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Summary

Run cmux ssh-tmux <host> --new-window twice and you end up with two new windows: the second one holding the mirrors, and the first one showing a fresh local shell.

A dedicated attach moves the host's existing mirrors into the window it creates. The window they came from is left with no workspaces, and detachWorkspace recovers an empty window by opening a local one. A window that held nothing but those mirrors is now closed once they have moved. A window with workspaces of its own keeps them and gains nothing.

#7992 fixed the same blank window for an explicit detach.

Testing

Two tests in RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests, run with xcodebuild test-without-building -scheme cmux-unit -only-testing:cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests:

  • cd2e4a6, the tests alone: consolidatingMirrorsClosesAWindowThatHeldNothingElse fails, the emptied window is still listed. consolidatingMirrorsLeavesAWindowWithOtherWorkspacesAlone passes before and after.
  • f29f9c8, with the fix: both pass, along with RemoteTmuxMirrorDedicatedPlacementTests, RemoteTmuxAuthTests and RemoteTmuxPaneSeedTransportTests (74 tests in 4 suites).

main at 68bb2f1 does not compile its test target: RightSidebarTabCustomizationTests and CloudMachineOrderingTests fail to build. Both runs left those two files out locally. That change is not in this branch.

Against a live tmux server, on a local build that carries this change on top of other branches of mine: two --new-window attaches in a row left two new windows before and one after.

Changelog

Fixed: Running cmux ssh-tmux --new-window again for a host no longer leaves a blank window behind.

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Fixes a blank window left behind by a second cmux ssh-tmux --new-window attach.

A dedicated attach moves a host's existing mirrors into the new window it creates. The source window, if it held only those mirrors, was emptied and then recovered by opening a fresh local shell, leaving a blank window on screen. Such a window is now closed once its mirrors move out; a window with workspaces of its own keeps them and is unaffected.

Bug Fixes

  • Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift now closes a source window emptied by a mirror-moving attach.
  • Adds two tests in RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests covering the emptied window and the window with other workspaces.

Written for commit d42870f. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Moving a workspace mirror now closes its source window when no other workspaces remain, without adding a closed-history entry.
    • Source windows containing other workspaces remain open, with those workspaces intact.

ejc3 added 2 commits October 3, 2026 02:45
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A dedicated attach moves the host's existing mirrors into the new window. A
source window that held only those mirrors is emptied, recovers by opening a
fresh local shell, and stays on screen.
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A dedicated attach moves the host's existing mirrors into the new window. A
source window that held only those mirrors was emptied, recovered by opening a
fresh local shell, and stayed on screen as a blank window. It is now closed.
A window with workspaces of its own is left as it was.
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When moveExistingMirrors moves a host’s mirrors, it now discards the source window if no other workspaces remain. Tests cover source windows with and without other workspaces.

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Remote tmux mirror moves

Layer / File(s) Summary
Move mirrors and handle source windows
Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift, cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests.swift
The move logic discards a source window when moving mirrors leaves it empty, without recording closed history. Tests verify that a source window with other workspaces remains open and retains them.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f29f9

Attaching with --new-window can close a source window that still has Dock terminals or browsers, and the Dock work in it is lost. Add a Dock-empty guard before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f29f9

The cleanup can close a source window that still contains live terminal or browser panels outside its moved workspaces, without the usual close warning or closed-window history. The effect is bounded to source windows involved in an explicitly requested mirror consolidation.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The tab-only discard predicate does not establish that a source window is disposable. A window containing only the selected mirrors can still own live window-Dock terminals or browser panels. Consolidation now closes that window, tearing down those unrelated panels without an interactive close check and suppressing closed-window history. This newly extends destructive cleanup beyond the state being moved.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new destructive effect is bounded to qualifying source windows containing the requested host's registered mirrors. It can affect multiple such windows and includes their independently owned Dock panels, not just the remote mirrors. Sources containing other workspaces are retained.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported failure path is an authorized dedicated-window attach followed by automatic destruction of unrelated window-owned panels. The inspected call flow does not establish that remote tmux output alone can initiate this cleanup or choose unrelated source windows.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Host matching and workspace ownership bound mirror selection, and the close transaction validates window identity. These controls do not establish that all live state owned by the selected window is safe to destroy: window-Dock panels are outside the workspace-count predicate.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The discard helper and Dock teardown predate this change, and an explicit mirror-close path already used the same helper. That is counterevidence against a new teardown implementation defect, but consolidation now reaches the destructive path during a successful move rather than an explicit close.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ❌ Error The new close path adds per-source-window scans. In Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift:209, each emptied source manager calls windowId(for:), which scans mainWindowContexts.values at `Sou… Avoid scanning all window contexts once per emptied source manager. Resolve window IDs from an existing manager-to-window index or build a manager/window lookup once before the batch, then reuse it for closing the emptied windows. Ensure th…
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: closing a source window after its mirrors move to a new window.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes a clear summary, detailed test results and limitations, a changelog entry, and the applicable behavior-test checklist item. It does not include the demo video or screenshots r…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files.
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 diff does not change Cloud terminal creation or transport behavior. It moves existing remote-tmux mirror workspaces and discards an emptied source window; the added tests cover that window behavio…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production diff only adds local window-cleanup logic inside Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift, whose extension is explicitly @MainActor. The new TabManager and AppDelegate accesses…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff adds only a workspace-count check and a call to discardMainWindowWithoutClosedHistory; it adds no semaphore, blocking wait, sleep, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The reviewed diff changes only Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift and cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests.swift. It moves remote-tmux mirror workspaces and closes an emptied window. …
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The production diff only checks mirror counts and calls discardMainWindowWithoutClosedHistory. It adds no agent-history file access, broad scan, or synchronous parser. The close commit uses `SharedL…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed The diff adds a live TabManager.tabs check before discarding a source window. It does not replace a fresh authoritative read with a cached value in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. `d…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The pull request changes only Swift source and Swift tests. This check covers production changes in TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and build/runtime scripts, so its failure condition does not apply. T…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff adds synchronous workspace moves and window cleanup in moveExistingMirrors, plus regression tests. It introduces no background Dispatch work, Combine app state, completion-handler API, or f…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The changed method, moveExistingMirrors(for:into:), is synchronous and inherits @MainActor isolation from its extension. The diff adds only synchronous window-management calls; it adds no `nonisol…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The production diff adds a source-window emptiness check and closes that window through AppDelegate.shared.windowId(for:) and discardMainWindowWithoutClosedHistory(windowId:) in `Sources/RemoteTmu…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes only Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift and cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests.swift. The diff contains Swift behavior and test changes, with no SwiftPM manifest, `Pa…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The production diff adds workspace-move and window-discard logic, with no logging calls or diagnostic output. The logging statements and file-backed test harness are in tests, which the policy allows.…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The production diff adds only a developer comment and a call to discard an emptied window. It adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API body, or recovery copy. The added test text is cover…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR changes only Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift and cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests.swift. The production change adds a condition and window-discard call; its added prose …
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The diff changes mirror-management logic in RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift and adds tests. The production file imports Foundation and extends RemoteTmuxController; the added code moves workspac…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff adds a local workspace-move rule in moveExistingMirrors: if every workspace in a source manager is a mirror being moved, it discards that window through AppDelegate; otherwise it keeps th…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The change closes an emptied main workspace window through discardMainWindowWithoutClosedHistory; it does not add or materially change a standalone auxiliary window. The rule allows main workspace w…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The PR changes only Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift and cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxMirrorCloseDetachTests.swift. The diff adds hand-written source logic and regression tests. Neither path nor i…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The production diff adds only window-cleanup behavior inside moveExistingMirrors in Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift. attachHost calls this method for dedicated-window attaches, so the …
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Explanation

The new close path adds per-source-window scans. In Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift:209, each emptied source manager calls windowId(for:), which scans mainWindowContexts.values at Sources/AppDelegate+RecoverableMainWindowRoutes.swift:1087; if no registered context matches, it also scans orphaned routes. Then discardMainWindowWithoutClosedHistory calls mainWindowForClose, which scans mainWindowContexts.values again at Sources/AppDelegate+WindowIdentity.swift:33. For a batch with M emptied source windows among W registered windows, these lookups add O(M×W) work and can become quadratic when many source windows hold mirrors. The check expects linear-time handling for about 1000 user-owned records or a benchmark-backed justification. The earlier workspace filtering is one pass per manager and is not the issue.

Resolution

Avoid scanning all window contexts once per emptied source manager. Resolve window IDs from an existing manager-to-window index or build a manager/window lookup once before the batch, then reuse it for closing the emptied windows. Ensure the close operation also uses an indexed window-ID lookup instead of rescanning all contexts per target.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Oct 3, 2026
00f182f Set Claude idle after reentrant stop without work (manaflow-ai#16635)
d8ef7e7 Reject unknown and valueless options in cmux hooks setup (manaflow-ai#17183)
46b5f9c remote-tmux: let a failed socket request say what failed (manaflow-ai#17134)
e88d636 remote-tmux: re-read a pane from tmux when its width changes, not only when it grows (manaflow-ai#17140)
984baea remote-tmux: close a window emptied by gathering its mirrors into a new one (manaflow-ai#17141)
9c41d59 fix: recover hidden terminal renderer after window attach (manaflow-ai#16548)
70854a5 ci: publish dogfood artifacts from red CI runs (manaflow-ai#17210)
db77e58 fix(cli): reject missing notify text values (manaflow-ai#16778)
76ccbfc ci: activate org-member dogfood artifact publisher (manaflow-ai#17206)
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