Image paste (Ctrl-V) does not work in Ghostty terminal on macOS

[wubing-wx]

Description

Image paste via Ctrl-V does not work in Ghostty terminal on macOS. The feature is documented (clipboard-image-hint.ts shows "Image in clipboard — Ctrl+V to paste"), but pressing Ctrl-V after copying an image to the clipboard does nothing.

Additionally, drag-and-drop is not supported in TUI mode, which is expected for a terminal app. However, Claude Code (same Ink-based TUI framework) supports Ctrl-V image paste reliably in the same terminal.

Environment

• kimi-code: 0.31.1
• OS: macOS 15.5 (Darwin 25.5.0, arm64)
• Terminal: Ghostty (xterm-ghostty)
• Model: K3 with image_in capability enabled

Steps to Reproduce

1. Copy an image to clipboard (Cmd-C on a file in Finder, or screenshot with Cmd-Shift-4)
2. Switch to kimi-code TUI in Ghostty
3. Press Ctrl-V
4. Nothing happens — no hint appears, no image is pasted

Expected Behavior

• A hint "Image in clipboard — Ctrl+V to paste" should appear
• Pressing Ctrl-V should attach the image to the next message
• This works correctly in Claude Code with the same terminal setup

Workaround

We implemented a hook-based workaround: user types "看图" (Chinese for "look at image"), the hook extracts the clipboard image via pngpaste/osascript, saves it to a temp file, and injects the path for ReadMediaFile. But this should not be necessary.

[ALxR1337]

im on macOS 15.7.7 and i dont have any issues, it works fine for me