diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-runtime-send.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-runtime-send.test.ts
index bcc61c9edf7..b4c955a0d60 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-runtime-send.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-runtime-send.test.ts
@@ -343,10 +343,6 @@ describe('sendNativeChatMessageWithImageAttachments', () => {
 
     vi.advanceTimersByTime(NATIVE_CHAT_IMAGE_ATTACHMENT_SETTLE_MS)
     expect(sendRuntimePtyInput).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(SETTINGS, PTY, 'what do you see?')
-    expect(`${framedImageWithSeparator}what do you see?`).toBe(
-      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-image.png\x1b[201~ what do you see?'
-    )
-    expect(`${framedImageWithSeparator}what do you see?`).not.toContain('png\x1b[201~what')
 
     vi.advanceTimersByTime(NATIVE_CHAT_SUBMIT_DELAY_MS)
     expect(sendRuntimePtyInput).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(SETTINGS, PTY, NATIVE_CHAT_SUBMIT)
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/TerminalPane.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/TerminalPane.tsx
index a59d5c57967..2b58732f0ea 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/TerminalPane.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/TerminalPane.tsx
@@ -1981,7 +1981,6 @@ function TerminalPane(
         forceBracketedPaste: options?.forceBracketedPaste,
         forceBracketedPasteForMultiline: options?.forceBracketedPasteForMultiline,
         windowsInputRecordNewline: options?.windowsInputRecordNewline,
-        followedByNonImageInput: options?.followedByNonImageInput,
         terminalBracketedPasteMode: pane.terminal.modes.bracketedPasteMode
       })
       const execution = await executeTerminalPastePlan(plan, {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-bracketed-paste.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-bracketed-paste.ts
index cf06fd23583..ab0960a3ff7 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-bracketed-paste.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-bracketed-paste.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import type { Terminal } from '@xterm/xterm'
-import { separateImagePasteFromFollowingText } from '../../../../shared/image-paste-following-text'
 import type { WindowsInputRecordNewline } from './terminal-paste-model'
 
 type BracketedPasteTerminal = {
@@ -17,7 +16,6 @@ type PasteTerminal = BracketedPasteTerminal & {
 type PasteTerminalTextOptions = {
   forceBracketedPaste?: boolean
   windowsInputRecordNewline?: WindowsInputRecordNewline
-  followedByNonImageInput?: boolean
 }
 
 const interruptedBracketedPasteTerminals = new WeakSet<object>()
@@ -103,6 +101,12 @@ export function encodeWindowsInputRecordPasteText(
   return encoded
 }
 
+function forceBracketedPaste(terminal: PasteTerminal, text: string): void {
+  // Why: forced callers already built the exact paste protocol bytes. Send
+  // them as PTY input so xterm's DOM/native paste machinery cannot defer them.
+  terminal.input(wrapTerminalBracketedPasteText(text))
+}
+
 export function markTerminalBracketedPasteInterrupted(terminal: BracketedPasteTerminal): void {
   if (terminal.modes.bracketedPasteMode) {
     interruptedBracketedPasteTerminals.add(terminal)
@@ -139,14 +143,7 @@ export function pasteTerminalText(
   if (options?.forceBracketedPaste) {
     // Why: generated image paths are paste payloads, even when they are a
     // single line, so they must bypass stale Ctrl+C plain-text suppression.
-    // Trailing space is keyed off followedByNonImageInput only — never off
-    // forceBracketedPaste, which also wraps multiline text.
-    terminal.input(
-      separateImagePasteFromFollowingText(
-        wrapTerminalBracketedPasteText(text),
-        options.followedByNonImageInput === true
-      )
-    )
+    forceBracketedPaste(terminal, text)
     return
   }
   if (!interruptedBracketedPasteTerminals.has(terminal)) {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.test.ts
index 93cb7f33873..422dc28791a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.test.ts
@@ -22,11 +22,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
 
     expect(pasteText).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       '/var/folders/3l/b7w02vh17tg5r5s3nhhdf3kh0000gn/T/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png',
-      {
-        forceBracketedPaste: true,
-        recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-        followedByNonImageInput: true
-      }
+      { forceBracketedPaste: true, recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true }
     )
   })
 
@@ -52,10 +48,8 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
       pasteText: (text, options) => pasteTerminalText(terminal, text, options)
     })
 
-    const imageBytes = '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~ '
-    expect(terminal.input).toHaveBeenCalledWith(imageBytes)
-    expect(`${imageBytes}describe this`).toBe(
-      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~ describe this'
+    expect(terminal.input).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~'
     )
     expect(terminal.paste).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
     expect(observedIgnoreBracketedPasteMode).toEqual([false])
@@ -84,7 +78,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
     })
 
     expect(terminal.input).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~ '
+      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~'
     )
     expect(terminal.paste).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
     expect(observedIgnoreBracketedPasteMode).toEqual([false])
@@ -110,8 +104,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
     })
     expect(pasteText).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/var/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png', {
       forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
+      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true
     })
   })
 
@@ -134,8 +127,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
     })
     expect(pasteText).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-runtime.png', {
       forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
+      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true
     })
   })
 
@@ -152,8 +144,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
 
     expect(pasteText).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png', {
       forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
+      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true
     })
   })
 
@@ -175,8 +166,7 @@ describe('terminal clipboard paste', () => {
     })
     expect(pasteText).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png', {
       forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
+      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true
     })
   })
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.ts
index 594e3bbfa0d..abd0fb95b97 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-clipboard-paste.ts
@@ -86,10 +86,8 @@ export async function pasteTerminalClipboard({
     const result = await pasteText(filePath, {
       // Why: a generated clipboard-image path is terminal image injection, not
       // ordinary one-line text. Keep it off the Ctrl+C stale-text paste path.
-      // Trailing space so later typed text cannot glue onto `.png`.
       forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
+      recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas: true
     })
     if (result === false) {
       return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'image-paste-rejected' }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-image-paste-following-text.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-image-paste-following-text.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 91f7ed1a461..00000000000
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-image-paste-following-text.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
-
-import { pasteTerminalText } from './terminal-bracketed-paste'
-import {
-  executeTerminalPastePlan,
-  planTerminalPaste,
-  type TerminalPasteTarget
-} from './terminal-paste-coordinator'
-
-function terminalTarget(): TerminalPasteTarget {
-  return {
-    kind: 'terminal',
-    paneId: 1,
-    leafId: 'leaf-1',
-    ptyId: 'pty-1',
-    runtime: {
-      platform: 'darwin',
-      runtimeKey: 'local:darwin',
-      kind: 'local'
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-function createTerminal() {
-  return {
-    modes: { bracketedPasteMode: true },
-    options: { ignoreBracketedPasteMode: false },
-    input: vi.fn(),
-    paste: vi.fn()
-  }
-}
-
-describe('clipboard image paste through plan → execute → pasteTerminalText', () => {
-  it('writes a trailing space after the bracketed image path so later typing cannot glue', async () => {
-    const terminal = createTerminal()
-    const plan = planTerminalPaste({
-      text: '/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png',
-      source: 'keyboard',
-      target: terminalTarget(),
-      forceBracketedPaste: true,
-      followedByNonImageInput: true
-    })
-
-    const result = await executeTerminalPastePlan(plan, {
-      pasteText: (text, options) => pasteTerminalText(terminal, text, options),
-      isTargetCurrent: () => true
-    })
-
-    expect(result.status).toBe('pasted')
-    const imageBytes = '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~ '
-    expect(terminal.input).toHaveBeenCalledWith(imageBytes)
-    expect(`${imageBytes}describe this`).toBe(
-      '\x1b[200~/tmp/orca-paste-1760000000000-id.png\x1b[201~ describe this'
-    )
-    expect(terminal.paste).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
-  })
-
-  it('does not append a trailing space to forced-bracketed multiline text paste', async () => {
-    const terminal = createTerminal()
-    const plan = planTerminalPaste({
-      text: 'one\r\ntwo',
-      source: 'keyboard',
-      target: terminalTarget(),
-      forceBracketedPasteForMultiline: true
-    })
-
-    const result = await executeTerminalPastePlan(plan, {
-      pasteText: (text, options) => pasteTerminalText(terminal, text, options),
-      isTargetCurrent: () => true
-    })
-
-    expect(result.status).toBe('pasted')
-    expect(plan.mode).toBe('bracketed-terminal')
-    expect(terminal.input).toHaveBeenCalledWith('\x1b[200~one\rtwo\x1b[201~')
-    expect(terminal.paste).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
-  })
-})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-menu-paste.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-menu-paste.ts
index 179997934ad..295b7e35c53 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-menu-paste.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-menu-paste.ts
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ export const executeTerminalPaneMenuPasteText = async (
     forceBracketedPaste: options?.forceBracketedPaste,
     forceBracketedPasteForMultiline: options?.forceBracketedPasteForMultiline,
     windowsInputRecordNewline: options?.windowsInputRecordNewline,
-    followedByNonImageInput: options?.followedByNonImageInput,
     terminalBracketedPasteMode: pane.terminal.modes.bracketedPasteMode
   })
   const execution = await executeTerminalPastePlan(plan, {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-coordinator.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-coordinator.ts
index f587f3b20f2..a6aa23cc262 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-coordinator.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-coordinator.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ type PlanTerminalPasteArgs = {
   forceBracketedPaste?: boolean
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline?: boolean
   windowsInputRecordNewline?: WindowsInputRecordNewline
-  followedByNonImageInput?: boolean
   terminalBracketedPasteMode?: boolean
   hasRichText?: boolean
   maxDirectBytes?: number
@@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ export function planTerminalPaste({
   forceBracketedPaste = false,
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline = false,
   windowsInputRecordNewline,
-  followedByNonImageInput = false,
   terminalBracketedPasteMode = false,
   hasRichText = false,
   maxDirectBytes = TERMINAL_PASTE_DIRECT_MAX_BYTES,
@@ -99,7 +97,6 @@ export function planTerminalPaste({
     forceBracketedPaste,
     forceBracketedPasteForMultiline,
     windowsInputRecordNewline,
-    followedByNonImageInput,
     maxBytes,
     maxChunkBytes,
     maxDirectBytes,
@@ -116,7 +113,6 @@ export async function planTerminalPasteWithYield({
   forceBracketedPaste = false,
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline = false,
   windowsInputRecordNewline,
-  followedByNonImageInput = false,
   terminalBracketedPasteMode = false,
   hasRichText = false,
   maxDirectBytes = TERMINAL_PASTE_DIRECT_MAX_BYTES,
@@ -143,7 +139,6 @@ export async function planTerminalPasteWithYield({
     forceBracketedPaste,
     forceBracketedPasteForMultiline,
     windowsInputRecordNewline,
-    followedByNonImageInput,
     maxBytes,
     maxChunkBytes,
     maxDirectBytes,
@@ -159,7 +154,6 @@ function buildTerminalPastePlan({
   forceBracketedPaste,
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline,
   windowsInputRecordNewline,
-  followedByNonImageInput,
   terminalBracketedPasteMode,
   maxDirectBytes,
   maxChunkBytes,
@@ -170,7 +164,6 @@ function buildTerminalPastePlan({
   forceBracketedPaste: boolean
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline: boolean
   windowsInputRecordNewline?: WindowsInputRecordNewline
-  followedByNonImageInput: boolean
   terminalBracketedPasteMode: boolean
   maxDirectBytes: number
   maxChunkBytes: number
@@ -212,7 +205,6 @@ function buildTerminalPastePlan({
     ...(effectiveWindowsInputRecordNewline
       ? { windowsInputRecordNewline: effectiveWindowsInputRecordNewline }
       : {}),
-    ...(followedByNonImageInput ? { followedByNonImageInput: true } : {}),
     runtimeKey: target.runtime.runtimeKey,
     ...(shouldChunk ? { maxChunkBytes } : {}),
     bracketed: mode === 'bracketed-terminal' || (mode === 'chunked' && shouldBracketChunk),
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-executor.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-executor.ts
index edeb66e1cdd..39a05f4dd24 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-executor.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-executor.ts
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ async function executeTerminalPastePlanNow(
         forceBracketedPaste: plan.mode === 'bracketed-terminal',
         ...(plan.windowsInputRecordNewline
           ? { windowsInputRecordNewline: plan.windowsInputRecordNewline }
-          : {}),
-        ...(plan.followedByNonImageInput ? { followedByNonImageInput: true } : {})
+          : {})
       })
     }, operationTimeoutMs)
     if (pasteResult.timedOut) {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-model.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-model.ts
index a7f6f055ecb..6a1d21fafeb 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-model.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-paste-model.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ export type TerminalPastePlan = {
   // every write path applies xterm's native \r?\n -> \r before ConPTY sees LF.
   newlinePolicy: 'preserve' | 'terminal-cr' | 'windows-input-record'
   windowsInputRecordNewline?: WindowsInputRecordNewline
-  followedByNonImageInput?: boolean
   runtimeKey: string
   maxChunkBytes?: number
   bracketed: boolean
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ export type TerminalPasteTextOptions = {
   forceBracketedPasteForMultiline?: boolean
   windowsInputRecordNewline?: WindowsInputRecordNewline
   recoverImagePasteWebglAtlas?: boolean
-  followedByNonImageInput?: boolean
 }
 
 export type WindowsInputRecordNewline = 'alt-enter' | 'csi-u'