diff --git a/bun.lock b/bun.lock
index 753dd9ced71..6291c02b38e 100644
--- a/bun.lock
+++ b/bun.lock
@@ -774,11 +774,6 @@
       "name": "@opencode-ai/simulation",
       "version": "1.17.13",
       "dependencies": {
-        "@fontsource/commit-mono": "5.2.5",
-        "@fontsource/noto-sans-math": "5.2.5",
-        "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols": "5.2.5",
-        "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2": "5.2.5",
-        "@napi-rs/canvas": "1.0.2",
         "@opencode-ai/ai": "workspace:*",
         "@opencode-ai/core": "workspace:*",
         "@opencode-ai/plugin": "workspace:*",
@@ -786,10 +781,12 @@
         "@opencode-ai/util": "workspace:*",
         "@opentui/core": "catalog:",
         "effect": "catalog:",
+        "ws": "8.21.0",
       },
       "devDependencies": {
         "@tsconfig/bun": "catalog:",
         "@types/bun": "catalog:",
+        "@types/ws": "8.18.1",
         "@typescript/native-preview": "catalog:",
       },
     },
@@ -6460,12 +6457,6 @@
 
     "@opencode-ai/session-ui/@solid-primitives/resize-observer": ["@solid-primitives/resize-observer@2.1.3", "", { "dependencies": { "@solid-primitives/event-listener": "^2.4.3", "@solid-primitives/rootless": "^1.5.2", "@solid-primitives/static-store": "^0.1.2", "@solid-primitives/utils": "^6.3.2" }, "peerDependencies": { "solid-js": "^1.6.12" } }, "sha512-zBLje5E06TgOg93S7rGPldmhDnouNGhvfZVKOp+oG2XU8snA+GoCSSCz1M+jpNAg5Ek2EakU5UVQqL152WmdXQ=="],
 
-    "@opencode-ai/simulation/@fontsource/noto-sans-math": ["@fontsource/noto-sans-math@5.2.5", "", {}, "sha512-1bxEvVlF51Vfgpju32mRZzI/CHvsfqjXjI2+sAuEyHYvXABUAIyj+93sCO3QZIoMG5drWyrzgoCqRQRaL6wQ8Q=="],
-
-    "@opencode-ai/simulation/@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols": ["@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols@5.2.5", "", {}, "sha512-mxoIRstsmZpZFzd/SRWiD+l6T7TGhpgCrGs7TEnnuGSQIfjVMrQT9Zej2enh9pkfmPNAFyeaGJkHkszJ1hH++w=="],
-
-    "@opencode-ai/simulation/@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2": ["@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2@5.2.5", "", {}, "sha512-F4O9WLifwoZS1quNzY1ebjMNo2cQPe/UP68Dmud0ONi2lOxaR6xp6fFPO2gG17MI7DwAnfMyQFl64A2tAd28hg=="],
-
     "@opencode-ai/storybook/@types/react": ["@types/react@18.0.25", "", { "dependencies": { "@types/prop-types": "*", "@types/scheduler": "*", "csstype": "^3.0.2" } }, "sha512-xD6c0KDT4m7n9uD4ZHi02lzskaiqcBxf4zi+tXZY98a04wvc0hi/TcCPC2FOESZi51Nd7tlUeOJY8RofL799/g=="],
 
     "@opencode-ai/storybook/react-dom": ["react-dom@18.2.0", "", { "dependencies": { "loose-envify": "^1.1.0", "scheduler": "^0.23.0" }, "peerDependencies": { "react": "^18.2.0" } }, "sha512-6IMTriUmvsjHUjNtEDudZfuDQUoWXVxKHhlEGSk81n4YFS+r/Kl99wXiwlVXtPBtJenozv2P+hxDsw9eA7Xo6g=="],
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts b/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
index 1b6c08ca79a..ee4b3aa1c68 100644
--- a/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/app-assets.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { $ } from "bun"
-import { readdir } from "node:fs/promises"
 import path from "node:path"
 import { brotliCompressSync, constants } from "node:zlib"
+import { collectFiles } from "./files"
 
 export async function buildAppArchive(channel: string, options?: { skipBuild?: boolean }) {
   if (options?.skipBuild) return compress({})
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ export async function buildAppArchive(channel: string, options?: { skipBuild?: b
   await $`bun run build`.cwd(root).env({ ...process.env, OPENCODE_CHANNEL: channel })
   const assets = Object.fromEntries(
     await Promise.all(
-      (await files(path.join(root, "dist")))
+      (await collectFiles(path.join(root, "dist")))
+        .map((key) => key.replaceAll(path.sep, "/"))
         .filter((key) => !key.endsWith(".map"))
+        .toSorted()
         .map(async (key) => {
           const source = path.join(root, "dist", key)
           const body = Buffer.from(await Bun.file(source).arrayBuffer())
@@ -31,16 +33,3 @@ function compress(assets: object) {
 function isText(key: string) {
   return key === "_headers" || /\.(?:css|html|js|json|svg|txt|webmanifest|xml)$/.test(key)
 }
-
-async function files(root: string, current = root): Promise<string[]> {
-  return (
-    await Promise.all(
-      (await readdir(current, { withFileTypes: true })).map((entry) => {
-        const target = path.join(current, entry.name)
-        return entry.isDirectory() ? files(root, target) : [path.relative(root, target).replaceAll(path.sep, "/")]
-      }),
-    )
-  )
-    .flat()
-    .toSorted()
-}
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/build-node.ts b/packages/cli/script/build-node.ts
index ccb8de53cf1..294e567d661 100644
--- a/packages/cli/script/build-node.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/build-node.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { collectNodeAssets, copyNodeAssets, hashNodeAssets, seaAssetMap } from "
 import { mainConfig } from "../vite.node.config"
 import { nodeExecArgv, nodeTarget, type NodeTarget } from "../src/node/target"
 import { buildAppArchive } from "./app-assets"
+import { verifyArtifact } from "./verify-artifact"
 
 const NODE_VERSION = "26.4.0"
 const dir = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "..")
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ for (const target of targets) {
   await copyNodeAssets(assets)
   await build(mainConfig(input))
   await assertTextImportsInlined("dist-node/opencode.mjs")
+  if (bundleOnly) await verifyArtifact("dist-node/opencode.mjs")
 
   const host = target.platform === process.platform && target.arch === process.arch
   if (host) {
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ for (const target of targets) {
       2,
     )}\n`,
   )
+  await verifyArtifact(path.join(outdir, name))
   if (host) await smoke(output)
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/build.ts b/packages/cli/script/build.ts
index 918c430ab95..9452c30a66f 100755
--- a/packages/cli/script/build.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/build.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { createSolidTransformPlugin } from "@opentui/solid/bun-plugin"
 import type { BunPlugin } from "bun"
 import pkg from "../package.json"
 import { buildAppArchive } from "./app-assets"
+import { verifyArtifact, verifySimulationGraph } from "./verify-artifact"
 
 const dir = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "..")
 const binary = "opencode2"
@@ -76,6 +77,16 @@ const appAssetsPlugin: BunPlugin = {
 }
 
 for (const item of targets) {
+  const simulationInputs = new Set<string>()
+  const simulationGraphPlugin: BunPlugin = {
+    name: "opencode-simulation-graph",
+    setup(build) {
+      build.onLoad(
+        { filter: /packages[/\\]simulation[/\\]src[/\\](frontend[/\\](simulation|server)|control-server)\.ts$/ },
+        (args) => void simulationInputs.add(args.path),
+      )
+    },
+  }
   const parcelWatcherPackage = `@parcel/watcher-${item.os}-${item.arch}${item.os === "linux" ? `-${item.abi ?? "glibc"}` : ""}`
   const parcelWatcherPlugin: BunPlugin = {
     name: "parcel-watcher-binding",
@@ -92,7 +103,7 @@ for (const item of targets) {
   const result = await Bun.build({
     entrypoints: ["./src/index.ts"],
     tsconfig: "./tsconfig.json",
-    plugins: [appAssetsPlugin, solidPlugin, parcelWatcherPlugin],
+    plugins: [appAssetsPlugin, solidPlugin, parcelWatcherPlugin, simulationGraphPlugin],
     external: ["node-gyp"],
     format: "esm",
     minify: true,
@@ -123,6 +134,7 @@ for (const item of targets) {
     for (const log of result.logs) console.error(log)
     process.exit(1)
   }
+  verifySimulationGraph(simulationInputs)
 
   await Bun.write(
     path.join(outdir, name, "package.json"),
@@ -139,6 +151,7 @@ for (const item of targets) {
       2,
     ),
   )
+  await verifyArtifact(path.join(outdir, name))
 }
 
 function targetName(item: (typeof allTargets)[number]) {
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/files.ts b/packages/cli/script/files.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..baeacf3a4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/script/files.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { readdir } from "node:fs/promises"
+import path from "node:path"
+
+export async function collectFiles(root: string, current = root): Promise<string[]> {
+  return (
+    await Promise.all(
+      (await readdir(current, { withFileTypes: true })).map(async (entry) => {
+        const target = path.join(current, entry.name)
+        return entry.isDirectory() ? collectFiles(root, target) : [path.relative(root, target)]
+      }),
+    )
+  ).flat()
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/node-assets.ts b/packages/cli/script/node-assets.ts
index 192920a487b..118e7d9183c 100644
--- a/packages/cli/script/node-assets.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/node-assets.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto"
-import { copyFile, mkdir, readdir, readFile, stat } from "node:fs/promises"
+import { copyFile, mkdir, readFile, stat } from "node:fs/promises"
 import path from "node:path"
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"
 import { getNodeAssets } from "@opentui/core/node-assets"
 import { attentionSoundAssets, type NodeTarget, photonWasmAsset, shellParserWasmAssets } from "../src/node/target"
+import { collectFiles } from "./files"
 
 const dir = path.resolve(import.meta.dirname, "..")
 
@@ -16,17 +17,6 @@ export type NodeAsset = {
   readonly source: string
 }
 
-async function files(root: string, current = root): Promise<string[]> {
-  return (
-    await Promise.all(
-      (await readdir(current, { withFileTypes: true })).map((entry) => {
-        const target = path.join(current, entry.name)
-        return entry.isDirectory() ? files(root, target) : [path.relative(root, target)]
-      }),
-    )
-  ).flat()
-}
-
 export async function collectNodeAssets(target: NodeTarget) {
   const ptyEntry = fileURLToPath(import.meta.resolve(target.nodePtyPackage))
   const ptyRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(ptyEntry), "..")
@@ -51,7 +41,7 @@ export async function collectNodeAssets(target: NodeTarget) {
       key,
       source: path.resolve(dir, "../ui/src/assets/audio", path.basename(key)),
     })),
-    ...(await files(ptyRoot))
+    ...(await collectFiles(ptyRoot))
       .filter((relative) => !relative.endsWith(".map") && !relative.endsWith(".pdb"))
       .map((relative) => ({
         key: `${target.nodePtyPackage}/${relative}`,
@@ -85,5 +75,7 @@ export async function copyNodeAssets(assets: readonly NodeAsset[]) {
 
 export async function seaAssetMap() {
   const root = path.join(dir, "dist-node", "assets")
-  return Object.fromEntries((await files(root)).map((key) => [key.replaceAll(path.sep, "/"), path.join(root, key)]))
+  return Object.fromEntries(
+    (await collectFiles(root)).map((key) => [key.replaceAll(path.sep, "/"), path.join(root, key)]),
+  )
 }
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/service-smoke.ts b/packages/cli/script/service-smoke.ts
index d74a47fe803..42b87eac435 100644
--- a/packages/cli/script/service-smoke.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/script/service-smoke.ts
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ try {
   if (!(await exitsWithin(winner, 10_000))) throw new Error("Compiled service did not stop")
   for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 200 && (await Bun.file(registration).exists()); attempt++) await Bun.sleep(25)
   if (await Bun.file(registration).exists()) throw new Error("Compiled service registration was not removed")
+  await driveSmoke()
 } catch (cause) {
   failure = cause
 } finally {
@@ -111,6 +112,50 @@ function spawnService() {
   return process
 }
 
+async function driveSmoke() {
+  const name = "compiled-artifact"
+  const drive = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, "../../drive/src/cli/index.ts")
+  const driveEnv = {
+    ...env,
+    DRIVE_REGISTRY_DIR: path.join(root, "drive-registry"),
+    OPENCODE_DRIVE_KEEP_ARTIFACTS: "1",
+    OPENCODE_DRIVE_MEDIA_DIR: path.join(root, "drive-media"),
+  }
+  let started = false
+  try {
+    await runDrive(["start", "--name", name, "--", binary], drive, driveEnv)
+    started = true
+    const screenshot = (
+      await runDrive(
+        ["send", "--name", name, "--command.ui.screenshot", '{"name":"compiled-capture"}'],
+        drive,
+        driveEnv,
+      )
+    ).trim()
+    const bytes = Buffer.from(await Bun.file(screenshot).arrayBuffer())
+    if (!bytes.subarray(0, 8).equals(Buffer.from([137, 80, 78, 71, 13, 10, 26, 10])))
+      throw new Error("Compiled Drive bridge did not produce a PNG capture")
+  } finally {
+    if (started) await runDrive(["stop", "--name", name], drive, driveEnv)
+  }
+}
+
+async function runDrive(args: ReadonlyArray<string>, drive: string, driveEnv: Record<string, string | undefined>) {
+  const child = Bun.spawn([process.execPath, drive, ...args], {
+    cwd: root,
+    env: driveEnv,
+    stdout: "pipe",
+    stderr: "pipe",
+  })
+  const [status, stdout, stderr] = await Promise.all([
+    child.exited,
+    new Response(child.stdout).text(),
+    new Response(child.stderr).text(),
+  ])
+  if (status !== 0) throw new Error(`opencode-drive ${args[0]} failed:\n${stderr}`)
+  return stdout
+}
+
 async function waitForRegistration() {
   const directory = path.join(root, "state", "opencode")
   for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 400; attempt++) {
diff --git a/packages/cli/script/verify-artifact.ts b/packages/cli/script/verify-artifact.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a17426920bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/script/verify-artifact.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+import { stat } from "node:fs/promises"
+import path from "node:path"
+import { collectFiles } from "./files"
+
+const forbidden = [
+  "@napi-rs/canvas",
+  "@fontsource/commit-mono",
+  "@fontsource/noto-sans",
+  "SimulationPng",
+  "frontend/png",
+  "Failed to register screenshot font",
+  "commit-mono-latin-400-normal",
+  "noto-sans-symbols-symbols-400-normal",
+  "noto-sans-math-math-400-normal",
+  "CommitMono-400-Regular.otf",
+  "NotoSansSymbols.ttf",
+  "packages/drive/src/recording/render",
+  "src/frontend/png.ts",
+  "skia.darwin-",
+  "skia.linux-",
+  "skia.win32-",
+]
+const overlap = Math.max(...forbidden.map((value) => value.length)) - 1
+
+export async function verifyArtifact(target: string) {
+  const files = await artifactFiles(target)
+  if (files.length === 0) throw new Error(`Artifact contains no published files: ${target}`)
+  for (const file of files) await scan(file)
+}
+
+export function verifySimulationGraph(inputs: Iterable<string>) {
+  const modules = Array.from(inputs, (input) => input.replaceAll("\\", "/"))
+  const required = [
+    "/packages/simulation/src/frontend/simulation.ts",
+    "/packages/simulation/src/frontend/server.ts",
+    "/packages/simulation/src/control-server.ts",
+  ]
+  const missing = required.filter((input) => !modules.some((module) => module.endsWith(input)))
+  if (missing.length > 0) throw new Error(`Build graph is missing simulation bridge inputs: ${missing.join(", ")}`)
+  const leaked = modules.find(
+    (module) =>
+      module.includes("/packages/simulation/src/frontend/png.") || module.includes("/packages/drive/src/recording/"),
+  )
+  if (leaked) throw new Error(`Build graph contains Drive-only rendering input: ${leaked}`)
+}
+
+async function artifactFiles(target: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  if ((await stat(target)).isFile()) return [target]
+  return (await collectFiles(target)).map((file) => path.join(target, file))
+}
+
+async function scan(file: string) {
+  let trailing = ""
+  const reader = Bun.file(file).stream().getReader()
+  while (true) {
+    const chunk = await reader.read()
+    if (chunk.done) return
+    const text = trailing + Buffer.from(chunk.value).toString("latin1")
+    const leaked = forbidden.find((marker) => text.includes(marker))
+    if (leaked) throw new Error(`Artifact file ${file} contains forbidden simulation payload: ${leaked}`)
+    trailing = text.slice(-overlap)
+  }
+}
+
+if (import.meta.main) {
+  const target = process.argv[2]
+  if (!target) throw new Error("Usage: bun run script/verify-artifact.ts <file-or-directory>")
+  await verifyArtifact(target)
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/vite.node.config.ts b/packages/cli/vite.node.config.ts
index 3cae0d7ec77..dc509fbaad9 100644
--- a/packages/cli/vite.node.config.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/vite.node.config.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { createRequire } from "node:module"
 import { defineConfig, type Plugin, type UserConfig } from "vite"
 import solid from "vite-plugin-solid"
 import { nodeExecArgv, nodeTarget, type NodeTarget, photonWasmAsset, shellParserWasmAssets } from "./src/node/target"
+import { verifySimulationGraph } from "./script/verify-artifact"
 
 const dir = import.meta.dirname
 
@@ -48,6 +49,15 @@ function runtimeRequirePlugin(): Plugin {
   }
 }
 
+function simulationGraphPlugin(): Plugin {
+  return {
+    name: "opencode:simulation-graph",
+    generateBundle() {
+      verifySimulationGraph(this.getModuleIds())
+    },
+  }
+}
+
 function fffNodePlugin(): Plugin {
   return {
     name: "opencode:fff-node",
@@ -240,6 +250,7 @@ export function mainConfig(input: NodeBuildInput): UserConfig {
       rawTextPlugin(),
       runtimeRequirePlugin(),
       fffNodePlugin(),
+      simulationGraphPlugin(),
       solid({
         solid: {
           generate: "universal",
@@ -255,6 +266,7 @@ export function mainConfig(input: NodeBuildInput): UserConfig {
       OPENCODE_CHANNEL: JSON.stringify(input.channel),
       OPENCODE_LIBC: input.target.platform === "linux" ? JSON.stringify("glibc") : "undefined",
       FFF_LIBC: input.target.platform === "linux" ? JSON.stringify("gnu") : "undefined",
+      "process.env.WS_NO_BUFFER_UTIL": JSON.stringify("1"),
     },
     ssr: { noExternal: true },
     build: {
@@ -264,7 +276,6 @@ export function mainConfig(input: NodeBuildInput): UserConfig {
       emptyOutDir: false,
       minify: true,
       rollupOptions: {
-        external: [/^@opencode-ai\/simulation(?:\/|$)/],
         output: output("opencode.mjs", nodePrelude(input)),
       },
     },
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/cli/commands.ts b/packages/drive/src/cli/commands.ts
index 602f80585dc..6d13dd9a571 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/cli/commands.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/cli/commands.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 import * as Cause from "effect/Cause"
 import * as Effect from "effect/Effect"
 import * as Exit from "effect/Exit"
+import * as Schema from "effect/Schema"
 import { Frontend } from "../client/protocol.js"
 import { recordLog } from "../log.js"
 import * as SimulationConnector from "../simulation/connector.js"
+import * as OpenCodeUi from "../driver/ui.js"
 import type { DriveCommand } from "./types.js"
 
 export const commandInfo = {
@@ -48,11 +50,11 @@ export const commandInfo = {
     description: "Finish recording and return the timeline path",
   },
 } as const satisfies Record<
-  Exclude<Frontend.Capability, "ui.click.semantic">,
+  DriveCommand["operation"],
   { readonly value: boolean | "optional"; readonly description: string }
 >
 
-type CommandName = Exclude<Frontend.Capability, "ui.click.semantic">
+type CommandName = DriveCommand["operation"]
 
 export function isCommandName(operation: string): operation is CommandName {
   return Object.hasOwn(commandInfo, operation)
@@ -90,9 +92,14 @@ export class CommandBatchError extends Error {
 }
 
 const callTimeout = 30_000
+const ScreenshotParams = Schema.Struct({ name: Schema.optional(Schema.String) })
 
-export async function executeCommands(endpoint: string, commands: ReadonlyArray<DriveCommand>) {
-  const exit = await Effect.runPromiseExit(Effect.scoped(executeBatch(endpoint, commands)))
+export async function executeCommands(
+  endpoint: string,
+  commands: ReadonlyArray<DriveCommand>,
+  options?: OpenCodeUi.Options,
+) {
+  const exit = await Effect.runPromiseExit(Effect.scoped(executeBatch(endpoint, commands, options)))
   if (Exit.isSuccess(exit)) return exit.value
   const reason = Cause.squash(exit.cause)
   throw reason instanceof CommandBatchError ? reason : new CommandBatchError([], reason)
@@ -101,6 +108,7 @@ export async function executeCommands(endpoint: string, commands: ReadonlyArray<
 const executeBatch = Effect.fn("DriveCli.executeBatch")(function* (
   endpoint: string,
   commands: ReadonlyArray<DriveCommand>,
+  options?: OpenCodeUi.Options,
 ) {
   const connection = yield* SimulationConnector.ui(endpoint, {
     connectTimeout: callTimeout,
@@ -111,7 +119,7 @@ const executeBatch = Effect.fn("DriveCli.executeBatch")(function* (
   )
   const results: Array<{ readonly command: string; readonly result: unknown }> = []
   for (const command of commands) {
-    const result = yield* execute(connection, command).pipe(
+    const result = yield* execute(connection, command, options).pipe(
       Effect.mapError((error) => new CommandBatchError(results, error)),
     )
     results.push({ command: command.operation, result })
@@ -122,9 +130,17 @@ const executeBatch = Effect.fn("DriveCli.executeBatch")(function* (
 const execute = (
   connection: SimulationConnector.UiConnection,
   command: DriveCommand,
+  options?: OpenCodeUi.Options,
 ): Effect.Effect<unknown, SimulationError> =>
   Effect.suspend(() => {
     recordLog("INFO", `ui command ${command.operation} params=${command.value ?? "undefined"}`)
+    if (command.operation === "ui.screenshot") {
+      const params = Schema.decodeUnknownSync(ScreenshotParams)(
+        command.value === undefined ? {} : JSON.parse(command.value),
+        { onExcessProperty: "error" },
+      )
+      return OpenCodeUi.make(connection, options).screenshot(params.name)
+    }
     return dispatch(connection, decodeCommand(command))
   }).pipe(
     Effect.timeoutOrElse({
@@ -145,10 +161,12 @@ const execute = (
 function decodeCommand(command: DriveCommand): Frontend.Request {
   if (command.value === undefined && commandInfo[command.operation].value === true)
     throw new Error(`${command.operation} requires a value`)
+  const operation = command.operation
+  if (operation === "ui.screenshot") throw new Error("ui.screenshot must be decoded by Drive")
   return Frontend.decodeRequest(
     {
       jsonrpc: "2.0",
-      method: command.operation,
+      method: operation,
       ...(command.value === undefined ? {} : { params: JSON.parse(command.value) }),
     },
     { onExcessProperty: "error" },
@@ -187,8 +205,6 @@ function dispatch(
       return connection.rpc["ui.click"](request.params)
     case "ui.resize":
       return connection.rpc["ui.resize"](request.params)
-    case "ui.screenshot":
-      return connection.rpc["ui.screenshot"](request.params)
     case "ui.capture":
       return connection.rpc["ui.capture"]()
     case "ui.state":
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/cli/send.ts b/packages/drive/src/cli/send.ts
index 2926f082640..00ca6cf02c5 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/cli/send.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/cli/send.ts
@@ -3,10 +3,17 @@ import type { SendOptions } from "./types.js"
 import { defaultPort } from "../client/index.js"
 import { resolveInstance, resolveVisibleInstance } from "../instance/registry.js"
 import { configureLogFile } from "../log.js"
+import { readInstanceMediaDirectory } from "../instance/media.js"
 
 export async function send(options: SendOptions) {
   if (options.commands.length === 0) throw new Error("send requires at least one --command.ui.* flag")
-  const result = await executeCommands(await resolveSendEndpoint(options.name), options.commands)
+  const target = await resolveSendTarget(
+    options.name,
+    options.commands.some((command) => command.operation === "ui.screenshot"),
+  )
+  const result = await executeCommands(target.endpoint, options.commands, {
+    screenshotDirectory: target.screenshotDirectory,
+  })
   if (
     options.commands.length === 1 &&
     ["ui.screenshot", "ui.matches", "ui.recording.finish"].includes(options.commands[0]?.operation ?? "")
@@ -25,15 +32,29 @@ export async function send(options: SendOptions) {
 }
 
 export async function resolveSendEndpoint(name?: string) {
+  return (await resolveSendTarget(name)).endpoint
+}
+
+async function resolveSendTarget(name?: string, screenshot = false) {
   if (name) {
     const manifest = await resolveInstance(name)
     configureLogFile(manifest.artifacts)
-    return manifest.endpoints.ui
+    return {
+      endpoint: manifest.endpoints.ui,
+      ...(screenshot
+        ? { screenshotDirectory: await readInstanceMediaDirectory(manifest.artifacts, manifest.name) }
+        : {}),
+    }
   }
   const manifest = await resolveVisibleInstance()
   if (manifest) {
     configureLogFile(manifest.artifacts)
-    return manifest.endpoints.ui
+    return {
+      endpoint: manifest.endpoints.ui,
+      ...(screenshot
+        ? { screenshotDirectory: await readInstanceMediaDirectory(manifest.artifacts, manifest.name) }
+        : {}),
+    }
   }
-  return `ws://127.0.0.1:${defaultPort}`
+  return { endpoint: `ws://127.0.0.1:${defaultPort}` }
 }
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/cli/types.ts b/packages/drive/src/cli/types.ts
index 532e23d62c8..3d22c93ac6d 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/cli/types.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/cli/types.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { Frontend } from "../client/index.js"
 
 export interface DriveCommand {
-  readonly operation: Exclude<Frontend.Capability, "ui.click.semantic">
+  readonly operation: Exclude<Frontend.Capability, "ui.click.semantic"> | "ui.screenshot"
   readonly value?: string
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/driver/client.ts b/packages/drive/src/driver/client.ts
index 9b4aee5c69b..47d6e983177 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/driver/client.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/driver/client.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export const make = Effect.fn("OpenCodeTui.make")(function* (
     (client) => client.close.pipe(Effect.catchCause((cause) => Effect.logError("OpenCode TUI cleanup failed", cause))),
   )
   const connection = yield* connector.ui(launched.endpoint, { compatibility })
-  const ui = OpenCodeUi.make(connection)
+  const ui = OpenCodeUi.make(connection, { screenshotDirectory: launched.media })
   yield* ui.waitFor((state) => state.focused.editor, {
     timeout: 30_000,
     interval: 50,
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/driver/index.ts b/packages/drive/src/driver/index.ts
index 790e9587de6..aaa92cc4d01 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/driver/index.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/driver/index.ts
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ export {
   UiElementAmbiguousError,
   UiNodeAmbiguousError,
   UiPredicateError,
+  UiScreenshotError,
   UiTimeoutError,
   UiWaitOptionsError,
 } from "./ui.js"
@@ -146,6 +147,6 @@ export type { Recording, Tui, TuiLaunchError, TuiOptions, Tuis } from "./client.
 export type { Llm } from "./llm.js"
 export type { Target as OpenCodeTarget } from "./server.js"
 export type { OpenCode } from "./opencode.js"
-export type { Ui } from "./ui.js"
+export type { ScreenshotError, Ui } from "./ui.js"
 export type { Project, ProjectFileSystem, Setup, SetupContext } from "../project.js"
 export * from "./report.js"
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/driver/screenshot.ts b/packages/drive/src/driver/screenshot.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4971f12af21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/drive/src/driver/screenshot.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { extname, join, resolve } from "node:path"
+import { mkdir } from "node:fs/promises"
+import type { Frontend } from "../client/protocol.js"
+
+export async function renderScreenshot(frame: Frontend.CapturedFrame, directory: string, name?: string) {
+  const filename = name ?? `screenshot-${crypto.randomUUID()}`
+  if (!filename || filename.includes("/") || filename.includes("\\") || extname(filename))
+    throw new Error("screenshot name must not contain a path or extension")
+  const { renderFrame } = await import("../recording/render.js")
+  const output = resolve(directory)
+  await mkdir(output, { recursive: true })
+  const path = join(output, `${filename}.png`)
+  await Bun.write(path, renderFrame(frame))
+  return path
+}
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/driver/ui.ts b/packages/drive/src/driver/ui.ts
index 703c505c727..07dbc5f5efa 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/driver/ui.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/driver/ui.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import type { RpcClientError } from "effect/unstable/rpc"
 import { supportsCapability, type UiConnection } from "../simulation/connector.js"
 import { Frontend } from "../client/protocol.js"
 import type { SimulationRequestError } from "@opencode-ai/protocol/simulation"
+import { mediaDirectory } from "../instance/media.js"
+import { renderScreenshot } from "./screenshot.js"
 
 export interface WaitOptions {
   /** Maximum wait in milliseconds. Defaults to 5,000. */
@@ -71,9 +73,16 @@ export class UiPredicateError extends Schema.TaggedErrorClass<UiPredicateError>(
   message: Schema.String,
 }) {}
 
+export class UiScreenshotError extends Schema.TaggedErrorClass<UiScreenshotError>()("UiScreenshotError", {
+  cause: Schema.Defect(),
+  message: Schema.String,
+}) {}
+
 export interface Options {
   /** Per-RPC timeout in milliseconds. Defaults to 30,000. */
   readonly requestTimeout?: number
+  /** Directory where Drive writes locally rendered screenshots. */
+  readonly screenshotDirectory?: string
 }
 
 const RequestTimeout = Schema.Finite.check(Schema.isGreaterThanOrEqualTo(0))
@@ -81,6 +90,7 @@ const RequestTimeout = Schema.Finite.check(Schema.isGreaterThanOrEqualTo(0))
 export type WaitError = UiTimeoutError | UiWaitOptionsError
 type RpcError = SimulationRequestError | RpcClientError.RpcClientError
 export type OperationError = RpcError | UiTimeoutError
+export type ScreenshotError = OperationError | UiScreenshotError
 export type SemanticOperationError = OperationError | UiCapabilityError
 
 export interface Ui {
@@ -88,7 +98,7 @@ export interface Ui {
   readonly snapshot: () => Effect.Effect<Frontend.SemanticSnapshot, SemanticOperationError>
   readonly capture: () => Effect.Effect<Frontend.CapturedFrame, OperationError>
   readonly matches: (text: string) => Effect.Effect<boolean, OperationError>
-  readonly screenshot: (name?: string) => Effect.Effect<string, OperationError>
+  readonly screenshot: (name?: string) => Effect.Effect<string, ScreenshotError>
   readonly type: (text: string) => Effect.Effect<Frontend.State, OperationError>
   readonly press: (key: string, modifiers?: Frontend.KeyModifiers) => Effect.Effect<Frontend.State, OperationError>
   readonly enter: () => Effect.Effect<Frontend.State, OperationError>
@@ -172,9 +182,17 @@ export const make = (connection: UiConnection, options?: Options): Control => {
   })
   const capture = Effect.fn("Ui.capture")(() => call("capture", rpc["ui.capture"]()))
   const matches = Effect.fn("Ui.matches")((text: string) => call("matches", rpc["ui.matches"]({ text })))
-  const screenshot = Effect.fn("Ui.screenshot")((name?: string) =>
-    call("screenshot", rpc["ui.screenshot"](name === undefined ? undefined : { name })),
-  )
+  const screenshot = Effect.fn("Ui.screenshot")(function* (name?: string) {
+    const frame = yield* capture()
+    return yield* Effect.tryPromise({
+      try: () => renderScreenshot(frame, options?.screenshotDirectory ?? mediaDirectory(), name),
+      catch: (cause) =>
+        new UiScreenshotError({
+          cause,
+          message: cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause),
+        }),
+    })
+  })
   const finishRecording = Effect.fn("Ui.finishRecording")(() => call("finishRecording", rpc["ui.recording.finish"]()))
   const type = Effect.fn("Ui.type")((text: string) => call("type", rpc["ui.type"]({ text })))
   const press = Effect.fn("Ui.press")((key: string, modifiers?: Frontend.KeyModifiers) =>
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/instance/media.ts b/packages/drive/src/instance/media.ts
index b8f21cc15a2..cbd16d1d339 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/instance/media.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/instance/media.ts
@@ -7,3 +7,10 @@ export function mediaDirectory() {
 
 export const runMediaDirectory = (artifacts: string, generation: number) =>
   join(mediaDirectory(), basename(resolve(artifacts)), `generation-${generation}`)
+
+export async function readInstanceMediaDirectory(artifacts: string, name: string) {
+  const value: unknown = await Bun.file(join(artifacts, "drive", `${name}.json`)).json()
+  if (typeof value !== "object" || value === null || !("media" in value) || typeof value.media !== "string")
+    throw new Error(`drive instance "${name}" has no media directory`)
+  return value.media
+}
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/instance/runtime.ts b/packages/drive/src/instance/runtime.ts
index 755cca72ac9..276694e1af8 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/instance/runtime.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/instance/runtime.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ export interface Options {
 
 export interface TuiProcess {
   readonly endpoint: string
+  readonly media: string
   readonly process: Process.Running
   readonly recording?: RecordingPaths
   readonly close: Effect.Effect<void, OpenCodeInstanceError>
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ export const make = Effect.fn("OpenCodeInstance.make")(function* (
           `${JSON.stringify(
             {
               endpoints: manifestEndpoints,
+              media,
               ...(viewport ? { viewport } : {}),
               ...(recording ? { recording: { timeline: recording.timeline } } : {}),
             },
@@ -325,10 +327,10 @@ export const make = Effect.fn("OpenCodeInstance.make")(function* (
           ...value,
           pendingTuis: new Map(value.pendingTuis).set(name, tui),
         }))
-        return { tui, tuiEndpoints, primary, recording }
+        return { tui, tuiEndpoints, primary, recording, media }
       }),
     )
-    const { tui, tuiEndpoints, primary, recording } = pending
+    const { tui, tuiEndpoints, primary, recording, media: tuiMedia } = pending
     const removePending = lock.withPermit(
       Ref.update(state, (value) => {
         if (value.pendingTuis.get(name) !== tui) return value
@@ -384,6 +386,7 @@ export const make = Effect.fn("OpenCodeInstance.make")(function* (
     })
     return {
       endpoint: tuiEndpoints.ui,
+      media: tuiMedia,
       process: tui,
       recording,
       close,
diff --git a/packages/drive/src/recording/render.ts b/packages/drive/src/recording/render.ts
index 8fbda4b6cdc..e7c72ac2958 100644
--- a/packages/drive/src/recording/render.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/src/recording/render.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   baselineOffset,
   drawBlockGlyph,
 } from "../frame/index.js"
+import type { Frontend } from "../client/protocol.js"
 import type { CapturedFrame } from "./types.js"
 
 export { CellHeight, CellWidth } from "../frame/index.js"
@@ -47,8 +48,10 @@ for (const [file, family] of [
   if (!GlobalFonts.registerFromPath(path, family)) throw new Error(`Failed to register capture symbol font: ${path}`)
 }
 
-function color(rgb: number, alpha = 1) {
-  return `rgba(${(rgb >> 16) & 255}, ${(rgb >> 8) & 255}, ${rgb & 255}, ${alpha})`
+function color(value: number | Frontend.Color, opacity = 1) {
+  if (typeof value === "number")
+    return `rgba(${(value >> 16) & 255}, ${(value >> 8) & 255}, ${value & 255}, ${opacity})`
+  return `rgba(${value[0]}, ${value[1]}, ${value[2]}, ${(value[3] / 255) * opacity})`
 }
 
 export interface RenderFrameOptions {
@@ -57,7 +60,7 @@ export interface RenderFrameOptions {
   readonly header?: string
 }
 
-export function renderFrame(frame: CapturedFrame, options: RenderFrameOptions = {}): Buffer {
+export function renderFrame(frame: CapturedFrame | Frontend.CapturedFrame, options: RenderFrameOptions = {}): Buffer {
   const cols = Math.max(frame.cols, options.cols ?? frame.cols)
   const rows = Math.max(frame.rows, options.rows ?? frame.rows)
   const headerHeight = options.header ? 40 : 0
@@ -118,12 +121,13 @@ export function renderFrame(frame: CapturedFrame, options: RenderFrameOptions =
     }
   })
 
-  if (frame.cursor.visible && frame.cursor.row >= 0 && frame.cursor.row < frame.rows) {
+  const cursor = frame.cursor
+  if ("visible" in cursor && cursor.visible && cursor.row >= 0 && cursor.row < frame.rows) {
     context.strokeStyle = "#d8d8d8"
     context.lineWidth = 2
     context.strokeRect(
-      frame.cursor.col * CellWidth + 1,
-      headerHeight + frame.cursor.row * CellHeight + 1,
+      cursor.col * CellWidth + 1,
+      headerHeight + cursor.row * CellHeight + 1,
       CellWidth - 2,
       CellHeight - 2,
     )
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/cli/integration.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/cli/integration.test.ts
index 7573cabbdb4..339e47929c2 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/cli/integration.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/cli/integration.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, setDefaultTimeout, test } from "bun:test"
-import { mkdir, mkdtemp, readdir, realpath, rm } from "node:fs/promises"
+import { mkdir, mkdtemp, readdir, realpath, rename, rm } from "node:fs/promises"
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os"
 import { basename, dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path"
 import {
@@ -186,6 +186,17 @@ describe("opencode-drive", () => {
     expect(manifest.endpoints.ui).toMatch(/^ws:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1:\d+$/)
     expect(manifest.endpoints.backend).toMatch(/^ws:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1:\d+$/)
 
+    const runtimeManifest = join(manifest.artifacts, "drive", `${name}.json`)
+    const hiddenRuntimeManifest = `${runtimeManifest}.hidden`
+    await rename(runtimeManifest, hiddenRuntimeManifest)
+    const batch = spawn(
+      ["send", "--name", name, "--command.ui.state", "--command.ui.matches", '{"text":"Fake OpenCode"}'],
+      root,
+    )
+    expect(await batch.exited).toBe(0)
+    expect(await new Response(batch.stdout).text()).toBe("success\n")
+    await rename(hiddenRuntimeManifest, runtimeManifest)
+
     const state = spawn(["send", "--name", name, "--command.ui.state"], root)
     expect(await state.exited).toBe(0)
     expect(JSON.parse(await new Response(state.stdout).text()).focused.editor).toBe(true)
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/driver/ui.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/driver/ui.test.ts
index 89f4c7365fc..62dc72086ee 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/driver/ui.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/driver/ui.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "@effect/vitest"
-import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { Effect, type Types } from "effect"
 import * as OpenCodeUi from "../../src/driver/ui.js"
 import * as SimulationConnector from "../../src/simulation/connector.js"
 import { sendError, sendResult, startTransportPeer } from "../simulation/transport-peer.js"
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises"
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os"
+import { join } from "node:path"
+import { createCanvas, loadImage } from "@napi-rs/canvas"
 
 const editor = {
   id: "prompt",
@@ -58,6 +62,15 @@ const frame = {
   ],
 }
 
+type ScreenshotFailure = Effect.Effect.Error<ReturnType<OpenCodeUi.Ui["screenshot"]>>
+const operationErrorExcludesScreenshotError: Types.Equals<
+  Extract<OpenCodeUi.OperationError, OpenCodeUi.UiScreenshotError>,
+  never
+> = true
+const screenshotErrorIsSpecific: Types.Equals<ScreenshotFailure, OpenCodeUi.ScreenshotError> = true
+void operationErrorExcludesScreenshotError
+void screenshotErrorIsSpecific
+
 describe("OpenCodeUi", () => {
   it.live("captures a normalized terminal frame", () => {
     const peer = startTransportPeer(({ request, socket }) => sendResult(socket, request, frame))
@@ -78,10 +91,6 @@ describe("OpenCodeUi", () => {
         sendResult(socket, request, matchCalls > 1)
         return
       }
-      if (request.method === "ui.screenshot") {
-        sendResult(socket, request, "/tmp/home.png")
-        return
-      }
       sendResult(socket, request, state)
     })
 
@@ -93,7 +102,6 @@ describe("OpenCodeUi", () => {
       expect(yield* ui.submit("hello")).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* ui.press("escape", { ctrl: true })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* ui.click(3)).toEqual(state)
-      expect(yield* ui.screenshot("home")).toBe("/tmp/home.png")
       expect(yield* ui.waitFor("ready", { timeout: 1_000, interval: 1 })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* ui.getElement({ editor: true })).toEqual(editor)
 
@@ -121,8 +129,8 @@ describe("OpenCodeUi", () => {
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
           id: 6,
-          method: "ui.screenshot",
-          params: { name: "home" },
+          method: "ui.matches",
+          params: { text: "ready" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
@@ -130,18 +138,60 @@ describe("OpenCodeUi", () => {
           method: "ui.matches",
           params: { text: "ready" },
         },
-        {
-          jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 8,
-          method: "ui.matches",
-          params: { text: "ready" },
-        },
+        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 8, method: "ui.state" },
         { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 9, method: "ui.state" },
-        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 10, method: "ui.state" },
       ])
     })
   })
 
+  it.live("renders negotiated screenshots from captured frames inside Drive", () => {
+    const peer = startTransportPeer(({ request, socket }) => sendResult(socket, request, frame))
+
+    return Effect.gen(function* () {
+      yield* Effect.addFinalizer(() => Effect.promise(() => peer.stop()))
+      const directory = yield* Effect.promise(() => mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "opencode-drive-screenshot-")))
+      yield* Effect.addFinalizer(() => Effect.promise(() => rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true })))
+      const connection = yield* SimulationConnector.ui(peer.url)
+      const path = yield* OpenCodeUi.make(connection, { screenshotDirectory: directory }).screenshot("home")
+
+      expect(path).toBe(join(directory, "home.png"))
+      const bytes = yield* Effect.promise(() => Bun.file(path).arrayBuffer())
+      expect(Buffer.from(bytes).subarray(0, 8)).toEqual(Buffer.from([137, 80, 78, 71, 13, 10, 26, 10]))
+      expect(peer.received.map(({ request }) => request)).toEqual([{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "ui.capture" }])
+    })
+  })
+
+  it.live("preserves transparent foreground and background colors in screenshots", () => {
+    const transparent = {
+      cols: 2,
+      rows: 1,
+      cursor: [0, 0] as const,
+      lines: [
+        {
+          spans: [
+            { text: "█", fg: [0, 255, 0, 0] as const, bg: [255, 0, 0, 255] as const, attributes: 0, width: 1 },
+            { text: " ", fg: [255, 255, 255, 255] as const, bg: [0, 0, 255, 0] as const, attributes: 0, width: 1 },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    }
+    const peer = startTransportPeer(({ request, socket }) => sendResult(socket, request, transparent))
+    return Effect.gen(function* () {
+      yield* Effect.addFinalizer(() => Effect.promise(() => peer.stop()))
+      const directory = yield* Effect.promise(() => mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "opencode-drive-alpha-")))
+      yield* Effect.addFinalizer(() => Effect.promise(() => rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true })))
+      const connection = yield* SimulationConnector.ui(peer.url)
+      const path = yield* OpenCodeUi.make(connection, { screenshotDirectory: directory }).screenshot("alpha")
+      const image = yield* Effect.promise(() => loadImage(path))
+      const canvas = createCanvas(image.width, image.height)
+      const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
+      context.drawImage(image, 0, 0)
+
+      expect(Array.from(context.getImageData(5, 10, 1, 1).data)).toEqual([255, 0, 0, 255])
+      expect(Array.from(context.getImageData(15, 10, 1, 1).data)).toEqual([8, 8, 8, 255])
+    })
+  })
+
   it.live("selects and clicks semantic UI nodes", () => {
     let snapshotCalls = 0
     const peer = startTransportPeer(({ request, socket }) => {
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/fixtures/fake-opencode.ts b/packages/drive/test/fixtures/fake-opencode.ts
index c1ccc64eded..e44eb2f52fa 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/fixtures/fake-opencode.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/fixtures/fake-opencode.ts
@@ -301,10 +301,6 @@ function frontend(method: string, params: unknown) {
       ],
     }
   }
-  if (method === "ui.screenshot") {
-    const name = isRecord(params) && typeof params.name === "string" ? params.name : `screenshot-${crypto.randomUUID()}`
-    return `${process.env.OPENCODE_DRIVE_MEDIA_DIR}/${name}.png`
-  }
   if (method === "ui.recording.finish") {
     if (!drive.recording) throw new Error("recording is not enabled")
     return drive.recording.timeline
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/recording/export.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/recording/export.test.ts
index e13b06a52a2..33e9cc0a046 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/recording/export.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/recording/export.test.ts
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ test("joins rendered frames horizontally", async () => {
 })
 
 test("renders the canonical OpenCode symbol set with the fallback font", async () => {
-  const symbols = [..."△⇆⊙⚙✱↳◌◈⟳▸▾■⬝⬥⬩⬪"]
+  const symbols = [..."△⇆⊙⚙✱↳◌◈⟳▸▾■⬝⬥⬩⬪⠹"]
   const image = await loadImage(
     renderFrame({
       cols: symbols.length,
@@ -212,6 +212,30 @@ test("renders the canonical OpenCode symbol set with the fallback font", async (
   expect(new Set(masks).size).toBe(symbols.length)
 })
 
+test("draws heavy vertical box elements continuously across cell boundaries", async () => {
+  const image = await loadImage(
+    renderFrame({
+      cols: 1,
+      rows: 2,
+      cursor: { row: 0, col: 0, visible: false },
+      lines: [
+        { spans: [{ text: "┃", width: 1, fg: 0xffffff, bg: 0x000000, attributes: 0 }] },
+        { spans: [{ text: "╹", width: 1, fg: 0xffffff, bg: 0x000000, attributes: 0 }] },
+      ],
+    }),
+  )
+  const canvas = createCanvas(image.width, image.height)
+  const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
+  context.drawImage(image, 0, 0)
+
+  expect(Array.from(context.getImageData(4, 0, 2, 30).data)).toEqual(
+    Array.from({ length: 60 }, () => [255, 255, 255, 255]).flat(),
+  )
+  expect(Array.from(context.getImageData(4, 30, 2, 10).data)).toEqual(
+    Array.from({ length: 20 }, () => [0, 0, 0, 255]).flat(),
+  )
+})
+
 test("accepts valid capture font overrides", async () => {
   const font = new URL("../../assets/fonts/commit-mono/CommitMono-400-Regular.otf", import.meta.url)
   const child = renderImport({ OPENCODE_DRIVE_FONT: fileURLToPath(font) })
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/simulation/opencode-protocol.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/simulation/opencode-protocol.test.ts
index 48392a30e96..c98a1fe28b1 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/simulation/opencode-protocol.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/simulation/opencode-protocol.test.ts
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@ describe("OpenCode Effect RPC compatibility protocol", () => {
         sendError(socket, request, "match failed")
         return
       }
-      if (request.method === "ui.screenshot") {
-        const params = request.params as { readonly name?: string } | undefined
-        sendResult(socket, request, `/tmp/${params?.name ?? "screen"}.png`)
-        return
-      }
       if (request.method === "ui.state")
         socket.send(
           JSON.stringify({
@@ -42,8 +37,6 @@ describe("OpenCode Effect RPC compatibility protocol", () => {
       const client = yield* RpcClient.make(UiRpcs).pipe(Effect.provideService(RpcClient.Protocol, protocol))
 
       expect(yield* client["ui.state"]()).toEqual(state)
-      expect(yield* client["ui.screenshot"](undefined)).toBe("/tmp/screen.png")
-      expect(yield* client["ui.screenshot"]({ name: "home" })).toBe("/tmp/home.png")
       expect(yield* client["ui.press"]({ key: "right" })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* client["ui.press"]({ key: "down", modifiers: { meta: true } })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* client["ui.press"]({ key: "tab", modifiers: { ctrl: true } })).toEqual(state)
@@ -64,35 +57,24 @@ describe("OpenCode Effect RPC compatibility protocol", () => {
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
           id: firstId + 1,
-          method: "ui.screenshot",
-        },
-        {
-          jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: firstId + 2,
-          method: "ui.screenshot",
-          params: { name: "home" },
-        },
-        {
-          jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: firstId + 3,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "\u001b[C" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: firstId + 4,
+          id: firstId + 2,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "\u001b[1;3B" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: firstId + 5,
+          id: firstId + 3,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "\u001b[9;5u" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: firstId + 6,
+          id: firstId + 4,
           method: "ui.matches",
           params: { text: "fail" },
         },
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/simulation/rpc.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/simulation/rpc.test.ts
index 43e95f8b3b2..b5a29f5db10 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/simulation/rpc.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/simulation/rpc.test.ts
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ describe("OpenCode simulation RPC contracts", () => {
                 )
               return Effect.succeed(true)
             },
-            "ui.screenshot": (payload) => {
-              calls.push({ method: "ui.screenshot", payload })
-              return Effect.succeed(`/tmp/${payload?.name ?? "screen"}.png`)
-            },
             "ui.recording.finish": (payload) => {
               calls.push({ method: "ui.recording.finish", payload })
               return Effect.succeed("/tmp/recording.jsonl")
@@ -62,8 +58,6 @@ describe("OpenCode simulation RPC contracts", () => {
         code: -32000,
         message: "match failed",
       })
-      expect(yield* client["ui.screenshot"](undefined)).toBe("/tmp/screen.png")
-      expect(yield* client["ui.screenshot"]({ name: "home" })).toBe("/tmp/home.png")
       expect(yield* client["ui.recording.finish"]()).toBe("/tmp/recording.jsonl")
       expect(yield* client["ui.type"]({ text: "hello" })).toEqual(state)
 
@@ -71,8 +65,6 @@ describe("OpenCode simulation RPC contracts", () => {
         { method: "ui.state", payload: undefined },
         { method: "ui.matches", payload: { text: "ready" } },
         { method: "ui.matches", payload: { text: "fail" } },
-        { method: "ui.screenshot", payload: undefined },
-        { method: "ui.screenshot", payload: { name: "home" } },
         { method: "ui.recording.finish", payload: undefined },
         { method: "ui.type", payload: { text: "hello" } },
       ])
diff --git a/packages/drive/test/simulation/ui.test.ts b/packages/drive/test/simulation/ui.test.ts
index e5e300ab14e..79549c544c5 100644
--- a/packages/drive/test/simulation/ui.test.ts
+++ b/packages/drive/test/simulation/ui.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it, test } from "@effect/vitest"
 import { Effect } from "effect"
 import { Frontend } from "../../src/client/index.js"
 import * as SimulationConnector from "../../src/simulation/connector.js"
-import { sendError, sendResult, startTransportPeer } from "./transport-peer.js"
+import { sendResult, startTransportPeer } from "./transport-peer.js"
 
 const state: Frontend.State = {
   focused: { renderable: 1, editor: true },
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@ describe("OpenCode UI simulation transport", () => {
           sendResult(socket, request, true)
           return
         }
-        if (request.method === "ui.screenshot") {
-          const params = request.params as { readonly name?: string } | undefined
-          if (params?.name === "fail") {
-            sendError(socket, request, "screenshot failed")
-            return
-          }
-          sendResult(socket, request, `/tmp/${params?.name ?? "screenshot"}.png`)
-          return
-        }
         if (request.method === "ui.recording.finish") {
           sendResult(socket, request, "/tmp/recording.jsonl")
           return
@@ -47,8 +38,6 @@ describe("OpenCode UI simulation transport", () => {
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.state"]()).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.snapshot"]()).toEqual(snapshot)
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.matches"]({ text: "needle" })).toBe(true)
-      expect(yield* rpc["ui.screenshot"](undefined)).toBe("/tmp/screenshot.png")
-      expect(yield* rpc["ui.screenshot"]({ name: "home" })).toBe("/tmp/home.png")
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.recording.finish"]()).toBe("/tmp/recording.jsonl")
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.type"]({ text: "hello" })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.press"]({ key: "x" })).toEqual(state)
@@ -60,13 +49,6 @@ describe("OpenCode UI simulation transport", () => {
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.click"]({ target: 7, x: 3, y: 2 })).toEqual(state)
       expect(yield* rpc["ui.resize"]({ cols: 120, rows: 40 })).toEqual(state)
 
-      const error = yield* rpc["ui.screenshot"]({ name: "fail" }).pipe(Effect.flip)
-      expect(error).toMatchObject({
-        _tag: "SimulationRequestError",
-        message: "screenshot failed",
-        method: "ui.screenshot",
-      })
-
       expect(peer.received.map(({ request }) => request)).toEqual([
         { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "ui.state" },
         { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "ui.snapshot" },
@@ -76,69 +58,56 @@ describe("OpenCode UI simulation transport", () => {
           method: "ui.matches",
           params: { text: "needle" },
         },
-        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 4, method: "ui.screenshot" },
+        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 4, method: "ui.recording.finish" },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
           id: 5,
-          method: "ui.screenshot",
-          params: { name: "home" },
-        },
-        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 6, method: "ui.recording.finish" },
-        {
-          jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 7,
           method: "ui.type",
           params: { text: "hello" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 8,
+          id: 6,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "x" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 9,
+          id: 7,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "x", modifiers: { ctrl: true, shift: false } },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 10,
+          id: 8,
           method: "ui.press",
           params: { key: "escape" },
         },
-        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 11, method: "ui.enter" },
+        { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 9, method: "ui.enter" },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 12,
+          id: 10,
           method: "ui.arrow",
           params: { direction: "left" },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 13,
+          id: 11,
           method: "ui.focus",
           params: { target: 7 },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 14,
+          id: 12,
           method: "ui.click",
           params: { target: 7, x: 3, y: 2 },
         },
         {
           jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 15,
+          id: 13,
           method: "ui.resize",
           params: { cols: 120, rows: 40 },
         },
-        {
-          jsonrpc: "2.0",
-          id: 16,
-          method: "ui.screenshot",
-          params: { name: "fail" },
-        },
       ])
 
       for (const { request } of peer.received) expect(Frontend.decodeRequest(request)).toEqual(request)
diff --git a/packages/protocol/src/simulation.ts b/packages/protocol/src/simulation.ts
index 554d0e25270..89b82c2f283 100644
--- a/packages/protocol/src/simulation.ts
+++ b/packages/protocol/src/simulation.ts
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ export namespace Frontend {
     "ui.click.semantic",
     "ui.resize",
     "ui.matches",
-    "ui.screenshot",
     "ui.state",
     "ui.snapshot",
     "ui.capture",
@@ -279,9 +278,6 @@ export namespace Frontend {
   })
   export interface SemanticSnapshot extends Schema.Schema.Type<typeof SemanticSnapshot> {}
 
-  export const Screenshot = Schema.String
-  export type Screenshot = Schema.Schema.Type<typeof Screenshot>
-
   export const Color = Schema.Tuple([Schema.Number, Schema.Number, Schema.Number, Schema.Number])
   export type Color = Schema.Schema.Type<typeof Color>
 
@@ -311,9 +307,6 @@ export namespace Frontend {
   export const Matches = Schema.Boolean
   export type Matches = Schema.Schema.Type<typeof Matches>
 
-  export const ScreenshotParams = Schema.Struct({ name: Schema.optional(Schema.String) })
-  export interface ScreenshotParams extends Schema.Schema.Type<typeof ScreenshotParams> {}
-
   export const TypeParams = Schema.Struct({ text: Schema.String })
   export interface TypeParams extends Schema.Schema.Type<typeof TypeParams> {}
 
@@ -354,11 +347,6 @@ export namespace Frontend {
     Schema.Struct({ ...JsonRpc.RequestFields, method: Schema.Literal("ui.click"), params: ClickParams }),
     Schema.Struct({ ...JsonRpc.RequestFields, method: Schema.Literal("ui.resize"), params: ResizeParams }),
     Schema.Struct({ ...JsonRpc.RequestFields, method: Schema.Literal("ui.matches"), params: MatchesParams }),
-    Schema.Struct({
-      ...JsonRpc.RequestFields,
-      method: Schema.Literal("ui.screenshot"),
-      params: Schema.optional(ScreenshotParams),
-    }),
     Schema.Struct({
       ...JsonRpc.RequestFields,
       method: Schema.Literals(["ui.enter", "ui.state", "ui.snapshot", "ui.recording.finish"]),
@@ -606,10 +594,6 @@ export const UiRpcs = RpcGroup.make(
   request("ui.snapshot", { success: Frontend.SemanticSnapshot }),
   request("ui.capture", { success: Frontend.CapturedFrame }),
   request("ui.matches", { payload: Frontend.MatchesParams, success: Frontend.Matches }),
-  request("ui.screenshot", {
-    payload: Schema.UndefinedOr(Frontend.ScreenshotParams),
-    success: Frontend.Screenshot,
-  }),
   request("ui.recording.finish", { success: Frontend.RecordingFinish }),
   request("ui.type", { payload: Frontend.TypeParams, success: Frontend.State }),
   request("ui.press", { payload: Frontend.PressParams, success: Frontend.State }),
diff --git a/packages/simulation/package.json b/packages/simulation/package.json
index 570619d276d..0b76f236051 100644
--- a/packages/simulation/package.json
+++ b/packages/simulation/package.json
@@ -17,22 +17,19 @@
     "typecheck": "tsgo -b"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@fontsource/commit-mono": "5.2.5",
-    "@fontsource/noto-sans-math": "5.2.5",
-    "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols": "5.2.5",
-    "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2": "5.2.5",
-    "@napi-rs/canvas": "1.0.2",
     "@opencode-ai/core": "workspace:*",
     "@opencode-ai/ai": "workspace:*",
     "@opencode-ai/plugin": "workspace:*",
     "@opencode-ai/protocol": "workspace:*",
     "@opencode-ai/util": "workspace:*",
     "@opentui/core": "catalog:",
-    "effect": "catalog:"
+    "effect": "catalog:",
+    "ws": "8.21.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@tsconfig/bun": "catalog:",
     "@types/bun": "catalog:",
+    "@types/ws": "8.18.1",
     "@typescript/native-preview": "catalog:"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/assets.d.ts b/packages/simulation/src/assets.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index f80c06f5d1b..00000000000
--- a/packages/simulation/src/assets.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-declare module "*.woff2" {
-  const path: string
-  export default path
-}
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/backend/simulated-provider.ts b/packages/simulation/src/backend/simulated-provider.ts
index d2a90c362ad..ffc637d1697 100644
--- a/packages/simulation/src/backend/simulated-provider.ts
+++ b/packages/simulation/src/backend/simulated-provider.ts
@@ -332,9 +332,7 @@ function handle(
             fibers,
             driver.requests.pipe(
               Stream.runForEach((invocation) =>
-                Effect.sync(() => {
-                  socket.send(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "llm.request", params: invocation }))
-                }),
+                socket.send(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "llm.request", params: invocation })),
               ),
             ),
           )
@@ -405,10 +403,7 @@ const makeToolDriver = Effect.fn("SimulatedProvider.makeToolDriver")(function* (
     socket: ControlSocket,
     method: "tool.invocation" | "tool.cancel",
     params: SimulationProtocol.Backend.ToolInvocation | SimulationProtocol.Backend.ToolCancellation,
-  ) =>
-    Effect.sync(() => {
-      socket.send(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method, params }))
-    })
+  ) => socket.send(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method, params }))
 
   const requireController = (socket: ControlSocket) =>
     Effect.gen(function* () {
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/control-server.ts b/packages/simulation/src/control-server.ts
index fd4211669e6..76449b33cbc 100644
--- a/packages/simulation/src/control-server.ts
+++ b/packages/simulation/src/control-server.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Effect, Fiber, Queue, Stream } from "effect"
+import { Effect, Fiber, FiberSet, Queue, Stream } from "effect"
 import { SimulationProtocol } from "./protocol"
 
 export interface Server {
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ export interface SocketData {
   closed?: true
 }
 
-export type Socket = Bun.ServerWebSocket<SocketData>
+export interface Socket {
+  readonly data: SocketData
+  readonly send: (message: string) => Effect.Effect<void>
+}
+
+const maxOutboundBytes = 64 * 1024 * 1024
 
 export function start<RequestType extends Request, Error, Services>(options: {
   readonly endpoint: string
@@ -27,7 +32,6 @@ export function start<RequestType extends Request, Error, Services>(options: {
 }) {
   return Effect.gen(function* () {
     const messages = yield* Queue.bounded<{ readonly socket: Socket; readonly input: string }>(256)
-    const closures = yield* Queue.unbounded<Socket>()
     yield* Stream.fromQueue(messages).pipe(
       Stream.runForEach((message) =>
         options.decode(message.input).pipe(
@@ -40,42 +44,133 @@ export function start<RequestType extends Request, Error, Services>(options: {
             ),
           ),
           Effect.catch((error) => send(message.socket, SimulationProtocol.JsonRpc.failure(undefined, error))),
+          Effect.catchCause((cause) => Effect.logWarning(`${options.label}: request failed`, cause)),
         ),
       ),
       Effect.forkScoped,
     )
-    yield* Stream.fromQueue(closures).pipe(
-      Stream.runForEach((socket) => options.close?.(socket) ?? Effect.void),
-      Effect.forkScoped,
-    )
     const url = yield* Effect.try({ try: () => new URL(options.endpoint), catch: (cause) => cause })
+    const websocket = yield* Effect.promise(() => import("ws"))
+    const runPromise = yield* FiberSet.makeRuntimePromise<Services, void, never>()
     yield* Effect.acquireRelease(
-      Effect.sync(() =>
-        Bun.serve<SocketData>({
-          hostname: url.hostname,
-          port: Number(url.port),
-          fetch(request, server) {
-            if (server.upgrade(request, { data: options.data() })) return undefined
-            return new Response(options.label, { status: 426 })
-          },
-          websocket: {
-            close(socket) {
-              socket.data.closed = true
-              Queue.offerUnsafe(closures, socket)
-            },
-            message(socket, message) {
-              const input = typeof message === "string" ? message : message.toString()
-              if (Queue.offerUnsafe(messages, { socket, input })) return
-              socket.send(
-                JSON.stringify(
-                  SimulationProtocol.JsonRpc.failure(undefined, new Error("Simulation control queue is full")),
-                ),
-              )
-            },
-          },
-        }),
+      Effect.tryPromise(
+        () =>
+          new Promise<{
+            readonly close: () => Promise<void>
+          }>((resolve, reject) => {
+            const server = new websocket.WebSocketServer({ host: url.hostname, port: Number(url.port) })
+            const sockets = new Map<
+              InstanceType<typeof websocket.WebSocket>,
+              { socket: Socket; cleanup: () => Promise<void> }
+            >()
+            const report = (scope: string, cause: unknown) =>
+              void runPromise(Effect.logWarning(`${options.label}: ${scope} error`, cause))
+            const onServerError = (cause: Error) => report("server", cause)
+            const onStartupError = (cause: Error) => {
+              server.off("listening", onListening)
+              server.on("error", onServerError)
+              reject(cause)
+            }
+            const onListening = () => {
+              server.off("error", onStartupError)
+              server.on("error", onServerError)
+              resolve({
+                close: async () => {
+                  const accepted = Array.from(sockets.entries())
+                  accepted.forEach(([connection, record]) => {
+                    record.socket.data.closed = true
+                    connection.terminate()
+                  })
+                  await Promise.all([
+                    new Promise<void>((resolveClose, rejectClose) => {
+                      server.close((cause) => (cause ? rejectClose(cause) : resolveClose()))
+                      // Bun releases the listener but does not invoke ws' close callback after an upgraded socket.
+                      queueMicrotask(() => {
+                        if (server.address() === null) resolveClose()
+                      })
+                    }),
+                    Promise.all(accepted.map(([, record]) => record.cleanup())),
+                  ])
+                  server.off("error", onServerError)
+                },
+              })
+            }
+            server.once("listening", onListening)
+            server.once("error", onStartupError)
+            server.on("connection", (connection) => {
+              let pendingBytes = 0
+              let outbound = Promise.resolve()
+              let cleanup: Promise<void> | undefined
+              const socket: Socket = {
+                data: options.data(),
+                send: (message) =>
+                  Effect.tryPromise({
+                    try: () => {
+                      const bytes = Buffer.byteLength(message)
+                      if (bytes > maxOutboundBytes || pendingBytes + bytes > maxOutboundBytes)
+                        return Promise.reject(new Error(`Simulation outbound queue exceeds ${maxOutboundBytes} bytes`))
+                      pendingBytes += bytes
+                      const current = outbound.then(
+                        () =>
+                          new Promise<void>((resolveSend, rejectSend) => {
+                            if (connection.readyState !== websocket.WebSocket.OPEN) {
+                              rejectSend(new Error("Simulation control socket is not open"))
+                              return
+                            }
+                            connection.send(message, (cause) => (cause ? rejectSend(cause) : resolveSend()))
+                          }),
+                      )
+                      outbound = current.catch(() => undefined)
+                      return current.finally(() => {
+                        pendingBytes -= bytes
+                      })
+                    },
+                    catch: (cause) => (cause instanceof Error ? cause : new Error(String(cause))),
+                  }).pipe(
+                    Effect.tapError(() =>
+                      Effect.sync(() => {
+                        connection.terminate()
+                      }),
+                    ),
+                    Effect.orDie,
+                  ),
+              }
+              const close = () => {
+                socket.data.closed = true
+                cleanup ??= runPromise(options.close?.(socket) ?? Effect.void).finally(() => sockets.delete(connection))
+                return cleanup
+              }
+              sockets.set(connection, { socket, cleanup: close })
+              connection.on("close", () => void close())
+              connection.on("error", (cause) => {
+                report("socket", cause)
+                connection.terminate()
+              })
+              connection.on("message", (message) => {
+                const input = Array.isArray(message)
+                  ? Buffer.concat(message).toString()
+                  : message instanceof ArrayBuffer
+                    ? Buffer.from(message).toString()
+                    : message.toString()
+                if (Queue.offerUnsafe(messages, { socket, input })) return
+                void runPromise(
+                  socket
+                    .send(
+                      JSON.stringify(
+                        SimulationProtocol.JsonRpc.failure(undefined, new Error("Simulation control queue is full")),
+                      ),
+                    )
+                    .pipe(
+                      Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
+                        Effect.logWarning(`${options.label}: queue rejection failed`, cause),
+                      ),
+                    ),
+                )
+              })
+            })
+          }),
       ),
-      (server) => Effect.promise(() => server.stop(true)),
+      ({ close }) => Effect.promise(close),
     )
     return { url: options.endpoint } satisfies Server
   })
@@ -83,9 +178,7 @@ export function start<RequestType extends Request, Error, Services>(options: {
 
 function send(socket: Socket, response: SimulationProtocol.JsonRpc.Response | undefined) {
   if (!response) return Effect.void
-  return Effect.sync(() => {
-    socket.send(JSON.stringify(response))
-  })
+  return socket.send(JSON.stringify(response))
 }
 
 export * as SimulationControlServer from "./control-server"
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/actions.ts b/packages/simulation/src/frontend/actions.ts
index 0adcbdbf24f..588801e0d87 100644
--- a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/actions.ts
+++ b/packages/simulation/src/frontend/actions.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os"
-import { extname, join, resolve } from "node:path"
 import type { CliRenderer, Renderable } from "@opentui/core"
 import {
   createMockKeys,
@@ -9,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   type MockInput,
   type MockMouse,
 } from "@opentui/core/testing"
-import { Config, Effect, FileSystem, Schema } from "effect"
+import { Effect, Schema } from "effect"
 import { SimulationProtocol } from "../protocol"
 import { SimulationRenderer } from "./renderer"
 import { SimulationSemantics } from "./semantics"
@@ -167,25 +165,6 @@ export const capture = Effect.fn("SimulationActions.capture")(function* (harness
   } satisfies SimulationProtocol.Frontend.CapturedFrame
 })
 
-export const screenshot = Effect.fn("SimulationActions.screenshot")(function* (harness: Harness, name?: string) {
-  const filename = name ?? `screenshot-${crypto.randomUUID()}`
-  if (!filename || filename.includes("/") || filename.includes("\\") || extname(filename))
-    return yield* Effect.fail(new Error("screenshot name must not contain a path or extension"))
-  yield* Effect.tryPromise(() => harness.renderOnce())
-  const { SimulationPng } = yield* Effect.promise(() => import("./png"))
-  const image = SimulationPng.screenshot(harness.renderer)
-  const directory = resolve(
-    yield* Config.string("OPENCODE_DRIVE_MEDIA_DIR").pipe(
-      Config.withDefault(join(tmpdir(), "opencode-drive", "output")),
-    ),
-  )
-  const fs = yield* FileSystem.FileSystem
-  yield* fs.makeDirectory(directory, { recursive: true })
-  const path = join(directory, `${filename}.png`)
-  yield* fs.writeFile(path, image.data)
-  return path
-})
-
 export const execute = Effect.fn("SimulationActions.execute")(function* (harness: Harness, action: Action) {
   switch (action.type) {
     case "ui.type":
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/png.ts b/packages/simulation/src/frontend/png.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 98fb9f3814b..00000000000
--- a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/png.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-/// <reference path="../assets.d.ts" />
-import { GlobalFonts, createCanvas, type SKRSContext2D } from "@napi-rs/canvas"
-import { TextAttributes, type CapturedFrame, type CliRenderer, type RGBA } from "@opentui/core"
-import regularFont from "@fontsource/commit-mono/files/commit-mono-latin-400-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import boldFont from "@fontsource/commit-mono/files/commit-mono-latin-700-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import italicFont from "@fontsource/commit-mono/files/commit-mono-latin-400-italic.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import boldItalicFont from "@fontsource/commit-mono/files/commit-mono-latin-700-italic.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import symbolFont from "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols/files/noto-sans-symbols-symbols-400-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import symbolFont2 from "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2/files/noto-sans-symbols-2-symbols-400-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import brailleFont from "@fontsource/noto-sans-symbols-2/files/noto-sans-symbols-2-braille-400-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-import mathFont from "@fontsource/noto-sans-math/files/noto-sans-math-math-400-normal.woff2" with { type: "file" }
-
-const CellWidth = 10
-const CellHeight = 20
-const FontSize = 16
-const FontFamily = "OpenCode Mono"
-const SymbolFontFamily = "OpenCode Symbols"
-const SymbolFontFamily2 = "OpenCode Symbols 2"
-const MathFontFamily = "OpenCode Math"
-const FontStack = `"${FontFamily}", "${SymbolFontFamily}", "${SymbolFontFamily2}", "${MathFontFamily}"`
-
-for (const [file, family] of [
-  ...[regularFont, boldFont, italicFont, boldItalicFont].map((file) => [file, FontFamily] as const),
-  [symbolFont, SymbolFontFamily],
-  [symbolFont2, SymbolFontFamily2],
-  [brailleFont, SymbolFontFamily2],
-  [mathFont, MathFontFamily],
-] as const) {
-  const font = Buffer.from(await Bun.file(file).arrayBuffer())
-  if (!GlobalFonts.register(font, family)) throw new Error(`Failed to register screenshot font: ${file}`)
-}
-
-export function screenshot(renderer: CliRenderer) {
-  return screenshotFrame({
-    cols: renderer.currentRenderBuffer.width,
-    rows: renderer.currentRenderBuffer.height,
-    cursor: [0, 0],
-    lines: renderer.currentRenderBuffer.getSpanLines(),
-  })
-}
-
-export function screenshotFrame(frame: CapturedFrame) {
-  const canvas = createCanvas(frame.cols * CellWidth, frame.rows * CellHeight)
-  const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
-  context.fillStyle = "#080808"
-  context.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height)
-  context.textBaseline = "top"
-
-  frame.lines.forEach((line, row) => {
-    let column = 0
-    line.spans.forEach((span) => {
-      const attributes = span.attributes & 0xff
-      const inverse = Boolean(attributes & TextAttributes.INVERSE)
-      const hidden = Boolean(attributes & TextAttributes.HIDDEN)
-      const foreground = inverse ? span.bg : span.fg
-      const background = inverse ? span.fg : span.bg
-      const chars = [...span.text]
-      let remaining = span.width
-
-      chars.forEach((char, index) => {
-        const cells = Math.max(1, remaining - (chars.length - index - 1))
-        if (background.a) {
-          context.fillStyle = color(background)
-          context.fillRect(column * CellWidth, row * CellHeight, cells * CellWidth, CellHeight)
-        }
-        if (!hidden && char.codePointAt(0) !== 0x0a00) {
-          context.fillStyle = color(foreground, attributes & TextAttributes.DIM ? 0.55 : 1)
-          const x = column * CellWidth
-          const y = row * CellHeight
-          if (!drawBlockElement(context, char, x, y, cells)) {
-            context.font = `${attributes & TextAttributes.ITALIC ? "italic " : ""}${attributes & TextAttributes.BOLD ? "bold " : ""}${FontSize}px ${FontStack}`
-            context.fillText(char, x, y + 1)
-          }
-          if (attributes & TextAttributes.UNDERLINE) {
-            context.fillRect(x, y + 17, cells * CellWidth, 1)
-          }
-          if (attributes & TextAttributes.STRIKETHROUGH) {
-            context.fillRect(x, y + 10, cells * CellWidth, 1)
-          }
-        }
-        column += cells
-        remaining -= cells
-      })
-      while (remaining-- > 0) {
-        if (background.a) {
-          context.fillStyle = color(background)
-          context.fillRect(column * CellWidth, row * CellHeight, CellWidth, CellHeight)
-        }
-        column++
-      }
-    })
-  })
-
-  return {
-    width: canvas.width,
-    height: canvas.height,
-    data: canvas.toBuffer("image/png"),
-  }
-}
-
-function drawBlockElement(context: SKRSContext2D, char: string, x: number, y: number, cells: number) {
-  const width = cells * CellWidth
-  if (char === "█") context.fillRect(x, y, width, CellHeight)
-  else if (char === "▀") context.fillRect(x, y, width, CellHeight / 2)
-  else if (char === "▄") context.fillRect(x, y + CellHeight / 2, width, CellHeight / 2)
-  else if (char === "┃") context.fillRect(x + CellWidth / 2 - 1, y, 2, CellHeight)
-  else if (char === "╹") context.fillRect(x + CellWidth / 2 - 1, y, 2, CellHeight / 2)
-  else return false
-  return true
-}
-
-function color(value: RGBA, opacity = 1) {
-  const [red, green, blue, alpha] = value.toInts()
-  return `rgba(${red}, ${green}, ${blue}, ${(alpha / 255) * opacity})`
-}
-
-export * as SimulationPng from "./png"
diff --git a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/server.ts b/packages/simulation/src/frontend/server.ts
index 2318a27adab..75b75cd9d42 100644
--- a/packages/simulation/src/frontend/server.ts
+++ b/packages/simulation/src/frontend/server.ts
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ function handle(harness: Harness, request: SimulationProtocol.Frontend.Request,
       )
     case "ui.capture":
       return SimulationActions.capture(harness)
-    case "ui.screenshot":
-      return SimulationActions.screenshot(harness, request.params?.name)
     case "ui.state":
       return Effect.sync(() => SimulationActions.state(harness))
     case "ui.snapshot":
diff --git a/packages/simulation/test/control-server.test.ts b/packages/simulation/test/control-server.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d0e8e9a708d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/simulation/test/control-server.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import { expect, test } from "bun:test"
+import { Effect, Queue, Schema } from "effect"
+import { SimulationControlServer } from "../src/control-server"
+import { availableEndpoint, connect } from "./fixture/websocket"
+
+const Request = Schema.Struct({ id: Schema.optional(Schema.Number) })
+
+test("awaits accepted socket cleanup before the server scope closes", async () => {
+  const endpoint = availableEndpoint()
+  let cleaned = false
+
+  await Effect.runPromise(
+    Effect.scoped(
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        yield* SimulationControlServer.start({
+          endpoint,
+          label: "control server test",
+          data: () => ({}),
+          decode: Schema.decodeUnknownEffect(Schema.fromJsonString(Request)),
+          handle: () => Effect.succeed({ ok: true }),
+          close: () =>
+            Effect.promise(async () => {
+              await Bun.sleep(25)
+              cleaned = true
+            }),
+        })
+        yield* connect(endpoint)
+      }),
+    ),
+  )
+
+  expect(cleaned).toBe(true)
+  const url = new URL(endpoint)
+  const rebound = Bun.serve({ hostname: url.hostname, port: Number(url.port), fetch: () => new Response() })
+  await rebound.stop(true)
+})
+
+test("continues serving after a response targets a closed socket", async () => {
+  const endpoint = availableEndpoint()
+
+  await Effect.runPromise(
+    Effect.scoped(
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        yield* SimulationControlServer.start({
+          endpoint,
+          label: "control server test",
+          data: () => ({}),
+          decode: Schema.decodeUnknownEffect(Schema.fromJsonString(Request)),
+          handle: () => Effect.sleep(25).pipe(Effect.as({ ok: true })),
+        })
+        const closed = yield* connect(endpoint)
+        closed.send(JSON.stringify({ id: 1 }))
+        closed.close()
+        yield* Effect.sleep(50)
+
+        const socket = yield* connect(endpoint)
+        const messages = yield* Queue.unbounded<unknown>()
+        socket.addEventListener("message", (event) => Queue.offerUnsafe(messages, JSON.parse(String(event.data))))
+        socket.send(JSON.stringify({ id: 2 }))
+        expect(yield* Queue.take(messages)).toMatchObject({ id: 2, result: { ok: true } })
+      }),
+    ),
+  )
+})
+
+test("disconnects and cleans up when an outbound message exceeds the queue bound", async () => {
+  const endpoint = availableEndpoint()
+  let cleaned = false
+  let delivered = false
+
+  await Effect.runPromise(
+    Effect.scoped(
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        yield* SimulationControlServer.start({
+          endpoint,
+          label: "control server test",
+          data: () => ({}),
+          decode: Schema.decodeUnknownEffect(Schema.fromJsonString(Request)),
+          handle: (socket) =>
+            Effect.gen(function* () {
+              yield* socket.send("x".repeat(64 * 1024 * 1024 + 1))
+              delivered = true
+              return { ok: true }
+            }),
+          close: () => Effect.sync(() => void (cleaned = true)),
+        })
+        const socket = yield* connect(endpoint)
+        const closed = yield* Queue.unbounded<void>()
+        const messages: string[] = []
+        socket.addEventListener("close", () => Queue.offerUnsafe(closed, undefined))
+        socket.addEventListener("message", (event) => messages.push(String(event.data)))
+        socket.send(JSON.stringify({ id: 1 }))
+        yield* Queue.take(closed).pipe(Effect.timeout("5 seconds"))
+
+        expect(cleaned).toBe(true)
+        expect(delivered).toBe(false)
+        expect(messages).toEqual([])
+      }),
+    ),
+  )
+})
diff --git a/packages/simulation/test/png.test.ts b/packages/simulation/test/png.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 297ca18813e..00000000000
--- a/packages/simulation/test/png.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-import { expect, test } from "bun:test"
-import { createCanvas, loadImage } from "@napi-rs/canvas"
-import { RGBA, TextAttributes, type CapturedFrame } from "@opentui/core"
-import { SimulationPng } from "../src/frontend/png"
-
-test("renders captured frames with bundled fonts", () => {
-  const frame: CapturedFrame = {
-    cols: 4,
-    rows: 1,
-    cursor: [0, 0],
-    lines: [
-      {
-        spans: [
-          {
-            text: "Test",
-            width: 4,
-            fg: RGBA.fromInts(255, 255, 255),
-            bg: RGBA.fromInts(0, 0, 0),
-            attributes: TextAttributes.BOLD | TextAttributes.ITALIC,
-          },
-        ],
-      },
-    ],
-  }
-
-  const image = SimulationPng.screenshotFrame(frame)
-  expect(image.width).toBe(40)
-  expect(image.height).toBe(20)
-  expect(image.data.subarray(1, 4).toString()).toBe("PNG")
-})
-
-test("renders OpenCode symbols instead of missing-glyph boxes", async () => {
-  const pixels = async (text: string) => {
-    const image = SimulationPng.screenshotFrame({
-      cols: 1,
-      rows: 1,
-      cursor: [0, 0],
-      lines: [
-        {
-          spans: [
-            {
-              text,
-              width: 1,
-              fg: RGBA.fromInts(255, 255, 255),
-              bg: RGBA.fromInts(0, 0, 0),
-              attributes: 0,
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      ],
-    })
-    const canvas = createCanvas(image.width, image.height)
-    const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
-    context.drawImage(await loadImage(image.data), 0, 0)
-    return [...context.getImageData(0, 0, image.width, image.height).data]
-  }
-
-  const missingGlyph = await pixels("\u{10ffff}")
-  for (const symbol of ["△", "✱", "⇆", "⠹"]) {
-    expect(await pixels(symbol)).not.toEqual(missingGlyph)
-  }
-})
-
-test("fills adjacent block elements without glyph gaps", async () => {
-  const image = SimulationPng.screenshotFrame({
-    cols: 2,
-    rows: 1,
-    cursor: [0, 0],
-    lines: [
-      {
-        spans: [
-          {
-            text: "▀▀",
-            width: 2,
-            fg: RGBA.fromInts(255, 255, 255),
-            bg: RGBA.fromInts(0, 0, 0),
-            attributes: 0,
-          },
-        ],
-      },
-    ],
-  })
-  const canvas = createCanvas(image.width, image.height)
-  const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
-  context.drawImage(await loadImage(image.data), 0, 0)
-
-  expect([...context.getImageData(0, 5, image.width, 1).data]).toEqual(
-    Array.from({ length: image.width }, () => [255, 255, 255, 255]).flat(),
-  )
-  expect([...context.getImageData(0, 15, image.width, 1).data]).toEqual(
-    Array.from({ length: image.width }, () => [0, 0, 0, 255]).flat(),
-  )
-})
-
-test("draws heavy vertical box elements on cell boundaries", async () => {
-  const image = SimulationPng.screenshotFrame({
-    cols: 1,
-    rows: 2,
-    cursor: [0, 0],
-    lines: [
-      {
-        spans: [
-          {
-            text: "┃",
-            width: 1,
-            fg: RGBA.fromInts(255, 255, 255),
-            bg: RGBA.fromInts(0, 0, 0),
-            attributes: 0,
-          },
-        ],
-      },
-      {
-        spans: [
-          {
-            text: "╹",
-            width: 1,
-            fg: RGBA.fromInts(255, 255, 255),
-            bg: RGBA.fromInts(0, 0, 0),
-            attributes: 0,
-          },
-        ],
-      },
-    ],
-  })
-  const canvas = createCanvas(image.width, image.height)
-  const context = canvas.getContext("2d")
-  context.drawImage(await loadImage(image.data), 0, 0)
-
-  expect([...context.getImageData(4, 0, 2, 30).data]).toEqual(
-    Array.from({ length: 60 }, () => [255, 255, 255, 255]).flat(),
-  )
-  expect([...context.getImageData(4, 30, 2, 10).data]).toEqual(Array.from({ length: 20 }, () => [0, 0, 0, 255]).flat())
-})