Tweet cards (any X/Twitter link renders the tweet, everywhere)

What it is

When an X / Twitter tweet link (like https://x.com/SomeUser/status/123…) appears anywhere in Omniscio, the app shows the tweet itself — a picture-perfect screenshot card of the tweet (its text plus any images) — right below the message. It's the exact same rendered tweet you get when you paste a tweet link into a KMS note.

The key point: it works no matter how the link got there. It doesn't matter whether you pasted it, an agent wrote it in its reply, it arrived as an inbox alert, a Field-Theory bookmark dripped it in, or it came through a team-chat message — the same tweet card appears. Click the card to open the tweet on X.

Where to find it

There is nothing to open or turn on: the card appears inline, right under the text, wherever the link shows up — a message you pasted, an agent reply, an inbox alert, a Field-Theory bookmark drip, a team-chat message, or a KMS note. Click the card to open the original tweet in your browser.

How it behaves

How to use it

Nothing to turn on — it just happens. Wherever a tweet link shows up:

1. The tweet's screenshot appears inline under the text.
2. Click it to open the original tweet in your browser.

On a phone it works too — the card loads over Omniscio's secure mobile link.

What gets a card (and what doesn't)

• A tweet/status link (x.com/<user>/status/<id> or the twitter.com equivalent) → tweet card. ✅
• A profile link, a t.co short link, or any non-tweet link → no tweet card (a normal web link may still get a plain link preview in team chat). ✅
• Up to 3 tweets per message render, to keep things tidy.

Why it's cheap and safe

Rendering a tweet uses a paid screenshot service, so Omniscio is careful:

• Each tweet is rendered once, ever. The screenshot is cached on your machine and reused everywhere it appears again — so the same tweet never costs twice.
• Bursts are capped. If something (say a busy agent) drops many different tweet links at once, Omniscio renders up to an hourly limit and shows the plain link for the rest, so cost can't run away.
• Failures are invisible. A deleted/private tweet, a slow render, or any error just leaves the plain link — never a broken image or an error message.
• No arbitrary web access. Omniscio only ever sends the tweet's numeric id to one fixed rendering service — it never fetches a random URL an agent supplied, so a malicious link can't be used to probe your network.

Turn it off: set AMC_DISABLE_TWEET_SHOT_CARDS=1 (tune the hourly cap with AMC_TWEET_SHOT_HOURLY_MAX).

Limitations

• It's a screenshot, captured at first sight — not a live, always-current embed.
• Public tweets only. A deleted or private tweet falls back to the plain link.
• Tweet status links only — not profiles, lists, or search links.

For agents

How it works (for agents with repo access)

• Detection (shared) — tweet-url.ts (extractTweetUrls / extractTweetId) finds tweet status URLs in any text.
• Renderer — TweetShots.tsx (<TweetShots text enabled?>) renders a screenshot card per tweet and is wired into every content surface: inbox alerts + drip (AlertContentViewer.tsx), agent + operator session messages (MessageBubbleBody.tsx), and team chat (TeamChatLinkPreviews.tsx). Session messages render only once the message is finished (never mid-stream).
• IPC + Main — IPC.LINK_PREVIEW_TWEET_SHOT → tweet-shot-cache.ts (ensureTweetShot): cache-first, then a hourly-budgeted call to the tweet-shots relay (server-held key), stored vault-free at <userData>/tweet-shot-cache/<id>.png. Served over the tweetshot://shot/<id> protocol url (desktop) and the /tweetshot/:id route (mobile). The id sits in the PATH, never the authority: tweetshot is a standard scheme, so Chromium would canonicalize an all-digit authority as an IPv4 address and the image would never load.
• Invariants (provenance-independence, cost bounds, SSRF-safety, graceful fallback) are locked by tests and documented in .claude/memory/contracts/tweet-shot-cross-surface-contract.md.

Related

• link-hover-title.md — hover any web link to see its page title (the generic link preview).
• kms.md — the KMS note editor, where pasting a tweet link first produced this same screenshot.