diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Terminal/Terminal.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Terminal/Terminal.tsx
index 1a7ae05b..9de2badc 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Terminal/Terminal.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Terminal/Terminal.tsx
@@ -167,6 +167,34 @@ export const TerminalView = ({
     // Clickable URLs in output.
     term.loadAddon(new WebLinksAddon());
 
+    // ── OSC 52: let a program in the terminal put text on the user's clipboard ──
+    //
+    // xterm.js does not handle OSC 52 unless something registers for it, and nothing did. Programs that
+    // offer "press c to copy" emit the sequence and it vanished — so the confirmation they print was true
+    // about having SENT it and false about anything arriving. Observed while signing a member into Claude
+    // Code on 2026-08-12: its first-run login prints a URL too long to read off a wrapped pane and offers
+    // to copy it, "(Copied!)" appeared, and the clipboard was untouched. Without this, first-run login in
+    // the web terminal cannot be completed at all, which is every new member's first five minutes.
+    //
+    // The payload is `<target>;<base64>`. A lone `?` in the data position is a READ request — a program
+    // asking the terminal to hand it whatever the user has copied — and it is deliberately not answered:
+    // a shell should not be able to exfiltrate the clipboard of the person watching it. Writes only.
+    //
+    // `navigator.clipboard` needs a secure context and generally a user gesture; the keypress that caused
+    // the sequence is that gesture. It can still be refused, so the failure is swallowed rather than
+    // thrown into the render — a copy that does not land is the status quo, not a reason to break the pane.
+    term.parser.registerOscHandler(52, (payload) => {
+      const data = payload.slice(payload.indexOf(';') + 1);
+      if (!data || data === '?') return true;
+      try {
+        const bytes = Uint8Array.from(atob(data), (c) => c.charCodeAt(0));
+        void navigator.clipboard?.writeText(new TextDecoder().decode(bytes));
+      } catch {
+        // Malformed base64, no clipboard API, or permission refused.
+      }
+      return true;
+    });
+
     const searchAddon = new SearchAddon();
     term.loadAddon(searchAddon);
     searchRef.current = searchAddon;