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Clear the stale Needs input badge when Claude's permission is decided in the terminal - #15170

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Problem

The sidebar showed "Needs input" (bell) next to "Running" (bolt) while Claude Code was visibly working. It was most common in auto mode and whenever a permission prompt was answered in the terminal.

The stale entry is the Feed-owned overlay (cmux.feed.attention:claude_code), not the agent's claude_code status. The two keys render side by side. Event log from a live repro (session c4cf405a, cmux NIGHTLY):

04:25:53.081 PreToolUse(Write)          claude_code = Running
04:25:53.114 PermissionRequest(Write)   `cmux hooks feed` blocks on feed.push; Feed sets the overlay to "Needs input"
04:25:59     Notification(permission)   claude_code = Needs input
04:27:27     user approves in the Claude TUI; Write runs
04:27:27.657 PreToolUse(Bash)           claude_code = Running, but the overlay is still "Needs input"   <- screenshot at 04:27:42
04:27:27.676 PermissionRequest(Bash)    auto-mode classifier allows it in ~3 s, but a second overlay waiter starts anyway
04:27:48     Write waiter times out (115 s) and releases one overlay refcount; the Bash waiter keeps it up for another ~2 min

Root cause: Claude Code runs the PermissionRequest hook in parallel with its own dialog and auto-mode classifier. It passes only the tool-use abort signal and ignores its "already decided" callback, so the hook is never cancelled when the user answers in the terminal or the classifier decides. The hooks feed process keeps waiting until its timeout. FeedCoordinator concludes the overlay only on a Feed reply, a timeout, or journal invalidation, so the overlay outlives the decision by up to about two minutes.

Fix

  • Hook CLI: every Feed frame now carries _hook_sent_at_ms and the subagent agent_id (sendFeedTelemetry). An actionable request is stamped only after waitForPriorAgentHookDeliveries succeeds (runFeedHook). By then every hook the agent published earlier, including the tool's own PreToolUse, has already been sent.
  • App: FeedCoordinator.retirePendingDecisionsSuperseded(by:) runs on each accepted Feed event. It handles a Claude PreToolUse (excluding AskUserQuestion/ExitPlanMode), PostToolUse, PostToolUseFailure, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, or SessionEnd that was stamped after a pending request from the same session and agent. Such an event proves the decision was made elsewhere, so FeedWaiterRegistry.supersede(by:) retires the request. The hook then returns no decision, the card expires, the overlay concludes, and the banner and semantic notification clear. The journal also records the resolution, the same way a Feed reply does.
  • Requests or events without a stamp (older CLIs, barrier timeout) are never superseded, so they keep today's timeout behavior. Other sessions, other subagents, and non-Claude sources are unaffected. No new socket method was added.

Tests

  • FeedCoordinatorTests.laterClaudeHookRetiresPermissionDecidedOutsideFeed is the behavior-level regression. Earlier and subagent hooks leave the request live, and a later main-agent PreToolUse releases the blocked hook with no decision and expires the card. Commit 1 adds only this test, so CI should be red there.
  • FeedWaiterRegistryTests: ordering, session, source, and subagent scoping, plus unstamped requests.
  • ClaudeHookFeedTelemetrySwiftTests.feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity: the CLI stamps telemetry frames.

Localization: no user-facing strings added or changed.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the stale "Needs input" sidebar badge that appeared next to "Running" when a Claude permission prompt was answered in the terminal or auto-mode decided. The abandoned PermissionRequest hook kept the Feed-owned overlay up for up to two minutes.

Now, a later-stamped tool, prompt, or stop hook from the same Claude session and agent retires the blocking request: the hook returns no decision, the card expires, and the overlay and banner clear.

  • The hook CLI stamps each Feed frame with send time and subagent identity; blocking requests are stamped only after all earlier hooks are delivered.
  • Feed retires on later PreToolUse (excluding AskUserQuestion/ExitPlanMode), PostToolUse, PostToolUseFailure, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, or SessionEnd from the same session and agent.
  • Unstamped requests (older CLIs, timeout) keep current behavior; other sessions, subagents, and non-Claude sources are unaffected.

Written for commit 6790398. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Pending Claude permission requests are now marked unavailable and their Feed items expire when later activity from the same session and agent supersedes them. Earlier events, subagent activity, and events without matching identity do not trigger this change.
    • This prevents superseded requests from remaining pending until they time out.

teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 01:03
Claude Code runs its PermissionRequest hook beside its own permission
dialog and auto-mode classifier. When either decides first, Claude keeps
the abandoned hook waiting until the hook's own timeout, so the Feed
request and its "Needs input" sidebar overlay stay up next to "Running".
This test fails until a later hook from the same agent retires it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code runs its PermissionRequest hook beside its own permission
dialog and auto-mode classifier and never cancels it when either one
decides first. The `cmux hooks feed` process kept waiting on feed.push
until its ~115 s timeout, and the Feed-owned "Needs input" overlay
(cmux.feed.attention:claude_code) stayed next to the agent's own
"Running" status for that whole time.

The hook CLI now stamps each Feed frame with its send time and subagent
identity. A blocking request is stamped only after its ordering barrier
delivered every earlier hook, which includes the tool's own PreToolUse.
When a later-stamped PreToolUse, PostToolUse, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, or
SessionEnd from the same Claude session and agent arrives, Feed retires
the request: the hook returns no decision, the card expires, and the
overlay and banner clear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

Claude hook events now carry send-time and agent identity metadata. Feed uses this metadata to match later Claude events to pending blocking decisions and retire eligible requests.

Changes

Claude hook event supersession

Layer / File(s) Summary
Emit and read hook metadata
CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/Feed/WorkstreamEvent+FeedIngress.swift, cmuxTests/ClaudeHookFeedTelemetrySwiftTests.swift
The CLI adds a millisecond send timestamp and copies a string agent ID when available. It adds the timestamp only after successful prior-hook delivery. WorkstreamEvent exposes valid timestamp and agent ID values. The telemetry test checks both fields.
Match superseded waiters
Sources/Feed/FeedWaiterRegistry.swift, cmuxTests/FeedWaiterRegistryTests.swift
The registry marks eligible pending requests unavailable when a later event matches their source, canonicalized session, and agent ID. Tests cover timestamps and identity matches.
Retire superseded Feed decisions
Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift, cmuxTests/FeedCoordinatorTests.swift
Accepted stamped Claude events of specified types trigger waiter supersession. The coordinator clears notifications and attention, records resolution, expires the item, and cleans up waiter state. The test checks that earlier and subagent hooks do not retire a request, while a later main-agent PreToolUse does.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 40706

A narrowly timed permission prompt can retain its stale indicator until another cleanup path runs, and the new tests can fail despite correct behavior. These issues warrant fixes but present bounded merge risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 40706

A later activity signal can now close a pending permission prompt and its alert. The signal is matched using sender-provided information without a verified workspace check, so a client able to submit events could hide a request that still needs a response. This change does not itself approve the tool.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A client able to submit a matching, later-dated Claude event can retire a still-pending permission request and suppress its visible alert without supplying a permission decision. Matching does not check workspace or surface, and missing agent IDs compare equal.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new effect is limited to active, earlier-stamped Claude waiters with the same source, canonical session and optional agent ID, but may cover multiple matching requests and does not independently restrict them by workspace or surface. Local same-user socket access is established; remote reachability is not.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A same-user client with socket access and a matching session could submit a later-dated Claude event to close an undecided request and its alerts. The resulting unavailable response supplies no affirmative tool approval; the supported impact is loss of the pending Feed decision and its visibility.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Socket requests pass connection admission, but feed.push decodes supplied event fields. Unlike pi delivery, non-pi event delivery does not check workspace or surface ownership; the supersession predicate relies on the event's identity and timestamp fields.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Normal supersession claims cleanup once and clears the associated notification and attention state. The reviewed source does not establish durable completion if the process stops between that claim and outward cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before accepting a later event as proof that a permission was decided, bind its session and agent identity to an authorized hook origin and the pending request's workspace, or use a decision-specific signal. Define how incomplete cleanup is reconciled after interruption.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ❌ Error The PR adds an unbounded scan to a production Feed socket-ingress path. FeedCoordinator.ingestRevalidatedOnMainActor now calls retirePendingDecisionsSuperseded for accepted events at `Sources/Feed… Index pending groups by the matching context (source, canonical session, agent ID) and retain the parsed send timestamp and agent ID in the group. Supersession should inspect only the indexed context, or use a timestamp-ordered structure …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The diff adds independently testable workstream and event-metadata logic to the app target. Sources/Feed/FeedWaiterRegistry.swift adds timestamp, session, source, and agent matching in `supersede(by… Create a small macOS SwiftPM target named CmuxFeedCore. Move the event metadata parsing and supersession policy into a public value API, such as FeedEventSupersessionPolicy or FeedEventIdentity, with dependencies on CMUXAgentLaunch …
Docstring Coverage ❓ Inconclusive Docstring coverage is 36.84% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (22 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary behavior change: removing the stale Needs input badge after Claude permission decisions made in the terminal.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the problem, root cause, implementation, scope, and regression tests. It is on-topic and substantially complete, although it omits the template's explicit Changelog, D…
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 PR changes Claude hook telemetry and Feed decision handling only. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, PTY readiness, manual Ghostty renderer, atta…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No actor-isolation failure is introduced. The production changes add a pure timestamp helper, locked access in the existing FeedWaiterRegistry: Sendable, and WorkstreamEvent value-only parsing. Th…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff adds event timestamps, identity parsing, and retirement state handling. It does not add a blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, or a new manual loc…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The PR changes only Claude hook telemetry and Feed retirement logic in CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/Feed/*, and related tests. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift or `Packages/macOS/C…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds timestamp/agent metadata, in-memory waiter matching, and retirement logic. It adds no agent-history loader, transcript or trajectory read, JSONL log parse, directory sca…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache. It adds send-time and agent metadata to the current Feed event, parses that metadata from the event, and matches it against in-memory…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only Swift files (CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/Feed/*.swift, and cmuxTests/*.swift). The checked rule applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift b…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The production diff adds synchronous timestamp/identity parsing, a lock-protected supersede(by:), and an @MainActor retirement method. It adds no background queue, Combine state, completion-handle…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The diff adds no production nonisolated async or @concurrent functions. runFeedHook, sendFeedTelemetry, FeedWaiterRegistry.supersede, and the event-field accessors are synchronous. `retirePe…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Swift source and test files. The authoritative diff contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency changes. The SwiftPM l…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The reviewed Swift diff adds event metadata, waiter retirement, and JSON parsing. It adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, stdout/stderr, or file-logging calls. The existing `agent…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The production diff adds internal Feed metadata (_hook_sent_at_ms, agent_id) and retires pending decisions. It does not add or change user-facing error, alert, command-output, API-error, or recove…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only hook telemetry, Feed retirement logic, ingress parsing, and tests. Added literals are protocol/config tokens such as _hook_sent_at_ms, agent_id, claude, and hook names.…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes CLI and Feed coordination, ingress parsing, waiter registry, and tests. The authoritative diff adds no SwiftUI import, view, ObservableObject/@published state, GeometryReader, laz…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The diff adds a local Feed state transition in the existing FeedCoordinator ingress path. FeedWaiterRegistry remains the owner of pending-request state. The timestamp and agent identity are …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes CLI Feed telemetry, Feed coordination, Feed waiter logic, and tests only. It adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, close shor…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All seven changed paths are existing, tracked Swift source or test files. The diff adds no new paths, artifact directories, generated logs, caches, build output, screenshots, recordings, or copied art…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The changed production Swift files add Feed supersession behavior and JSON metadata parsing only. FeedCoordinator.swift adds supersedesPendingDecisions and retirePendingDecisionsSuperseded, both…
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Docstring coverage is 36.84% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The PR adds an unbounded scan to a production Feed socket-ingress path. FeedCoordinator.ingestRevalidatedOnMainActor now calls retirePendingDecisionsSuperseded for accepted events at Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift:154-160. For each qualifying stamped Claude event, Sources/Feed/FeedWaiterRegistry.swift:179-200 iterates every entry in the groups dictionary. The loop filters by source, canonical session, agent, and timestamp, and reparses extraFieldsJSON through the computed properties for each group. This is O(G) per qualifying Claude telemetry event, where G is the number of pending waiter groups. The changed code provides no bound, index, cache, or benchmark. The base code did not perform this scan, so the complexity is introduced by this PR.

Resolution

Index pending groups by the matching context (source, canonical session, agent ID) and retain the parsed send timestamp and agent ID in the group. Supersession should inspect only the indexed context, or use a timestamp-ordered structure that removes older requests, instead of scanning all groups and reparsing JSON for every event. Add a benchmark or measurement for the expected multi-workspace workload.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The diff adds independently testable workstream and event-metadata logic to the app target. Sources/Feed/FeedWaiterRegistry.swift adds timestamp, session, source, and agent matching in supersede(by:). Sources/Feed/WorkstreamEvent+FeedIngress.swift adds JSON parsing for _hook_sent_at_ms and agent_id. Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift adds the supersession policy. These additions do not require AppKit or UI state, and the new registry tests already exercise the logic independently. The files remain in the cmux app target; the diff adds no SwiftPM target.

Resolution

Create a small macOS SwiftPM target named CmuxFeedCore. Move the event metadata parsing and supersession policy into a public value API, such as FeedEventSupersessionPolicy or FeedEventIdentity, with dependencies on CMUXAgentLaunch and CmuxFoundation. Add isolated package tests for ordering, session/source/agent matching, timestamps, and event classification. Keep FeedCoordinator notification, store, overlay, and lifecycle cleanup in the app target. Update the app and CLI targets to use the package API.

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Review comments at @CLI/cmux.swift:
- Line 37807: Update the hook-order value used by
FeedWaiterRegistry.supersede(by:) so each later send receives a value strictly
greater than the previous request stamp, even when sends occur within the same
millisecond. Replace the wall-clock-only timestamp with a monotonic sequence or
equivalent ordering value, and keep the comparison consistent for request and
event stamps.

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- Around line 96-142: Update `feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity` to
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`sentAtMs` value is positive instead. Keep the presence check and agent identity
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/// Send stamp that orders a hook's Feed frame against a pending blocking
/// request from the same agent (see `FeedCoordinator.supersedesPendingDecisions`).
static func feedHookSentAtMs() -> Int64 {
Int64((Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000).rounded(.down))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Use a strictly increasing hook-order value.

FeedWaiterRegistry.supersede(by:) retires a request only when requestedAtMs < observedAtMs. Both values use millisecond wall-clock timestamps, so sends within one millisecond can compare equal. A later Claude event can then fail to retire the request, leaving its attention state pending until timeout.

Use a strictly increasing sequence, or another ordering value that guarantees a later send compares greater than the request stamp.

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Update the hook-order value used by FeedWaiterRegistry.supersede(by:) so each
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// Feed retires a Claude permission request decided outside cmux when a
// later hook from the same agent arrives, which needs each telemetry
// frame's send stamp and subagent identity.
@Test func feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity() throws {
let context = try FeedTelemetryTestContext(name: "sent-at")
defer { _ = context }

let workspaceID = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
let surfaceID = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
let ttyName = "ttys-claude-sent-at"
let feedSeen = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
startServer(
listenerFD: context.listenerFD,
state: context.state,
workspaceID: workspaceID,
focusedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName,
resolvedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
feedSeen: feedSeen
)

let cliPath = try BundledCLITestSupport.bundledCLIPath(for: BundledCLILinkageTests.self)
let startedAtMs = Int64(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
let result = runProcess(
executablePath: cliPath,
arguments: ["hooks", "claude", "session-start"],
environment: context.environment(
workspaceID: workspaceID,
surfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName
),
standardInput: #"{"session_id":"claude-sent-at-session","source":"startup","cwd":"\#(context.root.path)","hook_event_name":"SessionStart","agent_id":"subagent-7"}"#,
timeout: 5
)

#expect(result.timedOut == false, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(result.status == 0, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(feedSeen.wait(timeout: .now() + 5) == .success, "Expected feed.push, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())")
let event = try #require(
context.state.feedEventsSnapshot().last { $0["hook_event_name"] as? String == "SessionStart" },
"Expected SessionStart feed telemetry, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())"
)
let sentAtMs = try #require((event["_hook_sent_at_ms"] as? NSNumber)?.int64Value, "event=\(event)")
#expect(sentAtMs >= startedAtMs, "event=\(event)")
#expect(event["agent_id"] as? String == "subagent-7", "event=\(event)")
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the wall-clock assertion on _hook_sent_at_ms.

Line 119 reads Date(). Line 140 then asserts sentAtMs >= startedAtMs. The test guidelines ban reading Date() in an assertion. The comparison also mixes two clocks: the CLI process clock and the test clock. An NTP step between the two reads makes a correct build fail. Assert on presence and a positive value instead.

Proposed fix
-        let startedAtMs = Int64(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
 ...
-        #expect(sentAtMs >= startedAtMs, "event=\(event)")
+        #expect(sentAtMs > 0, "event=\(event)")

As per coding guidelines: "Reading Date() / Date.now / ... in an assertion."

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// Feed retires a Claude permission request decided outside cmux when a
// later hook from the same agent arrives, which needs each telemetry
// frame's send stamp and subagent identity.
@Test func feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity() throws {
let context = try FeedTelemetryTestContext(name: "sent-at")
defer { _ = context }
let workspaceID = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
let surfaceID = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
let ttyName = "ttys-claude-sent-at"
let feedSeen = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
startServer(
listenerFD: context.listenerFD,
state: context.state,
workspaceID: workspaceID,
focusedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName,
resolvedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
feedSeen: feedSeen
)
let cliPath = try BundledCLITestSupport.bundledCLIPath(for: BundledCLILinkageTests.self)
let startedAtMs = Int64(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
let result = runProcess(
executablePath: cliPath,
arguments: ["hooks", "claude", "session-start"],
environment: context.environment(
workspaceID: workspaceID,
surfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName
),
standardInput: #"{"session_id":"claude-sent-at-session","source":"startup","cwd":"\#(context.root.path)","hook_event_name":"SessionStart","agent_id":"subagent-7"}"#,
timeout: 5
)
#expect(result.timedOut == false, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(result.status == 0, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(feedSeen.wait(timeout: .now() + 5) == .success, "Expected feed.push, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())")
let event = try #require(
context.state.feedEventsSnapshot().last { $0["hook_event_name"] as? String == "SessionStart" },
"Expected SessionStart feed telemetry, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())"
)
let sentAtMs = try #require((event["_hook_sent_at_ms"] as? NSNumber)?.int64Value, "event=\(event)")
#expect(sentAtMs >= startedAtMs, "event=\(event)")
#expect(event["agent_id"] as? String == "subagent-7", "event=\(event)")
}
// Feed retires a Claude permission request decided outside cmux when a
// later hook from the same agent arrives, which needs each telemetry
// frame's send stamp and subagent identity.
@Test func feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity() throws {
let context = try FeedTelemetryTestContext(name: "sent-at")
defer { _ = context }
let workspaceID = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
let surfaceID = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
let ttyName = "ttys-claude-sent-at"
let feedSeen = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
startServer(
listenerFD: context.listenerFD,
state: context.state,
workspaceID: workspaceID,
focusedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName,
resolvedSurfaceID: surfaceID,
feedSeen: feedSeen
)
let cliPath = try BundledCLITestSupport.bundledCLIPath(for: BundledCLILinkageTests.self)
let result = runProcess(
executablePath: cliPath,
arguments: ["hooks", "claude", "session-start"],
environment: context.environment(
workspaceID: workspaceID,
surfaceID: surfaceID,
ttyName: ttyName
),
standardInput: #"{"session_id":"claude-sent-at-session","source":"startup","cwd":"\#(context.root.path)","hook_event_name":"SessionStart","agent_id":"subagent-7"}"#,
timeout: 5
)
#expect(result.timedOut == false, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(result.status == 0, Comment(rawValue: result.stderr))
#expect(feedSeen.wait(timeout: .now() + 5) == .success, "Expected feed.push, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())")
let event = try #require(
context.state.feedEventsSnapshot().last { $0["hook_event_name"] as? String == "SessionStart" },
"Expected SessionStart feed telemetry, saw \(context.state.commandsSnapshot())"
)
let sentAtMs = try #require((event["_hook_sent_at_ms"] as? NSNumber)?.int64Value, "event=\(event)")
#expect(sentAtMs > 0, "event=\(event)")
#expect(event["agent_id"] as? String == "subagent-7", "event=\(event)")
}
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Update `feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity` to remove the
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the elapsed-duration assertion.

Line 842 asserts startedAt.duration(to: .now) < .seconds(4). The test guidelines ban assertions on a measured wall-clock duration. The done wait with a deadline and the .unavailable result already prove that supersession happened before the 5-second timeout. A timeout would return .timedOut, not .unavailable.

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-        #expect(startedAt.duration(to: .now) < .seconds(4))

Also remove let startedAt = ContinuousClock.now at Line 799.

As per coding guidelines: "An assertion on a measured wall-clock duration, or a hard absolute latency ceiling on shared CI."

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Review comment at @cmuxTests/FeedCoordinatorTests.swift at line 842:
Remove the measured-duration assertion using startedAt and its now-unused
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CI failure attribution

CI passes on 67903988ae (run 36395892539 attempt 2).

Written by scripts/ci/classify_failures.py (ci-failure-attribution.yml); signatures are its SIGNATURES table. A machine verdict is the runner's fault, not this PR's.

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CI note: the only real failure is AgentSemanticNotificationDeliveryTests.feedToolResultDoesNotReopenSettledCompletion (expects .idle, gets .running) in the "agent notification semantics" step. That test and the code it covers (AgentNotificationReconciler, AgentFeedSemanticInput) are not touched here; the area last changed in #14522 yesterday. The step runs suites under set -e, so FeedWaiterRegistryTests never ran after it. The other three failures are status roll-ups of that step. The new FeedCoordinatorTests.laterClaudeHookRetiresPermissionDecidedOutsideFeed and ClaudeHookFeedTelemetrySwiftTests.feedTelemetryCarriesSendStampAndAgentIdentity passed. The fleet dev build of 4070693 succeeded (job 97922773e69f4ea588f1efb4, tag pr-15170-needs-input-v1, artifact sha256:57dc2afc…).

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The only failing check, AgentSemanticNotificationDeliveryTests.feedToolResultDoesNotReopenSettledCompletion, is not caused by this PR:

  • It fails for both claude and codex (declaredPhase is .running, expected .idle). This PR only touches Claude hook paths.
  • Its change to WorkstreamEvent+FeedIngress.swift only adds read-only accessors (feedHookSentAtMs, feedAgentID), which AgentFeedSemanticInput does not use.
  • No commit on main has touched the reconciler, AgentFeedSemanticInput or that test since this branch's merge base (55b4049).

This looks like a regression already on main: a late PostToolUse after turnCompleted flips the phase back to running. It's being fixed separately.

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Dogfood build of 67903988aeff49501c9648df68e08bd5fd858f9d

cmux DEV pr-15170-67903988.app

The link opens this exact commit in the cmux dev menu bar app. The build starts on each push and the page waits until it is ready; a newer push replaces it. It signs in against production, so Cloud or backend changes still need a tagged build with a development backend.

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Merge receipt for 67903988ae: every check was green at merge (17 verified; 15 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
4e0f7d2 fix(bash): keep $? for PROMPT_COMMAND hooks after cmux's (manaflow-ai#15255)
ae49bf5 fix(examples): show custom description in Project Worktrees sidebar (manaflow-ai#15256)
a9a229d Add cross-provider token usage accounting for agent transcripts (manaflow-ai#15332)
860619f Add a .worktreeinclude reader for seeding new worktrees (manaflow-ai#15413)
3edbd83 Clear the stale Needs input badge when Claude's permission is decided in the terminal (manaflow-ai#15170)
9ed9294 CodeRouter: hold capacity errors on the same model instead of failing fast (manaflow-ai#15310)
56d4547 docs: add a front door for outside contributors (manaflow-ai#15263)
799f906 fix(ci): recognize GUI token acquisition failures (manaflow-ai#15449)
f118d43 ci: age parked builds by measured reuse distance (manaflow-ai#15616)
1f6744d ci: harden overflow switch recovery (manaflow-ai#15617)
9987778 Predicted echo: remote terminals only, withdraw on pasted and sent input (manaflow-ai#15211)
d9e199b Subtle selection follow-ups: group header hairline, no focus re-render for legacy rows, cmux.json test (manaflow-ai#15195)
c13afe1 test: cover UTF-8 workspace create commands (manaflow-ai#15622)
e76a660 fix: preserve Claude remote-control names on restore (manaflow-ai#15619)
900f248 feat: expose cmux-owned scratch metadata in session listing (manaflow-ai#15615)
b5604fa ci: say why compiled-product reuse refused an artifact (manaflow-ai#15553)

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