diff --git a/docs/e2e-coverage.md b/docs/e2e-coverage.md
index 635b3baf..c9981341 100644
--- a/docs/e2e-coverage.md
+++ b/docs/e2e-coverage.md
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ until `make e2e` is green and this file reflects it.
 | ✅ Windowless mode | Close backgrounds without killing the task; panes collapse to zero geometry; agent output keeps flowing; `raise` restores window + panes | `app.e2e.ts` |
 | ✅ Agent race | Fire one prompt at 2 agents: cohort recorded, both spawn a PTY + receive the prompt (lastInputAt) + drive a fakeagent OSC title; runs on a no-remote repo; RaceDialog gates Start then steppers+prompt launch it; a name collision surfaces an error and records no new race | `task.e2e.ts` |
 | ✅ Preferences | Sandbox default, editor font, terminal font setters | `settings.e2e.ts` |
+| ✅ Shift+Enter newline | A raw-mode zero-token OpenCode-derived fixture receives LF without submitting or losing the draft; other agents retain backslash + CR; ordinary Enter submits both lines | `terminal-newline.e2e.ts` |
 | ✅ Agent extras | YOLO toggle; aux (bottom) terminal | `agent.e2e.ts` |
 | ✅ Worktree task | Create a task on its own worktree branch (not repo-root); on a no-remote repo the default-base create falls back to local main | `task.e2e.ts` |
 | ✅ Project rename | Rename a project (add covered too) | `projects.e2e.ts` |
diff --git a/docs/ui.md b/docs/ui.md
index e5b43fca..6fb76518 100644
--- a/docs/ui.md
+++ b/docs/ui.md
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ The bands are what the app looks like and runs, then how it behaves while you wo
 
 Appearance carries its own sub-tabs (Terminal, Editor, Interface & Sidebar) on the strip Settings → Projects uses. Terminal leads.
 
+Shift+Enter in task terminals sends LF (Ctrl+J, OpenCode's `input.newline`
+binding) for OpenCode and agents extending it; other agents retain
+backslash + CR. This is automatic, with no user preference. Enter is
+unchanged. The scratch shell and settings preview keep their ordinary
+xterm keyboard behavior.
+
 A per-project page carries four of those sub-tabs: Scripts & run (Members & scripts on a multi-repo project), Sandbox, Code navigation and More. Code navigation is named by `codeIntelName()`, so it reads Code intelligence once type checking is on, exactly like the panel it opens. It earned a tab rather than sitting under Scripts & run, where it started: it shares nothing with the setup/run/archive scripts that tab exists for, it is the size of a page on its own (arming, languages, the server picker, per-language settings), and it is machine-local `projects.json` while that tab's storage strip is switching between personal and the committed `.termic.yaml`. Its live preview is a real `AuxTerminal`, so it is click-armed: a settings visit must never fork a shell on its own, and the pty dies when the tab unmounts.
 
 Each page owns one domain, and a setting belongs to the page whose domain it changes, not the page that happened to be open when it was written. General is app-level only (repos directory, personal file-tree excludes, remote images in the markdown preview); it is deliberately short. A new setting that needs a fifth thing on General is a sign the domain wants its own rail item.
diff --git a/e2e/specs/terminal-newline.e2e.ts b/e2e/specs/terminal-newline.e2e.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..840d921e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/specs/terminal-newline.e2e.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import path from "node:path";
+import { archiveTask, openTask, submitToAgent, typeIntoAgent, waitForAgentReady, waitForAppShell } from "../helpers";
+
+type InputState = { draft: string; submitted: string; submits: number; bytes: number[] };
+const agentIds = ["e2e-newline-opencode", "e2e-newline-claude"];
+
+describe("terminal Shift+Enter", () => {
+  before(async () => {
+    await waitForAppShell();
+    await browser.execute(async (command, script, ids) => {
+      const t = window.__termic!;
+      await t.ipc.agentsSave([
+        ...t.useApp.getState().agents.filter((a: { id: string }) => !ids.includes(a.id)),
+        ...ids.map((id: string) => ({ id, display_name: "Newline fixture", command, args: [script],
+          extends: id.endsWith("opencode") ? "opencode" : "claude", builtin: false, icon_id: "lucide:terminal",
+          color: "#9aa0a6", capabilities: {}, sandbox_allowed_paths: [],
+          // Do not inherit OpenCode's session-list probe on fixture exit.
+          post_launch_capture: { command: "true" } })),
+      ]);
+      await t.useApp.getState().loadAll();
+    }, process.execPath, path.resolve("scripts/fake-newline-agent.mjs"), agentIds);
+  });
+
+  after(async () => {
+    // Sweep by name too if setup created the task but failed before returning
+    // its id. Never leave a live fixture behind in the shared profile.
+    const ids = await browser.execute(() => window.__termic!.useApp.getState().tasks
+      .filter((t: { name: string }) => t.name.startsWith("e2e-terminal-newline"))
+      .map((t: { id: string }) => t.id));
+    for (const id of ids) await archiveTask(id);
+    await browser.execute(async ids => {
+      const t = window.__termic!;
+      await t.ipc.agentsSave(t.useApp.getState().agents.filter((a: { id: string }) => !ids.includes(a.id)));
+      await t.useApp.getState().loadAll();
+    }, agentIds);
+  });
+
+  for (const base of ["opencode", "claude"]) {
+    describe(`${base}-derived agent`, () => {
+      let taskId: string;
+      before(async () => {
+        taskId = await openTask(`e2e-terminal-newline-${base}`, true, `e2e-newline-${base}`);
+        await waitForAgentReady(taskId);
+      });
+
+      const state = () => browser.execute(id => {
+        const title = window.__termic!.useApp.getState().tabs[id]?.[0]?.liveTitle ?? "";
+        return title.startsWith("newline:") ? JSON.parse(title.slice(8)) : null;
+      }, taskId) as Promise<InputState | null>;
+
+      it("inserts a newline without submitting or losing the draft", async () => {
+        await typeIntoAgent(taskId, "first");
+        await browser.waitUntil(async () => (await state())?.draft === "first");
+
+        const prevented = await browser.execute(id => {
+          const ta = document.querySelector<HTMLTextAreaElement>(
+            `[data-task-id="${id}"] [data-terminal-host] .xterm-helper-textarea`,
+          )!;
+          ta.focus();
+          const key = { key: "Enter", code: "Enter", keyCode: 13, shiftKey: true, bubbles: true, cancelable: true };
+          const allowed = ta.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", key));
+          ta.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keyup", key));
+          return !allowed;
+        }, taskId);
+        expect(prevented).toBe(true);
+        await browser.waitUntil(async () => (await state())?.draft === "first\n");
+        expect(await state()).toEqual({
+          draft: "first\n", submitted: "", submits: 0,
+          bytes: [102, 105, 114, 115, 116, ...(base === "opencode" ? [0x0a] : [0x5c, 0x0d])],
+        });
+        expect(await browser.execute(id => window.__termic!.useApp.getState().tabs[id]?.[0]?.composing, taskId)).toBe(true);
+      });
+
+      it("still submits both lines with ordinary Enter", async () => {
+        await submitToAgent(taskId, "second");
+        await browser.waitUntil(async () => (await state())?.submits === 1);
+        expect((await state())?.submitted).toBe("first\nsecond");
+      });
+    });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/scripts/fake-newline-agent.mjs b/scripts/fake-newline-agent.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed3b7057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/fake-newline-agent.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Zero-token raw-mode fixture. Reports exactly which input bytes arrived,
+// and models LF / backslash-return as newlines and plain CR as submit.
+process.stdin.setRawMode(true);
+process.stdin.resume();
+let draft = "";
+let submitted = "";
+let submits = 0;
+let bytes = [];
+
+function report() {
+  const state = JSON.stringify({ draft, submitted, submits, bytes });
+  process.stdout.write(`\x1b]0;newline:${state}\x1b\\`);
+}
+
+process.stdin.on("data", chunk => {
+  for (const byte of chunk) {
+    if (byte === 0x03) process.exit(0);
+    if (byte === 0x15) {
+      draft = "";
+      submitted = "";
+      submits = 0;
+      bytes = [];
+      continue;
+    }
+    bytes.push(byte);
+    if (byte === 0x0a) draft += "\n";
+    else if (byte === 0x0d && draft.endsWith("\\")) draft = draft.slice(0, -1) + "\n";
+    else if (byte === 0x0d) {
+      submitted = draft;
+      draft = "";
+      submits++;
+    } else draft += String.fromCharCode(byte);
+  }
+  report();
+});
+report();
diff --git a/src/components/task/TerminalPane.tsx b/src/components/task/TerminalPane.tsx
index cdcb2917..0e00cdc2 100644
--- a/src/components/task/TerminalPane.tsx
+++ b/src/components/task/TerminalPane.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import { preserveImagesOnErase } from "@/lib/terminalImagePersistence";
 import { Unicode11Addon } from "@xterm/addon-unicode11";
 import { SearchAddon } from "@xterm/addon-search";
 import { loadTerminalRenderer, awaitTerminalFonts } from "@/lib/terminalRenderer";
+import { terminalNewlineBytes } from "@/lib/terminalNewline";
 import { resyncViewportAfterReveal } from "@/lib/xtermViewportSync";
 import { IS_MAC, bindingMatches, isAppChordInTerminal, superIsHeld, terminalPassesToApp, type ShortcutId } from "@/lib/shortcuts";
 import { registerTerminalDropTarget } from "@/lib/terminalDrop";
@@ -1359,6 +1360,10 @@ const captureArmedRef = useRef(false);
     // xterm.js by default sends plain \r for BOTH Enter and Shift+Enter,
     // so without an override the agent can't tell them apart.
     //
+    // OpenCode uses its Ctrl+J newline binding (LF); other agents keep
+    // backslash + CR. Resolve the base agent so OpenCode clones work too.
+    //
+    // For the other agents:
     // We send `\\` + `\r` (literal backslash then CR) — the same
     // sequence `/terminal-setup` writes into iTerm2 for Claude Code.
     // Claude's input parser reads the trailing backslash as a
@@ -1511,9 +1516,11 @@ const captureArmedRef = useRef(false);
       if (e.type === "keydown" && e.shiftKey && isEnter && !e.altKey && !e.ctrlKey && !e.metaKey) {
         const pid = ptyRef.current;
         if (pid) {
+          // For non-OpenCode agents:
           // `\` + `\r` (0x5c 0x0d) — claude's `hasUsedBackslashReturn`
           // path. Gemini + codex accept it too.
-          ipc.ptyWrite(pid, [0x5c, 0x0d]).catch(() => {});
+          const baseId = builtinBaseId(tab.cli, useApp.getState().agents);
+          ipc.ptyWrite(pid, terminalNewlineBytes(baseId)).catch(() => {});
         }
         // BOTH stops are required:
         //   - return false      → xterm.js skips its keydown handler
diff --git a/src/lib/terminalNewline.test.ts b/src/lib/terminalNewline.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5554981e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/terminalNewline.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { terminalNewlineBytes } from "./terminalNewline";
+
+describe("terminal Shift+Enter", () => {
+  it("uses OpenCode's newline binding without a backslash or submit CR", () => {
+    expect(terminalNewlineBytes("opencode")).toEqual([0x0a]);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["claude", "codex", "agy", "shell", "custom"])("keeps %s's existing encoding", id => {
+    expect(terminalNewlineBytes(id)).toEqual([0x5c, 0x0d]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/terminalNewline.ts b/src/lib/terminalNewline.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9c9bb2f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/terminalNewline.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/** OpenCode binds Ctrl+J (LF) to input.newline. Other agents keep the
+ *  existing backslash-return continuation convention. */
+export function terminalNewlineBytes(baseAgentId: string): number[] {
+  return baseAgentId === "opencode" ? [0x0a] : [0x5c, 0x0d];
+}