diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
index 59150ee320ae..ba3e8f62cb43 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ describe("GhosttyTerminalSurface visibility", () => {
 
     const canvas = new TerminalTestElement();
     const mount = new TerminalTestElement();
+    let input: TerminalTestElement | undefined;
     const context = {
       canvas,
       beginPath() {},
@@ -116,7 +117,12 @@ describe("GhosttyTerminalSurface visibility", () => {
       }),
     };
     vi.stubGlobal("document", {
-      createElement: (tag: string) => (tag === "canvas" ? canvas : new TerminalTestElement()),
+      createElement: (tag: string) => {
+        if (tag === "canvas") return canvas;
+        const element = new TerminalTestElement();
+        if (tag === "textarea") input = element;
+        return element;
+      },
       fonts: Object.assign(new EventTarget(), { load: async () => [], add() {} }),
     });
     vi.stubGlobal(
@@ -179,6 +185,49 @@ describe("GhosttyTerminalSurface visibility", () => {
           }),
         );
       },
+      key(
+        key: string,
+        modifiers: { ctrlKey?: boolean; metaKey?: boolean; shiftKey?: boolean },
+        type: "keydown" | "keyup" = "keydown",
+      ) {
+        input?.dispatchEvent(
+          Object.assign(new Event(type, { cancelable: true }), {
+            key,
+            code: `Key${key.toUpperCase()}`,
+            altKey: false,
+            ctrlKey: false,
+            metaKey: false,
+            shiftKey: false,
+            repeat: false,
+            isComposing: false,
+            ...modifiers,
+            getModifierState: () => false,
+          }),
+        );
+      },
+      blur() {
+        input?.dispatchEvent(new Event("blur"));
+      },
+      /**
+       * Serves `text` to the paste shortcut's clipboard reads. The returned
+       * function asserts how many reads started and waits for the last one to
+       * settle, so no read can land after the caller's next assertion.
+       */
+      stubClipboard(text: string) {
+        const readText = vi.fn(async () => text);
+        vi.stubGlobal("navigator", { platform: "MacIntel", clipboard: { readText } });
+        return async (reads: number) => {
+          expect(readText).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(reads);
+          await readText.mock.results[reads - 1]?.value;
+        };
+      },
+      paste(text: string) {
+        input?.dispatchEvent(
+          Object.assign(new Event("paste", { cancelable: true }), {
+            clipboardData: { getData: () => text },
+          }),
+        );
+      },
       async create(options: Partial<GhosttyTerminalSurfaceOptions> = {}) {
         const surface = await GhosttyTerminalSurface.create(mount as unknown as HTMLElement, {
           theme: {
@@ -305,6 +354,71 @@ describe("GhosttyTerminalSurface visibility", () => {
     expect(readText).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it("pastes once when the shortcut's clipboard read lands before the native paste", async () => {
+    const harness = createHarness();
+    const settleReads = harness.stubClipboard("echo hi");
+    await harness.create({ beforeKey: () => true });
+
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    await settleReads(1);
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, "echo hi");
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true }, "keyup");
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    // The next paste gesture is a new paste, and its read must not land on
+    // top of the native paste that won.
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+    await settleReads(2);
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  it("still drops the late native paste when other keys move mid-gesture", async () => {
+    const harness = createHarness();
+    const settleReads = harness.stubClipboard("echo hi");
+    await harness.create({ beforeKey: () => true });
+
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    await settleReads(1);
+    // Rolling typing: another key goes down and a previous one comes up
+    // before the browser's paste event arrives.
+    harness.key("Shift", { shiftKey: true });
+    harness.key("Shift", {}, "keyup");
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+
+    expect(harness.onData.mock.calls.filter(([data]) => data === "echo hi")).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a later menu paste once the shortcut that only the read served ends", async () => {
+    const harness = createHarness();
+    const settleReads = harness.stubClipboard("echo hi");
+    await harness.create({ beforeKey: () => true });
+
+    // No native paste for the shortcut: the read is the only delivery. An
+    // Edit → Paste of the same text afterwards has no keydown of its own.
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    await settleReads(1);
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true }, "keyup");
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+
+    // Same when the read only settles after the shortcut was released.
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true }, "keyup");
+    await settleReads(2);
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+
+    // Same when focus leaves before the release, so the terminal never sees it.
+    harness.key("v", { metaKey: true });
+    await settleReads(3);
+    harness.blur();
+    harness.paste("echo hi");
+    expect(harness.onData).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(6);
+  });
+
   it("starts a selection when dragging from a link", async () => {
     const harness = createHarness();
     const onLinkActivate = vi.fn();
diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
index be62ede4d065..598e3932621d 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
@@ -625,6 +625,12 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
   private theme: GhosttyTheme;
   private readonly suppressedKeyCodes = new Set<string>();
   private pasteShortcutToken = 0;
+  // The paste shortcut gesture whose native paste may still arrive, and the
+  // text its clipboard read already sent (empty until then; onPaste ignores
+  // empty data). Chromium can deliver that paste after the read and after
+  // other keys move, but before the shortcut key's own keyup, so only that
+  // keyup, a new paste shortcut, or blur ends the gesture.
+  private pasteShortcutGesture: { code: string; readText: string } | null = null;
   private copyShortcutToken = 0;
   private clearSelectionAfterCopy = false;
   private primedCopySelection = "";
@@ -1118,19 +1124,26 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
     }
     if (isTerminalPasteShortcut(event)) {
       this.suppressedKeyCodes.add(event.code);
+      const gesture = { code: event.code, readText: "" };
+      this.pasteShortcutGesture = gesture;
       const clipboard = navigator.clipboard;
       if (typeof clipboard?.readText === "function") {
-        // Race the async clipboard read against the browser's own paste event:
-        // the native event (dispatched synchronously with the default action)
-        // always claims the token first when it fires, and the read covers
-        // browsers whose paste shortcut produces no paste event. Not preventing
-        // the default keeps the native path alive when the read is denied.
+        // Race the async clipboard read against the browser's own paste event.
+        // The read covers browsers whose paste shortcut produces no paste
+        // event. Not preventing the default keeps the native path alive when
+        // the read is denied. A native paste that lands first claims the
+        // token; a read that lands first records its text so the matching
+        // native paste from this gesture is dropped.
         const token = ++this.pasteShortcutToken;
         void clipboard.readText().then(
           (text) => {
             if (this.disposed || this.pasteShortcutToken !== token) return;
             this.pasteShortcutToken += 1;
-            if (text.length > 0) this.options.onData(this.core.encodePaste(text));
+            if (text.length === 0) return;
+            // Keyup or blur may already have ended the gesture. Recording
+            // after that would swallow a later menu paste of the same text.
+            if (this.pasteShortcutGesture === gesture) gesture.readText = text;
+            this.options.onData(this.core.encodePaste(text));
           },
           () => {
             // Clipboard read denied; the native paste event remains the path.
@@ -1155,6 +1168,9 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
   };
 
   private readonly onKeyUp = (event: KeyboardEvent) => {
+    // The clipboard spec dispatches the keyboard paste before this keyup, so
+    // the duplicate from the same gesture is still dropped.
+    if (event.code === this.pasteShortcutGesture?.code) this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
     if (this.suppressedKeyCodes.delete(event.code)) return;
     if (isTerminalCompositionKey(event, this.composing)) {
       return;
@@ -1176,6 +1192,8 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
 
   private readonly onBlur = () => {
     this.focused = false;
+    // A menu paste after focus leaves has no keyup of its own.
+    this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
     this.refreshHoveredLink();
     // Suppressions survive blur deliberately: a shortcut that moves focus (for
     // example terminal-toggle) must still swallow its own keyup if focus comes
@@ -1235,6 +1253,12 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
     event.preventDefault();
     const data = event.clipboardData?.getData("text/plain") ?? "";
     if (data.length === 0) return;
+    // The clipboard read already delivered this payload for the open shortcut.
+    // Drop the one native paste that belongs to that gesture.
+    if (data === this.pasteShortcutGesture?.readText) {
+      this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
+      return;
+    }
     // The native paste won the race with actual text; a pending clipboard read
     // must not double. An empty native paste leaves the read as the only path.
     this.pasteShortcutToken += 1;