diff --git a/src/client/attachmentSource.ts b/src/client/attachmentSource.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5bbaa08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/attachmentSource.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/**
+ * The on-click attachment plumbing behind the browser's cards. Nothing is fetched while a message row
+ * is merely rendered: one click resolves that attachment's named host path through the plugin's own
+ * `/api/dsh-context/attachment` route (host/attachment.ts), and the harness's preview column then
+ * opens it — the File Activity card's own two rungs (`previewAddressOf` → `openResourceVia`) with the
+ * attachment's real filename carrying the viewer's file kind.
+ */
+
+import { previewAddressOf } from './fileActivity'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../shared/attachment'
+import { asRecord, openResourceVia } from './services'
+import type { AttachmentLocator, AttachmentOpener, ClientCtx } from './services'
+
+// The route of host/attachment.ts, re-declared here: the client bundle inlines every import and the
+// host module must never reach it (the detail route's own arrangement in timelineSource.ts).
+const ATTACHMENT_ROUTE = '/api/dsh-context/attachment'
+
+/** Cache ceiling: cards are clicked one at a time, so a small FIFO holds a session's working set. */
+const CACHE_MAX = 32
+
+const paths = new Map<string, string>()
+
+/** Drop every cached location (tests; a page never needs it — an id's object is immutable). */
+export function clearAttachmentPaths(): void {
+  paths.clear()
+}
+
+/** One route payload's path, re-proved: a non-string or empty path is no path. */
+export function pathOfValue(value: unknown): string | null {
+  const data = asRecord(value)
+  return data !== null && typeof data.path === 'string' && data.path !== '' ? data.path : null
+}
+
+/** The session-authorized attachment locator, or undefined without a session (cards then render
+ * metadata only). A failed resolution resolves null and is never cached, so a retry re-reads. */
+export function makeAttachmentLocator(sessionId: string | undefined): AttachmentLocator | undefined {
+  if (typeof sessionId !== 'string' || sessionId === '') return undefined
+  return async (attachment: AttachmentRef) => {
+    const key = attachment.attachmentId
+    const cached = paths.get(key)
+    if (cached !== undefined) return cached
+    try {
+      const response = await fetch(ATTACHMENT_ROUTE, {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+        body: JSON.stringify({ sessionId, attachmentId: key }),
+      })
+      if (!response.ok) return null
+      const body = asRecord(await response.json())
+      if (body === null || body.ok !== true) return null
+      const path = pathOfValue(body.value)
+      if (path === null) return null
+      if (paths.size >= CACHE_MAX) {
+        const oldest = paths.keys().next().value
+        /* v8 ignore next 1 -- the cap fires only on a non-empty cache, so the key always exists. */
+        if (oldest !== undefined) paths.delete(oldest)
+      }
+      paths.set(key, path)
+      return path
+    } catch {
+      return null
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Open one attachment in the harness's own preview column, or report that it could not be opened.
+ * Resolution order is the File Activity card's: the cited attachment's named host path behind the
+ * plugin's route, then the harness's `dsh-resource://file/…` address.
+ * @returns whether a preview took the address.
+ */
+export function makeAttachmentOpener(
+  ctx: ClientCtx,
+  sessionId: string | undefined,
+  workspace: string | undefined,
+): AttachmentOpener | undefined {
+  const locate = makeAttachmentLocator(sessionId)
+  const openPreview = openResourceVia(ctx)
+  if (locate === undefined || openPreview === undefined) return undefined
+  return async (attachment: AttachmentRef) => {
+    const path = await locate(attachment)
+    if (path === null) return false
+    // The address layer's form only refuses directories; WHICH viewer renders the file is the
+    // preview column's own decision, keyed off the path's suffix.
+    const address = previewAddressOf(path, 'text', false, sessionId, workspace)
+    return address !== undefined && openPreview(address)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/client/components/attachments.tsx b/src/client/components/attachments.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34e7668
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/components/attachments.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+/**
+ * The Context browser's attachment block. Every `image`/`file` block a message carries renders here
+ * in the message's OWN order — one card each, images with their session-authorized thumbnail, other
+ * files with their type glyph, type badge, and size. One click IS the preview: the card hands the
+ * attachment's named host path to dsh's own preview column (attachmentSource.ts), which renders
+ * markdown, code, PDFs, office documents, and images under the file's real name. A refused open
+ * leaves a note on that card alone.
+ */
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState, type ReactElement } from 'react'
+import { attachmentExtension } from '../../shared/attachment'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../../shared/attachment'
+import { estimateImageTokens } from '../../shared/imageTokens'
+import { fmtBytes } from '../format'
+import type { AttachmentOpener, ImageLoader, ImageRefLike } from '../services'
+import type { ViewKit } from '../viewkit'
+import { FileTypeGlyph } from '../primitives'
+import { Section } from './section'
+
+/** One message's ordered attachment block, plus that message's own IO seats. */
+export interface AttachmentKit {
+  Section: (props: {
+    attachments: readonly AttachmentRef[]
+    load?: ImageLoader
+    open?: AttachmentOpener
+  }) => ReactElement
+  load?: ImageLoader
+  open?: AttachmentOpener
+}
+
+/** The image reference the harness loader consumes; only proven facts are handed over. */
+function imageRefOf(ref: AttachmentRef): ImageRefLike {
+  return {
+    attachmentId: ref.attachmentId,
+    ...(ref.name !== undefined ? { name: ref.name } : {}),
+    ...(ref.bytes !== undefined ? { bytes: ref.bytes } : {}),
+    ...(ref.width !== undefined ? { width: ref.width } : {}),
+    ...(ref.height !== undefined ? { height: ref.height } : {}),
+    ...(ref.originalDimensions !== undefined ? { originalDimensions: ref.originalDimensions } : {}),
+  }
+}
+
+/** The name a card shows: the attachment's own, else its kind's label. */
+function nameOf(ref: AttachmentRef, t: ViewKit['t']): string {
+  return ref.name ?? t(ref.kind === 'image' ? 'attach.image' : 'attach.file')
+}
+
+/** The type line of an attachment (the harness file card's own rule): the upper-cased extension,
+ * else the attachment's kind. */
+function typeOf(ref: AttachmentRef, t: ViewKit['t']): string {
+  const ext = attachmentExtension(ref.name ?? '')
+  if (ext !== '') return ext.toUpperCase().slice(0, 8)
+  return ref.kind === 'image' ? t('attach.image') : t('attach.file')
+}
+
+/** The image thumbnail's lifecycle: bytes through the harness's session-authorized loader, read
+ * once per mount. */
+function useImageSrc(attachment: AttachmentRef, load: ImageLoader | undefined): {
+  src: string | null
+  failed: boolean
+} {
+  const [state, setState] = useState<{ src: string | null; failed: boolean }>({ src: null, failed: false })
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (load === undefined) {
+      setState({ src: null, failed: false })
+      return undefined
+    }
+    let live = true
+    setState({ src: null, failed: false })
+    void load(imageRefOf(attachment)).then(
+      (url) => { if (live) setState({ src: url, failed: false }) },
+      () => { if (live) setState({ src: null, failed: true }) },
+    )
+    return () => { live = false }
+  }, [attachment, load])
+  return state
+}
+
+/** An attachment's facts as label/value rows: an image's dimensions and token estimate, a file's
+ * size — the same figures the chat and the harness's own file card show. */
+function factsOf(ref: AttachmentRef, t: ViewKit['t'], fmt: ViewKit['fmt']): Array<{ label: string; value: string; tip?: string }> {
+  const dimsOf = (w: number | undefined, h: number | undefined): string | null =>
+    w !== undefined && h !== undefined ? `${w}×${h}` : null
+  if (ref.kind !== 'image') {
+    return ref.bytes === undefined ? [] : [{ label: t('attach.size'), value: fmtBytes(ref.bytes) }]
+  }
+  const rows: Array<{ label: string; value: string; tip?: string }> = []
+  // No byte size is stored for the raw raster — dims only.
+  const rawDims = ref.originalDimensions !== undefined
+    ? dimsOf(ref.originalDimensions.width, ref.originalDimensions.height)
+    : null
+  if (rawDims !== null) rows.push({ label: t('attach.raw'), value: rawDims })
+  const sent = dimsOf(ref.width, ref.height)
+  if (sent !== null) {
+    rows.push({
+      label: t('attach.sent'),
+      value: ref.bytes !== undefined ? `${sent} · ${fmtBytes(ref.bytes)}` : sent,
+    })
+  }
+  const tokens = ref.width !== undefined && ref.height !== undefined
+    ? estimateImageTokens(ref.width, ref.height)
+    : null
+  if (tokens !== null) rows.push({ label: t('attach.token'), value: `≈${fmt(tokens)}`, tip: t('attach.tokensTip') })
+  return rows
+}
+
+function AttachmentCard(props: {
+  attachment: AttachmentRef
+  load?: ImageLoader
+  /** This card's own open state: resolving the preview path, or refused. */
+  state: 'idle' | 'opening' | 'failed'
+  onOpen: () => void
+  t: ViewKit['t']
+  fmt: ViewKit['fmt']
+}): ReactElement {
+  const { attachment, load, state, t, fmt } = props
+  const name = nameOf(attachment, t)
+  const image = attachment.kind === 'image'
+  const thumb = useImageSrc(attachment, image ? load : undefined)
+  const hint = t('attach.hint')
+  return (
+    <button
+      type="button"
+      className={'lc-att-item hover:border-(--dsw-alias-label-dimmed) hover:bg-[var(--dsw-alias-interactive-bg-hover,var(--dsw-alias-bg-layer-2))]'
+        + (state === 'failed' ? ' lc-att-item-failed' : '')}
+      title={name + ' · ' + hint}
+      data-state={state}
+      onClick={props.onOpen}
+    >
+      {image
+        ? (
+          <span className="lc-att-thumb">
+            {thumb.src !== null
+              ? <img src={thumb.src} alt={name} />
+              : (
+                <span className={thumb.failed ? 'lc-att-err' : 'lc-att-ph'}>
+                  {thumb.failed ? '⚠' : load === undefined ? '🖼' : t('attach.loading')}
+                </span>
+              )}
+          </span>
+        )
+        : (
+          <span className="lc-att-thumb lc-att-thumb-file">
+            <FileTypeGlyph path={name} size={28} />
+            <span className="lc-att-ext">{typeOf(attachment, t)}</span>
+          </span>
+        )}
+      <span className="lc-att-meta">
+        <span className="lc-att-name" title={name}>{name}</span>
+        <span className="lc-att-row"><b className="lc-att-row-label">{t('attach.type')}</b>{typeOf(attachment, t)}</span>
+        {factsOf(attachment, t, fmt).map(r => (
+          <span key={r.label} className="lc-att-row" title={r.tip}>
+            <b className="lc-att-row-label">{r.label}</b>{r.value}
+          </span>
+        ))}
+        {state === 'failed' ? <span className="lc-att-fail">{t('attach.unavailable')}</span> : null}
+        {state === 'failed' ? null : (
+          <span className={'lc-att-hint' + (state === 'opening' ? ' lc-att-hint-on' : '')}>
+            {state === 'opening' ? t('attach.loading') : hint}
+          </span>
+        )}
+      </span>
+    </button>
+  )
+}
+
+/** The ordered attachment block. `load`/`open` are optional: without them the cards stay metadata
+ * only (a harness with no image face, a deployment with no preview column). */
+export function makeAttachmentSection(kit: ViewKit): AttachmentKit['Section'] {
+  const { t, fmt } = kit
+  return function AttachmentSection(props: {
+    attachments: readonly AttachmentRef[]
+    load?: ImageLoader
+    open?: AttachmentOpener
+  }): ReactElement {
+    const { attachments, load, open } = props
+    const [pending, setPending] = useState<string | null>(null)
+    const [failed, setFailed] = useState<string | null>(null)
+    // A content swap (another message's block) drops every stale state rather than acting on a stranger.
+    const key = useMemo(() => attachments.map(a => a.attachmentId).join('\u0000'), [attachments])
+    useEffect(() => {
+      setPending(null)
+      setFailed(null)
+    }, [key])
+    const activate = useCallback((ref: AttachmentRef) => {
+      if (open === undefined) {
+        setFailed(ref.attachmentId)
+        return
+      }
+      setPending(ref.attachmentId)
+      setFailed(null)
+      void open(ref).then((taken) => {
+        setPending(cur => (cur === ref.attachmentId ? null : cur))
+        setFailed(taken ? null : ref.attachmentId)
+      })
+    }, [open])
+    if (attachments.length === 0) return <></>
+    return (
+      <Section label={t('attach.title')} count={attachments.length}>
+        <div className="lc-att-grid">
+          {attachments.map((a, i) => (
+            <AttachmentCard
+              key={a.attachmentId + ':' + String(i)}
+              attachment={a}
+              load={load}
+              t={t}
+              fmt={fmt}
+              state={pending === a.attachmentId ? 'opening' : failed === a.attachmentId ? 'failed' : 'idle'}
+              onOpen={() => { activate(a) }}
+            />
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      </Section>
+    )
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/client/components/browser.tsx b/src/client/components/browser.tsx
index ad430b2..361d0a0 100644
--- a/src/client/components/browser.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/browser.tsx
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ import { makeDetailNote } from './detailNote'
 import { makeNodeText } from './nodes'
 import { turnStepsOf } from './trendChart'
 import { fetchMissNote, useFetchOnMiss } from './fetchOnMiss'
-import { imageRefOf, makeImageCard } from './images'
+import { attachmentsIn } from '../../shared/attachment'
+import { makeAttachmentSection } from './attachments'
 import { makeRichText } from './richText'
 import type { StackedBarProps } from './stackedBar'
-import type { ImageLoader } from '../services'
+import type { AttachmentOpener, ImageLoader } from '../services'
 import { TextSection, schemaTextOf, RowToolbar, ToolSchema, toolErrOf } from './browserToolCard'
 import { NodeContent, byCatOf, nodeNameOf, msgKindsOf, reasoningTextOf, ROW_KINDS } from './browserNodes'
 import type { RowKind } from './browserNodes'
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ export interface ContextBrowserProps {
   onHoverKey?: (key: string | null) => void
   onOpenCat?: (cat: string | null) => void
   loadImage?: ImageLoader
+  /** On-click opener of one attachment's preview (attachmentSource.ts); absent = metadata only. */
+  openAttachment?: AttachmentOpener
   detailState?: DetailState
   onDetailRetry?: () => void
 }
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ export function makeContextBrowser(
   const DetailNote = makeDetailNote(kit)
   const nodeText = makeNodeText(kit)
   const rich = makeRichText(kit)
-  const ImageCard = makeImageCard(kit)
+  const AttachmentSection = makeAttachmentSection(kit)
   const lineLabel = (n: number): string => t(n === 1 ? 'block.line' : 'block.lines', { n })
 
   return function ContextBrowser(props: ContextBrowserProps): ReactElement {
@@ -526,11 +529,9 @@ export function makeContextBrowser(
             preview = blockSummaryOf(conv) ?? preview
           }
         } else if (n.cat === 'user') {
-          const imgCount = conv !== undefined && Array.isArray(conv.content)
-            ? conv.content.filter(b => imageRefOf(b) !== null).length
-            : 0
-          if (imgCount > 0 && openElem !== `n${n.seq}`) {
-            tag = t('attach.image') + (imgCount > 1 ? ' ×' + String(imgCount) : '')
+          const attCount = attachmentsIn(conv?.content).length
+          if (attCount > 0 && openElem !== `n${n.seq}`) {
+            tag = t('attach.title') + (attCount > 1 ? ' ×' + String(attCount) : '')
           }
         } else {
           tag = t('form.' + (n.form || 'context'))
@@ -592,14 +593,13 @@ export function makeContextBrowser(
               node={n}
               conv={conv}
               rich={rich}
-              img={{ Card: ImageCard, load: props.loadImage }}
+              att={{ Section: AttachmentSection, load: props.loadImage, open: props.openAttachment }}
               labels={{
                 thinking: t('block.thinking'),
                 answer: t('block.answer'),
                 content: t('block.content'),
                 result: t('block.result'),
                 summary: t('block.summary'),
-                images: t('attach.images'),
                 other: t('attach.other'),
                 lines: lineLabel,
                 callState: (err: boolean, exit: number | null) => (
diff --git a/src/client/components/browserNodes.tsx b/src/client/components/browserNodes.tsx
index 5e872a6..f7f2d7b 100644
--- a/src/client/components/browserNodes.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/browserNodes.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { ReactElement, ReactNode } from 'react'
 import type { Category, SurfaceNode } from '../../shared/types'
 import type { Assembled } from '../assemble'
 import type { ConversationNodeLike } from '../services'
-import type { ImageKit } from './images'
+import type { AttachmentKit } from './attachments'
 import type { RichKit } from './richText'
 import { TextSection, BlocksBody, toolErrOf, ToolCallCard } from './browserToolCard'
 import type { DetailLabels } from './browserToolCard'
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ export function NodeContent(props: {
   conv: ConversationNodeLike | undefined
   hint: ReactNode
   rich: RichKit
-  img: ImageKit
+  att: AttachmentKit
   labels: DetailLabels
 }): ReactElement {
-  const { node, conv, rich, img, labels } = props
+  const { node, conv, rich, att, labels } = props
   if (conv === undefined) {
     if (node.text === undefined || node.text === '') {
       return <div className="lc-br-note">{props.hint}</div>
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function NodeContent(props: {
     )
   }
   if (conv.kind === 'assistant' && Array.isArray(conv.blocks)) {
-    return <BlocksBody blocks={conv.blocks} textLabel={labels.answer} rich={rich} img={img} labels={labels} />
+    return <BlocksBody blocks={conv.blocks} textLabel={labels.answer} rich={rich} att={att} labels={labels} />
   }
   if (conv.kind === 'tool-result') {
     const { err, exit } = toolErrOf(node, conv)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export function NodeContent(props: {
           />
           : null}
         {Array.isArray(conv.content)
-          ? <BlocksBody blocks={conv.content} textLabel={labels.result} rich={rich} img={img} labels={labels} />
+          ? <BlocksBody blocks={conv.content} textLabel={labels.result} rich={rich} att={att} labels={labels} />
           : null}
       </>
     )
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export function NodeContent(props: {
       : <></>
   }
   if (Array.isArray(conv.content)) {
-    return <BlocksBody blocks={conv.content} textLabel={labels.content} rich={rich} img={img} labels={labels} />
+    return <BlocksBody blocks={conv.content} textLabel={labels.content} rich={rich} att={att} labels={labels} />
   }
   return <div className="lc-br-note">{props.hint}</div>
 }
diff --git a/src/client/components/browserToolCard.tsx b/src/client/components/browserToolCard.tsx
index 54fcd0c..8621bfb 100644
--- a/src/client/components/browserToolCard.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/browserToolCard.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ import { useMemo, useState, type ChangeEvent, type ReactElement, type ReactNode
 import type { SurfaceNode } from '../../shared/types'
 import type { ConversationNodeLike } from '../services'
 import { parseCallArgs } from '../callSummary'
-import { imageRefOf } from './images'
-import type { ImageKit } from './images'
+import { attachmentOf } from '../../shared/attachment'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../../shared/attachment'
+import type { AttachmentKit } from './attachments'
 import type { RichKit } from './richText'
-import type { ImageRefLike } from '../services'
+import { Section } from './section'
 import { typeOf, paramsOf } from './browserSchema'
 import type { ParamSchema } from './browserSchema'
 
@@ -32,29 +33,6 @@ function ParamRow(props: {
   )
 }
 
-export function Section(props: {
-  label: string
-  labelClass?: string
-  /** Fold the head's trailing group onto a second line under width pressure (rich-text heads; the call-name head must stay one-line). */
-  foldHead?: boolean
-  count?: number
-  actions?: ReactNode
-  meta?: ReactNode
-  children: ReactNode
-}): ReactElement {
-  const right = props.actions !== undefined || props.meta !== undefined
-  return (
-    <div className="lc-ts-card">
-      <div className={'lc-ts-card-head' + (props.foldHead === true ? ' lc-ts-card-head-wrap' : '')}>
-        <b className={props.labelClass} title={props.label}>{props.label}</b>
-        {right ? <span className="lc-ts-card-right">{props.meta}{props.actions}</span> : null}
-        {props.count !== undefined ? <span className="lc-ts-card-count">{props.count}</span> : null}
-      </div>
-      {props.children}
-    </div>
-  )
-}
-
 function lineCountOf(text: string): number {
   return text.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/).length
 }
@@ -190,40 +168,39 @@ export interface DetailLabels {
   content: string
   result: string
   summary: string
-  images: string
   other: string
   lines: (n: number) => string
   callState: (err: boolean, exit: number | null) => ReactNode
 }
 
-/** Both block vocabularies normalize here — raw durable blocks (`type`) and snapshot assistant blocks (`kind`).
- * Consecutive images group into one grid; nested tool-result blocks flatten into the same flow. */
+/** Both block vocabularies normalize here — raw durable blocks (`type`) and snapshot assistant
+ * blocks (`kind`). Every attachment block collects into ONE ordered attachment group, rendered where
+ * the first of them sits (the chat's own arrangement: attachments above the text); nested
+ * tool-result blocks flatten into the same flow. */
 export function BlocksBody(props: {
   blocks: readonly unknown[]
   textLabel: string
   rich: RichKit
-  img: ImageKit
+  att: AttachmentKit
   labels: DetailLabels
 }): ReactElement {
-  const { rich, img, labels } = props
+  const { rich, att, labels } = props
   const out: ReactNode[] = []
-  let images: ImageRefLike[] = []
-  const flushImages = (): void => {
-    if (images.length === 0) return
-    const group = images
-    images = []
-    out.push(
-      <Section key={'img' + String(out.length)} label={labels.images} count={group.length}>
-        <div className="lc-att-grid">
-          {group.map((a, i) => <img.Card key={`${a.attachmentId}:${i}`} attachment={a} load={img.load} />)}
-        </div>
-      </Section>,
-    )
-  }
-  for (const b of props.blocks) {
-    const image = imageRefOf(b)
-    if (image !== null) { images.push(image); continue }
-    flushImages()
+  const refs = props.blocks.map(attachmentOf)
+  const attachments = refs.filter((ref): ref is AttachmentRef => ref !== null)
+  const firstAt = refs.findIndex(ref => ref !== null)
+  for (const [i, b] of props.blocks.entries()) {
+    if (i === firstAt) {
+      out.push(
+        <att.Section
+          key={'att' + String(out.length)}
+          attachments={attachments}
+          load={att.load}
+          open={att.open}
+        />,
+      )
+    }
+    if (refs[i] !== null) continue
     const blk = b !== null && typeof b === 'object'
       ? b as { type?: unknown; kind?: unknown; text?: unknown; name?: unknown; argsRaw?: unknown; arguments?: unknown; content?: unknown }
       : null
@@ -255,14 +232,13 @@ export function BlocksBody(props: {
         blocks={blk.content as unknown[]}
         textLabel={labels.result}
         rich={rich}
-        img={img}
+        att={att}
         labels={labels}
       />)
       continue
     }
     out.push(<Section key={out.length} label={labels.other}><pre className="lc-ts-desc-body lc-br-dim">{JSON.stringify(b, null, 2)}</pre></Section>)
   }
-  flushImages()
   return <>{out}</>
 }
 
diff --git a/src/client/components/contextModal.tsx b/src/client/components/contextModal.tsx
index af63c43..6aeae09 100644
--- a/src/client/components/contextModal.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/contextModal.tsx
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
  * current composition and the shared browser. */
 
 import { createElement as h, useCallback, useLayoutEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState, type ReactElement } from 'react'
+import { makeAttachmentOpener } from '../attachmentSource'
 import { measureDock } from '../dockMeasure'
 import { headlineOf } from '../headline'
 import { modalStoreOf, takePendingConsume } from '../modalStore'
 import type { ClientCtx, SessionStandardProps, SessionsFace } from '../services'
 import type { ContextSettings } from '../settings'
-import { contextBreakdownOf, contextPressureOf, conversationNodesOf, headersOf, imageLoaderOf, projectionOf } from '../services'
+import { contextBreakdownOf, contextPressureOf, conversationNodesOf, headersOf, imageLoaderOf, projectionOf, workspaceOf } from '../services'
 import { makeContentFetcher, makeHeaderFetcher, useHistoryFace } from '../historyPage'
 import { useTimelineSource } from '../timelineSource'
 import type { ViewKit } from '../viewkit'
@@ -54,6 +55,10 @@ export function makeContextModal(
       () => imageLoaderOf(ctx, sessionId !== '' ? sessionId : undefined),
       [ctx, sessionId],
     )
+    const openAttachment = useMemo(
+      () => makeAttachmentOpener(ctx, sessionId !== '' ? sessionId : undefined, workspaceOf(ctx, sessionId !== '' ? sessionId : undefined)),
+      [ctx, sessionId],
+    )
 
     // The first render can race the declared inject (a watch rebuild remounts this overlay before the fiber re-fires),
     // so both fetchers below must rebuild when the face lands or is revoked.
@@ -131,6 +136,7 @@ export function makeContextModal(
                 fetchContent={fetchContent}
                 fetchHeader={fetchHeader}
                 loadImage={loadImage}
+                openAttachment={openAttachment}
                 hoverKey={hoverCat}
                 onHoverKey={setHoverCat}
                 detailState={source.detailState}
diff --git a/src/client/components/contextView.tsx b/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
index 5e0f0b3..7eaa086 100644
--- a/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { makeContentFetcher, makeHeaderFetcher, useHistoryFace } from '../histor
 import { useContextSession } from '../sessionData'
 import { makeDetailNote } from './detailNote'
 import { canOpenPathsOf, openPathVia, openResourceVia, workspaceOf } from '../services'
+import { makeAttachmentOpener } from '../attachmentSource'
 import { activityOf, activityOfOps, locateStepOf, previewAddressOf } from '../fileActivity'
 import type { FileEntry, FileOp } from '../fileActivity'
 import type { ContextSettings } from '../settings'
@@ -339,6 +340,10 @@ export function makeContextView(
         },
       [previewOpener, sessionKey, workspace],
     )
+    const openAttachment = useMemo(
+      () => makeAttachmentOpener(ctx, typeof sessionId === 'string' ? sessionId : undefined, workspace),
+      [ctx, sessionId, workspace],
+    )
     const locateFileOp = useCallback((op: FileOp): void => {
       // A nested Code-Mode op has no surface row of its own — it reveals on its parent run_code result.
       const seq = op.parent ?? op.seq
@@ -540,6 +545,7 @@ export function makeContextView(
         nodeFocus={nodeFocus}
         onNodeFocusHandled={clearNodeFocus}
         loadImage={loadImage}
+        openAttachment={openAttachment}
         detailState={source.detailState}
         onDetailRetry={source.retryDetail}
         catFocus={catFocus}
diff --git a/src/client/components/images.tsx b/src/client/components/images.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 323ce46..0000000
--- a/src/client/components/images.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-/** dsh stores only a normalized reference per image (no inline bytes); the display URL comes from the harness
- * `uiConversation.imageUrl` loader handed down as `load`. */
-
-import { useCallback, useEffect, useState, type ReactElement } from 'react'
-import { ImageLightbox } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-primitives'
-import { fmtBytes } from '../format'
-import type { ImageLoader, ImageRefLike } from '../services'
-import { estimateImageTokens } from '../../shared/imageTokens'
-import type { ViewKit } from '../viewkit'
-
-export interface ImageKit {
-  Card: (props: { attachment: ImageRefLike; load?: ImageLoader }) => ReactElement
-  load?: ImageLoader
-}
-
-/** Accepts both raw message blocks (`type: 'image'`) and the snapshot's assistant blocks (`kind: 'image'`);
- * every optional fact is re-proved. */
-export function imageRefOf(block: unknown): ImageRefLike | null {
-  if (block === null || typeof block !== 'object') return null
-  const b = block as { type?: unknown; kind?: unknown; attachment?: unknown }
-  if (b.type !== 'image' && b.kind !== 'image') return null
-  const a = b.attachment
-  if (a === null || typeof a !== 'object') return null
-  const r = a as Record<string, unknown>
-  if (typeof r.attachmentId !== 'string' || r.attachmentId === '') return null
-  const num = (v: unknown): number | undefined =>
-    typeof v === 'number' && Number.isFinite(v) && v > 0 ? v : undefined
-  const orig = r.originalDimensions !== null && typeof r.originalDimensions === 'object'
-    ? r.originalDimensions as Record<string, unknown>
-    : undefined
-  const origDims = orig !== undefined && num(orig.width) !== undefined && num(orig.height) !== undefined
-    ? { width: num(orig.width) as number, height: num(orig.height) as number }
-    : undefined
-  return {
-    attachmentId: r.attachmentId,
-    ...(typeof r.name === 'string' && r.name !== '' ? { name: r.name } : {}),
-    ...(num(r.bytes) !== undefined ? { bytes: num(r.bytes) } : {}),
-    ...(num(r.width) !== undefined ? { width: num(r.width) } : {}),
-    ...(num(r.height) !== undefined ? { height: num(r.height) } : {}),
-    ...(origDims !== undefined ? { originalDimensions: origDims } : {}),
-  }
-}
-
-export function makeImageCard(kit: ViewKit): ImageKit['Card'] {
-  const { t, fmt } = kit
-  return function ImageCard(props: { attachment: ImageRefLike; load?: ImageLoader }): ReactElement {
-    const { attachment, load } = props
-    const [src, setSrc] = useState<string | null>(null)
-    const [error, setError] = useState(false)
-    const [attempt, setAttempt] = useState(0)
-    const [preview, setPreview] = useState(false)
-    const closePreview = useCallback(() => { setPreview(false) }, [])
-
-    useEffect(() => {
-      if (load === undefined) return
-      let live = true
-      setError(false)
-      setSrc(null)
-      void load(attachment).then((url) => { if (live) setSrc(url) }).catch(() => { if (live) setError(true) })
-      return () => { live = false }
-    }, [attachment, load, attempt])
-
-    const name = attachment.name ?? t('attach.image')
-    const dimsOf = (w: number | undefined, h: number | undefined): string | null =>
-      w !== undefined && h !== undefined ? `${w}×${h}` : null
-    const rows: Array<{ label: string; value: string; tip?: string }> = []
-    // No byte size is stored for the raw raster — dims only.
-    const raw = attachment.originalDimensions !== undefined
-      ? dimsOf(attachment.originalDimensions.width, attachment.originalDimensions.height)
-      : null
-    if (raw !== null) rows.push({ label: t('attach.raw'), value: raw })
-    const sent = dimsOf(attachment.width, attachment.height)
-    if (sent !== null) {
-      rows.push({
-        label: t('attach.sent'),
-        value: attachment.bytes !== undefined ? `${sent} · ${fmtBytes(attachment.bytes)}` : sent,
-      })
-    }
-    const tokens = attachment.width !== undefined && attachment.height !== undefined
-      ? estimateImageTokens(attachment.width, attachment.height)
-      : null
-    if (tokens !== null) rows.push({ label: t('attach.token'), value: `≈${fmt(tokens)}`, tip: t('attach.tokensTip') })
-
-    const activate = (): void => {
-      if (error) { setAttempt(a => a + 1); return }
-      if (src !== null) setPreview(true)
-    }
-    return (
-      <>
-        <button
-          type="button"
-          className="lc-att-item hover:border-(--dsw-alias-label-dimmed) hover:bg-[var(--dsw-alias-interactive-bg-hover,var(--dsw-alias-bg-layer-2))]"
-          title={error ? t('attach.loadFailed') : t('attach.open')}
-          onClick={activate}
-        >
-          <span className="lc-att-thumb">
-            {src !== null
-              ? <img src={src} alt={name} />
-              : (
-                <span className={error ? 'lc-att-err' : 'lc-att-ph'}>
-                  {error ? '⚠' : load === undefined ? '🖼' : t('attach.loading')}
-                </span>
-              )}
-          </span>
-          <span className="lc-att-meta">
-            <span className="lc-att-name" title={name}>{name}</span>
-            {rows.map(r => (
-              <span key={r.label} className="lc-att-row" title={r.tip}>
-                <b className="lc-att-row-label">{r.label}</b>{r.value}
-              </span>
-            ))}
-          </span>
-        </button>
-        {preview && src !== null && (
-          <ImageLightbox
-            src={src}
-            alt={name}
-            labels={{ dialog: t('attach.preview'), close: t('attach.close') }}
-            onClose={closePreview}
-          />
-        )}
-      </>
-    )
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/client/components/section.tsx b/src/client/components/section.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18c8008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/components/section.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/** The Context browser's titled card head, shared by the tool/detail cards and the attachment block. */
+
+import type { ReactElement, ReactNode } from 'react'
+
+export function Section(props: {
+  label: string
+  labelClass?: string
+  /** Fold the head's trailing group onto a second line under width pressure (rich-text heads; the call-name head must stay one-line). */
+  foldHead?: boolean
+  count?: number
+  actions?: ReactNode
+  meta?: ReactNode
+  children: ReactNode
+}): ReactElement {
+  const right = props.actions !== undefined || props.meta !== undefined
+  return (
+    <div className="lc-ts-card">
+      <div className={'lc-ts-card-head' + (props.foldHead === true ? ' lc-ts-card-head-wrap' : '')}>
+        <b className={props.labelClass} title={props.label}>{props.label}</b>
+        {right ? <span className="lc-ts-card-right">{props.meta}{props.actions}</span> : null}
+        {props.count !== undefined ? <span className="lc-ts-card-count">{props.count}</span> : null}
+      </div>
+      {props.children}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/src/client/components/taskBoard.tsx b/src/client/components/taskBoard.tsx
index be63b78..e0c3d62 100644
--- a/src/client/components/taskBoard.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/taskBoard.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import { familyHue, pressureColorOf } from '../agentTree'
 import { fmtTime } from '../format'
 import { familyOthersOf, memberIdByName, type FleetTeam, type FleetTeamTask } from '../fleetTeam'
 import type { FleetDetail } from '../../shared/types'
-import { Section } from './browserToolCard'
+import { Section } from './section'
 import { BRAND_HUE, memberStyle, runMetaOf } from './memberBoard'
 import type { RichKit } from './richText'
 import type { ViewKit } from '../viewkit'
diff --git a/src/client/i18nEn.ts b/src/client/i18nEn.ts
index 169430e..6452cbf 100644
--- a/src/client/i18nEn.ts
+++ b/src/client/i18nEn.ts
@@ -435,14 +435,15 @@ export const DICT_EN = {
   'call.fail': 'Failed',
   'call.exit': 'exit {n}',
   'node.failed': 'Tool execution failed',
-  'attach.images': 'Images',
+  'attach.title': 'Attachments',
   'attach.other': 'Other content',
   'attach.image': 'Image',
-  'attach.open': 'Open full image',
-  'attach.preview': 'Image preview',
-  'attach.close': 'Close',
+  'attach.file': 'File',
+  'attach.hint': 'Click to preview',
   'attach.loading': '…',
-  'attach.loadFailed': 'Load failed · click to retry',
+  'attach.unavailable': 'Preview unavailable',
+  'attach.type': 'Type',
+  'attach.size': 'Size',
   'attach.raw': 'Raw',
   'attach.sent': 'Sent',
   'attach.token': 'Token',
diff --git a/src/client/i18nZh.ts b/src/client/i18nZh.ts
index 4c091e9..dbfebfb 100644
--- a/src/client/i18nZh.ts
+++ b/src/client/i18nZh.ts
@@ -434,14 +434,15 @@ export const DICT_ZH = {
   'call.fail': '失败',
   'call.exit': 'exit {n}',
   'node.failed': '工具执行失败',
-  'attach.images': '图片附件',
+  'attach.title': '附件',
   'attach.other': '其他内容',
   'attach.image': '图片',
-  'attach.open': '查看原图',
-  'attach.preview': '图片预览',
-  'attach.close': '关闭',
+  'attach.file': '文件',
+  'attach.hint': '点击预览',
   'attach.loading': '…',
-  'attach.loadFailed': '加载失败 · 点击重试',
+  'attach.unavailable': '预览不可用',
+  'attach.type': '类型',
+  'attach.size': '大小',
   'attach.raw': '原图',
   'attach.sent': '发送',
   'attach.token': 'Token',
diff --git a/src/client/primitives.ts b/src/client/primitives.ts
index cba1c34..c63ad1d 100644
--- a/src/client/primitives.ts
+++ b/src/client/primitives.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /** Named imports from the ui-primitives platform module, resolved defensively: an absent or renamed
- * export would render as React error #130 inside the Context tab, so each icon resolves by name
+ * export would render as React error #130 inside the Context tab, so each component resolves by name
  * through a bounded read and degrades to a render-nothing fallback. */
 
 import type { ReactElement } from 'react'
@@ -10,13 +10,19 @@ export type IconComponent = (props: IconProps) => ReactElement | null
 
 const ns = primitives as unknown as Record<string, unknown>
 
+/** One export's raw value: undefined when the name is absent or the namespace read throws. */
+function exportOf(name: string, source: Record<string, unknown>): unknown {
+  try {
+    return source[name]
+  } catch {
+    return undefined
+  }
+}
+
 /** Resolve one icon by export name; a missing, non-component, or hostile-namespace read renders nothing. */
 export function resolveIcon(name: string, source: Record<string, unknown> = ns): IconComponent {
-  try {
-    const found = source[name]
-    if (typeof found === 'function') return found as IconComponent
-  } catch { /* the fallback below */ }
-  return () => null
+  const found = exportOf(name, source)
+  return typeof found === 'function' ? found as IconComponent : () => null
 }
 
 export const IconBranch = resolveIcon('IconBranchOutlineRegular')
@@ -28,3 +34,21 @@ export const IconSettings = resolveIcon('IconSettingsOutlineMedium')
 export const IconChevronDown = resolveIcon('IconChevronDownOutlineMedium')
 export const IconChevronUp = resolveIcon('IconChevronUpOutlineMedium')
 export const IconSearch = resolveIcon('IconSearchOutlineRegular')
+
+/** The harness's file-type glyph: its props are its own (`path`/`kind`), not an icon's. */
+export interface FileGlyphProps {
+  path?: string
+  kind?: string
+  size?: number
+  className?: string
+}
+
+export type FileGlyphComponent = (props: FileGlyphProps) => ReactElement | null
+
+/** Resolve the file-type glyph the defensive way the icons resolve. */
+export function resolveFileGlyph(source: Record<string, unknown> = ns): FileGlyphComponent {
+  const found = exportOf('FileTypeIcon', source)
+  return typeof found === 'function' ? found as FileGlyphComponent : () => null
+}
+
+export const FileTypeGlyph = resolveFileGlyph()
diff --git a/src/client/services.ts b/src/client/services.ts
index 5fdef0d..6f0dd95 100644
--- a/src/client/services.ts
+++ b/src/client/services.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
 import type { ComponentType } from 'react'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../shared/attachment'
 import { estimateSystemTokens } from '../shared/estimate'
 import type { ActivityDay, ContextActivity, ContextBreakdown, ContextHeaders, ContextPressure, ContextTimeline, CostModelUsage, HeaderEpochContent, SystemPromptNode, TimingTotals, TokenUsage, ToolTimingTotals } from '../shared/types'
 
@@ -138,6 +139,13 @@ export function imageLoaderOf(
   return undefined
 }
 
+/** The named host path of one session-cited attachment (the plugin's own location route);
+ * null resolves the browser's unavailable note. */
+export type AttachmentLocator = (attachment: AttachmentRef) => Promise<string | null>
+
+/** On-click opener of one attachment's preview; false = nothing took it. */
+export type AttachmentOpener = (attachment: AttachmentRef) => Promise<boolean>
+
 /** The `useChat` seat. The selector must return a reference-stable slice: a fresh object re-renders the view on every event. */
 export type UseChatLike = <T>(selector: (snapshot: unknown) => T) => T
 
diff --git a/src/client/styles/attachments.css b/src/client/styles/attachments.css
index 4d9c6a1..d9e31ed 100644
--- a/src/client/styles/attachments.css
+++ b/src/client/styles/attachments.css
@@ -1,9 +1,28 @@
+/* The attachment block: one ordered card per image/file block; one click hands the attachment to dsh's preview column. */
+
 .lc-att-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); gap: 10px; padding: 8px 10px; }
-.lc-att-item { display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; min-width: 0; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px; border: 1px solid var(--dsw-alias-border-l2); border-radius: 8px; background: transparent; font: inherit; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color var(--ds-transition-duration, 0.2s) var(--ds-ease-in-out, ease-in-out), background-color var(--ds-transition-duration, 0.2s) var(--ds-ease-in-out, ease-in-out); }
-.lc-att-thumb { width: 64px; height: 64px; flex: none; padding: 0; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border: 1px solid var(--dsw-alias-border-l1); border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden; background: var(--dsw-alias-bg-layer-1); }
+.lc-att-item { position: relative; display: flex; gap: 8px; align-items: center; min-width: 0; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 6px; border: 1px solid var(--dsw-alias-border-l2); border-radius: 8px; background: transparent; font: inherit; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color var(--ds-transition-duration, 0.2s) var(--ds-ease-in-out, ease-in-out), background-color var(--ds-transition-duration, 0.2s) var(--ds-ease-in-out, ease-in-out); }
+.lc-att-item:focus-visible { outline: var(--dsw-focus-ring-width) solid var(--dsw-focus-ring-color, var(--dsw-alias-state-business-primary)); outline-offset: 1px; }
+.lc-att-item-failed { border-color: var(--dsw-alias-state-error-primary, var(--dsw-alias-border-l2)); }
+.lc-att-thumb { position: relative; width: 64px; height: 64px; flex: none; padding: 0; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border: 1px solid var(--dsw-alias-border-l1); border-radius: 6px; overflow: hidden; background: var(--dsw-alias-bg-layer-1); }
 .lc-att-thumb img { width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block; }
 .lc-att-ph, .lc-att-err { font-size: 10px; color: var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary); text-align: center; padding: 2px; }
-.lc-att-meta { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 2px; min-width: 0; }
+.lc-att-err { color: var(--dsw-alias-state-error-primary, var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary)); }
+.lc-att-thumb-file { color: var(--dsw-alias-label-primary); overflow: visible; }
+/* The type badge rides the glyph's corner, so a wide glyph plus a long extension never widen the card. */
+.lc-att-ext { position: absolute; right: 2px; bottom: 2px; max-width: 46px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 3px; border-radius: 4px; background: var(--dsw-alias-bg-layer-1); border: 1px solid var(--dsw-alias-border-l1); font-size: 9px; font-weight: 600; color: var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary); }
+.lc-att-meta { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 2px; min-width: 0; flex: 1; }
 .lc-att-name { font-size: 12px; color: var(--dsw-alias-label-primary); line-height: 1.3; overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: break-word; }
 .lc-att-row { font-size: 11px; color: var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
 .lc-att-row-label { display: inline-block; min-width: 3.2em; font-weight: 400; }
+/* A refused open reports on its own card — the click never lands anywhere else. */
+.lc-att-fail { font-size: 11px; color: var(--dsw-alias-state-error-primary, var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary)); }
+/* The preview invite is a normal meta row: it fades in on hover/focus, so it never paints over the
+   name and the card never changes height when it appears. */
+.lc-att-hint { font-size: 11px; color: var(--dsw-alias-label-secondary); opacity: 0; transition: opacity var(--ds-transition-duration, 0.2s) var(--ds-ease-in-out, ease-in-out); }
+.lc-att-item:hover .lc-att-hint, .lc-att-item:focus-visible .lc-att-hint, .lc-att-hint-on { opacity: 1; }
+
+/* Under width pressure the two-column grid folds to one column (a thumbnail plus its facts needs ~240px). */
+@container lc-card (max-width: 480px) {
+  .lc-att-grid { grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr); }
+}
diff --git a/src/host/attachment.ts b/src/host/attachment.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f28522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/host/attachment.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+/**
+ * The attachment-preview route (`/api/dsh-context/attachment`) — the previewable host path of one
+ * attachment a session's log cites.
+ *
+ * dsh's own preview column renders a file from a `dsh-resource://file/…` address and dispatches its
+ * viewer by the path's SUFFIX, so this route answers with a path that carries the attachment's name:
+ *
+ * - A verbatim FILE already has one: the attachment store publishes every stored file as a named
+ *   alias (`<home>/attachments/v1/files/<xx>/<digest>/<name>`), returned by `attachments.fileHostPath`.
+ * - A normalized IMAGE does not — its object is digest-named and suffixless — so the route publishes
+ *   (or reuses) a named hard link under the plugin's own preview cache and answers with that. The
+ *   link shares the object's immutable, digest-verified bytes; nothing is copied on the common path.
+ *
+ * No bytes travel: the browser hands the path to the harness, exactly as the File Activity card does.
+ *
+ * Same transport and posture as the detail and fleet routes (detail.ts): Connection's exact
+ * Fetch-route registry behind the authenticated `/api` fence, the durable log read through
+ * `ctx.sessionQuery.observeSession` (live-preferred), and the read admitted by the shared cold-read
+ * gate. Authorization mirrors the harness's own attachment gateway: a path resolves only while the
+ * SESSION'S OWN log cites the attachment, so an id an untrusted replay invented resolves to nothing.
+ */
+
+import { copyFile, link, mkdir } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { basename, dirname, join } from 'node:path'
+import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
+import { attachmentOf, isImageName, leafNameOf } from '../shared/attachment'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../shared/attachment'
+import { type ColdReadGate, makeColdReadGate } from './coldRead'
+import { type ConnectionHostFace, registerPostRoute } from './connection'
+
+/** The plugin's attachment route, under the authenticated `/api` fence. */
+export const ATTACHMENT_ROUTE = '/api/dsh-context/attachment'
+
+/** Normalized image media types → the suffix a viewer dispatches on. */
+const IMAGE_MEDIA_EXTENSION: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
+  'image/png': 'png',
+  'image/jpeg': 'jpg',
+  'image/webp': 'webp',
+  'image/gif': 'gif',
+}
+
+/** The host attachment store, as far as the route consumes it. */
+interface AttachmentStoreFace {
+  fileHostPath?(ref: unknown): string | undefined
+  imageHostPath?(ref: unknown): string | undefined
+}
+
+interface SessionQueryFace {
+  observeSession?(id: string, options: unknown): Promise<unknown>
+}
+
+function reply(value: unknown): Response {
+  return Response.json(value, { headers: { 'cache-control': 'no-store' } })
+}
+
+function failure(code: string, message: string): Response {
+  return reply({ ok: false, error: { code, message } })
+}
+
+function asRecord(value: unknown): Record<string, unknown> | null {
+  return value !== null && typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value)
+    ? value as Record<string, unknown>
+    : null
+}
+
+/** Depth cap for the payload walk: real citation sites sit at `data.content[…]`,
+ * `data.message.content[…]`, and `data.inserted[…].content[…]` (a spliced inbox delivery). */
+const WALK_MAX_DEPTH = 8
+
+/** The first attachment block citing `id` anywhere below `value`, or null. Untrusted input: only
+ * arrays and objects are walked, the depth is capped, and a hostile object drops that subtree. */
+function attachmentIn(value: unknown, id: string, depth: number): AttachmentRef | null {
+  if (depth > WALK_MAX_DEPTH) return null
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    for (const item of value) {
+      const hit = attachmentIn(item, id, depth + 1)
+      if (hit !== null) return hit
+    }
+    return null
+  }
+  if (value === null || typeof value !== 'object') return null
+  const ref = attachmentOf(value)
+  if (ref !== null && ref.attachmentId === id) return ref
+  for (const child of Object.values(value as Record<string, unknown>)) {
+    const hit = attachmentIn(child, id, depth + 1)
+    if (hit !== null) return hit
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+/** The session's own citation of one attachment: the first logged block naming it, wherever the
+ * event payload carries it — a user message's content, a tool result's blocks, a spliced inbox
+ * delivery. An untrusted log: a hostile payload drops out instead of throwing. */
+export function referencedAttachmentOf(events: readonly unknown[], attachmentId: string): AttachmentRef | null {
+  for (const entry of events) {
+    try {
+      const hit = attachmentIn(entry, attachmentId, 0)
+      if (hit !== null) return hit
+    } catch { /* a hostile payload names nothing */ }
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+/** The name one image previews under. The preview column dispatches its viewer by suffix, so a
+ * display name counts only when its suffix is one a viewer claims — the verified media type names
+ * the rest (a re-encoded source keeps its original name), and an image whose media type the harness
+ * never admits names nothing. */
+export function imagePreviewNameOf(ref: AttachmentRef): string | null {
+  const leaf = leafNameOf(ref.name ?? '')
+  if (leaf !== '' && isImageName(leaf)) return leaf
+  const extension = ref.mediaType !== undefined ? IMAGE_MEDIA_EXTENSION[ref.mediaType] : undefined
+  return extension === undefined ? null : `attachment.${extension}`
+}
+
+/** The plugin's preview cache under the same home the attachment store lives in: the store's object
+ * path is `<home>/attachments/v1/objects/<xx>/<digest>`. Null when the path is not that shape (an
+ * unfamiliar backend), so the route reports no preview instead of guessing a directory. */
+function previewAliasDirOf(objectPath: string): string | null {
+  const root = dirname(dirname(dirname(objectPath)))
+  if (basename(root) !== 'v1' || basename(dirname(root)) !== 'attachments') return null
+  return join(dirname(dirname(root)), 'cache', 'dsh-context', 'previews')
+}
+
+/** The verbatim file's own named alias, or null when the store cannot locate it (an absent store, a
+ * non-host-file backend, or a reference the store refuses). */
+function filePathOf(store: AttachmentStoreFace | undefined, ref: AttachmentRef): string | null {
+  if (typeof store?.fileHostPath !== 'function') return null
+  try {
+    const path = store.fileHostPath({ attachmentId: ref.attachmentId, name: ref.name ?? '', bytes: ref.bytes ?? 0 })
+    return typeof path === 'string' && path !== '' ? path : null
+  } catch {
+    // A malformed reference (bad digest, unsanitized name) is no path, never a throw.
+    return null
+  }
+}
+
+/** Publish (or reuse) the named hard link an image previews through; an existing link is the same
+ * immutable object, so it is the answer. A cross-device or otherwise link-less host falls back to a
+ * copy, and any failure resolves null rather than throwing out of the route. */
+async function imageAliasOf(store: AttachmentStoreFace | undefined, ref: AttachmentRef): Promise<string | null> {
+  if (typeof store?.imageHostPath !== 'function') return null
+  let objectPath: string | undefined
+  try {
+    objectPath = store.imageHostPath({
+      attachmentId: ref.attachmentId,
+      ...(ref.mediaType !== undefined ? { mediaType: ref.mediaType } : {}),
+      ...(ref.bytes !== undefined ? { bytes: ref.bytes } : {}),
+      ...(ref.width !== undefined ? { width: ref.width } : {}),
+      ...(ref.height !== undefined ? { height: ref.height } : {}),
+      ...(ref.name !== undefined ? { name: ref.name } : {}),
+    })
+  } catch {
+    return null
+  }
+  if (typeof objectPath !== 'string' || objectPath === '') return null
+  const name = imagePreviewNameOf(ref)
+  if (name === null) return null
+  const directory = previewAliasDirOf(objectPath)
+  if (directory === null) return null
+  const alias = join(directory, basename(dirname(objectPath)), basename(objectPath), name)
+  try {
+    await mkdir(dirname(alias), { recursive: true })
+    try {
+      await link(objectPath, alias)
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (!(err instanceof Error && 'code' in err && err.code === 'EEXIST')) await copyFile(objectPath, alias)
+    }
+    return alias
+  } catch {
+    return null
+  }
+}
+
+/** The previewable path of one cited attachment: a file's own named alias, or an image's. */
+async function previewPathOf(store: AttachmentStoreFace | undefined, ref: AttachmentRef): Promise<string | null> {
+  return ref.kind === 'file' ? filePathOf(store, ref) : await imageAliasOf(store, ref)
+}
+
+/** Serve the attachment route whenever the connection service is composed (the fleet route's own
+ * posture); sessionQuery and the attachment store are re-read per request, so a late-arriving
+ * service still arms. */
+export function watchAttachmentChannel(ctx: Context, coldReads: ColdReadGate = makeColdReadGate()): void {
+  ctx.inject(['connection'], (c) => {
+    const handler = async (request: Request): Promise<Response> => {
+      let sessionId: unknown
+      let attachmentId: unknown
+      try {
+        const body = asRecord(await request.json())
+        sessionId = body?.sessionId
+        attachmentId = body?.attachmentId
+      } catch {
+        return failure('dsh-context/bad-request', 'body is not JSON')
+      }
+      if (typeof sessionId !== 'string' || sessionId === '') {
+        return failure('dsh-context/bad-request', 'missing sessionId')
+      }
+      if (typeof attachmentId !== 'string' || attachmentId === '') {
+        return failure('dsh-context/bad-request', 'missing attachmentId')
+      }
+      try {
+        const query = ctx.get('sessionQuery') as SessionQueryFace | undefined
+        const observe = typeof query?.observeSession === 'function'
+          ? query.observeSession.bind(query)
+          : undefined
+        if (observe === undefined) return reply({ ok: true, value: null })
+        const store = ctx.get('attachments') as AttachmentStoreFace | undefined
+        const value = await coldReads.admit(async () => {
+          const observation = await observe(sessionId, { projectionMode: 'none' })
+          try {
+            const events = (observation as { events?: unknown } | null)?.events
+            if (!Array.isArray(events)) return null
+            const ref = referencedAttachmentOf(events, attachmentId)
+            if (ref === null) return null
+            const path = await previewPathOf(store, ref)
+            return path === null ? null : { path }
+          } finally {
+            const dispose = (observation as { [Symbol.dispose]?: unknown } | null)?.[Symbol.dispose]
+            if (typeof dispose === 'function') dispose.call(observation)
+          }
+        })
+        return reply({ ok: true, value: value ?? null })
+      } catch (err) {
+        return failure('gateway/internal', err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err))
+      }
+    }
+    registerPostRoute(c, c.get('connection') as ConnectionHostFace | undefined, ATTACHMENT_ROUTE, handler, 'dsh-context: attachment route')
+  })
+}
diff --git a/src/host/index.ts b/src/host/index.ts
index a422f96..83c79dc 100644
--- a/src/host/index.ts
+++ b/src/host/index.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
 import { createContextActivityDefinition } from './activity'
+import { watchAttachmentChannel } from './attachment'
 import { createToolAttribution } from './attribution'
 import { watchBalanceChannel } from './balance'
 import { watchActivityBackfill } from './backfill'
@@ -45,6 +46,8 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context, config: Config): void {
   watchBalanceChannel(ctx)
   watchSkillCatalog(ctx)
   watchFleetChannel(ctx, coldReads)
+  // Attachment previews (one click = one authorized log read) ride the same gate as every other read.
+  watchAttachmentChannel(ctx, coldReads)
   // A harness BELOW the baseline never gets the real folds (its log shapes and seam faces are
   // outside the compat matrix); fallback units serve zeroed data plus the gate record. An
   // undetectable version fails open into the normal composition below.
diff --git a/src/shared/attachment.ts b/src/shared/attachment.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d1a48c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/attachment.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+/**
+ * The durable attachment vocabulary both halves share. A user message's content carries
+ * `{ type: 'image' | 'file', attachment: … }` blocks (the conversation snapshot spells the same
+ * blocks `kind:`), and the host's preview route must re-prove WHICH attachment a session cites
+ * before resolving its stored object — so one parser normalizes both block shapes and both
+ * spellings here.
+ */
+
+export type AttachmentKind = 'image' | 'file'
+
+/** One attachment block's proven facts; every optional field is re-proved, never borrowed. */
+export interface AttachmentRef {
+  kind: AttachmentKind
+  attachmentId: string
+  name?: string
+  bytes?: number
+  /** Images only: the media type verified when the raster was admitted. */
+  mediaType?: string
+  width?: number
+  height?: number
+  originalDimensions?: { width: number; height: number }
+}
+
+/** Suffixes the preview column's image viewers claim — the harness's own image-body extensions. */
+const EXTENSION_IMAGE: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
+  'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'webp', 'bmp', 'ico', 'svg',
+])
+
+/** The leaf of a display name: both separator styles stripped, so a hostile log path never names a
+ * file outside the directory the caller resolves it in. */
+export function leafNameOf(name: string): string {
+  return name.slice(Math.max(name.lastIndexOf('/'), name.lastIndexOf('\\')) + 1)
+}
+
+/** The lower-case extension of a display name (no dot), following the harness's own `fileExtension`:
+ * a leading dot starts the suffix, so `.env` is `env`; a missing dot yields an empty string. */
+export function attachmentExtension(name: string): string {
+  const base = leafNameOf(name)
+  const dot = base.lastIndexOf('.')
+  return dot < 0 ? '' : base.slice(dot + 1).toLowerCase()
+}
+
+/** Whether a display name's suffix is one the preview column's image viewers claim — the host names
+ * an image's preview alias by it, and an image whose name carries another suffix is named by its
+ * verified media type instead. */
+export function isImageName(name: string): boolean {
+  return EXTENSION_IMAGE.has(attachmentExtension(name))
+}
+
+function numOf(value: unknown): number | undefined {
+  return typeof value === 'number' && Number.isFinite(value) && value > 0 ? value : undefined
+}
+
+function dimensionsOf(value: unknown): { width: number; height: number } | undefined {
+  if (value === null || typeof value !== 'object') return undefined
+  const dims = value as Record<string, unknown>
+  const width = numOf(dims.width)
+  const height = numOf(dims.height)
+  return width !== undefined && height !== undefined ? { width, height } : undefined
+}
+
+/** One content block → its attachment reference, or null when it is none. Accepts the durable
+ * `type:` spelling and the snapshot's `kind:`, and re-proves every optional fact. */
+export function attachmentOf(block: unknown): AttachmentRef | null {
+  if (block === null || typeof block !== 'object') return null
+  const b = block as { type?: unknown; kind?: unknown; attachment?: unknown }
+  const spelling = typeof b.type === 'string' ? b.type : b.kind
+  if (spelling !== 'image' && spelling !== 'file') return null
+  if (b.attachment === null || typeof b.attachment !== 'object') return null
+  const a = b.attachment as Record<string, unknown>
+  if (typeof a.attachmentId !== 'string' || a.attachmentId === '') return null
+  const name = typeof a.name === 'string' && a.name !== '' ? a.name : undefined
+  const bytes = numOf(a.bytes)
+  if (spelling === 'file') {
+    return {
+      kind: 'file',
+      attachmentId: a.attachmentId,
+      ...(name !== undefined ? { name } : {}),
+      ...(bytes !== undefined ? { bytes } : {}),
+    }
+  }
+  const origDims = dimensionsOf(a.originalDimensions)
+  const width = numOf(a.width)
+  const height = numOf(a.height)
+  const mediaType = typeof a.mediaType === 'string' && a.mediaType !== '' ? a.mediaType : undefined
+  return {
+    kind: 'image',
+    attachmentId: a.attachmentId,
+    ...(name !== undefined ? { name } : {}),
+    ...(mediaType !== undefined ? { mediaType } : {}),
+    ...(bytes !== undefined ? { bytes } : {}),
+    ...(width !== undefined ? { width } : {}),
+    ...(height !== undefined ? { height } : {}),
+    ...(origDims !== undefined ? { originalDimensions: origDims } : {}),
+  }
+}
+
+/** Every attachment of one message content, in the message's own order; a non-array content or a
+ * malformed block drops out instead of throwing. */
+export function attachmentsIn(content: unknown): AttachmentRef[] {
+  if (!Array.isArray(content)) return []
+  const out: AttachmentRef[] = []
+  for (const block of content) {
+    const ref = attachmentOf(block)
+    if (ref !== null) out.push(ref)
+  }
+  return out
+}
diff --git a/tests/client/attachmentSource.spec.ts b/tests/client/attachmentSource.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b894c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/client/attachmentSource.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+// The attachment plumbing (src/client/attachmentSource.ts): the location route read behind one
+// click, its cache, and the preview-column opener the File Activity card also rides.
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { afterEach, describe, test, vi } from 'vitest'
+import {
+  clearAttachmentPaths,
+  makeAttachmentLocator,
+  makeAttachmentOpener,
+  pathOfValue,
+} from '../../src/client/attachmentSource'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../../src/shared/attachment'
+import { asClientCtx, TestClientCtx } from './helpers/harness'
+
+const FILE: AttachmentRef = { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'report.md', bytes: 47320 }
+const ALIAS = '/home/me/.dsh/attachments/v1/files/a3/a3f0/report.md'
+
+interface Call {
+  url: string
+  body: unknown
+}
+
+/** Stub the global fetch with per-call answers; returns the recorded calls. */
+function stubFetch(answer: (call: Call) => unknown): Call[] {
+  const calls: Call[] = []
+  vi.stubGlobal('fetch', async (url: string, init: { body?: string }) => {
+    const call: Call = { url, body: init.body === undefined ? undefined : JSON.parse(init.body) }
+    calls.push(call)
+    return answer(call)
+  })
+  return calls
+}
+
+function json(value: unknown, ok = true): { ok: boolean; json: () => Promise<unknown> } {
+  return { ok, json: () => Promise.resolve(value) }
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  clearAttachmentPaths()
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
+})
+
+describe('pathOfValue', () => {
+  test('proves the envelope down to a non-empty string path', () => {
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue({ path: ALIAS }), ALIAS)
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue({ path: '' }), null)
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue({ path: 42 }), null)
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue({}), null)
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue(null), null)
+    assert.equal(pathOfValue('path'), null)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('makeAttachmentLocator', () => {
+  test('no session means no locator', () => {
+    assert.equal(makeAttachmentLocator(undefined), undefined)
+    assert.equal(makeAttachmentLocator(''), undefined)
+  })
+
+  test('one read resolves the path and the next click reuses it', async () => {
+    const calls = stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } }))
+    const locate = makeAttachmentLocator('s1')!
+    assert.equal(await locate(FILE), ALIAS)
+    assert.equal(await locate(FILE), ALIAS)
+    assert.equal(calls.length, 1, 'the second read is served from the cache')
+    assert.equal(calls[0].url, '/api/dsh-context/attachment')
+    assert.deepEqual(calls[0].body, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1' })
+  })
+
+  test('every refusal resolves null, and none of them is cached', async () => {
+    const answers: ((call: Call) => unknown)[] = [
+      () => json({ ok: true, value: null }),
+      () => json({ ok: false, error: { code: 'x' } }),
+      () => json({ ok: true, value: { path: '' } }),
+      () => ({ ok: false, json: () => Promise.resolve({}) }),
+      () => {
+        throw new Error('offline')
+      },
+      () => json('not-an-envelope'),
+    ]
+    for (const answer of answers) {
+      clearAttachmentPaths()
+      const calls = stubFetch(answer)
+      const locate = makeAttachmentLocator('s1')!
+      assert.equal(await locate(FILE), null)
+      assert.equal(await locate(FILE), null)
+      assert.equal(calls.length, 2, 'a failed resolution is retried, never cached')
+      vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+    }
+  })
+
+  test('a malformed JSON body resolves null', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', async () => ({ ok: true, json: () => Promise.reject(new Error('bad json')) }))
+    const locate = makeAttachmentLocator('s1')!
+    assert.equal(await locate(FILE), null)
+  })
+
+  test('the cache is bounded: the oldest path is dropped first', async () => {
+    const calls = stubFetch(call => json({ ok: true, value: { path: `${ALIAS}#${String((call.body as { attachmentId: string }).attachmentId)}` } }))
+    const locate = makeAttachmentLocator('s1')!
+    for (let i = 0; i < 33; i++) {
+      await locate({ kind: 'file', attachmentId: `sha256:f${String(i)}`, name: 'x.md' })
+    }
+    assert.equal(calls.length, 33)
+    // The first id fell out of the 32-entry cache, so it reads again; the newest stays cached.
+    await locate({ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f0', name: 'x.md' })
+    assert.equal(calls.length, 34)
+    await locate({ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f32', name: 'x.md' })
+    assert.equal(calls.length, 34)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('makeAttachmentOpener', () => {
+  test('without a session or a preview column there is no opener', async () => {
+    stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } }))
+    const bare = new TestClientCtx()
+    assert.equal(makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(bare), undefined, undefined), undefined)
+    assert.equal(makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(bare), '', undefined), undefined)
+    assert.equal(makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(bare), 's1', undefined), undefined)
+  })
+
+  test('a resolved path opens the harness preview column at the session file address', async () => {
+    stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } }))
+    const opened: string[] = []
+    const ctx = new TestClientCtx({ services: { sidebarRight: { openResource: (address: string) => { opened.push(address) } } } })
+    const open = makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(ctx), 's1', '/work/repo')!
+    assert.equal(await open(FILE), true)
+    assert.equal(opened.length, 1)
+    assert.ok(opened[0].startsWith('dsh-resource://file/session/s1/'), opened[0])
+    assert.ok(opened[0].endsWith('report.md'), opened[0])
+    assert.ok(opened[0].includes('/home/me/.dsh/attachments/v1/files/a3/a3f0/'), 'an absolute path outside the workspace stays absolute')
+  })
+
+  test('an image-formed file keeps its stored name in the address', async () => {
+    stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: { path: '/store/a3/shot.PNG' } }))
+    const opened: string[] = []
+    const ctx = new TestClientCtx({ services: { sidebarRight: { openResource: (address: string) => { opened.push(address) } } } })
+    const open = makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(ctx), 's1', undefined)!
+    assert.equal(await open({ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f9', name: 'shot.PNG' }), true)
+    assert.ok(opened[0].endsWith('shot.PNG'))
+  })
+
+  test('an unresolved path and a refused address both report false', async () => {
+    stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: null }))
+    const refused: string[] = []
+    const ctx = new TestClientCtx({ services: { sidebarRight: { openResource: (address: string) => { refused.push(address) } } } })
+    const open = makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(ctx), 's1', undefined)!
+    assert.equal(await open(FILE), false)
+    assert.deepEqual(refused, [], 'nothing to open, the column is never called')
+
+    clearAttachmentPaths()
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+    stubFetch(() => json({ ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } }))
+    const throwing = new TestClientCtx({
+      services: {
+        sidebarRight: {
+          openResource: () => {
+            throw new Error('no viewer claims it')
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    })
+    const openThrowing = makeAttachmentOpener(asClientCtx(throwing), 's1', undefined)!
+    assert.equal(await openThrowing(FILE), false)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/tests/client/components/attachments.spec.ts b/tests/client/components/attachments.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5e8b35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/client/components/attachments.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+// The attachment block (src/client/components/attachments.tsx): the ordered cards and the one-click
+// hand-off to the harness preview column, with a refusal reported on the card itself.
+
+import { createElement as h } from 'react'
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { describe, test } from 'vitest'
+import { makeAttachmentSection } from '../../../src/client/components/attachments'
+import type { AttachmentOpener, ImageLoader } from '../../../src/client/services'
+import type { AttachmentRef } from '../../../src/shared/attachment'
+import { click, flush, makeKit, mount, query, queryAll, text } from '../helpers/kit'
+
+const kit = makeKit()
+const Attachments = makeAttachmentSection(kit)
+
+const CONTENT: AttachmentRef[] = [
+  { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'dsh-context-标题.svg', bytes: 2627 },
+  { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f2', name: '调研报告.docx', bytes: 778285 },
+  { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f3', name: 'REPORT.md', bytes: 47320 },
+  { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1', name: 'result-image-1.jpg', mediaType: 'image/jpeg', bytes: 146227, width: 1568, height: 1350, originalDimensions: { width: 3462, height: 1211 } },
+]
+
+const loadImage: ImageLoader = async (att) => {
+  if (att.attachmentId === 'sha256:i1') return 'blob:image-1'
+  throw new Error('denied')
+}
+
+async function mountSection(over: {
+  attachments?: readonly AttachmentRef[]
+  load?: ImageLoader
+  open?: AttachmentOpener
+} = {}): Promise<Awaited<ReturnType<typeof mount>>> {
+  return await mount(h(Attachments, {
+    attachments: over.attachments ?? CONTENT,
+    ...(over.load !== undefined ? { load: over.load } : {}),
+    ...(over.open !== undefined ? { open: over.open } : {}),
+  }))
+}
+
+describe('the attachment block', () => {
+  test('renders every attachment in message order, one card each', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({ load: loadImage })
+    await flush()
+    const cards = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')
+    assert.equal(cards.length, 4)
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      cards.map(c => text(query(c, '.lc-att-name'))),
+      ['dsh-context-标题.svg', '调研报告.docx', 'REPORT.md', 'result-image-1.jpg'],
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(text(query(m.container, '.lc-ts-card-head')), 'Attachments4')
+    // Files show their extension badge; the image shows its resolved thumbnail.
+    assert.deepEqual(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-ext').map(e => text(e)), ['SVG', 'DOCX', 'MD'])
+    assert.equal(queryAll<HTMLImageElement>(m.container, '.lc-att-thumb img').length, 1)
+    assert.ok(query<HTMLImageElement>(m.container, '.lc-att-thumb img').src.includes('blob:image-1'))
+    // The image card carries the chat's own facts: raw dims, sent size, token estimate.
+    const imageCard = cards[3]
+    assert.ok(text(imageCard).includes('3462×1211'), 'raw dimensions')
+    assert.ok(text(imageCard).includes('1568×1350 · 146.2 kB'), 'sent dimensions and size')
+    assert.ok(text(imageCard).includes('Token') && text(imageCard).includes('≈325'))
+    // File cards carry type and size instead.
+    assert.ok(text(cards[0]).includes('Type') && text(cards[0]).includes('Size'))
+    assert.ok(text(cards[0]).includes('2.6 kB'))
+    // Every card invites the same one click.
+    assert.ok(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-hint').every(hint => text(hint).includes('Click to preview')))
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('a rejected or absent image loader degrades the thumbnail, never the block', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({ load: loadImage, attachments: [{ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:x', name: 'x.png' }] })
+    await flush()
+    assert.ok(text(query(m.container, '.lc-att-err')).includes('⚠'))
+    await m.unmount()
+
+    const bare = await mountSection({ attachments: [{ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:x' }] })
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(text(query(bare.container, '.lc-att-ph')), '🖼')
+    assert.ok(text(query(bare.container, '.lc-att-name')).includes('Image'))
+    await bare.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('an unnamed file falls back to its kind for type, and shows no size row', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({ attachments: [{ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:u' }] })
+    const card = query(m.container, '.lc-att-item')
+    assert.ok(text(query(card, '.lc-att-name')).includes('File'))
+    assert.equal(text(query(card, '.lc-att-ext')), 'File', 'the kind stands in for a missing extension')
+    assert.ok(!text(card).includes('Size'))
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('an image without sent bytes still shows its dimensions', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({ attachments: [{ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i2', name: 'x.png', width: 10, height: 20 }] })
+    assert.ok(text(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item')).includes('10×20'))
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('an empty block renders nothing at all', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({ attachments: [] })
+    assert.equal(m.container.textContent, '')
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+})
+
+describe('the card click', () => {
+  test('hands every kind to the preview column at once, with no intermediate surface', async () => {
+    const opened: string[] = []
+    const open: AttachmentOpener = async (att) => {
+      opened.push(att.attachmentId)
+      return true
+    }
+    const m = await mountSection({ load: loadImage, open })
+    await flush()
+    for (const card of queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')) await click(card)
+    await flush()
+    assert.deepEqual(opened, ['sha256:f1', 'sha256:f2', 'sha256:f3', 'sha256:i1'])
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 0)
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '[role=dialog]').length, 0)
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('an open in flight shows on its own card, and a refusal leaves the note there', async () => {
+    let settle: ((taken: boolean) => void) | undefined
+    const open: AttachmentOpener = () => new Promise((resolve) => { settle = resolve })
+    const m = await mountSection({ open })
+    await click(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2])
+    const opening = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2]
+    assert.equal(opening.dataset.state, 'opening')
+    assert.ok(text(query(opening, '.lc-att-hint')).includes('…'))
+    settle?.(false)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2].dataset.state, 'failed')
+    assert.ok(text(query(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2], '.lc-att-fail')).includes('Preview unavailable'))
+    // A later success clears the note.
+    await click(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2])
+    settle?.(true)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[2].dataset.state, 'idle')
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 0)
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('without an opener every click reports on the card it hit', async () => {
+    const m = await mountSection({})
+    const cards = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')
+    await click(cards[0])
+    assert.equal(text(query(cards[0], '.lc-att-fail')), 'Preview unavailable')
+    // The state follows the newest refusal: one report at a time.
+    await click(cards[3])
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 1)
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[3].dataset.state, 'failed')
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('a content swap drops stale card states, even for an open still in flight', async () => {
+    let settle: ((taken: boolean) => void) | undefined
+    const m = await mountSection({ open: () => new Promise((resolve) => { settle = resolve }) })
+    await click(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[0])
+    settle?.(false)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 1)
+    await m.update(h(Attachments, { attachments: [{ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:new', name: 'new.md', bytes: 1 }] }))
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 0)
+    // An open that lands AFTER the swap must not resurrect the state it belonged to.
+    await click(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[0])
+    await m.update(h(Attachments, { attachments: [{ kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:other', name: 'other.md', bytes: 2 }] }))
+    settle?.(false)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-fail').length, 0)
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+
+  test('a load that settles after unmount never writes state', async () => {
+    let settle: ((url: string) => void) | undefined
+    let reject: ((err: Error) => void) | undefined
+    const lateLoad: ImageLoader = () => new Promise((_resolve, rejectPromise) => {
+      settle = _resolve
+      reject = rejectPromise
+    })
+    const m = await mountSection({ load: lateLoad, attachments: [{ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i9', name: 'late.png' }] })
+    await m.unmount()
+    settle?.('blob:late')
+    await flush()
+
+    // The rejection arm too: both settle paths must stay silent after unmount.
+    const failing = await mountSection({ load: lateLoad, attachments: [{ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i8', name: 'late-2.png' }] })
+    await failing.unmount()
+    reject?.(new Error('denied'))
+    await flush()
+  })
+
+  test('two opens in flight keep their own cards marked, in landing order', async () => {
+    const settles = new Map<string, (taken: boolean) => void>()
+    const open: AttachmentOpener = (att) => new Promise((resolve) => { settles.set(att.attachmentId, resolve) })
+    const m = await mountSection({ open })
+    const cards = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')
+    await click(cards[0])
+    await click(cards[1])
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[1].dataset.state, 'opening')
+    // The FIRST open lands while the second is still pending: its clear must not touch the newer one.
+    settles.get('sha256:f1')?.(true)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[0].dataset.state, 'idle')
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[1].dataset.state, 'opening')
+    settles.get('sha256:f2')?.(true)
+    await flush()
+    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-item')[1].dataset.state, 'idle')
+    await m.unmount()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/tests/client/components/browserMessageCategories.spec.ts b/tests/client/components/browserMessageCategories.spec.ts
index bd9dd2f..5c868e6 100644
--- a/tests/client/components/browserMessageCategories.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/client/components/browserMessageCategories.spec.ts
@@ -98,18 +98,18 @@ describe('ContextBrowser message categories', () => {
     const rows = elemRows(m)
     assert.equal(rows.length, 8, 'user + compaction nodes, newest first')
     assert.equal(text(query(rows[0], '.lc-br-preview')), 'empty summary')
-    // Image chips ride the collapsed row (seq 1 ×2, seq 2 ×1).
+    // Attachment chips ride the collapsed row (seq 1 ×2 images, seq 2 ×1).
     const rowOf = (preview: string) => rows.find(r => text(r).includes(preview)) as HTMLElement
-    assert.ok(text(rowOf('with images')).includes('Image ×2'))
-    assert.ok(text(rowOf('one pic')).includes('Image'))
+    assert.ok(text(rowOf('with images')).includes('Attachments ×2'))
+    assert.ok(text(rowOf('one pic')).includes('Attachments'))
     assert.ok(!text(rowOf('one pic')).includes('×'))
     // Open seq 1: the chip makes way for the grid; loader resolves two cards.
     await click(rowOf('with images'))
     await flush()
     let content = query(m.container, '.lc-br-content')
-    assert.ok(!text(elemRows(m).find(r => text(r).includes('with images')) as HTMLElement).includes('Image ×2'),
+    assert.ok(!text(elemRows(m).find(r => text(r).includes('with images')) as HTMLElement).includes('Attachments ×2'),
       'expanded row drops the chip')
-    assert.ok(text(content).includes('Images'))
+    assert.ok(text(content).includes('Attachments'))
     const imgs = queryAll<HTMLImageElement>(content, '.lc-att-thumb img')
     assert.equal(imgs.length, 2, 'both loads resolved')
     assert.ok(imgs[0].src.includes('blob:a1'))
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ describe('ContextBrowser message categories', () => {
     assert.ok(heads.some(s => s.includes('→ noargs')))
     assert.ok(heads.some(s => s.includes('Result')), 'nested tool-result text section')
     assert.ok(heads.filter(s => s.includes('Other content')).length === 6, 'unknown blocks render raw JSON')
-    assert.ok(heads.some(s => s.includes('Images')))
+    assert.ok(heads.some(s => s.includes('Attachments')))
     const argVals = queryAll(content, '.lc-ts-arg-row').map(el => text(el))
     assert.ok(argVals.some(s => s.includes('command') && s.includes('ls')))
     assert.ok(argVals.some(s => s.includes('timeout') && s.includes('30')))
diff --git a/tests/client/components/images.spec.ts b/tests/client/components/images.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 48d212f..0000000
--- a/tests/client/components/images.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,235 +0,0 @@
-// ImagesCard (src/client/components/images.tsx): the preview it renders is the platform ImageLightbox, whose dialog
-// behavior is covered upstream, so only the plugin-owned open/close wiring is pinned here.
-
-import { createElement as h } from 'react'
-import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
-import { describe, test, vi } from 'vitest'
-import { imageRefOf, makeImageCard } from '../../../src/client/components/images'
-import type { ImageRefLike } from '../../../src/client/services'
-import { estimateImageTokens } from '../../../src/shared/imageTokens'
-import { click, flush, keydown, makeKit, mount, query, queryAll } from '../helpers/kit'
-
-const kit = makeKit()
-const ImageCard = makeImageCard(kit)
-
-const dialog = (): Element | null => document.body.querySelector('[role=dialog]')
-
-describe('imageRefOf', () => {
-  test('rejects non-objects and non-image blocks', () => {
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf(null), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf('image'), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf(42), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({}), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'text', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a' } }), null)
-  })
-
-  test('accepts both type:image and kind:image shapes', () => {
-    const attachment = { attachmentId: 'a1' }
-    assert.deepEqual(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment }), { attachmentId: 'a1' })
-    assert.deepEqual(imageRefOf({ kind: 'image', attachment }), { attachmentId: 'a1' })
-  })
-
-  test('rejects a missing or malformed attachment', () => {
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image' }), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: null }), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: 'x' }), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: {} }), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: '' } }), null)
-    assert.equal(imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 42 } }), null)
-  })
-
-  test('keeps only well-formed optional facts', () => {
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      imageRefOf({
-        type: 'image',
-        attachment: {
-          attachmentId: 'a1',
-          name: '',
-          bytes: '500',
-          width: NaN,
-          height: 0,
-          originalDimensions: 'big',
-        },
-      }),
-      { attachmentId: 'a1' },
-    )
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a1', bytes: -5, originalDimensions: null } }),
-      { attachmentId: 'a1' },
-    )
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a1', originalDimensions: { width: 100 } } }),
-      { attachmentId: 'a1' },
-    )
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      imageRefOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a1', originalDimensions: { width: 0, height: 10 } } }),
-      { attachmentId: 'a1' },
-    )
-  })
-
-  test('passes a fully populated attachment through', () => {
-    assert.deepEqual(
-      imageRefOf({
-        kind: 'image',
-        attachment: {
-          attachmentId: 'a1',
-          name: 'photo.png',
-          bytes: 500,
-          width: 100,
-          height: 100,
-          originalDimensions: { width: 4000, height: 3000 },
-        },
-      }),
-      {
-        attachmentId: 'a1',
-        name: 'photo.png',
-        bytes: 500,
-        width: 100,
-        height: 100,
-        originalDimensions: { width: 4000, height: 3000 },
-      },
-    )
-  })
-})
-
-const FULL: ImageRefLike = {
-  attachmentId: 'a1',
-  name: 'photo.png',
-  bytes: 500,
-  width: 100,
-  height: 100,
-  originalDimensions: { width: 4000, height: 3000 },
-}
-
-describe('ImageCard metadata', () => {
-  test('without a loader: placeholder tile, metadata rows, click is a no-op', async () => {
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL }))
-    const card = query(m.container, '.lc-att-item')
-    assert.equal(card.getAttribute('title'), 'Open full image')
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-ph').textContent, '🖼')
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-name').textContent, 'photo.png')
-    const rows = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-row')
-    assert.equal(rows.length, 3)
-    assert.equal(rows[0].textContent, 'Raw4000×3000')
-    assert.equal(rows[1].textContent, 'Sent100×100 · 500 B')
-    assert.equal(rows[2].textContent, `Token≈${estimateImageTokens(100, 100)}`)
-    assert.ok(rows[2].getAttribute('title')!.includes('384'))
-    assert.equal(rows[0].getAttribute('title'), null)
-    await click(card)
-    assert.equal(dialog(), null)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('without a name the generic label applies; without dimensions no rows render', async () => {
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: { attachmentId: 'a2' } }))
-    const name = query(m.container, '.lc-att-name')
-    assert.equal(name.textContent, 'Image')
-    assert.equal(name.getAttribute('title'), 'Image')
-    assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-row').length, 0)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('sent row without a byte size shows dimensions only', async () => {
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: { attachmentId: 'a3', name: 'n.png', width: 200, height: 50 } }))
-    const rows = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-att-row')
-    assert.equal(rows.length, 2)
-    assert.equal(rows[0].textContent, 'Sent200×50')
-    assert.equal(rows[1].textContent, `Token≈${estimateImageTokens(200, 50)}`)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-})
-
-describe('ImageCard loading', () => {
-  test('a resolving loader swaps the placeholder for the image', async () => {
-    const load = vi.fn((_att: ImageRefLike) => Promise.resolve('blob:x'))
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load }))
-    await flush()
-    const img = query<HTMLImageElement>(m.container, '.lc-att-thumb img')
-    assert.equal(img.getAttribute('src'), 'blob:x')
-    assert.equal(img.getAttribute('alt'), 'photo.png')
-    assert.equal(load.mock.calls.length, 1)
-    assert.deepEqual(load.mock.calls[0][0], FULL)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('a pending loader shows the loading glyph', async () => {
-    const load = () => new Promise<string>(() => {})
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load }))
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-ph').textContent, '…')
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('a rejecting loader shows the error tile; clicking retries the load', async () => {
-    const load = vi.fn()
-      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('boom'))
-      .mockResolvedValue('blob:y')
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load }))
-    await flush()
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-err').textContent, '⚠')
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item').getAttribute('title'), 'Load failed · click to retry')
-    await click(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item'))
-    await flush()
-    assert.equal(load.mock.calls.length, 2)
-    const img = query<HTMLImageElement>(m.container, '.lc-att-thumb img')
-    assert.equal(img.getAttribute('src'), 'blob:y')
-    assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item').getAttribute('title'), 'Open full image')
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('a late answer after unmount is dropped (resolve and reject alike)', async () => {
-    let resolveLoad: ((url: string) => void) | null = null
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load: () => new Promise<string>((r) => { resolveLoad = r }) }))
-    await m.unmount()
-    resolveLoad!('blob:z')
-    await flush()
-
-    let rejectLoad: ((err: unknown) => void) | null = null
-    const m2 = await mount(h(ImageCard, {
-      attachment: FULL,
-      load: () => new Promise<string>((_, rej) => { rejectLoad = rej }),
-    }))
-    await m2.unmount()
-    rejectLoad!(new Error('late'))
-    await flush()
-  })
-})
-
-describe('ImageLightbox wiring', () => {
-  async function mountOpenable() {
-    const load = () => Promise.resolve('blob:x')
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load }))
-    await flush()
-    return m
-  }
-
-  test('click opens the body-portaled dialog; Escape closes it', async () => {
-    const m = await mountOpenable()
-    await click(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item'))
-    const box = dialog()!
-    assert.equal(box.getAttribute('aria-label'), 'Image preview')
-    assert.equal(query<HTMLImageElement>(box, 'img').getAttribute('src'), 'blob:x')
-    assert.equal(query(box, 'button').getAttribute('aria-label'), 'Close')
-    await keydown('Escape')
-    assert.equal(dialog(), null)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('the close control closes the lightbox', async () => {
-    const m = await mountOpenable()
-    await click(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item'))
-    await click(query(dialog()!, 'button'))
-    assert.equal(dialog(), null)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-
-  test('switching the attachment while open closes the preview', async () => {
-    const load = () => Promise.resolve('blob:x')
-    const m = await mount(h(ImageCard, { attachment: FULL, load }))
-    await flush()
-    await click(query(m.container, '.lc-att-item'))
-    assert.ok(dialog() !== null)
-    await m.update(h(ImageCard, { attachment: { ...FULL, attachmentId: 'a2' }, load: () => new Promise<string>(() => {}) }))
-    assert.equal(dialog(), null)
-    await m.unmount()
-  })
-})
diff --git a/tests/client/primitives.spec.ts b/tests/client/primitives.spec.ts
index 10e23e3..049af0f 100644
--- a/tests/client/primitives.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/client/primitives.spec.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
 import { describe, test } from 'vitest'
-import { resolveIcon, IconBranch, IconPlus, IconCheck, IconCopy, IconClose, IconSettings, IconChevronDown } from '../../src/client/primitives'
+import { FileTypeGlyph, resolveFileGlyph, resolveIcon, IconBranch, IconPlus, IconCheck, IconCopy, IconClose, IconSettings, IconChevronDown } from '../../src/client/primitives'
 
 describe('resolveIcon', () => {
   const icon = function SomeIcon(): null { return null }
@@ -35,5 +35,18 @@ describe('resolveIcon', () => {
     for (const icon of [IconBranch, IconPlus, IconCheck, IconCopy, IconClose, IconSettings, IconChevronDown]) {
       assert.equal(typeof icon, 'function', 'every seam resolves to a component')
     }
+    assert.equal(typeof FileTypeGlyph, 'function', 'the file-type glyph resolves too')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('resolveFileGlyph', () => {
+  const glyph = function SomeGlyph(): null { return null }
+
+  test('a present export resolves; a missing, non-component, or hostile read renders nothing', () => {
+    assert.equal(resolveFileGlyph({ FileTypeIcon: glyph }), glyph)
+    assert.equal(resolveFileGlyph({ FileTypeIcon: 42 })({}), null)
+    assert.equal(resolveFileGlyph({})({}), null)
+    const hostile = new Proxy({}, { get() { throw new Error('hostile export read') } })
+    assert.equal(resolveFileGlyph(hostile)({}), null)
   })
 })
diff --git a/tests/compat/staging.ts b/tests/compat/staging.ts
index a939692..d21bc2a 100644
--- a/tests/compat/staging.ts
+++ b/tests/compat/staging.ts
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ export const ICON_SEAMS = [
   'IconChevronDownOutlineMedium',
   'IconChevronUpOutlineMedium',
   'IconSearchOutlineRegular',
+  'FileTypeIcon',
 ] as const
 
 /** The event families the host fold actually switches on, read out of `src/host/fold.ts` so the
diff --git a/tests/host/attachment.spec.ts b/tests/host/attachment.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e01d3e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/host/attachment.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,388 @@
+// The attachment-location route (src/host/attachment.ts): session-authorized named-path resolution
+// for verbatim file attachments, plus the route's gating/transport behavior.
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { describe, test } from 'vitest'
+import type { Context } from '@deepseek-ai/cordis'
+import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { afterEach } from 'vitest'
+import { ATTACHMENT_ROUTE, referencedAttachmentOf, imagePreviewNameOf, watchAttachmentChannel } from '../../src/host/attachment'
+import type { ColdReadGate } from '../../src/host/coldRead'
+
+type RouteFetch = (request: Request) => Promise<Response>
+
+interface CtxSpec {
+  connection?: unknown
+  sessionQuery?: unknown
+  attachments?: unknown
+}
+
+/** The fleet route spec's host ctx double: cordis inject semantics over a service map. */
+function ctxOf(spec: CtxSpec): { ctx: Context; captured: { path?: string; fetch?: RouteFetch }; disposers: (() => void)[] } {
+  const captured: { path?: string; fetch?: RouteFetch } = {}
+  const disposers: (() => void)[] = []
+  const services = new Map<string, unknown>()
+  if ('connection' in spec) services.set('connection', spec.connection)
+  if ('sessionQuery' in spec) services.set('sessionQuery', spec.sessionQuery)
+  if ('attachments' in spec) services.set('attachments', spec.attachments)
+  const ctx = {
+    get: (name: string) => services.get(name),
+    effect(fn: () => unknown, _label?: string) {
+      const d = fn()
+      if (typeof d === 'function') disposers.push(d as () => void)
+      return () => {}
+    },
+    inject(deps: string[], cb: (c: unknown) => unknown) {
+      if (!deps.every(d => services.has(d))) return
+      const d = cb(ctx)
+      if (typeof d === 'function') disposers.push(d as () => void)
+    },
+  }
+  if (spec.connection !== undefined && spec.connection !== null) {
+    const conn = spec.connection as { fetch?: { register?: unknown } }
+    if (typeof conn.fetch?.register === 'function') {
+      conn.fetch.register = (route: { path: string; fetch: RouteFetch }) => {
+        captured.path = route.path
+        captured.fetch = route.fetch
+        return () => {}
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return { ctx: ctx as unknown as Context, captured, disposers }
+}
+
+const OPEN_GATE: ColdReadGate = { admit: read => read() }
+const SKIP_GATE: ColdReadGate = { admit: () => Promise.resolve(undefined) }
+
+function armed(spec: CtxSpec = {}, gate: ColdReadGate = OPEN_GATE): { captured: { path?: string; fetch?: RouteFetch } } {
+  const { ctx, captured } = ctxOf({ connection: { fetch: { register: () => () => {} } }, ...spec })
+  watchAttachmentChannel(ctx, gate)
+  return { captured }
+}
+
+async function call(captured: { fetch?: RouteFetch }, body: unknown): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
+  const request = new Request(`http://dsh.test${ATTACHMENT_ROUTE}`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
+    ...(body === undefined ? {} : { body: JSON.stringify(body) }),
+  })
+  const response = await captured.fetch!(request)
+  return await response.json() as Record<string, unknown>
+}
+
+const BARE_IMAGE_EVENT = {
+  type: 'user/message',
+  seq: 10,
+  time: 2,
+  data: { content: [{ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i2' } }] },
+}
+
+/** The screenshot session's own content: three verbatim files, then an image, then the text. */
+const USER_EVENT = {
+  type: 'user/message',
+  seq: 9,
+  time: 1,
+  data: {
+    content: [
+      { type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'report.md', bytes: 47320 } },
+      { type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:f2', name: 'report.docx', bytes: 778285 } },
+      { type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i1', name: 'result-image.jpg', mediaType: 'image/jpeg', bytes: 146227, width: 1568, height: 1350 } },
+      { type: 'text', text: 'how many files?' },
+    ],
+  },
+}
+
+function basename(path: string): string {
+  return path.slice(path.lastIndexOf('/') + 1)
+}
+
+function observing(events: unknown): { observeSession(id: string, options: unknown): Promise<unknown>; disposed(): boolean } {
+  let disposed = false
+  return {
+    observeSession: () => Promise.resolve({
+      events,
+      [Symbol.dispose]() { disposed = true },
+    }),
+    disposed: () => disposed,
+  }
+}
+
+const ALIAS = '/home/me/.dsh/attachments/v1/files/a3/a3f0/report.md'
+
+describe('referencedAttachmentOf', () => {
+  test('finds the block citing the id at every real citation site', () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([USER_EVENT], 'sha256:f1'),
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'report.md', bytes: 47320 },
+    )
+    // A tool result's own content, and a nested block inside it.
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([
+        { type: 'tool/result', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { message: { content: [{ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i9', width: 1, height: 1 } }] } } },
+      ], 'sha256:i9'),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i9', width: 1, height: 1 },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([
+        {
+          type: 'tool/result',
+          seq: 3,
+          time: 3,
+          data: { message: { content: [{ type: 'tool-result', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'shot' }, { type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i10', width: 2, height: 2 } }] }] } },
+        },
+      ], 'sha256:i10'),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i10', width: 2, height: 2 },
+    )
+    // A spliced inbox delivery, before its user/message materializes.
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([
+        { type: 'agent/inbox/spliced', seq: 4, time: 4, data: { target: 'next-turn', inserted: [{ content: [{ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:f9', name: 'delivered.md', bytes: 7 } }] }] } },
+      ], 'sha256:f9'),
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f9', name: 'delivered.md', bytes: 7 },
+    )
+  })
+
+  test('the walk is bounded and total over a hostile log', () => {
+    // Deeper than the cap: the block is out of reach, so nothing resolves.
+    let deep: Record<string, unknown> = { type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:deep', name: 'x.md', bytes: 1 } }
+    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) deep = { nest: deep }
+    assert.equal(referencedAttachmentOf([{ type: 'user/message', data: deep }], 'sha256:deep'), null)
+    // An object that throws on the walk drops that event, and the next one still serves.
+    const hostile = new Proxy({}, { ownKeys() { throw new Error('hostile payload') } })
+    assert.equal(referencedAttachmentOf([{ type: 'x', data: hostile }], 'sha256:f1'), null)
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([{ type: 'x', data: hostile }, USER_EVENT], 'sha256:f1'),
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'report.md', bytes: 47320 },
+    )
+  })
+
+  test('an id the log never cites resolves null, over hostile entries', () => {
+    assert.equal(referencedAttachmentOf([USER_EVENT], 'sha256:other'), null)
+    assert.equal(referencedAttachmentOf([], 'sha256:f1'), null)
+    assert.equal(
+      referencedAttachmentOf([
+        null,
+        42,
+        { type: 'x' },
+        { type: 'x', data: null },
+        { type: 'x', data: { content: 'not-an-array' } },
+        { type: 'x', data: { content: [null, 'plain', { type: 'file' }] } },
+        { type: 'x', data: { message: null } },
+      ], 'sha256:f1'),
+      null,
+    )
+  })
+})
+
+describe('watchAttachmentChannel gating', () => {
+  test('no route without the connection service or its fetch registry', () => {
+    assert.equal(ctxOf({}).captured.path, undefined)
+    assert.equal(ctxOf({ connection: {} }).captured.path, undefined)
+    assert.equal(ctxOf({ connection: { fetch: {} } }).captured.path, undefined)
+    assert.equal(armed().captured.path, ATTACHMENT_ROUTE)
+  })
+
+  test('a rejecting registry keeps the route absent without throwing', () => {
+    const ctx = {
+      get: (name: string) => name === 'connection'
+        ? {
+          fetch: {
+            register: () => {
+              throw new Error('registration rejected')
+            },
+          },
+        }
+        : undefined,
+      inject(_deps: string[], cb: (c: unknown) => unknown) { cb(ctx) },
+    }
+    assert.doesNotThrow(() => { watchAttachmentChannel(ctx as unknown as Context, OPEN_GATE) })
+  })
+
+  test('bad bodies, a missing session, and a missing attachment are typed failures', async () => {
+    const { captured } = armed()
+    const badJson = await captured.fetch!(new Request(`http://dsh.test${ATTACHMENT_ROUTE}`, { method: 'POST', body: '{' }))
+    assert.equal((await badJson.json() as { ok: boolean }).ok, false)
+    for (const body of [undefined, null, {}, { sessionId: 42 }, { sessionId: '' }, { sessionId: 's1' }, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 7 }, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: '' }]) {
+      const r = await call(captured, body)
+      assert.equal(r.ok, false, JSON.stringify(body))
+    }
+  })
+
+  test('no sessionQuery, a verbless query, or a skipped read answers a typed null', async () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(armed().captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'a' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(armed({ sessionQuery: {} }).captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'a' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(armed({ sessionQuery: observing(null) }).captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'a' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+    const skipped = armed({ sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]) }, SKIP_GATE)
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(skipped.captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+  })
+
+  test('an id the session never cited resolves null (the authorization rule)', async () => {
+    const query = observing([USER_EVENT])
+    const { captured } = armed({ sessionQuery: query })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:invented' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+    assert.equal(query.disposed(), true)
+  })
+
+  test('a throwing observation surfaces as an internal failure', async () => {
+    const { captured } = armed({ sessionQuery: { observeSession: () => Promise.reject(new Error('log unreadable')) } })
+    const r = await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'a' })
+    assert.equal(r.ok, false)
+    assert.equal((r.error as { message: string }).message, 'log unreadable')
+    const nonError = armed({ sessionQuery: { observeSession: () => Promise.reject('nope') } })
+    assert.equal(((await call(nonError.captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'a' })).error as { message: string }).message, 'nope')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('watchAttachmentChannel resolution', () => {
+  test('a cited file resolves its named host path and the observation disposes', async () => {
+    const query = observing([USER_EVENT])
+    const seen: unknown[] = []
+    const { captured } = armed({
+      sessionQuery: query,
+      attachments: {
+        fileHostPath: (ref: unknown) => {
+          seen.push(ref)
+          return ALIAS
+        },
+      },
+    })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1' }), { ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } })
+    assert.deepEqual(seen, [{ attachmentId: 'sha256:f1', name: 'report.md', bytes: 47320 }])
+    assert.equal(query.disposed(), true)
+  })
+
+  test('a store without an image face answers a typed null for an image', async () => {
+    const { captured } = armed({
+      sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]),
+      attachments: { fileHostPath: () => ALIAS },
+    })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+  })
+
+  test('every unlocatable attachment shape resolves a typed null', async () => {
+    const cases: { attachments: unknown; id: string }[] = [
+      // No store composed, a store without the verb, and a store answering nothing path-shaped.
+      { attachments: undefined, id: 'sha256:f1' },
+      { attachments: {}, id: 'sha256:f1' },
+      { attachments: { fileHostPath: () => undefined }, id: 'sha256:f1' },
+      { attachments: { fileHostPath: () => '' }, id: 'sha256:f1' },
+      { attachments: { fileHostPath: () => 42 }, id: 'sha256:f1' },
+      // A hostile reference (bad digest, unsanitized name) throws inside the store.
+      {
+        attachments: {
+          fileHostPath: () => {
+            throw new Error('invalid attachment ref')
+          },
+        },
+        id: 'sha256:f1',
+      },
+    ]
+    for (const c of cases) {
+      const { captured } = armed({ sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]), attachments: c.attachments })
+      assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: c.id }), { ok: true, value: null }, JSON.stringify(c))
+    }
+  })
+
+  test('an observation without a dispose method still serves', async () => {
+    const { captured } = armed({
+      sessionQuery: { observeSession: () => Promise.resolve({ events: [USER_EVENT] }) },
+      attachments: { fileHostPath: () => ALIAS },
+    })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:f1' }), { ok: true, value: { path: ALIAS } })
+  })
+
+  test('a nameless file reference still resolves through the store', async () => {
+    const { captured } = armed({
+      sessionQuery: observing([{ type: 'user/message', seq: 1, data: { content: [{ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:f3' } }] } }]),
+      attachments: { fileHostPath: (ref: unknown) => `${ALIAS}:${JSON.stringify(ref)}` },
+    })
+    const r = await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:f3' })
+    assert.deepEqual(r.value, { path: `${ALIAS}:${JSON.stringify({ attachmentId: 'sha256:f3', name: '', bytes: 0 })}` })
+  })
+})
+
+describe('image preview names', () => {
+  test('an image keeps a viewable suffix, leaf only', () => {
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: 'photo.PNG', mediaType: 'image/jpeg' }), 'photo.PNG')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: '../../evil.svg' }), 'evil.svg')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: 'C:\\tmp\\x.webp' }), 'x.webp')
+  })
+
+  test('anything the column cannot view is named by the verified media type', () => {
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: 'clipboard', mediaType: 'image/jpeg' }), 'attachment.jpg')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: 'shot.png', mediaType: 'image/webp' }), 'shot.png', 'a suffix a viewer claims keeps the displayed name; the viewer renders the stored bytes')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', name: 'scan.tiff', mediaType: 'image/png' }), 'attachment.png')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', mediaType: 'image/gif' }), 'attachment.gif')
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a', mediaType: 'image/tiff' }), null)
+    assert.equal(imagePreviewNameOf({ kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'a' }), null)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('watchAttachmentChannel image aliases', () => {
+  const homes: string[] = []
+  afterEach(() => {
+    for (const home of homes.splice(0)) rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  })
+
+  /** A real store layout: `<home>/attachments/v1/objects/<xx>/<digest>` holding the image bytes. */
+  function storeOf(bytes: string): { home: string; objectPath: string; store: { imageHostPath: () => string } } {
+    const home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'dsh-context-att-'))
+    homes.push(home)
+    const digest = 'ab'.repeat(32)
+    const objectPath = join(home, 'attachments', 'v1', 'objects', 'ab', digest)
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'attachments', 'v1', 'objects', 'ab'), { recursive: true })
+    writeFileSync(objectPath, bytes)
+    return { home, objectPath, store: { imageHostPath: () => objectPath } }
+  }
+
+  test('a cited image answers a named hard link under the plugin preview cache', async () => {
+    const { home, objectPath, store } = storeOf('image-bytes')
+    const { captured } = armed({ sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]), attachments: store })
+    const r = await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1' })
+    const path = (r.value as { path: string }).path
+    assert.equal(path, join(home, 'cache', 'dsh-context', 'previews', 'ab', basename(objectPath), 'result-image.jpg'))
+    assert.equal(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'), 'image-bytes', 'the link shares the stored bytes')
+    // A second read reuses the link instead of failing on EEXIST.
+    const again = await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1' })
+    assert.deepEqual(again.value, { path })
+  })
+
+  test('an unfamiliar object layout and an unlocatable object both answer a typed null', async () => {
+    const flat = armed({
+      sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]),
+      attachments: { imageHostPath: () => join(tmpdir(), 'objects', 'ab', 'digest') },
+    })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(flat.captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+
+    const { home } = storeOf('image-bytes')
+    const missing = armed({
+      sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT]),
+      attachments: { imageHostPath: () => join(home, 'attachments', 'v1', 'objects', 'ab', 'gone') },
+    })
+    assert.deepEqual(await call(missing.captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: 'sha256:i1' }), { ok: true, value: null })
+  })
+
+  test('a hostile or empty image reference resolves a typed null', async () => {
+    const cases: { store: unknown; id: string }[] = [
+      { store: {}, id: 'sha256:i1' },
+      {
+        store: {
+          imageHostPath: () => {
+            throw new Error('invalid attachment ref')
+          },
+        },
+        id: 'sha256:i1',
+      },
+      { store: { imageHostPath: () => '' }, id: 'sha256:i1' },
+      { store: { imageHostPath: () => 42 }, id: 'sha256:i1' },
+      // The cited image carries no media type and no usable suffix.
+      { store: { imageHostPath: () => '/x/attachments/v1/objects/ab/digest' }, id: 'sha256:i2' },
+    ]
+    for (const c of cases) {
+      const { captured } = armed({ sessionQuery: observing([USER_EVENT, BARE_IMAGE_EVENT]), attachments: c.store })
+      assert.deepEqual(await call(captured, { sessionId: 's1', attachmentId: c.id }), { ok: true, value: null }, JSON.stringify(c.id))
+    }
+  })
+})
diff --git a/tests/host/index.spec.ts b/tests/host/index.spec.ts
index 28b5608..bd82307 100644
--- a/tests/host/index.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/host/index.spec.ts
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ describe('dsh-context host plugin', () => {
 
   test('the split generation with the detail route live: slim wire head + the endpoint serves the collections', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
-    // The plugin mounts two routes (detail + warm-up trigger); keep them by path.
+    // The plugin's own routes (detail, fleet, attachment, warm-up trigger, balance, skills); keep them by path.
     const routes = new Map<string, { fetch?: (request: Request) => Promise<Response> }>()
     ctx.provide('connection', {
       fetch: {
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ describe('dsh-context host plugin', () => {
     assert.equal(timeline.nodes.length, 0, 'the collections stay off the wire value')
     assert.equal(timeline.requests.length, 0)
 
+    assert.ok(routes.has('/api/dsh-context/attachment'), 'the attachment-location route registered beside the detail route')
     const route = routes.get('/api/dsh-context/detail')
     assert.ok(route !== undefined && route.fetch !== undefined, 'the detail route registered')
     const response = await route.fetch(new Request('http://dsh.test/api/dsh-context/detail', {
diff --git a/tests/shared/attachment.spec.ts b/tests/shared/attachment.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab8b2e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/shared/attachment.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+// The shared attachment vocabulary (src/shared/attachment.ts): both block spellings normalize into
+// one proven reference, and the preview tables classify what a card can show.
+
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
+import { describe, test } from 'vitest'
+import {
+  attachmentExtension,
+  attachmentOf,
+  attachmentsIn,
+  isImageName,
+  leafNameOf,
+} from '../../src/shared/attachment'
+
+describe('attachmentExtension', () => {
+  test('reads the last suffix of a name or path, lower-cased', () => {
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('report.MD'), 'md')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('dir/sub/file.tar.gz'), 'gz')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('C:\\docs\\sheet.XLSX'), 'xlsx')
+  })
+
+  test('a missing, trailing, or leading-dot suffix is empty', () => {
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('README'), '')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('archive.'), '')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('.env'), 'env')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension('.gitignore'), 'gitignore')
+    assert.equal(attachmentExtension(''), '')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('isImageName', () => {
+  test('matches exactly the suffixes the preview column\'s image viewers claim', () => {
+    assert.equal(isImageName('x.PNG'), true)
+    assert.equal(isImageName('/dir/shot.webp'), true)
+    assert.equal(isImageName('vector.svg'), true)
+    assert.equal(isImageName('scan.tiff'), false, 'the column lists tiff as unviewable')
+    assert.equal(isImageName('photo.avif'), false, 'the column lists avif as unviewable')
+    assert.equal(isImageName('notes.md'), false)
+    assert.equal(isImageName('report.docx'), false)
+    assert.equal(isImageName(''), false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('leafNameOf', () => {
+  test('keeps the leaf of either separator style, so a path never escapes its directory', () => {
+    assert.equal(leafNameOf('/a/b/report.md'), 'report.md')
+    assert.equal(leafNameOf('C:\\tmp\\x.png'), 'x.png')
+    assert.equal(leafNameOf('report.md'), 'report.md')
+    assert.equal(leafNameOf(''), '')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('attachmentOf', () => {
+  test('rejects every non-attachment block', () => {
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf(null), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf('image'), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf(42), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({}), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'text', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a' } }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ kind: 'mystery', attachment: { attachmentId: 'a' } }), null)
+  })
+
+  test('rejects a missing or malformed attachment envelope', () => {
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'image' }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'image', attachment: null }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'image', attachment: 'x' }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'file', attachment: {} }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: '' } }), null)
+    assert.equal(attachmentOf({ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 42 } }), null)
+  })
+
+  test('a verbatim file keeps the name and size the log carries', () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:x', name: 'notes.md', bytes: 47320 } }),
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:x', name: 'notes.md', bytes: 47320 },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(attachmentOf({ kind: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:x' } }), { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:x' })
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({ type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:x', name: '', bytes: -1 } }),
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'sha256:x' },
+    )
+  })
+
+  test('an image passes every proven fact and drops the hostile ones', () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({
+        type: 'image',
+        attachment: {
+          attachmentId: 'sha256:i',
+          mediaType: 'image/jpeg',
+          name: 'result-image-1.jpg',
+          bytes: 146227,
+          width: 1568,
+          height: 1350,
+          originalDimensions: { width: 3462, height: 1211 },
+        },
+      }),
+      {
+        kind: 'image',
+        attachmentId: 'sha256:i',
+        name: 'result-image-1.jpg',
+        mediaType: 'image/jpeg',
+        bytes: 146227,
+        width: 1568,
+        height: 1350,
+        originalDimensions: { width: 3462, height: 1211 },
+      },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({
+        kind: 'image',
+        attachment: {
+          attachmentId: 'sha256:i',
+          mediaType: '',
+          name: '',
+          bytes: '500',
+          width: NaN,
+          height: 0,
+          originalDimensions: 'big',
+        },
+      }),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i' },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i', originalDimensions: null } }),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i' },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i', originalDimensions: { width: 0, height: 10 } } }),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i' },
+    )
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      attachmentOf({ type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'sha256:i', originalDimensions: { width: 4000, height: 3000 } } }),
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'sha256:i', originalDimensions: { width: 4000, height: 3000 } },
+    )
+  })
+})
+
+describe('attachmentsIn', () => {
+  test('keeps the message order and drops everything else', () => {
+    const content = [
+      { type: 'file', attachment: { attachmentId: 'f1', name: 'a.svg', bytes: 2627 } },
+      { type: 'text', text: 'hello' },
+      { type: 'image', attachment: { attachmentId: 'i1', width: 10, height: 10 } },
+      null,
+      'plain',
+      { type: 'file' },
+    ]
+    assert.deepEqual(attachmentsIn(content), [
+      { kind: 'file', attachmentId: 'f1', name: 'a.svg', bytes: 2627 },
+      { kind: 'image', attachmentId: 'i1', width: 10, height: 10 },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  test('a non-array content has none', () => {
+    assert.deepEqual(attachmentsIn(undefined), [])
+    assert.deepEqual(attachmentsIn('content'), [])
+  })
+})