diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
index 9ae725eba179..f967fcff23fd 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.test.ts
@@ -777,6 +777,55 @@ describe("GhosttyTerminalSurface visibility", () => {
     expect(readText).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  function paste(surface: GhosttyTerminalSurface, text: string) {
+    surface.input.dispatchEvent(
+      Object.assign(new Event("paste", { cancelable: true }), {
+        clipboardData: { getData: () => text },
+      }),
+    );
+  }
+
+  it.each(["native", "clipboard"])("pastes once when %s arrives first", async (first) => {
+    const harness = createHarness();
+    const read = Promise.resolve("echo hi");
+    vi.stubGlobal("navigator", {
+      platform: "MacIntel",
+      clipboard: { readText: () => read },
+    });
+    const surface = await harness.create({ beforeKey: () => true });
+
+    key(surface, "v", "KeyV", { metaKey: true });
+    if (first === "native") paste(surface, "echo hi");
+    await read;
+    if (first === "clipboard") paste(surface, "echo hi");
+
+    expect(harness.onData.mock.calls).toEqual([["echo hi"]]);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["V keyup", "blur", "Meta keyup without V keyup"])(
+    "accepts a later identical menu paste after %s",
+    async (end) => {
+      const harness = createHarness();
+      const read = Promise.resolve("echo hi");
+      vi.stubGlobal("navigator", {
+        platform: "MacIntel",
+        clipboard: { readText: () => read },
+      });
+      const surface = await harness.create({ beforeKey: () => true });
+
+      key(surface, "v", "KeyV", { metaKey: true });
+      await read;
+      expect(harness.onData.mock.calls).toEqual([["echo hi"]]);
+      if (end === "blur") surface.input.dispatchEvent(new Event("blur"));
+      else if (end === "V keyup") key(surface, "v", "KeyV", { metaKey: true }, "keyup");
+      // macOS can omit V keyup while Command is held.
+      else key(surface, "Meta", "MetaLeft", {}, "keyup");
+      paste(surface, "echo hi");
+
+      expect(harness.onData.mock.calls).toEqual([["echo hi"], ["echo hi"]]);
+    },
+  );
+
   it("starts a selection when dragging from a link", async () => {
     const harness = createHarness();
     const onLinkActivate = vi.fn();
diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
index c221d35f26ad..7ebf0932ad7b 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal/ghostty/surface.ts
@@ -580,6 +580,9 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
   private theme: GhosttyTheme;
   private readonly suppressedKeyCodes = new Set<string>();
   private pasteShortcutToken = 0;
+  // Chromium can deliver native paste after the clipboard read resolves.
+  // Suppress its duplicate only for the current shortcut gesture.
+  private pasteShortcutGesture: { code: string; readText: string } | null = null;
   private copyShortcutToken = 0;
   private clearSelectionAfterCopy = false;
   private primedCopySelection = "";
@@ -1137,19 +1140,20 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
     }
     if (isTerminalPasteShortcut(event)) {
       this.suppressedKeyCodes.add(event.code);
+      const gesture = { code: event.code, readText: "" };
+      this.pasteShortcutGesture = gesture;
       const clipboard = navigator.clipboard;
       if (typeof clipboard?.readText === "function") {
-        // Race the async clipboard read against the browser's own paste event:
-        // the native event (dispatched synchronously with the default action)
-        // always claims the token first when it fires, and the read covers
-        // browsers whose paste shortcut produces no paste event. Not preventing
-        // the default keeps the native path alive when the read is denied.
+        // Keep native paste available if the read is denied. The token drops
+        // a late read; the gesture drops a native duplicate when the read wins.
         const token = ++this.pasteShortcutToken;
         void clipboard.readText().then(
           (text) => {
             if (this.disposed || this.pasteShortcutToken !== token) return;
             this.pasteShortcutToken += 1;
-            if (text.length > 0) this.options.onData(this.core.encodePaste(text));
+            if (text.length === 0) return;
+            if (this.pasteShortcutGesture === gesture) gesture.readText = text;
+            this.options.onData(this.core.encodePaste(text));
           },
           () => {},
         );
@@ -1166,6 +1170,15 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
   };
 
   private readonly onKeyUp = (event: KeyboardEvent) => {
+    // macOS can omit V keyup while Command is held.
+    if (
+      event.code === this.pasteShortcutGesture?.code ||
+      event.key === "Meta" ||
+      event.key === "Control" ||
+      event.key === "Shift"
+    ) {
+      this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
+    }
     if (this.suppressedKeyCodes.delete(event.code)) return;
     if (isTerminalCompositionKey(event, this.composing)) {
       return;
@@ -1187,6 +1200,7 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
 
   private readonly onBlur = () => {
     this.focused = false;
+    this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
     this.refreshHoveredLink();
     // Suppressions survive blur deliberately: a shortcut that moves focus (for
     // example terminal-toggle) must still swallow its own keyup if focus comes
@@ -1244,6 +1258,11 @@ export class GhosttyTerminalSurface {
     event.preventDefault();
     const data = event.clipboardData?.getData("text/plain") ?? "";
     if (data.length === 0) return;
+    if (data === this.pasteShortcutGesture?.readText) {
+      // The shortcut's clipboard read already sent this paste.
+      this.pasteShortcutGesture = null;
+      return;
+    }
     // The native paste won the race with actual text; a pending clipboard read
     // must not double. An empty native paste leaves the read as the only path.
     this.pasteShortcutToken += 1;