feat: optionally isolate native agent scratch files

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Summary

• Adds an opt-in automation.canonicalAgentScratch setting.
• Gives native Claude, Codex, and OpenCode agent panels a cmux-owned per-session TMPDIR under ~/.local/state/cmux/agent-artifacts/<provider>/<session>.
• Writes a .cmux-owned manifest marker so a later retention/cleanup pass has an explicit ownership boundary.

This does not move provider transcripts, rewrite existing files, or touch arbitrary /tmp content. The setting is off by default.

Testing

• swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings --filter SettingCatalogTests
• swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI --filter SettingsRowAnchorResolutionTests
• git diff --check

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Summary by cubic

Adds an opt-in automation.canonicalAgentScratch setting that gives native Claude, Codex, and OpenCode agent panels a cmux-owned per-session TMPDIR under ~/.local/state/cmux/agent-artifacts/<provider>/<session>, with a .cmux-owned manifest for future cleanup. The setting defaults to off; provider transcripts and existing files are untouched. The schema description is now localized across web locale files.

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• New Features
  • Added a “Canonical Agent Scratch” setting for native Claude, Codex, and OpenCode panels. It is off by default; when enabled, new sessions use a cmux-managed scratch directory organized by provider and session.
  • New scratch files are stored under ~/.local/state/cmux/agent-artifacts. When the setting is off, sessions use the system temporary directory.
  • Added the setting to automation preferences, settings search, and configuration options. Provider transcripts and existing files are not moved.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in automation setting for canonical agent scratch directories. When enabled, native agent-session startup prepares a directory for each provider and session, then sets TMPDIR and CMUX_AGENT_ARTIFACT_ROOT to that directory.

Changes

Canonical agent scratch directories

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define and surface the setting Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/Sources/CmuxSettings/Keys/AutomationCatalogSection.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Sections/AutomationSection.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Sources/CmuxSettingsUI/Navigation/CuratedSettingEntry+Default.swift, Sources/SettingsSearchIndex.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/Tests/CmuxSettingsTests/SettingCatalogTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxSettingsUI/Tests/CmuxSettingsUITests/SettingsRowAnchorResolutionTests.swift, web/data/cmux.schema.json, skills/cmux-settings/references/all-keys.md	Adds the canonicalAgentScratch setting, its automation toggle, search entries, and setting documentation. The setting defaults to false. Catalog and row-index tests check that the setting is included.
Prepare and use session scratch directories Sources/CmuxSettingsJSONPathSupport.swift, Sources/CmuxSettingsFileStore+SupportedPaths.swift, Sources/AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift, Sources/Panels/AgentSessionProcessStore.swift	Maps the JSON setting to its UserDefaults key and adds its supported settings path. When enabled, startup prepares a provider- and session-specific directory, writes an ownership manifest if absent, and sets both launch environment variables to the directory path.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentSessionProcessStore
  participant UserDefaults
  participant AgentSessionScratchDirectory
  participant FileSystem
  AgentSessionProcessStore->>UserDefaults: Read canonicalAgentScratch
  AgentSessionProcessStore->>AgentSessionScratchDirectory: Prepare directory for provider and session
  AgentSessionScratchDirectory->>FileSystem: Create directory and write ownership manifest if absent
  FileSystem-->>AgentSessionScratchDirectory: Return filesystem result
  AgentSessionScratchDirectory-->>AgentSessionProcessStore: Return directory URL
  AgentSessionProcessStore->>AgentSessionProcessStore: Set TMPDIR and CMUX_AGENT_ARTIFACT_ROOT

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The setting is opt-in and remains disabled by default. No material merge-blocking issue was established.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 40719

The feature is off by default and does not grant agents new privileges. When enabled, scratch directories can remain after a session ends; their retention needs an owner.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: Enabled sessions create durable scratch directories, but the inspected launch-failure and session-exit paths do not reclaim them. Temporary agent data could therefore remain after a session or after the setting is disabled; whether providers place sensitive data there is unverified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new storage selection applies to opted-in native Claude, Codex, and OpenCode sessions under the current user's cmux state directory. The per-session paths organize files but do not themselves establish an OS-enforced boundary between processes running as that user.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If a provider writes sensitive temporary data into its supplied TMPDIR, the absence of cleanup in the inspected session lifecycle can extend that data's lifetime. The reviewed source does not establish that a provider writes such data or that another actor can access it.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The path uses a generated session ID and fixed provider value, limiting attacker-controlled path components in the normal launch flow. An existing .cmux-owned marker is accepted by presence alone; the source does not validate its contents or filesystem provenance.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Directory-preparation failure prevents launch with a partially configured scratch environment. Subsequent launch failure and session termination do not reclaim a directory already prepared.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define a retention owner that can find directories independently of the current setting, handle failed and completed sessions, and validate ownership, marker contents, and filesystem paths before deleting anything.

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❌ Failed checks (3 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	❌ Error	The PR adds blocking file I/O to the @MainActor async AgentSessionProcessStore.start path. When the setting is enabled, start directly calls synchronous AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare, w…	Move scratch-directory preparation into a nonisolated async helper annotated @concurrent (using the repository’s compiler-compatibility pattern where required), then await it from start before continuing with actor-isolated session …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The PR adds AgentSessionScratchDirectory directly under the app target at Sources/AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift. Its prepare method owns reusable filesystem domain logic: it constructs provider/s…	Extract AgentSessionScratchDirectory and its tests from Sources/AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift into the existing CMUXAgentLaunch SwiftPM target. Expose a small public API such as `CMUXAgentLaunch.AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare(ses…
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The PR adds four user-facing Swift strings in AutomationSection.swift through String(localized:defaultValue:), but it adds no matching entries to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. The keys are `s…	Add the four new keys to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings with translated values for every locale already supported by that catalog: ar, bs, da, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, `zh-Han…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (21 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: optional isolation of native agent scratch files.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is mostly complete. It explains the problem, resulting behavior, scope limits, setting default, targeted tests, and the unverified full app build. The template's Changelog section and …
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 authoritative diff changes the automation setting catalog/UI, schema/docs, and native AgentSessionProcessStore scratch-directory setup. The changed process path only prepares a per-session…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	No changed Swift declaration matches the actor-isolation failure conditions. AutomationSection and AgentSessionProcessStore remain explicitly @MainActor, and the new UI model is accessed within …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds synchronous scratch-directory creation and environment setup in AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare and AgentSessionProcessStore.start, but it does not add any rule-listed block…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes agent scratch-directory setup and settings only. The rule-scoped files, Sources/TerminalController.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, are unchanged. The added Swif…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The PR adds no expensive synchronous agent-history load. Its only production launch-path I/O is a bounded per-session setup: create one provider/session directory, check one .cmux-owned marker, and …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value. The new launch path reads canonicalAgentScratch directly from UserDefaults via `DefaultsKey.value(in:…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Swift source/tests, JSON configuration, and Markdown documentation. The runtime changes are in AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift and AgentSessionProcessStore.swift, …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The diff adds fixed-path construction, directory creation, one manifest write, a boolean lookup, and a fixed-size settings observation entry. It does not add nested scans, per-target rescans, repeated…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no new DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine, completion-handler, or fire-and-forget Task pattern. AgentSessionProcessStore.start remains async throws; the new scratch setu…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes source, tests, schema, and documentation only. It does not modify Package.swift, any Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, cmux.xcodeproj, or workspac…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, or ad hoc diagnostic logging. The only new file write is the functional .cmux-owned manifest in `AgentSessio…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	No changed user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery copy violates the rule. The new setting note is advanced help text for a user-configured Automation setting, so its pro…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The SwiftUI diff adds @State for the existing DefaultsValueModel, which is already an @Observable model. It adds no ObservableObject, @Published, @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, …
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The change is a small, local launch-environment feature. The diff adds no sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, observers, notification waits, or side channels. `AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepa…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The pull request does not add or materially change a standalone cmux-owned window. The Swift changes add a settings card, a setting declaration, and agent scratch/process logic. No added lines contain…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only intentional Swift source, tests, settings/configuration files, and durable documentation. `Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/ConfigValidation/CmuxConfigSch…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The production Swift diff adds no #if DEBUG or test-build guard, no test/debug-named member, and no visibility-widening wrapper accessor. AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare is a normal productio…

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

Explanation

The PR adds blocking file I/O to the @MainActor async AgentSessionProcessStore.start path. When the setting is enabled, start directly calls synchronous AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare, which creates directories and atomically writes .cmux-owned. The UI-isolated caller is AgentSessionWebRendererCoordinator, and the diff adds no actor hop or @concurrent boundary.

Resolution

Move scratch-directory preparation into a nonisolated async helper annotated @concurrent (using the repository’s compiler-compatibility pattern where required), then await it from start before continuing with actor-isolated session and process state. Do not add @concurrent to the current synchronous helper.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The PR adds AgentSessionScratchDirectory directly under the app target at Sources/AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift. Its prepare method owns reusable filesystem domain logic: it constructs provider/session paths, creates directories, and writes the .cmux-owned persistence marker. The logic uses only Foundation, FileManager, and CmuxStateDirectory; it does not depend on AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty state, or app lifecycle. AgentSessionProcessStore only composes this logic into process launch, which is app glue. This matches the boundary rule for independently testable persistence logic kept in the app target.

Resolution

Extract AgentSessionScratchDirectory and its tests from Sources/AgentSessionLaunchPlan.swift into the existing CMUXAgentLaunch SwiftPM target. Expose a small public API such as CMUXAgentLaunch.AgentSessionScratchDirectory.prepare(sessionID:providerID:stateDirectory:fileManager:), using value inputs rather than the app-only AgentSessionProviderID. Keep AgentSessionProcessStore responsible for the setting check and environment-variable wiring.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

Explanation

The PR adds four user-facing Swift strings in AutomationSection.swift through String(localized:defaultValue:), but it adds no matching entries to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings. The keys are settings.automation.canonicalAgentScratch, .subtitleOn, .subtitleOff, and .note; existing app entries use locale translations, while these new keys are absent for all supported catalog locales. The PR also adds English description metadata to web/data/cmux.schema.json without a locale-specific source or matching entries across the locales in web/i18n/routing.ts.

Resolution

Add the four new keys to Resources/Localizable.xcstrings with translated values for every locale already supported by that catalog: ar, bs, da, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, uk, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, and en. For the new web/data/cmux.schema.json description, provide locale-specific message entries and consume them through next-intl (or another locale-specific source), or remove the user-facing web metadata change if localization is not required.

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Correction after inspecting the complete hosted log: the sidebar interpreter crash sentinels are expected test fixtures; that package passed all 28 tests. The actual package blocker is CmuxRemoteSession assertions followed by its no-progress watchdog. Separately, the preflight failure was a real omission in this PR: automation.canonicalAgentScratch was absent from supportedSettingsJSONPaths despite having a parser mapping. Fixed in 9fa5a31; the targeted portable configuration-path test passes (2 tests). The fix is pushed to this PR for hosted validation. No local compilation was run.

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Further CI diagnosis: the remaining remote-session failures are not proven cross-suite contamination. Failing fixtures reuse fixed relay identity/control path (user@example.test, relay 64044, relay-startup-cancellation, constant ControlPath), so next diagnostic is unique per-fixture identity or isolated hosted suites. I am not adding speculative annotations.

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The schema/settings fixes are now green across static checks, browser checks, compile, app-host, and CLI lanes. The hosted Swift package rerun is terminally red due a real CmuxRemoteSession watchdog: three inherited-master reap tests made no progress for 180s (exit 124), matching the separate fixed-endpoint fixture issue under investigation. I am not merging this feature PR around that required test failure; a separate focused test-reliability PR is being developed.

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Red here is not this PR's fault. This branch pins vendor/bonsplit at a commit that predates the sizing code on main, so macOS compile admission fails on symbols the PR never touches:

Sources/TerminalSizeBoundsOverlayView.swift:19:34: error: cannot find type 'BonsplitContrastPalette' in scope
Sources/TerminalSharingDisplay.swift:102:27: error: cannot find type 'TabPresence' in scope
** TEST BUILD FAILED **

macos / macOS status and tests then fail on their routing-check steps, which is them reporting that failure rather than finding their own. Main already restored the pin in "fix: restore the bonsplit pin main's sizing code needs" (#15930), so catching up on main is the whole fix.

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Refreshed this existing PR onto current main and regenerated the embedded config schema. Portable verification now passes all 5 selected checks; hosted CI is running on 37bb13f.

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