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Fixes #309.

A workroom can now be created in a container on this Mac, on Docker (Desktop, OrbStack, Colima) or on Apple's container runtime, as well as on this Mac itself. They ship with the remote targets, behind the same preview setting and Nightly gate, until #260.

What changes

  • Choosing where. With the preview on, every way in asks where: a project's context menu (New Workroom ▸ This Mac / Docker / Apple Container), its row's +, and File ▸ New Workroom… (⌘N, ⌥⌘N, the tab bar's +), which asks once a project is picked. An entry that can't be used says why (runtime not installed, Apple silicon or macOS 26 missing, no Codaset or gh sign-in), and while a create runs the reason is said once.
  • Runtimes. ContainerHostDriver gains an Apple dialect (export the base's disk, rebuild from scratch, since 1.5.0 has no commit). Each Docker base is pinned to its Docker context (--context), and a project keeps a base per runtime and context.
  • Starting. Opening a workroom starts its stopped container, once; status probes never do.
  • Git credentials without Codaset. A local container workroom that never enrolled asks the Mac's gh through a credential relay (a loopback listener on the Mac, reverse-forwarded into the container; wr-agent credential relay). A signed-in user whose repository's owner hasn't installed the Codaset App is told when their base falls back to it.
  • The image. host-image.yml builds, tests and publishes workroom-host per architecture, and Nightly pins its digest into the app. Release joins it with Phase 4 gate: the success criteria on two real providers #260. A Nightly refuses to build without a digest pin, and the workflow checks the digest can be pulled anonymously.
  • UI. A determinate download ring while the host image is pulled. A remote workroom's icon is the network glyph in the sidebar, tabs and panes, with a tooltip naming its host.
  • CI. A new workflows job lints every workflow with actionlint 1.7.12 (shellcheck included); make actions-lint runs the same.

docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md has the "As built (#309)" section.

Validation

  • make app-test (serial): 3118 passed, 0 failed, 53 skipped. The skips are the opt-in Docker, Apple and ssh-fixture suites. After merging master, the affected classes were re-run: 102 passed.
  • cargo test -p wr-agent: 431 passed. cargo fmt --check and clippy are clean.
  • make app-lint, make app-test-scripts and make actions-lint are clean.
  • XCUITest, fixture only: NewWorkroomPlacesUITests (7 methods) and NewWorkroomDialogUITests (10 methods) pass.
  • Every test added in the review rounds was mutation-checked: the fix it covers was broken and the test went red.
  • Pre-landing review: 7 specialist and adversarial passes, plus Codex. Its structured review passed with no P1, and all of its P2 findings are fixed here.

Not run / known gaps

  • AppleContainerIntegrationTests needs Apple's runtime and a host image, so it ran by hand earlier and was not re-run after the last review round.
  • The Docker fixture suites (vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/run.sh) were not re-run after the review fixes.
  • Deferred: a Docker context pointing at another machine (Remote workrooms on Docker running on another machine #307); a downgraded build sweeping multi-base projects; nightly image digests going untagged after a registry cleanup.

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New Workroom asks where (sidebar menu, row "+", and the ⌘N picker), and the download ring. These come from the XCUITest attachments in NewWorkroomPlacesUITests.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added local workroom creation in Docker containers and Apple’s container runtime, alongside creation on This Mac. Container choices show availability, and image downloads display progress.
    • Added support for using Mac GitHub credentials in local container workrooms when broker access is unavailable.
    • Workroom labels and icons now indicate the hosting environment.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Opening a workroom starts its stopped container, and host connections recover more reliably.
  • Chores
    • Added automated checks for GitHub workflow files.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds Docker and Apple Container workrooms, including runtime-specific provisioning, base-image management, and GitHub credential relaying. It adds workroom destination selection and image-pull progress to the app, publishes pinned host images in Nightly CI, and adds GitHub workflow linting.

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Local Container Workrooms

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build and publish pinned host images
.github/workflows/host-image.yml, .github/workflows/nightly.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, macapp/Scripts/release.sh, macapp/project.yml, macapp/WorkroomApp/Info.plist, vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/host-image-test.sh, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md
The reusable workflow builds and smoke-tests amd64 and arm64 images, publishes them as a digest-pinned manifest, and checks anonymous access. Nightly passes the image reference to the app build. Nightly archive creation requires a digest reference.
Runtime-specific drivers and base records
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/ContainerHostDriver.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AppleContainerCLI.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Models.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RemoteWorkrooms.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/DefaultsKeys.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Session/PersistentSessionService.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/TerminalSessions.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteHostsTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/AppleContainerIntegrationTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/ContainerProvisioningIntegrationTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteWorkroomRoutingTests.swift, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md
Host records now identify runtimes and Docker contexts. The drivers provision and derive Docker and Apple Container workrooms, and manage runtime-specific startup and cleanup. Projects can retain bases by runtime and context.
Broker and Mac credential relay
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RemoteProvisioning.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/CredentialRelay.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/RemoteWorkrooms.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerSession.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerReverseForwards.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/ReverseForwardRegistry.swift, vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/broker.rs, vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/main.rs, vcs/scripts/ssh-fixture/entrypoint.sh, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/CredentialRelayTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteProvisioningTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/RemoteProvisioningIntegrationTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/Broker/ReverseForwardTests.swift, vcs/crates/wr-agent/tests/broker.rs, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md
Provisioning uses broker credentials when available and can use the Mac's GitHub credentials for relayed bases. The agent requests relay credentials over a reverse forward while connected. Tests cover relay validation, provisioning, and listener behavior.

Workflow Linting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Run workflow lint locally and in CI
.github/workflows/ci.yml, Makefile, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
The actions-lint Make target runs actionlint on workflow files. Documentation lists the local requirements, and CI runs actionlint 1.7.12.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Git as Git credential helper
  participant Agent as wr-agent
  participant Relay as CredentialRelay
  participant GH as gh CLI
  Git->>Agent: Request HTTPS credentials for github.com
  Agent->>Relay: Send relay secret and credential request
  Relay->>GH: Retrieve GitHub credentials
  GH-->>Relay: Return username and password
  Relay-->>Agent: Return credential response
  Agent-->>Git: Forward username and password
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 55650

Docker and Apple container workrooms are behind the preview and Nightly gate. The remaining issues are bounded. A container that fails to start after being opened can be restarted repeatedly by background status checks. A slow gh command can leak a thread. Fixing both is straightforward; neither blocks merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 55650

The credential fallback gives code inside a container the GitHub permissions held by the user’s local sign-in, potentially beyond the selected repository. Retrieved credentials can remain usable after disconnect or deletion. Preview gating, secret authentication, SSH restrictions and image digest pinning reduce exposure, but effective runtime networking and CI credential permissions remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The new fallback lets code running inside an unenrolled container obtain the Mac’s GitHub account credential, rather than repository-limited workroom authority. A malicious dependency, repository command or compromised guest can retain that credential and exercise whatever repositories and operations its actual scope permits after the connection ends. GitHub-only filtering limits the credential source, not its downstream authority. This is a documented accepted trust model with authenticated access and preview gating, rather than a verified unauthenticated leak.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The maximum credential exposure is the actual authority of the user’s gh token, not just the workroom repository. Obtaining it requires access to a relayed workroom’s secret or provisioning execution environment; arbitrary loopback callers without a known secret are rejected. Disconnect cannot revoke a credential already returned.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Malicious code inside a relayed guest can read its relay secret, submit an allowed GitHub request and retain the returned bearer credential. This consequence follows from the explicitly accepted trust model; it is not evidence of a bypass of secret authentication or of a verified exploit.
  • observed — The new unconditional workflow-lint job performs default checkout and executes version-tagged downloaded tooling without declaring job token permissions. It statically analyzes workflow files rather than running their application code. Existing CI already used checkout and external tooling; unavailable effective permissions prevent establishing the impact of either deferred CI candidate.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Derived containers remove inherited SSH host keys, broker files and relay secrets when their hostname differs from the identity marker, writing the marker last for interrupted-boot recovery. Authorized keys are rewritten with workroom ownership and restrictive permissions. Client SSH configuration pins the host key and disables agent forwarding and default-agent credential use.
  • observed — The Mac-side client SSH key remains shared by hosts belonging to the app’s build, as in the base version, and is stored under the app’s private directory. Provisioning supplies its public half to containers; this is distinct from per-container host identities and is not evidence that guests receive the client private key.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The relay bounds request size, read time, reading connections and concurrent gh executions. Forward installation coordinates concurrent opens; closure cancels pending opens and stops forwarding, while workroom removal deletes its secret. Reconnection reinstalls the launch secret. These controls contain resource consumption and stale forwarding but do not retract previously issued GitHub credentials.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Where stronger guest isolation is desired, make account-wide credential delegation explicit and prefer repository-scoped, short-lived credentials. GitHub-host filtering should not be presented as repository-level authorization or disconnect-time revocation.
  • proposed — Declare least-privilege CI token permissions and disable checkout credential persistence where unnecessary. Validate the published digest through real Docker and Apple creation, restart, derivation and deletion, including effective port exposure and interrupted cleanup, before broadening rollout.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning [#309] The PR adds container CPU and memory limits and hidden containerCPUs / containerMemory preferences, but it does not add a Settings option for them. SettingsView.swift exposes the preview … Add Settings controls for container CPU and memory limits, and add tests that verify the selected values reach container provisioning. Verify and document that Apple runtime availability or workroom operations do not start Apple’s container…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 75.09% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 281 functions across 38 files. (10 skippe… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: users can choose This Mac, Docker, or Apple container as the workroom destination.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes support [#309]. The workflow lint job and documentation support the new host-image and Nightly workflows. Reverse-forward changes and tests support the local credential relay. The…
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[#309] The PR adds container CPU and memory limits and hidden containerCPUs / containerMemory preferences, but it does not add a Settings option for them. SettingsView.swift exposes the preview and broker controls, not resource-limit controls. The available summary does not establish whether Apple’s container service is ever started automatically.

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Add Settings controls for container CPU and memory limits, and add tests that verify the selected values reach container provisioning. Verify and document that Apple runtime availability or workroom operations do not start Apple’s container service automatically.

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RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

[High risk] Adds container workroom support with new build and deployment workflows.

The PR appears safe to merge based on the changes since the previous review and the resolved prior findings.

Summary

The PR adds Docker and Apple-container placement for new workrooms, with host-image delivery, Git credential relay, stopped-container startup, and placement UI.

  • The latest changes add an integrity check to CI’s actionlint download and adjust container recovery, credential-process handling, and pull-progress parsing.
  • No new actionable issue was established in those changes.
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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A[Choose project and place] --> B{Place}
  B -->|This Mac| C[Create local workroom]
  B -->|Docker or Apple container| D[Select runtime and base]
  D --> E[Pull pinned host image if needed]
  E --> F[Derive and create container workroom]
  F --> G[Open host connection]
  G --> H[Start stopped container when opened]
  G --> I[Install credential relay if needed]
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- An opened workroom's start is spent whatever comes of it: a container that
  won't start is left to the status sweep's backoff, not restarted by it.
- An Apple derive cut off mid-stop starts its base again.
- gh's output is read on the relay's own thread, to EOF or the deadline, so a
  timeout leaves no reader or descriptor behind.
- A pull's stdout and stderr keep their own line buffers.
- The row "+" UI test waits for each runtime's entry.

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joelmoss and others added 25 commits October 3, 2026 23:02
Docker Desktop, OrbStack and Colima are each a context behind the one
`docker` CLI, and the app followed whichever was current. A workroom made
on OrbStack seemed to vanish once the user switched to Docker Desktop.

A new base is now pinned to the context the CLI uses at create time, and
its workrooms go where it is. The context is recorded in the host's
container record and named with `--context` on every command, which
outranks DOCKER_HOST and DOCKER_CONTEXT (measured, Docker 29). `default`
is never pinned, since it is whatever DOCKER_HOST says.

RemoteHosts keeps one ContainerHostDriver per context and adopts each
recorded host into its own. Every driver's sweep keeps every recorded
host: two contexts can name one daemon, and a sweep that kept only its
own driver's hosts would remove the other's.

Records written before this have no context, read as nil, and run with
no `--context`, exactly as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…app (#309)

Nightly and Release now build the FIXTURE=0 host image once per
architecture, smoke-test that exact image (host-image-test.sh takes it as
WR_HOST_IMAGE), push it by digest, and join the two into one multi-arch
manifest on ghcr. The manifest digest goes into the app build as
WorkroomHostImage, so an app version always runs the image it was tested
with. The hidden remoteHostImage setting still overrides it, and a local
build with neither runs `workroom-host` as before.

A base's image is now pulled explicitly when the runtime doesn't have it,
and `run` passes --pull=never. Left to `run`, a missing image was looked
for on Docker Hub as library/workroom-host, and the error said nothing
about why.

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- Every driver's sweep keeps every recorded host's image, not only the
  images it adopted: another context's driver can reach the same daemon,
  and only Docker's in-use refusal was keeping those images, with a
  logged failure each launch.
- Sweep the contexts at once, so a slow daemon holds up no other sweep.
- Check the Codaset sign-in before asking Docker for the current
  context, so a signed-out user is told to sign in, as before.
- Test that a record with no context is written back with no context
  key, so an old record's bytes stay the same.

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…309)

A container someone stopped stays stopped, and Apple's container runtime
has no restart policy, so after a reboot every one of its containers is
down. Opening a workroom (selecting it, or a reload that finds it
selected) now marks its host as opened. That host's connects start its
container first if it is stopped, then wait for ssh.

Background status probes never mark a host opened. They connect to every
reachable remote workroom, so starting on any connect would have booted
them all. Opening also lifts the host's retry window, since a probe of
the stopped container is usually what failed.

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ContainerHostDriver now speaks Apple's `container` CLI as well as
Docker's, picked by Provisioning.dialect. RemoteHosts keys its drivers by
runtime and Docker context, and a descriptor's `driver` names the runtime:
`container` stays Docker, so every existing record is unchanged, and
`apple-container` is Apple's.

Measured against container 1.5.0, which differs from its docs on main:

- There is no `commit`. A derive stops the base, exports its disk,
  starts it again whatever happens, builds the disk back into an image
  from scratch with the host image's own entrypoint and environment, and
  runs it. The image is then removed: the container's disk outlives it,
  and it is the size of the base's whole disk. The builder VM (2 CPUs,
  2 GB) is stopped again after each derive.
- `build --quiet` never returns, so it is never passed.
- Apple removes an image a container is still using, so its sweep keeps
  every image any container was run from, instead of relying on a
  refusal. It reads `--format json`, since there is no `--filter`.
- No restart policy: an Apple container is started when its workroom is
  opened. Published ports survive a stop and start.
- Images are pulled for arm64 only; digest references work throughout.

A base is now marked as one explicitly, since an Apple instance records
no image either, and deriving from an instance would copy its enrolment.
A workroom asked for on another runtime than its project's base is
refused until bases are kept per runtime.

AppleContainerIntegrationTests run the whole lifecycle on the real
runtime; they are opt-in (TEST_RUNNER_WR_APPLE_CONTAINER_TESTS=1), since
CI's macOS runners can't run Apple's VMs.

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…ainer (#309)

With the remote preview on, a project's New Workroom becomes a submenu:
This Mac, then Docker and Apple Container under "Local containers". It
replaces the separate New Remote Workroom item. Without the preview, as
in every stable build, New Workroom stays a plain item and nothing
changes.

An entry that can't be used now is disabled and says why in its title
and tooltip: Apple's needs Apple silicon and macOS 26, either runtime
may not be installed, and creating one still needs a Codaset sign-in.

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)

A project's base record can now hold several bases, one per runtime and
Docker context, in a `bases` list. A record without one is a single
base, as every project made before has it, and a project with one base
keeps that form.

A new workroom derives from the base where it is asked for: Apple's, or
Docker's on the context in use now. A base made before #309 has no
context and still serves Docker. When there is none, a base is made
there and recorded beside the others.

Deleting builds an environment per runtime and context, so a project
whose workrooms span Docker and Apple's runtime is taken down whole.
Each base is cleared from config as it goes, so a failure part-way
leaves only what is still live recorded.

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- Never stop Apple's builder after a derive: it is one VM for the whole
  Mac, and stopping it killed any other build in flight, another
  project's derive included.
- A derive stops the base only if it was running, and starts it again in
  a task of its own, so a cancelled derive can't leave it down. `stop`
  and `start` are no-ops when already done (1.5.0, measured), so a base a
  reboot left stopped is still derived from.
- Give each Apple container explicit CPUs and memory. The runtime's own
  default is a 1 GB VM, too little for a compiler or an agent. It now
  gets half the cores and a quarter of the memory (2-8 GB), and both can
  be overridden with the hidden containerCPUs/containerMemory settings.
- Escape `$` in the derived image's ENV, WORKDIR and USER: a builder
  expands it, and the image holds the values already expanded.
- Delete the exported disk as soon as the image is built, and have the
  sweep remove the staging folders of derives a crash cut short.
- Take a derived image's process config from the host image when the
  base's own image is gone, since Apple removes images in use.
- Mark bases as bases when a delete adopts them, and check the host's
  own runtime, not any runtime, before reporting a session ended.
- The export's bound is an hour: it prints nothing until it is done, so
  its silence bound is a total one.

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…t never enrolled (#309)

`wr-agent credential relay --port <port>`, with a secret on stdin,
records where the Mac answers for this workroom and makes
`wr-agent credential` git's helper, as enrolling does. It is idempotent,
so the app can run it on every connect.

`credential get` then answers a workroom that never enrolled by sending
the secret and a github.com request to that port on the box's loopback,
which the app carries back to itself. Only the answer's username and
password reach git. An enrolled workroom always mints its own token and
never asks the relay. When the app isn't connected, git is told to open
the workroom in Workroom.

Anything in the workroom can read the secret and ask, which is the
accepted trade for a local container workroom: it gets the GitHub access
the user's own `gh` has, as a workroom on the Mac itself does.

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…iner workrooms (#309)

A local container workroom no longer needs a Codaset sign-in. A base
decides how its workrooms reach GitHub, once, and records it: the broker
when signed in to Codaset, else, or when the broker refuses because the
repository's owner hasn't installed the Codaset App, the Mac's own `gh`.

A relayed base clones, and a relayed workroom fetches and branches, with
`gh auth token` as git's header, the way a broker clone token goes. The
workroom never enrols. Later git in it asks `wr-agent credential`, which
the app points at a port on the box's loopback on every connect. The
app carries that port back to CredentialRelay's listener on the Mac's
loopback, which checks the workroom's per-launch secret and answers
github.com over https only, from `gh auth git-credential get`.

The reverse-forward registry is lifted out of the Debug-only broker
route into ReverseForwardRegistry, which both now use.

Accepted (D9 in #309): anything in the workroom can ask, so it has the
user's gh access while the app is connected to it, as a workroom on the
Mac itself does. When the app isn't connected, git is told to open the
workroom. Remote workrooms always enrol.

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From the review of the relay:

- Set SO_NOSIGPIPE on every accepted connection. Without it, any local
  process could connect, send junk and reset, and the reply's `send`
  raised SIGPIPE, which ended the app. A test of reset peers crashes with
  "signal pipe" without the fix.
- End a `gh` that hangs (a keychain prompt) at its deadline: its output is
  now read on another queue, so the wait can time out. Ignore SIGPIPE on
  its stdin too.
- Keep accepting through descriptor or memory pressure, and forget a
  listener that stops for any other reason, so the next install listens
  again.
- Serve at most 8 requests at once and turn the rest away, and bound each
  request's arrival as a whole, so a flood of slow connections can't hold
  threads or descriptors.
- Refuse to make a secret the system's random source didn't fill, and
  compare secrets in time that depends on their lengths only.
- Close a workroom's relay when it is deleted, retry an install that
  failed, and keep the broker's "install the App" refusal when the gh
  fallback has nothing either.

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With the remote preview on, the context menu's New Workroom opens a
submenu with This Mac, Docker and Apple Container, and a runtime entry
is disabled exactly when its title gives a reason. Without the preview
it stays one plain item.

A fixture launch turns the preview on with -WorkroomUITestRemotePreview,
mirrored into Defaults, since a launch argument would shadow the Bool
key. Without the flag it's pinned off, so no other test sees the
submenu.

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…got (#309)

A project's first container workroom pulls the workroom-host image, a
couple of hundred MB, and the row's spinner said nothing for however
long that took. The pull's output is now read as it arrives
(HostStream.communicate's onOutput, stdout and stderr alike) and turned
into a fraction by ImagePullProgress. Without a terminal, Docker prints
only each layer's state, so its fraction is the layers done of those
seen. Apple's container prints `[step/steps] … N%`, which gives its step
and percent.

The fraction reaches the create through a task-local, so
HostDriver.create keeps its shape and two creates at once each hear only
their own. The project row's spinner becomes a circle that fills, with
the percentage in its tooltip.

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… the download ring (#309)

A tooltip on the submenu's parent showed on top of the submenu, covering
This Mac (seen in a screenshot of the XCUITest). Each entry keeps its own
tooltip.

-WorkroomUITestImagePull <fraction> seeds the fixture project mid-download,
so an XCUITest checks the row's ring shows that fraction, and both tests
attach screenshots.

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…uns (#309)

While a create holds a project, or a delete is taking it, its New
Workroom entries were greyed out with nothing to say why. They now read
"— a workroom is already being created" or "— the project is being
deleted". A runtime's own reason (not installed, needs macOS 26) comes
first, since it outlasts the create in flight. The XCUITest checks it
against a project the fixture seeds mid-download.

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The reason a create in flight blocks the project was repeated after
every entry. It is now one line at the top of the submenu, above
entries that are simply greyed out. A runtime's own reason (not
installed, needs macOS 26) stays on its entry, since it is that entry's
alone.

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… host it's on (#309)

With the remote preview on, a project row's "+" opens the same places
menu as the context menu's New Workroom: This Mac, Docker, Apple
Container. Both come from one builder, so they can't drift. The menu is
drawn as a plain button, so the "+" looks exactly as it did; checked
against a screenshot of the preview-off button. Without the preview,
"+" still creates on this Mac at once.

A remote workroom's network icon now says what kind of host it is on
in its tooltip: "Docker container (orbstack) on this Mac", "Apple
container on this Mac", or a provider by its driver's name, instead of
just "Remote workroom".

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… tabs and panes (#309)

A workroom tab, a pane's title bar and a detached pane's title showed
the cube for every workroom. One on a host (a container on this Mac or
a remote provider) now wears the network glyph instead, the sidebar's
own sign for it, with the host's kind ("Docker container (orbstack) on
this Mac") as the tab's and pane's tooltip. One on this Mac keeps the
cube, and a root its house. TerminalTarget.workroomGlyph is the one
rule every site reads.

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… a trailing badge (#309)

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With the remote preview on, picking a project in File ▸ New Workroom… (⌘N, ⌥⌘N and the tab
bar's +) no longer creates on this Mac straight away: it asks This Mac, Docker or Apple Container,
with the sidebar menu's rules for what's off and why. A container workroom can now land as a
split, as one on this Mac does.

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…oms (#309)

- The credential relay re-forwards when its listener's port moves, retries an
  install that didn't take, bounds gh however it ends, and only answers a
  known secret's request from its answering slots, so idle strangers can't
  hold them.
- A derive checks the broker or the Mac's gh token before it copies the base.
- New Workroom's menus and picker read sign-in from memory, not the Keychain,
  and find gh's sign-in where gh does (GH_TOKEN, GH_CONFIG_DIR, XDG).
- A create re-reads its project, so a stale picker can't overwrite a base's
  record, can land as a split, and says when a signed-in user's base fell
  back to their own gh.
- Opening a workroom starts its container once, even mid-probe; a container
  stopped later stays stopped.
- Image errors say why (runtime not running, registry refused, network); the
  download ring clears when the pull ends; stderr counts against silence.
- Each remote workroom carries its own base's repository; Apple's sweep
  removes leftover derive snapshots.

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…ightly (#309)

Container workrooms are Nightly-only until #260, so Release no longer waits on
the host-image build. release.sh refuses a Nightly without a digest-pinned
image, and host-image.yml checks the pinned digest can be pulled anonymously.

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`make actions-lint` and a `workflows` CI job run actionlint 1.7.12, shellcheck
included, over every workflow. The job isn't behind the changes selector: it
takes seconds, and a workflow edit is what the selector would skip.

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…n type-check (#309)

The one chained expression timed out type-checking on CI's Xcode
("unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time").

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…wift infers (#309)

Xcode 26.3 couldn't convert the interpolated String literals to the split's
Substrings.

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- An opened workroom's start is spent whatever comes of it: a container that
  won't start is left to the status sweep's backoff, not restarted by it.
- An Apple derive cut off mid-stop starts its base again.
- gh's output is read on the relay's own thread, to EOF or the deadline, so a
  timeout leaves no reader or descriptor behind.
- A pull's stdout and stderr keep their own line buffers.
- The row "+" UI test waits for each runtime's entry.

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Fetching and running its download script from a tag ran whatever that tag
pointed at.

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- An opened workroom's start is spent whatever comes of it: a container that
  won't start is left to the status sweep's backoff, not restarted by it.
- An Apple derive cut off mid-stop starts its base again.
- gh's output is read on the relay's own thread, to EOF or the deadline, so a
  timeout leaves no reader or descriptor behind.
- A pull's stdout and stderr keep their own line buffers.
- The row "+" UI test waits for each runtime's entry.

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