remote-tmux: EternalTerminal support, and one shared connection for hosts where every connection costs a tap

[ejc3]

This is a large diff, and I know that makes it hard to review. I'm happy to break it apart if you would prefer that. It splits into five pieces that can each stand alone, in this order:

1. Sign-in on reconnect (what remote-tmux: offer a login when a reconnect can't authenticate, instead of retrying forever #8555 was).
2. Connection robustness: reattach after a transport drop, and a clean detach at quit.
3. The transport seam and named brokers in cmux.json.
4. EternalTerminal as a transport (--transport et).
5. One shared connection per host, behind its beta setting.

Tell me if you want that and I'll send them as a stack.

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This is the integration branch for the remote-tmux transport line. It carries #8428 (the session multiplexer), #8555 (the reconnect login), and #8556 (the transport seam), and adds what was still missing on top of them: an attach in multiplexed mode opens exactly one connection, a mirror that has nothing to show says so instead of presenting an empty workspace, and a second transport — EternalTerminal — is selectable and proven against a real broker.

One connection per attach

Multiplexed mode exists so a host's sessions ride one shared control stream, but the attach still opened extra connections inherited from the per-session path: a discovery one-shot whose result was discarded, a ControlMaster warm-up for a burst this mode doesn't have, and four pre-attach one-shots the view ran to find, reap, create, and size its own session. Over plain ssh those are nearly free. Over a transport that authenticates per connection they are fatal — measured against a corporate ssh broker, each invocation performed its own MFA, nothing persisted, and the view stream died against a passcode prompt it had no tty to show. The stream is now the only connection: it opens with new-session -A, which attaches the view when it exists and creates it at the right size when it doesn't.

cmux ssh-tmux <host> --new-window did not work over the shared connection. The attach picked its destination from windows that already existed, a dedicated attach for a host with no mirror window has none, and it failed as "app not ready" before opening a connection. It now creates the window, closes the window's first local workspace once the mirrors are in, and discards the window if nothing was mirrored.

An empty mirror tells the truth

Reaching control mode is not the same as having something to mirror. Measured on a real host: the stream sent a complete attach block and then %exit without ever publishing a window, and cmux reported that as success — a workspace appeared whose only surface was a local placeholder shell. A mirror now counts only once its connection has published a topology; attachHost waits for every mirror concurrently under one deadline and drops the ones that never arrive, saying why the tab went away. %exit alone is also no longer trusted for a transport whose remote half outlives its client.

EternalTerminal, selectable per host

cmux ssh-tmux --transport et <host> (with --transport-port and --broker; documented in --help). The transport is a property of the host, not a global switch, because one host can be reachable over a session-preserving transport while another is plain ssh. ssh stays the default with unchanged argv.

Two faults kept et from carrying tmux -CC at all, both found by running the end-to-end harness against a real etserver rather than reading argv. et types its --command into a login shell through a pty in canonical mode, which delivers at most MAX_CANON (1024) bytes per line — the PATH-resolver command ssh needs is ~1113 bytes, so the line never completed and the stream sat silent until the attach timed out. et now gets plain tmux; a login shell already has the user's PATH. And the control-mode parser recognised tmux's ESC P 1000 p only at line start, while the login shell leaves echo and OSC title sequences ahead of it with no newline, so the mirror waited forever on a stream that was working. The scan now finds the sequence anywhere in the line.

Authentication that can't reach a terminal

A transport that authenticates itself never reports a failure — it prints a prompt to a tty it doesn't have and waits. The reconnect classifier only read stderr, so a broker whose passcode prompt produces no stderr came back "transient" and retried forever. An unanswered prompt in the pre-control region (everything before the first %begin) is now classified as needing a login, feeding the same parked-login flow the reconnect path uses; the markers are generic because the wording belongs to whatever broker a site runs.

A reconnect attempt that stops at such a prompt is still running when the next attempt is scheduled. The retry used to start over it without ending it, so a transport that signs in by itself left one client behind on every retry. The attempt is now torn down before the retry is scheduled.

An attach waits for a login that is still working

cmux ssh-tmux <host> failed at exactly 30 seconds with "could not mirror any tmux session" on a host whose login needs a hardware-key tap, and again on the retry, where one connection waited 19 seconds for the host's single session slot. Both logins were still working when the attach gave up. The attach over the shared connection had 30 seconds in total to show its first sessions, and giving up also stopped the transport, so the retry started the login over.

The wait has no total limit now. It ends when the stream publishes its sessions, when the transport exits, when the host asks for a login, or when the transport has printed nothing for longer than its phase allows: 300 seconds before tmux answers, because a person may be part of a login, and 30 seconds after. Anything the transport prints moves that limit out. The failure says which of these happened and carries the transport's own last line, for example the connection to dev ended before tmux answered: ssh: connect to host dev port 22: Connection refused.

While it waits, cmux ssh-tmux prints where the attach stands every 15 seconds (still logging in: the connection is running and has been quiet for 34 s), so a long login reads as one that is still running. The socket call and CLI let the attach own its inactivity deadline, so ongoing login progress is not cut off by an independent wall-clock timeout.

When the shared stream goes away, and when it shouldn't

Closing a host's last workspace left the shared stream, its hidden view session and the remote master running. The workspace handler looked up a tab manager before doing anything else, and once the last workspace is gone the mirror is gone with it and the window the attach came from may be closed too, so that lookup found nothing and returned early — past the teardown it was there to reach. Teardown needs no tab manager, so it now runs first.

The opposite fault is dropping a stream that is answering. A raw query used to end two ways, lines or nothing, so a %error reply and a timeout were indistinguishable. The reconcile's bounded retry re-sent a command the server had already rejected, and that retry asks to reconnect when it times out, which throws away a control stream that was working fine. A query now reports lines, an error, or silence, and only silence is worth asking again.

The reconcile can also be handed an answer that is not its own. Replies are matched to commands by position, and when one lands on the wrong command the session or window list comes back empty or foreign. The plan read that as a host with nothing on it and closed every workspace, with the stream still connected. The stream is attached to the view session, so a real answer to either list always names that session. A snapshot that does not is now dropped, and the stream reconnects, which is what puts replies back in step.

What this leaves out

New Workspace in a mirror window still creates a local workspace on this branch. Sending it to the mirror's host is #7214. Creating that session over the shared connection, which a host that allows only one connection needs, comes after both are in.

Socket parameters

One read-only socket method is added, remote.tmux.attach_progress, and the relay allowlist is untouched, so the method does not work through cmux ssh. For a host the caller names it returns whether an attach is in progress, which phase it is in (logging_in or in_tmux), how many seconds the transport has been quiet and the limit for that phase. It returns nothing the transport printed and no session or window names, runs no command, and changes nothing. It runs on the socket worker lane like the other remote.tmux.* methods.

The existing remote.tmux.* methods build their host from the request, and that builder accepts four more parameters:

• transport is parsed against a closed set, ssh or et. Anything else refuses the host.
• transport_port must be an integer from 1 to 65535.
• transport_helper_path optionally names an absolute remote helper path for direct ET. It is omitted by default, so ET uses its own lookup. cmux ssh-tmux --transport et --transport-helper-path /usr/local/bin/etterminal <host> selects that installation explicitly. SSH and named brokers reject the override; brokers own helper resolution.
• transport_broker is a name. It is looked up in remoteTmux.brokers in the user's own cmux.json, and the executable and arguments come from that entry. A request cannot supply a command or arguments. A name that does not resolve refuses the host instead of falling back to a direct connection, and a broker named for the ssh transport is refused.

So the only thing a caller on the socket can make cmux run is a broker the user has already declared, with the arguments the user wrote. An attach that names a different broker than the live connection to the same host uses is refused with the route in use, instead of being served over a route it did not ask for. theSocketBoundaryAttachesADeclaredBroker, theSocketBoundaryRefusesAHostWhenABrokerCannotBeResolved, theSocketBoundaryLeavesAHostAloneWhenNoBrokerIsAskedFor, anUndeclaredBrokerNameIsRefusedRatherThanIgnored, aRelativeBrokerExecutableIsRejectedWithItsReason and hiddenCharactersAreRefusedInArgumentsAndInTheRequestedName in RemoteTmuxProxyTransportRetryTests cover it.

Verification

• Conformance matrix recorded against et 6.2.11 and 7.0.0 (docs/ in this branch), measured on a live etserver, not inferred.
• Capstone multiplex fuzzer (seeded bidirectional session churn) extended to assert no mirror/channel leaks; attach modes, readiness, and the one-connection view covered in cmuxTests.
• RemoteTmuxRawQueryOutcomeTests drives the three ways a raw query can end through the real correlation path and asserts that only silence triggers the reconcile retry.
• RemoteTmuxReconnectAttemptTeardownTests runs a fake client that prints a prompt and waits on every reconnect, and expects the second attempt to be signalled to stop before the third starts. It fails at e50d884 and passes at 95dc827.
• RemoteTmuxViewUnlinkedWindowTests.listReplyWithoutTheViewSessionClosesNothing answers the reconcile's list-sessions, then its list-windows -a, with an empty block. Both cases fail at 869315a, where the host's workspaces are emptied, and pass at 0ad26e1.
• RemoteTmuxMultiplexedDedicatedWindowTests runs a dedicated attach against an ssh stand-in that refuses the connection. It fails at 7aa0002 with "app not ready" and no connection attempted, and passes at 480f19d, where the host is tried and no window is left behind.
• End-to-end: a real attach through a corporate-style broker over et, one authentication prompt total, sessions mirrored and surviving a network change.
• RemoteTmuxMultiplexedLoginWaitTests attaches to a host that refuses the connection the way ssh does when it needs a sign-in. It fails at 85879d7, where the attach hands back the login with its shared stream already stopped, and passes at 4d0ac06.
• The session digest subscription names no pane. Measured on tmux 3.7b with pane %0 killed: a %0 subscription reports nothing when a session is created or renamed, and the empty target reports both.
• RemoteTmuxAttachProgressTests covers the wait. One test runs an ssh stand-in that fails after 3 seconds with the after-tmux limit set to 1 second, and expects the transport's own reason back. Another runs one that never answers and expects the stall to be named and the stream stopped. With one limit for both phases put back, which is the old behavior, eachPhaseIsHeldToItsOwnQuietLimit and aSlowLoginIsWaitedForAndItsOwnFailureIsReported fail.
• scripts/remote-tmux-attach-wait-harness.sh checks the same thing end to end: the real cmux ssh-tmux, a tagged app, a loopback ssh host, and an ssh stand-in that delays or breaks only the connection. A transport that fails 8 seconds in is reported at 9 seconds with Connection refused. One that never answers ends at 300 seconds, is named as a quiet login, and is stopped. One that connects after 45 seconds is mirrored, with progress lines at 2, 18 and 34 seconds.
• At 6aff58beca6, merged with main 74cfb96d6c1, the remote-tmux unit suites and the settings-file suite pass locally: 652 tests in 67 suites.

Later work from the PRs this carries

This branch was cut from #8428, #8555 and #8556, and those branches kept going. Their later commits are now cherry-picked here, 22 in all, each resolved against this branch's changes, so every commit on those three branches has a counterpart here. Where both lines had written the same thing, this branch's version stayed: the observers initializer that requires every member, beginReconnecting(preservingBackoff:), and [$id] tagging for channel events. setMirrorEnvironment is now a session-source requirement, so the controller pushes the mirror identity through the protocol, and a multiplexed channel publishes it into its own session instead of skipping it.

Changelog

Added: Remote tmux can connect over EternalTerminal, and a beta setting shares one connection per host across all of its sessions

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added EternalTerminal (et) as an option for remote tmux connections, with configurable ports and brokers.
  • Added an optional beta mode that shares one connection across sessions on the same host.
  • Added interactive login prompts when a remote connection needs authentication, with automatic reconnection after login.
  • Added ssh-tmux options for selecting a transport, port, and broker.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved recovery from interrupted connections and handling of remote session and window changes.
  • Improved connection cleanup when detaching or closing the app.

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Note

Medium Risk
Touches remote connection routing, authentication handoff, socket timeouts, and quit-time detach; misconfiguration or deadline bugs could strand mirrors or block app exit, but changes are gated behind remote-tmux paths and declared brokers.

Overview
Remote tmux gains selectable transports and named brokers for cmux ssh-tmux, plus CLI/socket behavior so long logins and attaches do not time out prematurely.

ssh-tmux now accepts --transport (ssh or et), --transport-port, --transport-helper-path, and --broker (a name from remoteTmux.brokers in global cmux.json, not an arbitrary command). Those values are forwarded on the existing remote.tmux.mirror / window RPCs, with help text and socket validation strings updated accordingly. While an attach runs, the CLI can poll new remote.tmux.attach_progress on a side connection and print periodic status; the primary call uses waitUntilCompletion so the socket read loop is not capped by the usual response timeout when login output is still moving.

Interactive SSH for remote-tmux auth can set CMUX_REMOTE_TMUX_AUTH=1 so site ssh_config hooks treat the login as cmux’s own control path. Config loading resolves brokers only from the user’s global config and publishes a snapshot for the control socket. A beta flag remoteTmux.multiplexer.beta.enabled is wired through settings/schema. On quit, the app waits for deliberate remote-tmux detaches before tearing down transports. FileWatcher exposes whether ancestor watching actually attached, so reconnect logic does not hang forever. Control-mode plumbing adds raw query outcomes and treats the connection as topology-ready only after the initial window batch is published.

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Review follow-up

Updated head: 5dc74481034d22bfb8e0c2a7f917b88e77a631d4. Runtime fixes are in 95429c0355f; the final commit repairs a test fixture. The git pull --no-rebase origin main merge at df543412100 is retained, with all localization keys preserved from both sides. GitHub reports MERGEABLE, and all inline review threads are resolved.

Stale mirrors and their channels are cleaned up before attach or reconciliation. Dismissing a login resumes a shared view even before its first mirror exists. The remote tmux RPC and CLI let attach own its inactivity deadline; ordinary socket requests retain their existing defaults. Both detach timers use cancellable tasks.

Helper paths remain optional and transport-owned. Direct ET uses its native lookup unless an explicit --transport-helper-path is supplied. A different helper or broker on an existing endpoint is refused until detach, preserving one connection per endpoint.

Verification:

• Final-head PR CI passed: all seven native shards, CLI product tests, and guards. The repaired minimal-mode test passed in shard 2, alongside 782 tests in 76 suites; that shard's second selection also passed 623 tests in 74 suites. The CLI socket deadline regression passed in 4.3 seconds.
• 29 focused native tests across seven suites passed at runtime commit 95429c0355f, including stale-mirror recreation, pre-mirror login dismissal, RPC deadlines, detach handling, the fuzzer, and SSH signal cleanup. Regression commit 139148570e7 failed on the two expected lifecycle bugs.
• All 16 local static checks pass. Swift syntax passed for the 13 runtime/fix files and the final fixture change. CI verifies the formerly failing app-host source-path and dispatch-ownership guards.
• CI fixture repairs give attach suites explicit windows, await SSH fixture startup before testing cleanup, and await workspace project-root discovery before measuring minimal-mode invalidations. The zero-invalidation assertions remain intact.
• Tagged build pr-8721-review-v3 passed at 95429c0355f (job f25d40e70c3ab082a7f7b714). The final commit changes only a test fixture. This build is separate from test evidence; no new live corporate-broker or ET-server run was performed.

The supplementary focused fixture run compiled but could not start tests because its runner lacked tmux and could not write the existing Homebrew prefix. The same fixture executed and passed in final-head PR CI. Provisioning is tracked for the fleet owner in HQ #1545.

EJ's accepted follow-up scope remains scoped-map performance and broker-snapshot ownership. The existing extra-locale requests were declined and acknowledged by the reviewer.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds SSH and EternalTerminal transport selection, broker configuration, shared per-host tmux views, reconnect authentication handling, session channels, deterministic reconciliation, teardown coordination, and validation coverage.

Changes

Remote tmux transport and configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transport selection and broker configuration CLI/cmux.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxTransportRegistry.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxHost.swift, Sources/TerminalController+RemoteTmux.swift, Sources/CmuxConfig.swift, web/data/cmux.schema.json	The CLI accepts SSH or ET transport, ports, and brokers. Configuration validates broker definitions and publishes the resulting registry. Host identity includes the selected non-SSH transport profile.
Transport process handling Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxSSHTransport.swift, scripts/pty-run.py	Connections use transport profiles, optional PTYs, command-length checks, transport failure classification, bounded reconnects, and descendant-process teardown.
Documentation and localized errors Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, docs/remote-tmux-transport-seam.md	Help text and error messages describe transport, port, broker, and authentication behavior. The transport seam and validation scope are documented.

Authentication and lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reconnect authentication state Sources/RemoteTmuxConnectionState.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxConnectionObservers.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection+Observation.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxError.swift	Reconnect outcomes distinguish authentication, session disappearance, and transient failures. Observers can present interactive authentication. Login offers use per-host generations and decline tracking.
Login workspace flow Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift, Sources/Workspace.swift, Sources/TabManager.swift, CLI/CMUXCLI+SSHAuthentication.swift	Authentication-required reconnects can create one marked login workspace per host. Login workspaces are excluded from session snapshots and notify the controller when closed.
Detach and shutdown coordination Sources/RemoteTmuxController.swift, Sources/AppDelegate.swift	Detach acknowledgments are awaited during teardown. Multiplexed and dedicated connections use separate cleanup paths.

Multiplexed remote tmux views

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session-source abstraction and channels Sources/RemoteTmuxSessionSource.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxSessionChannel.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxSessionMirror.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxWindowMirror.swift	A session-source protocol supports dedicated connections and shared per-session channels. Channels scope topology, panes, window operations, events, and environment publication to one remote session.
Shared view connection Sources/RemoteTmuxViewConnection.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxViewSession.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxViewReconciler.swift	One host view connection manages tagged view sessions, workspace publication, bootstrap behavior, stale-view cleanup, link and unlink actions, and bounded retries.
Planning and reconciliation Sources/RemoteTmuxLinkedViewPlan.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxLinkedWorkspaceModel.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxMultiplexReconciler.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Multiplexer.swift, Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Decisions.swift	Deterministic planners group linked windows, match mirrors by stable identity or window overlap, preserve intents, handle renames, route new windows, and reconcile remote session changes.

Validation and project integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Automated coverage cmuxTests/*, Packages/macOS/CmuxFoundation/Tests/*	Tests cover authentication classification, transport behavior, parser framing, raw-query outcomes, channel scoping, linked workspace planning, multiplexed churn, teardown, and file-watcher state.
Integration harnesses scripts/remote-tmux-*, scripts/verify-mirror-detach-flow.sh, scripts/lint-remote-tmux-no-polling.sh	New scripts exercise ET hosts, brokered delivery, reconnect authentication, detach behavior, fuzz scenarios, and conformance boundaries.
Settings and build wiring Packages/macOS/CmuxSettings/*, Sources/CmuxSettingsFileStore+SupportedPaths.swift, Sources/KeyboardShortcutSettingsFileStore+SectionParsers.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj	The multiplexer beta setting is registered, parsed, schema-documented, tested, and added to the project build phases.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 41de5

If a reconnect needs a login while an attach is in progress, remote tmux sessions may stay disconnected after the user signs in from the command line. The new message for a conflicting route also appears only in English, and some new strings still lack translations. Address the reconnect issue before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 68d24

Global-only broker configuration and request validation constrain executable selection. However, connection reuse ignores the selected broker even though brokers supply routing and credentials. Distinct broker profiles can therefore reuse an existing connection rather than honor the newly requested route. Shared connections also make lifecycle failures affect every mirrored session on a host.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Connection identity excludes broker configuration, while a broker controls effective routing, endpoint flags, and credentials. With otherwise identical host fields, an attach requesting broker B or direct ET can reuse a live view established through broker A without checking equivalence. If those profiles reach different environments or authenticate differently, subsequent terminal input and session mutations operate on the previously connected endpoint under its existing authority. This is introduced by the new broker and shared-view design; actual cross-environment misrouting was not demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The broker-aliasing concern is bounded to matching host fingerprints within the running application and the authority of the already established connection. If broker profiles differ in environment or authentication, every session mirrored through that shared view can inherit the mismatch. It does not establish arbitrary executable selection or privilege escalation outside that existing authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A request can validly select a globally declared broker B while a matching live view still belongs to broker A. Hash-only reuse returns the existing mirrors without launching B. When A and B have different routing or credential semantics, input intended for B reaches A's connection. This is a source-supported conditional attack or misrouting path, not an observed exploitation result.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The executable-authority boundary is the user's global broker declaration. Socket callers can choose a declared name but cannot supply its executable or leading arguments. These controls prevent project configuration from directly establishing broker execution authority; they do not verify that different broker routes represent the same endpoint.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Concurrent attaches are serialized by host identity, and stopped views resolve pending publication waiters. Normal shutdown requests remote detachment before discarding the shared connection, limiting stale-client ownership after orderly termination. Abrupt interruption and external transport behavior were not established by this inspection.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind connection reuse to the effective broker profile, or reject profile changes while a matching connection is live. If cross-broker sharing is necessary, require an explicit endpoint-and-authentication equivalence contract rather than assuming equality from the destination string.

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Pre-merge checks failed

Please resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.

❌ Failed checks (12 errors, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	❌ Error	The diff adds pure helpers that inherit MainActor isolation unnecessarily. RemoteTmuxViewConnection.shouldRetryReconcileQuery(after:) (line 544) only classifies a query outcome, but its enclosing cl…	Mark RemoteTmuxViewConnection.shouldRetryReconcileQuery(after:) and RemoteTmuxController.mirrorFailure(destination:awaitingCredentials:) as nonisolated. Keep helpers that access UI-bound state, such as workspaceExists, MainActor-iso…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	❌ Error	The PR adds prohibited timing-based synchronization in production Swift. RemoteTmuxControlConnection+PaneSubscriptions.swift uses Task.sleep for raw-query deadlines (line 361), and `RemoteTmuxCont…	Replace the two production Task.sleep waits and the detach asyncAfter deadlines with a cancellation-aware timer/deadline abstraction that preserves timeout, detach-acknowledgement, and SIGKILL-escalation behavior. Make the retry timer's…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	❌ Error	The diff adds repeated scans over host-sized collections on attach and reconciliation paths. In RemoteTmuxMultiplexReconciler.swift:241-250, each workspace filters every candidate mirror and checks …	Build a workspace-ID-to-mirror dictionary once before the readiness loop, and use a Set of pending workspace IDs when processing task results. In nilIdWindowMatches, build an inverted window-ID index for candidate mirrors and accumulate…
Cmux Swift Concurrency	❌ Error	The diff adds an untracked Task.detached with a process-teardown lifecycle. terminateProcessTree(_:) sends SIGTERM, then the task sleeps for two seconds and may send SIGKILL to the captured pr…	Make the delayed SIGKILL escalation part of the process/connection lifecycle. Store its task and cancel it when the process exits or is replaced, or tie the escalation to an awaited teardown operation. Preserve the bounded SIGKILL fallback …
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	❌ Error	RemoteTmuxViewConnection.reconcile() is @MainActor and processes complete host-wide session and window snapshots on that actor. After the async queries, it calls parseRows for both outputs and r…	Move snapshot parsing and pure reconciliation planning into a non-UI async helper that runs with @concurrent (or another explicit off-actor hop). Keep reads and writes of RemoteTmuxViewConnection state, command sends, and workspace publ…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	❌ Error	The diff keeps reusable, independently testable remote-tmux domain logic in the app target. Sources/RemoteTmuxViewReconciler.swift describes a pure policy with no I/O, tmux, or SSH (lines 3–16); `So…	Create a small SwiftPM target named CmuxRemoteTmuxCore and move the pure tmux view/session identity, reconciliation, and workspace-planning logic into it, including RemoteTmuxViewReconciler, RemoteTmuxViewSession, `RemoteTmuxLinkedWor…
Cmux Swift Logging	❌ Error	The PR adds a production log that exposes an SSH destination. Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift logs host.destination with privacy: .public; RemoteTmuxHost.swift defines that value as …	In the new reconnect-auth log statements, omit host.destination or mark it privacy: .private. Also omit or mark host.connectionHash as private, because it is a stable identifier derived from host connection details. Keep non-sensitive…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	❌ Error	The new route-conflict error exposes broker command contents to cmux users. RemoteTmuxController+Decisions.swift:418-423 builds the error by joining the broker executable and all leadingArguments;…	Do not include the broker executable or argument values in route-conflict error text. Report a generic route mismatch, or use only a safe configured broker label and direct/broker route type. Keep any detailed diagnostics out of user-visibl…
Cmux Full Internationalization	❌ Error	The diff adds production user-facing text without full localization. In CLI/cmux.swift, the new --transport, --transport-port, and --broker validation errors at lines 12192–12218 are plain string lite…	Replace the new CLI error literals with stable localized keys and add translated catalog values for every supported app locale. Complete all 20 locale entries for socket.remoteTmux.transportPortOutOfRange, transportUnknown, brokerMalformed,…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	❌ Error	The diff adds @Published remoteTmuxBrokers to CmuxConfigStore, an existing ObservableObject, and assigns it on each config load (Sources/CmuxConfig.swift:1830, 2322–2325). ContentView receiv…	Remove remoteTmuxBrokers from the published CmuxConfigStore state. Resolve the broker registry into a local value during config loading and pass it directly to RemoteTmuxBrokerSnapshot.shared.update. If the UI later needs broker state…
Cmux Architecture Rethink	❌ Error	The multiplexer stores the authentication verdict in multiple owners, and its view-level latch never clears after a successful reconnect. RemoteTmuxViewConnection sets lastStreamAwaitedCredentials…	Make a generation-scoped, host-level auth state in HostAuthLedger the sole source for attach-failure classification. Have the current stream report auth-required and successful-connection transitions to that ledger, and preserve the ledge…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	❌ Error	Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift adds preControlObservationForDebug inside #if DEBUG (lines 344–353). It exposes the private pre-control output and parser tail. Its only caller is a `#i…	Move the debug-only observation and its logging into a dedicated debug file or folder, or remove the accessor and log. Keep the underlying state private unless production behavior requires wider access. See the canonical fix, https://github…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 56.26% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 455 functions across 56 files. (1 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (12 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 changed code concerns remote-tmux and EternalTerminal, not Cloud terminal creation or manual Ghostty runtime admission. In multiplexed mode, RemoteTmuxViewConnection.start() creates one shared c…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The PR does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift or ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, the files named by the rule. The diff adds no browser socket command or worker-lane browser routing,…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The diff adds no synchronous agent-history loader or parser to production Swift. The only added production JSONDecoder use parses the remote-tmux config; added String(contentsOf:) calls are in tes…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	No changed code introduces the specified cache substitution. In the authoritative PR diff, TabManager.closeWorkspace only adds a notification for a closed authentication workspace; its existing clos…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The diff adds no production non-Swift app/runtime delay logic. The changed shell and Python files are remote-tmux test, conformance, fuzz, or verification harnesses. pty-run.py is referenced only by…
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Full details: Cmux Swift Actor Isolation

Explanation

The diff adds pure helpers that inherit MainActor isolation unnecessarily. RemoteTmuxViewConnection.shouldRetryReconcileQuery(after:) (line 544) only classifies a query outcome, but its enclosing class is @MainActor (line 81); the neighboring pure snapshotNamesViewSession helper is correctly nonisolated. RemoteTmuxController.mirrorFailure(destination:awaitingCredentials:) (line 211) also only selects an error value, but inherits isolation from the @MainActor controller. This introduces avoidable actor coupling in production Swift.

Resolution

Mark RemoteTmuxViewConnection.shouldRetryReconcileQuery(after:) and RemoteTmuxController.mirrorFailure(destination:awaitingCredentials:) as nonisolated. Keep helpers that access UI-bound state, such as workspaceExists, MainActor-isolated.

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The PR adds prohibited timing-based synchronization in production Swift. RemoteTmuxControlConnection+PaneSubscriptions.swift uses Task.sleep for raw-query deadlines (line 361), and RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift uses Task.sleep for process-tree SIGKILL escalation (line 1107). It also adds DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter deadlines for detach acknowledgement and detach backstop (lines 973 and 1014). These are runtime changes, not test scaffolding or UI animation delays. The new RemoteTmuxRetryDelay.Gate also protects async timer and continuation state with NSLock without stating why an actor cannot own that state (RemoteTmuxViewConnection.swift, lines 21–54). The broker snapshot lock has a separate stated reason: config updates run on the main actor while parsing is synchronous and off-actor.

Resolution

Replace the two production Task.sleep waits and the detach asyncAfter deadlines with a cancellation-aware timer/deadline abstraction that preserves timeout, detach-acknowledgement, and SIGKILL-escalation behavior. Make the retry timer's continuation and release state actor-owned instead of protecting it with NSLock, or document a concrete reason an actor cannot own that synchronization. Keep the broker snapshot lock only if its synchronous off-actor parsing requirement remains.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

The diff adds repeated scans over host-sized collections on attach and reconciliation paths. In RemoteTmuxMultiplexReconciler.swift:241-250, each workspace filters every candidate mirror and checks its window IDs, giving O(V×C×W) work in the nil-ID fallback; V and C can each grow with the host’s sessions. In RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift:232-233, each workspace ID scans all session mirrors, and lines 262-265 scan pending for each task result. These are O(W×M) and O(P²) for an attach with many workspaces. RemoteTmuxSessionChannel.swift:437-446 also rebuilds a topology signature on each shared-stream topology event, sorting all owned pane IDs at line 392 for every channel. These are new production paths, and the diff states no bound or algorithm benchmark for these scans.

Resolution

Build a workspace-ID-to-mirror dictionary once before the readiness loop, and use a Set of pending workspace IDs when processing task results. In nilIdWindowMatches, build an inverted window-ID index for candidate mirrors and accumulate candidate matches per view instead of filtering every candidate for every view. For session-channel topology events, reuse a cached ordered pane-ID snapshot or update it only when pane ownership changes, rather than sorting the full pane set for every event. Add coverage or benchmarks at roughly 1000 host workspaces/sessions and large pane counts to confirm the revised paths remain within budget.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

Explanation

The diff adds an untracked Task.detached with a process-teardown lifecycle. terminateProcessTree(_:) sends SIGTERM, then the task sleeps for two seconds and may send SIGKILL to the captured process tree. stop() reaches this code through teardownProcessHandles(), but the task is not stored, cancelled, or awaited when the connection or process ends. This matches the check’s fire-and-forget Task condition.

Resolution

Make the delayed SIGKILL escalation part of the process/connection lifecycle. Store its task and cancel it when the process exits or is replaced, or tie the escalation to an awaited teardown operation. Preserve the bounded SIGKILL fallback for processes that remain alive.

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

Explanation

RemoteTmuxViewConnection.reconcile() is @MainActor and processes complete host-wide session and window snapshots on that actor. After the async queries, it calls parseRows for both outputs and runs RemoteTmuxLinkedViewPlan.plan, which groups and sorts the rows, without an actor hop. This new reconciliation path can put unbounded host snapshot parsing and planning on the UI actor.

Resolution

Move snapshot parsing and pure reconciliation planning into a non-UI async helper that runs with @concurrent (or another explicit off-actor hop). Keep reads and writes of RemoteTmuxViewConnection state, command sends, and workspace publication on @MainActor; pass the required immutable snapshot inputs to the helper and apply its result after returning to the main actor.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The diff keeps reusable, independently testable remote-tmux domain logic in the app target. Sources/RemoteTmuxViewReconciler.swift describes a pure policy with no I/O, tmux, or SSH (lines 3–16); Sources/RemoteTmuxLinkedWorkspaceModel.swift likewise implements pure deterministic grouping (lines 3–12). The pure planners and related view/session models are added to the cmux app target in cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, while their policy tests are added to cmuxTests. The diff adds no SwiftPM target for this feature. This matches the boundary rule for domain logic that is independently testable without app UI or lifecycle composition.

Resolution

Create a small SwiftPM target named CmuxRemoteTmuxCore and move the pure tmux view/session identity, reconciliation, and workspace-planning logic into it, including RemoteTmuxViewReconciler, RemoteTmuxViewSession, RemoteTmuxLinkedWorkspaceModel, RemoteTmuxMultiplexReconciler, and RemoteTmuxLinkedViewPlan. Make RemoteTmuxViewReconciler the first public entry point, with public action and input/output value types. Move the corresponding policy tests into the package test target. Remove the planner's direct dependency on RemoteTmuxController.tmuxSessionNumericId by placing the small conversion rule in the package. Keep app lifecycle, workspace creation, and UI composition in Sources/.

Full details: Cmux Swift Logging

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The PR adds a production log that exposes an SSH destination. Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift logs host.destination with privacy: .public; RemoteTmuxHost.swift defines that value as an SSH config alias or user@host. This can disclose a username or other identifying host information. The PR also logs the stable connectionHash publicly, which is derived from the destination, port, and identity-file path. These are not CLI output, test output, or debug-only logs.

Resolution

In the new reconnect-auth log statements, omit host.destination or mark it privacy: .private. Also omit or mark host.connectionHash as private, because it is a stable identifier derived from host connection details. Keep non-sensitive status text and outcome labels in the logs.

Full details: Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy

Explanation

The new route-conflict error exposes broker command contents to cmux users. RemoteTmuxController+Decisions.swift:418-423 builds the error by joining the broker executable and all leadingArguments; Sources/RemoteTmuxTransportRegistry.swift:375-382 shows that the arguments are arbitrary configured strings. The route check throws this text as RemoteTmuxError.unreachable (:437-444), and the error is surfaced by remote-tmux socket handlers and the cmux ssh-tmux CLI path. The error renderer only flattens and truncates text; it does not redact secrets (RemoteTmuxError.swift:70-75, 113-127). A broker argument containing a credential or token can therefore appear in the user-facing error. This is a changed-code path to a product CLI/API user and violates the check's no-secrets rule.

Resolution

Do not include the broker executable or argument values in route-conflict error text. Report a generic route mismatch, or use only a safe configured broker label and direct/broker route type. Keep any detailed diagnostics out of user-visible output, and ensure credentials and tokens are not copied into logs.

Full details: Cmux Full Internationalization

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The diff adds production user-facing text without full localization. In CLI/cmux.swift, the new --transport, --transport-port, and --broker validation errors at lines 12192–12218 are plain string literals, not localized API calls. In Resources/Localizable.xcstrings, six new socket.remoteTmux transport/broker keys have translations for only 9 of the catalog’s 20 locale codes; they omit bs, da, it, km, nb, pl, pt-BR, ru, th, tr, and uk. The diff also adds English-only descriptions to web/data/cmux.schema.json, which is the published cmux configuration schema linked from the configuration docs, and does not add locale-specific web/messages entries.

Resolution

Replace the new CLI error literals with stable localized keys and add translated catalog values for every supported app locale. Complete all 20 locale entries for socket.remoteTmux.transportPortOutOfRange, transportUnknown, brokerMalformed, brokerNotUsedByTransport, brokerUnknown, and brokerUnusable. Provide locale-specific versions of the new configuration-schema descriptions for every locale in web/i18n/routing.ts, and render them through the locale-specific message source rather than English-only schema text.

Full details: Cmux Swiftui State Layout

Explanation

The diff adds @Published remoteTmuxBrokers to CmuxConfigStore, an existing ObservableObject, and assigns it on each config load (Sources/CmuxConfig.swift:1830, 2322–2325). ContentView receives that store as an @EnvironmentObject (Sources/ContentView.swift:887, 11315), so this new publication can invalidate SwiftUI view trees even though the broker registry is used for the socket snapshot, not for rendering. This is new published state, not an incidental edit to legacy view state. The diff adds no new SwiftUI layout or render-time mutation patterns.

Resolution

Remove remoteTmuxBrokers from the published CmuxConfigStore state. Resolve the broker registry into a local value during config loading and pass it directly to RemoteTmuxBrokerSnapshot.shared.update. If the UI later needs broker state, expose a separate @Observable model owned with @State and pass value snapshots and action closures to views.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The multiplexer stores the authentication verdict in multiple owners, and its view-level latch never clears after a successful reconnect. RemoteTmuxViewConnection sets lastStreamAwaitedCredentials to true on an auth prompt (lines 228–237), but its .connected handler only schedules reconciliation (lines 203–226). noteMirrorConnected retires the controller’s HostAuthLedger (lines 488–515), while the sticky view latch remains true. Later attach-failure paths OR that stale latch into the verdict (Multiplexer.swift lines 282–297 and 346–364), so a subsequent unrelated failure can still be reported as authentication-required. This introduces duplicate mutable auth state and leaves a stale state representable, contrary to the architectural rule.

Resolution

Make a generation-scoped, host-level auth state in HostAuthLedger the sole source for attach-failure classification. Have the current stream report auth-required and successful-connection transitions to that ledger, and preserve the ledger across view teardown. Remove lastStreamAwaitedCredentials as a second persistent verdict and stop OR-ing it into attach outcomes. Add a regression test that triggers an auth prompt, reconnects successfully, then triggers an unrelated failure and verifies that it is not classified as authentication-required; retain coverage for preserving the verdict across teardown before reconnection.

Full details: Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source

Explanation

Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift adds preControlObservationForDebug inside #if DEBUG (lines 344–353). It exposes the private pre-control output and parser tail. Its only caller is a #if DEBUG diagnostic log in Sources/RemoteTmuxViewConnection.swift (lines 726–731), so it has no production caller and is not isolated in a dedicated debug file or folder. This matches the rule’s test/debug-seam failure condition.

Resolution

Move the debug-only observation and its logging into a dedicated debug file or folder, or remove the accessor and log. Keep the underlying state private unless production behavior requires wider access. See the canonical fix, #6452.

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Greptile Summary

This large WIP PR fixes three root causes behind multiplexed remote-tmux mirroring silently succeeding with nothing actually mirrored: a stream that %exited without publishing a topology was counted as connected, a transport %exit was misread as session death, and a stale narrow client remained attached after mirror teardown. It also reduces a brokered-host attach from multiple authenticating connections to one.

• Connection readiness barrier: mirrors now only count once their connection publishes a topology; attach waits for all mirrors concurrently under one deadline and drops non-starters with a user-visible reason rather than leaving empty workspaces.
• Multiplexed attach via a single stream: attachHostMultiplexed replaces two pre-flight connections with the view stream itself, removing extra MFA prompts that were consuming a broker's one-time credential.
• Credential-prompt detection: the parser exposes its unterminated tail so a passcode prompt (which has no newline) is visible to the reconnect classifier; the disposition is latched so it survives teardown, and a dedicated error distinguishes "needs credentials" from "unreachable".

Confidence Score: 4/5

Safe to continue developing; the three root-cause fixes are well-motivated and the test coverage is extensive, but one structural issue and two recurring timing-primitive uses should be addressed before landing.

The multiplexed attach path introduces static var hostAuth as process-global mutable state on RemoteTmuxController — a state value that should live on the single controller instance the app already owns. Two new Task.sleep calls appear in production Swift (the bringup-retry backoff in RemoteTmuxViewConnection and the 30-second backstop loop in awaitAuthenticationThenResume) without a timer-backed alternative. The core logic — topology barrier, single-connection attach, credential-prompt detection, and the %exit reattach fix — is well-designed and backed by property tests and E2E measurement.

Files Needing Attention: Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Multiplexer.swift (static var hostAuth), Sources/RemoteTmuxViewConnection.swift (Task.sleep in scheduleBringupRetry), Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift (preControlObservationForDebug naming).

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Multiplexer.swift	New file implementing the multiplexed attach path. Introduces static var hostAuth = HostAuthLedger() — mutable static runtime state that should be an instance property on the controller.
Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift	Adds topology-readiness barrier, credential-aware failure reporting, and the full reconnect-authentication flow. Contains a Task.sleep-based 30-second backstop poll for the FileWatcher fallback.
Sources/RemoteTmuxControlConnection.swift	Adds initialTopologyState, waitUntilInitialTopology, credential-prompt detection, and preControlObservationForDebug — a debug-named property whose only caller is inside #if DEBUG.
Sources/RemoteTmuxViewConnection.swift	New file wrapping the shared view stream. Contains Task.sleep in scheduleBringupRetry (exponential backoff) — the clearest blocking-runtime violation in the diff.
Sources/RemoteTmuxTransportRegistry.swift	New file adding transport kind, attach mode enum (replacing Bool create flag), transport profile protocol, broker struct, and stream-end disposition. The attach mode change fixes the command-length boundary mismatch.
Sources/RemoteTmuxConnectionState.swift	Adds RemoteTmuxReconnectDisposition (pure classification enum) and RemoteTmuxLoginOffers (generation-keyed slot tracker). Both are value-typed, sendable, and well-encapsulated.
Sources/RemoteTmuxControlStreamParser.swift	Adds unterminatedTail and switches DCS-enter scan to firstRange(of:in:). The O(n·m) scan is gated by !sawEnter so it runs at most once per stream.
Sources/RemoteTmuxSessionChannel.swift	New file scoping a shared view stream down to a single tmux session for multiplexed mirrors.
Resources/Localizable.xcstrings	Adds 11 new string keys with translations across all 17 supported locales.
cmuxTests/RemoteTmuxProxyTransportRetryTests.swift	Large new test suite (2628 lines) covering topology-barrier, credential-prompt detection, and backoff preservation via a property-based harness.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant CLI as cmux CLI
    participant Ctrl as RemoteTmuxController
    participant View as RemoteTmuxViewConnection
    participant Chan as RemoteTmuxSessionChannel
    participant Tmux as Remote tmux

    CLI->>Ctrl: attachHostMultiplexed(host, windowTarget)
    Note over Ctrl: Single connection only
    Ctrl->>View: startMultiplexedHost(host)
    View->>Tmux: new-session -A -s viewName -CC
    Tmux-->>View: DCS enter + topology
    View->>View: reconcile - ownership stamps written first
    View-->>Ctrl: onWorkspacesChanged(sessions)
    loop Per discovered session
        Ctrl->>Chan: RemoteTmuxSessionChannel(shared view)
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: createMirrorWorkspace(channel)
    end
    Ctrl->>Ctrl: mirrorsWithPublishedTopology concurrent under one deadline
    alt topology published within 15s
        Ctrl-->>CLI: mirrored(workspaceIds)
    else auth prompt detected before topology
        View->>View: latch lastStreamAwaitedCredentials
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: multiplexedMirrorFailure - authenticationRequired
        Ctrl-->>CLI: Error host asked for credentials
    end
    Note over Ctrl,Tmux: On mirror close - tmux detach-client then await exit

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🟠 Major · Keep the authentication waiter alive without an in-app… · RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift:701

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Keep the authentication waiter alive without an in-app login offer.

When windowRegistry.isAttachInFlight is true, presentReconnectAuthentication starts this waiter without opening a login workspace. On the first socket event, this guard returns before the waiter checks whether the CLI opened a live master. Parked reconnects can remain stopped. The structural cause is that loginOffers controls a host-authentication wait even when the CLI owns the login. Use the host’s pending-authentication state as the single source of truth for the wait; treat an opened workspace as optional UI state. As a first migration cut, let the CLI-owned path process master events without requiring openedWorkspace, and end it when the host no longer has a parked connection. This covers both login owners with one completion transition. As per coding guidelines, “A fix that catches one repro but does not name the invariant, source of truth, or state transition that makes the whole class impossible” requires architectural review.

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Review comment at @Sources/RemoteTmuxController+Attach.swift at line 701:
Update the host-authentication waiter around `openedWorkspace` to use the host’s
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On CodeRabbit's comment about putting the broker into connectionHash: I kept the identity as it is and made the mismatch an error instead (9e776b9, tests in 4c75f00). A broker is how a host is reached, not which host it is, so two routes to one host still share a connection. Giving each route its own connection would mirror the same sessions twice and, on a host that prompts per connection, ask twice. An attach that names a different broker than the live connection uses is now refused with the route in use, on both attach paths, before it opens a window or touches the host.

Also in this push: the shared-connection toggle has a cmux.json path like the other beta toggles (schema, supported path, parser, test), and the two remoteTmux objects in the schema are one.

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Updated to 5dc74481034d22bfb8e0c2a7f917b88e77a631d4. All inline review threads are resolved, GitHub reports MERGEABLE, and final-head CI passed, including all seven native shards and the CLI suite.

• Fixed stale-mirror recovery, login dismissal before the first mirror, and attach timeout ownership at the RPC and CLI layers.
• Fixed both CI guards and the window, SSH startup, and minimal-mode test fixtures. Assertions remain in place.
• Ordinary defaults and optional ET helper-path behavior are preserved.
• 29 focused native tests passed at the runtime fix; the pre-fix run reproduced the two lifecycle bugs.
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