diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test-events.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test-events.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b48d46c860d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test-events.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import { act, fireEvent } from '@testing-library/react'
+
+function dispatchKey(
+  input: HTMLInputElement,
+  type: 'keydown' | 'keyup',
+  init: KeyboardEventInit
+): boolean {
+  const event = new KeyboardEvent(type, { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, ...init })
+  Object.defineProperty(event, 'keyCode', { value: init.keyCode })
+  act(() => input.dispatchEvent(event))
+  return event.defaultPrevented
+}
+
+function dispatchImplicitSubmit(input: HTMLInputElement, init: KeyboardEventInit): boolean {
+  const prevented = dispatchKey(input, 'keydown', init)
+  if (!prevented) {
+    const form = input.closest('form')
+    if (!form) {
+      throw new Error('missing implicit-submit form')
+    }
+    act(() => form.dispatchEvent(new Event('submit', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true })))
+  }
+  return prevented
+}
+
+export function dispatchRecordedImeImplicitSubmit(input: HTMLInputElement): boolean {
+  fireEvent.compositionStart(input)
+  dispatchKey(input, 'keydown', {
+    key: 'Process',
+    code: 'Enter',
+    keyCode: 229,
+    isComposing: true
+  })
+  fireEvent.compositionEnd(input, { data: '가' })
+  const prevented = dispatchImplicitSubmit(input, {
+    key: 'Enter',
+    code: 'Enter',
+    keyCode: 13,
+    isComposing: false
+  })
+  dispatchKey(input, 'keyup', { key: 'Process', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 229 })
+  dispatchKey(input, 'keyup', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13 })
+  return prevented
+}
+
+export function dispatchOrdinaryImplicitSubmit(input: HTMLInputElement): boolean {
+  return dispatchImplicitSubmit(input, {
+    key: 'Enter',
+    code: 'Enter',
+    keyCode: 13,
+    isComposing: false
+  })
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9dda703fc9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+
+import { act, cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event'
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { dispatchOrdinaryImplicitSubmit } from './ime-enter-guarded-form.test-events'
+import { ImeEnterGuardedForm } from './ime-enter-guarded-form'
+
+function dispatchKey(input: HTMLInputElement, init: KeyboardEventInit): boolean {
+  const event = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, ...init })
+  Object.defineProperty(event, 'keyCode', { value: init.keyCode })
+  act(() => input.dispatchEvent(event))
+  return event.defaultPrevented
+}
+
+afterEach(cleanup)
+
+describe('form-level Enter default prevention', () => {
+  it('allows browser implicit submission without a bubbled veto', async () => {
+    const onSubmit = vi.fn((event: React.FormEvent) => event.preventDefault())
+    const user = userEvent.setup()
+    render(
+      <form onSubmit={onSubmit}>
+        <input aria-label="unguarded" />
+      </form>
+    )
+
+    await user.click(screen.getByLabelText('unguarded'))
+    await user.keyboard('{Enter}')
+
+    expect(onSubmit).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+
+  it('vetoes browser implicit submission from the bubbled form keydown', async () => {
+    const onSubmit = vi.fn((event: React.FormEvent) => event.preventDefault())
+    let bubbledCurrentTarget: EventTarget | null = null
+    const onKeyDown = vi.fn((event: React.KeyboardEvent) => {
+      bubbledCurrentTarget = event.currentTarget
+      event.preventDefault()
+    })
+    const user = userEvent.setup()
+    render(
+      <form onKeyDown={onKeyDown} onSubmit={onSubmit}>
+        <input aria-label="guarded" />
+      </form>
+    )
+
+    await user.click(screen.getByLabelText('guarded'))
+    await user.keyboard('{Enter}')
+
+    expect(onKeyDown).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+    expect(bubbledCurrentTarget).toBeInstanceOf(HTMLFormElement)
+    expect(onSubmit).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+})
+
+describe('ImeEnterGuardedForm field ownership', () => {
+  it('resets the carry when focus moves between fields', () => {
+    const onSubmit = vi.fn((event: React.FormEvent) => event.preventDefault())
+    render(
+      <ImeEnterGuardedForm onSubmit={onSubmit}>
+        <input aria-label="first" />
+        <input aria-label="second" />
+      </ImeEnterGuardedForm>
+    )
+    const first = screen.getByLabelText('first') as HTMLInputElement
+    const second = screen.getByLabelText('second') as HTMLInputElement
+
+    fireEvent.focus(first)
+    fireEvent.compositionStart(first)
+    expect(
+      dispatchKey(first, {
+        key: 'Process',
+        code: 'Enter',
+        keyCode: 229,
+        isComposing: true
+      })
+    ).toBe(true)
+    fireEvent.compositionEnd(first, { data: '가' })
+    fireEvent.blur(first)
+    fireEvent.focus(second)
+
+    expect(dispatchOrdinaryImplicitSubmit(second)).toBe(false)
+    expect(onSubmit).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c1e9847740
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ime-enter-guarded-form.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import type { ComponentProps } from 'react'
+import { useImeEnterGestureOwnership } from '@/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event'
+
+export function ImeEnterGuardedForm({
+  onBlur,
+  onCompositionEnd,
+  onCompositionStart,
+  onKeyDown,
+  onKeyUp,
+  ...props
+}: ComponentProps<'form'>): React.JSX.Element {
+  const imeEnter = useImeEnterGestureOwnership()
+
+  return (
+    <form
+      {...props}
+      onCompositionStart={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.setComposing(true)
+        onCompositionStart?.(event)
+      }}
+      onCompositionEnd={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.setComposing(false)
+        onCompositionEnd?.(event)
+      }}
+      onKeyDown={(event) => {
+        if (imeEnter.ownsKeyDown(event)) {
+          event.preventDefault()
+          return
+        }
+        onKeyDown?.(event)
+      }}
+      onKeyUp={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.onKeyUp(event)
+        onKeyUp?.(event)
+      }}
+      onBlur={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.reset()
+        onBlur?.(event)
+      }}
+    />
+  )
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bee2652f6b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+
+import { act } from 'react'
+import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { Command, CommandInput, CommandItem, CommandList } from './command'
+
+// cmdk puts its Enter->select dispatch on the Command root and guards it with
+// only `isComposing || keyCode === 229`. macOS redispatches the Enter that
+// confirms a CJK composition as an unmarked Enter/13, which that guard lets
+// through. These pin the veto our root handler adds — the guard itself lives in
+// a dependency and cannot be fixed at the source.
+
+let container: HTMLDivElement
+let root: ReturnType<typeof createRoot>
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  container = document.createElement('div')
+  document.body.appendChild(container)
+  root = createRoot(container)
+})
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  act(() => root.unmount())
+  container.remove()
+})
+
+function render(onSelect: () => void): HTMLInputElement {
+  act(() => {
+    root.render(
+      <Command shouldFilter={false}>
+        <CommandInput placeholder="Search templates..." />
+        <CommandList>
+          <CommandItem value="가나다 template" onSelect={onSelect}>
+            template
+          </CommandItem>
+        </CommandList>
+      </Command>
+    )
+  })
+  return container.querySelector('input')!
+}
+
+function key(input: HTMLInputElement, type: 'keydown' | 'keyup', init: KeyboardEventInit): void {
+  const event = new KeyboardEvent(type, { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, ...init })
+  Object.defineProperty(event, 'keyCode', { value: init.keyCode })
+  Object.defineProperty(event, 'isComposing', { value: init.isComposing === true })
+  act(() => input.dispatchEvent(event))
+}
+
+function composition(
+  input: HTMLInputElement,
+  type: 'compositionstart' | 'compositionend',
+  data = ''
+) {
+  act(() => input.dispatchEvent(new CompositionEvent(type, { bubbles: true, data })))
+}
+
+// The carry expires on the NEXT FRAME, never synchronously — macOS delivers keyup
+// before its unmarked redispatch. A human pressing a later deliberate Enter is many
+// frames away, so advance one.
+function advanceFrame(run: () => void): void {
+  let frame: FrameRequestCallback | undefined
+  const raf = vi.spyOn(window, 'requestAnimationFrame').mockImplementation((cb) => {
+    frame = cb
+    return 1
+  })
+  run()
+  act(() => frame?.(0))
+  raf.mockRestore()
+}
+
+describe('Command IME Enter ownership', () => {
+  it('selects the highlighted item on an ordinary Enter', () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn()
+    const input = render(onSelect)
+
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13 })
+
+    expect(onSelect).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+
+  // Recorded macOS 2-Set Korean shape: the confirming Enter arrives twice, and the
+  // second one is unmarked. Before the veto this created a file the user never asked
+  // for while their search text was still mid-word.
+  it('does not select on the unmarked Enter that macOS redispatches after compositionend', () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn()
+    const input = render(onSelect)
+
+    composition(input, 'compositionstart')
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Process', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true })
+    composition(input, 'compositionend', '가')
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13, isComposing: false })
+    key(input, 'keyup', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13 })
+
+    expect(onSelect).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('selects on the deliberate Enter that follows a confirmed composition', () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn()
+    const input = render(onSelect)
+
+    composition(input, 'compositionstart')
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Process', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true })
+    composition(input, 'compositionend', '가')
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13, isComposing: false })
+    advanceFrame(() => key(input, 'keyup', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13 }))
+
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13, isComposing: false })
+
+    expect(onSelect).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+
+  // Windows/Linux redispatch the unmarked Enter BEFORE keyup, so the carry must not
+  // depend on the macOS ordering.
+  it('does not select when the redispatch precedes keyup', () => {
+    const onSelect = vi.fn()
+    const input = render(onSelect)
+
+    composition(input, 'compositionstart')
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true })
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13, isComposing: false })
+    composition(input, 'compositionend', '가')
+    key(input, 'keyup', { key: 'Enter', code: 'Enter', keyCode: 13 })
+
+    expect(onSelect).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('still forwards a consumer onKeyDown for keys the IME does not own', () => {
+    const onKeyDown = vi.fn()
+    act(() => {
+      root.render(
+        <Command shouldFilter={false} onKeyDown={onKeyDown}>
+          <CommandInput />
+          <CommandList>
+            <CommandItem value="a">a</CommandItem>
+          </CommandList>
+        </Command>
+      )
+    })
+    const input = container.querySelector('input')!
+
+    key(input, 'keydown', { key: 'ArrowDown', code: 'ArrowDown', keyCode: 40 })
+
+    expect(onKeyDown).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.tsx
index cbc9c0cf147..670e520ca5f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ui/command.tsx
@@ -5,12 +5,57 @@ import { Command as CommandPrimitive } from 'cmdk'
 import { SearchIcon } from 'lucide-react'
 import { Dialog as DialogPrimitive } from 'radix-ui'
 
+import {
+  isImeOwnedKeyboardEvent,
+  useImeEnterGestureOwnership
+} from '@/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event'
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils'
 
-function Command({ className, ...props }: React.ComponentProps<typeof CommandPrimitive>) {
+/**
+ * Why: cmdk owns the Enter->select dispatch on this root div, guarded by only
+ * `isComposing || keyCode === 229`. macOS redispatches the Enter that merely
+ * confirms a CJK composition as an unmarked `Enter`/13, which sails past that
+ * guard and selects whatever row is highlighted while the user is still
+ * mid-word. The guard lives in a dependency, but cmdk calls this handler before
+ * its own switch and skips on `defaultPrevented`, so vetoing here is the single
+ * seam that covers every CommandInput surface.
+ */
+function Command({
+  className,
+  onCompositionEnd,
+  onCompositionStart,
+  onKeyDown,
+  onKeyUp,
+  ...props
+}: React.ComponentProps<typeof CommandPrimitive>) {
+  const imeEnter = useImeEnterGestureOwnership()
+
   return (
     <CommandPrimitive
       data-slot="command"
+      onKeyDown={(event) => {
+        if (imeEnter.ownsKeyDown(event)) {
+          // The hook cancels the carried redispatch itself; only an Enter marked
+          // by composition state alone still needs the veto cmdk would miss.
+          if (!isImeOwnedKeyboardEvent(event)) {
+            event.preventDefault()
+          }
+          return
+        }
+        onKeyDown?.(event)
+      }}
+      onKeyUp={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.onKeyUp(event)
+        onKeyUp?.(event)
+      }}
+      onCompositionStart={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.setComposing(true)
+        onCompositionStart?.(event)
+      }}
+      onCompositionEnd={(event) => {
+        imeEnter.setComposing(false)
+        onCompositionEnd?.(event)
+      }}
       className={cn(
         'flex h-full w-full flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-md bg-popover text-popover-foreground',
         className
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event.ts
index 5f3f11f8c62..d376b8ab09b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { KeyboardEvent as ReactKeyboardEvent } from 'react'
+import { useMemo, useRef, type KeyboardEvent as ReactKeyboardEvent } from 'react'
 
 type ImeKeyboardEvent = {
   isComposing?: boolean
@@ -44,6 +44,99 @@ export function isMarkedImeOwnedShortcutEvent(event: object): boolean {
   return (event as { [IME_OWNED_SHORTCUT_EVENT]?: boolean })[IME_OWNED_SHORTCUT_EVENT] === true
 }
 
+type ImeEnterGestureEvent = Pick<
+  ReactKeyboardEvent,
+  'key' | 'keyCode' | 'nativeEvent' | 'preventDefault' | 'shiftKey'
+> & { altKey?: boolean; ctrlKey?: boolean; metaKey?: boolean }
+
+/**
+ * Why: the confirming Enter of a CJK composition arrives as two keydowns, and the
+ * two orderings differ by platform. Windows/Linux redispatch the unmarked
+ * `Enter`/13 *before* keyup; macOS delivers keyup first and redispatches after.
+ * A token that expires synchronously on keyup therefore regresses macOS, so the
+ * carry survives until the next animation frame. Identity-scoped so an older
+ * gesture's expiry cannot clear a newer one.
+ */
+export function useImeEnterGestureOwnership(): {
+  isComposing: () => boolean
+  ownsKeyDown: (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent) => boolean
+  onKeyUp: (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent) => void
+  reset: () => void
+  setComposing: (active: boolean) => void
+} {
+  const stateRef = useRef<{ composing: boolean; pendingEnter: object | null }>({
+    composing: false,
+    pendingEnter: null
+  })
+
+  return useMemo(() => {
+    const reset = (): void => {
+      stateRef.current = { composing: false, pendingEnter: null }
+    }
+    // Shift+Enter is a newline, never a submit — it must never be owned or swallowed.
+    const isPlainEnter = (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent): boolean =>
+      event.key === 'Enter' && event.keyCode === 13 && !event.shiftKey
+    // The redispatched Enter of a confirm carries no modifiers, so a chorded one is the
+    // user's own submit aimed past the IME. It must still ARM, and must never be swallowed.
+    const hasChordModifier = (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent): boolean =>
+      Boolean(event.altKey || event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey)
+    return {
+      isComposing: () => stateRef.current.composing,
+      ownsKeyDown: (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent): boolean => {
+        const markedEnter =
+          (event.nativeEvent.isComposing || stateRef.current.composing) &&
+          (isPlainEnter(event) ||
+            (event.key === 'Enter' && event.keyCode === 229) ||
+            (event.key === 'Process' && event.keyCode === 229))
+        if (markedEnter) {
+          stateRef.current.pendingEnter = {}
+          return true
+        }
+        if (
+          stateRef.current.pendingEnter &&
+          isPlainEnter(event) &&
+          !event.nativeEvent.isComposing
+        ) {
+          // The gesture resolves either way, so the carry is spent either way; only a bare
+          // Enter is also swallowed, because a chorded one is the user's own submit.
+          stateRef.current.pendingEnter = null
+          if (hasChordModifier(event)) {
+            return false
+          }
+          event.preventDefault()
+          return true
+        }
+        return false
+      },
+      onKeyUp: (event: ImeEnterGestureEvent): void => {
+        // A Process/229 keyup means the IME finished without redispatching, so the
+        // gesture is over immediately.
+        if (event.key === 'Process' && event.keyCode === 229) {
+          stateRef.current.pendingEnter = null
+          return
+        }
+        // Every other keyup expires on the NEXT FRAME, never synchronously. Enter/13
+        // because macOS delivers keyup before the unmarked redispatch; anything else
+        // because IMEs reporting Process/229 on every key (Pinyin candidate selection)
+        // release a non-Enter key, and a Process-only clear left the carry armed and ate
+        // the user's next real Enter.
+        const pendingEnter = stateRef.current.pendingEnter
+        if (pendingEnter) {
+          requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+            if (stateRef.current.pendingEnter === pendingEnter) {
+              stateRef.current.pendingEnter = null
+            }
+          })
+        }
+      },
+      reset,
+      setComposing: (active: boolean) => {
+        stateRef.current.composing = active
+      }
+    }
+  }, [])
+}
+
 /**
  * Why: CJK IMEs (Japanese/Chinese/Korean) fire a keydown for the Enter that
  * only confirms a conversion candidate. Rename/title inputs that commit on
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-enter-gesture-ownership-contract.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-enter-gesture-ownership-contract.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ca2ac498ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/ime-enter-gesture-ownership-contract.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { renderHook } from '@testing-library/react'
+import type { KeyboardEvent as ReactKeyboardEvent } from 'react'
+import { useImeEnterGestureOwnership } from './ime-composition-keyboard-event'
+
+/**
+ * The ownership contract for the confirming Enter of a CJK composition. Every case below is
+ * load-bearing; two of them describe bugs that were live on the same day, in opposite
+ * directions, and both are easy to reintroduce while "simplifying" the consume branch:
+ *
+ *  - Drop `!hasChordModifier` from the consume branch and a chorded confirm is SWALLOWED —
+ *    the user's Ctrl/Cmd+Enter submit silently does nothing.
+ *  - Clear the carry only on the bare path and the chorded confirm leaves it ARMED —
+ *    the user's next Enter is eaten instead.
+ *
+ * The carry must be spent on both paths; only a bare Enter is also consumed.
+ */
+
+type Chord = { altKey?: boolean; ctrlKey?: boolean; metaKey?: boolean; shiftKey?: boolean }
+type TestKeyEvent = ReactKeyboardEvent & { prevented: boolean }
+
+function enter(
+  opts: { key?: string; keyCode?: number; isComposing?: boolean } & Chord = {}
+): TestKeyEvent {
+  return {
+    key: opts.key ?? 'Enter',
+    keyCode: opts.keyCode ?? 13,
+    altKey: opts.altKey ?? false,
+    ctrlKey: opts.ctrlKey ?? false,
+    metaKey: opts.metaKey ?? false,
+    shiftKey: opts.shiftKey ?? false,
+    nativeEvent: { isComposing: opts.isComposing ?? false },
+    prevented: false,
+    preventDefault() {
+      ;(this as { prevented: boolean }).prevented = true
+    }
+  } as unknown as TestKeyEvent
+}
+
+function ownership() {
+  return renderHook(() => useImeEnterGestureOwnership()).result
+}
+
+/** Windows/Linux ordering: the IME redispatches the unmarked Enter before any keyup. */
+function confirmGesture(result: ReturnType<typeof ownership>, redispatch: TestKeyEvent): boolean {
+  result.current.setComposing(true)
+  result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ key: 'Process', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true }))
+  result.current.setComposing(false)
+  return result.current.ownsKeyDown(redispatch)
+}
+
+const CHORDS: Chord[] = [{ ctrlKey: true }, { altKey: true }, { metaKey: true }]
+
+describe('IME Enter gesture ownership — the four behaviours', () => {
+  it('blocks the unmarked Enter redispatched after compositionend', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    const redispatch = enter()
+    expect(confirmGesture(result, redispatch)).toBe(true)
+    expect(redispatch.prevented).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('blocks a chord pressed during composition, so the preedit survives', () => {
+    for (const chord of CHORDS) {
+      const result = ownership()
+      result.current.setComposing(true)
+      expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ isComposing: true, ...chord }))).toBe(true)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('submits when a modifier is held through the confirm', () => {
+    for (const chord of CHORDS) {
+      const result = ownership()
+      const redispatch = enter(chord)
+      expect(confirmGesture(result, redispatch)).toBe(false)
+      expect(redispatch.prevented).toBe(false)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('submits an ordinary Enter with no composition in flight', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    const ordinary = enter()
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(ordinary)).toBe(false)
+    expect(ordinary.prevented).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('IME Enter gesture ownership — the carry is spent on both paths', () => {
+  it('does not eat the next Enter after a chorded confirm passed through', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    expect(confirmGesture(result, enter({ ctrlKey: true }))).toBe(false)
+    const next = enter()
+    expect({ owned: result.current.ownsKeyDown(next), prevented: next.prevented }).toEqual({
+      owned: false,
+      prevented: false
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('does not eat the next Enter even within the chord keyup frame', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    expect(confirmGesture(result, enter({ ctrlKey: true }))).toBe(false)
+    // The chord's own keyup only schedules the next-frame expiry, so an Enter landing
+    // before that frame turns must still reach the app.
+    result.current.onKeyUp(enter({ ctrlKey: true }))
+    const next = enter()
+    expect({ owned: result.current.ownsKeyDown(next), prevented: next.prevented }).toEqual({
+      owned: false,
+      prevented: false
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('spends the carry on a bare confirm too, so the following Enter is free', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    expect(confirmGesture(result, enter())).toBe(true)
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter())).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('IME Enter gesture ownership — Shift+Enter is always a newline', () => {
+  it('never owns Shift+Enter, composing or on the redispatch', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    result.current.setComposing(true)
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ isComposing: true, shiftKey: true }))).toBe(false)
+    result.current.setComposing(false)
+    const redispatch = enter({ shiftKey: true })
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(redispatch)).toBe(false)
+    expect(redispatch.prevented).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('never owns Shift+Enter even while a real confirm is armed', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    expect(confirmGesture(result, enter({ shiftKey: true }))).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('IME Enter gesture ownership — expiry timing', () => {
+  it('outlives a keyup delivered before the redispatch, as macOS does', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    result.current.setComposing(true)
+    result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ key: 'Process', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true }))
+    result.current.setComposing(false)
+    // A synchronous clear here sends the composed text one keystroke early on macOS.
+    result.current.onKeyUp(enter())
+    const redispatch = enter()
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(redispatch)).toBe(true)
+    expect(redispatch.prevented).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('expires on the next frame rather than synchronously', async () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    result.current.setComposing(true)
+    result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ key: 'Process', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true }))
+    result.current.setComposing(false)
+    result.current.onKeyUp(enter())
+    await new Promise((resolve) => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(resolve)))
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter())).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('clears immediately on a Process/229 keyup, which means the IME finished', () => {
+    const result = ownership()
+    result.current.setComposing(true)
+    result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter({ key: 'Process', keyCode: 229, isComposing: true }))
+    result.current.setComposing(false)
+    result.current.onKeyUp(enter({ key: 'Process', keyCode: 229 }))
+    expect(result.current.ownsKeyDown(enter())).toBe(false)
+  })
+})