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Description

  • Override the default to "Clipboard paste" as the recommended option
  • Simulate Cmd+v in order to insert the text reliably into the app

Type of Change

  • 🐞 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 💥 Breaking change
  • 🧹 Chore
  • 📝 Documentation update

Related Issue or Discussion

#802

Testing

  • Tested on Apple Silicon Mac
  • Tested on macOS version:
  • Ran linter locally: swiftlint --strict --config .swiftlint.yml Sources
  • Ran tests locally: insertion across different apps and varying lenghts

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Greptile Summary

The PR makes clipboard-based paste the default and adds coordinated focus restoration, clipboard preservation, delivery status, retry handling, and integration coverage. Failure recovery still needs to preserve clipboard writes made concurrently by the user or another application.

  • Routes external text insertion through an asynchronous paste-delivery coordinator.
  • Captures and restores target focus before posting Cmd+V.
  • Adds recoverable delivery-failure UI with copy and retry actions.
  • Migrates the insertion-mode default to recommended clipboard paste.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because delivery failure can silently discard a newer clipboard entry.

Failure recovery restores the pre-delivery snapshot without checking whether another owner changed the clipboard, even though the normal settlement path already performs that ownership check.

Files Needing Attention: Sources/Fluid/Services/PasteDeliveryCoordinator.swift

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Sources/Fluid/Services/PasteDeliveryCoordinator.swift:592-593
**Failure restore overwrites newer clipboard**

If the user or another application copies content after FluidVoice writes its temporary text but before ownership verification or while posting Cmd+V fails, `restoreAfterFailure` restores the old snapshot without checking ownership, causing the newer clipboard entry to be silently lost.

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FluidVoice PR build ready

Download FluidVoice-PR-811-f3c84014ee63

The artifact contains the ad-hoc-signed app ZIP, Xcode archive, build manifest, and installation instructions. It expires 5 days after the build.

Install the app

  1. Extract the downloaded artifact, then extract FluidVoice-PR-811.app.zip.

  2. Move FluidVoice Make clipboard paste the default #811.app into the /Applications folder.

  3. Open Terminal and remove the download quarantine marker:

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/FluidVoice #811.app"
    
  4. In Applications, Control-click FluidVoice Make clipboard paste the default #811.app and choose Open.

  5. If macOS still blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and confirm.

This build has its own app identity, so its permissions are separate from the release version of FluidVoice.

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final class SystemPasteCommandPoster: PasteCommandPosting {
private static let vKeyCode: CGKeyCode = 0x09

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P1 Badge Resolve the paste key using the active keyboard layout

On keyboard layouts where virtual key code 0x09 does not produce “v”, this posts Command plus a different character instead of Command+V. The previous implementation resolved the key code through the current TIS layout, but this hard-coded replacement still returns success after posting, so the coordinator reports the transcript as delivered even though no paste occurred. Restore layout-aware lookup, including reevaluation after runtime layout switches.

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final class PasteDeliveryCoordinator {
static let shared = PasteDeliveryCoordinator()
nonisolated static let defaultSettlementDelayNanoseconds: UInt64 = 500_000_000

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P1 Badge Keep the temporary clipboard available for slow paste targets

When a busy or asynchronous target handles the posted Command+V more than 500 ms later, settlement has already restored the original clipboard, so the target pastes the old contents instead of the transcript while delivery was reported successful. The newly added testDefaultSettlementDelayIsLongEnoughForSlowPasteTargets at Tests/FluidDictationIntegrationTests/PasteDeliveryCoordinatorTests.swift:228-230 explicitly requires 1.5 seconds, so the current constant also makes that test fail.

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let isStillFocused = context.pid == TypingService.currentFocusedPID() &&
(context.element == nil || TypingService.isCapturedFocusStillActive(context))
return (context.pid, !isStillFocused)

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P1 Badge Restore the exact captured field before delivery

When focus moves to another editable element in the same application during recording, this can incorrectly decide that the original field is still focused: isCapturedFocusStillActive ultimately accepts any text-like AX element owned by the same PID, even when it is not CFEqual to the captured element. The restore is then skipped and the global Cmd+V lands in the newly focused field rather than the recorded destination; require exact element identity here or always prepare the captured target when the focused element changed.

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private static func restoreExactTarget(_ context: RecordingTargetContext) async -> Bool {
guard AXIsProcessTrusted(), context.window != nil, context.element != nil else { return false }

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P2 Badge Allow focus restoration without captured window metadata

For applications that expose the focused AX element but not kAXFocusedWindowAttribute or kAXMainWindowAttribute, the captured context legitimately has window == nil; this guard rejects it before attempting to set kAXFocusedAttribute on the usable element, and the recovery guard rejects it again. After any focus displacement, delivery therefore reports targetRestoreFailed even though the exact field could still be restored; require the element and treat the window raise as optional, as the previous restoration path did.

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if case let .recoverableFailure(failure) = result {
self.showTextDeliveryFailure(failure, transcript: text)

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P2 Badge Show recovery UI for Paste Last failures

When Paste Last is invoked through its global shortcut while the recording overlay is hidden, this failure path only stores the error and calls finishProcessingKeepingOverlayVisible(). That method does not present an idle overlay—NotchOverlayManager.setProcessing(false) only updates state—so the retry/copy controls remain invisible and the failed paste appears to do nothing. Explicitly show the overlay before reporting the recoverable failure, or provide feedback through a surface that is already visible.

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let didWrite = self.pasteboard.writeIntentionalText(lease.text)
self.log("intentional_copy_settled generation=\(generation) success=\(didWrite)")

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P2 Badge Recover when the intentional clipboard copy fails

When “Copy transcription to clipboard” is enabled and the settlement write fails, writeIntentionalText may already have cleared the general pasteboard before returning false, but this result is only logged after self.lease discarded the original snapshot. A transient pasteboard/server write failure can therefore leave the clipboard empty—losing both the user's previous contents and the requested transcript—even though insertion was reported successful; retain the lease and restore or retry when ownership has not moved to an external copy.

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guard self.pasteboard.writeTemporaryText(text, sessionID: sessionID) else {
self.restoreAfterFailure(originalSnapshot, generation: generation, reason: "clipboard_write_failed")

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P1 Failure restore overwrites newer clipboard

If the user or another application copies content after FluidVoice writes its temporary text but before ownership verification or while posting Cmd+V fails, restoreAfterFailure restores the old snapshot without checking ownership, causing the newer clipboard entry to be silently lost.

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**Failure restore overwrites newer clipboard**

If the user or another application copies content after FluidVoice writes its temporary text but before ownership verification or while posting Cmd+V fails, `restoreAfterFailure` restores the old snapshot without checking ownership, causing the newer clipboard entry to be silently lost.

**Knowledge Base Used:** [Dictation Capture Flow](https://app.greptile.com/altic/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/altic-dev/fluidvoice/-/docs/dictation-capture-flow.md)

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