[eric] canvas: the marquee inverts the PAINTED transform instead of a second camera copy, so a drawn-vs-painted mismatch can't exist

frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/DashboardCanvas.tsx

@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ const DashboardCanvas: React.FC<DashboardCanvasProps> = ({
         {(
           <div
             ref={canvas.contentRef}
+            data-canvas-content
             style={{
               transform: `translate(${canvas.panX}px, ${canvas.panY}px) scale(${canvas.zoom})`,
               transformOrigin: '0 0',

frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/interaction/useCanvasControls.ts

@@ -911,6 +911,8 @@ export function useCanvasControls(
   }, [applyLive]);
 
   const getLiveState = useCallback((): CanvasState => stateRef.current, []);
+  // Dev-only forensic handle: lets a CDP harness compare the live camera against the DOM transform.
+  if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') (window as unknown as Record<string, unknown>).__OSW_LIVE_CAM__ = getLiveState;
 
   const actions = useMemo(() => ({
     zoomIn, zoomOut, resetZoom, fitToView, fitToCards, fitTidy, revealCards, animateTo, cancelAnimation,

frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts

@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@ export function useDashboardSelection(
       const vp = canvas.viewportRef.current;
       if (!vp) return { x: 0, y: 0 };
       const rect = marqueeVpRectRef.current ?? vp.getBoundingClientRect();
+      // Invert the PAINTED transform, not a second copy of the camera: the marquee renders inside
+      // that exact matrix, so deriving from it makes a drawn-vs-painted mismatch unrepresentable
+      // (a stale live-camera copy once put the rect ~240px left of the cursor).
+      const content = vp.querySelector('[data-canvas-content]') as HTMLElement | null;
+      if (content) {
+        const m = new DOMMatrixReadOnly(getComputedStyle(content).transform);
+        if (m.a > 0) {
+          return { x: (screenX - rect.left - m.e) / m.a, y: (screenY - rect.top - m.f) / m.a };
+        }
+      }
       const cam = canvas.getLiveState();
       return {
         x: (screenX - rect.left - cam.panX) / cam.zoom,