cmux-tui: route agent hooks from tmux sessions started outside cmux-tui - #15209
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWhen ChangesAgent hook routing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentHook
participant HookHelper as cmux-tui-hook
participant Tmux
participant ClientEnv as tmux client process environment
participant Journal as cmux-tui journal socket
AgentHook->>HookHelper: Invoke installed helper
HookHelper->>Tmux: Query pane session and clients
Tmux-->>HookHelper: Return candidate client details
HookHelper->>ClientEnv: Read candidate CMUX_TUI_SOCKET and CMUX_TUI_TERMINAL_ID
ClientEnv-->>HookHelper: Return routing values
HookHelper->>Journal: Append event using selected route
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to On tmux servers with enough clients to fill the output pipe, hooks may wait for the timeout and miss the attached route. This is a bounded merge risk worth fixing or explicitly accepting. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Routing now works for externally started tmux sessions, but when several eligible clients are attached, an agent event can be attributed to a different terminal. The apparent exposure is within clients sharing a tmux server, rather than a demonstrated cross-user boundary. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/bin/cmux-tui-hook.rs:
- Around line 239-261: Update run_tmux to drain the child’s piped stdout
concurrently while polling try_wait, so large output cannot block tmux from
exiting. Preserve the existing deadline and kill behavior, and return the
collected output only after successful completion.
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| let mut child = Command::new("tmux") | ||
| .args(args) | ||
| .stdin(Stdio::null()) | ||
| .stdout(Stdio::piped()) | ||
| .stderr(Stdio::null()) | ||
| .spawn() | ||
| .ok()?; | ||
| loop { | ||
| match child.try_wait() { | ||
| Ok(Some(status)) if status.success() => break, | ||
| Ok(None) if Instant::now() < deadline => { | ||
| std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5)); | ||
| } | ||
| _ => { | ||
| let _ = child.kill(); | ||
| let _ = child.wait(); | ||
| return None; | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| let mut output = String::new(); | ||
| child.stdout.take()?.read_to_string(&mut output).ok()?; | ||
| Some(output) |
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Drain tmux stdout while waiting for the child to exit.
run_tmux waits with try_wait before it reads the piped stdout. If list-clients output is larger than the pipe buffer (about 64 KiB on Linux), tmux blocks on its write. The child then never exits. The loop keeps polling until the 1.5 s deadline, kills tmux, and returns None. On a server with many clients, each hook waits the full budget and then loses the attached route.
Read stdout on a separate thread, or read it before you wait. Keep the deadline kill.
🐛 Proposed fix
- loop {
+ let mut stdout = child.stdout.take()?;
+ let reader = std::thread::spawn(move || {
+ let mut output = String::new();
+ stdout.read_to_string(&mut output).ok().map(|_| output)
+ });
+ loop {
match child.try_wait() {
Ok(Some(status)) if status.success() => break,
@@
_ => {
let _ = child.kill();
let _ = child.wait();
return None;
}
}
}
- let mut output = String::new();
- child.stdout.take()?.read_to_string(&mut output).ok()?;
- Some(output)
+ reader.join().ok().flatten()📝 Committable suggestion
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| let mut child = Command::new("tmux") | |
| .args(args) | |
| .stdin(Stdio::null()) | |
| .stdout(Stdio::piped()) | |
| .stderr(Stdio::null()) | |
| .spawn() | |
| .ok()?; | |
| loop { | |
| match child.try_wait() { | |
| Ok(Some(status)) if status.success() => break, | |
| Ok(None) if Instant::now() < deadline => { | |
| std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5)); | |
| } | |
| _ => { | |
| let _ = child.kill(); | |
| let _ = child.wait(); | |
| return None; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| let mut output = String::new(); | |
| child.stdout.take()?.read_to_string(&mut output).ok()?; | |
| Some(output) | |
| let mut child = Command::new("tmux") | |
| .args(args) | |
| .stdin(Stdio::null()) | |
| .stdout(Stdio::piped()) | |
| .stderr(Stdio::null()) | |
| .spawn() | |
| .ok()?; | |
| let mut stdout = child.stdout.take()?; | |
| let reader = std::thread::spawn(move || { | |
| let mut output = String::new(); | |
| stdout.read_to_string(&mut output).ok().map(|_| output) | |
| }); | |
| loop { | |
| match child.try_wait() { | |
| Ok(Some(status)) if status.success() => break, | |
| Ok(None) if Instant::now() < deadline => { | |
| std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5)); | |
| } | |
| _ => { | |
| let _ = child.kill(); | |
| let _ = child.wait(); | |
| return None; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| reader.join().ok().flatten() |
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Review comment at @cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui/src/bin/cmux-tui-hook.rs around
lines 239 - 261:
Update run_tmux to drain the child’s piped stdout concurrently while polling
try_wait, so large output cannot block tmux from exiting. Preserve the existing
deadline and kill behavior, and return the collected output only after
successful completion.
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An agent in a tmux server that never ran in a cmux-tui terminal (started by a launcher over SSH, for example) has no CMUX_TUI_HOOK, so its installed hooks were no-ops even while a cmux-tui terminal had the session attached, and the sidebar never showed its status. The installed hook command now falls back to the installed helper when TMUX is set. The helper routes the event to the cmux-tui terminal whose tmux client shows the pane (then the most recently active client of the session or its group), reading that client's session socket and terminal id from /proc. Codex trust hashes of the previous command shape stay cmux-owned so an upgrade replaces them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ui (#15209) An agent in a tmux server that never ran in a cmux-tui terminal (started by a launcher over SSH, for example) has no CMUX_TUI_HOOK, so its installed hooks were no-ops even while a cmux ssh terminal had the session attached, and the sidebar never showed its status. The installed hook command now falls back to the installed helper when TMUX is set and CMUX_TUI_HOOK is not. When the pane has no session environment, the helper routes the event to the cmux-tui terminal whose tmux client shows the pane (then the most recently active client of the session or its group), reading that client's session socket and terminal id from /proc, within a 500 ms budget. Codex trust hashes of the previous command shape stay cmux-owned so an upgrade replaces them. Also carries a rustfmt fix for a ghostty-vt line on main. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2e0750b Localization: read Swift multi-line help defaults in the change helper (manaflow-ai#15265) b7ff006 Recover agent sessions from the journal after an unclean exit (manaflow-ai#14870) d960a13 cmux-tui: route agent hooks from tmux sessions started outside cmux-tui (manaflow-ai#15209) b36339a Add a timed Cloud VM dogfood journey workflow (manaflow-ai#15242)
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Agents running in a tmux session on an SSH host now drive the Mac sidebar when a
cmux sshterminal has that session attached, even if the tmux server was started outside cmux-tui (for example by a launcher over SSH). This is the cmux-tui counterpart of the tmux routing #14974 added for relay workspaces.What was broken
cmux sshterminals exportCMUX_TUI_HOOK,CMUX_TUI_SOCKETandCMUX_TUI_TERMINAL_ID, and the installed hook command is"${CMUX_TUI_HOOK:-:}" <agent> <event>. A tmux server started outside a cmux-tui terminal passes none of those variables to its panes. Attaching it later withtmux attachin a cmux-tui terminal doesn't change the env of the agents already running there. So every hook was a no-op, the daemon's agent roster stayed empty, and the sidebar (fed by that roster since #14902) showed no Running / Needs input / Idle.A launcher that passes its own
--settingsandCLAUDE_CONFIG_DIRstill merges the user's~/.claude/settings.jsonhooks, so the installed hooks do load. They just had nowhere to send events.Change
Hook command (
agent_hook_install.rs). WhenCMUX_TUI_HOOKis unset butTMUXis set, the command runs the installed helper at${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/cmux-tui/bin/cmux-tui-hook(the same pathagent hook installwrites). Outside tmux it stays a process-free:. The command is still byte-identical betweenagent hook installand the Claude wrapper's--settings, so Claude Code still runs it once. Codex trust hashes for the previous command shape stay cmux-owned, so an upgrade replaces those entries instead of leaving them behind.Helper (
cmux-tui-hook.rs). Inside tmux, the helper finds the tmux clients attached to the pane's session, or to a session grouped with it:/proc/<pid>/environ, same user only) namesCMUX_TUI_SOCKETandCMUX_TUI_TERMINAL_ID;cmux sshpane runningtmux attach.A pane that already has
CMUX_TUI_SOCKETkeeps using its own environment, so a tmux server started from a cmux-tui terminal, or cmux-tui running inside tmux, behaves as before. Both tmux queries share a 500 ms budget (it comes out of the provider's hook budget; codex kills SessionEnd hooks at 3 s) and are killed at the deadline. The route is Linux only. Each event is routed on its own, so after the session is attached from another terminal, the next event reports there.Docs (
cmux-tui/docs/agent-hooks.md): a new section, "Agents in a tmux session started elsewhere".Agents started before the hooks are reinstalled pick this up on their next start.
cmux sshreinstalls the hooks on every connect (remote-link --agent-hooks).Dogfood
This ran on a Linux SSH host, with the daemon and tmux, launcher and Claude Code 2.1.283 all real. There's one run each with the released cmux-tui (
847c919) and with this branch's CI build (de34fd6,x86_64-unknown-linux-musl):cmux sshtalks to. Theclaudehooks are installed the normal way (agent hook install claude).CMUX_TUI_*.tmux attachto it.--settings. It is given one Bash turn.cmux agent listis read mid-turn and after the turn, and the cmux-tui client view is captured.[][][{"terminal_id":"term_27ad…","state":"working"}][{"terminal_id":"term_27ad…","state":"idle"}]That roster is what the Mac projects into the sidebar for
cmux sshpanes (#14902). The client view shows the finished turn as the unseen dot on the workspace and tab only with this PR:The after run, working then finished:
Captured from the cmux-tui client with
tmux capture-pane -eand rendered to PNG. The launcher's account status line and the host name are blanked. I also fired each installed hook command by hand in the pane (SessionStart,UserPromptSubmit,Stopwith Claude-shaped payloads) and got the same result:[]before,workingthenidleafter.Not dogfooded: the Mac sidebar itself. That needs a Mac app build connected to a Linux SSH host, and no build-fleet Mac can reach one right now. The Mac side of this path (#14902, roster to sidebar) is already merged and unchanged here.
The full cmux-tui gate on this head fails only in
ordered_resize_replay_recovers_from_stale_initial_replayand the ghostty-vtpending_wrap_replay_preserves_cursor_with_origin_modebaseline. Both fail the same way on other branches off current main.Evidence
"${CMUX_TUI_HOOK:-:}"hooks merged into its launcher settings, and noCMUX_TUI_*in its environment (/proc/<pid>/environ). The daemon's snapshot listed 0 agents./bin/sh::outside tmux, the helper inside tmux (honoringXDG_DATA_HOME), and$CMUX_TUI_HOOKwhenever it is set.tmux_route::selectprefers the client showing the pane, falls back to the newest client of the session group, and skips plain SSH clients, other sessions, and malformed lines./bin/shwithTMUXset and noCMUX_TUI_HOOK, and checks that it reaches the installed helper.🤖 Generated with Claude Code