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What Changed

Right-clicking a terminal path or URL now offers Open, Add to chat, and Copy for the target under the pointer. The highlight stays for as long as the menu is open. Local filesystem paths also offer the environment's file-manager reveal action when supported; URLs and remote environments do not.

Add to chat inserts paths with the file chip appearance and URLs as plain text.

Why

Right-clicking threw away the detected target and offered only the selection actions and Paste, so you couldn't open or copy the path or link you were pointing at. Putting this in the context menu is a natural addition.

Behavior precedent

Ghostty-based terminals do the same thing: right-click offers actions for the target under the pointer and pins the highlight while the menu is open.

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Before

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After

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Verification

  • 95 tests passed across terminal paths, URL opening, platform labels, editor selection, local storage, and Ghostty context-menu lifecycle.
  • Web typecheck passed.
  • Targeted lint and git diff --check passed.

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes

Implemented by GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 via Codex and T3 Code. Rebase and file-manager reveal by GPT-5.6 Sol; review, test trimming, and this description by GPT-6 through Codex.

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Add terminal link context menu actions to web terminal drawer

  • Adds a right-click context menu for terminal links in the web terminal drawer, offering actions to open in an editor, reveal in a file manager, open URLs in the integrated or system browser, copy, or send to chat.
  • ChatView inserts serialized file links into the chat composer, showing an error toast if insertion fails.
  • GhosttyTerminalSurface keeps the right-clicked link highlighted while the menu is open and prevents stale menu completions from clearing newer highlights.
  • Extracts canOpenTerminalLinkInPreview and adds an explicit openTerminalLinkInIntegratedBrowser opener in openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts.
  • Risk: resolveAndPersistPreferredEditor in editorPreferences.ts now returns null for an unavailable explicit editor override instead of falling back to the stored or default editor.

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  • New Features

    • Added terminal link actions for opening, copying, revealing files, and adding links or paths to chat.
    • Terminal links remain highlighted while their context menu is open.
    • Added support for opening eligible terminal links in the integrated browser.
    • Added editor selection controls when opening terminal paths.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved terminal link handling across platforms and browser preferences.
    • Added clearer fallback behavior when integrated-browser or file-reveal actions are unavailable.
    • Corrected display of the POSIX filesystem root path.

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The terminal context menu now detects links and provides browser, preview, editor, reveal, copy, and chat actions. Link highlights persist while menus are open. Chat view inserts terminal links into the composer.

Changes

Terminal link actions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track links during context menus
apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts, apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
The terminal surface resolves links at the pointer, preserves their highlight while the menu is open, and prevents stale menus from clearing newer highlights.
Provide preview and editor routing
apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/openTerminalLinkInPreview.test.ts, apps/web/src/editorPreferences.ts, apps/web/src/editorPreferences.test.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useLocalStorage.ts
Preview opening now has explicit capability and integrated-browser helpers. Editor selection accepts an optional override and persists changes with local-storage notifications.
Build terminal link actions
apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.test.ts, apps/web/src/pierre-icons.ts, apps/web/src/pierre-icons.test.ts
The terminal menu supports URL and path actions for opening, previewing, revealing, copying, and adding links to chat. Tests cover path resolution, URL handling, action availability, menu ordering, and POSIX root paths.
Insert terminal links into chat
apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
Persistent terminal drawers and panels forward link callbacks. Chat view inserts terminal link text into the composer and reports unavailable composer input.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GhosttyTerminalSurface
  participant ThreadTerminalDrawer
  participant ChatView
  participant Composer
  GhosttyTerminalSurface->>ThreadTerminalDrawer: provide link text
  ThreadTerminalDrawer->>ThreadTerminalDrawer: build link actions
  ThreadTerminalDrawer->>ChatView: send serialized link
  ChatView->>Composer: insert link text into draft
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8ba08

Terminal root paths retain a visible label when added to chat, and no current merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: terminal link context-menu actions.
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One finding: the newly pinned right-click link highlight can be unpinned by a superseded menu flow (browser fallback menu), leaving the open menu with no highlighted target. Details inline.

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Reviewed the terminal link changes for UI/interaction consistency. One finding: the new "Add path/link to chat" action silently drops the target when the composer refuses input, unlike the other add-to-chat surface and unlike every other failure path in the terminal context menu. Everything else (menu item shape/labels/icon: "copy", pinned-highlight lifetime, modifier-gated hover matching activation, focused tests) matches existing repo contracts.

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UI consistency review: one finding on how terminal paths are inserted into the composer.

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One finding: terminalLinkChatText can emit a composer file link with an empty label for directory-style terminal links, which renders as a label-less chip in the composer. Details inline.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial new terminal-link interaction surface spanning chat composition, editor/file-manager launching, clipboard handling, and integrated-browser navigation. Its cross-component runtime impact exceeds the scope of changes suitable for automatic approval.

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@flamboh flamboh changed the title fix(web): make terminal links actionable feat(web): terminal link context menu actions Aug 19, 2026
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One finding: a comment documenting a browser/Electron constraint was dropped from terminalContextMenuItems while the behavior it explains is unchanged. Everything else in the diff looks consistent — the new menu entries reuse the shared ContextMenuItem contract (labels and the copy icon match pullRequestLinkContextMenu / ChatMarkdown's file-link menu), the new "Unable to add to chat" toast matches the sibling flow in FileBrowserPanel, and the pinned link highlight is re-projected through screen coordinates so scrolling and superseded menus don't strand it.

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last failed macroscope check is over a suggested comment, not actually any functionality issues

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One finding on the new terminal link context menu: the open-link entry chains into a second context menu for previewable URLs instead of offering the destinations in the menu the user already opened.

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One consistency finding: the terminal link's two open destinations are now labelled two different ways depending on the gesture (right-click vs modifier-click). Details inline.

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Reviewed the changed TypeScript against the Effect service conventions. No Effect service definitions, layers, error classes, or runtime boundaries are introduced or modified here: openTerminalLinkInPreview.ts keeps its existing Schema.TaggedErrorClass errors with structural attributes plus a preserved cause, no ManagedRuntime.make, Layer.succeed, or runPromise* usage is added, and no service instances are passed as constructor parameters. One change-discipline nit below.

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One finding on the new terminal link menu: Copy path copies the raw matched token, so it can include a :line:col position that no other path-copy action in the app includes.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.tsx`:
- Line 285: Update the chip-label logic in terminalLinkChatText or its renderer
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Superseded by #12281, a clean rebuild on current main with a narrower scope (link actions only; reveal-in-file-manager and editor preference changes dropped).

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