fix(cloud): stop reconciling panes a Cloud workspace already shows

[austinywang]

Cloud reconciliation no longer spins forever or fails on a workspace that already shows its terminal tabs or local Desktop and port previews. #15748 changed CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan so that only display memberships count as already present. Every daemon tab a workspace showed was reported missing on every reconcile. That froze the main actor, and it is why the Cloud app-host suites started hitting their 300 s and 60 s limits (#15488).

Cause

CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.init collects the desired placements that existing panes already show in seen. #15748 added a second set, satisfied, filled only for local display previews, and computed missing from it:

missing = desired.filter { !satisfied.contains($0) && missingSeen.insert($0).inserted }

A terminal tab the workspace already shows is in seen but not in satisfied, so it is always missing. That starts a loop:

1. CloudWorkspaceProjectionCoordinator runs while requested.remove(machine) != nil { reconcile }.
2. For each missing tab, reconcile calls SurfaceCatalog.project(reuseExisting: true), which reuses the existing pane through attachRemoteView.
3. attachRemoteView calls reconcileCloudWorkspaceBinding, which requests the next reconcile of the same machine.

The reuse path never suspends, so the main actor never yields. waitForIdle() and waitForPendingOperations() never return, and the test hits its time limit.

Evidence

• Spindumps: every hang in the validation full suite (run 36713362165) shows the main thread at about 100% CPU in SurfaceCatalog.project → CloudWorkspaceProjectionCoordinator.reconcile. That covers shards 2, 4 and 7 on fleet minis and shard 6 on a Blacksmith runner.
• Suites that hung: CloudWorkspaceRowOpenTests, CloudMachineWorkspaceAdoptionTests, CloudWorkspaceCreationSidebarTests, CloudWorkspaceRenameSurfaceParityTests, CloudDesktopGraphOpenTests and CloudInitialWorkspaceNamingTests.
• Persist Cloud display membership across clients #15748's own CI: run 36680498375 hung the same way before it merged.
• Baseline: main's full suite at 478e323, before Persist Cloud display membership across clients #15748, passed every one of these suites.

A second path: the preview's own workspace row

#15748 also removed seen.insert(placement) from the local-preview branch, and put only the matching membership views in its place. The workspace group emits a row for every local preview, (resource, workspace, no tab), and that row was never seen, so it was reported missing on every reconcile.

• One accepted membership: the row resolves to the membership view. project() reuses the preview through the membership branch of attachRemoteView, which requests the next reconcile: the same spin.
• Otherwise: the row can't be resolved, so every reconcile fails the workspace. Validation run 36726041181 showed this on the first fix alone: CloudWorkspaceLiveProjectionTests "Cloud refresh and reconnect preserve local Desktop and port splits" failed at :98 (closed.isEmpty) and :100 (appliedLayouts) for all four arguments.

Change

• missing is computed from seen again, and satisfied is removed. Everything satisfied held was also inserted into seen.
• A local preview marks its own workspace row as seen again, next to the membership views Persist Cloud display membership across clients #15748 added. The branch comment already said so: "It satisfies its desired workspace row".
• The existing plan tests are unchanged.

Two plan tests cover the regressions, and each was committed before its fix:

• Red, test commit a8a0094: this PR's swift-package-tests job failed with CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlanTests.swift:118:9: Expectation failed: (plan.missing → [...]), and the other 221 tests passed.
• Green, fix commit 8816493: this PR's package tests passed.
• Red, localDisplayPreviewSatisfiesItsWorkspaceRow alone (6131848): this job failed at :88 for both variants, a preview with and without a membership row.
• Green, fix commit 1b8d62a: this PR's package tests on the head commit. The Cloud app-host suites that hung or failed run in the Main full-suite CI is red #15488 full-suite validation.

Changelog

• Fixed: Cloud workspaces no longer freeze the app or fail to refresh when they already show terminal tabs, Desktop previews or port previews.

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Walkthrough

The projection plan uses seen to track represented desired placements and derive missing placements. Tests cover matching local Desktop previews and existing terminal projections.

Changes

Workspace placement satisfaction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track represented placements Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Surfaces/CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Tests/CmuxCloudTests/CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlanTests.swift	The plan marks local preview placements and matching display-membership placements as seen. It derives missing placements from desired placements absent from seen. Tests check that matching local previews and terminal projections are neither obsolete nor missing.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: teamleaderleo

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1b8d6

This fix stops already-shown terminal tabs from being reprojected on every reconcile, which was causing the hang. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 61318

The inspected change preserves workspace-scoped reuse and placement identity checks. No new privilege or cross-workspace access path was identified. However, an already displayed workspace row remains classified as missing, and its effect on repeated reconciliation is not fully established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The conditional repetition affects reconciliation on the application's shared main actor. It could impair responsiveness beyond one pane, but the inspected evidence does not establish unauthorized triggering, cross-tenant access, or broader service exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Projection invokes ownership validation before reuse, validates explicit views against current resource and workspace identity, and restricts scoped reuse to the requested workspace. The coordinator supplies that workspace scope. The additional projection attempt does not itself bypass these controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The coordinator skips pending creation and deletion, rechecks current state and binding before projection and cleanup, returns on cancellation, and records other projection failures. These guards limit stale lifecycle work but do not prove convergence when reuse continually requests another reconciliation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 24 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	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 5 functions across 2 files.	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 diff only changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan membership accounting and adds regression tests. It marks already-present terminal placements and local preview workspace rows as seen, which…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff only changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan set membership and missing-placement calculation. It does not add or alter @MainActor, nonisolated, async service protocols, `…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The production diff only changes deterministic set membership in CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan: it inserts local-preview placements into seen and computes missing from seen. It adds no semaphor…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The PR changes only CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.swift and its CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlanTests.swift. It adds no browser.* socket commands, WebKit/AppKit waits, processV2Command routing, socket-work…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff only changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan set bookkeeping. It removes satisfied, inserts existing local-preview placements into seen, and filters missing from seen.…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff only changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan reconciliation bookkeeping. It removes satisfied and uses the seen set built from the supplied existing projections to compu…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only two Swift files: CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.swift and its Swift test file. The runtime-no-hacky-sleeps rule applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff only adds constant-time Set insertions and changes the final membership check from satisfied to seen. The existing existing.sorted(...) pass, the local-preview scan ove…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The production diff only changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan set tracking and missing-placement calculation. The added tests use synchronous Testing assertions. The added-line scan and base/head …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The PR changes only synchronous CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.init set-membership logic and synchronous tests. The diff adds no async, nonisolated, @concurrent, actor-isolation, task, I/O, or n…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS: The production diff stays in the existing SwiftPM target Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud. It changes the pre-existing CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan logic and adds tests in the matc…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.swift and its tests. It does not change a Package.swift dependency list, any .gitignore, workflow, Xcode package reference, or `Package.res…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes one production Swift plan and one test file. The added and modified lines contain no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc file/stdout logging, Logger declarations, or sensitive-…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes projection bookkeeping and adds unit tests. The production diff adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery text. Added comments and t…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	PASS. The production diff changes projection bookkeeping and adds developer-only comments; it adds no user-facing Swift text, localization key, string catalog entry, web UI text, metadata, or changelo…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan and its tests only. The diff adds no SwiftUI view, ObservableObject/@Published state, geometry reader, lazy/list row store reference, or render-…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff is a small local correctness fix. It removes the duplicate satisfied state and uses seen as the single placement invariant for missing and obsolete planning. It adds no sleeps, polling, b…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes only CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan reconciliation logic and its test fixture. The added lines introduce no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, close…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The diff changes only two intentional Swift source/test files: Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Surfaces/CloudWorkspaceProjectionPlan.swift and `Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Tests/CmuxCloudTes…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes one production Swift file under Sources/, but it adds only reconciliation logic and comments. It adds no #if DEBUG or test-build guard, no debug/test-named member, and no wide…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: preventing reconciliation of panes that a Cloud workspace already shows.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and covers the problem, cause, fix, regression tests, validation results, and changelog entry. It does not use the template headings and omits the Demo Video and Checklist …

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Independent confirmation from a PR that touches no Cloud code: #15409 (window recording and screenshot) lost its app-host shard on 2d8eecdc5b to two of the suites you list, CloudDesktopGraphOpenTests at its 60 s limit and CloudWorkspaceCreationSidebarTests at its 300 s, in one job that ended exit 123 after about 15 minutes in step 45.

That is the part worth having on the record here: the blast radius reaches PRs that cannot be the cause, and the shard failure reads as theirs. #16020 is the same hang class in CloudMachineWorkspaceAdoptionTests, which is also on your list.

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- Line 88: Update the local-preview matching condition used to populate seen
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Green on 1b8d62a: 67 checks passed, 0 failed, mergeable CLEAN. Ready when you are.

#15409 is waiting on this one to land, so I will pick it up from main afterwards and re-check the app-host lane there.

[austinywang]

Thanks. One more signal before it lands: the full-suite validation of #15488 (run 36732010954 on #15960) includes 1b8d62a. Its app-host shards run the Cloud suites that failed with only the first half of this fix: CloudWorkspaceLiveProjectionTests and CloudDesktopGraphOpenTests. The previous validation run already showed the 300 s hangs gone in shards 2 and 4 with 8816493. I'll merge as soon as those suites pass there. The shards are currently queued for fleet capacity.

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Merge receipt for 1b8d62a7ae: every check was green at merge (21 verified; 19 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.