diff --git a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
index 3a0381a729..7805b4f902 100644
--- a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ export function handleMouseEvent(app: App, m: ParsedMouse): void {
     if (baseButton !== 0) {
       // Non-left press breaks the multi-click chain.
       app.clickCount = 0
+      app.props.onMouseDownAt(col, row, baseButton)
 
       return
     }
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx b/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
index d3529df31c..34ae5b7980 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
@@ -713,6 +713,15 @@ export function TextInput({
         setCur(next)
         curRef.current = next
       }}
+      onMouseDown={(e: { button: number }) => {
+        // Right-click to paste: route through the same hotkey path as
+        // Alt+V so the composer's clipboard RPC (text or image) handles it.
+        if (!focus || e.button !== 2) {
+          return
+        }
+
+        emitPaste({ cursor: curRef.current, hotkey: true, text: '', value: vRef.current })
+      }}
       ref={boxRef}
     >
       <Text wrap="wrap">{rendered}</Text>