Restore the Cloud template terminal in place after a daemon restart

[lawrencecchen]

After any daemon restart on a Cloud machine (crash restart or in-place upgrade), the daemon placed the adopted snapshot template terminal a second time. The result: the log loops template terminal ... not published yet: resource patch changes tab:... more than once, and every public mutation (workspace.create, new-tab) returns mutation.indeterminate. Debug builds panic with duplicate tab public id.

Cause: claim_template_terminal marks the durable row {"template_terminal": true}, and the marker stays. finish_terminal_adoption checked the marker before it checked for restored placements. So each later start added a new screen for a terminal whose placement was already restored, and the duplicate tab made every resource projection invalid.

Fix: the template branch now runs only when the terminal has no restored placement, which is the first adoption into a fresh registry. Later starts use the normal restore path, and complete_template_adoption republishes the same binding.

Tests, two commits (red then green) on a Blacksmith Testbox:

• New terminal_host_recovery test adopted_template_terminal_is_restored_in_place_after_a_daemon_restart. It adopts a parked template, sends SIGTERM to the daemon, and restarts it. Then it requires workspace.create to succeed, the template workspace to keep one screen with the same terminal id, and the warm host to be kept. Before the fix, the restarted daemon panicked with duplicate tab public id.
• Full cargo test --locked --no-fail-fast: 32 failures on the base and 32 with the fix. They differ by one flaky test on each side, and finish_terminal_reader_does_not_self_join_reaper passes 5 of 5 when run alone. Clippy is clean for cmux-tui-core and cmux-tui.

Found while testing #15163 on live Freestyle VMs: the wedge appeared on every VM after a restart, on ed554c8 and on main.

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Summary by cubic

Restores an adopted Cloud template terminal in place after a daemon restart instead of placing it a second time.

The template marker stays on the durable terminal row, so every later start (crash or in-place upgrade) gave the already-placed terminal a second placement. The duplicate tab made every resource projection invalid: the template completion looped with template terminal ... not published yet, public mutations like workspace.create returned mutation.indeterminate, and debug builds panicked with duplicate tab public id. Template placement now runs only on first adoption into a fresh registry; later starts restore the existing placement.

Tests

• Adds a terminal_host_recovery test that adopts a parked template, SIGTERMs the daemon, and restarts it.
• Asserts workspace.create succeeds, the template workspace keeps one screen with the same terminal id, the warm host is kept, and the then-starting a new workspace is unaffected.
• Confirms the shell survived both restarts and is still running with the same incarnation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Restored template terminals now keep their existing screen placement instead of appearing on an additional screen.
  • Adopted Cloud workspaces retain their single-screen layout and terminal content across repeated daemon restarts.
  • Restored terminals remain running and retain their host information after restart.
  • Creating another workspace after a restart no longer disrupts the restored workspace.

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Walkthrough

Template terminals with an existing restored placement no longer enter the new-screen placement branch. A regression test covers daemon restart, retained placement and content resource ID, and creation of another workspace.

Changes

Template Terminal Recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Placement guard and recovery validation cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/tests/terminal_host_recovery.rs	The placement branch now requires that no restored placement exists. The regression test checks the Cloud workspace’s screen count and content resource ID after restart, then checks workspace and host-record counts and the original host PID after creating another workspace.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cecb8

The recovery behavior has no established production failure, but a stalled daemon shutdown could hang the test. Bound the wait and strengthen the restart assertion.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cecb8

The change appears to prevent a restarted daemon from placing the same Cloud terminal twice. It does not add a production entrypoint or expand terminal authority. Recovery after less common partial failures remains less certain than the normal restart path.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The visible effect is confined to recovery of the daemon's terminal placement and subsequent workspace mutations; the changed test is not an independently reachable production entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The changed branch does not remove the adoption checks for durable lifecycle, incarnation, or matching terminal-host identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Restored-runtime insertion is not explicitly rolled back if a later placement step fails after the first surface is inserted. The restored-binding reader checks placement tab identities beforehand, reducing one such failure route; an introduced or worsened failure relative to the prior template-restart behavior was not established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider making multi-placement runtime insertion rollback-safe on every error and exercising a failure after its first insertion, so recovery retries cannot inherit partially materialized state.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically describes the main change: restoring the Cloud template terminal in place after a daemon restart.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff only changes Cloud template adoption placement: it uses the existing restored-placement path when a placement already exists, and keeps the first-adoption placement path otherwise. It d…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only two Rust files: mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs. The diff contains no Swift files or Swift production changes, so it cannot introduce or worsen the specified Swi…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two Rust files (mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs). It introduces no production Swift changes. The test-only polling uses std::thread::sleep, which the che…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust terminal-adoption logic and a terminal recovery test. The diff does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, `sock…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed diff changes only two Rust files under cmux-tui. It adds a placement condition in mux.rs and a Rust recovery test. No production Swift files or synchronous agent-history loads are…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust files (mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs). The custom check applies only to production Swift, TypeScript, and JavaScript changes, so it is not applicabl…
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Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff only adds !has_restored_placements to an existing branch in Rust. It introduces no nested collection scan, batch rescan, sort/filter loop, join, or slower algorithm. The pl…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust files (cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs). It introduces no cmux-owned Swift code, so it cannot introduce or expand the listed Swift c…
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Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only two Rust files: cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs and cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/tests/terminal_host_recovery.rs. It changes no SwiftPM package, `Package.resolve…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust files (mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs). It adds no Swift logging or production Swift code, so the cmux Swift logging conditions do not apply.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The production diff changes only the adoption condition and developer comments in mux.rs; it adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery copy. The added regression …
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Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust files (mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs). It introduces no SwiftUI code, state, layout measurement, lazy-row store reference, or render-time state muta…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two Rust files: mux.rs and terminal_host_recovery.rs. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or SwiftUI/AppKit architecture changes. Therefore the Swift…
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Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff changes only two existing Rust source files: cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs and cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/tests/terminal_host_recovery.rs. The changes are hand-written product lo…
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Review comments at @cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/tests/terminal_host_recovery.rs:
- Line 4804: Bound the shutdown wait in the terminal host recovery test: replace
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