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Attachment Gallery

Make attached files browsable instead of a list of filenames.

moderate Data & Content

What it adds

A gallery surface for the files attached to a record, with per-type previews, stable ordering, captions, and per-item permissions.

What your agent is told to do

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    Render every attachment as a tile with a type-appropriate preview: a thumbnail for images, a first-page or icon preview for documents, a duration badge for media.

  2. 2

    Define a fallback for every type you do not preview, showing filename, size, and type. An unrecognised file must still be identifiable.

  3. 3

    Only preview formats you have decided are safe to render inline. Do not inline arbitrary HTML or SVG from user uploads — it executes in your origin.

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    Give attachments an explicit order value rather than relying on creation time, and let the user reorder and caption them.

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    Check download permission per item at request time, not once for the whole record.

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    Do NOT build an upload control here — that is owned by File Upload. The fullscreen image viewer is owned by Image Lightbox, and authorized delivery of the file bytes is owned by Secure File Downloads. Extend those rather than duplicating them.

Edge cases it handles

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  • An attachment still processing must show a processing tile, not a broken thumbnail.
  • A file deleted while the gallery is open must fail cleanly on click, not 500.
  • A quarantined or scan-failed file must be visible as blocked and must not be previewable or downloadable.
  • Two people reordering at once must not silently overwrite each other — resolve on the server and refresh the client's order.
  • A caption is user text rendered next to a file; escape it.
  • A gallery with two hundred attachments must paginate or lazy-load rather than requesting two hundred thumbnails at once.
  • Thumbnail generation failure must degrade to the fallback tile, not an empty box.

Definition of done

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  • Every attachment renders either a real preview or a labelled fallback.
  • Processing, deleted, failed, and quarantined states each have their own visible treatment.
  • Download permission is enforced per item, not per record.
  • Order and captions survive concurrent edits without silent loss.
  • No user-supplied file is rendered inline in a way that can execute script.
  • Upload, fullscreen viewing, and file delivery are deferred to their owning features.
  • The feature matches the existing design system.
  • No existing functionality is broken.

Related features

How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.

  2. 2

    Give it to your AI

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.

  3. 3

    It inspects, then implements

    Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.

Works with your stack

These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.