feat(tui): ctrl+v pastes a clipboard image into the first prompt - #307
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A terminal paste only carries text, so like Claude Code the new-session prompt field now reads the clipboard itself on ctrl+v: an image is saved to a temp PNG and its path inserted at the cursor (agents read an image path as the image). No image falls through to the textarea's text paste. macOS only (osascript); over SSH it reads the host's clipboard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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What
Ctrl+V on the new-session form's first-prompt field now pastes clipboard images: the image is saved to a temp PNG and its path is inserted at the cursor. With no image on the clipboard it falls through to the textarea's existing text paste, unchanged.
Why ctrl+v, not cmd+v
Cmd+V is handled by the terminal emulator and only ever sends text; the app never sees it. Ctrl+V is a real keypress, so the TUI can read the clipboard itself — the same trick Claude Code uses.
Notes
internal/tui/clipimage.go.osascript); Linux (wl-paste/xclip) can follow when needed.Testing
TestNewSessionPromptCtrlVPastesClipboardImagePath(red without the hook).internal/terminalonly fails locally when run inside Ghostty because of its env vars; unrelated).🤖 Generated with Claude Code