Fix crash when a focused SwiftUI view outlives its hosting view

[lawrencecchen]

Summary

cmux aborts with Fatal error: Attempted to read an unowned reference but object ... was already destroyed inside SwiftUI's KeyViewProxy.nextResponder.getter. Sentry has this one crash under seven issues because each walker groups separately: CMUXTERM-MACOS-3Z73 (0.65.0, shortcut routing), 3Z6B (menu activeBrowserPanel), 3TDX (WebViewRepresentable.responderChainContains), 2FTW (BrowserPanel.responderChainContains), 1SSX (AppKit _firstResponderForEvent), 24Y3 and 29G9 (SwiftUI FirstResponderObserver during makeFirstResponder).

SwiftUI puts a private KeyViewProxy subview into an NSHostingView for each focusable element. Disassembly of macOS 27 SwiftUI shows its nextResponder returns focusBridge.host, an unowned reference to the hosting view. When the hosting view is freed while anything still holds the proxy, every nextResponder read traps. Once a window's first responder is such a proxy, there is no safe exit: a key event, a cmux walk, and makeFirstResponder(nil) (through SwiftUI's own observer) all crash. So guarding cmux's own walks would only move the crash into AppKit.

This PR replaces the nextResponder getter on SwiftUI.KeyViewProxy only. A proxy with no superview returns nil; every other proxy calls SwiftUI's original getter. While a proxy is attached, its host is its superview and that is what nextResponder returns. A freed host clears its subviews' superview, so the guard conservatively ends the chain for detached proxies, including a temporary detach from a still-live host, and preserves attached behavior. If SwiftUI renames the class, the install is a no-op.

This is a workaround for a SwiftUI bug, installed beside cmux's existing NSWindow/NSApplication swizzles. I could not find the exact cmux transition that leaves a window's first responder on a freed proxy: plain removal, subviews =, replaceSubview, ancestor removal, content swaps, cross-window moves and restoring a detached proxy are all reset correctly by AppKit. The guard protects main-thread responder walks through that detached state; it does not identify or eliminate the originating lifetime transition.

Focus recovery stays in the existing window event path. Before dispatching terminal key events, repairFocusedTerminalKeyboardRoutingIfNeeded treats detached responders as invalid focus owners and restores the selected terminal. This covers plain and Command key events; recovery for browser-only, sheet, and auxiliary-window states has not been established by a live stale-proxy reproduction. The getter itself does not mutate focus during responder-chain traversal.

During CI validation, the shortcut-routing suite also stalled while all 14 utility executor workers were scanning temporary files from unused CloudFilePreviewCache instances. Cleanup now starts only when a remote preview is requested and fetches metadata only for matching cache directories. The focus-proxy fixtures wait for actual focus and host release; the IME fixtures explicitly request native surface startup before dispatching input.

Testing

• Documentation follow-up 83c41ce33b372bb360c8a1712c139a8579e69db5 adds DocC comments and clarifies the detached-proxy contract. Every line outside /// comments is unchanged from the verified parent. All 6 scoped local checks passed again; new-head hosted CI is pending.
• Runtime/test code at fcda01111ba236c8bea73a13464afdd32d4844c7: CI 37585194272 passed app/test compilation and all 27 selected suites. XCTest reported 371 tests, 4 skipped, 0 failures; Swift Testing reported 240 tests in 19 suites passed. The skips cover existing libghostty/window-server/WebKit host limitations.
• Both proxy regressions executed and passed: released host (0.051 s) and attached host (0.009 s). The two previously failing IME input cases passed (0.366 s and 0.150 s), and AppDelegateShortcutRoutingTests.testTextBoxMentionFileSuggestionsRefreshCachedMisses passed (1.238 s).
• Red/green evidence: 37581970340 at 527c79ad6d8 failed the attached-proxy setup, both IME fixtures, and the mention-index test. The latter three also failed at the original PR head. The green run retains all 13 original suites and adds the related suites selected by the cache change; the entire shortcut-routing suite ran so the mention test retained the preceding Files-store churn.
• python3 scripts/verify-local.py: 6/6 selected checks passed. git diff --check passed. The exact-head tagged fleet build passed; build receipt details include the job and artifact digest.
• The original author reports a standalone macOS 27.0.1 repro: retaining a proxy after releasing its host aborts during responder reads, key dispatch, and focus changes without the guard; those operations complete with it.

Changelog

Fixed: avoid crashes when event routing reaches a SwiftUI focus proxy whose host was released, and defer unnecessary preview-cache cleanup during workspace creation

Proof

No visible change; the crash repro output is in Testing.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the crash when a SwiftUI KeyViewProxy (a private focusable subview) outlives its hosting view. SwiftUI's nextResponder getter returns an unowned reference to the host, so once the host is freed, every responder-chain read aborts with "Attempted to read an unowned reference"; cmux's shortcut routing, AppKit's event routing, and SwiftUI's own first-responder observer all hit the same state.

• Installs a guard on SwiftUI.KeyViewProxy.nextResponder next to cmux's existing swizzles: a proxy with no superview returns nil, everything else calls SwiftUI's original getter. Since a freed host clears its subviews' superview, the guard only changes the chain for proxies that would crash; if SwiftUI renames the class, the install is a no-op.
• Adds tests covering a detached proxy ending the chain and an attached proxy still forwarding to its host; the fixtures wait on SwiftUI focus lifecycle state instead of fixed delays, and the IME tests now demand a native runtime before synthetic input.
• Defers CloudFilePreviewCache cleanup until a preview is actually opened, so unused Files stores no longer saturate the executor with temp-directory scans at startup.

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Medium Risk
Runtime method replacement on a private SwiftUI class affects global keyboard/focus routing; behavior is narrowly scoped to detached proxies but is inherently fragile across OS updates.

Overview
Adds a runtime guard on SwiftUI’s private KeyViewProxy so nextResponder returns nil when the proxy is detached (superview == nil), avoiding fatal crashes from SwiftUI’s unowned host reference during responder-chain walks (shortcuts, AppKit routing, focus). The guard is installed once alongside existing window/application swizzles in AppDelegate; if the class is absent, install is a no-op.

CloudFilePreviewCache no longer kicks off stale-directory cleanup at init—cleanup runs on first preview materialize, with cancellation checks and metadata reads only for matching preview folders, reducing executor churn when many Files stores never open previews.

Tests: new Swift Testing suite for detached vs attached proxy behavior; CJK IME hosted-terminal fixtures now start the native surface and reconcile geometry before synthetic input.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved keyboard responder handling for detached SwiftUI views: their responder chain now ends when they are no longer attached to a host view, while attached views continue forwarding through the chain.
  • Preview cache cleanup now starts when a preview is first materialized, checks for cancellation during cleanup, and can stop promptly when cancelled.
• Tests
  • Added regression coverage for responder behavior in both detached and attached views.

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The change adds a runtime guard for SwiftUI.KeyViewProxy.nextResponder and installs it with both responder-swizzle installers. Regression tests cover detached and attached proxies. The CJK IME test setup changes native surface startup and geometry reconciliation. Preview-cache cleanup now starts on first use and checks cancellation during its scan.

Changes

KeyViewProxy responder handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard behavior and installation Sources/App/SwiftUIKeyViewProxyResponderGuard.swift, Sources/AppDelegate.swift	When the private class, getter, and type encoding are available, the guard replaces nextResponder. On the main thread, detached NSView proxies return nil; other calls use the original getter. Both responder-swizzle installers invoke the guard.
Regression tests and target registration cmuxTests/SwiftUIKeyViewProxyResponderGuardTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	Tests check that detached proxies return nil and attached proxies use their host as nextResponder. The Xcode project registers the guard source and test file with their targets.

Hosted-terminal test setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Surface startup and geometry cmuxTests/CJKIMEMarkedSelectionTests.swift	The hosted-terminal setup requests input-demand surface startup and reconciles geometry after the native surface becomes available.

Preview cache cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cleanup scheduling and scan Sources/CloudFilePreviewCache.swift	The cache schedules its stale-directory scan once on the first materialize call. The scan checks cancellation before listing and during iteration, and lists entries without prefetching metadata.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce a Cloud terminal creation or transport change covered by this check. It changes CloudFilePreviewCache to defer stale preview-directory cleanup until materialize, and ch…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The production Swift changes do not introduce a listed actor-isolation mistake. CloudFilePreviewCache is an actor, and its new cleanup scheduling and cancellation checks remain within that actor’s e…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The diff adds no blocking or timing-based synchronization to production Swift. The new responder guard uses runtime method replacement and a main-thread check; the cache change schedules cleanup with …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce or change browser socket automation routing. Sources/TerminalController.swift and ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, the rule’s source-of-truth routing files, are unc…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The production Swift diff adds no synchronous agent-history loader or large agent-file parse to an interactive path. The only changed directory scan is CloudFilePreviewCache.removeStaleDirectories; …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	No changed code substitutes a cached value for a fresh authoritative read in a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot path. The CloudFilePreviewCache diff only defers stale-directory cleanup until …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The check targets production non-Swift changes in TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or build/runtime scripts. The diff changes Swift source and test files, plus Xcode project entries that register those …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The production diff adds no prohibited collection algorithm. SwiftUIKeyViewProxyResponderGuard performs fixed responder/runtime checks. In Sources/CloudFilePreviewCache.swift:28-46, stale cleanup …
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The diff does not introduce background Dispatch queues, Combine state, or completion-handler APIs. CloudFilePreviewCache moves its existing Task.detached cleanup from init to the first `material…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The Swift diff does not trigger the concurrency rule. CloudFilePreviewCache.removeStaleDirectories is synchronous and its file scan runs in Task.detached at `Sources/CloudFilePreviewCache.swift:64…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The changed Swift code does not violate the package-boundary rule. SwiftUIKeyViewProxyResponderGuard is an AppKit/Objective-C runtime bridge for SwiftUI’s private responder class, and AppDelegate …
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Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The changed production Swift code adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout diagnostics, Logger constants, or logs that could expose sensitive data. The test changes are within the test exem…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The diff adds a responder-chain guard and changes preview-cache cleanup timing. It adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery copy. The new diagnostic wording appear…
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The diff adds a responder guard, changes cache cleanup timing, registers the source and tests, and adjusts test fixtures. The added Swift prose is developer documentation or test-only text; the produc…
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Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff fits the rule’s allowed local correctness fix and required platform bridge. The new guard documents the attached-versus-detached proxy invariant and installs one shared, one-time getter repla…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The PR does not add or materially change a standalone user-visible cmux window. Its only added NSWindow instances are test fixtures in SwiftUIKeyViewProxyResponderGuardTests.swift, which the rule expl…
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The six changed paths are hand-written Swift source, test source, or Xcode project configuration. The diff adds no logs, screenshots, caches, temporary directories, build output, dependency checkouts,…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: fixing a crash when a focused SwiftUI view outlives its hosting view.
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Sources/AppDelegate.swift (1)

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The guard stops the crash, but the stale first-responder state can still happen.

The getter override makes nextResponder safe on a detached KeyViewProxy. A window can still keep a freed proxy as its firstResponder. While that is true, key events go to a dead responder, and the chain now ends at nil. Keyboard input in that window can then be lost without any signal. The PR says the cmux transition that leaves this state is unknown.

The rule this fix should enforce: a window's firstResponder is never a view outside the window's view hierarchy. That check belongs to the code that owns focus, not to a getter patch. Suggested first step:

• In NSWindow.cmux_makeFirstResponder, or in syncKeyboardFocusAfterFirstResponderChange, detect a responder whose superview == nil that is not the window's contentView.
• At that point, log it with a breadcrumb and move focus to the focused panel through MainWindowFocusController.

The breadcrumb also shows which transition causes the problem. Keep this guard as the fallback.

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[austinywang]

The raw crash report at https://gist.github.com/lawrencecchen/67b57803e5ddccdd1449b0d516ff5686 matches the crash family addressed here. I checked it while triaging a separate assignment and am stopping that assignment without a duplicate implementation or PR.

• Incident 1B2ACC92-A804-47D3-B875-243EFC6362B5: cmux 0.65.0 (108), macOS 27.0 (26A428), ARM64; main-thread EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT).
• The stack is swift_abortRetainUnowned → swift_unownedRetainStrong → @objc KeyViewProxy.nextResponder.getter → unsymbolicated cmux frames → _NSSendEventToObservers / NSApplication.sendEvent:. This matches the stale SwiftUI focus-proxy lifetime failure described in this PR. The raw report alone does not identify which cmux removal/reparenting transition created it.
• Source inspection confirms responder walks in shortcut/terminal ownership lookup, keyboard shortcut context, browser focus/portal helpers, and browser/terminal controller helpers. A guard in only one cmux walker would leave the AppKit and SwiftUI callers described here exposed. At d4b065c5406ed00c59e056db51b0068a01a7dcfa, this PR guards the shared proxy getter and adds detached/attached behavior tests. I inspected the diff; I did not independently run those tests or reproduce the trigger.

Issue #17491 is already actively owned. Its reports describe swift_getObjectType / swift_task_isCurrentExecutorWithFlagsImpl faults on macOS 26.1, including WebKit callbacks and SwiftUI hit testing. That is a different observed signature; this gist does not establish a common root cause or justify closing #17491. The active local codex-17491-webkit-crash branch also already contains this guard plus a stale-focus repair follow-up (d6fc16db798), so I am coordinating with that owner rather than creating another branch of the fix.

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Unclear: macos / app-host unit tests (changed suites) failed: no known signature; failed step: Run unit tests. This PR merged before its CI finished: fix forward on main.

CI failed on 83c41ce33b (run 37594298701 attempt 1): 1 unknown.

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Not re-run automatically: macos / app-host unit tests (changed suites) is not a machine failure.

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Updated this PR in place to 527c79ad6d85bac3a33ab973cce6c12a55d5504d.

• Merged current green main (efb680adc206) with scripts/merge-main.sh. The generated project conflict was resolved by unioning added entries and normalizing; source and test wiring remain intact. GitHub now reports MERGEABLE.
• Replaced fixed run-loop delays with AppKitTestEventPump.waitUntil checks for SwiftUI proxy creation, keyboard focus, and host deallocation. The five-second limits only bound failure; weakHost == nil remains mandatory before the stale-proxy assertion. Fixture windows are closed during cleanup.
• Production behavior is unchanged from the original PR. A correctness-first subagent review of the guard/project merge and then the test repair found no actionable defects. This does not establish the original cmux teardown trigger or a shared cause with Recurring SIGSEGV in swift_task_isCurrentExecutor (via swift_getObjectType) during WebKit layer-tree / first-responder updates, 0.64.25 macOS 26.1 #17491.

Verification: python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed all 6 selected checks (including Swift parsing and 13 app-source wiring tool tests); python3 scripts/wire-app-sources.py --check, scripts/sync-test-wiring --check, and git diff --check passed. Current-head hosted CI has passed static checks; native execution is still pending. An additional isolated framework fixture was not executed because nx-remote could not resolve the documented cmux-lawrence-2 SSH alias (known HQ REPAIR.md entry). No native pass is claimed from that attempt.

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Continued this PR in place after the duplicate-gist check.

• Merged green main efb680adc206 in b17d7e7d79c; resolved the Xcode project conflict while preserving app and test source membership. No force push.
• Addressed the fixed-wait review: proxy tests now wait for keyboard focus and actual host release, and close their fixture windows. CI exposed lazy proxy creation, so focus is requested before waiting (49126204621).
• The two CJK fixture failures occurred at the original PR head too. The fixture now explicitly requests native surface startup and reconciles geometry before input (49126204621).
• The mention-index timeout also occurred at the original head and at 527c79ad6d8. Its xcresult spindump grouped all 14 utility cooperative workers in CloudFilePreviewCache.init → removeStaleDirectories → directory enumeration. fcda01111ba defers cleanup until a preview request, avoids metadata prefetch for unrelated temp files, and checks cancellation. This keeps the full shortcut-routing suite as the regression discriminator; an isolated mention test would omit the preceding cache churn.

A read-only review subagent found no actionable correctness issues in the repair deltas. Scoped local verification passed 6/6 checks. Native CI and the exact-head fleet build are pending; their final receipts will follow. No localization strings changed. This PR remains open and unmerged.

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Tagged build of fcda01111ba236c8bea73a13464afdd32d4844c7 succeeded: issue-18250-keyview-crash-iteration.

Fleet job 1422937244498fa688ed4f24 ran on aws-m4pro-3; the published tag matches the submission. Artifact SHA-256: 629f241451a459e5d7c4289dbffcfadb5310055265025c48b26352e9396227c3. The terminal receipt records successful build/package/upload, workspace reset, and before/after cleanup samples. This proves app compilation, not test execution or a live crash reproduction. Hosted tests are still pending.

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Verification is green at fcda01111ba236c8bea73a13464afdd32d4844c7: CI run, including the app-host test job.

• All 27 selected suites passed. XCTest: 371 tests, 4 skipped, 0 failures. Swift Testing: 240 tests in 19 suites passed.
• The previously failing mention-index test passed in 1.238 s. Both native IME input cases passed in 0.366 s and 0.150 s. The detached and attached SwiftUI proxy tests passed in 0.051 s and 0.009 s.
• Six scoped local checks and the exact-head tagged build passed. The read-only repair review found no actionable correctness defects.

GitHub reports CLEAN / MERGEABLE, with no unresolved review threads. Auto-merge is off. The PR is left open and unmerged. The exact in-app lifetime transition remains unproven, as documented in the description; this verification establishes the reproduced stale-proxy guard and the repaired test paths.

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Addressing the additional review-summary concern and the documentation warning:

• Detached-proxy focus: terminal event routing already calls repairFocusedTerminalKeyboardRoutingIfNeeded before normal NSWindow.sendEvent dispatch. A detached proxy has no viable window owner and is not a respected foreign text/sidebar owner. Both plain and Command key paths therefore request focus restoration for the selected terminal. The getter guard makes the responder-chain reads used by that path safe. A read-only review independently confirmed this flow.
• Coverage limit: the review labels its keyboard-loss finding unverified, and no live reproduction establishes it for browser-only, sheet, or auxiliary windows. The existing stranded-responder CI test checks focus restoration but skips its final libghostty key-delivery assertion when no live surface is available. We are not claiming broader automatic recovery. The saved explicit-clear follow-up would only run on another makeFirstResponder request; it does not prove recovery when a key arrives without such a request, so it was not adopted.
• Documentation: 83c41ce33b372bb360c8a1712c139a8579e69db5 adds the missing DocC comments for touched methods and fixtures, and corrects the claim that detachment necessarily means the host is dead. The guard deliberately ends the chain during temporary detachment too. The PR description now states these boundaries.

The new commit changes only /// comments; all other lines match verified parent fcda01111ba236c8bea73a13464afdd32d4844c7. python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed all 6 selected checks and git diff --check passed. The parent's 27-suite CI run remains the runtime evidence; new-head hosted CI is pending. This is a documented disposition of the unverified concern, not a newly reproduced focus bug or a new focus-recovery fix. PR remains open and unmerged.

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Merge receipt for 83c41ce33b, merged 2026-10-07 08:52:45 UTC

• Not verified at merge: app-host unit tests (in progress), ci-status (not reported)
• Verified: backend migrations applied, macOS compile admission, CI fast guards, Fast static checks, GhosttyKit release check, guards (18), late-placement, linux-preflight, macOS admission gate, plan, web-validation
• Skipped by policy: admission-placement, apply-production, apply-staging, browser, Claude wrapper regressions, CLI product tests, Dogfood build #​${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}, full-suite-coverage, release-admission, release-build, remote-daemon, suite-coverage, and 7 more
• Full suite: runs on main after merge.

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