fix(web): terminal paste no longer doubles when the clipboard read wins

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Closes #13346.

What Changed

The terminal paste shortcut races navigator.clipboard.readText() against the browser's native paste event. pasteShortcutToken only handled the native event landing first. When the read resolved first, the native paste that followed was also sent, so the text reached the shell twice. This happens constantly in Chromium browsers (Brave).

Each paste shortcut now opens a gesture. A read that lands first records its text on that gesture, and onPaste drops the one matching native paste. The browser can deliver that paste after other keys move, but before the shortcut key's own keyup. So only that keyup, a new paste shortcut, a blur, or the matching paste ends the gesture. The native-first ordering stays on the token.

Why

This is the inverse ordering left open when #8457 was closed. Both gaps from triage are addressed:

1. The record no longer survives the gesture. After the shortcut's keyup, or a blur when focus leaves before release, a later Edit → Paste of the same text still lands. A read that settles after the gesture ended records nothing.
2. The tests assert how many clipboard reads started and await each one before asserting.

Unrelated keydown/keyup events do not end the gesture, because clearing on them let the duplicate through during rolling typing.

Checklist

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Verification

• surface.test.ts covers four cases:

  • Read-first sends the text once.
  • Native-first sends once, and the read is awaited to confirm it adds nothing.
  • Other keys moving mid-gesture don't let the duplicate through.
  • A later menu paste still lands after the gesture ends, whether through keyup before the read settles, keyup after it, or blur.

  The mid-gesture and blur cases were written first and failed before the change.

• vp test run src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts: 57 passing. Lint and tsc --noEmit for apps/web are clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented pasted text from being inserted twice when using a paste shortcut on macOS, including when Shift key events occur during the shortcut gesture.
  • Preserved subsequent menu-paste behavior when the terminal loses focus before the shortcut is released.
  • Maintained paste handling when clipboard content arrives asynchronously, while ensuring a matching native paste is not delivered a second time.

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Verdict: Approved at 10a8bf9

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused terminal paste bug fix that deduplicates only the matching native event after a clipboard-read-first gesture and resets state for later pastes. The accompanying tests cover the race and subsequent menu-paste behavior, with no schema, default, infrastructure, or sensitive-code changes.

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Walkthrough

The terminal surface now tracks paste gestures by shortcut key. It preserves the gesture across unrelated key events and clears it on matching keyup, a new paste shortcut, or blur. It suppresses a matching native paste after a clipboard read sends the text.

Changes

Terminal paste handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and deduplicate paste gestures apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts	The surface records text sent by a clipboard read and suppresses a matching native paste. Tests cover unrelated key events, blur, event ordering, and later menu pastes.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue [#13346] requires suppression of the matching native paste when the clipboard read delivers first. surface.ts records the read text for the active paste gesture and suppresses matching native …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes modify terminal paste gesture state, paste event handling, and regression-test harness support. These changes directly implement issue [#13346]. No unrelated change is shown.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: preventing duplicate terminal paste when the clipboard read resolves before the native paste event.
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In `@apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts`:
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