fix: clear agent notification ring after answer

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When an agent prompt is answered in its terminal, cmux now clears that prompt's unread notification and surface ring. The shared notification store keeps the agent, category, and session identity so later same-session Claude or Codex hooks can retire an uncorrelated prompt without touching a newer unanswered prompt. Terminal input continues to use the same dismissal path, including sidebar, keyboard, and notification navigation.

The Codex path covers semantic approval notifications and notify-hook progress events such as PostToolUse, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and SessionEnd. The workspace unread count is covered alongside the surface ring.

Changelog

Fixed: clear Claude and Codex agent notification rings and unread counts after the user answers in the terminal.

Validation

• Regression commit 5640d5e4137 records the failing uncorrelated Claude and Codex prompt test before the fix.
• Fix commit 1069ca10983 adds shared identity matching and preserves newer unanswered prompts.
• Codex commit 39f2b1074e9 adds the hook progression test and workspace count assertions.
• Repair commit 281cc8227e8 fences detached Codex telemetry, preserves the oldest answered prompt, and rejects unscoped fallback clears.
• Session normalization commit 8bb26635e24 keeps legacy and versioned Codex session IDs aligned.
• Ordered progress commit e7764609f11 stamps synchronous Codex telemetry hooks and scopes the fallback regression test.
• Safety commit a6a49022aea limits that stamp to PostToolUse, PostToolUseFailure, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and SessionEnd.
• Terminal-input commit f613774328d uses the same surface-scoped rule for direct answers and adds the Codex unread-count test.
• Dock-input commit febd19d3367 applies the same rule to Dock-owned terminal surfaces.
• python3 scripts/verify-local.py --only swift-syntax --swift-changed passed.
• Fixture-isolation commit 511ca2b730b clears all queued mutations at agent notification fixture setup and teardown.
• Repair commit 33fad67ef43 makes Codex progress stamps reachable and fences uncorrelated supersession after direct answers.
• Focused CI regression selector: cmuxTests/AgentNotificationRegressionTests/answeringAnUncorrelatedAgentPromptClearsItsRing(source:) at 33fad67ef43 (fresh run pending).
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Walkthrough

Notifications now retain optional agent identity through creation, snapshots, and reconstruction. Feed reply and superseding events pass source, session, workspace, and surface context when clearing semantic notifications. Codex events also qualify for existing supersession rules.

Changes

Semantic notification retirement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve identity and match notifications Sources/TerminalNotification.swift, Sources/SessionNotificationSnapshot.swift, Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift	Notifications and snapshots store optional agent kind, category, and session ID. Creation, snapshot restoration, duplicate-ID reconstruction, and surface rebinding preserve that metadata. The store can remove the oldest unread permission notification matching the tab, surface, and supplied filters.
Clear notifications from Feed events Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift, Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator+SemanticNotifications.swift, cmuxTests/AgentSemanticNotificationDeliveryTests.swift	Reply and superseding events pass event context to semantic notification clearing. If request-ID clearing removes nothing, clearing can target exactly one matching unread permission notification. Timestamped Codex events qualify for existing supersession rules. Tests cover uncorrelated prompts and Codex prompt cleanup.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 39f2b

Prompt retirement can dismiss a newer unanswered prompt while leaving an answered prompt visible, and the new Codex regression test fails. Correct retirement eligibility, candidate selection, and the test fixture before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39f2b

The new dismissal rules can hide a newer unanswered permission notification when an older or repeated event arrives. The demonstrated impact is limited to notification visibility and request lifecycle; the inspected paths do not turn dismissal into permission approval.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Retirement does not preserve the identity of the answered prompt across delayed or repeated events. The new progress path selects the newest matching unread notification, while the reply fallback can remove a newer sole survivor after the original notification is absent. Neither path bounds eligibility by event causality or notification generation. This can make permission-attention state disagree with the actual unanswered request, although it does not itself grant permission.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure concerns permission-attention state within the running application. The new direct progress helper removes one matching surface/session notification per invocation; repeated accepted events can remove subsequent matches. Registered waiter cleanup can additionally expire matching local requests. The inspected CLI consumer renders permission output only for resolved results carrying a decision, not unavailable retirement results.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A delayed progress event or repeated matching event can suppress attention for an unanswered permission request because notification retirement uses identity without causal ordering. An admitted automation caller can supply the matching event context, but notification-clearing authority already exists for such callers; this is not evidence of a newly introduced authentication bypass or permission grant.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Socket ingress retains caller admission and authorization-generation checks, with password authentication when the configured mode requires it. Claude and Codex event context is not subject to the pi-specific live-target normalization in Feed delivery resolution. Notification matching provides surface, category, source and session constraints, but those values are not independently established as producer credentials by the inspected retirement code.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Main-actor ingestion serializes local retirement, and waiter cleanup is claimed under a lock. These controls prevent concurrent waiter cleanup from being claimed twice, but do not make notification clearing idempotent: returning an existing Feed item still reaches the new clearing call. Notification removal precedes external dismissal calls; reconciliation after interruption was not established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind fallback retirement to a causal request or notification generation and make replay consumption idempotent. Preserve ambiguous legacy matches rather than treating a sole surviving notification as proof that it was answered. Selecting the oldest match alone would not protect a newer sole survivor from a delayed event.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The PR adds an unbounded notification scan to a production event path. Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2105 runs notifications.enumerated().filter(...) and materializes matches for every q…	Maintain an identity-based index for unread needs-permission notifications, keyed by workspace/surface/agent/session (and correlation key when present), and update it whenever notifications are inserted, removed, restored, or rebound. Use…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 38.89% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 6 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
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 agent notification delivery, notification identity persistence, feed lifecycle handling, and regression tests. The authoritative diff changes no Cloud terminal creation, cmu…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The production diff does not introduce a covered actor-isolation mistake. TerminalNotification and SessionNotificationSnapshot were already Sendable value models in the base; the PR adds only opti…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The production diff adds notification filtering and MainActor store calls. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, manual lock, or main-queue synchronous dispatch. …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes feed and terminal notification handling only. The policy-scoped browser automation files, Sources/TerminalController.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, are unchang…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The production diff adds no synchronous agent-history load. The new @MainActor paths filter the in-memory TerminalNotification array and resolve live surface ownership. The added code contains no Rest…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cache. It adds agent identity to the live TerminalNotification, copies that identity into SessionNotificationSnapshot, and restore…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only Swift source and Swift test files. It does not change TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime script files. The patch adds no covered non-Swift sleep, timer…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request adds synchronous notification filtering and state propagation only. It does not add DispatchQueue, Task, Combine, completion-handler APIs, or other legacy async patterns. Ex…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff adds no nonisolated async function, no @concurrent annotation, and no async helper call from UI isolation. The new notification-clearing methods are synchronous and explicitly `@Mai…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	No package-boundary violation is introduced. The changed logic remains in the app-specific FeedCoordinator and TerminalNotificationStore paths. It depends on @MainActor, AppDelegate.shared, li…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only Swift source files and one test file. It does not modify a Package.swift dependency, a cmux-owned .gitignore, a workflow, or an Xcode package reference. The root Xcode Packag…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The reviewed Swift diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout logging, or Logger declarations. Existing cmuxDebugLog and unified logging statements are unchanged, and the added…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The production diff adds notification identity fields and clearing logic only. It does not add or change user-facing error, alert, command, API, or recovery text. The new agent kind/category/session v…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Swift production logic, notification metadata, and tests. It adds no user-facing text, string-catalog entries, web messages, or locale files. The added literals are agent/protocol …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce a SwiftUI state or layout pattern covered by the rule. The changed files contain no new ObservableObject, @Published, property-wrapper state, GeometryReader, lazy/lis…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff adds no sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, observers, or other timing repair. Agent identity is stored on TerminalNotification, preserved by snapshots and surface rebinds, and …
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS. The reviewed diff changes feed and terminal notification logic plus tests only. It introduces no user-visible NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, close shortcut, …
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff changes only six existing Swift source and test files: five under Sources/ and one under cmuxTests/. The changes implement notification behavior and regression coverage. No artifact-like …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff adds notification behavior and identity persistence, not a test/debug seam. No added #if DEBUG or test-build guard appears. No added member uses the prohibited test/debug n…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main behavior change: clearing the agent notification ring after the user answers.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, resulting behavior, implementation scope, validation history, changelog entry, and review status. It does not use the template headings for Summary and Testing, a…

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The PR adds an unbounded notification scan to a production event path. Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2105 runs notifications.enumerated().filter(...) and materializes matches for every qualifying Claude or Codex hook. FeedCoordinator.ingestRevalidatedOnMainActor calls this path for each accepted event at Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift:159. The notification array has no explicit size bound. With N notification records, each hook performs O(N) matching work, then remove(id:) performs additional full-array scans. This violates the rule for filtering unbounded notification collections on every event. The change introduces this behavior; it is not existing debt.

Resolution

Maintain an identity-based index for unread needs-permission notifications, keyed by workspace/surface/agent/session (and correlation key when present), and update it whenever notifications are inserted, removed, restored, or rebound. Use the index to select the oldest matching notification without scanning notifications on each hook. At minimum, replace the materializing filter with a short-circuit lookup and add an explicit bound or benchmark, but an indexed lookup is the source-of-truth fix for the unbounded event path.

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🟡 Minor · Select the oldest matching prompt. · TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2114-2117

Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2114-2117
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Select the oldest matching prompt.

When two unread same-session permission prompts exist, notifications places the newer prompt first. clearAgentAttentionNotification removes matching.first, so the Codex progress hook can remove the newer unanswered prompt and leave the older answered prompt visible.

Suggested fix

-        guard let index = matching.first?.offset else { return false }
+        guard let index = matching.last?.offset else { return false }

This correction applies only when multiple candidates match. It does not change causal eligibility when the older prompt is absent.

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Review at febd19d: correctness review completed. Fixed: oldest matching prompt selection, ordered Codex progress fencing, strict scoped fallback, duplicate-clear prevention, session normalization, direct terminal-input clearing for Workspace and Dock surfaces, and unread-count coverage. Left: no correctness findings; focused CI and PR media are still pending.

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Review at 3d40526: unused-binding cleanup removes only the redundant workspaceId guard binding; the optional workspaceId remains correctly used for candidate filtering. Fixed: warning-only binding issue. Left: none.

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Review (subagent on the diff at 75712fa5b3d, then I re-verified the load-bearing claims by reading the source myself). Two blockers, both confirmed. Holding.

Blocker 1: the Codex half of this PR is unreachable. CLI/cmux.swift:

40984:  var waitTimeout = isActionable ? Self.feedHookDecisionWaitSeconds : 0
40985:  let shouldAwaitTelemetryIngestion = source == "pi"
40999:  if waitTimeout == 0 && !shouldAwaitTelemetryIngestion {
            ... one-way send ... print("{}"); return
        }

waitTimeout is not mutated between 40984 and 40999 (first mutation is 41120, inside the isActionable branch). So the new block at 41139:

if source == "codex", !isActionable, isOrderedCodexProgress {
    eventDict["_hook_sent_at_ms"] = Self.feedHookSentAtMs()

can never run. Exhaustively: isActionable == true fails the block's own !isActionable; isActionable == false && source != "pi" returns at 40999; isActionable == false && source == "pi" reaches the block but fails source == "codex". Consequence: _hook_sent_at_ms is never stamped on a real Codex telemetry hook, so feedHookSentAtMs is nil, supersedesPendingDecisions is false, and clearAgentPromptNotificationsSuperseded never fires on the Codex path the PR body describes.

codexProgressHookClearsPromptRingAndWorkspaceCount cannot catch this: it hand-writes extraFieldsJSON: {"_hook_sent_at_ms":9999999999999,...} and calls clearAgentPromptNotificationsSuperseded directly, so it never exercises the CLI that is supposed to produce that frame.

Also worth a look while you are in there: _cmux_ordered_hook: true is reachable (set in the shared eventDict at 40905), so it rides the fire-and-forget lane, which contradicts its own doc comment at Sources/Feed/WorkstreamEvent+FeedIngress.swift:43-45 ("Detached telemetry workers omit this marker"). Harmless only while the stamp is absent.

Note the fix here is a judgement call, not mechanical: making the block reachable means ordered Codex progress hooks stop taking the one-way lane and start doing a request/response with an id, on every tool use. That is your latency call, so I am not making it.

Blocker 2: the fallback predicate has no prompt identity, so it can retire a newer unanswered prompt. clearAgentPromptNotificationsSuperseded (Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator.swift:522-544) passes no correlationKey, and clearAgentAttentionNotification (Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2096-2128) then removes matching.min(by: createdAt) with no sole-candidate check. The before: window only excludes prompts created after the stamp; it does not decide which of the survivors gets retired.

Two scenarios, both reachable on the Claude path today (Claude needs no ordered marker, FeedCoordinator.swift:508-510):

1. P1 recorded at t=100, user answers in the terminal so the new Sources/Workspace+AttentionFlashRouting.swift:27 path removes P1, P2 recorded at t=120 and still pending. A hook stamped t=130 (including from a subagent sharing the session id) leaves candidates = {P2}, and P2 is deleted. The user never learns the agent is waiting.
2. P1 (t=100) and P2 (t=120) both genuinely pending, e.g. a parent and a subagent each blocked. Any superseding hook stamped t >= 120 deletes P1, which nobody answered.

"The oldest unread prompt is the answered one" is not an invariant. The discriminator already exists and is unused: WorkstreamEvent.feedAgentID (Sources/Feed/WorkstreamEvent+FeedIngress.swift:36-40).

The safe version of this reasoning is already written down in this same PR, at Sources/Feed/FeedCoordinator+SemanticNotifications.swift:71-80:

when that metadata is unavailable, only a single pending prompt is safe to retire so a second unanswered prompt keeps its ring

and that call site does guard candidates.count == 1. The always-on ingest path does not. Smallest fix: a requiresSolePendingPrompt mode on clearAgentAttentionNotification (or make the sole-candidate check unconditional when correlationKey == nil) and use it from clearAgentPromptNotificationsSuperseded. Happy to push that one if you want it.

Also found, not blocking:

• Sources/Workspace+AttentionFlashRouting.swift:8-14,27 is a second dismissal path, not the same one. It skips NotificationDismissalModel.dismissNotification's isNotificationTargetSelected gate and calls remove(id:) where the existing path only calls storeMarkRead. So on an unselected workspace, any onExplicitInput (socket sendInput, cmux send-text, a phone reply, the manual-mirror chain) now deletes a pending approval notification outright instead of leaving it intact. A keepalive newline written into an agent pane destroys the "agent needs you" signal. Worth either adding the selection gate or marking read instead of removing.
• Ordering side effect from the same path: the new clear runs before dismissNotificationOnTerminalInteraction, so by then hasUnreadNotification is false and workspaceTriggerNotificationDismissFlash no longer fires. Typing to answer a prompt loses its dismiss flash.
• python3 scripts/swift_file_length_budget.py exits 1 on this diff: CLI/cmux.swift 42436 > 42421, FeedCoordinator.swift 1851 > 1805, TerminalNotificationStore.swift 3004 > 2954, AgentNotificationMoveRaceTests.swift 705 > 701. That script is not CI-wired (only referenced from docs/incidents/13070-cloud-startup-permission.md), so it is a convention, not a red.
• codexProgressHookClearsPromptRingAndWorkspaceCount's two prompts differ by session id, not recency, and the stamp is 9999999999999 ms, which makes the window infinite. So the test would pass unchanged with the before: filter deleted entirely. The load-bearing case (newer unanswered prompt in the same session survives) is untested.
• Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2223 adds origin: notification.origin to notificationWithUniqueId. That looks like a genuine fix to the restore path (a duplicate-id remote notification no longer gets promoted to .local), but it is unrelated to this PR's subject and undeclared.
• FeedCoordinator+SemanticNotifications.swift:87-93 duplicates the session normalization in Sources/AgentFeedSemanticInput.swift:16-19 verbatim. They do match, which is what makes the session filter above sound, so it is worth extracting one helper.

Not verified: no Swift compile of any kind on this diff, and none of the cmuxTests/ tests were executed (app-host, not runnable here). Every Swift finding above is verified by reading. In particular nobody has swept the tree for other callers of clearSemanticFeedNotification or retirePendingDecisionsSuperseded, both of which changed signature.

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Review at 9ef3f70: indexed unread agent-attention lookup rebuilds on every notification mutation, selects the oldest eligible same-session prompt behind the hook timestamp fence, and preserves newer unanswered prompts. Direct terminal input remains surface-scoped with suppression until a new prompt arrives. Codex ordered progress and Claude hook paths remain covered. Fixed: same-session sole-candidate guard, unbounded materializing scan, invalid JSON fixture. Left: none.

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