description: "Input trigger pipeline for the Web GUI: / and @ detection under the caret, the grouped candidate menu, and pick routing to registered sources; for users and maintainers of slash commands and references."
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When users type / or @ at the caret in the Web GUI, this package opens a grouped menu for slash commands, file references, and session references. It supports keyboard and pointer selection, including drill-down choices and launchers that open a single candidate group over the current selection. A pick either invokes a command flow or inserts a reference for the consuming input surface to handle. The package affects browser presentation only; it does not assemble or send model requests.
Mount this plugin alongside ui-conversation; the menu then appears in the input overlay when the user types a trigger under the caret. Grouped candidates render under title rows; a pick routes to the source, and the consuming surface applies the result — a slash command opens its popup or executes, a reference inserts its inline token.
The composer surface keeps focus while the menu is open: rows pick on mousedown, the highlight rides aria-activedescendant, and a pointer press outside both the menu and the composer card dismisses it. Space and Enter adjudication polls the optional matchSpace/matchEnter hooks in registration order; the first non-undefined answer wins, and a source can refuse a submission it cannot consume whole. Tab acts on the highlighted completion: a candidate declaring drill: true routes through onPick with action: 'drill', while an ordinary candidate settles through action: 'pick'; without a highlight, Tab passes untouched so native focus traversal survives. A drillable row's trailing chevron exposes the same second verb to pointer users. A source implementing the optional header hook additionally publishes crumbs above its group: the pipeline re-polls it on every hit with the live query and whether a drill, rather than typing, produced it, and a crumb pick routes back through onPick with action: 'drill'.
A source may implement openReference(session, reference) to open a draft reference without submitting it. Acceptance may precede asynchronous catalog loading. Chips route by source name; editable tokens route through the current source lexicon. Returning false, a missing source, or a disposed controller leaves the editor gesture unchanged.
Read these pages when the trigger pipeline is not enough. They move from the pipeline to the sources that register into it and the shell that owns the input.
/ command source into this pipeline and owns the command popup shell.@ file and session reference sources.None, as the trigger pipeline is browser presentation only — picks produce command claims and reference inserts whose model-visible consequences are owned by the consuming host and input-machine packages.
None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.
These limits define the current trigger pipeline. They are current package constraints, not a general menu comparison or a task backlog.
InputTriggerCandidate.icon renders as text — MenuView drops the string into the icon slot verbatim; wiring to the design-system icon enum lands when that enum ships.conversation.input.overlay merge lives here, while ui-conversation owns its anchor, children declaration, and lifecycle because the dependency direction is ui-conversation → ui-input-trigger.Runtime invariant: No companion is published. The trigger pipeline is a browser-side pure core (detect/reduce/match) plus a registry whose disposal is proven by the HMR-safety spec; it emits no cordis events and owns no cross-plugin mutable state.