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cmux-tui is the headless Rust terminal multiplexer from manaflow-ai/cmux (cmux-tui/), a different product from the macOS GUI app bin/backends/cmux.sh drives. One dedicated headless session per firstmate home (fm-<hometag>, server start --session --headless --state), one workspace per task with one terminal tab, target string <workspace_id>:<terminal_id>. Live-verified against 0.1.0: durable ids across server restarts (ids are recovery authority; names are display labels behind the exactly-one duplicate guard), write --text never auto-submits, screen read works on fresh terminals and carries the cursor (composer capability cursor=1 into the shared classifier), last-workspace close works, process show cwd plus child-pid lsof//proc fallback replaces the screen-scraped pwd probe, and mutations ride per-attempt correlation-key nonces retried once on typed retryable/indeterminate errors. Registry wiring: known/spawn lists, required tools (cmux-tui jq treehouse), runtime detection from CMUX_TUI_SOCKET (legacy CMUX_MUX_SOCKET) after tmux/herdr and before the GUI cmux markers, endpoint validation, dispatch arms (capture, keys, submit, kill, composer, busy via the native hook-fed agent record, target-exists), fm-spawn create/steer/meta arms with the --secondmate refusal, control-lib key support, and the bootstrap install hint.
tests/fm-backend-cmux-tui.test.sh: 54 fake-CLI unit tests in the fm-backend-cmux.test.sh fakebin/command-log shape - version gate, home session naming, adapter-owned CMUX_TUI_CONFIG export, target parsing, key normalization, registry/detect/notice wiring (CMUX_TUI_SOCKET and the legacy CMUX_MUX_SOCKET, innermost-first against tmux/herdr and above the GUI cmux markers), endpoint validation, create with correlation-key nonce retry semantics, durable-id target readiness with the exactly-one label-adoption guard, capture trimming plus contiguous-history append, send primitives with Enter-failure cleanup, cursor-anchored composer verdicts (styled=0 degradation, strict blank-row rule, hidden-cursor fallback), shared submit retry, structured current-path with the child-pid fallback, native busy-state mapping, guarded kill recovery, snapshot-based list_live, and the fm-spawn --secondmate refusal. tests/fm-backend-cmux-tui-smoke.test.sh: 14 live checks against the real installed binary, all inside one throwaway fm-tui-test-<nonce> session with a scratch --state dir and adapter-owned config, fm-test- labels only, and a teardown that stops the session it started (the tests/cmux-test-safety.sh posture). It proves headless bring-up, duplicate refusal, label verification, two-step submit, scrollback capture, the frozen-subshell cwd counterexample via the child pid, the hook-fed busy transitions, durable-id restart recovery, and last-workspace close with the session surviving. tests/fm-backend.test.sh gains one global CMUX_TUI_SOCKET/CMUX_MUX_SOCKET unset so its detection assertions stay deterministic when the suite itself runs inside a cmux-tui terminal.
…ence docs/cmux-tui-backend.md is the operator guide: setup (binary on PATH or FM_CMUXTUI_BIN, jq, no socket-access matrix), the one-session-per-home shape, target and metadata shape, operational notes (literal-then-Enter, cursor-aware composer capture, durable-id recovery, last-workspace close allowed, correlation-key nonces), and the active limits that remain (native name uniqueness unenforced, inherent TOCTOU, scrubbable env markers, child-pid subshell cwd until a native foreground-cwd field, hook-fed agent state, no push wait yet). docs/verification/runtime-backends.md gains the dated cmux-tui section with the exact commands and observed output behind each guarantee, including the durable-id restart proof, the frozen-subshell cwd counterexample, and the replay-after-close correlation-key hazard. configuration.md's runtime-backend section, the FM_* environment listing, AGENTS.md's config/backend line, cmux-backend.md's disambiguation pointer, and the documentation-audiences inventory all pick up the new backend.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds Changescmux-tui runtime backend
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new backend can fail to complete relaunches in valid environments and can leave an orphan workspace after a partial spawn failure, preventing retries for the same task. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Firstmate
participant cmux_tui_adapter
participant cmux_tui_server
Firstmate->>cmux_tui_adapter: spawn task
cmux_tui_adapter->>cmux_tui_server: ensure session and server
cmux_tui_adapter->>cmux_tui_server: create workspace and terminal
cmux_tui_server-->>Firstmate: workspace and terminal target
Firstmate->>cmux_tui_adapter: capture, send, query, or kill
cmux_tui_adapter->>cmux_tui_server: execute target operation
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In `@bin/backends/cmux-tui.sh`:
- Around line 319-320: Update the terminal-id parse failure branch following the
termid assignment to close the newly created workspace identified by wsid before
returning 1, matching the rollback behavior in the tab-create failure branch.
In `@bin/fm-spawn.sh`:
- Around line 2714-2718: Before the cmux-tui relaunch metadata writer that
references CMUXTUI_SES, CMUXTUI_WORKSPACE_ID, and CMUXTUI_TERMINAL_ID, restore
all three variables with fm_meta_get so they are defined even when CMUXTUI_* was
not inherited; preserve the existing metadata output.
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| termid=$(printf '%s' "$out" | jq -r '.value.terminal_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) | ||
| [ -n "$termid" ] || { echo "error: could not parse a cmux-tui terminal id for '$label' ($wsid) from: $out" >&2; return 1; } |
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Roll back the created workspace when the terminal id cannot be parsed.
The tab-create failure branch at Lines 314-318 closes $wsid before returning. The terminal-id parse failure at Line 320 returns 1 without that rollback. The workspace named $label then stays live in the home session.
A later retry of the same task id hits the duplicate refusal at Lines 304-307, so the task cannot be respawned until an operator closes the orphan workspace.
🛠️ Proposed fix to make the rollback symmetric
termid=$(printf '%s' "$out" | jq -r '.value.terminal_id // empty' 2>/dev/null)
- [ -n "$termid" ] || { echo "error: could not parse a cmux-tui terminal id for '$label' ($wsid) from: $out" >&2; return 1; }
+ [ -n "$termid" ] || {
+ echo "error: could not parse a cmux-tui terminal id for '$label' ($wsid) from: $out" >&2
+ fm_backend_cmuxtui_cli workspace "$wsid" close >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+ return 1
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| termid=$(printf '%s' "$out" | jq -r '.value.terminal_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) | |
| [ -n "$termid" ] || { echo "error: could not parse a cmux-tui terminal id for '$label' ($wsid) from: $out" >&2; return 1; } | |
| termid=$(printf '%s' "$out" | jq -r '.value.terminal_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) | |
| [ -n "$termid" ] || { | |
| echo "error: could not parse a cmux-tui terminal id for '$label' ($wsid) from: $out" >&2 | |
| fm_backend_cmuxtui_cli workspace "$wsid" close >/dev/null 2>&1 || true | |
| return 1 | |
| } |
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In `@bin/backends/cmux-tui.sh` around lines 319 - 320, Update the terminal-id
parse failure branch following the termid assignment to close the newly created
workspace identified by wsid before returning 1, matching the rollback behavior
in the tab-create failure branch.
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| if [ "$BACKEND" = cmux-tui ]; then | ||
| echo "cmuxtui_session=$CMUXTUI_SES" | ||
| echo "cmuxtui_workspace_id=$CMUXTUI_WORKSPACE_ID" | ||
| echo "cmuxtui_terminal_id=$CMUXTUI_TERMINAL_ID" | ||
| fi |
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# Description: Confirm CMUXTUI_* are assigned only on the creation path and never
# repopulated on the relaunch path, and that the meta writer is reachable on relaunch.
set -uo pipefail
echo "=== every assignment of the three CMUXTUI_* variables ==="
rg -nP '^\s*CMUXTUI_(SES|WORKSPACE_ID|TERMINAL_ID)=' bin/fm-spawn.sh
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echo "=== how herdr repopulates its owned keys on relaunch (the pattern to mirror) ==="
rg -nP 'fm_meta_get\s+"\$RELAUNCH_META"' bin/fm-spawn.sh
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echo "=== the relaunch branch: does it bypass the backend creation switch? ==="
rg -nP -C4 'RELAUNCH_TARGET|IS_RELAUNCH|RELAUNCH_META=' bin/fm-spawn.sh | head -80
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echo "=== the guard enclosing the cmuxtui meta writer at ~2714 ==="
sed -n '2676,2725p' bin/fm-spawn.sh
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echo "=== is set -u active (would abort instead of writing empties)? ==="
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sed -n '1845,1890p' bin/fm-spawn.sh
printf '%s\n' '=== cmux-tui creation arm and nearby variable initialization ==='
sed -n '2045,2110p' bin/fm-spawn.sh
printf '%s\n' '=== all CMUXTUI references and assignments ==='
rg -n -C2 'CMUXTUI_(SES|WORKSPACE_ID|TERMINAL_ID)|cmuxtui_(session|workspace_id|terminal_id)' bin/fm-spawn.sh
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rg -n -C6 'preserve_relaunch_meta|META_TMP|META_WINDOW|cmuxtui_session=' bin/fm-spawn.sh
printf '%s\n' '=== shell-level initialization of CMUXTUI variables ==='
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Restore the cmuxtui_* variables before writing relaunch metadata.
On a cmux-tui relaunch without inherited CMUXTUI_* variables, the relaunch path skips their creation-only assignments. With set -u active, the metadata writer aborts while expanding CMUXTUI_SES, so the relaunch cannot complete. Read the recorded values with fm_meta_get before the writer runs.
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In `@bin/fm-spawn.sh` around lines 2714 - 2718, Before the cmux-tui relaunch
metadata writer that references CMUXTUI_SES, CMUXTUI_WORKSPACE_ID, and
CMUXTUI_TERMINAL_ID, restore all three variables with fm_meta_get so they are
defined even when CMUXTUI_* was not inherited; preserve the existing metadata
output.
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What
A production session-provider adapter for cmux-tui, the headless Rust terminal multiplexer in manaflow-ai/cmux
cmux-tui/.It is a different product from the macOS GUI app that
bin/backends/cmux.shdrives; the two backends are independent.Backend id:
cmux-tui(function familyfm_backend_cmuxtui_*, since shell function names cannot carry the hyphen).cmux-tui is a session provider only; treehouse stays the worktree provider.
Shape: one dedicated headless session per firstmate home (
fm-<hometag>,server start --session <name> --headless --state <dir>against an adapter-owned state dir), one workspace per task with one terminal tab, target string<workspace_id>:<terminal_id>.Every invocation exports an adapter-owned
CMUX_TUI_CONFIG, because an operator's own config can select a machine provider that refuses--session/--headlessstartup.Why cmux-tui beats the GUI-app backend
All live-verified against the real 0.1.0 binary (
docs/verification/runtime-backends.md#cmux-tuihas the dated evidence):screen readsucceeds before any write (GUI's fresh-surfaceinternal_errorgone), and it returns the live cursor, so the shared composer classifier gets a cursor-anchored capture (cursor=1) no other non-tmux backend has.process show --jsongives the live top-level cwd plus child pids; a foreground subshell's cwd (thetreehouse getcase) comes from the child pid's OS-level cwd (lsof//proc) instead of the GUI backend's screen-scraped pwd-marker probe.agent list --jsoncarries hook-fedworking|blocked|idle|done|unknownper terminal, mapped exactly like herdr's agent status forfm_backend_busy_state; the GUI backend has no busy primitive at all.--correlation-keynonces and retry once on typed retryable/mutation.indeterminateerrors; a replayed key returns the original result even after the workspace was closed (verified), which is why keys are nonces, never label-derived.Remaining limits
--secondmatespawns are refused until a per-home lifecycle design is verified.CMUX_TUI_SOCKET, legacyCMUX_MUX_SOCKET) are ordinary variables a wrapper can scrub, like every backend's markers.screen wait --patternexists but is not wired into the watcher's push path yet (fm_backend_has_pushstays false).How it was tested
tests/fm-backend-cmux-tui.test.sh- 54/54 unit tests green (fake CLI, real jq): version gate, session naming, config isolation, detection precedence (CMUX_TUI_SOCKETafter tmux/herdr, above the GUI cmux markers, legacy alias included), endpoint validation, correlation-key retry semantics (same key reused, terminal errors not retried), durable-id target readiness with the exactly-one label-adoption guard, capture trimming plus contiguous-history append, Enter-failure cleanup, cursor-anchored composer verdicts (styled=0 degradation, strict blank-row rule, hidden-cursor fallback), shared submit retry, child-pid current-path, busy-state mapping with newest-row-wins, guarded kill recovery, snapshot list_live, and the fm-spawn--secondmaterefusal.tests/fm-backend-cmux-tui-smoke.test.sh- 14/14 live checks green against the real installed 0.1.0 binary, entirely inside a throwawayfm-tui-test-<nonce>session with a scratch state dir (stopped and removed at teardown): headless bring-up and idempotent reuse, create plus duplicate refusal, label verification, two-step literal-then-Enter submit, beyond-viewport capture with contiguous scrollback, live cwd plus the frozen-subshell counterexample via the child pid, plain-shell composerunknown, hook-fed busy transitions (unknown -> busy -> idle), list_live, durable-id restart recovery, and last-workspace close with the session surviving.tests/fm-backend.test.sh21 ok with one pre-existing machine-local failure (missingtasks-axi), byte-identical on the unmodified base commit;tests/fm-backend-cmux.test.sh61/61 ok;tests/fm-backend-cmux-smoke.test.sh12/12 ok against the real GUI app.bin/fm-lint.sh's ShellCheck 0.11.0 pass is clean for every touched script; the workflow-lint leg refused only over a machine-local actionlint build-string mismatch (v1.7.12-manaflow.1 vs 1.7.12), with no workflow touched by this branch.Need help on this PR? Tag
@codesmith-botwith what you need. Autofix is disabled.Summary by cubic
Adds a new
cmux-tuiruntime backend that provides a headless, cross‑platform session provider with real sessions and durable workspace/terminal IDs. This enables running crews without the macOS GUI app and removes prior GUI backend limits around fresh-terminal reads and ID stability.New Features - New features added
cmux-tuiadapter with one headless session per home and target IDs shaped as<workspace_id>:<terminal_id>.CMUX_TUI_SOCKET(and legacyCMUX_MUX_SOCKET) aftertmux/herdrand before GUIcmux.cmux-tuiin known/spawn lists and control key support;fm-spawncreate/steer/meta paths are implemented.--secondmatespawns for now.jqand acmux-tui0.1+ binary (viaPATHorFM_CMUXTUI_BIN); adds a bootstrap install hint.Migration - Steps needed for adoption
cmux-tui0.1+ andjq, then setconfig/backendorFM_BACKENDtocmux-tui.cmux-tuiterminal auto-selects this backend viaCMUX_TUI_SOCKET.--secondmatewithcmux-tui; only primary spawns are supported.Written for commit d4911b8. Summary will update on new commits.
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New Features
cmux-tuisupport for automatic runtime detection and task spawning.cmux-tui.Documentation
Tests
cmux-tui.