I taught Open Relay's live session terminal a real Ctrl+V workflow
If terminal-first AI workflows are going to hold up in real use, the friction is usually not in the headline feature. It is in the handoff moments.
That is why I spent this Open Relay / oly change on something small but important inside the live SessionDetail terminal: Ctrl+V now works like it should.
The behavior is practical:
- pasted text is sent directly into the running terminal session
- pasted files are uploaded first, then the returned file address is sent back into the session
- multi-file clipboard cases now have focused test coverage instead of being left as a hopeful edge case
I care about this because Open Relay is not trying to be a flashy terminal wrapper. I am building it as a supervision layer for long-running CLI and agent sessions: start them once, let them keep running, come back later, inspect logs, send input, reattach, and take over only when needed.
That model falls apart if handoff is clumsy.
When I jump back into an already-running session, I do not always need a new command. Sometimes I need to paste a short fix, drop in a file, or pass a path back into the terminal without breaking flow. A real Ctrl+V path inside the live terminal matters more than it sounds.
This is one reason I still think CLI / TUI is the natural home for serious code-agent work. It stays close to the real tools, scripts, and environments people already use. The job of a project like Open Relay is to make that terminal-first model easier to supervise and easier to recover.
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