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Summary

Cloud VMs can keep an older cmux-tui daemon that advertises newer attachment features without terminal-pending-sequence-v1. Reconnecting a native Cloud pane to that daemon can feed an incomplete VT escape sequence into the next replay, garbling Codex/composer state while automatic recovery retries forever.

Change

  • Move replay capability classification into the CmuxCloudTui package with isolated package tests.
  • Detect stale replay daemons after a successful identify and fence the unsafe attachment.
  • Suppress automatic retries for that VM while preserving the pane and Reconnect action.
  • Show the localized upgrade-and-retry explanation in the reconnect card.
  • Keep truly old capability-empty peers on the compatibility path.
  • Add translations for every catalog locale represented by the repository.

Testing

  • python3 scripts/verify-local.py --swift-changed
  • python3 scripts/localization_catalog.py check
  • git diff --check
  • Native compilation and app tests are left to hosted macOS CI; no local native build was run.

Changelog

Cloud terminal panes now stop retrying an incompatible replay daemon and explain how to recover them.

Demo video

Not applicable: this is a protocol compatibility and recovery-state fix; the deterministic socket regression covers the user-visible state.

Checklist

  • Direct upstream PR against manaflow-ai/cmux
  • Localized user-facing copy
  • Regression coverage
  • No native build run on the MacBook Air

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Cloud terminal sessions now detect older runtimes that lack required replay support, stop the attachment, and show localized guidance to upgrade the runtime and retry.
    • Automatic reconnect is suppressed for these unsupported runtimes, preventing repeated failed attachment attempts.
    • Sessions with the required replay support continue to connect normally, while empty or unrecognized capability reports are not incorrectly treated as outdated.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds pending-sequence capability identification and stale-daemon detection. When the mirror session identifies a stale daemon, it stops attachment and automatic reconnect, resets sizing state, and presents a localized interruption.

Changes

Stale replay daemon handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capability and interruption contracts
Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudTui/Sources/CmuxCloudTui/CloudTuiManualIOCommand.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudTui/Sources/CmuxCloudTui/CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloudTui/Tests/CmuxCloudTuiTests/CloudTuiPackageSurfaceTests.swift
The code defines the pending-sequence capability and classifies daemons that advertise modern capabilities without it. The package test checks stale and non-stale capability sets.
Session handling and validation
Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Link/CloudTerminalAttachmentState.swift, Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, Sources/Cloud/CloudTuiManualMirrorSession.swift, cmuxTests/CloudTerminalAttachmentRecoveryTests.swift, cmuxTests/CloudImagePasteMirrorIntegrationTests.swift, cmuxTests/CloudManualMirrorTransportTests.swift, cmuxTests/CloudRestoreReplayFixture.swift, cmuxTests/CloudTerminalSharedSizingTests.swift
The session stops attachment and automatic reconnect for stale daemons, resets sizing state, and presents the localized interruption. Session tests check this behavior. Identify test responses now advertise pending-sequence support.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CloudDaemon
  participant CloudTuiManualMirrorSession
  participant CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities
  participant ConnectionPresentation
  CloudDaemon-->>CloudTuiManualMirrorSession: identify response with capabilities
  CloudTuiManualMirrorSession->>CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities: check advertised capabilities
  CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities-->>CloudTuiManualMirrorSession: stale-daemon classification
  CloudTuiManualMirrorSession->>ConnectionPresentation: show localized stale-daemon interruption
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5243f

Cloud terminals on stale daemons stop retrying and show an upgrade-and-retry message, while compatible daemons keep the existing attachment path. No merge-blocking issue was found; hosted macOS CI should confirm the build and tests.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5243f

The change limits unsafe replay and preserves explicit recovery without expanding terminal access. Remaining uncertainty concerns compatibility with deployed daemons and recovery after an upgrade.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new capability decision affects attachment availability and recovery for the responding terminal session. Its enforcement is session-scoped rather than a new grant of cross-VM, service, or datastore authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The classifier consumes remote-advertised capability strings as a compatibility signal, not authentication evidence. Empty or unknown-only sets are intentionally accepted, and identify rejection retains the legacy path except for creation attachments requiring identity verification. The new gate therefore does not establish protection against a dishonest daemon.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Clearing and publishing connection-scoped relay state before failure presentation prevents stale host and geometry state from persisting into the interruption. Connection cleanup and explicit retry provide the containment and recovery mechanisms for this transition.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 11 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: stopping automatic retries for Cloud terminals connected to stale replay daemons.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the problem, resulting behavior, implementation scope, tests run, unverified native testing, changelog text, demo rationale, and regression coverage. The changelog does not us…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed No explicit cloud-persistent-session failure is introduced. The diff adds stale-daemon classification after the existing authenticated identify response, then resets connection-scoped relay state and …
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production changes do not introduce the specified actor-isolation mistakes. CmuxCloud and CmuxCloudTui build in Swift 5 mode, and no default MainActor setting applies to the reviewed targets. …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds capability classification and stale-daemon handling, but it adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling loop, main-queue sync, or manual lock. The…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes Cloud terminal replay capability handling and related tests only. It does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, adds no `browser.…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The production diff adds Cloud capability classification and stale-daemon state handling only. The new socket-response branch creates a Set from the bounded capability list, resets relay state, fences…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached or opportunistic value. It adds capability classification and connection-failure handling. In the snapshot-related p…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only Swift source/tests and one localization catalog. The custom check applies only to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts. No covered fil…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed No changed production path violates the algorithmic-complexity rule. The new stale-daemon check builds one Set from the identify capability list and compares it with a fixed seven-element capability s…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds no new Dispatch, Combine, completion-handler, or fire-and-forget Task pattern in cmux-owned runtime code. The existing Task usage in CloudTuiManualMirrorSession is unchanged between …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The PR does not introduce a Swift concurrency violation covered by the rule. The new replay-capability helper is synchronous and pure. The changed session remains under the pre-existing @MainActor i…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The diff places the independently testable replay capability policy in the existing CmuxCloudTui SwiftPM target (CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities.swift) and adds isolated package tests. The …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes Swift source, tests, and localization only. It does not change any Package.swift manifest, Package.resolved lockfile, .gitignore, Xcode project/workspace file, workflow, or depend…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc file logging, or stdout/stderr diagnostics. The existing manualMirrorLogger declaration and logging calls are identical in the…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The changed recovery copy reaches the cmux reconnect card through connectionPresentation and CloudTerminalReconnectOverlayView. It says that the Cloud machine uses an older terminal runtime …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The production change adds user-facing stale-daemon text through String(localized:defaultValue:) with key cloudPane.attachment.reason.staleDaemon. Resources/Localizable.xcstrings contains the ma…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS: The review-scoped diff adds no SwiftUI view or state/layout pattern. The added code is Cloud protocol state, capability classification, localization, and tests. The added-line scan found no Obse…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS: The Swift changes use the existing CloudTuiManualMirrorSession lifecycle and existing automaticReconnectSuppressed state. The new replay policy is centralized on CloudTuiManualIOCommand, and ide…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes Cloud attachment state, replay capabilities, session handling, localization, and tests. The authoritative Swift diff adds no user-visible NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, Sw…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All 11 changed paths are intentional Swift source, Swift tests/fixtures, or the localization catalog. The only added file is the hand-written CloudTuiManualReplayCapabilities.swift; no logs, screens…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed No test or debug seam was added to production Swift source. The changed Sources files contain no test-build guards or debug/test-only member names. isStaleReplayDaemon(capabilities:) is a producti…
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Issue #16609 reproduces the same failure mode with a concrete VM: retained output renders, but input writes are rejected by an older adopted host and the local projection remains render_health: not_started/tty: null. Please link this issue when the stale-daemon recovery lands.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2026
541c735 fix(remote): reject unknown Eternal Terminal equals options (manaflow-ai#15987)
ecb963b fix(cli): reject trailing remotes list/remove arguments (manaflow-ai#15978)
17a8a94 ci: pass the frame pacing fling count as an argument (manaflow-ai#16617)
aa6f57e app sign-ins confirm the account, so sign out then sign in can pick another one (manaflow-ai#16661)
4adc8e4 Fix updater readiness wait reset loop (manaflow-ai#16664)
6f77178 Keep only Invite in Cloud sidebar header (manaflow-ai#16636)
72f2915 notify: add --desktop flag to post to the panel without a native banner (manaflow-ai#14688)
4ba0d8a Expose per-surface prompt and unread state to custom sidebars (manaflow-ai#11142)
b3da20c Allow browser drags across Cloud workspaces (manaflow-ai#16390)
6529dfd Stop retrying Cloud terminals on stale replay daemons (manaflow-ai#16327)
b10f7e2 test: create the requested cwd in the stale-reported split test (manaflow-ai#16653)
9b5b35f Fix Computer Use onboarding readiness after permissions are granted (manaflow-ai#14281)
c45da7e Merge pull request manaflow-ai#16623 from manaflow-ai/fix-ios-cloudvpn-appstore-signing
6e67724 fix: close CloudVPN profile and identity gaps
7e9d6ab fix: sign CloudVPN in App Store exports
1984d1e test: cover App Store CloudVPN signing

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