UI fuzzer: seeded action sequences, oracles, minimized repros and deduplicated issues

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Adds a seeded UI fuzzer for cmux DEV builds, meant to run unattended on idle Macs.

scripts/fuzz run --app <cmux DEV.app> drives the app through random but valid steps: splits, pane focus, resize, swap and zoom, tab create, close, move, reorder and drag, divider drags, workspaces, the sidebar, the command palette, terminal typing bursts, window resize, new window and full screen, browser splits and Settings. Pointer steps go through cua-driver, the rest through the debug socket. After every step it checks for a crash, a main-thread hang, fatal log lines, the bonsplit underflow counter, memory growth and layout invariants (panes tile the window, no zero-size or overlapping views, one focused pane, the socket's tab model matches bonsplit's). A failure is replayed from a fresh app, delta-minimized, and replayed once more with a frame per step.

scripts/fuzz issue <finding> [--file] searches cmux issues for the finding's signature marker, comments on a match (reopening a closed one) or files a new [fuzz] issue with the steps in words, the repro JSON and the frames, uploaded to pr-media. Issue text is scrubbed of host, user and fleet names, and the app runs with a sandboxed home and a bare prompt so frames show no files.

The app is the fuzzer's own child, so a scheduler that kills the process group ends it. The fleet side is in glaeda (idle-warm runs it when a mini has nothing to warm, and every CI job preempts it) and the collector in cmuxterm-hq; neither is in this repo.

First findings, from one 10-minute run against a main build (both minimized to 1 and 3 steps and replayed): #15346 (the terminal area collapses to zero width at a 320 pt window) and #15347 (a pane of three stacked splits collapses to 0x0 at a 200 pt tall window).

A staged copy of a Debug build launches with DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH set to its own Frameworks, because the debug dylib's absolute DerivedData rpath comes first and a later compile there leaves mismatched frameworks. Three launch failures in a row end the run (exit 2).

Tests: tests/test_ui_fuzzer_engine.py (generation, oracles, log scan, ddmin, signatures, launch failures, issue text) runs in the ui-fuzzer verify-local check. The engine itself ran on fleet minis against DEV builds; no app code changes here.

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Summary by cubic

Adds a seeded UI fuzzer that drives cmux DEV builds through random action sequences on idle Macs and files minimized, deduplicated issues for the bugs it finds, with no app code changes.

New Features

• scripts/fuzz run --app <cmux DEV.app> runs random but valid steps — splits, pane focus, resize, swap, zoom, tabs, workspaces, sidebar, palette, terminal typing, window actions, browser splits, Settings — through cua-driver for pointer steps and the debug socket otherwise.
• After every step it checks for crashes, main-thread hangs, fatal log lines, the bonsplit underflow counter, memory growth, and layout invariants (panes tile the window, no zero-size or overlapping views, one focused pane, the socket's tab model matching bonsplit's).
• Failures are replayed from a fresh app, delta-minimized, and replayed once more with a frame per step; Stop ends a run mid-capture. A clean quit or closing the last window ends the session instead of filing a finding.
• Staged builds are launched with their embedded Frameworks (a kept build's rpath can otherwise pull mismatched dylibs once DerivedData is reused); three launch failures in a row end the run, exiting 2 when no session ever started, and an app that never comes up is stopped before the run gives up.
• scripts/fuzz issue dedupes findings by a signature marker against open and closed cmux issues, commenting on a match (reopening closed ones unless closed as not planned) or filing a new [fuzz] issue with the steps, repro JSON, and frames.
• Issue text and frames are scrubbed of host, user, and fleet names; the app runs in a sandboxed home with a bare prompt.
• The app runs as the fuzzer's own child, so a scheduler that kills the process group ends a run; fleet scheduling and collection live in glaeda and cmuxterm-hq outside this repo.
• The pure engine (generation, oracles, ddmin, signatures, issue text) is covered by a new ui-fuzzer check in verify-local.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a macOS UI fuzzer that runs randomized app interactions and checks for crashes, hangs, memory growth, and layout or tab inconsistencies.
  • Failed runs can be replayed and minimized into shorter reproductions, with screenshots and diagnostic evidence retained.
  • Added commands to run fuzz sessions, replay findings, check regressions, and prepare deduplicated issue reports.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on running the fuzzer, replaying findings, and verifying reproductions.
• Tests
  • Added engine tests that run without launching the app.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This pull request adds a UI fuzzer for cmux DEV builds. It generates and executes seeded actions, checks app logs and layout state, captures and minimizes reproducible failures, and provides commands to replay findings and report them as issues.

Changes

UI Fuzzing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
App sessions and interaction adapters dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/app.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/sock.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/cua.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/runner.py	Adds isolated app launch and shutdown, Unix-socket communication, CUA-driver operations, and pointer geometry helpers.
Seeded action generation and execution dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/actions.py	Adds weighted seeded actions and execution across panes, surfaces, workspaces, pointer input, terminal, windows, browsers, and settings.
Failure signatures and post-step oracles dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/signature.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/geometry.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/oracles.py	Adds normalized failure signatures and checks for log errors, hangs, bonsplit underflow, layout mismatches, and pane geometry problems.
Session checks, replay, and minimization dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/runner.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/minimize.py	Adds step execution and checking, evidence capture, finding deduplication, reproduction checks, and bounded action-sequence minimization.
CLI, area selection, and finding reports dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/areas.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/cli.py, dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/triage.py, scripts/fuzz, dogfood/fuzz/README.md	Adds run, replay, regression, and issue commands; action-area weighting; scrubbed issue reporting; and usage documentation.
Engine tests and verification wiring tests/test_ui_fuzzer_engine.py, tests/test-execution.toml, scripts/verify-local.py	Adds engine tests and registers them in the local verification and regression test lanes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FuzzCLI as cmuxfuzz.cli
  participant Fuzzer
  participant AppSession
  participant CmuxSocket
  participant Executor
  participant Checker
  participant Oracles as cmuxfuzz.oracles
  FuzzCLI->>Fuzzer: start seeded run
  Fuzzer->>AppSession: launch DEV app
  AppSession->>CmuxSocket: check socket readiness
  Fuzzer->>Executor: execute generated action
  Executor->>CmuxSocket: send app command
  Fuzzer->>Checker: check after step
  Checker->>Oracles: evaluate logs, heartbeat, and layout

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b1d59

This adds an internal UI fuzzer and does not change the shipped app. A few defects can make it miss some failures, report false ones, or stop a run early. These should be fixed as follow-ups, but they do not affect users.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to b1d59

The fuzzer requests broad local access to the app it launches. On a Mac where another local user can run processes, that may expose the app’s controls to that user. Reports can also publish screenshots without image redaction. Managed restrictions and the use of dedicated fleet Macs may limit exposure, but their effective deployment is not established here.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: The new fuzzer launch requests an unauthenticated, cross-user-capable local control socket for its unattended app child. Exposure is conditional on managed policy and local access to the Mac; network reachability is not shown.
• Medium · security · inferred: Default sessions reuse tag-derived socket and sandbox paths, while startup kills other instances of the same executable. Concurrent runs can interfere with each other’s process and socket ownership; cleanup of descendants is not established.
• Medium · security · inferred: Filing a new issue uploads replay frames as raw bytes to a public media branch. Text is scrubbed and the app uses a neutral home and prompt, but no equivalent image-redaction check is shown before publication; actual disclosure is not established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The requested allowAll mode can extend control of the fuzzer child to other local users on the same Mac, not to remote network clients on the evidence reviewed. The child also inherits host environment variables outside three filtered prefixes.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A different local user could reach the child’s control socket if allowAll is effective and the listener is active. The recorded security candidate remains deferred: live fleet policy, listener permissions and an actual attack path have not been verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Managed policy can restrict or disable the socket despite the fuzzer’s environment. Filing requires the issue command’s file option; issue text passes through a scrubber, but uploaded frame bytes do not.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Handled launch failures and normal runner exits stop the direct child, but shared tag paths and executable-wide recovery leave concurrent-run isolation and descendant cleanup dependent on fleet scheduling.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Use the narrowest socket mode that supports fuzzing, give each run uniquely owned paths and cleanup, and apply a privacy check to frames before public upload.

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❌ Failed checks (3 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	❌ Error	The PR introduces fixed timing waits and polling in the new Python fuzz runtime. actions.py sleeps after opening the command palette and Settings before issuing the next action. app.py polls socke…	Remove the synchronization sleeps and fixed polling loops from the runtime path. Make each owner expose a completion signal: use a socket/UI state acknowledgement for palette, Settings, fullscreen, and layout transitions; use process/socket…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/app.py:234-248 rebuilds and filters every matching hang-sample file, then sorts the result. runner.py:244 calls this process-sampling path every 10 fuzz steps. The global han…	Use a session-owned or current-PID indexed hang-sample source and keep a cached, bounded candidate set. Select the newest sample without sorting the full global directory on every check. If a directory scan is unavoidable, add an explicit r…
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR adds public GitHub issue Markdown and human-readable repro text in dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/triage.py (issue_body, issue_title, and comment text) and dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/actions.py (`des…	Move the issue title, issue body, comment text, and action descriptions into locale-specific message keys. Resolve those keys at runtime with an explicit locale and preserve protocol markers, commands, signatures, and JSON tokens as literal…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 13.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 207 functions across 14 files. (3 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (21 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
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 only the UI fuzzer, its test wiring, and verification configuration. It does not change Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, manual Ghostty admission, attachment input rou…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The pull request changes no .swift files. It adds Python fuzzer code, scripts, documentation, and tests only, so it introduces no production Swift actor-isolation change.
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes no Swift, Objective-C, or runtime source files. It adds Python fuzzer code, documentation, a script, and test/verification configuration only. Therefore it introduces no…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The PR adds Python fuzzer actions that call existing browser.open_split and browser.navigate socket methods. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift, `ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.s…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff contains no Swift files. It adds Python fuzzer files, a script, tests, and configuration changes only. Therefore, it cannot introduce an expensive synchronous…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff contains only Python, Markdown, TOML, and an extensionless script. It contains no changed Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript production files, so the cache-substitution c…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The authoritative PR diff contains no Swift files. It adds Python fuzzer code, documentation, a script, and test/configuration files only. Therefore, the PR does not introduce or expand legacy async p…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff contains no Swift files and adds no Swift concurrency declarations or call sites. The changes are Python, Markdown, TOML, and a script entry point, so `.github/review-b…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff contains no Swift, SwiftPM, or Xcode project changes. It adds Python fuzzer code, scripts, documentation, and tests only, so the Swift package-boundary rule does not apply.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff contains only fuzzer, script, and test changes. It does not modify Package.swift, Package.resolved, Xcode project files, .gitignore, workflows, or dependency manifests. The…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes no Swift files. All changed implementation files are Python, shell, Markdown, TOML, or tests, so the production Swift logging rules do not apply. The observed Python stdout an…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only dogfood/fuzz/**, scripts/fuzz, verification configuration, and tests. It does not change cmux app UI, product CLI, or product API code. The output and diagnostics in `scr…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only Python, shell, Markdown, TOML, and test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI files, so the SwiftUI state/layout rules do not apply.
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff adds and modifies only Python, shell, Markdown, TOML, and test files. It contains no Swift files or Swift project wiring, so the Swift architectural-rethink failure condit…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS — the reviewed diff contains no Swift, Objective-C, window, or panel source changes. It only adds the Python UI fuzzer, scripts, documentation, and tests, so it does not add or materially change …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff adds only hand-written Python source, a fuzzer entry-point script, documentation, test wiring, and a unit-test file. All added paths are regular text files under dogfood/fuzz, scripts, or…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes no Swift files and no files under a production Sources/ path. Therefore, it cannot introduce a test or debug seam covered by this check.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: a seeded UI fuzzer with action sequences, oracles, minimized reproductions, and issue deduplication.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the fuzzer behavior, testing, operational constraints, findings, and scope. It is on-topic and substantially complete, but it omits the template's explicit Changelog, …

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 13.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 207 functions across 14 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux No Hacky Sleeps

Explanation

The PR introduces fixed timing waits and polling in the new Python fuzz runtime. actions.py sleeps after opening the command palette and Settings before issuing the next action. app.py polls socket/window readiness and crash-report files with fixed sleeps, then adds a 2.5-second launch settle sleep. cua.py polls daemon status with a shell sleep 0.5. runner.py sleeps before layout checks and for fixed layout confirmation. These waits hide palette, startup, filesystem, daemon, rendering, and shared-state readiness gaps. They are not test-only scaffolding or cancellation-aware readiness abstractions. The fullscreen animation delay is presentation-only and is not the basis for this failure.

Resolution

Remove the synchronization sleeps and fixed polling loops from the runtime path. Make each owner expose a completion signal: use a socket/UI state acknowledgement for palette, Settings, fullscreen, and layout transitions; use process/socket readiness events for app startup; use a daemon readiness notification or descriptor for cua-driver; and use a filesystem event or crash-report owner signal for crash reports. Wrap any unavoidable bounded wait in one cancellation-aware readiness abstraction with tests, and make scheduler cancellation interrupt every wait.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/app.py:234-248 rebuilds and filters every matching hang-sample file, then sorts the result. runner.py:244 calls this process-sampling path every 10 fuzz steps. The global hang directory has no size bound or cached snapshot, so the work is O(H log H) per heavy check for H accumulated files. This violates the rule for repeated sorting/filtering in process-sampling paths.

Resolution

Use a session-owned or current-PID indexed hang-sample source and keep a cached, bounded candidate set. Select the newest sample without sorting the full global directory on every check. If a directory scan is unavoidable, add an explicit retention or scan bound and document the measurement.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds public GitHub issue Markdown and human-readable repro text in dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/triage.py (issue_body, issue_title, and comment text) and dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/actions.py (describe). These strings are hard-coded in English and are emitted as rendered Markdown for public issues. The changed files contain no locale source, next-intl usage, or message entries. The PR also does not update the 20 locales listed in web/i18n/routing.ts and web/messages/. No Swift or app string-catalog files changed, and the README and tests are exempt, but the generated public Markdown is a changed user-facing surface under the rule.

Resolution

Move the issue title, issue body, comment text, and action descriptions into locale-specific message keys. Resolve those keys at runtime with an explicit locale and preserve protocol markers, commands, signatures, and JSON tokens as literal values. Add matching translated entries to every supported locale in web/messages/ (en, ja, zh-CN, zh-TW, ko, de, es, fr, it, da, pl, ru, bs, ar, no, pt-BR, th, tr, km, and uk), using the locale registry in web/i18n/routing.ts as the source of truth.

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Review comments at @dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/cua.py:
- Line 55: Resolve self.binary before deriving the application bundle in the
startup flow, so symlinked driver paths locate the actual .app bundle; use that
resolved bundle in the open invocation.

Review comments at @dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/oracles.py:
- Around line 31-41: Update scan_log to accept the disabled keys and continue
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returning it. Pass Checker.disabled from Checker.after_step into scan_log and
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- Around line 121-126: Update layout_problems so panes with no surface_ids are
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selected_surface_id belongs to ids for panes that contain surfaces.

Review comments at @dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/runner.py:
- Around line 585-587: Update replay to retain the SessionResult returned by
run_steps and pass it to fz._evidence in the finally block instead of passing
None, so replay failures save their evidence. Preserve the existing return
behavior and session cleanup.
- Around line 432-436: Ensure SIGTERM during capture is reflected in the saved
summary: before writing summary.json, set summary["stopped"] to true whenever
self.stopping is true, while preserving any existing true value set by the Stop
handler.

Review comments at @dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/sock.py:
- Around line 54-59: Update the reply parsing after `line = buf.split(...)` to
catch `json.JSONDecodeError` from `json.loads(line)` and raise `SocketError` for
the malformed reply, preserving the original exception as the cause. Keep the
existing handling for empty lines and unsuccessful replies unchanged.

Review comments at @dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/triage.py:
- Line 148: Update the `scrub` call used to format `finding.get('detail')` so it
receives the same `redact` setting as the later body scrub, keeping detail and
title fallback behavior unchanged.

Review comments at @scripts/verify-local.py:
- Line 61: Add tests/test_ui_fuzzer_engine.py to the ui-fuzzer input declaration
in affected_checks, alongside the existing dogfood/fuzz/** and scripts/fuzz
inputs. Keep the existing matching behavior unchanged.

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• dogfood/fuzz/cmuxfuzz/signature.py
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