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Summary

cmux ssh now launches every OpenSSH child with the caller's complete local environment. SSH config aliases whose ProxyCommand depends on HOME, PATH, or another local variable therefore behave like system OpenSSH. The same environment and route identity now survive daemon bootstrap, relay, PTY attach, TUI/browser handoff, and snapshot restore. Fixes #17560.

The implementation captures one launch environment per SSH connection, distinguishes an absent agent override from a configured or explicitly disabled SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and includes the effective agent route in cmux-owned ControlMaster selection. Explicitly disabled agents remove the inherited socket while preserving SSH config IdentityAgent precedence. The CLI removes only cmux-generated ControlPath values and carries an opaque route marker; the app strips that marker before invoking OpenSSH. Caller-owned ControlPaths remain isolated when route identity cannot be separated. Restore treats a dead saved socket as a recoverable route hint, while nil/empty/whitespace explicit values remain a deliberate disable.

Impact map

  • OpenSSH children: primary SSH/SCP, daemon platform probes, bootstrap/upload/install, hello, relay, carrier, preflight, browser proxy, and PTY attach all receive the captured environment.
  • Authentication routing: inherited, configured, and explicitly disabled agents produce distinct route identities; SSH config IdentityAgent remains authoritative where OpenSSH expects it.
  • CLI/app handoff: generated cmux sockets are removed before handoff, and only an opaque ssh -G route digest crosses the boundary. Proxy commands, socket paths, credentials, and SSH configuration are not exposed.
  • Restore and migration: snapshots preserve override semantics and cmux-owned ControlPaths; stale saved agents can recover when a later inherited agent becomes live.
  • Diagnostics: existing typed errors retain stage names for SSH preflight, daemon bootstrap, relay, and PTY attach without adding commands, environment values, credentials, or SSH configuration.

Testing

  • Red-before-fix regression: fa3895b8af3 failed SSHProxyCommandEnvironmentTests; the repaired focused command passes at the current head.
  • swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxCore: 136 tests passed.
  • swift build --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation --target CmuxFoundation: passed.
  • python3 scripts/verify-local.py: 6/6 checks passed; test wiring, app-source wiring, and git diff --check passed.
  • Hosted focused rerun 37640998168 passed SSHTuiMigrationTests and TerminalControllerSocketSecurityTests/testNotificationCreateUsesExplicitSurfaceIDWhenProvided at 9f0441892c2; the notification test is unchanged and its earlier broad-run failure was the unread-store assertion, not a socket connection error.
  • Final-head hosted run 37643999863, attempt 2, passed at fee672cd1aa452e13b25125de07b1426de62e883: Swift package tests, app-host compile admission, the full changed app-host suite, CLI product tests, and aggregate CI routing guards. Attempt 1 failed only because the CLI job was cancelled before starting; rerunning failed jobs made the same final SHA green.
  • Earlier broad run 37637869943 compiled the change and passed the SSH/cloud package and focused SSH app-host suites, but also exposed unrelated timing failures in CmuxTerminal/CmuxSimulator and a Python hook-spool cleanup error after 90/90 product tests passed. Those failures are recorded rather than attributed to this SSH change.
  • Tagged fleet dogfood build issue-17560-ssh-proxy-dogfood at fee672cd1aa452e13b25125de07b1426de62e883 (job 8422dde0a91d3b79bfd90582) connected to austinywang@austins-macbook-pro through an explicit ProxyCommand equivalent. The interactive PTY authenticated and returned CMUX_DOGFOOD_OK, the expected remote username, and Austins-MacBook-Pro.local; the helper also verified HOME and PATH inheritance. The exact private alias was unavailable in this checkout, so no password or secret was recorded.
  • Local Foundation tests remain blocked by an existing compiler type-check timeout in SSHPTYReplayOutputFilterClipboardTests.swift:55; Cloud/app-host builds cannot run in this checkout because GhosttyKit.xcframework is a placeholder.

Changelog

Fixed: SSH ProxyCommand children retain inherited context and explicit agent-disable semantics

Residual risk

The regression fixture uses local helper processes, while dogfood used an explicit equivalent ProxyCommand because the exact private alias was unavailable in this checkout. An alias with unusual environment dependencies remains the highest-value follow-up case. The change touches authentication routing and ControlMaster sharing.

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Walkthrough

SSH configurations now distinguish explicit agent overrides, including empty values, from inherited agents. The override state persists through snapshots and configuration copies. SSH launch environments, routes, and preflight commands apply that state. Command runners can pass a specified environment to child processes.

Changes

SSH agent environment and routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Represent and persist agent overrides
Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Sources/CmuxCore/Remote/WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Sources/CmuxCore/Remote/SessionRemoteWorkspaceSnapshot.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Sources/CmuxCore/Remote/WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration+SSHControlPath.swift
Workspace configuration and session snapshots record whether the agent socket was explicitly overridden. Configuration copies, equality, and snapshots preserve this state.
Restore and set agent state
Sources/SessionRemoteWorkspaceSnapshot+Restore.swift, Sources/RemoteTui/SessionRemoteWorkspaceSnapshot+TuiSSH.swift, Sources/RemoteTui/TerminalController+SSHTui.swift, Sources/TerminalController+ControlWorkspaceContext.swift, cmuxTests/SSHTuiMigrationTests.swift
Snapshot restoration resolves agent sockets using the supplied environment and liveness check. SSH workspace setup records whether the socket was explicitly supplied and carries the override state into configuration.
Build and pass SSH child environments
Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Sources/CmuxCore/Remote/WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Link/CloudMachineLink.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/Process/CommandExecution.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Sources/CmuxFoundation/Process/CommandRunner.swift
SSH environments retain inherited variables, set a configured socket, or remove SSH_AUTH_SOCK for an explicit disabled override. Command runners can pass a supplied environment to child processes.
Apply agent state to SSH routes
Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Link/SSHTuiConnection.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCloud/Sources/CmuxCloud/Link/SSHTuiPreflight.swift, Sources/RemoteTui/SSHTuiLinkManager.swift, cmuxTests/SSHTuiPreflightTests.swift
SSH connections capture an environment snapshot. SSH routing and preflight distinguish disabled and inherited agents, and launch paths use the connection environment.
Validate environment and restoration behavior
Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Tests/CmuxCoreTests/SSHProxyCommandEnvironmentTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxCore/Tests/CmuxCoreTests/WorkspaceRemoteConfigurationTests.swift, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/CmuxFoundationTests/Process/CommandRunnerTests.swift
Tests cover environment construction, ProxyCommand environment values, configuration copies, default environments, and injected child environments.

Watchdog test timing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Control watchdog test sleep
Packages/macOS/CmuxBrowser/Tests/CmuxBrowserTests/Control/BrowserAutomationWatchdogTests.swift
Two watchdog tests use a shared long-sleep closure while checking concurrent recovery and follower cancellation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration
  participant SSHTuiConnection
  participant SSHTuiPreflight
  participant OpenSSH
  WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration->>SSHTuiConnection: provide SSH child-process environment
  SSHTuiConnection->>OpenSSH: launch SSH with captured environment
  SSHTuiPreflight->>OpenSSH: unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK for disabled override
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to da10c

The change separates SSH connection sharing by agent mode, but a user-specified ControlPath may still let an agent-disabled session reuse a connection authenticated with an inherited agent. Confirm or fix this before merging.


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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The diff adds SSH-agent restore policy in the app target. Sources/SessionRemoteWorkspaceSnapshot+Restore.swift now chooses between an explicitly saved agent, an inherited SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and an exp… Move saved-agent versus inherited-agent selection and explicit-disable handling into the CmuxCore SwiftPM target. Expose a small public API such as RestorableSSHAgentResolver.resolve(snapshot:environment:isLiveAgent:), and test its prec…
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning BrowserAutomationWatchdogTests.swift changes watchdog scheduling tests to use a long cancellable sleep. This addresses browser-test timing flakes, but it does not implement or test SSH environment h… Remove the unrelated browser watchdog test changes from this PR or submit them separately.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 48.72% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 39 functions across 19 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 [#17560] WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration.sshProcessEnvironment preserves the caller environment and applies configured or explicitly disabled SSH_AUTH_SOCK overrides. `SSHProxyCommandEnvironmentTests…
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce a failure condition in .github/review-bot-rules/cloud-persistent-session-and-early-input.md. The Cloud changes capture and apply the SSH child environment and distinguish…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production diff adds only value fields, environment handling, and call-site wiring. The modified configuration and snapshot types are Sendable value models; SSHTuiConnection and CommandRunner are …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The diff introduces no blocking or timing-based synchronization in production Swift code. The only added sleep is ContinuousClock().sleep(for: .seconds(3_600)) in a test-only watchdog helper, which …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed The diff changes only BrowserAutomationWatchdogTests.swift within the browser automation area. It injects a long cancellable sleep into two ordering tests; it does not add or move a browser socket com…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The PR does not add or move an expensive synchronous agent-history load onto an interactive or main-actor path. The production diff changes SSH environment handling, agent override persistence, route …
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No changed production path replaces a fresh authoritative read with an unchecked cache. Snapshot restore checks whether the saved SSH agent socket is live and can fall back to the current process envi…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed The custom check applies to non-Swift TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and build/runtime changes. The reviewed diff changes 19 Swift files and no non-Swift source or runtime files. The only new wait is …
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed The production diff adds no nested scans, per-target rescans, or repeated sorting/filtering over scalable user-owned collections. The new restore lookup examines only two fixed candidates (`agentSocke…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff does not add background Dispatch work, Combine state, internal completion-handler APIs, or fire-and-forget Tasks with a new lifecycle. Runtime changes assign child-process environments and pr…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The Swift diff introduces no nonisolated async functions and no @concurrent annotations. The added async test functions run process-command or preflight tests; the changed watchdog sleeper only aw…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR diff changes Swift source and test files only. It does not change a Package.swift manifest, Package.resolved file, .gitignore, workflow, or cmux.xcodeproj package reference. The SwiftPM lockfil…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The diff adds no production Swift logging. The only printf and file-write operations are in SSHProxyCommandEnvironmentTests.swift, where a temporary ProxyCommand fixture captures environment value…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The diff does not add or materially change user-facing error, alert, command-output, API-error, or recovery text. Production changes capture and apply the SSH child environment and preserve agent-over…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The diff introduces no user-facing copy. The production changes add environment-handling behavior, configuration fields, and developer comments; the other added text is in tests. The changed-file inve…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The changed Swift files add no SwiftUI view declarations or SwiftUI state, layout, lazy-row, or render-time mutation patterns. The diff changes SSH configuration and process handling, snapshot state, …
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed The diff does not introduce an architectural violation under the rule. WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration owns the agent-override invariant and applies it through one shared `sshProcessEnvironment(inherit…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed The PR does not add or materially change standalone cmux-owned windows or close-shortcut routing. The Swift diff has no added window, panel, window-controller, identifier, or shortcut declarations. Th…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All 19 changed paths are Swift source or test files in established source and test directories. The diff adds one Swift regression test and contains no logs, screenshots, caches, build output, depende…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The production-source diff adds no test-build-guarded state accessors, members with the listed test/debug names, or visibility widening paired with a wrapper accessor. workspaceConfiguration in `Sou…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving the environment used by SSH ProxyCommand child processes.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and directly related to the change. It includes the problem, implementation scope, testing results, changelog entry, and residual risk. The optional Proof and Checklist sec…
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

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BrowserAutomationWatchdogTests.swift changes watchdog scheduling tests to use a long cancellable sleep. This addresses browser-test timing flakes, but it does not implement or test SSH environment handling, ProxyCommand, or SSH child diagnostics required by [#17560].

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The diff adds SSH-agent restore policy in the app target. Sources/SessionRemoteWorkspaceSnapshot+Restore.swift now chooses between an explicitly saved agent, an inherited SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and an explicitly disabled override, with liveness checks (lines 52–56 and 611–623). This is persistence and credential-selection logic with injected environment and liveness seams, and the new migration test exercises it independently. The policy can use CmuxCore and its existing CmuxFoundation dependency; it does not require app lifecycle or UI state. Other app-target changes mainly pass configuration into existing flows and are composition glue.

Resolution

Move saved-agent versus inherited-agent selection and explicit-disable handling into the CmuxCore SwiftPM target. Expose a small public API such as RestorableSSHAgentResolver.resolve(snapshot:environment:isLiveAgent:), and test its precedence and disabled-agent cases in CmuxCoreTests. Keep app-specific WorkspaceRemoteConfiguration assembly and runtime wiring in the app target.

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Follow-up pushed as 73ccd79: the hosted app compile caught a type-inference issue in the route digest that the local CmuxCloud package could not reach because of the missing GhosttyKit binary. The digest now uses an explicit trimmed-string branch; syntax verification passes, and CI has restarted for the new head.

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🟡 Minor · Apply the explicit agent override to the emitted SSH options. · SSHTuiConnection.swift:88-103

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Apply the explicit agent override to the emitted SSH options.

When a control request supplies ssh_options: ["IdentityAgent=/path/to/agent.sock"] and an explicit disabled-agent override, SSHTuiConnection passes IdentityAgent=none only as routeSensitiveOptions. mergingDefaults uses that array to select a route-specific control path, but does not add it to the returned options. The preflight and carrier can therefore receive the configured socket path instead of IdentityAgent=none. Removing SSH_AUTH_SOCK does not disable an explicitly configured agent socket. Ensure the explicit agent option is emitted ahead of, or in place of, any competing IdentityAgent option.

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Follow-up at 2ef5d13c744: addressed the remaining SSH agent precedence review finding. When ssh_auth_sock is explicitly supplied, cmux now removes any caller IdentityAgent option and emits the explicit socket or IdentityAgent=none; this keeps preflight, carrier, and route identity aligned and prevents a caller option from reusing a different credential route. Added SSHTuiPreflightTests.disabledAgentOverridesCallerIdentityAgent.

Verification for this follow-up: python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed (6 selected checks), Swift syntax and test wiring passed, git diff --check passed, and swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxCore passed (132 tests, including 4 SSH ProxyCommand environment tests). The app target regression is included for hosted macOS CI; this checkout cannot execute it because GhosttyKit is a placeholder binary.

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Follow-up at 10c98f00c7b:

  • Kept SSH config IdentityAgent precedence. ssh_auth_sock supplies or removes the inherited SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment used by ProxyCommand/ForwardAgent; cmux no longer rewrites a user’s configured IdentityAgent when the CLI captures the normal inherited socket.
  • Moved saved-agent versus inherited-agent restore selection into CmuxCore and added Core tests for live saved agents, moved-agent fallback, legacy snapshots, and explicit disable.
  • Added CmuxCloud tests that run /usr/bin/ssh -G for auth, preflight, carrier, and browser launch option assembly.
  • Made app control-path assertions use a deterministic environment so launchd’s agent cannot change their expected route.

Local evidence: swift test --package-path Packages/macOS/CmuxCore passed with 135 tests; python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed all 6 selected checks; Swift syntax, test wiring, and git diff --check passed. The CmuxCloud focused test is covered by hosted macOS CI because the isolated checkout has a placeholder GhosttyKit binary.

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Dogfood evidence for fee672cd1aa452e13b25125de07b1426de62e883:

  • Fleet dev build tag: issue-17560-ssh-proxy-dogfood (job 8422dde0a91d3b79bfd90582).
  • cmux ssh austinywang@austins-macbook-pro connected through an explicit ProxyCommand helper that requires inherited HOME and PATH.
  • The tagged interactive PTY authenticated and returned CMUX_DOGFOOD_OK, the expected remote username, and Austins-MacBook-Pro.local.
  • The disposable workspace, tagged app, backend service, helper, and artifact cache were cleaned up. No password or secret was recorded.

The exact private SSH alias configuration was unavailable in this checkout, so the equivalent explicit ProxyCommand path was used for the real-host run.

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austinywang merged commit dd6e295 into main Oct 8, 2026
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austinywang deleted the codex-17560-ssh-proxy branch October 8, 2026 19:54
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Merge receipt for fee672cd1a: every check was green at merge (22 verified; 21 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
29661b9 gh-merge-green: allow explicit Vercel status override (manaflow-ai#18614)
dd6e295 fix: preserve SSH ProxyCommand child environment (manaflow-ai#18285)
f0a2bad Reject invalid Python regression-lane timeouts (manaflow-ai#18476)
3430354 Preserve PR media referenced through GitHub blob URLs (manaflow-ai#18562)
3b71b41 Reset a browser pane's selected frame and element refs when the page navigates (manaflow-ai#18577)
04e1d68 Clear force-close bypass when a confirmed close is rejected (manaflow-ai#18414)
8d86447 Treat Copilot value flags as value options when restoring (manaflow-ai#18470)
f6c678a Keep __proto__ keys in whole-area browser storage reads (manaflow-ai#18527)
7e97128 Keep minimized windows in the Dock when the global hotkey reveals cmux (manaflow-ai#18533)
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cmux SSH alias with ProxyCommand fails while system ssh works

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