## Stack 1. [1 of 3] Support long raw TUI goal objectives - #27508 2. **[2 of 3] Support long pasted text in TUI goals** - this PR 3. [3 of 3] Support images in TUI goals - #27510 ## Why Large text pasted into the TUI composer is represented as a paste placeholder plus pending paste metadata. For `/goal`, preserving only the visible placeholder is not enough: the agent would see a short placeholder string instead of the actual pasted text, and the long-text support from the first PR would never see the payload. The TUI also needs to avoid writing stale sidecar files when a user pastes a large block and then deletes its placeholder before submitting the goal. ## What Changed - Introduces a TUI `GoalDraft` for goal submissions so `/goal`, `/goal edit`, and queued goal commands can carry objective text plus text elements and pending paste payloads. - Materializes active pasted-text placeholders to `pasted-text-N.txt` files through the app-server filesystem path introduced in #27508. - Rewrites active paste placeholders in the persisted objective to file references, while leaving literal placeholder-looking text alone. - Filters out deleted paste placeholders so otherwise-small goals do not require `$CODEX_HOME` or remote filesystem writes. - Preserves pending paste metadata when a `/goal` command is queued before a thread exists. ## Verification - Added goal materialization tests for active paste placeholders, deleted paste placeholders, and whitespace-only paste payloads. - Added/updated TUI slash-command tests for large pasted text, queued `/goal` commands before thread start, and queued oversized goal behavior. ## Manual Testing - Used real terminal bracketed-paste sequences through a remote TUI session. A 1,228-byte multiline paste became `pasted-text-1.txt`; its first/last lines and byte count matched exactly, and the persisted objective referenced the server-host path. - Pasted a large block, deleted its placeholder, and submitted a small replacement objective. No new directory or sidecar file was created. - Added two same-length large pastes to one goal. The composer disambiguated their visible placeholders, and materialization preserved order and contents in `pasted-text-1.txt` and `pasted-text-2.txt`. - Submitted a whitespace-only large paste and verified the goal was rejected as empty without writing a file. - Submitted a pasted-text replacement while another goal was active, verified no file was written before confirmation, then canceled and confirmed the original goal remained unchanged. - Combined a large paste with enough raw text to exceed 4,000 characters after placeholder rewriting. The paste sidecar and `goal-objective.md` were created in the same remote attachment directory, and `/goal edit` restored the rewritten objective with its sidecar reference.
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