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Motivation

Agents frequently produce or reference local image files (screenshots, charts, generated art), but neither the built-in MarkdownText nor this plugin's DshImageNode accepted anything beyond absolute http(s) URLs — local paths degraded to alt-text spans. The common workaround was running a separate static file server and embedding its hardcoded URLs, which is roundabout and unfriendly for agents (they'd need to know the port/host).

What this PR does

Client (src/client/renderer.tsx): DshImageNode now resolves local destinations through a new localImage() into the same-origin route /dsh-img?p=<absolute path>. The browser resolves that URL against the page origin, so agents never need to know the port or hostname. http(s) remote images are unchanged; non-image root-relative paths (e.g. /assets/app.js) still fall back to alt text.

Accepted destination forms:

  • absolute POSIX paths — ![x](/home/user/shots/a.png)
  • Windows drive / UNC paths
  • ~/ home-relative paths
  • explicit file:// URLs

Bare paths must end in an image extension (.png .jpg .jpeg .gif .webp .avif .bmp .svg) so genuine root-relative web assets are not swallowed. file:// destinations are normalized to absolute paths before parsing, because the upstream image-src sanitizer drops non-http(s) schemes during tokenization (a raw ![x](file:///...) never reached a custom node at all).

Host (src/index.ts, new src/server/image-route.ts): registers a same-origin GET /dsh-img route on the dsh web server that streams the file with content-type mapping, weak size+mtime ETags (304 revalidation), an extension allowlist, and a file-header signature check. Status contract: 405 non-GET/HEAD, 400 missing p, 404 unknown path, 403 outside allowed roots, 413 over size cap, 415 bad extension / signature mismatch.

Security model: by default only files under registered workspace directories are served (checked after realpath normalization). The route is same-origin with the GUI and the web server binds loopback by default. Deployment-varying bounds stay tunable from a profile patch layer:

- id: better-markdown
  config:
    extraRoots: [/tmp, /home/user/pics]   # additional allowed directories
    allowAny: true                        # any readable file (pure-local setups)
    maxBytes: 52428800                    # default 20 MiB
    extensions: [.png, .jpg]              # served extension list

Config schema: moved to @deepseek-ai/schemastery (bundled; devDependency only), matching the pattern used by dsh-at-file and the web server itself — its callable form lets the Loader's validate(undefined) fill defaults instead of throwing under zod v4 when an entry has no YAML config.

Testing

  • New tests/image-route.spec.ts: unit tests for path expansion / local-path detection / signature matching, plus HTTP-level tests of every status code (200 with byte-exact body + headers, 304 revalidation, 400/403/404/413/415/405).
  • Extended tests/plugin.spec.tsx: local path → /dsh-img img element, full-pipeline file:// regression, remote passthrough unchanged, non-image root-relative fallback to alt span.
  • Full suite: 28 tests passing; tsc --noEmit clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for embedding local images in assistant Markdown.
    • Supports POSIX, Windows, home-relative, and file:// paths.
    • Serves permitted images through a same-origin route with configurable workspace access, additional roots, file types, and size limits.
    • Added validation for image paths, extensions, file signatures, and a 20 MiB default size limit.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved remote HTTP(S) image behavior while safely handling local image references.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for path handling, rendering, access controls, validation, limits, and HTTP responses.

Assistant Markdown can now reference local image files by path without a
separate static file server:

- Client rewrites local destinations (absolute POSIX paths, Windows
  drive/UNC, ~/ home-relative, and file:// URLs) to the same-origin
  /dsh-img?p=<path> URL; http(s) remote images are unchanged. Bare paths
  require an image extension so root-relative web assets are not
  swallowed. file:// destinations are normalized before parsing because
  the upstream sanitizer drops non-http(s) image schemes during
  tokenization.
- Host registers a GET /dsh-img route on the dsh web server that streams
  the file with content-type mapping, weak size+mtime ETags (304 support),
  an extension allowlist, and a file-header signature check.
- Security: by default only files under registered workspace directories
  are served (realpath-normalized). Profile patch config can widen this:
  extraRoots, allowAny, maxBytes (default 20 MiB), extensions.
- Config schema moves to @deepseek-ai/schemastery so the Loader's
  validate(undefined) fills defaults instead of throwing on zod v4.
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The plugin adds local Markdown image embedding. Supported local paths are rewritten to same-origin /dsh-img URLs. The host validates paths, roots, extensions, signatures, methods, and file sizes before streaming images.

Local image route

Layer / File(s) Summary
Image route validation and serving
src/server/image-route.ts, tests/image-route.spec.ts
The route resolves and authorizes local files, validates image extensions and signatures, supports GET/HEAD and conditional responses, and streams approved images.
Host route integration and configuration
src/index.ts, package.json, tsconfig.json
The plugin registers /dsh-img, passes workspace roots and configuration to serveImage, and adds required development metadata.
Markdown local-image rewriting
src/client/renderer.tsx, tests/plugin.spec.tsx
The renderer handles POSIX, Windows, UNC, home-relative, and file:// paths while preserving remote URLs and testing fallback behavior.
Local image usage documentation
README.md, README_EN.md
The documentation describes supported paths, validation rules, limits, and configuration overrides.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 77406

The new local-image support still drops file:// URLs with localhost or UNC authorities before they can be served, so documented local and UNC image references fail to render. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AssistantMarkdown
  participant MarkstreamMarkdown
  participant WebServer
  participant serveImage
  participant FileSystem
  AssistantMarkdown->>MarkstreamMarkdown: provide Markdown image path
  MarkstreamMarkdown->>MarkstreamMarkdown: rewrite local path to /dsh-img
  MarkstreamMarkdown->>WebServer: request encoded image path
  WebServer->>serveImage: invoke image route
  serveImage->>FileSystem: resolve, validate, and open file
  FileSystem-->>serveImage: image metadata and stream
  serveImage-->>WebServer: return headers and image data
  WebServer-->>MarkstreamMarkdown: same-origin image response
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In `@src/client/renderer.tsx`:
- Around line 62-70: Update the file URL handling around the fileMatch path in
the renderer to decode valid percent-encoded path escapes exactly once before
final route encoding, while safely rejecting malformed escapes. Preserve
drive-letter normalization and add a rendering test covering a file path
containing a space.

Apply the same fix in `@src/client/renderer.tsx` around lines 74 - 78: Covers the
unsupported backslash UNC path branch.

In `@src/server/image-route.ts`:
- Around line 197-203: Update the statSync error handling in serveImage at both
file-stat locations to map EACCES and EPERM to a controlled 403 or 404 response,
preventing those errors from reaching the generic 500 path; preserve the
existing ENOENT handling and add coverage for an inaccessible path.
- Around line 219-221: Update the extension gate in the image route to treat an
empty ImageRouteConfig.extensions list as denying all extensions, while
preserving allowAny behavior and non-empty allow-list checks. Add a regression
test configuring extensions: [] and assert that a regular file request returns
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- Decode percent escapes exactly once in localImage before branch matching,
  so file URLs with encoded names (%20) and parser-encoded UNC backslashes
  resolve to real filesystem paths; malformed escapes fall back to alt text.
- Recognize backslash UNC share spellings (including the markdown-pipeline
  collapsed single-backslash form) in localImage and looksLikeLocalPath.
- Map EACCES/EPERM from realpath/stat/open to controlled 403/404 responses
  instead of escaping serveImage as a generic 500.
- Treat an empty extensions list as denying every extension (allowAny still
  bypasses the gate).
- Add regression tests for all of the above; document percent-decoding and
  the extensions override in both READMEs.

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In `@src/client/renderer.tsx`:
- Around line 68-89: Update rewriteFileImageDests so its fileMatch handling
preserves the authority component: treat localhost as a local path and convert
non-local authorities such as server into the UNC form expected by localImage
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Comment thread src/client/renderer.tsx
Per RFC 8089, file URLs carry an authority before the path that the old
three-slash-only regex silently dropped:

- empty or 'localhost' authority marks a local root (unchanged behavior);
- a drive-letter authority ('file://C:/x') keeps its volume spelling;
- a named host ('file://server/share/x.png') converts to the backslash UNC
  spelling that localImage() and the host route already accept.

Destinations without a path component are left untouched. Existing decoding,
drive-letter normalization, and query/fragment validation are preserved. Add
pipeline render coverage for localhost and named-authority forms.
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