feat(cloud): show machine creator on sidebar rows

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This is #15948 re-landed on an origin branch so it can produce the evidence the call needs. On a
fork, pr-media.yml returns at once for anything but a same-repository pull request and ci.yml's
ui-tests job refuses a fork on its first step, so #15948 could never attach the tour frames the
creator-metadata call is judged on. Same head 22b46f108c0, commits unchanged. Close #15948 in
favor of this one.

Tour frames follow once the Cloud-sidebar scenario lands (#15923).

Summary

This fresh branch re-lands the remaining user-facing portion of #15341 and supersedes it.

The original #15341 was 371 commits behind main and included two CLA-blocking commits authored by the GitHub account Claude (31201fb169e and 325ab9e14a3). Their content already landed on main in #15309 at 547340ae7d0, so this PR carries only the remaining machine-row creator-label behavior and its supporting fixtures, tests, localization, project wiring, and dogfood tour.

Changelog

• Added the machine creator display name to Cloud machine sidebar rows.

Verification

• TMPDIR=/Users/leoli/Projects/.tmp-verify python3 scripts/verify-local.py: passed all 16 selected checks. One project-normalizer test was skipped; native compilation, app tests, and app launch were not checked.
• scripts/sync-test-wiring: clean; python3 scripts/localization_catalog.py check: 10 catalogs, 9 locales, 0 parity errors.
• ./scripts/localize-changes: no new translation rows; it reports the pre-existing unsupported Swift escape in Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeMachineRowContent.swift and exits non-zero for human attention.
• The new machines.row.createdBy key has translated entries for all required macOS locales. The whole-catalog non-translated-state audit remains 3432, inherited from main; unrelated catalog states were not rewritten.
• Focused app tests, native compilation, and app launch were skipped because this environment does not run app builds; CI must establish the runtime red/green evidence.

This supersedes #15341.

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Summary by cubic

Shows the machine creator's display name on Cloud machine sidebar rows (e.g., "by Ada Lovelace · 3 hours ago") so a fleet stops reading as a list of opaque generated names.

• Rows with no recorded name, or only whitespace, stay quiet; the account id is never used as a fallback.
• Adds the translated machines.row.createdBy key for all required locales; the label lives in its own file because scripts/localize-changes cannot parse \u{...} escapes in CloudTreeMachineRowContent.
• Debug lab gains long- and short-id fixtures plus an accessibility identifier on the preset picker so the new cloud-machine-author-tour.json dogfood tour can drive it.
• Menu traversal in DogfoodScenarioUITests is scoped to the opened menu, fixing a "Multiple matching elements found" failure since the lab appears in both Debug and Help menus.

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• New Features
  • Cloud machine rows now show the creator’s display name when one is available. The creator label appears alongside the machine’s existing identifying details and creation age. Missing, blank, or whitespace-only names are omitted, and no account ID is substituted when a display name isn’t provided.

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Walkthrough

Cloud machine rows now append a localized “by [name]” label when the creator has a nonblank display name. Tests cover the label and row content. Debug fixtures and a dogfood scenario cover named creators and sidebar layouts.

Changes

Cloud machine creator labels

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Creator label in machine rows Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineCreatorLabel.swift, Sources/Cloud/CloudTreeMachineRowContent.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, cmuxTests/CloudMachineCreatorTests.swift	A helper formats a localized label from the trimmed creator display name. Machine row subtitles append the label when available. Tests check named, absent, and whitespace-only creator data, and verify that machine identity details remain present.
Debug fixtures and layout tour Sources/Cloud/CloudSidebarDebugLabWindow.swift, dogfood/scenarios/cloud-machine-author-tour.json, cmuxUITests/DogfoodScenarioUITests.swift	The debug lab adds named creator fixtures and an accessibility identifier for the preset picker. The dogfood scenario captures compact and Aero layouts, and the UI test documentation names the evidence tours.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	❌ Error	The production diff adds Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineCreatorLabel.swift with a top-level, stateless value helper whose text(creator:) only transforms Sendable VMCreator data and localized `Strin…	Declare CloudMachineCreatorLabel as nonisolated (or otherwise make CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text(creator:) explicitly nonisolated) so the pure helper does not inherit MainActor isolation. Keep the VMCreator input and localized str…
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The implementation satisfies the main coding requirements in #15948. CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text trims names, omits blank or missing names, and does not use userId. `CloudTreeMachineRowContent.s…	Provide reviewable evidence that the dogfood menu lookup is limited to the opened menu, or update the dogfood traversal to enforce that scope.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: showing machine creators on Cloud sidebar rows.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is mostly complete. It explains the behavior, implementation scope, localization, tests, verification results, skipped checks, and known limitations. It uses a Verification section ins…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files support #15948. The label helper and row rendering implement the creator text. The project entry, fixtures, localization, tests, and dogfood scenario support delivery and verificatio…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 u…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	PASS: The rule applies to Cloud terminal creation, persistent cmux-tui transport, manual panes, and runtime admission. This diff only adds creator labels, sidebar fixtures and accessibility metadata, …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	PASS. The review-scoped diff adds no blocking or timing synchronization primitives to Swift production code. Production additions only format the creator label, add an accessibility identifier, add fi…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The PR does not change browser socket automation routing. The only UI-automation changes are a documentation comment and a new dogfood scenario that uses direct XCUI actions (click, menu, key, `…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The PR changes Cloud machine-row presentation, fixtures, tests, localization, and dogfood metadata. The production Swift diff adds only local creator-name trimming/localization, an accessibility ident…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The diff adds a localized creator label to CloudTreeMachineRowContent.subtitle, which feeds the row, accessibility label, and tooltip. It reads machine.createdBy from the immutable render mo…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime code. The only fixed waits are in the new dogfood scenario JSON, which is deterministic test-only scaffol…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The production changes do not introduce a complexity violation. CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text processes one creator name, and CloudTreeMachineRowContent.subtitle appends one optional label to a sm…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	PASS: The authoritative diff adds only synchronous label formatting, SwiftUI view metadata/fixtures, and synchronous XCTest assertions. Added-line scanning found no new DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, C…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	PASS: The reviewed Swift diff adds only synchronous code. CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text is a pure synchronous helper, and the row change is a synchronous subtitle computation. The other Swift chan…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The production Swift change is row-presentation glue. CloudMachineCreatorLabel only formats localized text for CloudTreeMachineRowContent, has one production call site, and exposes no public…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR does not change SwiftPM dependencies or package references. The cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj patch only adds CloudMachineCreatorLabel.swift file-reference and Sources entries; it adds no …
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file logging, stdout/stderr logging, or Logger declarations. The changed production Swift only formats and displays a creator name in the…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The changed runtime path adds a normal Cloud machine-row subtitle and tooltip label (by %@) for a creator display name. It does not add or change a user-facing error, alert, command output, API erro…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The only new production user-facing text is the Swift localization key machines.row.createdBy, used through String(localized:defaultValue:) in CloudMachineCreatorLabel.swift. The matching `Resou…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The SwiftUI diff adds only an accessibility identifier and fixture data in CloudSidebarDebugLabWindow, plus creator-label text in CloudTreeMachineRowContent. It introduces no `ObservableObje…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR adds a pure CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text formatter and calls it from the existing CloudTreeMachineRowContent.subtitle path, which the tooltip already reuses. The helper has no mutabl…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR does not add or materially change standalone window construction. Its only production window-file changes add a picker accessibility identifier and debug fixtures; `CloudSidebarDebugLabWi…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All eight changed paths are intentional source-control artifacts: Swift source, tests, Xcode project wiring, a localization catalog, and a dogfood scenario fixture. The diff adds no screenshots, recor…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS. The production changes add real creator-label behavior in CloudMachineCreatorLabel and CloudTreeMachineRowContent; they do not add test/debug accessors, test-build guards, visibility widenin…

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Explanation

The implementation satisfies the main coding requirements in #15948. CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text trims names, omits blank or missing names, and does not use userId. CloudTreeMachineRowContent.subtitle places the localized creator label before the age, and toolTip includes the same subtitle. Tests cover decoding, propagation, rendering, omission, and whitespace-only names. The summary also reports localized entries, debug-lab fixtures, and both dogfood tours. The reviewed evidence does not establish that dogfood menu traversal is scoped to the opened menu, which #15948 requires to prevent duplicate Debug and Help menu matches.

Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The production diff adds Sources/Cloud/CloudMachineCreatorLabel.swift with a top-level, stateless value helper whose text(creator:) only transforms Sendable VMCreator data and localized String values. It has no nonisolated boundary. Under Swift 6 MainActor-by-default isolation, CloudMachineCreatorLabel and its static helper would be implicitly MainActor-isolated, creating unnecessary main-actor coupling for a pure formatter. The changed SwiftUI view types and debug fixtures are allowed UI-bound code, and the tests are not production violations.

Resolution

Declare CloudMachineCreatorLabel as nonisolated (or otherwise make CloudMachineCreatorLabel.text(creator:) explicitly nonisolated) so the pure helper does not inherit MainActor isolation. Keep the VMCreator input and localized string formatting unchanged.

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Dogfood tours of 22b46f10

cloud-machine-author-tour at 22b46f10, on its merge 0edd8aab that CI built: passed (run)

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Caught PR #16001 up to main at 71feafab95c91525cb2a58c73462b41d898893a4.

The only conflict was cmuxUITests/DogfoodScenarioUITests.swift, where main had added the cloud-sidebar-audit-tour evidence tour and this branch had added the cloud-machine-author-tour. I kept both scenario references and both JSON files. The audit tour remains the Cloud sidebar evidence source, while the author tour covers the machine creator row. I also kept main's direct-child menu traversal fix so both tours resolve menu paths deterministically.

The GitHub-compatible merge-tree check is clean. scripts/sync-test-wiring, the three pbxproj checks, and TMPDIR=/Users/leoli/Projects/.tmp-verify python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed.

Focused UI dispatch run 36745341565 failed before selected tests because the macOS runner could not write /opt/homebrew. I re-dispatched the same cmuxUITests/DogfoodScenarioUITests command at this head. The retry is run 36750334907, currently queued on the macOS runner, so it has no test result yet.

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Caught PR #16001 up to origin/main in merge commit 11ddf345d343bb6371522f4c835ea0950092ab82.

The submodule conflicts in vendor/bonsplit and ghostty use main's gitlinks. The unrelated ci-guards.yml, agent-chat, and docs/ghostty-fork.md conflicts keep main's side. Resources/Localizable.xcstrings was resolved as a key-level union.

git -c merge.xcstrings-v2.driver=false merge-tree --write-tree --name-only origin/main HEAD exits 0. Passed gates: python3 scripts/lint-xcstrings.py, python3 scripts/localization_catalog.py check, ./scripts/sync-test-wiring, and python3 scripts/verify-local.py --affected origin/main.

Independent exact-head review of 11ddf345d343bb6371522f4c835ea0950092ab82 found no issues. It confirmed the branch feature files are unchanged, the unrelated conflict paths match main, the XCStrings union has no duplicate keys, and both submodule pins match main.

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Keep creator-label formatting on the row owner.

CloudMachineCreatorLabel is a stateless static-only namespace. The row calls it while computing subtitle and accessibility text, repeating Foundation formatting for creator-bearing rows. Move the label method to an instance helper on CloudTreeMachineRowContent and use localized interpolation instead of String(format:).

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Caught #16001 up to current main in 2b67afe1b1d72cb57132d78d67881ae66a8ec0c5, preserving main’s ghostty and vendor/bonsplit gitlinks. The latest pbxproj conflict kept both sides and was normalized. Both Cloud tour references and JSON files survive.

The driver-disabled merge-tree check exits 0. XCStrings lint, test wiring, all three pbxproj checks, and 14 of 15 verify-local.py --affected origin/main checks passed. Localization parity fails on actions.discovery.menuTitle:fr and actions.discovery.dialogTitle:fr; both values are identical on main, so these are inherited failures.

Review: the independent exact-head review found no unintended merge changes. Fixed: merge conflicts. Left: inherited localization failures and pending CI.

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