Clear restored agent notifications once the agent is gone

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Summary

If an agent is still running when cmux quits, it dies along with the app and never fires SessionEnd. Its last "Completed in …" notification is saved in the session snapshot and comes back on every launch. The sidebar keeps showing it as the workspace's latest summary even though no agent runs there anymore. On one machine the same notification came back on 10+ launches over 18 days. The 30s stale-agent sweep can't catch it, because agent PIDs aren't restored, so there's no dead PID to find.

With this change, restore records the notifications of local panes that hosted an agent (the pane has a resume binding or a restorable agent snapshot). Only notifications with agent provenance (isAgentEvent) are tracked. Then Workspace.clearStaleAgentPIDs(), which the existing 30s sweep calls, removes the read ones once the pane has no agent PID again and no restored resume is still in flight:

• Unread notifications stay until they're read, so persisting unseen results across relaunch still works.
• If the agent resumes into the pane and registers a PID, the agent hooks own its notifications again and nothing is removed.
• Remote terminals are skipped, because their agent can outlive the local app.

/exit was already fine: in the event log, all 32 recorded SessionEnd hooks issued clear_notifications. Only the no-SessionEnd path leaked.

Related: #10848 clears read previews when terminal input or agent work resumes. This PR covers a workspace where nothing resumes.

Testing

cmuxTests/RestoredAgentNotificationPruneTests has 6 tests. Each one persists a workspace, restores it with auto-resume off, and runs clearStaleAgentPIDs. Every fix commit has its own red/green pair, run with the same command: xcodebuild -scheme cmux-unit test -only-testing:cmuxTests/RestoredAgentNotificationPruneTests.

Behavior	Red (test-only commit)	Green
A read agent notification is pruned when the agent does not return	5350891694	5162bfbdc6
A notification is kept while a restored resume is still in flight	3eb9deaa7f	fd78af5b74
A read cmux notify banner on the same pane is kept (only isAgentEvent notifications are tracked)	f144652e09	779a72ea20: 6/6 passed

• python3 scripts/verify-local.py --affected upstream/main --swift-changed upstream/main: 6/6 passed on 779a72ea20.
• Checked live in a tagged build, before rebasing onto current main:
  • I ran one Claude turn, marked the notification read, and quit the app while Claude was idle.
  • With auto-resume off, the notification was present at t+6s after relaunch and gone after the first sweep (t+40s).
  • With auto-resume on, Claude came back and the notification was kept.
• Not verified: the same live check on the current head. Locally, the rebased build hung on launch in ghostty_surface_new → openat while creating the restored terminal. That path isn't touched by this change.

Changelog

Fixed: The sidebar no longer keeps showing an agent's last read result after cmux restarts when that agent is no longer running

Checklist

• Behavior changes have added or updated tests, or Testing says why not
• No user-facing strings changed (only DEBUG-only cmuxDebugLog lines)

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Summary by cubic

Fixes stale agent notifications that stayed on the sidebar after cmux restart, even though the agent was no longer running.

An agent alive when cmux quits dies without firing SessionEnd, so its last "Completed in…" notification was restored on every launch. Restore now records the agent-produced notifications of local panes that hosted an agent, and the existing 30s stale-agent sweep drops the read ones once the pane has no agent PID again.

• Unread notifications are kept until read, so unseen results still persist across relaunch.
• Non-agent notifications (like cmux notify banners) are tracked by isAgentEvent provenance and never pruned.
• Notifications are kept while a restored resume is still in flight or once the agent resumes into the pane and registers a PID.
• Remote terminals are skipped, since their agent can outlive the local app.

^{Written for commit 422ccbd. Summary will update on new commits.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Restored local workspaces now clear tracked, read agent notifications when the associated panel has an agent binding but no active agent. Unread notifications, notifications for panels without an agent binding, and notifications associated with an in-progress restore or a returned agent are preserved.
  • Stale notification tracking is pruned even when no stale agent process IDs are cleared, preventing outdated notifications from lingering after workspace restoration. Notifications unrelated to restored agent activity remain unaffected.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Workspace restoration tracks notifications for qualifying local agent panels. Stale-agent cleanup prunes tracked notifications whenever a notification store is available, including when no stale PIDs were cleared.

Changes

Restored Agent Notifications

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track notifications during restoration Sources/Workspace+RestoredAgentNotifications.swift, Sources/Workspace.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Workspace restoration identifies qualifying local agent panels and records their notification IDs by restored panel ID. Workspace cleanup removes tracking entries for invalid surfaces.
Prune notifications during stale-agent cleanup Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift, Sources/Workspace+RestoredAgentNotifications.swift, Sources/Workspace+PanelLifecycle.swift	The notification store looks up notifications by ID. Stale-agent cleanup invokes pruning when the store is available. Pruning skips in-flight restored commands and removes matching read notifications when no live agent remains.
Validate notification pruning cmuxTests/RestoredAgentNotificationPruneTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Serialized tests cover read and unread notifications, post-restore notifications, in-flight resume, returned agents, and panels without agent bindings.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workspace
  participant TerminalNotificationStore
  Workspace->>TerminalNotificationStore: Look up tracked notification by ID
  Workspace->>TerminalNotificationStore: Remove matching read notification

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 779a7

A read non-agent notification from an older snapshot can disappear after restoration when it shares a panel with an agent. This is a narrow legacy-data case, but remains an open risk before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 779a7

Cleanup is constrained to restored notifications on the matching workspace and pane, with protections for unread results and active resumes. Older notifications without origin information can nevertheless be treated as agent-owned and dismissed, including on connected phones. The inspected change does not demonstrate a privilege escalation or cross-user attack path.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · inferred: Legacy notifications with absent agent provenance are eligible for agent cleanup. If such a record originated outside the agent lifecycle, a read banner can now be removed and its dismissal synchronized despite lacking affirmative agent ownership. The provenance fallback predates this PR; using it to authorize this new cleanup is the introduced behavior.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected deletion scope is tracked read records matching the restored workspace and pane, together with associated native and phone dismissal effects through existing delivery routes. The matching guard prevents selection of an ID currently owned by another workspace or pane.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new path checks restored panel eligibility, current workspace/panel ownership, read status, live-agent ownership, and in-flight resume ownership before deletion. Remote workspace and terminal exclusions avoid assuming that an agent died with the local application.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The new targeted guards are not universal notification-retention guarantees. The pre-existing stale-PID branch can clear all workspace notifications before targeted pruning runs, including records on another pane. This behavior is unchanged from the reviewed base, rather than an introduced deletion expansion.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate legacy display classification from deletion eligibility, so unknown provenance can retain its existing feed behavior without being affirmative evidence of agent ownership.

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The new batch prune path performs repeated full scans of the notification store. Sources/Workspace+RestoredAgentNotifications.swift:80-83 calls store.remove(id:) once for every tracked read notifi…	Replace the per-notification removal loop with a bulk removal operation. Filter the notification collection once for the tracked read IDs, rebuild indexes once, and preserve the existing per-notification feed, focused-indicator, native-noti…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

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	The check is not applicable to this pull request. The diff adds restored-agent notification tracking and pruning, notification-store lookup, tests, and project references. It does not change Cloud ter…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The production changes do not introduce an actor-isolation mistake. Workspace is isolated to MainActor through its FilePreviewTabMetadataHost conformance, and TerminalNotificationStore is expl…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The diff adds no blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, timers, polling loops, main-queue sync, or manual locks. The new pruning logic performs synchronous notification lookups and removals. The ti…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The check does not apply to this pull request. The reviewed diff changes restored agent-notification tracking and pruning, notification-store lookup, tests, and project-file registrations. It does not…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The diff adds no synchronous agent-history disk load, JSON parsing, transcript lookup, directory scan, or per-record filesystem syscall. trackRestoredAgentNotifications records notification UUIDs fr…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The diff does not replace a fresh authoritative read with an opportunistic cache. Restore loads notification data through restoreSessionNotifications before tracking restored IDs. The added `notific…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The reviewed diff changes five Swift files and the Xcode project file. The project-file changes only register the new Swift source and test files. The check applies to production TypeScript, JavaScrip…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The diff adds synchronous notification tracking and pruning methods, a synchronous indexed lookup, and a synchronous call from clearStaleAgentPIDs(). The added production code introduces no backgrou…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The diff adds no async functions and no @concurrent annotations. The only new nonisolated function, Workspace.restoredPanelHostedLocalAgent, is synchronous and reads snapshot values only, which the ru…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The changed logic is app-lifecycle composition. Restore maps persisted panel IDs to live Workspace panels, and pruning depends on Workspace panel state, agent PID ownership, restored-resume state,…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	PASS. The cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj diff adds source and test file references only; it does not change SwiftPM package references. The PR changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, `.gitig…
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The diff adds two cmuxDebugLog calls in Sources/Workspace+RestoredAgentNotifications.swift. Both are guarded by #if DEBUG, and the logger implementation in Sources/App/DebugLogging.swift is al…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The production diff only tracks restored notification IDs and removes selected stored notifications. It adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery copy. The new diag…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The diff adds notification tracking and pruning logic. It adds no user-facing text, localization keys, string-catalog entries, web messages, or changelog copy. New prose is limited to developer commen…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The diff adds no SwiftUI view, layout, lazy-row, or render-time mutation code. The new state is a plain Workspace property, and the notification lookup is an ordinary store method. TerminalNotificatio…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff adds no new sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling loop, lock, observer, or UI lifecycle owner. It hooks pruning into the existing clearStaleAgentPIDs() sweep. Workspace tracks only the IDs of…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The diff adds notification tracking and pruning in Workspace, an indexed notification lookup, and test fixtures. It does not add or materially change a standalone user-visible window, window control…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	All six changed paths are Swift source, a Swift test, or Xcode project configuration. The diff adds no local tool output, generated logs, screenshots, recordings, caches, build output, dependency down…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The changed production code adds no test-only accessor or seam. trackRestoredAgentNotifications and pruneOrphanedRestoredAgentNotifications are called by session restoration and `clearStaleAgentPI…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the main change: clearing restored agent notifications after the agent is gone.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the problem, resulting behavior, tests, verification limits, and changelog. It does not include the demo video or screenshot requested for behavior changes, but the detailed tes…

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The new batch prune path performs repeated full scans of the notification store. Sources/Workspace+RestoredAgentNotifications.swift:80-83 calls store.remove(id:) once for every tracked read notification. TerminalNotificationStore.remove(id:) scans notifications with first(where:) and removeAll (Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:2098-2103), then assigning the updated array rebuilds indexes over the full collection (Sources/TerminalNotificationStore.swift:258-262). For K pruned notifications and N stored notifications, this adds O(K×N) work to the periodic sweep. This is introduced by the PR even though remove(id:) itself is pre-existing.

Resolution

Replace the per-notification removal loop with a bulk removal operation. Filter the notification collection once for the tracked read IDs, rebuild indexes once, and preserve the existing per-notification feed, focused-indicator, native-notification, and dismissal side effects. This reduces the collection work to O(N+K) for a batch.

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• Actor isolation: restoredPanelHostedLocalAgent is now nonisolated static, matching the neighboring snapshot helpers.
• Complexity: tracked ids are now resolved through a new indexed TerminalNotificationStore.notification(id:), so a sweep that removes nothing no longer scans the whole store. Removal still goes through remove(id:) one id at a time. A batch API would have to reimplement its side effects (mobile dismiss sync, delivered-notification cleanup), and each id is removed at most once.
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Thanks @wowpotato, this looks good to merge :) However, the commits are authored as myeongyeon.kim@navercorp.com, which isn't linked to your GitHub account, so the CLA check can't match them. Could you add that email to your account (or re-author the commits) and sign the CLA? We'll run CI after that.

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@teamleaderleo Thanks. The commits are now authored as wowpotato@naver.com, which is linked to this account. I rebuilt the branch as six linear commits on 1a7d5cd08ad, without the earlier merge-main commits. The tree is unchanged apart from pbxproj group ordering, and RestoredAgentNotificationPruneTests passes 6/6 on 779a72ea20. Old → new SHAs, for the review replies above: 18f17fc→5350891694, 837f5cd→5162bfbdc6, 7d828ca→3eb9deaa7f, c4efa8e→fd78af5b74, f1ea2f3→f144652e09, 5e2ae12→779a72ea20. The PR description now uses the new SHAs.

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Merged, thank you @wowpotato, and thanks for sorting out the CLA! Read notifications from agents that didn't come back after a restart now clear on their own :D

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