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..6eb295e056 100644
--- a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
@@ -617,6 +617,14 @@ export function handleMouseEvent(app: App, m: ParsedMouse): void {
       // Non-left press breaks the multi-click chain.
       app.clickCount = 0
 
+      // Forward middle/right button presses to the DOM so components can
+      // react (e.g. right-click-to-paste on input fields). Middle/right
+      // don't participate in selection, multi-click, or hyperlink UX, so
+      // we just dispatch and exit without setting mouseCaptureTarget —
+      // the matching release (if any) falls through the release path and
+      // is ignored there because baseButton !== 0 && !sel.isDragging.
+      app.props.onMouseDownAt(col, row, baseButton)
+
       return
     }
 
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx b/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
index dff8121b5e..73710f87ff 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/src/components/textInput.tsx
@@ -671,6 +671,15 @@ 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>