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Problem: Images the agent writes to the server's disk (slide equations, plots) can't be seen in the chat panel, and an image can't be copied out of chat. The chat iframe can't reach the server's disk, a bare <img> can't send the server credential, file:// is stripped by the sanitizer and blocked by the page's security policy, and vscode.env.clipboard only handles text.
Approach:

• Markdown ![alt](/abs/path.png) images load through the existing /file/content route, using a loader the app registers (the same pattern as the file-ref resolver).
• Every chat image is framed: click opens a full-size preview with Copy, and hovering shows a copy button.
• Copy sends a new clipboard-image-write message over the bridge. The extension host writes the PNG natively, so the paste lands on the machine the user is sitting at, which can differ from the server that produced the image.

Changes

• session-ui
  • New markdown-local-images: path detection, loader registry and cache, and the image-framing and loading passes.
  • markdown.tsx wires those passes in and adds click-to-preview.
  • image-lightbox.tsx: a full-size preview with Copy and Close buttons.
  • copyImageToClipboard in util/clipboard: uses the bridge inside the frame, ClipboardItem outside it, and converts non-PNG images to PNG first.
  • A paper (white) backing behind framed images, so transparent black-ink figures stay visible in dark theme.
• app: AmicodeFileRefBridge also registers the local-image loader. It turns the base64 from /file/content into a data: URL, and handles SVG returned as text.
• extension:
  • clipboard-image-write handler in chat_bridge.ts. It accepts PNG only, is capped at 24 MB, requires the panel to be visible, and replies with a clipboard-image-written ack.
  • Platform writers: macOS osascript (the file path is passed as an argument, never inserted into the script), Linux xclip, or wl-copy under Wayland. Windows is served through WSL.
  • The writer waits for the launched process to exit rather than for its output streams to close (xclip and wl-copy fork a background process that keeps them open).
  • The new message kind is added to both chat_panel.ts allowlists.
• manifest.json refreshed; the drift gate passes.

Testing

• session-ui: new markdown-local-images.test.ts covers path classification, loader cache and dedupe, retrying failed loads, stale-unregister safety, one frame per image, that a local path never fires a network request, and that a cached image is set synchronously when a block is rebuilt. The full suite gives 457 passes and 1 failure, in the CodeMirror selection-highlight test, which this PR doesn't touch.
• extension: three new bridge tests (ack shape; rejected payloads; per-platform command selection with no path in the script). Full vitest gives 5600 passes. tsc is clean.
• app and session-ui typechecks (tsgo) are clean on the materialized tree.
• Not yet verified in a live panel, since this needs an engine rebuild and an extension install.

Notes

• Same change as feat(chat): inline previews for agent-written images, with copy to the user's clipboard #1993 (which targets main), applied on top of the lane/0.3.11 tip 1aab7539 so lane deploys stop dropping it. This exact commit (bc7b9ecf) is what the hub currently serves (bundle index-BzZzjURX.js).
• Only conflict was the generated manifest.json; it was regenerated with refresh_manifest.mjs and the drift gate passes.
• This covers the clipboard part of the fleet-location gap (the agent didn't know which machine the user was at). The rest of that gap is drafted as a separate issue.

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