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…sed field Moves the clipboard-paste text insertion (arboard + enigo, macOS focus re-validation) out of OpenHuman into tinycomputer-accessibility behind the off-by-default paste feature. Pure library addition; no module, contract or bus change. Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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insert_text->>arboard: Read and write clipboard text
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insert_text->>osascript: Validate or restore app focus
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insert_text->>Enigo: Simulate paste keystrokes
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The opt-in paste feature can type text into the wrong application when focus restoration fails. It can also leave the user's clipboard overwritten, or replace newer clipboard contents with a stale snapshot. These are bounded, off-by-default behaviors, but they should be resolved before merge unless explicitly accepted. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The feature is disabled by default, which limits exposure. When enabled, however, it can paste after target validation or focus restoration fails, leave inserted text on the clipboard after errors, and interfere with overlapping clipboard operations. These risks affect the local desktop session; broader production reachability has not been established. Retained concerns
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- Around line 98-99: In the paste operation, establish clipboard restoration
immediately after writing the replacement text so failures from Enigo::new or
subsequent keystrokes restore the saved clipboard text. Keep delayed restoration
only on the successful paste path, using the existing platform-specific
restoration logic.
- Line 120: Update the clipboard save–paste–restore flow around
cb.set_text(&original) to coordinate concurrent calls across the entire
transaction and restore the snapshot only if the clipboard still contains the
temporary text written by that transaction; preserve newer clipboard contents.
- Around line 116-118: Update insert_text’s clipboard restoration worker to
retain the original Clipboard handle through paste processing, and keep the
handle that writes the restored contents alive until a later clipboard write
replaces them.
- Around line 88-91: In the focus-restoration branch around
restore_focus_to_app, return the activation error instead of continuing to send
the paste keystroke. After successful activation, validate the focused
application again before sending the keystroke, and perform the existing
clipboard cleanup if activation or revalidation fails.
- Line 49: Update insert_text to return the accessibility crate’s Result<()>
alias, and replace string errors for clipboard and keyboard failures with
specific crate Error variants so callers can handle failures without parsing
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| /// Returns a message when the clipboard or the synthetic keyboard cannot be | ||
| /// reached, or when a keystroke cannot be sent. Empty or whitespace-only text | ||
| /// is a successful no-op. | ||
| pub fn insert_text(text: &str, expected_app: Option<&str>) -> Result<(), String> { |
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Use the accessibility crate’s error contract.
insert_text returns Result<(), String> and builds string errors for clipboard and keyboard failures. Return the crate-wide Result<()> alias and add or use specific Error variants for these failures so callers do not parse messages.
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Review comment at @crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/paste.rs at line 49:
Update insert_text to return the accessibility crate’s Result<()> alias, and
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| if let Err(restore_err) = restore_focus_to_app(app_name) { | ||
| warn!( | ||
| "{LOG_PREFIX} focus restore failed: {restore_err} — will attempt paste anyway" | ||
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Stop insertion when focus restoration fails.
If validation detects another focused application and activation fails, this branch still sends the paste keystroke. The text then goes to the application that validation rejected.
Return the activation error instead. After successful activation, validate the focused application again before sending the keystroke. Apply the clipboard cleanup described above on this error path.
Stop after failed activation
if let Err(restore_err) = restore_focus_to_app(app_name) {
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- "{LOG_PREFIX} focus restore failed: {restore_err} — will attempt paste anyway"
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| if let Err(restore_err) = restore_focus_to_app(app_name) { | |
| warn!( | |
| "{LOG_PREFIX} focus restore failed: {restore_err} — will attempt paste anyway" | |
| ); | |
| if let Err(restore_err) = restore_focus_to_app(app_name) { | |
| return Err(restore_err); |
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In the focus-restoration branch around restore_focus_to_app, return the
activation error instead of continuing to send the paste keystroke. After
successful activation, validate the focused application again before sending the
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| let mut enigo = Enigo::new(&Settings::default()) | ||
| .map_err(|e| format!("failed to create enigo instance: {e}"))?; |
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Restore the clipboard when insertion fails.
The clipboard already contains text when this operation runs. If Enigo::new fails, ? returns before restoration is scheduled. The keystroke error paths have the same effect. On macOS and Windows, the saved clipboard text remains overwritten.
Establish cleanup immediately after the clipboard write. Restore the saved text on failure, and retain the delayed restoration only after a successful paste.
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In the paste operation, establish clipboard restoration immediately after
writing the replacement text so failures from Enigo::new or subsequent
keystrokes restore the saved clipboard text. Keep delayed restoration only on
the successful paste path, using the existing platform-specific restoration
logic.
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| std::thread::sleep(CLIPBOARD_RESTORE_DELAY); | ||
| match Clipboard::new() { | ||
| Ok(mut cb) => { | ||
| if let Err(e) = cb.set_text(&original) { |
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Do not overwrite newer clipboard contents.
If the user copies new text during the 450 ms delay, this unconditional write replaces the new text with the old snapshot.
Repeated calls also conflict. A second call can save the first call's temporary text, and its worker can later restore that temporary text instead of the original clipboard.
Coordinate calls through the complete save–paste–restore transaction. Before restoration, verify that the clipboard still belongs to that transaction.
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Review comment at @crates/tinycomputer-accessibility/src/paste.rs at line 120:
Update the clipboard save–paste–restore flow around cb.set_text(&original) to
coordinate concurrent calls across the entire transaction and restore the
snapshot only if the clipboard still contains the temporary text written by that
transaction; preserve newer clipboard contents.
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| // Step 1: Save current clipboard. | ||
| let mut clipboard = Clipboard::new().map_err(|e| format!("failed to access clipboard: {e}"))?; | ||
| let saved_clipboard = clipboard.get_text().ok(); |
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When the clipboard is empty or contains an image, files, or another non-text flavor, get_text() returns an error and this converts it to None; set_text() then replaces the clipboard, while the restoration block is skipped. A normal paste can therefore permanently discard the user's prior clipboard contents or leave the inserted transcription behind, contrary to this API's restoration guarantee.
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| let mut enigo = Enigo::new(&Settings::default()) | ||
| .map_err(|e| format!("failed to create enigo instance: {e}"))?; |
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After set_text() succeeds, an Enigo::new failure—or any subsequent keystroke error—returns immediately before the restoration thread is scheduled. This occurs on unsupported/headless sessions or when synthetic input cannot be initialized, and leaves the user's clipboard replaced with the transcription precisely on the reported failure path; install cleanup before the first fallible keyboard operation.
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| std::thread::sleep(CLIPBOARD_RESTORE_DELAY); | ||
| match Clipboard::new() { | ||
| Ok(mut cb) => { | ||
| if let Err(e) = cb.set_text(&original) { |
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The detached restoration thread unconditionally writes the saved value after 450 ms. If the user copies something new during that interval, the new value is silently overwritten; overlapping insert_text calls are also misordered (the second call can ultimately restore the first transcription instead of the original clipboard). Before restoring, verify that the clipboard still contains this invocation's staged text or serialize restorations with a generation/change token.
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| /// Returns a message when the clipboard or the synthetic keyboard cannot be | ||
| /// reached, or when a keystroke cannot be sent. Empty or whitespace-only text | ||
| /// is a successful no-op. | ||
| pub fn insert_text(text: &str, expected_app: Option<&str>) -> Result<(), String> { |
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This new fallible public API bypasses the crate's exported Result<T> and exposes unstructured String errors, preventing callers from handling accessibility failures consistently and leaving clipboard/input failures outside the owning Error enum. Add specific error variants and return the crate alias as required for public operations.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L216-L219
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| #[cfg(feature = "paste")] | ||
| pub mod paste; |
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The public feature is added without updating either accessibility guide: the crate README's feature table still lists only microphone-probe, its dependency summary omits arboard and enigo, and the docs guide likewise describes only the microphone feature. Consumers therefore cannot discover how to enable this off-by-default API from the documented crate surface; update both guides with the behavior and operational constraints in this commit.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L414-L415
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| if let Err(restore_err) = restore_focus_to_app(app_name) { | ||
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On macOS, if focus moved and the expected application is closed or cannot be activated, this branch only logs the restoration error and continues to synthesize Cmd+V. The transcription is then pasted into whichever unrelated application still owns focus, defeating the purpose of expected_app and potentially disclosing dictated text; return an error instead of attempting the paste after restoration fails.
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| if std::env::var_os("DISPLAY").is_none() && std::env::var_os("WAYLAND_DISPLAY").is_none() { | ||
| assert!(insert_text("x", None).is_err()); |
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On macOS and Windows, DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY are normally absent even in an interactive session, so this condition invokes the real clipboard and keyboard during cargo test --all-features. With working permissions it can paste x into the user's focused application and then fail because the call returned Ok; exercise the error through the fake platform or make this an explicitly gated live_* test instead.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L373-L383
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| # Default-input-device probe behind `microphone-probe`. | ||
| cpal = { workspace = true, optional = true } | ||
| # Clipboard and synthetic keystrokes behind `paste`. | ||
| arboard = { version = "3", optional = true } |
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insert_text only uses text clipboard operations, but this dependency leaves arboard's default image support enabled. The resulting lockfile additions include the image/TIFF stack and a second Objective-C dependency generation, and even require broadening the license allowlist, so every paste-enabled or --all-features build pays for unused functionality; declare arboard with default-features = false.
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Moves voice/text_input.rs from the OpenHuman core into tinycomputer-accessibility behind a new off-by-default
pastefeature (arboard + enigo). On macOS it re-validates and restores focus to the expected app before pasting; the previous clipboard is restored after a delay. Pure library addition with the moved unit tests; no module/contract/bus change. The macOS lock watcher was left in the host (macOS-only FFI, not verifiable here).Summary by CodeRabbit