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Five commits, all mobile composer. The last three came out of a bug Satya hit in build 16: an image stayed in the tray after sending.

Paste, and deleting what the native composer replaced

Files and images can be pasted into the composer. UIPasteConfiguration on the view that already does hit-testing is the only paste hook iOS offers — SwiftUI's onPasteCommand and pasteDestination are both @available(iOS, unavailable). 30 lines, no change to the editor. GlassComposer and its last dependency (expo-speech-recognition) are gone.

The tray was never cleared on send

The native composer's clear() reaches its own text and nothing else — the tray belongs to React Native. The RN form it replaced had a clearAll that cleared both; cutting over to a direct onSubmit callback carried over only half of it, so attachments went out again with the next message. Shipping since the home screen moved over. Clearing still happens only on success: a failed send keeps the draft, so it has to keep the attachments too.

Drafts survive navigation, scoped per surface

Leaving the home screen or a workspace threw away whatever was typed. Text and attachments now persist — the home screen, and one draft per workspace — in one in-memory Zustand store keyed by surface.

Both halves live in React Native because the tray cannot move: the pickers, the attachments sheet, paste and the terminal's uploader all mutate it, and the composer only renders a mirror. Splitting text into Swift would make a draft two halves in two languages with two lifetimes to sync.

The composer stays uncontrolled, which is what makes this safe. It reports onDraftChange outward the way it already reports onHeightChange, and takes its text back once via an initialDraft prop. There is deliberately no value prop: a controlled field resizes outside the transaction that reveals send, which is the split-brain the motion rule exists to prevent. Nothing subscribes to the text either, so typing still causes no React Native render.

Not persisted across launches — attachment URIs point into the app's cache, which the OS may evict between launches. Within one launch it cannot, and that is this store's lifetime.

Two things fall out of scoping it: the single app-wide tray is gone (an image attached on the home screen was previously sitting in every workspace, and PromptInputProvider existed only to hold it), and a plain shell now hides the tray rather than showing chips its submit will silently drop.

Two bugs the code hid

Both only showed up by driving the simulator.

  • The outward event never arrived. Named onChangeText, it collided with React Native's own TextInput event convention and was swallowed before reaching JS — so nothing was saved and every restore read an empty store. Renamed onDraftChange.
  • Restoring through the ref raced the view's creation. At mount the call landed before there was anything to receive it; a 400ms delay "fixed" it, which is the shape of a race. It's a prop now, delivered as part of view setup and applied once.

Verification

On the simulator: a home draft survives opening a workspace and returning; a workspace draft comes back on return; neither leaks into the other; an image attached on home no longer appears in a workspace tray; a send clears text and tray together. Plus typecheck, biome, 33 tests, and a full iOS build.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie


Summary by cubic

Adds iOS paste of files/images to the mobile composer and keeps a per‑surface draft (text + attachments) across navigation. Fixes send/clear semantics so text always clears on success, and attachments clear only when that send could include them; previously attachments lingered and could be resent.

  • Paste: uses UIPasteConfiguration on the passthrough view; pasted items are written to temp files and emitted via onPaste as { uri, name, kind }. usePasteAttachments(<key>) adds them to the tray. Failed file copies are now dropped instead of yielding broken URIs.
  • Drafts: composer stays uncontrolled, reports onDraftChange, and reads initialDraft once at mount. A single in‑memory Zustand store (useComposerDraftsStore) holds per‑surface text and attachments (HOME_DRAFT_KEY, workspaceDraftKey); not persisted across launches.
  • Scoping/behavior: the app‑wide tray is removed. A plain terminal shell hides attachments and does not send them; on success it clears text only, preserving the tray that belongs to the workspace. Home and agent terminals clear text and tray together on success; failures preserve both for retry.
  • API changes: outward event renamed to onDraftChange; draft restore moved to the initialDraft prop and is applied once in native. New onPaste event. PromptInputProvider is removed; surfaces use useComposerDraft(<key>) and pass onDraftChange/initialDraft to Composer.
  • Deletions: removed GlassComposer and the voice stack; dropped expo-speech-recognition. Added NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription in ios.infoPlist to retain native dictation permissions.

Written for commit 6fd0c8b. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Composer drafts stay synchronized across supported screens, including text and attachments.
    • Paste images and files directly into the composer.
    • Workspace drafts and attachments are scoped to the current workspace.
    • Select multiple images or documents for attachment.
  • Changes

    • Removed voice dictation and related recording controls.
    • Plain terminal shells no longer display or submit attachments.

…omposer

**Paste**, without touching the editor. `ComposerRootView` is byte-identical to
what shipped.

SwiftUI has no paste hook on iOS: `onPasteCommand` and `pasteDestination` are
both `@available(iOS, unavailable)`, and `PasteButton` is a button rather than
the edit menu. UIKit's route is a paste configuration, and the responder chain
is what makes it cheap — the text field keeps taking strings exactly as it does
today, and anything it cannot represent walks up to `ComposerPassthroughView`,
which the composer already owns for hit-testing. Thirty lines on a view that
already exists, and no editor of our own to maintain.

Providers resolve to files on disk because the tray takes URIs, the same shape
the pickers produce: a file copied in Files arrives as a URL and is copied out
of its temporary home, an image copied from Photos or a browser arrives as bytes
and keeps its original encoding rather than being re-rendered.

**Deletion.** `GlassComposer` has no callers left, so it and its voice stack go,
and `expo-speech-recognition` with them — 13 files.

One trap there worth naming: that package's config plugin was what injected
`NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription`. Removing the plugin without replacing the
key would have left native dictation terminating the app on its first
authorization request. The string now lives in `ios.infoPlist` directly, and a
prebuild confirms all four usage descriptions still land in the generated
Info.plist. The microphone one was never at risk — `expo-image-picker` supplies
it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie
Attachments survived every successful send and went out again with the next
message.

The native composer's `clear()` reaches its own text and nothing else — the
tray belongs to React Native. The React Native form it replaced had a `clearAll`
that cleared both, and cutting the composer over to a direct `onSubmit` callback
left only half of that behind. Shipping since the home screen moved over.

Both surfaces now clear the two together, and still only on success: a failed
send keeps the draft, so it has to keep the attachments too or the retry sends
something different from what failed.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie
Deleting GlassComposer took the last consumer with it, but the lockfile still
carried the package. Also ignores the pasted-attachment scratch directory the
workspace writes into.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie
Leaving the home screen or a workspace threw away whatever was typed there.
Text and attachments now survive navigation, scoped per surface — the home
screen, and one draft per workspace — and are restored when you come back.

Where the state lives was the real question. The tray was already React
Native's and cannot move: the pickers, the attachments sheet, paste and the
terminal's uploader all mutate it, and the composer only renders a mirror.
Putting the text in Swift beside it would make a draft two halves in two
languages with two lifetimes to keep in sync, so both halves live in React
Native now, in one in-memory store keyed by surface.

The composer stays uncontrolled, which is what makes this safe. It reports
`onChangeText` outward the way it already reports `onHeightChange`, and takes
its text back exactly once, through `restoreDraft` at mount. There is
deliberately no `value` prop: a controlled field resizes outside the
transaction that reveals send, which is the split-brain the motion rule
exists to prevent. Nothing subscribes to the text either — a caller reads it
once to hand it back — so typing still causes no React Native render at all.

Not persisted across launches. Attachment URIs point into the app's cache,
which the OS may evict between launches; within one launch it cannot, and
that is exactly this store's lifetime.

Two things fall out of scoping it. The single app-wide tray is gone, so an
image attached on the home screen is no longer sitting in every workspace —
`PromptInputProvider` was only there to hold it and is no longer mounted. And
a plain shell now hides the tray rather than showing chips its submit will
silently drop, since a workspace's draft is shared across its terminals.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie
Two bugs, both only visible by driving the simulator — the code read fine.

The outward event never arrived. Named `onChangeText`, it collided with React
Native's own TextInput event convention and was swallowed before reaching JS,
so nothing was ever saved and every restore read an empty store. Renamed to
`onDraftChange`, which is also the more accurate name: this reports a draft,
not a text field's value.

Restoring through the ref raced the view's own creation. At mount the call
landed before there was anything to receive it — a 400ms delay made it work,
which is the shape of a race, not a fix. The saved draft is an `initialDraft`
prop now, delivered as part of setting the view up rather than chasing it, and
applied once so later deliveries cannot clobber live typing. `restoreDraft`
is gone from the ref; nothing needs it.

Verified on the simulator: a draft typed on the home screen survives opening a
workspace and coming back; a draft typed in a workspace comes back on return;
neither leaks into the other; an image attached on the home screen no longer
shows up in a workspace tray; and a send clears text and tray together.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie
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Walkthrough

The mobile app replaces shared prompt attachment state with keyed composer drafts. The native iOS composer supports pasted files, images, draft synchronization, and initial drafts. Home and workspace composers use the new draft store and attachment hooks. The legacy voice composer is removed.

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Composer draft flow

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Native composer events and bridge
apps/mobile/modules/composer/ios/*, apps/mobile/modules/composer/src/index.tsx
The native composer resolves pasted files and images, emits paste and draft-change events, and accepts a one-time initial draft.
Keyed draft state and attachment hooks
apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/stores/composerDraftsStore/*, apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/hooks/useComposerDraft/*, apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/hooks/usePasteAttachments/*, apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/hooks/useAttachmentsSheet/*, apps/mobile/components/ai-elements/prompt-input.tsx
The app adds in-memory drafts keyed by surface, picker support, pasted-attachment mapping, and exported attachment conversion helpers.
Home and workspace composer integration
apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/(home)/home/components/NewChatWidget/*, apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/workspace/..., apps/mobile/app/(authenticated)/_layout.tsx
The composers synchronize text and attachments with keyed drafts, submit draft attachments, restore initial text, and clear drafts after successful submission.
Legacy voice composer removal and app configuration
apps/mobile/screens/(authenticated)/components/GlassComposer/*, apps/mobile/app.config.ts, .gitignore
The legacy GlassComposer voice UI and exports are removed. The iOS speech-recognition usage description remains without the removed plugin configuration. .superset/attachments/ is ignored.

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  participant NewChatWidget
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  User->>Composer: Enter text or paste items
  Composer->>NewChatWidget: Emit draft and paste callbacks
  NewChatWidget->>ComposerDraftsStore: Update keyed draft
  NewChatWidget->>ComposerDraftsStore: Read text and attachments for submission
  NewChatWidget->>Composer: Clear native composer after success
  NewChatWidget->>ComposerDraftsStore: Clear keyed draft after success
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In `@apps/mobile/modules/composer/ios/ComposerPastedItem.swift`:
- Around line 43-52: Update the copy flow in loadImage to detect failure from
FileManager.copyItem instead of discarding it with try?. Resume the continuation
with nil when copying to destination fails, and only construct and return
ComposerPastedItem after a successful copy, matching the existing failure
behavior.

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- Around line 138-141: Update the submit cleanup around
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allowAttachments is false: clear only the draft text in that case, while
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Both from CodeRabbit on #6778, both real.

A failed `copyItem` was swallowed by `try?` and the paste still resolved, handing
back an item pointing at a file that was never written — the tray would only
find out at upload or preview. `loadImage` ten lines below already guards its
write the same way; now `loadFile` does too.

And a plain shell was deleting attachments it never sent. Its submit omits them
by design, but the clear afterwards wiped the tray anyway — and because a draft
belongs to the workspace rather than to one terminal, an image attached in an
agent session vanished when a command ran in a shell beside it. The tray is now
cleared only when the send could actually carry it; the text always is.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qriwo2mN6xcnE6A147TXie

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