[iamnbutler]

Adds desktop_drag: one bounded, straight-line press/move/release between distinct normalized screenshot points in the observed window, with left or right button. It reuses capture coordinates, single-use snapshots, native gesture ownership/release cleanup, and pi's unsafe-tool outcomes. The request preserves the snapshot's original focus evidence so it matches the complete capture-owned receipt; receipt validation remains strict.

Part of githubnext/desktop-tools#2 and githubnext/ace2#8. No button remains held across calls, and gestures cannot cross windows.

Validation:

• Types, formatting/lint, Swift parsing, signed native build/signatures, and independent source review passed. Native candidate 2531311999293133809e845a47522ebcb090a4d2 is unchanged by final source bf930584700306ec379036c320dd1c61be4f6db9, which adds only reviewed tool/documentation guidance and passed types/lint again.
• Real focused AppKit left/right drags moved and dropped the tile with exactly one press and release each. Invalid endpoints, stationary gestures, and invalid duration refused without input. One Retina display (native_scale: 2) and native 960×632 capture coordinates with Ace's resized 1600×1053 image were exercised.
• The remaining direct check passed at bf930584: a freshly moved window refused its prior observation with a specific stale/bounds diagnostic and no receiver change. Cancelling only after an actual mouse-down returned unknown and delivered exactly one release; all native calls drained and the prior scroll positions remained unchanged. Evidence: drag-current-FkQMdR in the immutable ace-pointer-remaining-fixture.5mF516 directory.
• A real pi/Anthropic run in the local Workers/Durable Objects runtime passed inspect → Activate click → one scroll → drag → inspect through the actual workspace adapter and signed native bridge. It made exactly five tool calls and three fixture mutations after separate explicit app activation/window focus setup. Receiver callbacks verified one click, scroll from 0 to 229, and one completed tile drop. Native outcomes and images crossed the workspace unchanged. Restarting the same persisted channel with the workspace offline replayed all five exact results/images with unchanged receiver state and provider usage. Evidence: hosted-model-YHsStf under the fresh ace-pointer-hosted-fixture.CPa0AR fixture.

Accepted delivery does not prove a drop: an inactive custom view ignored an earlier delivered gesture. After explicit focus and fresh inspection, separate left/right cases worked. The tool tells the model to verify the effect and explicitly focus then inspect again before deciding on another action; it adds no automatic foreground fallback or blind replay. A Move window setup changed its bounds and truthfully returned unknown after final identity validation, so its successful effect was preserved without replaying it.

Multi-display behavior, another physical machine, and crash-during-gesture recovery remain unverified. Pixels-only observations do not authorize pointer input.

Built in Ace

Git/GitHub, source-diff review, static checks, signed builds, and signature verification ran in dedicated Ace terminals. Native checks use Ace's signed bridge and actual receiver callbacks; the hosted check uses the real channel/workspace route and provider.

Codex external file tools edited source and prepared/read temporary validation artifacts because Ace lacks a file-editing surface (#22) and external-harness integration (#9). Codex computer-use launched the disposable fixture because a native application-launch tool is still pending in githubnext/ace2#8, and read-only observation checked fixture visibility and the desktop lock. No input success is inferred from those observations or compilation.