fix(sidebar): replay agent runtime changes for late observers

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Problem

Agent runtime changes can occur between the sidebar snapshot and the observer task subscribing, leaving the workspace row stale until a later event.

Change

Replay the latest unobserved runtime change when observation starts, then continue streaming changes. This closes the snapshot-to-observer race without changing the runtime state model.

Validation

• python3 scripts/verify-local.py --repo . --affected origin/main passed the affected static checks before publication.
• Added regression coverage in cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift.
• Native Swift/XCTest execution was unavailable in the Linux cloud container because Swift/Xcode is not installed.

Changelog

Fixed: workspace sidebar agent state no longer misses a change that occurs during observer startup.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes a race in the workspace sidebar where agent runtime changes landing between the row snapshot and observer subscription left the row stale until a later event.

The observation model now replays the latest unobserved runtime change when a subscriber starts, then continues streaming normally. The runtime state model is unchanged.

• Treats .enqueued and .dropped yields as delivered, drains terminated observers, and preserves the replay marker for unknown future outcomes.
• Adds regression coverage in cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Runtime updates that occur before observation begins are now delivered when the first subscriber starts listening, preventing those changes from being missed.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The observation model now records runtime mutations that occur without observers and sends one event to the first later subscriber. A test verifies that a PID update made before iterator creation produces an event.

Changes

Runtime change replay

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pending runtime change delivery Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift, cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift	The model records a change when no observer enqueues or drops an event. A new subscriber consumes the pending change and receives an initial event. Terminated observers are removed, and termination cleanup exits if the model has been deallocated. The test checks delivery after a PID update made before iterator creation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0b6f4

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the runtime replay change. The reported dependency-related compile failure predates this PR; normal build and test checks still apply.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a3950

The change adds a small, in-memory replay mechanism to sidebar refresh notifications without adding permission-bearing data or changing runtime ownership. No new security concern was established, but cancellation edge cases and the complete downstream callback path remain only partially assessed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated effect is an additional invalidation within the owning Workspace's sidebar observation path. The identified consumers do not themselves perform a privileged operation; complete callback implementations and upstream attacker influence were not established, so this is a bounded exposure assessment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — MainActor isolation serializes runtime mutation, observer registration, replay-marker updates, and publication. UUID-keyed continuations and private replay state retain the existing observer ownership mechanism; no new external entrypoint is present in the inspected change.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Per-observer buffering is limited to one notification, repeated unaccepted mutations coalesce into one Boolean marker, and publication removes terminated continuations. Termination also schedules weakly captured cleanup, avoiding new retention of the model through that callback.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The production diff expands Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift, which is part of the app target, with replay-marker and AsyncStream delivery logic. The new behavior is inde…	Extract the agent-runtime observation boundary into the CmuxSidebar package. Move the state storage and replay/notification implementation, including the smallest public API such as `@MainActor public final class SidebarAgentRuntimeObserv…
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 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replaying agent runtime changes for late observers.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the race, the resulting behavior, the implementation scope, validation performed, test coverage, and the unavailable native test environment. It omits the template's Demo Vide…
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 WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and its regression test. The changes add replay-marker handling for sidebar runtime observation and do not modify Cloud t…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The production model already has explicit @MainActor isolation. The diff only adds a private replay flag and yield-result handling inside that model. The termination callback continues to cros…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The production diff adds an AsyncStream replay marker and Continuation.yield signaling on an @MainActor model. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-qu…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift. The diff contains no browser.* commands, WebKit waits…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The production diff only adds an in-memory hasUnobservedChange marker and AsyncStream replay logic to WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel. It adds no `RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load()…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The diff does not replace an authoritative read with cached runtime data. It adds only a pending event marker to WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel so a late sidebar observer triggers `sch…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only Swift files, while this check covers non-Swift runtime code. The diff adds AsyncStream replay via continuation.yield(()) and contains no fixed sleep, timer, polling loop, d…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The production diff adds one scalar replay flag and a result switch inside the existing single pass over changeObservers. The existing cleanup pass remains linear and is not nested. The change adds …
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The production diff adds an AsyncStream replay marker and continuation outcome handling. It does not add background DispatchQueue, Combine app-state code, completion-handler APIs, or a new fire-an…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The changed production code adds no async, nonisolated async, or @concurrent function. WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel remains @MainActor; its new termination cleanup uses…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift. The diff contains no Package.swift, Package.resolved, `.git…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes runtime observation state and adds a regression test. The authoritative diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, file, stdout, or stderr logging. T…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff changes only an internal AsyncStream<Void> replay marker and observer cleanup in WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel. The sidebar consumer uses the signal to inv…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The diff changes only runtime observation logic, developer comments, and a regression test. It adds no user-facing Swift text, localization key, string catalog entry, web message, metadata, or changel…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and its test. The model already used @Observable in the base revision, and the new replay marker is a private…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: This is a small local correctness fix. The existing @MainActor observation model remains the owner of runtime maps and change delivery. hasUnobservedChange records only a pending invalidation;…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The PR changes only WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift. The source change adds async observation replay logic, and the test add…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two tracked Swift source files: Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift and cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests.swift. The diff adds h…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The PR changes only the existing runtime observation behavior in Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift. It adds the private hasUnobservedChange state and replay logic to `chan…

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Explanation

The production diff expands Sources/WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift, which is part of the app target, with replay-marker and AsyncStream delivery logic. The new behavior is independently testable: the added test constructs the model directly, mutates it, and reads changes() without Workspace, SwiftUI view state, AppKit, Ghostty, or app lifecycle composition. The model has a stable sidebar agent-runtime boundary, and the repository already contains a Packages/macOS/CmuxSidebar SwiftPM target. This matches the rule for independently testable feature logic kept in the root Sources/ path.

Resolution

Extract the agent-runtime observation boundary into the CmuxSidebar package. Move the state storage and replay/notification implementation, including the smallest public API such as @MainActor public final class SidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel (or a focused public change-signal protocol), into that target. Move or generalize the app-local AgentHibernationLifecycleState dependency as needed. Keep Workspace property forwarding and the SwiftUI sidebarAgentRuntimeObservations modifier in the app target as lifecycle/UI composition.

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/catch-up

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.

— Raindrop g2 🫧 / Run: run_worker_20260930_3fc64ba6

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/catch-up

My earlier catch-up comment on this PR did nothing: I wrapped the command in backticks, and the gate is startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/catch-up'), so every run it started was skipped. Same mistake on 21 other PRs. This one is the real request; the reasoning is in the comment above.

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Review: land. Nothing blocking. The replay is directionally right, it does not regress any existing path, and CI genuinely ran the new test on this head.

Executed coverage, since a green rollup does not mean the new test ran: the changes job routed unit_selectors to cmuxTests/WorkspaceSidebarObservationTests, and the macOS shard log shows agentRuntimeObservationReplaysChangeBeforeSubscriberRegistration() started and passed. The many skipped macOS jobs here are the expected changed-suites routing, not an absent signal.

What holds up, verified by running the extracted changes() / notifyChanged() logic (verbatim, with @Observable stripped since every stored property is @ObservationIgnored):

• No subscriber plus a change sets the marker; a live subscriber is woken and the marker stays clear.
• Change before any subscriber, then subscribe: the replay wakes it and clears the marker.
• Duplicate delivery is impossible. The marker is cleared before the yield and changes() runs synchronously on MainActor. Three successive subscribers replay exactly once.
• A subscriber that finished is drained on the next notifyChanged(), so its replacement does get the replay.
• The .dropped branch is correct: under .bufferingNewest(1) the outcome carries the evicted old element and the new value is retained, so a pending wake-up really is queued.

Left, all should-fix, none of it a regression, and I am filing a follow-up so it does not evaporate:

1. delivered answers "did a continuation accept the yield", not "did a consumer act on it", and it is one global token rather than per subscriber. Two ways that is the wrong question. (a) WorkspaceSidebarObservation.swift:189-194 receives the value and then discards it on Task.isCancelled without calling onChange. SwiftUI cancellation and continuation termination are asynchronous, so when renderContext.workspaceIds changes the old subscriber is still registered and still accepting; a runtime change in that window sets delivered = true, the old loop breaks without publishing, and the new subscriber finds no marker. (b) Late joiner: A live, change delivered to A, then B subscribes gives A=true B=false, so if B's snapshot predates the change B stays stale. changeGeneration already exists at WorkspaceSidebarAgentRuntimeObservationModel.swift:21; replaying when a subscriber's last-seen generation differs is per subscriber and immune to both.
2. The token is destroyed if the stream is abandoned between changes() and the first next(): marker cleared, () buffered, stream torn down, next subscriber not woken. The sibling model guards the analogous case in onTermination (WorkspaceSidebarProcessTitleObservationModel.swift:87-95 restores hasUnobservedChange); this one has no restore.
3. The new test hangs instead of failing. With the production hunk reverted, #expect(await changes.next() != nil) never returns, so a regression shows up as a 300s allowance timeout rather than as this assertion naming itself. Race it against a Task.sleep, or finish() the stream so next() returns nil.
4. No negative assertion. Two mutations survive the whole suite: never clearing the marker, and dropping the !delivered guard entirely. Nothing pins "marker stays clear after a successful delivery" or "consumed exactly once". Note that dropping !delivered makes the late-joiner case pass, which localises gap 1 to exactly that guard.

Minor: changeGeneration is not bumped on replay while the sibling bumps it, an undocumented divergence between two otherwise parallel files; the onTermination self?. to guard let self hunk is behaviourally identical, and pushes here cost a cold macOS compile; and the .dropped branch is load-bearing on the .bufferingNewest(1) literal four lines above, so a later switch to .bufferingOldest turns it into a lost update with no test to catch it. One comment would pin that.

Mutation table: reverted hunk caught (as a hang), never set the marker caught (as a hang), treat .terminated as delivered caught, skip the drain caught, never clear the marker survived, drop !delivered survived.

Merging on green.

— Raindrop g2 🫧

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