[eric] dictation: with no cursor anywhere the transcript opens the composer typed-in, never dropped

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

@@ -225,6 +225,17 @@ export function useDashboardController(dashboardId: string, isActive: boolean) {
     }
   }, [toolbarOpen, toolbarPrefill, toolbarPrefillMode]);
 
+  // Dictation with no field focused lands HERE instead of vanishing: the composer opens with the transcript typed in, unsent.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!isActive) return;
+    const onDictation = (e: Event): void => {
+      const text = (e as CustomEvent).detail?.text;
+      if (typeof text === 'string' && text.trim()) handleStarter(text);
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('openswarm:dictation-fallback', onDictation);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('openswarm:dictation-fallback', onDictation);
+  }, [isActive, handleStarter]);
+
   useDashboardClipboard({
     isActive,
     dashboardId,

frontend/src/shared/voice/injectAtFocus.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { getWebview } from '@/shared/browserRegistry';
 // Dictation lands where the user's cursor actually is, like every real dictation tool: a focused
 // in-app field gets the text typed in (undo-friendly, fires React input events), a focused browser
 // card forwards into the guest page's field, anything else falls back to the OS-level paste.
-export type InjectTarget = 'field' | 'webview' | null;
+export type InjectTarget = 'field' | 'webview' | 'composer' | null;
 
 export function injectAtFocus(text: string): InjectTarget {
   const active = document.activeElement as HTMLElement | null;
@@ -40,5 +40,7 @@ export function injectAtFocus(text: string): InjectTarget {
       try { wv.focus?.(); void wv.insertText(text); return 'webview'; } catch { /* fall through */ }
     }
   }
-  return null;
+  // No cursor anywhere: open the dashboard composer with the transcript typed in. Words are never dropped.
+  window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('openswarm:dictation-fallback', { detail: { text } }));
+  return 'composer';
 }