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Fix Codex monitor recovery during transient owner loss - #15612

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Summary

  • retry Codex owner resolution during the bounded disappearance grace window
  • use monitor replay workspace/surface IDs as live lookup hints so moved panes can be rehomed
  • cover restoration after a transient empty surface.list and preserve surface IDs across workspace moves

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  • python3 -m py_compile tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py
  • python3 scripts/verify-local.py --only swift-syntax --swift CLI/cmux.swift CLI/CodexTranscriptMonitorStopReplay.swift
  • affected static checks passed through verify-local.py

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Summary by cubic

Fixes Codex monitor recovery during a transient owner disappearance so panes restored within the grace window are rehomed instead of the monitor exiting.

  • Retries owner resolution every 0.25 seconds while the bounded disappearance grace window is active.
  • Uses the monitor replay's workspace/surface IDs as live lookup hints so panes that moved workspaces can be rehomed.
  • Preserves surface IDs when a surface moves to another workspace.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability when tracking live sessions, including cases where ownership information is delayed or a session moves between workspaces. Monitoring can now continue to recognize the session through these transitions.

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Walkthrough

The monitor now retries ownership checks during the grace window and uses replayed surface and workspace IDs when mapped values are unavailable. Tests cover delayed ownership recovery and replayed-stop targeting.

Changes

Monitor ownership and surface binding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry ownership checks during the grace window
CLI/cmux.swift, tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py
The monitor schedules another ownership check after 0.25 seconds while the grace window is active. A regression test checks that the monitor publishes an Idle status after ownership becomes available.
Use replay IDs for live surface binding
CLI/cmux.swift, tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py
Live surface binding uses replayed surface and workspace IDs as fallbacks. The replayed-stop test uses the existing fake surface ID for the moved workspace and status target.

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

Change: Bug fix

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❌ Failed checks (2 errors, 1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ❌ Error The production Swift diff adds polling in CLI/cmux.swift. In runCodexTranscriptMonitor, the .gone owner branch now sets nextOwnerCheck to now.addingTimeInterval(0.25), changing owner checks … Remove the fixed 0.25-second polling retry. Trigger owner re-resolution from the surface restoration or owner-change callback/notification/state transition. If no such signal exists, use a cancellation-aware timer or async-sequence abstract…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The Swift diff adds a timing-based polling repair path. In CLI/cmux.swift, the .gone owner branch now sets nextOwnerCheck = now.addingTimeInterval(0.25), changing the existing 60-second owner ch… Remove the 0.25-second owner polling from the monitor. Add a one-shot, cancellation-aware owner transition or restore-completion signal from the app’s surface/workspace ownership registry, keyed by the stable surface ID. Have the monitor wa…
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description explains the problem, implementation, and validation checks, but it does not follow the required template. It uses “Validation” instead of “Testing” and omits the required Changelog, D… Use the required section headings. Add a Testing section that lists the tests added and the test commands that were executed, including any unverified coverage. Add a Changelog line, a Demo Video section or explain why it does not apply, an…
Docstring Coverage ❓ Inconclusive 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 1 files. (1 skipped: 1… 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 identifies the primary change: improving Codex monitor recovery during transient owner loss.
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 diff only changes Codex monitor owner retry timing and replayed surface/workspace lookup hints, plus Codex tests. It does not change Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport, manual rende…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS: The production Swift diff only adds a 0.25-second owner-check retry and passes existing replay IDs into liveAgentHookSurfaceBinding. It adds no model, protocol, logger, Sendable reference ty…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Codex monitor ownership retry logic, monitor replay surface/workspace hints, and related Python tests. The authoritative diff does not modify browser socket command…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only a 0.25-second owner-check retry and passes monitor replay IDs to existing live surface RPC helpers. Those helpers use client.sendV2; the diff adds no transcript, …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. The new monitorReplay workspace/surface values are transient lookup hints for…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and the Python test tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py. The production change is Swift, which this rule explicitly excludes. The only wall-clock sleep added is…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS — The production changes do not introduce a prohibited algorithm. CLI/cmux.swift:31463-31487 adds owner polling only during the documented two-second grace window, with a 0.25-second interval a…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The Swift diff adds a 0.25-second owner-check retry and passes replay IDs to an existing synchronous surface-binding helper. It adds no DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine, completion-handler,…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The Swift diff adds only a retry assignment and changes synchronous lookup arguments in CLI/cmux.swift. The affected functions (runCodexTranscriptMonitor, runGenericAgentHook, and the loca…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes CLI/cmux.swift, which Xcode wires to the separate cmux-cli tool target, not the macOS app target. The added logic is small Codex monitor and hook-routing glue tied to `SocketC…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py. It does not change Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflows, or Xcode project package references. N…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The changed Swift lines only adjust owner-check timing and surface/workspace lookup hints. The diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout logging, Logger declaration, or diagnost…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only owner retry logic and fallback workspace/surface lookup hints. It adds no user-facing error, alert, API body, command text, or recovery copy. The changed comments a…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR changes only Codex monitor timing and surface/workspace ID resolution in CLI/cmux.swift, plus tests. The production additions contain no new or materially changed user-facing text, localizati…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The Swift diff changes Codex monitor timing and agent surface/workspace resolution inside CMUXCLI. It adds no SwiftUI state, layout measurement, lazy/list row store reference, or render-time state m…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The Swift diff only changes Codex monitor retry timing and live surface/workspace lookup hints in CLI/cmux.swift. It adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, `Win…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py. Both are tracked hand-written source or test files. No local output, generated artifact, scratch directory, cache, build outp…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes only CLI/cmux.swift and tests/test_codex_feed_hooks.py. The changed Swift file is not under a production **/Sources/** path, and the test change is Python…
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The description explains the problem, implementation, and validation checks, but it does not follow the required template. It uses “Validation” instead of “Testing” and omits the required Changelog, Demo Video, and Checklist sections. It also does not state that the added tests were executed.

Resolution

Use the required section headings. Add a Testing section that lists the tests added and the test commands that were executed, including any unverified coverage. Add a Changelog line, a Demo Video section or explain why it does not apply, and the required Checklist with applicable items completed or explained.

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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 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The production Swift diff adds polling in CLI/cmux.swift. In runCodexTranscriptMonitor, the .gone owner branch now sets nextOwnerCheck to now.addingTimeInterval(0.25), changing owner checks from the existing 60-second interval to repeated checks during the grace window. The loop then waits at most 0.25 seconds and repeats, so this is timing-based synchronization in shipped runtime code. The test-only exception does not apply.

Resolution

Remove the fixed 0.25-second polling retry. Trigger owner re-resolution from the surface restoration or owner-change callback/notification/state transition. If no such signal exists, use a cancellation-aware timer or async-sequence abstraction that owns the bounded retry, instead of coordinating the monitor with repeated wall-clock checks.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The Swift diff adds a timing-based polling repair path. In CLI/cmux.swift, the .gone owner branch now sets nextOwnerCheck = now.addingTimeInterval(0.25), changing the existing 60-second owner check into repeated surface.list queries during the two-second grace window. The added regression test depends on this retry to survive a transient empty owner response. This patches the symptom of a transient surface projection race instead of making the owner-restoration transition authoritative. The surface/workspace ownership registry behind the socket API should be the single source of truth. The replay-ID fallback is a local lookup correction, but it does not remove the new polling path.

Resolution

Remove the 0.25-second owner polling from the monitor. Add a one-shot, cancellation-aware owner transition or restore-completion signal from the app’s surface/workspace ownership registry, keyed by the stable surface ID. Have the monitor wait for that signal or the transcript file event, then perform one authoritative owner check before applying the existing bounded grace invariant. The first migration cut is the socket/API event for surface ownership changes; update the monitor test to drive that event instead of relying on elapsed time.

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- Line 31487: Update the owner-monitor flow around codexMonitorOwnerState to use
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// is active. The normal owner check is intentionally
// sparse, but waiting sixty seconds here would make a
// pane restored during grace look permanently gone.
nextOwnerCheck = now.addingTimeInterval(0.25)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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rg -n 'codexMonitorOwnerState|nextOwnerCheck|surface\.list' CLI/cmux.swift | tail -70
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printf '%s\n' '--- owner state and monitor symbols ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- registry and lifecycle symbols ---'
rg -n -C 5 'SurfaceRegistry|surface.*(register|unregister|remove|add|lifecycle)|register.*surface|unregister.*surface|surface.*changed|surface.*created|surface.*removed|workspace.*(register|unregister|remove|add)|NotificationCenter.*surface|post.*surface' --glob '*.swift' .
printf '%s\n' '--- changed paths and relevant diff ---'
git diff --stat 39d4a478c11c9baf4b17c0ad649abde311dcd989 0c3ac3803953872e521e16f755ac0969388673c9
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rg -n 'class SurfaceRegistry|actor SurfaceRegistry|struct SurfaceRegistry|enum SurfaceRegistry|SurfaceRegistry|surfaceRegistry' --glob '*.swift' --glob '!CLI/cmux.swift' .
printf '%s\n' '--- lifecycle event and notification declarations ---'
rg -n 'surfaceDid|surface.*(registered|unregistered|removed|created|restored|moved)|workspace.*(registered|unregistered|removed|created|restored|moved)|Notification\.Name|NotificationCenter\.default\.(post|addObserver)|PassthroughSubject|AsyncStream' --glob '*.swift' Packages macOS CLI 2>/dev/null | head -240
printf '%s\n' '--- surface.list implementations and owner lookup helpers ---'
rg -n -C 6 'surface\.list|liveAgentSurfaceDeliveryTarget|liveAgentHookSurfaceBinding|CodexMonitorOwnerState' --glob '*.swift' CLI Packages macOS 2>/dev/null | head -320

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printf '%s\n' '--- registry source locations ---'
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for f in $(fd -i 'TerminalSurfaceRegistry.swift' .); do
  rg -n -C 5 'class TerminalSurfaceRegistry|actor TerminalSurfaceRegistry|struct TerminalSurfaceRegistry|func register|func unregister|func surface\(|func allSurfaces|Notification|AsyncStream|PassthroughSubject' "$f"
done
for f in $(fd -i 'SurfaceRegistryModel.swift' .); do
  rg -n -C 5 'class SurfaceRegistryModel|struct SurfaceRegistryModel|func register|func unregister|func surface\(|func allSurfaces|Notification|AsyncStream|PassthroughSubject' "$f"
done
printf '%s\n' '--- surface API and event names ---'
rg -n -i -C 4 'surface\.(list|add|remove|create|delete|move)|surface[_-](add|remove|create|delete|move)|surfaces? changed|surfaces? updated|surfaces? restored|surface lifecycle|surface notification' --glob '*.swift' --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.js' --glob '*.py' CLI Sources Packages tests 2>/dev/null | head -260

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printf '%s\n' '--- registry transition-related source ---'
sed -n '380,490p' Packages/macOS/CmuxTerminal/Sources/CmuxTerminal/Engine/SurfaceRegistry/TerminalSurfaceRegistry.swift
printf '%s\n' '--- socket client files ---'
fd -i '*SocketClient*.swift' CLI Packages Sources
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Drive owner recovery from a registry transition, not a 250 ms poll.

codexMonitorOwnerState maps a missing surface to .gone. The monitor then polls surface.list every 250 ms during the grace period. This keeps temporary absence and confirmed removal indistinguishable and uses timing to repair an owner-lifecycle transition. The monitor can still exit when the grace period expires.

TerminalSurfaceRegistry has registration and removal state, including topologyGeneration, but the current CLI monitor does not consume a registry transition. Expose an owner lifecycle event or generation through the CLI contract. Then represent temporary absence separately from confirmed removal and clear ownerGoneSince when re-registration occurs. Keep confirmed removal fail-closed. Test an empty-list-to-re-registration transition without timed retries.

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Review comment at @CLI/cmux.swift at line 31487:
Update the owner-monitor flow around codexMonitorOwnerState to use a
TerminalSurfaceRegistry lifecycle event or topologyGeneration exposed through
the CLI contract instead of polling surface.list every 250 ms. Represent
temporary absence separately from confirmed removal, clear ownerGoneSince when
the owner re-registers, and keep confirmed removal fail-closed; add coverage for
an empty-list-to-re-registration transition without timed retries.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
c7fea92 Fix Codex monitor recovery during transient owner loss (manaflow-ai#15612)
c48b690 fix: settle Claude Stop reentry after hook block (manaflow-ai#15603)
39d4a47 fix(ci): classify all missing Xcode pin failures (manaflow-ai#15605)
c0538b5 test: isolate mobile lifecycle registry from live host (manaflow-ai#15566)
c9ced10 test: remove flaky shell startup timing assertion (manaflow-ai#15589)
4de2a66 test: isolate mirror topology fixtures from window docks (manaflow-ai#15573)
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