From be20f44edbc3e0ce95e6a54371aa8bd735a85a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Hyndman <scotty.hyndman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:54:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(tui): Added Alt+Shift+C keyboard shortcut to copy prompt
 to clipboard

---
 .../src/modes/components/custom-editor.ts     |  8 ++++++++
 .../src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/custom-editor.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/custom-editor.ts
index 171d87231..4cd3d4540 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/custom-editor.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/custom-editor.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ export class CustomEditor extends Editor {
 	onQuestionMark?: () => void;
 	onCapsLock?: () => void;
 	onAltP?: () => void;
+	/** Called when Alt+Shift+C is pressed to copy prompt to clipboard. */
+	onCopyPrompt?: () => void;
 	/** Called when Ctrl+V is pressed. Returns true if handled (image found), false to fall through to text paste. */
 	onCtrlV?: () => Promise<boolean>;
 	/** Called when Alt+Up is pressed (dequeue keybinding). */
@@ -150,6 +152,12 @@ export class CustomEditor extends Editor {
 			return;
 		}
 
+		// Intercept Alt+Shift+C to copy prompt to clipboard
+		if (matchesKey(data, "alt+shift+c") && this.onCopyPrompt) {
+			this.onCopyPrompt();
+			return;
+		}
+
 		// Intercept ? when editor is empty to show hotkeys
 		if (data === "?" && this.getText().length === 0 && this.onQuestionMark) {
 			this.onQuestionMark();
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts
index 0d0acbb3b..7d71c65fa 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/controllers/input-controller.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import * as fs from "node:fs/promises";
 import type { AgentMessage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-agent-core";
-import { readImageFromClipboard } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-natives";
+import { copyToClipboard, readImageFromClipboard } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-natives";
 import { $env } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-utils";
 import type { SettingPath, SettingValue } from "../../config/settings";
 import { settings } from "../../config/settings";
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ export class InputController {
 		this.ctx.editor.onCtrlG = () => void this.openExternalEditor();
 		this.ctx.editor.onQuestionMark = () => this.ctx.handleHotkeysCommand();
 		this.ctx.editor.onCtrlV = () => this.handleImagePaste();
+		this.ctx.editor.onCopyPrompt = () => this.handleCopyPrompt();
 
 		// Wire up extension shortcuts
 		this.registerExtensionShortcuts();
@@ -664,6 +665,23 @@ export class InputController {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/** Copy current prompt text to system clipboard. */
+	handleCopyPrompt(): void {
+		const text = this.ctx.editor.getText();
+		if (!text) {
+			this.ctx.showStatus("Nothing to copy");
+			return;
+		}
+		copyToClipboard(text)
+			.then(() => {
+				const preview = text.length > 30 ? `${text.slice(0, 30)}...` : text;
+				this.ctx.showStatus(`Copied: ${preview}`);
+			})
+			.catch(() => {
+				this.ctx.showWarning("Failed to copy to clipboard");
+			});
+	}
+
 	cycleThinkingLevel(): void {
 		const newLevel = this.ctx.session.cycleThinkingLevel();
 		if (newLevel === undefined) {