From f41a0a03dde2d3994a1d5207adc4c7ac51b8c9f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sanil-23 <sanil@tinyhumans.ai>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 22:11:24 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] chore(chat): disable chat attachments by default (#3562)

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/src/utils/config.ts | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/src/utils/config.ts b/app/src/utils/config.ts
index f393f4728..5e26e1743 100644
--- a/app/src/utils/config.ts
+++ b/app/src/utils/config.ts
@@ -91,11 +91,13 @@ export const CONSUMER_FIRST_SESSION_ENABLED =
   import.meta.env.VITE_CONSUMER_FIRST_SESSION === 'true';
 
 /**
- * Chat multimodal attachments (image + supported file markers). Enabled by
- * default now that core parses `[IMAGE:…]` / `[FILE:…]` payloads and the
- * renderer runs a lossless compression pass before sending.
+ * Chat multimodal attachments (image + supported file markers). Disabled by
+ * default — the attach affordance is hidden and the file-picker path is gated
+ * off (a bare `<textarea>` already ignores pasted/dropped files). Opt back in
+ * for a build by setting `VITE_CHAT_ATTACHMENTS=true` (e.g. the e2e web build
+ * in `app/scripts/e2e-web-build.sh`, which exercises the attachment specs).
  */
-export const CHAT_ATTACHMENTS_ENABLED = import.meta.env.VITE_CHAT_ATTACHMENTS !== 'false';
+export const CHAT_ATTACHMENTS_ENABLED = import.meta.env.VITE_CHAT_ATTACHMENTS === 'true';
 
 export const SKILLS_GITHUB_REPO =
   import.meta.env.VITE_SKILLS_GITHUB_REPO || 'tinyhumansai/openhuman-skills';