feat(assistant): file kinds and dropped URLs

Files.js decides what the card offers for a staged file; the daemon decides what chat accepts, so the text and image lists match its own. Dropped URLs become paths only for file:// ones.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+// Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+//
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+// published by the Free Software Foundation.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+.pragma library
+
+// What a staged file is, for its chip and the actions offered on it. The
+// text and image lists match desktop-assistant's, which decides what chat
+// accepts; this only decides what the card offers.
+// ponytail: the daemon also takes any text/* mime type; a file of such a
+// type with a suffix not listed here reads as "other" and is not offered
+// chat. Add the suffix when one shows up.
+const TEXT = [".py", ".c", ".h", ".cpp", ".hpp", ".rs", ".go", ".js", ".ts", ".jsx",
+              ".tsx", ".sh", ".bash", ".zsh", ".lua", ".rb", ".pl", ".php", ".java",
+              ".kt", ".swift", ".sql", ".toml", ".yaml", ".yml", ".json", ".ini",
+              ".cfg", ".conf", ".md", ".rst", ".txt", ".csv", ".xml", ".html", ".css",
+              ".diff", ".patch", ".slackbuild", ".info", ".desktop", ".service", ".qml"];
+const IMAGE = [".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".gif", ".webp"];
+const VIDEO = [".mp4", ".mkv", ".webm", ".mov", ".avi", ".m4v"];
+const ARCHIVE = [".zip", ".tar", ".gz", ".tgz", ".xz", ".txz", ".bz2", ".zst", ".7z", ".rar"];
+
+// Kinds chat takes; the rest only get local actions.
+const CHAT = ["text", "image", "pdf"];
+
+function name(path) { return path.slice(path.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); }
+
+function kind(path) {
+    const n = name(path).toLowerCase();
+    const dot = n.lastIndexOf(".");
+    const ext = dot > 0 ? n.slice(dot) : "";
+    if (ext === ".pdf") return "pdf";
+    if (IMAGE.includes(ext)) return "image";
+    if (VIDEO.includes(ext)) return "video";
+    if (ARCHIVE.includes(ext)) return "archive";
+    if (TEXT.includes(ext)) return "text";
+    return "other";
+}
+
+function chats(k) { return CHAT.includes(k); }
+
+// A dropped URL to a local path, or "" for anything that is not a file.
+function fromUrl(url) {
+    const s = String(url);
+    if (!s.startsWith("file://")) return "";
+    try { return decodeURIComponent(s.slice(7)); } catch (e) { return ""; }
+}
+
+function file(path) { return { path: path, name: name(path), kind: kind(path) }; }