From bc564586d8d6445f903352ff795c31dd95297886 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sawka <mike@commandline.dev>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:17:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] loosen up the requirements to show the File Browser in term
 context menu

---
 frontend/app/view/term/term-model.ts | 6 +++---
 frontend/app/view/term/termutil.ts   | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/app/view/term/term-model.ts b/frontend/app/view/term/term-model.ts
index 09ccce3e54..a256929e7d 100644
--- a/frontend/app/view/term/term-model.ts
+++ b/frontend/app/view/term/term-model.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ import { boundNumber, fireAndForget, stringToBase64 } from "@/util/util";
 import * as jotai from "jotai";
 import * as React from "react";
 import { getBlockingCommand } from "./shellblocking";
-import { computeTheme, DefaultTermTheme, trimTerminalSelection } from "./termutil";
+import { computeTheme, DefaultTermTheme, isLikelyOnSameHost, trimTerminalSelection } from "./termutil";
 import { TermWrap, WebGLSupported } from "./termwrap";
 
 export class TermViewModel implements ViewModel {
@@ -958,9 +958,9 @@ export class TermViewModel implements ViewModel {
         });
         fullMenu.push({ type: "separator" });
 
-        const shellIntegrationStatus = globalStore.get(this.termRef?.current?.shellIntegrationStatusAtom);
+        const lastCommand = globalStore.get(this.termRef?.current?.lastCommandAtom);
         const cwd = blockData?.meta?.["cmd:cwd"];
-        const canShowFileBrowser = shellIntegrationStatus === "ready" && cwd != null;
+        const canShowFileBrowser = cwd != null && isLikelyOnSameHost(lastCommand);
 
         if (canShowFileBrowser) {
             fullMenu.push({
diff --git a/frontend/app/view/term/termutil.ts b/frontend/app/view/term/termutil.ts
index 838b8aaf92..add5e86e05 100644
--- a/frontend/app/view/term/termutil.ts
+++ b/frontend/app/view/term/termutil.ts
@@ -397,6 +397,14 @@ export function bufferLinesToText(buffer: TermTypes.IBuffer, startIndex: number,
     return lines;
 }
 
+export function isLikelyOnSameHost(lastCommand: string): boolean {
+    if (lastCommand == null) {
+        return true;
+    }
+    const cmd = lastCommand.trimStart();
+    return !cmd.startsWith("ssh ");
+}
+
 export function quoteForPosixShell(filePath: string): string {
     return "'" + filePath.replace(/'/g, "'\\''") + "'";
 }