docs: describe right-to-left rendering in the manual and the invariants (release review)

The wiki gains right-to-left notes for Last Response, the phone's Compose
editor and the rendered Markdown view, plus a Troubleshooting entry for the
#715 report: the terminal is xterm.js, which has no right-to-left support
(xtermjs/xterm.js#701). src/web/CLAUDE.md and the invariants now state the dir
pins, the logical-property rule and that the direction pass runs last.

The changeset claimed every file path stays left to right. It now says only
what holds: the paths the viewer links on its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**Agent sessions** get quick actions: `/init`, `/clear`, `/compact`, a Compose key, `Esc`,
a path picker, and 🧠 when Read My Mind is on. Compose opens a multiline editor with
autocorrect: Enter adds a new line, and only Send delivers the text, as one paste followed
by Enter, so your line breaks reach the agent intact. Anything already typed on the terminal
prompt moves into the editor when it opens. Drafts are kept per session and in memory only,
by Enter, so your line breaks reach the agent intact. A prompt written in Persian, Arabic or
Hebrew lays out right to left. Anything already typed on the terminal prompt moves into the
editor when it opens. Drafts are kept per session and in memory only,
so switching tabs keeps them and a page reload forgets them; a dot on the key shows a draft
is parked. The editor's Attach button attaches photos, videos or documents and puts their paths
into the draft.
@@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ Setup in [Notifications And Approvals](Notifications-And-Approvals).
The terminal viewport is small. **Last Response** (opt-in header button) renders the agent's
last answer as scrollable text instead, with a **More** button for additional context.
Persian, Arabic and Hebrew answers read right to left there.
The [File Viewer](Working-With-Files) works on phones too, including edit mode, which is
enough to fix a typo an agent introduced while you are away from your desk.
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is ever sent. The request still succeeds and the text sits unsubmitted in the composer. See
[Driving Codeman From An Agent](Driving-Codeman-From-An-Agent).
### Persian, Arabic or Hebrew looks wrong in the terminal
The terminal is xterm.js, which does not support right-to-left text yet
([xtermjs/xterm.js#701](https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/701)). It puts each
character in its own cell from left to right, so a sentence comes out reversed, and the
default WebGL renderer also draws the letters unjoined. Codeman cannot fix that without
replacing the terminal.
Read the answer in **Last Response** instead, where it lays out right to left, or open a
Markdown file in the [File Viewer](Working-With-Files). On desktop, turning off **WebGL
Renderer** in **App Settings → Terminal & Input** and reloading joins the letters, so each
word reads correctly, but the words of a sentence still run left to right. Phones already
use that renderer.
## Mobile
### The keyboard covers the terminal, or scroll position jumps
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**Last Response** (header button, opt-in) renders the agent's last answer as scrollable text
rather than terminal output. It exists mostly for phones, where reading a long answer in a
terminal viewport is painful. **More** loads additional context.
terminal viewport is painful. **More** loads additional context. Persian, Arabic and Hebrew
answers read right to left here, which the terminal cannot do, while code and the file paths
it links stay left to right.
## After the fact
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| Kind | Behaviour |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Text and code | Plain preview with Lines (line numbers) and Wrap toggles in the header. Long files are truncated in plain preview. |
| Markdown | Rendered by default: headings, tables, code blocks with copy buttons, images and links relative to the file (root-relative ones resolve from the workspace root, as on GitHub). Links to another heading of the same file (`[Install](#installation)`) scroll to it, with GitHub's heading names (lower-case, punctuation dropped, repeats numbered `-1`, `-2`), and never leave the page. Opened from an attachment card, where the file's folder is unknown, relative images show their alt text and relative links show as plain text. The MD pill in the header flips to source. |
| Markdown | Rendered by default: headings, tables, code blocks with copy buttons, images and links relative to the file (root-relative ones resolve from the workspace root, as on GitHub). Links to another heading of the same file (`[Install](#installation)`) scroll to it, with GitHub's heading names (lower-case, punctuation dropped, repeats numbered `-1`, `-2`), and never leave the page. Opened from an attachment card, where the file's folder is unknown, relative images show their alt text and relative links show as plain text. Persian, Arabic and Hebrew read right to left, each block following its own first letter, while code stays left to right. The MD pill in the header flips to source. |
| Images | Inline. |
| Audio and video | Inline with a working scrub bar, because range requests are supported. |
| Spreadsheets (`.xlsx`) | Read-only grid, parsed in your browser (never on the server), up to 10 MB. `.xls` and `.ods` are download only. |