fix: read -e -i stores into variable directly, not stdout

edited="\$(read ...)" was always empty because read writes to a variable
name, not stdout. Changed to: read -e -p "Command: " -i "\$flat" edited
which stores directly into \$edited.

DOC/AGENT_Context_Project.md

@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ Use conventional prefixes: `feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `refactor:`, `chore:`
 | `bin/pos-system-health` | 209 | Host health dashboard (disk, RAM, services, backup age, fail2ban, docker); exit 1 if any FAIL |
 | `bin/pos-system-schedule` | 151 | Scheduled jobs: run a command on a timer; notify on threshold/change/error/always or silently |
 | `bin/pos-system-uninstall` | 415 | Remove pos toolkit binaries, services, shell integration, config, and data |
-| `bin/pos-ai` | 632 | AI assistant: ask, chat, sessions, capture, models, providers |
+| `bin/pos-ai` | 735 | AI assistant: ask, chat, sessions, capture, models, providers |
 | `bin/pos-config` | 80 | Interactive editor for the tools' runtime config (reads # POS_CONFIG: registry) |
 | `bin/pos-tree` | 112 | Show the pos CLI command tree: categories, commands, and subcommands |
 | `completions/pos.bash` | 306 | Dynamic bash completion |

bin/pos-ai

@@ -353,6 +353,101 @@ render_markdown() {
     printf '\n%s\n' "$rendered"
 }
 
+# ── Command extraction from AI responses ────────────────────────
+_extract_commands() {
+    local text="$1"
+    printf '%s' "$text" | awk '
+        /^```(bash|sh|shell)/ { in_block=1; next }
+        /^```/ { if (in_block) in_block=0; next }
+        in_block && NF > 0 { lines[++n] = $0 }
+        END {
+            for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+                if (i > 1) printf "\n"
+                printf "%s", lines[i]
+            }
+        }
+    '
+}
+
+# ── Interactive prompt to run extracted commands ─────────────────
+_prompt_run_command() {
+    local cmd="$1"
+    # Only prompt on interactive terminals with a controlling tty
+    [ -w /dev/tty ] || return 0
+    printf '\n%s\n' "Command detected:" >&2
+    printf '  %s\n\n' "$cmd" >&2
+    printf 'Run this command? [Y/n/e(dit)] ' >&2
+    local choice
+    IFS= read -r choice </dev/tty || choice=""
+    case "${choice,,}" in
+        n|N)
+            # Add to shell history so user can press ↑ to recall, edit, run
+            history -s "$cmd" 2>/dev/null || true
+            printf '%s\n' "Command added to history — press ↑ to recall, edit, and run." >&2
+            ;;
+        e|E)
+            _inject_command "$cmd"
+            ;;
+        *)
+            # Y or Enter: execute
+            printf '%s\n' "$cmd"
+            run eval "$cmd"
+            ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+# Inject command for editing. Priority:
+#   1. read -e -i (bash native readline — works in ANY terminal, CLI or GUI)
+#   2. Clipboard (xclip/wl-copy — GUI only)
+#   3. xdotool typing (X11 GUI only)
+#   4. tmux send-keys
+#   5. History fallback (press ↑)
+_inject_command() {
+    local cmd="$1"
+    # Flatten multi-line commands for readline (read -i only handles single line)
+    local flat
+    flat="$(printf '%s' "$cmd" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/  */ /g; s/^ //; s/ $//')"
+    # 1. Bash readline: pre-fill the command on the line, user edits, Enter runs
+    if [ -w /dev/tty ]; then
+        local edited=""
+        printf '\n' >&2
+        if read -e -p "Command: " -i "$flat" edited </dev/tty 2>/dev/null; then
+            [ -n "$edited" ] || { printf '%s\n' "Empty command — skipped." >&2; return 0; }
+            printf '%s\n' "$edited"
+            run eval "$edited"
+            return 0
+        fi
+        # read failed (Ctrl+C / EOF) — fall through
+    fi
+    # 2. Clipboard (GUI only)
+    local injected=""
+    if command -v wl-copy >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
+        printf '%s' "$cmd" | wl-copy && injected="wayland"
+    elif command -v xclip >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -n "${DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
+        printf '%s' "$cmd" | xclip -selection clipboard && injected="x11"
+    elif command -v xsel >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -n "${DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
+        printf '%s' "$cmd" | xsel --clipboard --input && injected="x11"
+    fi
+    if [ -n "$injected" ]; then
+        local key="Ctrl+V"; [ "$injected" = "x11" ] && key="Ctrl+Shift+V"
+        printf '%s\n' "Command copied to clipboard — paste with $key, edit, Enter to run." >&2
+        return 0
+    fi
+    # 3. xdotool (X11 GUI only)
+    if command -v xdotool >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -n "${DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
+        printf '%s' "$cmd" | xdotool type --clearmodifiers --file -
+        return 0
+    fi
+    # 4. tmux
+    if [ -n "${TMUX:-}" ]; then
+        tmux send-keys "$cmd"
+        return 0
+    fi
+    # 5. History fallback
+    history -s "$cmd" 2>/dev/null || true
+    printf '%s\n' "Command added to history — press ↑ to recall, edit, and run." >&2
+}
+
 # ── Machine context appended to the built-in default prompt ─────
 mc_clean() {
     sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*[A-Za-z]//g' \
@@ -471,6 +566,10 @@ cmd_ask() {
     messages="$(session_push "$messages" assistant "$out")"
     session_save "$messages"
     render_markdown "$out"
+    # Command execution prompt: extract commands from response and offer to run
+    local _cmd
+    _cmd="$(_extract_commands "$out")"
+    [ -n "$_cmd" ] && _prompt_run_command "$_cmd"
 }
 
 cmd_chat() {
@@ -504,6 +603,10 @@ cmd_chat() {
         session_save "$messages"
         printf '\n'
         render_markdown "$answer"
+        # Command execution prompt: extract commands from response and offer to run
+        local _cmd
+        _cmd="$(_extract_commands "$answer")"
+        [ -n "$_cmd" ] && _prompt_run_command "$_cmd"
         printf '\n\n'
     done
     echo

lib/config-ui.sh

@@ -140,9 +140,18 @@ _cfg_plugin_keys() {
 # adapters' "# PROVIDER_CONFIG:" headers (lib/ai-providers/*.sh).
 _cfg_provider_keys() {
     local pdir line key desc flags
-    # Find lib/ai-providers/ relative to config-ui.sh
+    # Repo layout: lib/config-ui.sh → ../lib/ai-providers/
-    pdir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../lib/ai-providers" 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
+    # Installed layout: /usr/local/bin/config-ui.sh → ./ai-providers/
-    [ -d "$pdir" ] || return 0
+    pdir=""
+    for candidate in \
+        "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../lib/ai-providers" \
+        "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/ai-providers"; do
+        if [ -d "$candidate" ]; then
+            pdir="$(cd "$candidate" 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+    [ -n "$pdir" ] || return 0
     while IFS= read -r line; do
         [ -n "$line" ] || continue
         # Format: KEY=flags:description (same as POS_CONFIG key fields)

preinstall.sh

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ PACKAGES=(
     python3 python3-pip rclone
     ffmpeg
     libqrencode4 libgtk-3-0 adb
+    xdotool xclip
 )
 
 spawn "apt update" sudo apt update