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Update: the "real split tree" half is now in this PR too

The user asked directly for parity with a local workspace's own split/resize, not just grow/shrink in a fixed grid — so the second half of #1091's scope question is answered by building it, not by deferring further.

  • remotePaneTree.ts — a pure leaf/branch tree (split/close/resize/reconcile), completely independent of both the server's flat pane list and the local workspace's own pane tree (shared/types.ts Pane) — zero shared code, zero risk to local workspaces.
  • RemotePaneContainer.tsx — the same react-resizable-panels primitives (Group/Panel/Separator) the local PaneContainer already uses, so drag-to-resize works identically, for free.
  • "Add pane" became "Split right" / "Split down" — split targets whichever pane was last clicked; close removes a leaf and collapses its sibling branch, same discipline a local workspace's pane-close uses.

A real bug found and fixed along the way: collapsing a two-pane split down to one pane changed the returned element's type at that tree position (a Group becomes a bare Fragment-wrapped leaf) — React unmounts the whole subtree on a type change, so closing one of two panes was tearing down and re-attaching the survivor's live SSE mirror for no reason. Fixed with a render-time-only wrapper (wrapForRender) that keeps the outer element type constant across the 1-pane <-> N-pane transition — the stored tree still collapses to a bare leaf for a single pane, keeping splitLeaf/removeLeaf's own invariants and tests simple; only the render call site always wraps.

Also fixed in the same branch, unrelated to this feature: two vi.fn() mocks in RemoteHostClient.test.ts had no declared parameter signature, so TS inferred the empty-tuple call-args type (same class of bug as #1057) — this failed tsc for the whole PR. And two pre-existing test files (RemoteWorkspaceView.paneManagement.test.tsx, .attach.test.tsx) needed the same ResizeObserver stub PaneContainer.moveSizes.test.tsx already uses, since they now actually mount a react-resizable-panels Group.

Tests: remotePaneTree.ts gets 23 pure unit tests; RemoteWorkspaceView gets 6 new component tests (RemoteWorkspaceView.splitTree.test.tsx) covering split/close/reconcile against the real render tree. Full test:parallel: 12772/12778 passed — the 4 failures verified pre-existing and unrelated (playwright MCP + deck loop timing tests) via git stash on this PR's prior commit.


Original PR (first commit): grow/shrink in the existing fixed grid

Addresses the concrete "does this need to be tracked separately" bit of #1091: a workspace bootstrapped on a paired remote host (#1067's "New workspace on this host") sat as a fixed grid of whatever panes happened to already be there, with no way to add another one or close one — unlike a local workspace's add/close-pane controls. This is the "grow/shrink like local" half of #1091, not the "real drag-resizable split tree instead of a mirror grid" half — see #1091's own scope question for why those are two different architectures; this PR deliberately keeps the existing RemoteWorkspaceView grid layout and only adds the missing add/close actions on top of it, so the change stays isolated and low-risk rather than reworking the view's rendering model.

What changed

Server-side: nothing. POST /api/sessions with an already-live workspaceId already passes rejectWorkspaceId's existence check — the check doesn't distinguish "the first pane of this workspace" from "a later one", so growing an existing remote workspace was already possible from the wire's point of view. DELETE /api/sessions/:id (handleSessionDelete) already exists too, gated on mayInput exactly like session creation.

RemoteHostClient.closeSession — the one destroy/delete call this class makes. Its class-level doc comment used to say "observer + input only: it never calls a destroy/delete endpoint on the remote host" — that was written for the older attach-to-an-existing-workspace-to-watch-it use case, where destroying someone else's pane from a mirror would be a real surprise. #1067 added a second use case: bootstrapping a brand-new workspace on a paired host to actually work in it. A workspace you just created has no "someone else" to surprise — closing one of its own panes is exactly what a local workspace's close button does, so I'm treating this as a deliberate, narrow, documented exception rather than quietly working around the old comment. Flagging this explicitly in case it reads as more architecturally sensitive than I'm judging it to be.

Two new IPC channels:

  • REMOTE_WORKSPACE_PANE_ADD — an alias over the exact same RemoteHostClient.createWorkspace call REMOTE_WORKSPACE_CREATE (feat(remote): bootstrap a new workspace on a paired remote host (#1001) #1067) already makes. Kept as its own channel (not a reuse of the existing one) purely so the renderer's intent — "grow this workspace" vs. "bootstrap a brand-new one" — stays distinct in the code, even though the wire request is identical.
  • REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE — wraps closeSession.

RemoteWorkspaceView: a "+ Add pane" button in a small footer bar, and a "×" close button in each pane cell's header. Both are hidden on a read-only host (allowInput === false) — the server would 403 a mayInput-gated call anyway, so there's no point offering it. Both apply the result to the store immediately via the existing setRemoteWorkspacePanes (an add appends the new sessionId, relying on mergePaneSets to keep it; a close is a .filter() of the current list) rather than waiting up to POLL_INTERVAL_MS (10s) for useRemoteAttachmentsLifecycle's own refetch to notice — the workspace visibly grows/shrinks the moment the request that did it succeeds.

What's deliberately NOT in this PR

The mirror-grid rendering model itself (fixed MAX_MIRRORS = 6, auto-arranged 1/2/2×2/3×2 layout, no manual split direction, no drag-resize, no per-pane zoom) is unchanged. That's the bigger architecture question #1091 raises — a real, locally-rendered pane tree talking to the remote daemon's PTYs the way local panes do, vs. extending the mirror-grid model further — and I don't think it should get decided implicitly by me picking a direction inside this PR. This PR is scoped to the smaller, unambiguous parity gap: you couldn't add or remove panes at all, regardless of which rendering model wins that question later.

Test plan

  • New: RemoteHostClient.test.tscloseSession (A workspace bootstrapped on a remote host is a flat read-only mirror grid, not a real pane tree like a local workspace #1091) describe block: DELETE with Bearer auth, URL-encodes the session id, treats 404 as success, surfaces the daemon's error detail on other non-OK statuses, falls back to a generic message when the error body isn't JSON.
  • New: remote.handler.test.tsworkspacePaneAdd (mirrors workspaceCreate's own test shape: bootstraps/grows, forwards cwd, maps a rejection to {ok:false}, reports unknown host) and sessionClose (closes, maps rejection, reports unknown host) describe blocks.
  • New: RemoteWorkspaceView.paneManagement.test.tsx — add appends the returned sessionId to the store and calls workspacePaneAdd(hostId, workspaceId); close calls sessionClose(hostId, sessionId) and filters it out of the store; a failed add/close surfaces the error banner without touching the store; a read-only host offers neither button.
  • npx tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json: clean.
  • npx eslint on every changed file: 0 new errors/warnings (pre-existing warnings on files I only extended, verified identical against a stash of my changes).
  • npm run test:parallel (full suite): 841 passed / 4 failed / 3 skipped (848 files), 12746 passed / 6 failed / 26 skipped (12778 tests). All 4 failing files (killVerifiedDaemonPid.crossHost.test.ts, deck.handler.loop.test.ts) are timing-sensitive and reproduce identically on a clean checkout of this branch's base with my changes stashed — zero regressions from this PR, confirmed by diffing against the same run without the diff applied.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Remote workspaces now support resizable split layouts.
    • Split panes right or down, drag dividers to resize them, and close individual panes.
    • Pane changes stay synchronized with the workspace and provide clear error feedback.
    • Read-only workspaces indicate when pane management is unavailable.
  • Localization
    • Added translations for pane actions and related error messages in English, Polish, and Chinese.

…penwong2kim#1091)

A workspace created on a paired remote host (openwong2kim#1067's "New workspace on this
host") sat as a fixed grid of whatever panes happened to already exist on it
— no way to add another one, no way to close one, unlike a local workspace's
add/close-pane controls. This closes the core of openwong2kim#1091: the workspace can now
genuinely grow and shrink like a local one, even if the underlying view is
still a mirror grid rather than a real drag-resizable split tree (that part
of openwong2kim#1091's scope question is left for a follow-up — see the PR description).

Server-side: nothing needed. `POST /api/sessions` with an already-live
workspaceId already passes `rejectWorkspaceId`'s existence check (it doesn't
distinguish "the first pane" from "a later one"), and `DELETE
/api/sessions/:id` already exists and is gated on `mayInput` exactly like
create.

Renderer/main:
- `RemoteHostClient.closeSession` — the one destroy call this class makes,
  and only for a workspace the operator credential itself bootstrapped (see
  its doc comment for the narrow exception to "observer + input only").
- Two new IPC channels: `REMOTE_WORKSPACE_PANE_ADD` (an alias over the same
  `createWorkspace` call `REMOTE_WORKSPACE_CREATE` already makes, named
  distinctly so the renderer's "grow this workspace" intent doesn't read as
  "bootstrap a new one") and `REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE`.
- `RemoteWorkspaceView` gets an "Add pane" button and a "×" close button per
  cell (hidden on a read-only host, same gate the server applies), both
  applying the result to the store immediately via `setRemoteWorkspacePanes`
  rather than waiting up to 10s for the next poll.

New/changed tests: RemoteHostClient.test.ts (closeSession), remote.handler.test.ts
(workspacePaneAdd + sessionClose), a new RemoteWorkspaceView.paneManagement.test.tsx.
Full test:parallel: 4 pre-existing failures (killVerifiedDaemonPid.crossHost,
deck.handler.loop — timing-sensitive, unrelated files) reproduce identically
on a clean checkout of this branch's base; zero regressions from this change.
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Remote-host bootstrapped workspaces now use resizable split trees. Operators can split panes right or down, resize dividers, close panes, and reconcile changes from remote workspace state.

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Remote pane management

Layer / File(s) Summary
IPC contracts and remote operations
src/shared/constants.ts, src/shared/electron.d.ts, src/preload/preload.ts, src/main/ipc/handlers/remote.handler.ts, src/main/remote/RemoteHostClient.ts
Adds pane-management IPC channels, typed bridge methods, handlers, and authenticated session deletion with encoded IDs and HTTP error handling.
Split-tree state and rendering
src/renderer/components/Remote/remotePaneTree.ts, src/renderer/components/Remote/RemotePaneContainer.tsx, src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx
Replaces the fixed pane grid with recursive split-tree state, split and removal operations, reconciliation, divider resizing, active-pane tracking, and close controls.
Renderer validation and supporting updates
src/renderer/components/Remote/__tests__/*, src/main/**/__tests__/*, src/renderer/i18n/locales/*, changelog.d/1094.md
Tests IPC operations, session deletion, tree behavior, pane synchronization, read-only restrictions, and localized controls. Updates the changelog.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 76e92

This PR adds remote pane creation/deletion and a local resizable split layout. The current head still has unresolved security and correctness risks: close requests are not shown to be limited to sessions owned by the selected workspace, credentials may be sent to HTTP-configured hosts, nested closes can leave blank panes, repeated adds can exceed the six-pane rendering limit, and overlapping updates can temporarily restore closed panes. These issues make the change unsafe to merge until fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant RemoteWorkspaceView
  participant MainIPC
  participant RemoteHostClient
  participant RemoteHost

  Operator->>RemoteWorkspaceView: Split or close pane
  RemoteWorkspaceView->>MainIPC: Invoke pane-management IPC method
  MainIPC->>RemoteHostClient: Create or delete remote session
  RemoteHostClient->>RemoteHost: Send authenticated request
  RemoteHost-->>RemoteHostClient: Return session result
  RemoteHostClient-->>MainIPC: Return success or error
  MainIPC-->>RemoteWorkspaceView: Return structured result
  RemoteWorkspaceView-->>Operator: Update split tree or show error
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[wmux-hermes] Triage Summary

This adds "Add pane" and per-pane close buttons to bootstrapped remote workspaces (#1091's grow/shrink half), via two new IPC handlers and RemoteHostClient.closeSession — no server changes needed. Risk is contained (read-only hosts get no buttons, tests cover add/close/error paths); CI is red but the body ties it to known flaky timing files. P3: nice-to-have parity, deliberately small scope.

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In `@src/main/ipc/handlers/remote.handler.ts`:
- Line 506: Update createWorkspace and the shared authenticated-request path
around authHeaders() to require an HTTPS host origin before persisting or
sending the host token; reject non-HTTPS origins for new and existing HTTP host
records, rather than relying on redirect: 'error'.

In `@src/main/remote/__tests__/RemoteHostClient.test.ts`:
- Line 151: Update the fetchImpl mock in the RemoteHostClient test to use the
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In `@src/main/remote/RemoteHostClient.ts`:
- Around line 263-264: Update the daemon handling for DELETE /api/sessions/:id
to authorize deletion using server-side workspace or creator ownership in
addition to mayInput and session existence. Ensure an input-capable paired
client cannot delete another client’s live session by guessing its ID, and do
not rely on client-local tracking for authorization; use the existing session
ownership symbols and closeSession flow where applicable.

In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx`:
- Line 203: Update the canManagePanes calculation in RemoteWorkspaceView to
require allowInput === true in addition to !readOnly, keeping pane controls
disabled until host input permission is explicitly granted.
- Around line 171-172: Update the add and close pane handlers in
RemoteWorkspaceView so both actions are disabled while either request is
pending, preventing overlapping mutations. On successful completion, read the
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rather than using the captured workspace.panes value; preserve the existing add
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const client = getOrCreateClient(id);
if (!client) return { ok: false, error: 'unknown host' };
try {
const { sessionId } = await client.createWorkspace(wsId, safeCwd);

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Moderate

Require HTTPS before sending the host token.

createWorkspace sends authHeaders() to ${this.host.origin}/api/sessions. Because registered hosts may use http:, a network attacker can capture the Bearer token. Reject non-HTTPS origins before persistence and block authenticated requests for existing HTTP records. redirect: 'error' does not protect the initial HTTP request.

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In `@src/main/ipc/handlers/remote.handler.ts` at line 506, Update createWorkspace
and the shared authenticated-request path around authHeaders() to require an
HTTPS host origin before persisting or sending the host token; reject non-HTTPS
origins for new and existing HTTP host records, rather than relying on redirect:
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async closeSession(sessionId: string): Promise<void> {
const res = await this.fetchImpl(`${this.host.origin}/api/sessions/${encodeURIComponent(sessionId)}`, {

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Authorization Bypass (CWE-862): Missing Authorization

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Moderate

Enforce ownership before deleting a remote session.

DELETE /api/sessions/:id checks only mayInput and whether the session exists. An input-capable paired client can therefore delete any live session when it supplies that session ID. Enforce workspace or creator ownership in the daemon. Do not use client-local tracking as the authorization boundary.

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In `@src/main/remote/RemoteHostClient.ts` around lines 263 - 264, Update the
daemon handling for DELETE /api/sessions/:id to authorize deletion using
server-side workspace or creator ownership in addition to mayInput and session
existence. Ensure an input-capable paired client cannot delete another client’s
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const nextPanes: RemotePaneSummary[] = [...workspace.panes, { sessionId: res.sessionId }];
useStore.getState().setRemoteWorkspacePanes(workspace.key, nextPanes);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize pane mutations and read the current store state.

Add and close requests can overlap. Both handlers derive nextPanes from the captured workspace.panes value, so the last response can discard a newly added pane or restore a pane that was already closed.

Disable both actions while either request is pending. Build the next pane list from the current store entry when the request succeeds.

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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx` around lines 171 -
172, Update the add and close pane handlers in RemoteWorkspaceView so both
actions are disabled while either request is pending, preventing overlapping
mutations. On successful completion, read the latest workspace entry from the
store before constructing the next pane list, rather than using the captured
workspace.panes value; preserve the existing add and close behavior.

// A read-only host has no mayInput grant server-side either — add/close
// would just 403, so don't offer them (same gate handleSessionCreate and
// handleSessionDelete apply on WebTerminalServer).
const canManagePanes = !readOnly;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Hide pane controls until host input permission is known.

allowInput starts as undefined, so canManagePanes is true before hostsList() resolves. A read-only host briefly shows active add and close controls and can send an operation that the server rejects.

Use allowInput === true for canManagePanes.

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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx` at line 203, Update
the canManagePanes calculation in RemoteWorkspaceView to require allowInput ===
true in addition to !readOnly, keeping pane controls disabled until host input
permission is explicitly granted.

…lit tree (openwong2kim#1091)

A workspace bootstrapped on a remote host (openwong2kim#1067) grew/shrank in a fixed
grid sized purely from the pane count (openwong2kim#1094's first pass). The user
asked directly for the same behavior a local workspace has: choose where
a new pane goes and resize the split, not just append to a grid cell.

- remotePaneTree.ts: pure leaf/branch tree (split/removeLeaf/applySizes/
  reconcile), independent of both the server pane list and the local
  workspace's own pane tree (shared/types.ts Pane) — zero shared code,
  zero risk to local workspaces.
- RemotePaneContainer.tsx: recursive renderer using the SAME
  react-resizable-panels primitives (Group/Panel/Separator) the local
  PaneContainer uses — real drag-to-resize for free, same library.
- RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx: "Add pane" becomes "Split right"/"Split down"
  (splits the active leaf in the chosen direction); close removes a leaf
  and collapses its sibling branch.

Bug found and fixed along the way: collapsing a branch down to a bare
leaf changed the returned element's TYPE (Group -> Fragment) at the same
tree position, so React unmounted the whole subtree on that transition —
closing one of two panes tore down and re-attached the survivor's live
SSE mirror for no reason. Fixed with a render-time-only wrapper
(wrapForRender) that keeps the outer element type constant across the
1-pane <-> N-pane transition; the stored tree still uses a bare leaf for
one pane, keeping splitLeaf/removeLeaf's own invariants simple.

Also fixed along the way (same branch, unrelated to this feature):
- Two vi.fn() mocks in RemoteHostClient.test.ts had no declared parameter
  signature, so TS inferred the empty-tuple call-args type (same class of
  bug fixed in openwong2kim#1057) — tsc failed the whole PR on this before the fix.
- RemoteWorkspaceView.paneManagement.test.tsx and .attach.test.tsx (both
  pre-existing) never needed a ResizeObserver stub before this change,
  since the old flat grid never rendered a react-resizable-panels Group.

Tests: remotePaneTree.ts gets 23 pure unit tests; RemoteWorkspaceView
gets 6 new component tests for split/close/reconcile via
RemoteWorkspaceView.splitTree.test.tsx. Full test:parallel: 12772/12778
passed, the 4 failures verified pre-existing and unrelated (playwright
MCP + deck loop timing tests) via git stash on the PR's base commit.
@p-poppe p-poppe changed the title feat(remote): let a bootstrapped remote workspace grow/shrink panes feat(remote): a resizable split tree for remote workspaces, with grow/shrink (#1091) Aug 29, 2026

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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/remotePaneTree.ts`:
- Line 87: Update the branch-removal logic around nextChildren and root so it
detects changed child identities, not only a changed child count, before
returning the original root. Preserve nested descendant removals by rebuilding
the branch when any child reference changes, while resetting sizes only when a
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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx`:
- Line 297: Update the pane wrapper around the existing onMouseDown handler to
also setActiveLeafId(leaf.id) from onFocusCapture, ensuring keyboard focus
entering a pane updates the active leaf without changing the mouse behavior.
- Around line 222-226: Update the layout state update around setLayout and
splitLeaf so a session is added only when res.sessionId appears within the first
MAX_MIRRORS entries of nextPanes; otherwise preserve the existing layout. Add a
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.filter((c): c is RemotePaneNode => c !== null);
if (nextChildren.length === 0) return null;
if (nextChildren.length === 1) return nextChildren[0];
if (nextChildren.length === root.children.length) return root; // nothing removed

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Preserve nested leaf removals.

If the target leaf is below this branch, nextChildren.length can equal root.children.length while a descendant changed. Line 87 then returns the original root and discards that change. After workspace.panes removes the session, RemoteWorkspaceView renders the stale leaf as null, so a blank pane remains and cannot be closed. Detect changed child identities before returning root. Reset sizes only when this branch loses a direct child.

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   if (nextChildren.length === 0) return null;
   if (nextChildren.length === 1) return nextChildren[0];
-  if (nextChildren.length === root.children.length) return root; // nothing removed
+  if (nextChildren.length === root.children.length) {
+    return nextChildren.every((child, index) => child === root.children[index])
+      ? root
+      : { ...root, children: nextChildren };
+  }
   return { ...root, children: nextChildren, sizes: undefined };
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if (nextChildren.length === root.children.length) return root; // nothing removed
if (nextChildren.length === 0) return null;
if (nextChildren.length === 1) return nextChildren[0];
if (nextChildren.length === root.children.length) {
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}
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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/remotePaneTree.ts` at line 87, Update the
branch-removal logic around nextChildren and root so it detects changed child
identities, not only a changed child count, before returning the original root.
Preserve nested descendant removals by rebuilding the branch when any child
reference changes, while resetting sizes only when a direct child is removed
from root.

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setLayout((prev) => {
if (!prev) return { id: res.sessionId, type: 'leaf' };
const target = activeLeafId && leafIds(prev).includes(activeLeafId) ? activeLeafId : leafIds(prev)[0];
return target ? splitLeaf(prev, target, res.sessionId, direction) : prev;
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep sessions beyond MAX_MIRRORS out of layout.

When six panes already exist, this code adds the seventh session to layout. visibleSessionIdsKey still contains the same first six IDs, so the reconcile effect does not run to remove it. RemotePaneContainer then renders and attaches the extra mirror. Repeated adds make the documented SSE limit unbounded.

Only split layout when res.sessionId is inside the first MAX_MIRRORS entries of nextPanes. Add a regression test for adding a seventh pane.

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       const nextPanes: RemotePaneSummary[] = [...workspace.panes, { sessionId: res.sessionId }];
       useStore.getState().setRemoteWorkspacePanes(workspace.key, nextPanes);
       setLayout((prev) => {
+        if (nextPanes.findIndex((pane) => pane.sessionId === res.sessionId) >= MAX_MIRRORS) {
+          return prev;
+        }
         if (!prev) return { id: res.sessionId, type: 'leaf' };
         const target = activeLeafId && leafIds(prev).includes(activeLeafId) ? activeLeafId : leafIds(prev)[0];
         return target ? splitLeaf(prev, target, res.sessionId, direction) : prev;
       });
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setLayout((prev) => {
if (!prev) return { id: res.sessionId, type: 'leaf' };
const target = activeLeafId && leafIds(prev).includes(activeLeafId) ? activeLeafId : leafIds(prev)[0];
return target ? splitLeaf(prev, target, res.sessionId, direction) : prev;
});
setLayout((prev) => {
if (nextPanes.findIndex((pane) => pane.sessionId === res.sessionId) >= MAX_MIRRORS) {
return prev;
}
if (!prev) return { id: res.sessionId, type: 'leaf' };
const target = activeLeafId && leafIds(prev).includes(activeLeafId) ? activeLeafId : leafIds(prev)[0];
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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx` around lines 222 -
226, Update the layout state update around setLayout and splitLeaf so a session
is added only when res.sessionId appears within the first MAX_MIRRORS entries of
nextPanes; otherwise preserve the existing layout. Add a regression test
covering addition of a seventh pane and verifying it is not included in layout.

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<div
className="h-full w-full"
onMouseDown={() => setActiveLeafId(leaf.id)}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the active leaf when keyboard focus enters a pane.

This handler only supports mouse input. After a split, keyboard-only operators cannot select another pane before using a split control. Set activeLeafId from onFocusCapture on this wrapper.

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In `@src/renderer/components/Remote/RemoteWorkspaceView.tsx` at line 297, Update
the pane wrapper around the existing onMouseDown handler to also
setActiveLeafId(leaf.id) from onFocusCapture, ensuring keyboard focus entering a
pane updates the active leaf without changing the mouse behavior.

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Review verdict: interactive extension won't merge — extraction of closeSession requested

Per the direction call on #1091, remote work moves to the Surface model (#1100) and the mirror grid stays spectate-only, so the split tree / add / close UI here won't land. This is a direction decision, not a quality one — and since you built both candidates, you already know the trade-offs better than anyone. Three findings from the full review are worth recording regardless:

  1. You flagged the closeSession "observer + input only" exception as possibly more architecturally sensitive than you judged — it is. The documented invariant ("a workspace THIS client bootstrapped") has no enforcing code: AttachRemoteModal attaches arbitrary existing workspaces, AttachedRemoteWorkspace carries no provenance flag, and the only gate is !readOnly — so an attached spectator view of someone else's long-running shell gets a one-misclick, no-confirmation DELETE. Not a privilege escalation (the operator token can already type exit via /api/input), but a destructive footgun that contradicts the method's own doc comment.
  2. removeLeaf silently loses removals at depth ≥ 2 (reproduced): after split-right then split-down (H[a, V[b,c]]), removing c collapses the inner branch but the root sees an unchanged child count and returns the original tree — the session is destroyed remotely while a ghost leaf renders an empty panel forever, and reconcile (same helper) can never heal it. The "nothing removed" check needs identity comparison, and the tests only cover depth 1.
  3. handleAddPane bypasses MAX_MIRRORS: at 6 panes, add still creates the remote session and injects a 7th leaf directly into the tree; the next reconcile silently evicts it — the user's just-created pane vanishes from view while the session lives on.

The extraction request

RemoteHostClient.closeSession (with the 404-as-success handling and the documented exception rationale — plus a provenance/confirmation gate per finding 1) + IPC.REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE + their tests are exactly what #1100 needs to fix its session leak, and the implementation quality is good. A small PR carrying just that slice would be very welcome — that way this branch's most durable piece ships. REMOTE_WORKSPACE_PANE_ADD can ride along or wait; no immediate consumer.

Leaving this open for a few days in case you want to repurpose the branch into that extraction; otherwise it will be closed with this comment as the record.

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Per the #1091 direction call, the remote-terminal Surface model (#1100, now merged) is canonical and the mirror grid stays spectate-only — so the interactive extension here (split tree, add/close on the mirror view) won't land, and this PR is due to be closed. That is the direction decision recorded on the issue, not a quality verdict on this code; building both candidates is what made the call decidable on evidence, and the three review findings recorded above stand as useful history.

What's still wanted from this branch — as its own small PR: RemoteHostClient.closeSession + REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE, extracted without the mirror-view UI. That pair is exactly the cleanup primitive the merged Surface model needs; the wiring destination and semantics (explicit close only — reload re-attach depends on the session surviving unmount) are specified in #1129. The closeSession "observer + input only" invariant concern from finding 1 should be resolved in that extraction rather than carried over.

openwong2kim added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
…nted (#1129) (#1143)

* fix(remote): closing a remote-terminal tab destroys the session it minted (#1129)

#1100 made a remote session an ordinary Surface, but left it with no
teardown: a remote-terminal surface carries `ptyId: ''` (the browser/editor
convention), so every `pty.dispose` path in the renderer walks straight past
it. Closing the tab detached the SSE stream and nothing else — the shell kept
running on the host, and with it the one-shot `remote-pane-*` workspace row
the remote daemon derives from that session's `WMUX_WORKSPACE_ID`. Nothing
would ever reap either, so every "add remote pane" left permanent residue on
the paired machine.

Root cause: `Pane.handleCloseSurface` disposes `surface.ptyId` and nothing
else; `AddRemotePaneModal` mints a fresh session (and workspace id) per pane.

- `RemoteHostClient.closeSession` — `DELETE /api/sessions/:id`, the #1094
  extraction #1091's direction call asked for. 404 resolves (already gone is
  the requested outcome); everything else throws with the daemon's own
  wording, notably the 403 a host without `--allow-input` answers with.
- `REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE` IPC + handler: detaches every live stream on that
  (host, session) first — for any sender — so the client's reconnect loop is
  not left chasing a session about to disappear.
- `Surface.remoteOwned` records whether THIS desktop minted the session.
  Only an owned session is destroyed on close: the planned "open this mirror
  session as a tab" bridge points at somebody's running work, and closing a
  view of it must never end it. Absent/false means not owned, so any future
  construction site is non-destructive by default; `clonePaneTreeFresh` drops
  the flag with the pointer it belongs to.
- Wired into the explicit close paths only — tab X, Ctrl+W, prefix
  kill-pane/kill-workspace, sidebar and settings workspace teardown, and the
  `surface.close`/`pane.close` RPCs. Never into a React cleanup: the #1129
  constraint is that unmount, reload, and tab/workspace switches must keep
  the session alive, which is what makes the surface re-attachable at all.
- Shared walks `collectPaneTreeRemoteSessions` / `getWorkspaceRemoteSessions`
  sit next to the ptyId walks, so a stashed pane cannot be visible to one
  teardown path and invisible to the other.

Best-effort throughout, like `pty.dispose`: the tab is gone from the layout
before the DELETE lands, so a failure has nothing to report to.

Tests: closeSession (verb/URL/encoding/404/403/non-JSON), the IPC handler
(destroy, selective detach, refusal mapping, unknown host), both walks
(owned-only, stash), the teardown policy, `addRemoteSurface` ownership, the
clone drop, and a source scan pinning every close path to a teardown call —
the bug was a missing call site, not a broken helper. tsc clean; eslint clean
(2 pre-existing warnings in RemoteHostClient.write).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6

* fix(remote): review fixes — close the workspace.close leak, destroy before detach (#1129)

Review-team findings on the #1129 branch, plus two decisions recorded in the
code so they read as chosen rather than overlooked.

P1 — `workspace.close` (useRpcBridge) disposed PTYs and removed the workspace
without touching its remote sessions: the exact leak this branch fixes,
surviving on its one RPC path, and the worst instance of it — once
removeWorkspace drops the workspace, the `remoteOwned` records go with it and
the session is permanently unreapable. Now calls
destroyWorkspaceRemoteSessions under the same guards as the dispose loop, and
the call site is pinned by the source-scan test.

P2 — REMOTE_SESSION_CLOSE detached every stream BEFORE the DELETE, which is
failure-destructive: a close that then fails (host offline, 403 after
--allow-input was revoked) left the session alive with every mirror of it cut
and no live attach to retry from. The remote daemon does not refuse a delete
while SSE streams are open, so the order is now destroy-then-detach, with a
test that a failed destroy leaves every attach intact.

P3 — RemoteHostClient's file header still claimed the class "never calls a
destroy/delete endpoint". It does now; the header names closeSession as the
one destructive verb and states that detach/detachAll remain local-only.

P3 — destroyRemoteSessions swallowed both a rejection and a resolved
{ ok: false } with no trace, while the surface carrying the ownership record
was already gone: one transient failure orphaned a session nobody could later
explain. Both failure shapes now console.warn with host, session, and reason.
Best-effort stays; silent does not.

Decisions, now stated in the code:
- No confirmation prompt on close — local-pane semantics, with `remoteOwned`
  as the safety boundary.
- Sessions leaked before this fix are not auto-reaped: ownership cannot be
  proven retroactively. Only sessions minted from here on are tracked.

tsc clean, eslint clean on the touched files; 1246 tests pass across the
remote, teardown, hooks, pane-utils and surface-slice suites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6

* changelog: add fragment for #1143

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RRxH4qJUX5pkr2DpoHTAX6

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Co-authored-by: openwong2kim <269396487+openwong2kim@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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