Option to disable interpreting image paths in pasted text as image content
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 3, 2026 by fedemengo
Summary
When pasting text that contains image file paths (e.g. /some/path/image.png) into Claude Code, the path gets interpreted as image content to be pasted — not as plain text. This happens when a display is available (local desktop session or X11 forwarding over SSH).
For a CLI tool, this behavior is unexpected and disruptive. There is currently no way to opt out of it.
Proposed fix
Add a configuration option to disable automatic interpretation of image paths in pasted text, e.g.:
- A
--no-imagesCLI flag - A
settings.jsonkey such as"pasteImages": false