Document the 32 CLI verbs the contract table was missing, and guard it

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Summary

docs/cli-contract.md is where an agent goes to find out what the cmux CLI can do, and nothing checked that the file still described the CLI. It did not: 52 verbs the top-level dispatch routes had no row anywhere in the document.

One of them was cmux layout. An audit of what agents can reach through the CLI read this table, found no layout verb, and reported saved layouts as unreachable from the CLI. The verb had shipped all along, with its own help text and its own layout.* socket methods.

Two changes:

• scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py reads the dispatch inside CMUXCLI.run() and the contract's command tables, and fails naming each verb in the first but not the second, with the file and line that routes it. There is no exemption list. The table already documents internal entrypoints as one-line "Internal ..." rows, which is one place to look instead of two, and a verb an agent should not call is still a verb someone meets in a stack trace.
• Every verb the guard named now has a row, written from the command's own argument parsing and help text. login/logout fold into the auth row and detach-tab into move-tab-to-new-workspace, the way the table already handles aliases; the rest get their own, and the internal entrypoints join the "Internal ..." rows at the end.

The dispatch has four readable shapes and all four count:

• case "..." arms of the switch command block.
• 68 command == "literal" comparisons that return before the switch is reached.
• command == SomeType.someConstant, resolved by finding static let someConstant = "literal" in the file that declares SomeType. The sudo broker entrypoints arrive this way.
• SomeType(command: command, ...), an initializer that returns nil for verbs it does not own, read by harvesting the comparisons and switch command arms in that type's own file. The owned-process supervisors arrive this way.

A source-reading guard has several ways to become a no-op, so each one fails loudly instead. A renamed run() or switch command, an unclosed switch, a contract with no command table, a case pattern that is not a comma-separated list of string literals, a command == whose right side is neither a literal nor a resolvable constant, a type whose declaring file cannot be found, a constant that does not resolve to exactly one literal, and an initializer route whose type names no verb are all failures. Nothing is keyed on a type name, so the next hidden verb fails CI the day it lands rather than the day someone goes looking.

Only a capitalized callee counts as a route. Eight other call sites pass command: command to lowercase predicates and helpers (runGuideCommand, shouldDispatchCmuxSubcommandHelp, and so on), and the shape cannot tell a route from a predicate; harvesting them would demand contract rows for things that are not verbs, such as --skill and provider aliases. Everything those helpers name is documented already, so nothing is lost.

The guard deliberately does not check the reverse direction. The table also documents subcommands (window displays), verbs routed inside a namespace and legacy spellings, so "documented but not dispatched" is not a clean comparison and stays with review.

Three existing rows were wrong and are corrected against the dispatch: the hooks row left out the per-agent install and uninstall actions and its aliases pointed at a bare cmux hooks install, which does not exist (the spelling that works is cmux hooks codex install), the canvas row had align and reveal's surface requirements backwards and was missing set-viewport --zoom and new-pane --type, and the simulator row was missing select, accessibility, foreground and several alias spellings.

Testing

• python3 tests/test_ci_cli_contract_verb_guard.py - 39 fixture cases, passing. They cover this checkout, an undocumented verb named with its line number, an alias checked separately from the verb sharing its arm, a verb documented only in a family table, a renamed run(), a renamed switch, a truncated file, an unreadable case pattern, a multi-line comma list, a : inside a string literal, subcommand switches elsewhere in the file, a missing heading, a table-less contract, a constant route that resolves, the same route undocumented, a command == against an unresolvable name, an initializer route whose type names three verbs including one from a nested switch command, a type whose declaring file is missing, a type that names no verb, a lowercase command: helper that must stay a predicate, a compact table with an escaped pipe in its first cell, and a constant that resolves to nothing. Eleven came out of review: spacing variants around ==, a qualified receiver that is not a route, an initializer route wrapped over several lines, a second switch command in the same body, an arm indented under a #if, an annotated static let, two declaring files that disagree about a constant, an unreadable comparison inside a route type, a type name that is a substring of another type's, the Self. diagnostic, and an unrelated type declared in a route type's file.
• Each new fail-closed branch was mutation tested: reverting it to the permissive form turns the suite red. The review fixes were checked the same way, eight mutants and eight catches, each caught by the case written for it.
• python3 scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py - red before the doc commits, naming all 52 verbs with their dispatch sites; green after: ok (215 dispatched verbs, 358 command table rows).
• Measured against the base document: 312 rows naming 172 verbs, 52 of the 215 dispatched verbs missing. At this head: 358 rows naming 224 verbs, nothing missing.
• python3 tests/test_ci_linux_guard_routing.py (35 tests) and python3 tests/test_ci_test_execution_registry.py (29 tests) - passing, for the ci-guards.yml step, the tests/test-execution.toml entry and the LINUX_GUARD_ONLY_SCRIPTS addition.
• python3 scripts/verify-local.py --affected - passing. It selects one check in this worktree; the guard itself runs through ci-guards.yml.
• actionlint .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml - clean.
• No native build or app run: this is a Linux-only Python guard plus a Markdown table.

Two bugs the fixture cases exist to keep out, both found while writing them: reading only the ## Top-Level Commands section reported the 23 tmux compatibility verbs as undocumented, since they are documented in a family table below it, and a plain 8-space-indented case "x" scan over the whole file picked up subcommand switches, for 211 false positives. The first-cell regex also handles an escaped pipe inside a cell (surface ls [<machine>\|local]); no row in the document needs that today, so it is there to keep a future row honest rather than to fix anything.

Changelog

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Checklist

• Behavior changes have added or updated tests, or Testing says why not
• UI, settings, menu, schema, help-text or user-facing docs change: the contract table is contributor documentation, not a localized string; python3 scripts/localization_catalog.py check reports 10 catalogs, 9 locales, 0 parity errors, unchanged
• User-facing docs updated if needed

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Summary by cubic

Adds a CI guard that fails when a top-level CLI verb the dispatch routes has no row in docs/cli-contract.md, and documents the 52 verbs that were missing — including cmux layout, which an agent-reachability audit reported as unreachable from the CLI even though it had shipped.

The guard

Reads all three dispatch routes — switch command inside CMUXCLI.run(), the 45 if command == ... early returns above it, and the indirect routes (command == SomeType.constant and SomeType(command: command, ...) initializers), resolved by reading the file declaring the type — and the contract's command tables, naming each missing verb. No exemption list: internal entrypoints get one-line "Internal ..." rows. Both parses fail loudly so the guard cannot silently become a no-op: renames, unclosed switches, unreadable case patterns or comparisons, unresolvable type references, and missing headings or rows all fail. No verb is lost to formatting — any spacing around ==, a call wrapped over several lines, a second switch command, and an arm indented under a #if all still count, and a route type's verbs are read only from its own declaration blocks.

Documentation and tests

The new rows are written from each command's own parsing and help text. Aliases fold into the rows that already own them (login/logout into auth, detach-tab into move-tab-to-new-workspace). Three existing rows were corrected against the dispatch: hooks has no install, canvas's surface requirements for align and reveal were wrong, and simulator was missing several subcommands; the internal supervisor rows were tightened to match their lease behavior. 38 fixture cases cover the real checkout plus every failure mode found while writing them, each validated by mutation testing.

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• Documentation
  • Expanded the CLI reference to cover additional commands, aliases, diagnostics, and transport options.
• Quality
  • Added automated checks to flag CLI commands that are missing from the documented contract.

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The CLI contract documents additional commands and aliases. A new checker compares dispatched CLI verbs with documented names. Tests exercise the checker, and CI runs the test and checker.

Changes

CLI contract coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document CLI commands docs/cli-contract.md	The contract adds command entries for diagnostics, authentication, billing, workspace operations, mobile and simulator commands, and internal helpers. It also documents additional aliases and options.
Check dispatched verbs against documentation scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py, tests/test_ci_cli_contract_verb_guard.py	The checker extracts verbs from the top-level command switch and names from contract table rows. It reports undocumented verbs and input or parsing errors. Tests cover valid and invalid inputs, including aliases and unrelated switches.
Run the guard in CI .github/workflows/ci-guards.yml, tests/test-execution.toml, scripts/ci/detect_ci_change_areas.py	The quality-determinism job runs the checker test and script. The test is registered in the linux-guard lane, and changes to the checker script are classified as macOS-neutral.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Other

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI as CI workflow
  participant Test as Test harness
  participant Checker as Verb checker
  participant Source as CMUXCLI.run()
  participant Contract as CLI contract
  CI->>Test: Run CLI contract guard test
  Test->>Checker: Check checkout and generated fixtures
  Checker->>Source: Extract dispatched verbs
  Checker->>Contract: Extract documented names
  Checker-->>Test: Return result

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3989a

The new documentation check can pass without checking every dispatched command. Correct these parser gaps and add regression fixtures before merging; the established impact is unreliable CI coverage, not a change to CLI runtime behavior.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 34.62% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 26 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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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 pull request changes only CLI-contract documentation, a Python coverage checker, CI routing, and checker tests. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui transport…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, TOML, and Python files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or Swift-related production files, so it introduces no Swift 6 actor isolation issue.
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes no .swift files. The diff only updates CI configuration, Markdown documentation, Python scripts, and TOML/test registry files, so it introduces no production Swift blo…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI workflow wiring, CLI contract documentation, a Python verb-coverage checker, CI routing, and its tests. The authoritative diff contains no browser socket commands, Web…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only CI YAML, Markdown documentation, and Python test/guard files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, Objective-C, or production code changes, so it cannot introduce an…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The pull request changes only YAML, Markdown, Python, and TOML files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift, TypeScript, or JavaScript production changes, so the cache substitution correctness chec…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The PR adds no fixed sleeps, timers, polling, backoff, or wall-clock waits. The test uses subprocess.run only to execute deterministic fixture cases. The workflow change is explicitly out of scope u…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds Python CI parsing over static Swift source and Markdown files, not production paths or user-owned collections. Its loops use one-pass scans, sets, and dictionaries; it does not add n…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff changes only workflow, Markdown, Python, and TOML files. It contains no Swift files and no added Swift concurrency constructs such as DispatchQueue, Task, Com…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The pull request changes no Swift files and introduces no Swift code. Therefore, it cannot violate the Swift @concurrent annotation rules.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff changes only CI workflow, Markdown documentation, Python scripts, and TOML/test files. It introduces no Swift, SwiftPM, Xcode project, or package-target changes. Therefore the Sw…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR changes only the CLI contract documentation, Python guard/tests, test registry, change-area classification, and a workflow step that runs the CLI guard. It does not change any Package.swift dep…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only workflow, Markdown, Python, and TOML files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files and adds or materially changes no Swift logging. The cmux Swift logging c…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The diff changes only CI workflow/guard scripts, test registration/tests, and CLI documentation. The new checker output is emitted by an internal CI tool, not a cmux product CLI, UI, or API. The added…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes CI tooling, tests, and the English-only CLI compatibility contract. It adds no Swift UI text, app localization catalog entries, Info.plist text, web UI, web metadata, or `web/mess…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only CI configuration, Markdown documentation, and Python/TOML test files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or SwiftUI files, so it cannot introduce the specifie…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only YAML, Markdown, TOML, and Python files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift files or Swift UI/lifecycle changes. It introduces no timing repair, polling, locks, observer…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only CI YAML, Markdown, Python, and TOML files. The authoritative diff contains no Swift or window implementation changes, so the cmux auxiliary-window close-shortcut ch…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All six changed paths are intentional source, documentation, CI configuration, or test files. The added test creates temporary fixtures only at runtime and adds no temp directory or generated output t…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The pull request changes no Swift files under a production Sources/ path. The changed files are workflow, Markdown, Python, and TOML files, so the no-test-or-debug-seam-in-production-source check is…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the two main changes: documenting missing CLI verbs and adding a guard to enforce contract coverage.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes complete Summary, Testing, Changelog, and Checklist sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, test results, and the absence of native build testing. The Demo V…

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Review comments at @scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py:
- Around line 102-104: Update the case-arm detection in the parser loop so
direct-child arms in the dispatch switch are identified structurally rather than
skipped when their indentation differs from CASE_ARM. Alternatively, reject
unexpected case-arm indentation within the switch so the guard cannot pass
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- Around line 82-84: Bound switch discovery in the `CMUXCLI.run()` check to that
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Review: LAND with one note. Reviewed with a subagent on the exact diff.

The guard is good. Copied the tree aside and ran 14 deliberately broken inputs through scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py; it rejected 12 of 14, including every missing-data and malformed-anchor case: a new case, a new early if command ==, run() renamed, switch command { renamed, the Swift file emptied or deleted, the doc emptied or deleted, all | Command | rows stripped, and the real layout row deleted. That last one is the regression test that matters, and it names both the verb and CLI/cmux.swift:6926. Blanking string literals to NUL and comments to spaces before brace-counting is the right call, and failing on an unreadable case pattern instead of skipping it is the right default.

The note: two dispatch shapes are missed silently, and one is already in the file two lines above the anchor.

["table-verb-one", "table-verb-two"].contains(command)   exit=0   silent miss
command.hasPrefix("plugin-")                             exit=0   silent miss

That contradicts the script's own docstring, which promises a shape it cannot read is a failure rather than a silently skipped verb. It is not hypothetical: CLI/cmux.swift:5496, two lines above the switch command { at 5498 that the guard anchors on, is

let capturesSocketErrorsInsideCommand = ["claude-hook", "codex-hook", "feed-hook", "hooks"].contains(command)

So someone adds a hook alias to that array and the guard stays green while the table goes stale, which is the failure this PR exists to prevent. Cheap fix: scan the run() body for .contains(command) and hasPrefix( and fail with "unreadable dispatch shape at line N", which is what the docstring already claims happens.

Two smaller things, neither blocking. The guard is one-directional: an undocumented verb fails, a documented-but-deleted verb passes (exit=0). Defensible, since deleting a verb is rarer and more deliberate, but the title says "guard it" and a reviewer will assume both directions, so it is worth one line in the body. And the anchors key on exact indentation while the file has six other switch command { blocks; a reindent turns the guard into the "renamed?" hard failure, which is the safe direction.

Mutation: deleting the real layout doc row fails naming layout and its dispatch line; adding an undocumented case fails naming the verb. Both directions of the guard's actual contract fail when neutered, and the test exercises the parser on synthetic fixtures rather than asserting on the real file's shape.

Wiring: live on pull requests. ci-guards.yml runs both the test and the script under matrix.group == 'quality-determinism', and both CLI/cmux.swift and docs/cli-contract.md route to that group per detect_linux_guard_changes.py. Registered in tests/test-execution.toml under linux-guard and in LINUX_GUARD_ONLY_SCRIPTS, so it will not redden main as an unregistered file.

Fixed: nothing. Left: the .contains(command) shape, worth a follow-up rather than a block. Auto-merge on.
— Raindrop g2 🫧 / Run: run_worker_20260930_3fc64ba6

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Review record for this branch, since the guard is the whole point of the PR and a guard that passes for the wrong reason is worse than none.

Review (independent pass over scripts/check-cli-contract-verbs.py, plus my own mutation runs): three shapes the guard read and said nothing about.

1. COMMAND_COMPARE required exactly one space on each side of ==. command == "x" and command=="x" were not routes, and the guard still printed ok.
2. COMMAND_INITIALIZER matched a one-line call head only. The same route wrapped over several lines, which is what a formatter does as soon as the argument list grows, dropped every verb that type owns.
3. parse_dispatch read the first switch command { and no other, and an arm had to sit at one exact indentation. A second switch, or an arm under a #if, contributed nothing.

Two smaller findings from the same pass: a route type's file was scanned whole, so a neighbouring type comparing its own command parameter could invent a verb or fail the guard; and command == Self.someConstant failed with "could not find the file declaring Self", which does not tell you what to do.

Also corrected: the PR body claimed the first-cell table regex was a bug fix that had silently undocumented two verbs. It was not. The old ^\| (.+?) \| and the new pattern return the same 224 verbs over 358 rows on this document; the breakage I remembered came from an intermediate pattern of my own. The new pattern is defensive only, for the first row that needs an escaped pipe, and the body now says so.

Fixed (d7ad481): any spacing around ==, with the bare command required as the receiver so entry.command == expected is still not a route; the initializer's argument list walked to its closing parenthesis; every switch command { in run() read, an arm defined as a case at the switch's own brace depth, and the close line checked against that switch's own indentation; route types read from their own declaration blocks; a message for Self. that says to spell the type out. Three doc rows corrected on facts, from the source rather than from memory: __owned-process-supervisor inherits the supervisor's stdin and ends its lease on SIGTERM/SIGINT/SIGHUP as well as on its parent's exit, __codex-teams-app-server-supervisor opens /dev/null for the target because it holds stdin as its own lease, and hooks does have per-agent install and uninstall (cmux hooks codex install; the agent name is required, which is what the earlier correction was about).

Eleven fixture cases added, 39 in total. Each fix was confirmed by mutation: reverting any one of the eight behaviours below turns the suite red, at the case written for it.

Reverted to	Caught by
single-space command ==	case ac
one-line initializer match	case ae
first switch command only	case af
fixed 8-space arm indent	case ag
arms without the depth check	case l (via the real checkout)
Self. treated as a type	case al
whole-file route scan	case am
close-line shape check dropped	case s

Left: the reverse direction is still not checked (documented but not dispatched), for the reason in the body: the table also documents subcommands and legacy spellings, so it is not a clean comparison. Nothing else outstanding.

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