. They aren't public API, so each is checked with responds(to:), and a missing one reads as no capture.
• A pinned pane is never freed, not even under system memory pressure. It still counts toward the hidden total, so a large pinned page makes the budget free other hidden panes sooner.
• Keep Page Active has only a command palette entry. There's no menu item or shortcut action yet, so it can't be bound in KeyboardShortcutSettings. That can follow if people use the pin.
• Cmd+R and the Restore button differ. On an unloaded placeholder, Cmd+R reloads the URL from the network. The Restore button restores from the interaction state.
• The first load after relaunch ignores the manual setting. Relaunch already defers a hidden pane's first load until it's shown, so there's nothing for the setting to hold back.
• Back entries keep WebKit's saved form values. The interaction state holds WebKit's own form state for each history entry, as Safari's does, and relaunch writes it to the session file, which already holds page URLs. WebKit leaves out password and autocomplete=off fields. Private profiles, remote and cloud panes, error pages and form-submission results are left out. The typed values cmux captures to refill the current page stay in memory and are never written to disk.
• In budget mode the delay is a minimum hidden age. browser.hiddenWebViewDiscardDelaySeconds no longer frees a pane by itself; it only keeps a pane hidden for less than that from counting as freeable.
• A form-submission result restores by loading its URL. Restoring a POST result from the interaction state would resubmit the form, so a page from a form submission, including one posted inside an iframe, comes back with a GET of its URL instead. Scroll and typed input on that page aren't kept.
• A back/forward cache return loses an iframe POST mark. A document returned from the cache reports its typed input again, but cmux can't see whether an iframe in it had posted a form. If such a page is then freed, it restores from the interaction state.
• Dock browser panes now count toward the budget and the memory-pressure sweep, the same as workspace panes.
• Some paths are covered by review, not tests. Nothing tests that relaunch persistence skips interaction state whose URL differs from the pane's, or that the budget and pressure responders are wired to the Dock-aware panel list (the test covers the list itself). A URL check on the discarded capture before a restore could follow.
• A discard right after a scroll restores the scroll before it. WebKit writes the scroll position into the history item 300 ms after scrolling stops, and the interaction state carries what that item holds. A routine discard waits far longer than that, but the memory-pressure sweep skips the hidden delay, so a pressure discard within 300 ms of hiding a pane that was still scrolling would restore the earlier position.
• An agent's first command after a restore can run before typed input comes back. A command waits for the restored document to commit. Typed input is refilled when that document finishes loading, a moment later. The refill never overwrites a field the page or the agent has already changed.
• After a crash, scroll is what WebKit last saved. A process that crashes or is killed can't report its final state, so the restore uses the scroll position WebKit last saved from it. In dogfood, a page scrolled to 2500 came back at 1727.
• An agent command doesn't recover a crash while visible. That pane keeps the Reload overlay, for the crash-loop reason above. An agent can send browser.reload.
• Any browser command counts as use, including one that only reads the page. An agent polling a hidden pane keeps it from being freed on the timer or by the budget. System memory pressure still frees it.
• The placeholder has no image in some cases. The snapshot is taken when the pane is hidden, and only while Memory Saver is on. Without one, the placeholder shows only the message and the Restore button.

Testing

Red then green, per fix:

Fix	Red run	Green run
State-preserving restore (fe4064e)	36359766793 @ 2f96677: BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests fails	36368195716 @ 61ae4fb
Hidden termination restore (61ae4fb)	36367160454 @ 95b7e5b	36368195716 @ 61ae4fb
Budget default (8886feb)	swift test CmuxBrowser BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetTests @ c5f2569 (builder)	Same suite @ 8886feb
Discard blockers (c5ff174)	36372557220 @ 80994db	36375361936 @ c5ff174
Manual restore (88e384d)	36376418723 @ 51aa4e0	36403155043 @ 4be39c2
Review repair (710fe52, 6322b80, a09a046)	swift test CmuxBrowser @ 53e3041 (builder), and 36384555127 @ 53e3041	swift test CmuxBrowser @ 9aa473b (builder); 36384558302, 36384560998, 36384563512 and 36384566472 @ fafa32a; 36386321597 @ 9aa473b
New-window requests keep a form-submission mark (c5afe25)	swift test CmuxBrowser BrowserPageRestorationStateTests @ 714ed5c (builder)	Same suite @ c5afe25
Visible only in a window (05d8064)	36398893642 @ 6a0b4bc: BrowserPanelWindowVisibilityTests fails. That's the failing-test commit a920690 with 5933e1b's test harness, on a temporary ref.	36403155043 @ 4be39c2
Reports bound to their web view; URL replay noted when its load starts (e7ce24c)	36403151426 attempt 2 @ cabba95: exactly testPopupReportsDoNotChangeOpenerPageState and testRemotePaneRestoreQueuedForProxyRefillsTypedInput fail	36403155043 and 36403159418 @ 4be39c2
Import Choose… button keeps its identifier (f04b778)	36427228637 @ d192505 and 36430175176 @ 443e96b: testImportChooseButtonOpensImportWizard fails	36435550421 attempt 2 @ f04b778
Agent commands restore hidden panes (405cdf5)	36484844802 @ 8bc5d33: 2 tests, 4 failures. The restore returned .superseded instead of .committed (line 32). After the command, the pane was still evictable and its idle time still predated the command (lines 75, 77, 78). The budget test's precondition passed. That's the failing-test commit d9101d5 with 5c6d833's test fix, on a temporary ref. The first red run, 36481510054 @ d9101d5, failed the same assertions and also the budget test's precondition.	36484852714 @ 5c6d833: both pass; the whole BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests class in 36484861089 @ 5c6d833: 10 of 10 pass

At HEAD:

PR CI at d192505 (36411364493, attempts 1 to 3) ran every app-host shard and the package tests. Every suite this PR adds or touches passed, including BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests and BrowserPanelWindowVisibilityTests. Shard 1 lost its runner and passed on rerun. Shard 6 hit the minimal-mode traffic-light flake (#15060) and passed on rerun. Two isolated reruns at e79d7f0 also pass: 36409476122, BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests, 24 of 24; and 36409840987, AppDelegateEqualizeSplitsShortcutTests, 99 of 99. That showed the font-size failures in attempt 1 came from the runner's shared defaults, not this PR.

The ui-tests job failed on SettingsBrowserBehaviorUITests.testImportChooseButtonOpensImportWizard. It also failed in E2E runs 36427228637 @ d192505 and 36430175176 @ merge 443e96b. This PR selects that suite because it adds reset keys to it; the Import block and the test are older. f04b778 lets the block's containers keep their children's identifiers. 36435550421 attempt 2 @ f04b778: the test passes. Attempt 1 lost its runner's GUI token before running any test. A comparison at the merge base, 36427222391, failed twice while setting up the runner, before any test ran.

The lanes at 4be39c2 ran the suites this PR adds: 36403155043, 36403159418, 36403163508 and 36403167460.

CmuxSettingsUI builds on the builder at f04b778, with no warnings in BrowserSection.swift.

fafa32a, 9aa473b and 5933e1b don't change app behavior. The first fixes a type-check timeout in the Memory Saver settings search entries after merging main. The second moves the form-state scripts onto extensions of the WebKit types, for the package conventions lint; the JavaScript is unchanged. The third makes the window visibility tests async. As synchronous tests, they never ran the main-actor tasks that report visibility, so they couldn't catch a regression either way. ea214fe and 4a1d372 merge main (0e1ab96 and b0d5083) through scripts/merge-main.sh. cabba95 adds the failing tests for the review fixes in e7ce24c: script reports from a popup built on the opener's configuration no longer change the opener's typed input or media state, a URL replay is noted only once its load starts (so a remote pane waiting for its proxy keeps its typed input), and the budget coordinator returns early when no pane is hidden. 4be39c2 only changes tests: they wait for the report they depend on instead of a fixed number of run-loop passes. 9a60133 only changes tests too. Once they stopped waiting a fixed 0.5 s, the scroll-restore tests could discard before WebKit saved the scroll into the history item, and the six of them timed out in PR CI at 4be39c2. They now wait until the interaction state's session history changes after the scroll. d192505 merges main (8714160) through scripts/merge-main.sh. ba47551 and e1dc477 merge main (31a59ab and c313a97). The second had conflicts in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings and cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj; both keep main's entries and this branch's. 5c6d833 only changes a test. The budget test backdated the pane's hide, but when the workspace had already recorded the pane hidden, the earlier hide time stuck, and the test's precondition failed in PR CI at 405cdf5 ("Discard refused; blockers: []"). The test now shows the pane before the backdated hide. 387fb4a and 865080e merge main (d1ff04c and 3564433) with no conflicts. 3195547 and d7eb043 merge main (78e4d2d and f7ee3bc). GitHub reported conflicts in Resources/Localizable.xcstrings and then cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, but git merged both without one. The catalog keeps every key from both sides and passes scripts/lint-xcstrings.py. The project keeps both sides' test files, and scripts/sync-test-wiring --check passes.

The existing suites for memory pressure, restore retry and blank-shell heal ran unchanged and pass: BrowserHiddenWebViewDiscardMemoryPressureTests, BrowserDiscardedWebViewRestoreRetryTests, BrowserDiscardRestoreHealPredicateTests.

Tagged build dogfood: build 05d8064 (fleet job 52272622fdfdfc84fb2e8f60, HQ issue-15069-browser-discard-state), with only the tagged app set to timer mode and a 10 s delay. The test page is local: an SPA with a pushState route, two text fields, a 6000 px page and a random live marker per document. The page server logs each GET.

• Before, on 9aa473b (this branch without the window fix): a pane in a background workspace stayed live_visible with blocker visible, 4 of 4 times. view.onAppear re-marked it visible about 42 ms after the hide, so it was never freed. I didn't dogfood the old URL reload itself. The red BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests run above shows it.
• Workspace switch: the pane went discarded 10.0 s after the hide (hidden_duration_ms 10639). browser_web_content_pid was null while it was discarded.
• Return, 3 cycles: each logged browser.discard.restore method=interactionState. Route /app/route-2, scroll (3100, 4657, 48), and both typed fields ("Grace Hopper" and the notes) were identical before and after. The live marker changed each cycle (7hstb7 → srttr3 → cuhoc6 → rdekkx), so the document was re-created. The server logged 0 new GETs, with no visible reload.
• Back/forward after a restore: back went to route-1 at scroll 0, and forward went to route-2 at scroll 3100, with no GETs.
• Relaunch: method=interactionState. Route-2, scroll 2000 and history.length 2 came back with one GET, with no typed values, as described above.
• Media: with audio playing, the pane stayed live_hidden for 28 s with blocker media_playback. The marker was unchanged and the audio was still playing on return. After a pause, the pane was hidden at 08:33:59.916 and discarded at 08:34:09.925, 10.0 s later. On return it restored with method=interactionState to route-2 with "Grace Hopper" typed, and 0 new GETs.

Agent command on a hidden pane whose process died: build 405cdf5 (fleet job c4d569faa3fa1c0e76982bf0, HQ issue-15069-browser-discard-state), in timer mode with a 300 s delay, so the pane was still live when its process died. Through the tagged CLI, an agent filled both fields with browser fill, clicked to the pushState route-2 and scrolled to 2500. Then I switched to another workspace, and the pane went live_hidden. I killed its WebContent process with kill -9. The pane went recoverable_termination with blocker webcontent_recovery, still hidden.

• A browser eval on that hidden pane returned without showing it. The log shows browser.discard.restore method=interactionState, and the other workspace stayed selected. It read route-2, history.length 4 and a new live marker (7zslf1 → l83g46), so the document was re-created. The server logged 0 new GETs.
• That first read returned empty fields at scroll 1727, not 2500. Both come from the limits noted above: the command ran at commit, before the refill, and the scroll is what WebKit last saved before the kill. A later read, taken after the pane was shown, had "agent typed name" back in the field.
• I didn't dogfood the old timeout itself. The red run above shows it: the command's document wait ended superseded instead of committed.

The tagged app is closed, and the stable app wasn't touched.

Budgets: scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py passes at d7eb043. The app compiles on the builder at 865080e. The later merges of main touch no Swift file this branch changes.

Localization: 9 locales. python3 scripts/localize_changes.py --base d0cf4f1fe2a reports 0 parity errors, and lint-xcstrings.py passes.

Not established:

• BrowserURLResolverTests has 3 pasteboard failures on the headless builder, both with and without this branch.
• The tagged app dogfood didn't cover budget mode, the manual-restore setting or a Meet call. The budget coordinator, the Restore button and the capture blockers are covered by the host and package tests above.

Changelog

Changed: Hidden browser tabs keep their scroll position, typed input and history when Memory Saver frees them. They're freed only when hidden tabs use more than a memory budget, and a new setting can leave a freed tab unloaded until you click Restore.

Checklist

• Behavior changes have added or updated tests
• UI, settings, schema and help text changed: localization audited, result stated above
• Reviewed with a subagent before merge, and all bot and human review comments resolved

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Summary by cubic

Browser Memory Saver used to free a hidden pane after a fixed delay and reload its URL when shown, losing scroll position, typed input, SPA state, and back/forward history. Hidden panes now restore from captured WebKit session state and are freed only when they exceed a memory budget. This also restores the Memory Saver settings rows, ghostty/bonsplit submodule pointers, and test wiring a main merge had dropped, alongside the latest main merge's billing seat nudge assertion, and keeps the Import Choose button's accessibility identifier so its UI test passes.

State-preserving restore

• Captures WebKit interactionState, zoom, a snapshot image, and typed form values before dropping a pane; restore replays them onto the replacement web view instead of reloading the URL.
• A page from a form submission restores by URL so WebKit doesn't resubmit the form; a new-window request no longer clears a pending submission mark, and typed input is re-reported after a back/forward cache return. Form and media reports are bound to their web view, so a popup sharing the opener's configuration can't change its state, and a queued replay notes itself when its load starts so a reconnecting remote pane keeps its typed input.
• A WebContent process that dies while hidden restores the same way, even after Stop; a crash while visible still shows the Reload overlay.
• Session snapshots persist the interaction state across relaunch, except for private profiles, form submissions, and oversized state; imported sessions drop it so WebKit's own back/forward list can't bypass the history filter.
• An agent command on a hidden pane restores it without showing it and counts as use so Memory Saver won't free a page an agent is driving.
• Each discard releases the web view it drops, tears down its app-owned attachments, and drains its observer tasks so its WebContent process can exit; a drag-preview test covers the same teardown.

Memory budget and settings

• browser.hiddenWebViewDiscardMode defaults to "budget" (the old timer is opt-in as "timer"); browser.hiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetMB (default 2048) frees the pane hidden longest on each memory sample, with one app-wide enumeration covering workspace and Dock panes.
• A pane counts as visible only while one of its views is in a window, so a SwiftUI-built view that never shows no longer blocks a discard.
• Unrestorable typed input, Picture in Picture, display/system-audio capture, and a per-pane "Keep Page Active While Hidden" pin block a routine discard; only the pin survives system memory pressure.
• browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages (default true) restores a freed page as soon as its pane is shown; with it off, a shown pane keeps a dimmed snapshot with a Restore button that restores history, scroll, and typed input.
• A test checks every Memory Saver row stays reachable from Settings search, so a main merge can't silently orphan the new rows again.
• App-host test processes now run against their own preferences domain, so window geometry and shortcuts persisted by earlier test runs no longer leak in; code that names the app domain by hand goes through ProcessDefaultsDomain.
• Codex auto-naming under a temporary config now forwards the config's provider overrides, matching the permanent config, and the CLI resolves the OpenCode config directory itself instead of relying on app-owned helpers.
• The TeamsClient decoder accepts fractional-second ISO 8601 dates, which the team API always sends, alongside whole-second dates.
• CI web jobs now run database migrations through scripts/db-migrate-local.mjs instead of drizzle-kit migrate.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Browser Memory Saver controls for budget-based or timer-based unloading, memory limits, discard delays, and automatic restoration.
  • Hidden pages can unload while preserving eligible scroll position, form input, and browsing history for restoration.
  • Added a “Keep Page Active While Hidden” browser command.
  • Added recovery screens for unloaded and crashed pages, with snapshots and a Restore option where available. When automatic restoration is off, unloaded pages wait for manual restoration.
• Behavior Updates
  • Picture-in-Picture, active media capture, and certain unrestorable form input can prevent pages from unloading, depending on the trigger.

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Walkthrough

Browser panes now support memory-budget and timer-based discarding. The changes add page and form-state capture, restoration with URL replay fallback, discard blockers, restore overlays, and settings for discard behavior and automatic restoration.

Changes

Browser Memory Saver and Page Restoration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture page and form state Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/PageRestoration/*, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+FormStateTracking.swift	The browser captures eligible WebKit interaction state and tracks form changes through an isolated content world. Form reports are bounded and filtered; untracked input is marked unrestorable.
Restore discarded pages Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/PageRestoration/*, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserDiscardRestoreHeal.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPageRecoveryOverlay.swift, Sources/SessionBrowserPanelSnapshot.swift, Sources/Workspace.swift, Sources/DockSplitStore+SessionSnapshot.swift	The restore strategy uses interaction state when eligible and replays the URL otherwise. Restoration can reinstate pending form input, persist eligible session state, and display a snapshot or restore prompt.
Plan and enforce hidden-page discards Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/WebView/*, Sources/App/BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator.swift, Sources/App/BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryPressureResponder.swift, Sources/AppDelegate+PaneMemoryGuardrail.swift, Sources/MemoryPressureMonitor.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+HiddenMemoryBudget.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel.swift	Discarding supports memory-budget and timer modes. The planner excludes processes shared with visible panes and selects eligible hidden panes. Memory samples trigger budget enforcement, while system pressure uses urgency-specific blockers.
Track activity and recovery visibility Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/MediaPlayback/*, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+MediaPlayback.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+WebContentTermination.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanelWindowPresence.swift, Sources/Panels/BrowserPanelView.swift	Media reports include Picture in Picture, and discard checks include capture, playback, PiP, unrestorable input, and the keep-active pin. Visibility reporting checks window attachment, and recovery UI handles crashed and unloaded pages.
Configure and expose Memory Saver Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/*, Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore+BrowserMemorySaver.swift, Sources/CmuxSettingsFileStore+SupportedPaths.swift, Sources/CmuxSettingsJSONPathSupport.swift, Sources/SettingsSearch*, Sources/ContentView+ViewCommandPalette.swift, Sources/BrowserAction*.swift, web/data/cmux.schema.json, skills/cmux-settings/references/all-keys.md, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings	Settings expose discard mode, memory budget, delay, and automatic restoration. The settings UI, file parsing, search, schema, localization, and command palette include the new controls.
Validate behavior and register project sources Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Tests/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Tests/*, cmuxTests/*, cmuxUITests/*, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Tests cover restoration, policy resolution, memory-budget planning, blockers, settings-file parsing, and window visibility. The project registers the added sources and tests.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryPressureMonitor
  participant BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator
  participant BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetPlanner
  participant BrowserPanel
  participant BrowserPageRestorationState
  MemoryPressureMonitor->>BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator: apply sample timestamp
  BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator->>BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetPlanner: plan hidden panes from process footprints
  BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetPlanner->>BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator: return pane IDs to discard
  BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator->>BrowserPanel: request memory-budget discard
  BrowserPanel->>BrowserPageRestorationState: record discarded page state

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f04b7

Browser session snapshots may persist previously typed form values, so address that privacy risk before merging. Memory Saver settings and help text also remain untranslated in 11 supported locales.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f04b7

Session saves can now include browsing state that may contain previously typed form values. Private browsing and form-submission exclusions reduce exposure, but they do not establish that ordinary session saves exclude those values.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: New session-snapshot persistence copies opaque WebKit history state without removing form values that history entries may retain, extending their lifetime beyond the web view.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The potential additional exposure is per saved ordinary browser session to someone able to read its session data. The inspected path does not establish a remote-webpage read path; private and nonpersistent panes are excluded.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A reader of saved session data could encounter typed values retained in WebKit history entries: the PR newly stores interactionState, while its persistence gate returns eligible bytes without redaction. The exact contents on a given WebKit release remain unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The form-message handler accepts main-frame messages from its bound web view. Form restoration checks origin, and file URLs require the same document. These controls govern the separate in-memory form snapshot, not the contents of persisted interactionState.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The changed settings section does not bypass browser-data import ownership: its import action still delegates through host settings actions to the import coordinator, which guards dialog presentation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Verify the serialized interaction-state contents with representative history and form-input cases, then define an explicit persistence policy for any values it contains; if they cannot be excluded, avoid saving the opaque state or protect the session data accordingly.

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❌ Failed checks (7 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	❌ Error	The new production file Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/PageRestoration/WebKit+BrowserFormState.swift adds raw JavaScript timers. The form observer delays reports with `setTimeout(flu…	Remove the raw timer-based synchronization. Use input/change and document lifecycle callbacks for form-state reporting. Use the existing MutationObserver and an explicit document or restoration lifecycle signal to complete form restoratio…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	❌ Error	The PR adds a stale-cache path to the persisted session snapshot. DockSplitStore+SessionSnapshot.swift:388 and Workspace.swift:772 now persist interactionState from `persistableInteractionStateF…	Before persisting discarded interaction state, verify that the cached capture is still current for the URL being written and that no superseding navigation or restore failure is active. Invalidate the capture when navigation starts or fails…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The PR adds an unbounded process-sampling path that rebuilds and sorts browser-pane data on every memory sample. Sources/AppDelegate+PaneMemoryGuardrail.swift:67-68 invokes `BrowserHiddenWebViewMemo…	Avoid rebuilding and sorting the full browser-pane/process collection on every sample. Maintain a cached, incrementally updated process eviction index ordered by the stable hidden timestamp, and refresh only when pane visibility, process id…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	❌ Error	The diff adds an unstructured Task.detached in Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift:264-277 for JPEG encoding. The task performs meaningful snapshot work and later mutates `BrowserPan…	Move snapshot encoding into an async operation owned by BrowserPanel or BrowserPageRestorationState. Store and cancel the task when the snapshot becomes invalid or the panel is torn down, and await the encoding result before applying it…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	❌ Error	The new Browser Memory Saver settings row is reachable from Settings > Browser through BrowserSection and displays recovery copy containing the implementation term “snapshot”: `settings.browser.auto…	Replace “last snapshot” in the Settings UI fallback and the settings.browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages.subtitle localizations with product language such as “the page as it was last shown” or “the previous page view.” Update any user-visibl…
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR adds and changes user-facing configuration descriptions in web/data/cmux.schema.json without locale-specific sourcing. The new/changed browser properties (discardHiddenWebViews, `hiddenWebV…	Route each affected schema description through locale-specific keys such as schemaDescriptions.browser.* using descriptionKey, then add matching translated entries to docs.configuration.schemaDescriptions.browser in every file under `…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	❌ Error	The PR introduces a split visibility owner and a timing repair path. BrowserPanelWindowPresence stores mutable AppKit probe state, while BrowserPanel remains the source of isWebViewVisibleInUI; …	Make one BrowserPanel visibility coordinator own the visibility state and transition rules. Pass only value snapshots and action closures into BrowserPanelWindowPresenceProbe and WebViewRepresentable; route viewDidMoveToWindow, `onA…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 33.89% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 239 functions across 54 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (17 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The pull request meets the coding requirements in [#15069]. It captures WebKit interaction state, form state, page snapshots, zoom, and restoration metadata. It restores interaction state before URL r…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within [#15069]. The settings, localization, command-palette action, session fields, recovery UI, panel enumeration, memory-pressure integration, and test updates support state-preser…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not change Cloud terminal creation or persistent transport behavior. The authoritative diff contains browser page-restoration, hidden-WebView memory policy, and settings ch…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	No introduced actor-isolation failure found. New data models are value types with Sendable conformance. Mutable coordinators and UI-bound handlers are explicitly @MainActor, including BrowserPageResto…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR does not change the browser socket automation sources of truth. The authoritative diff has no changes to Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, or thei…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The PR does not add or move an agent-history loader. RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load() and its SharedLiveAgentIndex fallback are byte-for-byte unchanged in Sources/TabManager.swift. The new syn…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR inventory contains Swift sources/tests, Xcode project data, localization, Markdown, and JSON schema files. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift runti…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds no @concurrent functions and no new nonisolated async production helpers. The CPU-heavy JPEG encoding runs in Task.detached and returns through MainActor.run in `Sources/Pane…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR places the reusable discard, restoration, form-state, media-state, policy, and memory-planning logic in the existing CmuxBrowser SwiftPM target. Its CmuxBrowserTests target directly t…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	No SwiftPM lockfile violation is introduced. The PR changes no Package.swift, package-local Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency declaration. The `cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds only cmuxDebugLog diagnostics, and each new call is inside #if DEBUG in BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator.swift, BrowserPanel+FormStateTracking.swift, and `Browse…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no new ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, @Bindable, or GeometryReader usage. Its only new ForEach iterates immutable `BrowserHiddenWebView…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The PR does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. The production additions use NSView overlays and window-presence probes; the NSWindow instances appear only in test fixtures, w…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All changed paths are intentional product source, tests, configuration, documentation, project registration, or localization files. No changed path is a temp/cache/build/output directory, dependency c…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The changed production Swift files add no ForTesting, ForTests, TestHook, TestSeam, or debug accessor. New #if DEBUG blocks only emit diagnostics. The onSampleApplied callback has a …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: preserving browser page state when Memory Saver frees a hidden pane.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is comprehensive and covers the problem, implementation, behavior changes, testing results, changelog entry, limitations, and review checklist. It omits the required demo video or scre…

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The new production file Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/PageRestoration/WebKit+BrowserFormState.swift adds raw JavaScript timers. The form observer delays reports with setTimeout(flush, 250) (lines 157–160). The restore script waits with setTimeout(finish, timeoutMs) for up to 5 seconds (lines 314–330). These timers are introduced by this pull request and synchronize form-state reporting and restoration in shipped runtime code. They are not test scaffolding or user-visible animation delays.

Resolution

Remove the raw timer-based synchronization. Use input/change and document lifecycle callbacks for form-state reporting. Use the existing MutationObserver and an explicit document or restoration lifecycle signal to complete form restoration. If coalescing or cancellation requires scheduling, use the repository-approved cancellation-aware scheduler abstraction rather than direct setTimeout calls.

Full details: Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness

Explanation

The PR adds a stale-cache path to the persisted session snapshot. DockSplitStore+SessionSnapshot.swift:388 and Workspace.swift:772 now persist interactionState from persistableInteractionStateForSessionSnapshot(). When the manager still reports the pane as discarded, BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift:335-336 returns pageRestoration.persistableDiscardedInteractionState() instead of checking the current WebKit state. The capture is not invalidated when a later navigation starts (BrowserPageRestorationState.swift:179-184), and a failed navigation updates currentURL but only dismisses the overlay (BrowserPanel.swift:3369-3379, BrowserDiscardRestoreHeal.swift:33-37). The snapshot can therefore pair an older capture with the newer URL. Relaunch then seeds that data under the newer URL (BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift:352-358), so stale history or page state can be restored for the wrong document. The path has no freshness check for the capture anchor and no stale-cache fallback.

Resolution

Before persisting discarded interaction state, verify that the cached capture is still current for the URL being written and that no superseding navigation or restore failure is active. Invalidate the capture when navigation starts or fails, or fall back to a fresh authoritative WebKit read when one exists. Persist the cached state only when its anchor/document identity matches the session snapshot URL and its capture generation is current. Add a regression test that starts a discard restore, changes or fails navigation, writes a session snapshot, and verifies that the old interaction state is omitted rather than restored under the new URL.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The PR adds an unbounded process-sampling path that rebuilds and sorts browser-pane data on every memory sample. Sources/AppDelegate+PaneMemoryGuardrail.swift:67-68 invokes BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator.enforceBudget from MemoryPressureMonitor.onSampleApplied; Sources/MemoryPressureMonitor.swift:222-226 samples every 30 seconds and :304 calls the callback for every applied sample. The coordinator (Sources/App/BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator.swift:39-45) rescans all live panels and maps them into planner panes. The planner (Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/WebView/BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetPlanner.swift:51-75) filters the pane collection, groups it, then sorts all eligible WebContent processes by hidden time on each sample. This is O(P log P) for P browser panes/processes, with no cached ordering, explicit size bound, or benchmark. The relevant scale is about 1000 user-owned workspaces/panes. The PR's tests cover only small fixtures and provide no performance measurement.

Resolution

Avoid rebuilding and sorting the full browser-pane/process collection on every sample. Maintain a cached, incrementally updated process eviction index ordered by the stable hidden timestamp, and refresh only when pane visibility, process identity, or discard eligibility changes; perform one footprint pass per sample and remove selected processes from the index as needed. Alternatively, add a production-representative benchmark and a documented, enforced size threshold that demonstrates the current O(P log P) planner stays within the memory-sampling budget.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

Explanation

The diff adds an unstructured Task.detached in Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift:264-277 for JPEG encoding. The task performs meaningful snapshot work and later mutates BrowserPanel, but its handle is not stored, awaited, or cancelled. The token check rejects stale results, but it does not manage the task lifecycle. The other new Task uses are main-actor hops at AppKit, SwiftUI, or WebKit callback boundaries and are allowed.

Resolution

Move snapshot encoding into an async operation owned by BrowserPanel or BrowserPageRestorationState. Store and cancel the task when the snapshot becomes invalid or the panel is torn down, and await the encoding result before applying it on the main actor. Keep the token check as stale-result protection.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The new Browser Memory Saver settings row is reachable from Settings > Browser through BrowserSection and displays recovery copy containing the implementation term “snapshot”: settings.browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages.subtitle says, “When off, the tab shows the page's last snapshot until you click Restore.” The same text is added to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. This is user-facing recovery copy and violates the rule against exposing snapshots. The debug-only form-restore error log is not the failure because it is developer-only.

Resolution

Replace “last snapshot” in the Settings UI fallback and the settings.browser.autoRestoreUnloadedPages.subtitle localizations with product language such as “the page as it was last shown” or “the previous page view.” Update any user-visible schema/help copy that uses the same recovery wording if that copy is exposed to users.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds and changes user-facing configuration descriptions in web/data/cmux.schema.json without locale-specific sourcing. The new/changed browser properties (discardHiddenWebViews, hiddenWebViewDiscardMode, hiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetMB, hiddenWebViewDiscardDelaySeconds, and autoRestoreUnloadedPages) contain raw English description values and no descriptionKey. The localized configuration docs import this schema and render property.description when descriptionKey is absent, so these strings appear untranslated. No corresponding entries were added to web/messages/; the routing registry lists 20 supported locales. The Swift UI strings and the touched app catalog entries do use localization APIs and have complete app-catalog locale coverage, but the web schema change violates the web internationalization requirement.

Resolution

Route each affected schema description through locale-specific keys such as schemaDescriptions.browser.* using descriptionKey, then add matching translated entries to docs.configuration.schemaDescriptions.browser in every file under web/messages/ for all 20 locales in web/i18n/routing.ts: en, ja, zh-CN, zh-TW, ko, de, es, fr, it, da, pl, ru, bs, ar, no, pt-BR, th, tr, km, and uk.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The PR introduces a split visibility owner and a timing repair path. BrowserPanelWindowPresence stores mutable AppKit probe state, while BrowserPanel remains the source of isWebViewVisibleInUI; BrowserPanelView, WebViewRepresentable, and the probe callback can all call noteWebViewVisibility through separate paths. The new BrowserPanelWindowPresenceView.viewDidMoveToWindow also uses Task { @MainActor in ... } specifically to wait for SwiftUI/AppKit lifecycle updates before reporting visibility. This leaves stale visible or hidden state representable, which can prevent Memory Saver discard or trigger restore at the wrong time. The structural root cause is that window presence and pane visibility have no single lifecycle owner. The single source of truth should be a panel visibility coordinator that consumes value snapshots from SwiftUI/AppKit bridges and owns the transition to BrowserPanel.

Resolution

Make one BrowserPanel visibility coordinator own the visibility state and transition rules. Pass only value snapshots and action closures into BrowserPanelWindowPresenceProbe and WebViewRepresentable; route viewDidMoveToWindow, onAppear, portal updates, and pane visibility changes through that coordinator. Remove direct panel.noteWebViewVisibility calls from bridge callbacks and remove the deferred Task used to wait for lifecycle settling. First migrate the new window-presence probe to emit a synchronous window-presence value to the single coordinator, then delete the duplicate entry points and test the invariant that a pane is visible only when its current host is in a window.

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Job	Verdict	Why
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macos / swift-package-tests: ✘ Test "Hidden panes that share a process are discarded together, dated by the newest" recorded an issue at BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetPlannerTests.swift:61:9: Expectation failed: (plan.panesToDiscard → []) == ([alone.id] → [C2F7C45A-D9E0-4484-AEA4-6A5D7C6DAD16])
macos / macOS compile admission: /tmp/cmux-ci/src/Sources/Update/UpdateTitlebarAccessory.swift:1001:43: error: cannot find 'cmuxAccentColor' in scope

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cmuxTests/BrowserDiscardPageStateRestoreTests.swift:
- Line 246: Replace the fixed RunLoop delay in the browser-discard fixture setup
with waitUntil polling the reported form state; return the fixture only after
both typed values are present.

Review comments at @cmuxTests/BrowserHiddenWebViewDiscardBlockerTests.swift:
- Around line 204-207: Replace the fixed-delay readiness checks in
`waitForFormStateObserver` and the visibility test with condition-based waits:
in `BrowserHiddenWebViewDiscardBlockerTests.swift` (lines 204–207), await the
form-state report or poll its resulting state until a deadline; in
`BrowserPanelWindowVisibilityTests.swift` (lines 106–112), wait for the relevant
view or lifecycle completion before asserting visibility. Keep assertions tied
to completion conditions rather than elapsed time.

Review comments at
@Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Sources/CmuxBrowser/WebView/BrowserHiddenWebViewDiscardManager.swift:
- Around line 199-205: Update the deferred system-pressure countdown flow in
requestImmediateDiscardIfSafe so routine scheduleIfNeeded rescheduling in
.memoryBudget mode does not cancel an armed countdown; keep that countdown
independent of routine cancellation and still invalidate it when the pane
becomes unsafe to discard.

Review comments at @Resources/Localizable.xcstrings:
- Line 563011: Add translations for bs, da, it, km, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr,
and uk to every changed Memory Saver string, including the “Restoring…” entry
and its search alias, so each touched catalog entry covers all existing locales.

Review comments at
@Sources/App/BrowserHiddenWebViewMemoryBudgetCoordinator.swift:
- Around line 39-42: In `enforceBudget`, skip planner creation and planning when
there are no hidden panes eligible for budgeting, using the result of
`hiddenMemoryBudgetPane` to detect that case; preserve the existing planning
flow when eligible panes exist.

Review comments at @Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+FormStateTracking.swift:
- Around line 16-27: Update BrowserFormStateMessageHandler to retain a weak
reference to its expected WKWebView and reject reports unless message.webView is
identical to it; pass the bound webView when constructing the handler in
setupFormStateMessageHandler. Keep the existing generation and main-frame
checks.

Review comments at @Sources/Panels/BrowserPanel+PageRestoration.swift:
- Around line 125-134: Move the `.urlReplay` restore-start recording from
immediately after `navigateWithoutInsecureHTTPPrompt` into its
`onNavigationStarted` callback, so it runs after navigation-start bookkeeping
for both direct and queued remote navigations. Only record the restore when the
callback receives a valid navigation.
- Around line 322-343: Update persistableInteractionStateForSessionSnapshot to
avoid persisting WebKit interaction state when it may contain user-edited
history entries; add reliable detection and return nil when such entries exist,
or keep that state memory-only for session restoration. Do not rely on
liveContainsFormSubmission alone to identify edited entries.

Review comments at @Sources/Panels/BrowserPanelWindowPresence.swift:
- Around line 55-57: Update BrowserPanelWindowPresenceView.viewDidMoveToWindow()
to report the panel-owned visibility state as false when window is nil, while
preserving the existing window-entry behavior. Add a regression test that
removes a still-mounted probe from its window and asserts
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<violation number="1" location="Sources/Update/UpdateTitlebarAccessory.swift:2481">
P2: This popover reads the environment's default accent because its standalone hosting roots never receive the app's resolved accent. Apply `.cmuxAccentColorEnvironment()` to the `NotificationsPopoverView` root so the badge reflects system and custom accent settings.</violation>
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                     .padding(.horizontal, 6)
                     .padding(.vertical, 1)
-                    .background(Capsule().fill(cmuxAccentColor()))
+                    .background(Capsule().fill(cmuxAccent.color))
             }
             Spacer()
</file context>

[github-actions]

Merge receipt for 6cd650711e, merged 2026-10-01 06:06:00 UTC

• Not verified at merge: ci-status (not reported), macOS compile admission (in progress), guards (18) (in progress), swift-package-tests (in progress)
• Verified: browser-skill, catalog-structure, CI fast guards, Claude wrapper regressions, detect-ios-changes, Fast static checks, full-suite-coverage, GhosttyKit release check, ios-tests, package-conventions-lint, runner, Web complexity, and 12 more
• Skipped by policy: admission-placement, agent-session-web-resources, browser, diff-sidecar-check, Dogfood build #​${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}, ios-simulator, ios-simulator-build, mobile-core-package, react-apps-check, remote-daemon, suite-coverage, web-build, and 2 more
• Full suite: runs on main after merge.

Labeled merged-unverified: if main breaks near this merge, look here first.

[github-actions]

main no longer compiles after this merge

@austinywang: after e96920bdaa landed on main, the app-host test product (the app and cmuxTests, build-for-testing) stops compiling. These errors first show up in a range of 1 merges (8a5b39c4ab..e96920bdaa), and this pull request's diff is the one that reaches them. The other merges in that range () are being compiled on their own to confirm.

Evidence: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36823012243/job/110242678395

Sources/Update/NotificationPopoverRow.swift:100: error: instance method 'fill(_:style:)' requires that 'CmuxAccentColor' conform to 'ShapeStyle'
Sources/Update/NotificationPopoverRow.swift:100: error: result values in '? :' expression have mismatching types 'Color' and 'CmuxAccentColor'

Nothing blocks merging meanwhile. A fix-forward (or, failing that, a revert) is attempted automatically unless an open pull request already fixes this.

_{main_compile_attribution.py: post-merge, nothing here gates a merge.}