fix(cli): reject extra send-key operands

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Summary

Fixes #15648.

cmux send-key and cmux send-key-panel document exactly one key operand, but both previously used only the first positional and silently discarded the rest.

This change:

• rejects trailing operands before surface.send_key dispatch;
• preserves the documented single-key forms and the explicit -- separator;
• adds bundled CLI regression coverage for both commands and asserts malformed argv produces no socket request.

The regression test is committed before the fix, following the repository contribution guidance.

Testing

Added sendKeyCommandsRejectExtraArgumentsWithoutSocketRequest in CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.

I could not run the macOS bundled CLI test suite from this connector environment, so exact-head CI is the execution gate. No test pass is claimed here.

Changelog

Fixed: send-key and send-key-panel now reject extra operands instead of silently ignoring them.

Demo Video

Not applicable; CLI validation only.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes #15648. cmux send-key and cmux send-key-panel documented exactly one key operand but silently discarded any extras; both commands now reject trailing operands with a localized error before dispatch, so malformed argv produces no socket request.

• The explicit -- separator and the documented single-key forms still work unchanged.
• Adds CLI regression coverage asserting extra arguments fail without a socket request.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • send-key and send-key-panel now report an error when given extra key arguments, instead of proceeding with them.

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Walkthrough

send-key and send-key-panel now reject extra key arguments. A regression test verifies that both commands exit with an error, make no socket request, and report “unexpected arguments.”

Changes

Key argument validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate key arguments CLI/cmux.swift, cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift	Both commands throw an error when more than one key argument is supplied. The regression test checks for a nonzero exit, no timeout or socket request, and “unexpected arguments” in stderr.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 59566

Malformed key commands now fail without sending a request, while single-key forms remain supported. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; exact-head CI still needs to run the regression test.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 59566

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: CLI, cmuxCLITests

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Systems and components

• observed — CLI (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — cmuxCLITests (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift: Adds a regression test for extra arguments to both key-send commands, asserting they fail without a timeout or socket request and include “unexpected arguments” in stderr.
• observed — Modified behavior in CLI/cmux.swift: send-key now throws a CLIError naming the command and listing trailing arguments when more than one key argument is supplied.
• observed — Modified behavior in CLI/cmux.swift: send-key-panel now throws a CLIError naming the command and listing trailing arguments when more than one key argument is supplied.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	❌ Error	The changed production code reaches cmux users through the product CLI: CMUXTermMain writes CLIError.message to stderr. Both new error branches join and interpolate every trailing argv value into …	Do not include trailing operand values in either user-facing error. Use localized messages that contain only the command name and a generic safe diagnostic, such as send-key: unexpected arguments and send-key-panel: unexpected arguments…
Docstring Coverage	❓ Inconclusive	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	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: rejecting extra operands for the send-key CLI commands.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required Summary, Testing, Changelog, and Demo Video sections. It explains the behavior change, test coverage, and unverified macOS test execution. The repository checklis…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #15648 requires both commands to reject extra operands, return a non-zero status, report unexpected arguments, and avoid a surface.send_key request. CLI/cmux.swift adds checks before dispatc…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to extra-argument validation for the two commands and targeted CLI regression coverage for Issue #15648. The changes do not add multi-key behavior or unrelated product changes.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only CLI/cmux.swift and cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. The code adds extra-operand validation for send-key and send-key-panel, and the test c…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff only adds local argument-count checks and localized CLIError construction inside existing CMUXCLI.run branches. It adds no model, service protocol, Sendable reference t…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff in CLI/cmux.swift only adds argument-count checks and localized CLIError construction for send-key and send-key-panel. It adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, del…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CLI argument validation for send-key and send-key-panel, plus regression tests. The diff does not add or modify browser socket automation commands, WebKit/AppKit acce…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift argument validation and a CLI test. The production additions count and join trailing command-line strings, then throw a localized CLIError; they do not add…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The PR does not substitute a cached value for a fresh authoritative read. The production diff only adds extra-argument validation in send-key and send-key-panel before client.sendV2; the test ad…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. The production change is Swift argument validation, and the test change is Swift test scaffolding. N…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff adds only one count check and one dropFirst().joined operation in each send-key command. These operations are linear over the command's positional operands and do not sca…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The diff adds only synchronous argument validation and a synchronous XCTest-style regression test. It adds no Dispatch queues, Combine state, completion-handler API, or fire-and-forget Task. Existing …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds only synchronous argument validation and a synchronous test method. The changed CLI code remains inside the existing CMUXCLI.run() async throws, but it performs only small array/st…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff adds only command-local argument validation inside CMUXCLI for send-key and send-key-panel. It does not introduce reusable domain logic, a public API, provider/protocol…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR diff contains only CLI/cmux.swift and cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. It changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, or Xcode project pa…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR adds only CLIError validation and a regression test. It does not add or materially change print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger declarations, file logging, or diagnostic logging.…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The production diff adds the error text through String(localized:defaultValue:) using the existing cli.readSelection.error.unexpectedArguments key. Resources/Localizable.xcstrings already contai…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only CLI argument validation and CLI regression tests. The diff introduces no SwiftUI views, ObservableObject/@published state, GeometryReader, lazy/list row store refer…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: This is a small local CLI correctness fix. The diff adds count checks in the existing send-key and send-key-panel command branches, before handle normalization and surface.send_key dispatc…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CLI argument validation in CLI/cmux.swift and a CLI test in cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. The diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, `NSWindowController…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. The diff adds hand-written CLI validation and regression tests. It adds no logs, screenshots, recordings, …
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CLI/cmux.swift and cmuxCLITests/CLIExplicitSurfaceRoutingTests.swift. No changed Swift file is under a **/Sources/** production path, and the added code contains no tes…

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The changed production code reaches cmux users through the product CLI: CMUXTermMain writes CLIError.message to stderr. Both new error branches join and interpolate every trailing argv value into that message. For example, cmux send-key ctrl+c <token> would print the token in Error: send-key: unexpected arguments: <token>. This raw user-controlled value is not redacted and can contain credentials, tokens, or sensitive payload data. The diff therefore violates the rule's prohibition on secrets and unredacted payloads in user-facing errors.

Resolution

Do not include trailing operand values in either user-facing error. Use localized messages that contain only the command name and a generic safe diagnostic, such as send-key: unexpected arguments and send-key-panel: unexpected arguments, or report only a safe argument count. Add or update localization entries and adjust the regression tests to verify the generic message without exposing the supplied operands.

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- Line 7667: Localize the unexpected-argument errors in the send-key and
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Review: adversarial pass on the diff

Verdict: LAND.

Executed the off-by-one mutant:

mutant keyArgs.count > 1  ->  > 2
    OK   surface.send_key key=ctrl+c     (new test would fail to reject)

Your send-key --surface surface:1 ctrl+c enter case catches it. On main that input silently sent only ctrl+c and dropped enter, so the test fails on unmodified main. That is a real regression test.

No over-rejection found. Every documented and previously working form is byte-identical to main, including --surface surface:1 -- ctrl+c. On that last one the -- survives into keyArgs as a non-key argument, which is worth a glance, but it behaves the same on both sides so this PR neither fixes nor breaks it. Contrast #15978, where the same -- handling is an actual regression. The only newly rejected inputs are multi-operand forms that main silently truncated.

Nit: same reused cli.readSelection.error.unexpectedArguments localization key as #16002.

Verification

Executed: the mutant and roughly 10 send-key invocations in a Foundation-only harness on Linux. Not executed: no real test target ran here.

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