Keep Cloud terminal prompts intact when resizing

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Summary

Resizing a Cloud terminal aggressively, for example by dragging the right sidebar, left fragments of old prompts on the prompt row (runner@heartrunner@heartrunner@h...). #15809 fixed the local-terminal case but not Cloud.

Cause: cmux-tui, which hosts every Cloud terminal, launched shells without shell integration, so its terminal never received OSC 133 prompt marks. ghostty-vt could not tell a prompt from output. On each resize it reflowed the prompt as plain output, and each SIGWINCH redraw from bash with ble.sh landed on the wrong cells. The Mac pane mirrors the daemon's grid, so it showed the daemon's damaged state faithfully.

• cmux-tui injects Ghostty's shell integration into the default interactive shell, the way Ghostty does (src/termio/shell_integration.zig): zsh through ZDOTDIR, bash through --posix plus ENV, fish through XDG_DATA_DIRS. The scripts are embedded from the same Ghostty submodule that builds ghostty-vt and are written to a content-hash directory under the cmux-tui state root. That directory is checked on every launch, because bash pointed at a missing script would stay in POSIX mode. Explicit commands and /bin/bash on macOS are left unchanged, as in Ghostty. CMUX_TUI_SHELL_INTEGRATION=none opts out. Both spawn paths (in-process PTY and terminal host) use one helper.

• Ghostty c318e7825 (terminal: keep a 133;P primary prompt on its own line and drop wrap padding ghostty#247). With ble.sh, Ghostty's bash integration marks the prompt with 133;P;k=i, not 133;A. A primary 133;P at column 0 of a soft-wrapped row now breaks the wrap too. Breaking it also clears the unstyled padding spaces that forced the wrap: kept as text, they reflowed into extra blank rows where a redraw could land.

• Forward-only submodule guard fix (from Add forward-only submodule CI guard #15943, merged today). CI checks submodules out shallowly, so for this 7-commit forward Ghostty bump both commits existed with no history between them, and the guard called it "diverged" and failed. A shallow clone with no ancestry answer now defers to GitHub's compare API, which the guard already used as its fallback ("behind_by 7", which it reads as forward). The new test test_shallow_clone_gap_is_not_divergence failed before the fix and passes after, and all 14 guard tests pass.

This PR also restores the Ghostty pin that #15747 moved back from e1b8bf5f4 to 9961d09be, which undid #15809 on main.

Existing machines pick this up through the normal in-place cmux-tui upgrade, with no image re-bake. It applies to shells started after the upgrade. Local Mac terminals get the Ghostty change through GhosttyKit.

Testing

• Regression test default_shell_prompt_survives_rapid_resizes_after_a_partial_line (zsh and bash through the real PTY surface). It is red at 52cb424: zsh: resizing erased the partial output line. It is green at this head, on a Blacksmith testbox and in hosted verification on Linux and macOS: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36696671883. Six unit tests cover each shell's launch rewrite, the opt-out, and script materialization with repair.

• Cloud VM shell setup, end to end on Linux: cmux-tui daemon, SHELL=/bin/bash, the image's /etc/cmux/bashrc and prompt.bash, ble.sh nightly. The test prints a partial line, types input, then makes 81 width changes through an attached client. main was clean in 0 of 6 runs. This branch was clean in 6 of 6, then 5 of 6 at the final head with 4 ms steps. At 16 ms steps (a mouse drag), it was clean in 36 of 38 runs; the two dirty runs came from a daemon's first shells while ble.sh was still building its caches.

• Residual risk: a shell redraw already in flight when the next resize lands is still parsed at the new width. Any terminal has this race. Under the 4 ms stimulus, about 1 run in 8 still shows fragments.

• Script paths (review follow-up): each script directory and file must be owned by this user and must not be a symlink. Every ancestor of the canonical state root must belong to this user or root; a directory everyone can write to must be a root-owned sticky one. If a check fails, the shell launches without integration. A unit test covers refusal under a mode-0777 base.

• The full cargo test --no-fail-fast for cmux-tui gives the same 3 failures at the merge base and at this head: interrupted_public_creation_publishes_once..., startup_repairs_legacy_terminal_close_dangling_resource_rows, and cloud_cwd_live_osc7_reaches_snapshot_and_event_feed. That last one is flaky under full-suite load on the box at the base too. Clippy (-D warnings, all targets) and cargo fmt --check are clean.

• Ghostty's zig build test-lib-vt has one failure, kitty temporary file medium preserves bool ABI, which also fails at the previous pins on Linux.

• Not done: a live Cloud VM on the dev backend. VM creation failed because the shared Freestyle VPC 10.16.162.0/24 has no free addresses, and the VMs holding them belong to other work.

• Ghostty e1b8bf5f4 (OSC 133;A prompt line) stops cmux DEV.app from opening its socket on current main #16040 check. main currently pins Ghostty 559740279 and leaves out e1b8bf5f4 (from Keep zsh prompts intact when a terminal resizes after a partial line #15809), because Ghostty e1b8bf5f4 (OSC 133;A prompt line) stops cmux DEV.app from opening its socket on current main #16040 saw cmuxUITests/FuzzRegressions fail with "cmux DEV.app did not open its socket" when e1b8bf5f4 was pinned. This PR pins 9c1e67c07, a fork merge of 559740279 and c318e7825 (Merge the blank-cell VT replay fix with the prompt wrap fix ghostty#250), so it carries e1b8bf5f4 again. On this head, FuzzRegressions passes (ok 15346-narrow-window-side-panels.json, FUZZ_RESULT: success): https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36739766763. The control on main also passes: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36736648862. A second attempt of the head run is in progress.

Changelog

Fixed: Resizing a Cloud terminal no longer leaves pieces of old prompts on the prompt line

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Walkthrough

Default-shell launches now support automatic startup integration for Bash, fish, and zsh. Local PTY and terminal-host launch paths use the resulting command and environment. The Ghostty submodule pin advances to a commit documented with a primary-prompt wrap fix.

Changes

Shell integration and prompt handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ghostty pin and prompt fix ghostty, scripts/ghosttykit-checksums.txt, docs/ghostty-fork.md	The Ghostty submodule reference and checksum advance. The documentation describes the primary 133;P prompt fix and its effect on soft-wrapped rows.
Shell integration setup cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/lib.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/shell_integration.rs	The new private module embeds Bash, fish, and zsh scripts. It detects supported shells, configures startup environments, and materializes scripts with restricted permissions. Tests cover shell settings, script repair, and opt-out behavior.
Integrated terminal launches cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/surface.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/terminal_host_runtime.rs	Local PTY and terminal-host launches use the integrated command and environment when no nonempty command is configured. Unix tests check prompts, input, partial output, and OSC 133 prompt recognition across repeated resizes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Surface
  participant integrate_default_shell
  participant ScriptFiles
  participant PTYChild
  Surface->>integrate_default_shell: default shell command and extra_env
  integrate_default_shell->>ScriptFiles: materialize or repair embedded scripts
  integrate_default_shell-->>Surface: ShellLaunch command and environment
  Surface->>PTYChild: spawn with returned command and environment

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d4e79

The main risk is conditional: another local user with write access through a shared group could replace startup scripts and have them execute as the terminal user. Private-directory checks and atomic writes provide substantial protection, but the assumed exclusivity of the group is not enforced. Actual exposure depends on state-directory permissions.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new executable-script trust boundary assumes that group-writable ancestors owned by the terminal user have exclusive groups. When another user has group write and traversal access, that user can replace descendants after validation, allowing substituted integration scripts to execute with the terminal user's authority. Private permissions on the integration directory do not prevent its replacement through a writable parent.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A successful substitution could affect eligible new default-shell launches sharing the same integration root, through either launch path. Execution would inherit the affected shell user's access to files and credentials. No cross-tenant, cross-service, or environment-wide reach is established by the available evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The conditional attack path is local group write and traversal access to an accepted ancestor, followed by descendant replacement after validation, then startup-script execution by an eligible default shell. It does not require control of the victim's environment. The source supports this architectural concern independently, while the supplied candidate's formal verification remains deferred.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The ancestor policy explicitly accepts group write on effective-user-owned directories under a private-group assumption, without checking group exclusivity. Exposure is narrowed by explicit-command bypass, opt-out, supported-shell detection, and the macOS /bin/bash exclusion. Windows defaults select executables that this integration does not recognize.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Source tests cover missing-script repair, replacement of a script symlink without modifying its target, and rejection of a world-writable non-sticky ancestor. They provide counterevidence for those failure modes, but do not establish the safety of a shared group-writable ancestor or replacement after validation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Reject group-writable ancestors unless exclusive authority is explicitly established. Where that authority is ambiguous, retain the existing unmodified-launch fallback rather than relying on an unchecked private-group assumption.

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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	The PR does not introduce any condition in the Cloud persistent-session rule. The authoritative diff only adds default-shell integration and passes the resulting command/environment into the existing …
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff contains Rust source, documentation/data, and a Ghostty submodule reference, but no changed Swift files. The changed patch contains no Swift actor-isolation declaration…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The authoritative PR diff changes Rust files, Ghostty documentation, a Ghostty gitlink, and a checksum file. It contains no changed Swift, Objective-C, or Objective-C++ source paths and no Swift block…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request does not change browser socket automation. The authoritative diff changes cmux-tui Rust files, Ghostty metadata, and checksum documentation. Sources/TerminalController.swift a…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The pull request does not change any Swift, Objective-C, or Objective-C++ source. Its seven changed paths are Rust, documentation, a Ghostty submodule reference, and a checksum file. No expensive sync…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes Rust, Markdown, a Ghostty submodule pointer, and a checksum text file. It does not change production Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript code, so the cache-substitution cor…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes Rust application code, documentation, and a Ghostty submodule pin; it adds no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime script files. The only added sleeps and polling are i…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request adds Rust shell-launch and script-materialization code only; the changed-file inventory contains no Swift, TypeScript, JavaScript, or shell source. The production loops operate …
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes Rust, documentation, checksum data, and a Ghostty submodule reference. It changes no Swift files, so it does not introduce or expand any cmux-owned Swift concurrency pat…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust, Markdown, a Git submodule reference, and a checksum file. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift code, so `.github/review-bot-rules/swift-con…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The pull request changes Rust, Markdown, a checksum file, and the Ghostty submodule reference. It introduces no Swift or SwiftPM package changes, so the Swift package-boundary check is not applicable.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff changes only Rust sources, Ghostty documentation, the vendored Ghostty submodule pointer, and its checksum list. It contains no cmux-owned Package.swift, Package.resolved, …
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The pull request changes Rust, Markdown, a checksum file, and a Ghostty submodule reference. It adds no Swift files and no Swift logging statements. The Swift logging check is therefore not applicable…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes shell launch arguments and child environment values, but it does not add or change cmux user-facing errors, alerts, API bodies, recovery copy, or diagnostics. Script-materializati…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The PR changes Rust shell-launch behavior, tests, a Ghostty submodule pin, checksum data, and developer operational documentation. It does not change Swift UI, app catalogs, Info.plist localization, w…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes Rust files, Ghostty's submodule pointer, Markdown, and a checksum file. It contains no Swift or SwiftUI changes, so the SwiftUI state and layout failure conditi…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative PR diff changes four Rust files, documentation, a checksum file, and a Ghostty submodule reference. It contains no Swift source, SwiftUI/AppKit bridge, or Swift lifecycle chang…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only Rust, documentation, the Ghostty submodule reference, and a checksum file. It contains no Swift changes and no standalone cmux-owned window code.…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All seven changed paths are intentional product or source-of-truth files: Rust source and tests, Ghostty integration documentation, the pinned Ghostty submodule reference, and its release checksum ent…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Rust, documentation, checksum, and the Ghostty submodule reference. It changes no Swift file under a production Sources/ path, so this check is not applicable.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving Cloud terminal prompts during resizing.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes a detailed Summary, Testing section, Changelog entry, and relevant checklist item. It explains the cause, implementation, test results, residual risks, and known failures. The…

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Review comments at @cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/shell_integration.rs:
- Around line 188-218: Update materialize to validate the root and each existing
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