From 22af266b4f3b865144279c81bc77c5cb4dbe7fd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brooklyn Nicholson <brooklyn.bb.nicholson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:42:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(tui): stop announcing attachments outside the composer

The token in the input line is the whole receipt. Drop the notices that
duplicated it somewhere the user was not looking: the drag-drop and
clipboard sys() lines, and the attachedImageNotice / "detected file: X"
activity rows above the status bar.

attachedImageNotice and imageTokenMeta have no callers left.
---
 ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts | 12 +++++-------
 ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts    | 23 +----------------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts b/ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts
index c99eca09f2e..aa6cd98db6c 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/app/submissionCore.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { attachedImageNotice } from '../domain/messages.js'
 import type { GatewayClient } from '../gatewayClient.js'
 import type { InputDetectDropResponse, PromptSubmitResponse } from '../gatewayTypes.js'
 import type { Msg } from '../types.js'
@@ -109,6 +108,11 @@ export function submitPrompt(
   // Always ask the backend whether this looks like a file drop. The backend's
   // _detect_file_drop handles paths with spaces, quotes, Windows drive letters,
   // and escaped characters correctly.
+  //
+  // No notice is emitted for a match: an image dropped into the composer already
+  // shows as an `[[ Image N ]]` token, and a matched non-image path is rewritten
+  // in place. Announcing it a second time above the status bar was the old
+  // out-of-band attachment UI.
   deps.gw
     .request<InputDetectDropResponse>('input.detect_drop', { session_id: sid, text })
     .then(r => {
@@ -116,12 +120,6 @@ export function submitPrompt(
         return startSubmit(text, deps.expand(text), showUserMessage)
       }
 
-      if (r.is_image) {
-        turnController.pushActivity(attachedImageNotice(r))
-      } else {
-        turnController.pushActivity(`detected file: ${r.name}`)
-      }
-
       startSubmit(r.text || text, deps.expand(r.text || text), showUserMessage)
     })
     .catch(() => startSubmit(text, deps.expand(text), showUserMessage))
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts b/ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts
index 45fbf606c0b..b4428520d81 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/domain/messages.ts
@@ -1,24 +1,9 @@
 import { LONG_MSG } from '../config/limits.js'
-import { buildToolTrailLine, fmtK } from '../lib/text.js'
+import { buildToolTrailLine } from '../lib/text.js'
 import type { Msg, SessionInfo } from '../types.js'
 
 export const introMsg = (info: SessionInfo): Msg => ({ info, kind: 'intro', role: 'system', text: '' })
 
-export const imageTokenMeta = (info?: ImageMeta | null) => {
-  const { width, height, token_estimate: t } = info ?? {}
-
-  return [width && height ? `${width}x${height}` : '', (t ?? 0) > 0 ? `~${fmtK(t!)} tok` : '']
-    .filter(Boolean)
-    .join(' · ')
-}
-
-export const attachedImageNotice = (info?: ({ name?: string } & ImageMeta) | null) => {
-  const meta = imageTokenMeta(info)
-  const label = info?.name ? `📎 Attached image: ${info.name}` : '📎 Attached image'
-
-  return `${label}${meta ? ` · ${meta}` : ''}`
-}
-
 export const userDisplay = (text: string) => {
   if (text.length <= LONG_MSG) {
     return text
@@ -112,12 +97,6 @@ export const fmtDuration = (ms: number) => {
   return h > 0 ? `${h}h ${m}m` : m > 0 ? `${m}m ${s}s` : `${s}s`
 }
 
-interface ImageMeta {
-  height?: number
-  token_estimate?: number
-  width?: number
-}
-
 interface TranscriptRow {
   context?: string
   display_kind?: string