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Codeman maintainer ab9c574ca4 fix(desktop): pasting an image with Cmd+V works in the Mac app
Cmd+V with a copied picture in a session's terminal did nothing in the Mac
app, while the same server worked in a browser.

Codeman's Cmd+V handler (_handleImagePaste, src/web/public/image-input.js)
focuses a hidden contenteditable trap and calls
document.execCommand('paste') before the key's own paste lands there.
Chromium refuses that call at once. From a WKWebView, WebKit answers it with
its DOM paste access menu ("Paste", opened at the last mouse-down) and holds
the page on a synchronous request until the menu is picked or the clipboard
changes. The key's own paste, the one that carries the image, was stuck
behind it.

Measured on macOS 27.2 (WebKit 22625) with a throwaway WKWebView probe:
- a menu Paste hands the page the image as a File for PNG data, a
  TIFF+PNG screenshot and a file copied in Finder, so WebKit itself is fine;
- Cmd+V through the same trap hung until the next clipboard change;
- with execCommand('paste') answered false, six Cmd+V presses in a row
  (image data, screenshot, Finder file, text, two repeats) each delivered
  exactly one paste event to the trap.

The fix lives in the app's HOST_SHIM, which every server page already gets:
it wraps Document.prototype.execCommand so 'paste' returns false the way
Chromium answers it, and every other command reaches WebKit unchanged. The
web page keeps its execCommand call: src/web/CLAUDE.md keeps it for mobile
engines that need it, and doing it in the app also covers servers on older
Codeman versions.

test/desktop-host-shim-paste.test.ts runs the shim's real text, cut out of
assets.rs, in a vm with a stub Document. shim_keeps_its_contract pins the
override too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-14 19:23:59 +01:00

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Mac app: pasting an image works. ⌘V with a copied picture in a session's terminal did nothing in the Mac app, while the same server worked in a browser. Codeman's paste asks the browser for the clipboard first, and inside the app WebKit answers that with a hidden "Paste" permission menu that held up the real paste. The app now declines that request the way Chrome does, so the picture uploads and its path lands in the prompt, the same as in a browser. Screenshots, images copied from an app, files copied in Finder and plain text all paste with one ⌘V, also from servers on older Codeman versions.