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fix(cloud): carry the machine author from /api/vm to the machine row's snapshot - #15309

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Part of the Cloud sidebar audit (manaflow-ai/cmuxterm-hq#853, tracking #847). Client half of #15261.

Problem

A Cloud team's machine list is scoped by owner team, so every member sees every member's machines. Nothing said whose was whose, so a shared fleet reads as a pile of generated three-word names. #15261 made the backend publish createdBy on every endpoint that returns a machine. Nothing on the client read it.

What this does

Plumbing only, no display surface yet.

  • VMCreator (userId, displayName) is the client's view of createdBy. The id is kept even when no name is known, so rows by the same person still group together instead of collapsing into one anonymous bucket. The name never falls back to the raw id: an opaque id in place of a name is the same unreadable list this is meant to fix.
  • Decoded on all three endpoints that publish createdBy, not just the list. create and status(id:) each have one caller, the matching socket method, so those two decodes are what cmux vm new --json and cmux vm status --json print. The sidebar reads none of it yet: the panel only ever assigns a whole list result, so a created machine shows its author on the next list refresh and not before.
  • VMSummary.createdBy → MachineSnapshot.createdBy through MachineSnapshotBuilder.snapshot(from:), which is the single mapping site.
  • socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload re-publishes it in the response's own shape, explicit null and all, so a socket client decodes one payload rather than two. vm.list over the socket is how the CLI and remote clients see the fleet; dropping the author there would leave cmux on the command line unable to answer a question the sidebar beside it can.

A malformed or absent author is dropped rather than failing the decode, unlike a missing id or provider. An author is decoration on a row, and a control plane that does not send one must still list.

Tests

cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift covers the three author shapes the backend can send (named account, account with no recorded name, no author at all) at each place the value has to survive: list decode, create receipt, status read, snapshot, socket payload. The fixture's stub gained an authoredList behavior that serves both the list shape and the single-machine shape.

Red at 325ab9e14a3 is a build failure rather than failing assertions, because VMCreator does not exist at that commit and the suite cannot compile. Recorded as what it is rather than dressed up as a behavioral red. Green run at 31201fb169e linked below once it lands.

socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload stops being private so the test can reach it. It had no coverage at all before.

Not here

  • The display surface. The natural home is the machine row's tooltip, which is Give every Cloud sidebar row reachable hover text #15225 and not on main yet; putting it here would conflict.
  • createdBy on the base-open and fork/restore responses. The backend does not send it on those, so decoding it would be speculative.
  • Workspace, terminal and share creator metadata. Those need a cmux-tui protocol change; filed separately.

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Summary by cubic

Carries the machine author that /api/vm publishes into the machine row's snapshot, so a team's shared fleet stops reading as a pile of generated three-word names. Plumbing only; the display surface comes later.

  • Adds VMCreator (userId, displayName) as the client's view of createdBy. The id is kept even when no name is known so rows by the same person group together; the name never falls back to the raw id.
  • Decodes the author on all three machine endpoints. create and status(id:) feed the vm.create and vm.status socket methods rather than the panel (which only assigns whole list results), so decoding only the list would blank the author in cmux vm new --json and cmux vm status --json.
  • Re-publishes createdBy in the socket vm.list payload so the CLI and remote clients see the same facts as the sidebar. An absent author sends no key, a shape narrower than the backend's explicit null, which both readers treat alike.
  • A missing or malformed author is dropped rather than failing the decode; an author is decoration, and a control plane that does not send one must still list.

Tests
CloudMachineCreatorTests pins the three author shapes the backend can send (named, unnamed account, absent) at each hop: list decode, create receipt, status read, snapshot builder, and socket payload.

Not here
The display surface (the machine row tooltip, tracked separately) and createdBy on base-open and fork-merge responses, which the backend does not send.

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  • New Features
    • Cloud machines can now include creator information: a stable user ID and optional display name. This information is available across machine lists, creation and status updates, snapshots, and socket updates.
    • Machines without creator information remain supported; missing or blank display names are treated as optional.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for creator information across cloud responses and updates, including missing or blank fields.

teamleaderleo and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 03:04
A Cloud team's fleet reads as a pile of generated three-word names with no
way to tell whose machine is whose. cmux#15261 made `/api/vm` publish the
author; nothing on the client reads it yet.

These cover the three author shapes the backend can send (a named account,
an account with no recorded name, and no author at all on a control plane
that predates the field) at each place the value has to survive: the list
decode, the create receipt, the status read, the snapshot a row renders
from, and the socket payload.

The create receipt and the status read are here because the review of the
backend change found exactly this bug on that side: a client that appends a
create response to its list, or merges a detail read into a listed row,
drops the author it had and shows a machine as unauthored to the person who
just made it. The same hole exists on this side of the wire.

The `vm.list` socket payload is how the CLI and remote clients see the
fleet. Dropping the author there would leave `cmux` on the command line
unable to answer a question the sidebar beside it can.

The `userId` is kept even when no name is known, so rows by the same person
still group together while they read as unnamed.

Red here is a build failure rather than failing assertions: `VMCreator` does
not exist yet, so the suite cannot compile. Recorded as such rather than
dressed up as a behavioral red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…napshot

`VMCreator` is the client's view of `/api/vm`'s `createdBy`: an account id
that is always there and a display name that often is not. The id is kept
without a name so rows by the same person still group together instead of
collapsing into one anonymous bucket, and the name never falls back to the
raw id, since an opaque id in place of a name is the same unreadable list
this is meant to fix.

Decoded on all three endpoints that return a machine, not just the list.
The panel appends a create receipt to the list it is showing and replaces a
listed row with a status read, so decoding only the list would make the
machine you just made the one row with no author, and would make any
machine go anonymous the moment something polled it.

A malformed or absent author is dropped rather than failing the decode,
unlike a missing `id` or `provider`. An author is decoration on a row; a
control plane that does not send one must still list.

`socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload` re-publishes it in the response's own shape,
explicit null and all, so a socket client decodes one payload rather than
two. It stops being private so the test can check that the CLI is sent the
same machine facts the sidebar gets.

No display surface yet: this is the plumbing, and the row's tooltip that
will show it is in cmux#15225.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds optional VM creator metadata. VM responses populate the metadata, machine snapshots retain it, and socket payloads include it when available.

Changes

VM Creator Metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Creator contract and VM response decoding
Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/VMClient/VMCreator.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/VMClient/VMClient.swift, cmuxTests/CloudRefreshURLProtocol.swift, cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Adds VMCreator and decodes creator information from VM list, create, and status responses. Tests cover creator IDs, optional names, and absent or blank creator fields.
Snapshot creator propagation
Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshot.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshotBuilder.swift, cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift
Adds optional creator information to MachineSnapshot and copies it from VMSummary. Tests cover snapshots with and without creator information.
Socket creator serialization
Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift, cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift
Adds creator information to socket VM summary payloads when present. Tests cover omitted creator fields and null display names.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant VMResponse
  participant VMClient
  participant VMSummary
  participant SnapshotBuilder
  participant MachineSnapshot
  participant SocketPayload
  VMResponse->>VMClient: list, create, or status response
  VMClient->>VMSummary: decode createdBy
  VMSummary->>SnapshotBuilder: provide summary
  SnapshotBuilder->>MachineSnapshot: copy createdBy
  VMSummary->>SocketPayload: serialize createdBy when present
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cf273

Creator metadata follows the checked-in API contract without changing the socket payload for machines lacking an author. No code-level merge blocker was established; confirm required checks pass before merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cf273

The change affects 4 systems.

Changed systems: Packages, cmuxTests, cmux.xcodeproj, Sources

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Systems and components

  • observed — Packages (library) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — cmuxTests (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — cmux.xcodeproj (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — Sources (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshot.swift: The initializer adds an optional createdBy parameter defaulting to nil.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshot.swift: The initializer assigns createdBy to the snapshot property.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshot.swift: MachineSnapshot adds a public optional createdBy property, documented as absent when the catalog discovers a machine or the control plane provides no author.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Machines/MachineSnapshotBuilder.swift: MachineSnapshotBuilder.snapshot now sets the snapshot’s createdBy from summary.createdBy.

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The PR keeps new socket-protocol serialization in the app target. Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift adds the createdBy wire dictionary to TerminalController.socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload… Move the pure VM summary payload encoder, including the createdBy shape, from the TerminalController extension into the CmuxCloud SwiftPM target. Expose a focused public CloudVMSummaryPayload encoder or equivalent first public API, …
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ❌ Error The change adds personal data to user-facing command/API output. VMCreator stores a stable userId and displayName, and socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload now emits both in vm.list, vm.create, an… Keep creator data internal for the future sidebar surface, but do not include createdBy.userId or createdBy.displayName in user-facing socket/CLI payloads. If the CLI must expose authors, add an explicit privacy-approved contract that l…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 38.46% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes carrying the machine author from the API response into the machine snapshot.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, tests, verification limits, and changelog. It does not reproduce the template headings or checklist, but the required information is mostly…
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 pull request changes Cloud VM creator metadata only. The diff adds VMCreator, copies createdBy into MachineSnapshot, and adds the field to an existing VM socket payload. It does not cr…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds VMCreator as an immutable struct conforming to Sendable, and carries it through existing Sendable value models (VMSummary and MachineSnapshot). It adds no se…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds VMCreator data plumbing, snapshot propagation, and socket payload fields only. It introduces no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-q…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes Cloud VM creator metadata and serialization only. The authoritative diff does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, add…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The pull request adds Cloud creator metadata decoding and propagation only. The authoritative diff contains no RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent hook/session store access, transcript or traj…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS: The diff does not replace an authoritative read with a cache. listPage() still performs a fresh GET /api/vm, and the new createdBy value is decoded directly from that response, then copied…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only Swift source/tests and the Xcode project file. The rule covers TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift runtime scripts. No covered-language file or hacky sleep change ap…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff adds constant-work createdBy decoding and field copying. /api/vm still uses one linear items.enumerated().map pass, and the socket payload adds constant-size dictionary const…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request adds synchronous model, decoding, snapshot, and socket-payload logic. The added Swift lines introduce no Dispatch queues, Combine state, completion-handler APIs, or fire-and-for…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The PR introduces no nonisolated async or @concurrent function. VMCreator decoding, snapshot mapping, and socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload remain synchronous helpers. The two new async tests are e…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes source files and registers cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift in cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj. The project patch does not change SwiftPM package references. No `Packag…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The production Swift diff adds creator decoding, snapshot propagation, and socket payload fields, but no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc file/stdout logging, or new Logger declara…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS — The production diff adds VMCreator as machine metadata, decodes it, copies it into snapshots, and relays it in a socket payload. It does not add or change user-facing UI text, localization ke…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes Cloud data models, decoding, socket serialization, fixtures, and tests. It does not add or modify SwiftUI views, ObservableObject/@published state, GeometryReader, lazy/list row s…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds small data plumbing with clear ownership: createdBy is decoded into VMSummary, mapped once by MachineSnapshotBuilder, and stored in the immutable MachineSnapshot. The socket …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes Cloud data models, decoding, socket payloads, project registration, and tests. The authoritative diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window/WindowGroup, cl…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All eight changed paths are intentional source, project configuration, or test code. The new VMCreator.swift source, CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift test, and CloudRefreshURLProtocol.swift fixtur…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed No prohibited production seam was added. The only visibility change is socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload from private to internal in Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift; it remains a real prod…
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Docstring coverage is 38.46% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 7 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR keeps new socket-protocol serialization in the app target. Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift adds the createdBy wire dictionary to TerminalController.socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload, which serves vm.list, vm.create, and vm.status for CLI and remote clients. The PR also makes this pure helper internal so an app-target test can call it. This is independently testable protocol logic, not app-lifecycle composition. The VM model, response parsing, and snapshot mapping are correctly placed in the CmuxCloud SwiftPM target, but the new socket contract is not.

Resolution

Move the pure VM summary payload encoder, including the createdBy shape, from the TerminalController extension into the CmuxCloud SwiftPM target. Expose a focused public CloudVMSummaryPayload encoder or equivalent first public API, and test it in the package test target. Keep only socket command routing and v2CloudCall composition in Sources/Cloud/VMClientSocketCommands.swift.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The change adds personal data to user-facing command/API output. VMCreator stores a stable userId and displayName, and socketWorkerVMSummaryPayload now emits both in vm.list, vm.create, and vm.status responses. Those socket methods are the product CLI path used by cmux vm new --json and cmux vm status --json; the tests confirm values such as user-a and Ada Lovelace. The privacy rule does not exempt personal data forwarded to end users.

Resolution

Keep creator data internal for the future sidebar surface, but do not include createdBy.userId or createdBy.displayName in user-facing socket/CLI payloads. If the CLI must expose authors, add an explicit privacy-approved contract that limits or redacts personal data before serialization.

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Comment thread cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift
The review of this PR caught three comments asserting things the code
does not do.

The create and status sites claimed the panel appends a create receipt
to the list it is showing and replaces a listed row with a status read.
It does neither: `MachinesPanelViewModel.machines` is only ever assigned
a whole `listPage()` result, and both endpoints have exactly one caller
each, the matching socket method. So a created machine shows its author
on the next list refresh, not immediately, and what these two decodes
really feed is `cmux vm new --json` and `cmux vm status --json`.

The socket payload claimed the backend omits `createdBy` when there is
no author. It does not; it sends an explicit null. The payload's shape
is the narrower of the two, which is fine because both readers treat
absent and null alike, but the comment said they were identical and was
backwards on the one case it named.

Also adds `.serialized` to the new suite, matching the other consumer of
the same process-global stub.

No behavior change.

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Review subagent, read-only, over b36339a80a1..31201fb169e, cross-checked against the backend branch in #15261.

It found no functional or compile bug. It found three confident claims in my prose that the code does not support, two of which I had also written into the commit message and the PR body. Fixed in 1c3607fa31f.

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  1. The stated reason for decoding createdBy at the create and status sites was false. I wrote that the panel appends a create receipt to the list it is showing and replaces a listed row with a status read. It does neither. MachinesPanelViewModel.machines is only ever assigned a whole listPage() result, and VMClient.create and VMClient.status(id:) have exactly one non-test caller each: the matching socket method in VMClientSocketCommands.swift. So a created machine shows its author on the next list refresh and not before, and what those two decodes really feed is cmux vm new --json and cmux vm status --json. The backend's own comment on this is correctly hedged ("a client that would merge a detail read…"); I turned that conditional into an assertion about a merge this client does not perform.
  2. "No author means no key, which is what the backend omits" is backwards. The backend never omits createdBy — all three producers spread it unconditionally and creatorFor returns VmCreator | null, so HTTP sends an explicit "createdBy": null. The socket payload sends no key. The behavior is fine (both live readers treat absent and null alike, and the payload is the narrower of the two shapes), but the comment claimed the two shapes were identical and was wrong on the exact case it named.
  3. The new suite had no .serialized, while VMClientReadCoalescingTests — the only other consumer of the same process-global CloudRefreshURLProtocol.responses — does. Marked Speculating because CI runs -parallel-testing-enabled NO, but it is the repo convention and this PR is what creates the second suite.

Fixed: all three, in 1c3607fa31f. The create and status comments now say what those two paths feed and say plainly that the sidebar does not read them. The socket comment now states the actual difference between the two shapes and why it is safe. .serialized added, with a note that the trait orders this suite only and the cross-suite case is covered by CI's non-parallel setting. The same two false claims are corrected in the PR body above, and "all three endpoints that return a machine" is now "all three endpoints that publish createdBy" — base-open, fork and restore also return machines and do not carry the field.

Left:

  • cmux vm ls --json and vm new --json print the raw response, so a teammate's display name now appears in CLI JSON output. docs/cli-contract.md documents vm ls without a field list, so there is nothing to update there, and the Changelog line stays none because no UI shows it yet. Flagging it since it is a wire surface the PR title does not suggest.
  • createdBy is now an input to CloudTreeNodeContentSnapshot diffing through MachineSnapshot, so the first list refresh after the backend starts sending authors costs one extra row rebuild. That refresh already replaces every row, so it costs nothing in practice. No rendered output until Give every Cloud sidebar row reachable hover text #15225 lands the row tooltip.

Verification: python3 scripts/verify-local.py is denied by this session's permission classifier, so local verification was skipped and everything below is CI. Focused run at 1c3607fa31f dispatched; receipt to follow. The red commit 325ab9e14a3 is a build failure rather than failing assertions, because VMCreator does not exist at that commit — recorded that way in the commit message rather than dressed up as a behavioral red.

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CI receipt at the corrected tip 1c3607fa31f:

Green: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36408910967 — cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests cmuxTests/VMClientReadCoalescingTests cmuxTests/MachinesPanelModelTests, success.

The red for the same selection is the build failure at the test-only commit, already recorded above.

Local verification is still not available to me: python3 scripts/verify-local.py is denied by this session's tool policy, so everything here is CI-only.

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CLA Assistant is red here for a fixable reason that is not about the code: two commits on this branch, 325ab9e14a3 and 31201fb169e, are authored by Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> instead of Leo.

Committers of Pull Request number 15309 have to sign the CLA

That identity has no GitHub account, so it can never sign and the check cannot go green while those commits stand. Every other commit on my Cloud sidebar branches is authored correctly; the same slip is on #15307 (226cc732bee) and inherited by #15341, which is stacked on this branch.

The fix is to rewrite the author field on those commits. The trees do not change, only the metadata, but the SHAs do, which re-points the red/green receipts posted above. My sandbox denies history rewriting, so this is Leo's call rather than something I can land.

This PR is also CONFLICTING against main now and needs a catch-up merge before anything else.

Catch-up merge by scripts/ci/catch_up_pr.py (RFC manaflow-ai#14631).
Merged by scripts/merge-main.sh: origin/main at 0c753fe.

Resolved conflicts:
- cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: union of added entries, then normalize-pbxproj.py

Catch-up-previous-head: 1c3607f
Catch-up-base: 0c753fe
Catch-up merge by scripts/ci/catch_up_pr.py (RFC manaflow-ai#14631).
Merged by scripts/merge-main.sh: origin/main at d2a290b.

Resolved conflicts:
- cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: union of added entries, then normalize-pbxproj.py

Catch-up-previous-head: f0c52ab
Catch-up-base: d2a290b
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Caught up with main (d2a290b56d71) as f06b4a8e391; the branch was conflicting. The only
conflict was cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, resolved by union of added entries followed by
normalize-pbxproj.py. No source conflicts.

CLA Assistant is still red here for 31201fb169e, authored by Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>.
That identity cannot sign, so clearing it needs the author rewritten, which is Leo's call.

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Subagent review at 31201fb: no functional or compile bug. Findings: three inaccurate comment/description claims and a missing serialized suite trait. Addressed in 1c3607f. Only main merges since. Landing: rewriting the author on 325ab9e and 31201fb to the linked identity (same trees) so CLA Assistant can pass, merging main after #15414, then auto-merge.

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CI failure attribution

CI passes on e16366e26d (run 36690312118 attempt 1).

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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teamleaderleo force-pushed the cloud-sidebar-machine-author branch from f06b4a8 to cf27315 Compare September 28, 2026 17:09
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Catch-up merge by scripts/ci/catch_up_pr.py (RFC manaflow-ai#14631).
Merged by scripts/merge-main.sh: origin/main at 2761cc9.

Catch-up-previous-head: cf27315
Catch-up-base: 2761cc9

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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teamleaderleo merged commit 547340a into manaflow-ai:main Sep 30, 2026
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Merge receipt for e16366e26d: every check was green at merge (22 verified; 22 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
ecba57a fix(sidebar): cut with an ellipsis character so a reference cannot re-parse (manaflow-ai#15893)
6d2b5d1 feat(terminal): browser-style navigation layout and a terminalAlternateScreen shortcut key (manaflow-ai#14863)
0d3fdb1 test: print the simulator pipe output when the EOF assertion fails (manaflow-ai#15857)
46fe41a Fix cloud dogfood pause link-down journey (manaflow-ai#15918)
7d246ed fix: open existing Cloud workspace rows optimistically (manaflow-ai#15747)
1b06f84 fix(agent-chat): show ACP paths and diffs for tool calls (manaflow-ai#15908)
b413b7a fix(agent-chat): preserve earlier ACP plans during updates (manaflow-ai#15907)
8b75678 Persist Cloud display membership across clients (manaflow-ai#15748)
547340a fix(cloud): carry the machine author from /api/vm to the machine row's snapshot (manaflow-ai#15309)
e30de3d test: probe cloud agent status in Cloud VM journey (manaflow-ai#15875)
296537c docs(agent-chat): correct provider claims and pin ACP argv (manaflow-ai#15901)
e1dc959 Count the renamed Agent spawn tool as a subagent in the pi bridge (manaflow-ai#15865)
14fae18 dogfood: record the hover steps as trees, not frames (manaflow-ai#15845)
4da3bb3 fix(agent-chat): scope ACP plans to their turn and refresh activity (manaflow-ai#15898)
64ec56d feat(terminal): right-click a link to choose where it opens (manaflow-ai#15325)
efb762c Make unsupported remote browser warning dismissible (manaflow-ai#15726)
666c77f Cloud Machines sidebar: add persistent create buttons (manaflow-ai#15680)

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#	.github/workflows/cloud-vm-dogfood.yml
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main no longer compiles after this merge

@teamleaderleo: after 547340ae7d 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 12 merges (?..46fe41a488), and this pull request's diff is the one that reaches them. The other merges in that range (64ec56d4cf, 4da3bb3214, 14fae18c86, e1dc959396, 296537c5dd, e30de3da7f, 8b756786e2, b413b7a7b5, 1b06f84cbd, 7d246ed4e5, 46fe41a488) are being compiled on their own to confirm.

Evidence: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36700663696/job/109839080681

Sources/TerminalSharingDisplay.swift:102: error: cannot find type 'TabPresence' in scope
Sources/TerminalSizeBoundsOverlayView.swift:19: error: cannot find type 'BonsplitContrastPalette' in scope
Sources/TerminalSizeBoundsOverlayView.swift:302: error: cannot find 'BonsplitContrastPalette' in scope
Sources/TerminalSizeBoundsOverlayView.swift:302: error: cannot infer contextual base in reference to member 'init'

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.

teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 1, 2026
* test(cloud): pin the machine creator label on the row

Add the remaining row-label behavior tests from #15341 after the metadata
coverage landed in #15309. The focused app tests are not run locally;
this environment prohibits app builds and execution. CI must establish
the red/green runtime evidence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(cloud): show machine creator on sidebar rows

Add the creator display name to the machine row identity facts, with localized copy, debug-lab fixtures, and a dogfood tour. Keep menu traversal scoped to the opened menu so the new tour is deterministic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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