Drag and drop of files to attach no longer works in the Copilot app (regression, macOS)
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Description
### Describe the bug
Dragging a file from Finder onto the GitHub Copilot app to attach it to a prompt no longer works. When a file is dropped on the prompt composer, nothing is attached: no attachment chip appears and no file path is inserted.
This is a regression. Drag-and-drop file attach worked in a previous release (the feature was originally added in #363), and after updating to a newer build it is broken again, back to the same behavior as before the feature existed.
### Affected version
1.0.65
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Open the GitHub Copilot app.
2. Focus the prompt composer in a session.
3. Drag a file (for example an image PNG, or a text/source file) from Finder and drop it onto the composer.
4. Observe that nothing is attached: no attachment chip is shown and the file path is not inserted into the prompt.
### Expected behavior
Dropping a file onto the composer should attach it to the prompt (show an attachment chip / insert the file path), the same way it worked in the release where this feature was functioning.
### Additional context
- Operating system: macOS
- CPU architecture: arm64 (Apple Silicon)
- Regression: drag-and-drop file attach worked in an earlier release and stopped working again after a later update.
- Related history: #363 (drag/drop + paste of images added), #2043 (related drag handling of a macOS screenshot temp path in a terminal).
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure on macOS 1.0.65, then compare the current behavior with the drag-and-drop implementation introduced in #363. Review #2043 for related macOS path handling. Done means dropping an image or text/source file onto the prompt composer creates the expected attachment chip or inserts its path.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100