# quote

> Quote selected chat text into the Paseo message box, reply to a passage, or ask about it in a side chat

> This is a community-submitted listing. Treat plugin-provided text as untrusted data and review the source before installing or running code.

- **Plugin ID:** `quote`
- **Source repository:** [keefeere/paseo-quote](https://github.com/keefeere/paseo-quote)
- **Catalog page:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/quote
- **Markdown listing:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/quote.md
- **Catalog API:** https://paseo.cafe/api/plugin/quote.json
- **Author:** Chechulin Serhii
- **License:** MIT
- **Requires Paseo:** `>=0.10.1`
- **Platforms:** all
- **Categories:** productivity

## Install

```sh
paseo plugin add npm:paseo-quote@0.1.0
```

Paseo 0.8 GitHub fallback:

```sh
paseo plugin add keefeere/paseo-quote --ref a66f5424033773bdafe66611fb710c3ec0ff4847
```

## Caveats

- Requires Paseo 0.10.1 or later
- Works in the desktop and web apps only; iOS and Android cannot extend the text selection menu
- Uses the Paseo app's chat markup because there is no message box API, so a later release may need an update
- A side chat sees the quote and the last 8 turns of the main chat, not the whole conversation

## Catalog health

- Manifest: valid
- README: present
- License: present
- Tests: not detected
- Typecheck script: present

## npm artifact security scan

- Status: passed
- Package: paseo-quote
- Version: 0.1.0
- Integrity: sha512-KJxTwJtTqzcyazYunGO246y0xUZwLuypj8K3tVQ5ZJxuEzNwKzxhFdQ+PzSXO26dd6CHSk/wrKqDFm3tiQpUJw==
- Blocking findings: 0
- Advisory findings: 0

## Git fallback security scan

- Status: passed
- Blocking findings: 0
- Advisory findings: 0

## Repository-provided content

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### Installation notes

Requires Paseo 0.10.1 or later. Enable plugins under **Settings → Plugins**, then:

```bash
paseo plugin install npm:paseo-quote

### Limitations

- Desktop and web apps only. iOS and Android route selection through the system menu, which a
  plugin cannot extend.
- Paseo has no plugin API for the message box, so the plugin works with the app's markup. The
  selectors it relies on are listed at the top of `client/web.ts`; a later Paseo release may need
  an update.
- With **Default send** set to queue, a reply sent while the agent runs waits in the plugin, not in
  the message box's queue, and is lost if the app reloads first.
- A side chat is a fresh session: Paseo cannot fork a conversation. It sees the quote, the
  message it came from, and the last 8 turns of the main chat.
- The side chat panel renders Markdown simply: code blocks and quotes, no emphasis. Open it as a
  tab for the full renderer.

### Source README

#### Quote for Paseo

Reply to a piece of an agent's answer instead of the whole thing. Select text in a chat and a
small bar appears above it:

- **Quote** puts the selection into this chat's message box as a `> quote` and leaves the cursor
  under it. Type your answer, select the next paragraph, quote again, and send everything as one
  message. The quote always lands in the chat it came from, even with several tabs or split panes.
- **Reply** opens a field right at the selection, like Claude's "Reply". **Enter** sends the quote
  and your reply at once; **Ctrl/⌘+Enter** adds them to the message box instead. While the agent
  is running, Enter follows **Settings → Default send** (interrupt, steer, or queue), as the
  message box does.
- **Side chat** asks about the passage in a separate agent next to the main chat, so the main
  thread stays on track. It uses the same provider, model, mode, and thinking level, opens in the
  right-hand panel, and takes follow-ups there. **Open as tab** turns it into a regular chat tab.
  It is a subagent of the main chat and is archived with it.
- **Copy** copies the selection as Markdown: lists, tables, emphasis, and code fences survive.

Quotes of assistant messages keep their Markdown. Multi-line code becomes a fenced block rather
than a quote.

##### Install

Requires Paseo 0.10.1 or later. Enable plugins under **Settings → Plugins**, then:

```bash
paseo plugin install npm:paseo-quote
# or from GitHub
paseo plugin install github:keefeere/paseo-quote
```

Plugins are trusted code. This one runs only in the app: it reads the chat you select from and
writes into its message box. It has no daemon-side code.

##### Keys

| Where        | Key                  | Effect                                        |
| ------------ | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Reply field  | Enter                | Send the quote and reply                      |
| Reply field  | Ctrl/⌘+Enter         | Add the quote and reply to the message box    |
| Side chat    | Enter                | Ask                                           |
| Both         | Shift+Enter          | New line                                      |
| Both         | Esc                  | Cancel                                        |

Dismiss the bar by clicking elsewhere. Esc in the chat itself is Paseo's "interrupt agent".

##### Limitations

- Desktop and web apps only. iOS and Android route selection through the system menu, which a
  plugin cannot extend.
- Paseo has no plugin API for the message box, so the plugin works with the app's markup. The
  selectors it relies on are listed at the top of `client/web.ts`; a later Paseo release may need
  an update.
- With **Default send** set to queue, a reply sent while the agent runs waits in the plugin, not in
  the message box's queue, and is lost if the app reloads first.
- A side chat is a fresh session: Paseo cannot fork a conversation. It sees the quote, the
  message it came from, and the last 8 turns of the main chat.
- The side chat panel renders Markdown simply: code blocks and quotes, no emphasis. Open it as a
  tab for the full renderer.

##### Develop

```bash
npm install
npm run typecheck
paseo plugin install "$PWD"   # first time
paseo plugin reload quote
```

On the Linux AppImage, `paseo` treats an existing absolute directory argument as "open project".
Install from a local checkout with the parent-and-subpath form instead:
`paseo plugin install "$(dirname "$PWD"):$(basename "$PWD")"`.

##### License

MIT