diff --git a/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/mod.rs b/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/mod.rs
index e208074bb..a1875106b 100644
--- a/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/mod.rs
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ pub mod property_panel_widget;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod property_panel_widget_tests;
 mod scene_template_card_actions;
+mod scene_template_caret;
 mod scene_template_panel_paint;
 pub(crate) mod scene_template_previews;
 mod scene_template_style_paint;
diff --git a/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/scene_template_caret.rs b/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/scene_template_caret.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9a02ac5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/op-editor-ui/src/widgets/scene_template_caret.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+//! Where the caret is in the Asset Center's focused field.
+//!
+//! Only one consumer, and it is not paint: the hosts hand this rect to the
+//! platform so an IME candidate window opens under the text being composed
+//! rather than at the pointer or at the window origin. Paint derives its own
+//! caret from the same `TextInputState`, so the two cannot disagree about the
+//! character position — only about which field is live, and that question is
+//! answered here by the same `field_focused` predicate paint uses.
+
+use op_editor_core::SceneTemplateFocus;
+
+use super::scene_template_panel::{
+    SceneTemplatePanel, GENERATE_INPUT_PAD_X, GENERATE_TEXT_SIZE, SEARCH_PAD_X, SEARCH_TEXT_SIZE,
+};
+use super::text_input::single_line_caret_rect;
+use crate::Rect;
+
+impl SceneTemplatePanel<'_> {
+    /// Caret rect of whichever field the keyboard is writing into.
+    ///
+    /// Falls back to the search field rather than returning `None`: the panel
+    /// always has a focused field while it is open, and a `None` here would
+    /// send the candidate window back to the pointer-position fallback for a
+    /// field that is right there on screen.
+    pub fn focused_input_caret_rect(&self, panel: Rect) -> Rect {
+        let center = &self.state.editor_ui.scene_template_center;
+        // `field_focused` already resolves the one case where the stored
+        // focus and the painted panel disagree — a topic field whose row the
+        // scene filter has hidden hands focus back to search.
+        if self.field_focused(SceneTemplateFocus::Generate) {
+            if let Some(input) = self.generate_input_rect(panel) {
+                return single_line_caret_rect(
+                    &center.generate,
+                    input,
+                    GENERATE_TEXT_SIZE,
+                    GENERATE_INPUT_PAD_X,
+                );
+            }
+        }
+        single_line_caret_rect(
+            &center.search,
+            Self::search_rect(panel),
+            SEARCH_TEXT_SIZE,
+            SEARCH_PAD_X,
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::widgets::scene_template_panel::test_rects::MEDIUM as PANEL;
+    use op_editor_core::EditorState;
+
+    fn open_state() -> EditorState {
+        let mut state = EditorState::default();
+        state.editor_ui.scene_template_generate_supported = true;
+        state.editor_ui.open_scene_template_center(0);
+        state
+    }
+
+    /// The caret tracks the focused field, not a fixed one — anchoring the
+    /// candidate window over the search box while the user types a topic is
+    /// the bug this rect exists to prevent.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_caret_follows_focus_between_the_two_fields() {
+        let mut state = open_state();
+        let panel = SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&state).expect("open");
+        let search = panel.focused_input_caret_rect(PANEL);
+        assert!(
+            SceneTemplatePanel::search_rect(PANEL).contains(search.origin),
+            "search focus must anchor in the search field"
+        );
+
+        state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.focus = SceneTemplateFocus::Generate;
+        let panel = SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&state).expect("open");
+        let topic = panel.focused_input_caret_rect(PANEL);
+        let input = panel.generate_input_rect(PANEL).expect("the row paints");
+        assert!(
+            input.contains(topic.origin),
+            "topic focus must anchor in the topic field"
+        );
+        // Both fields start at the same x (same content column, same glyph
+        // inset), so the row is what separates them.
+        assert!(topic.origin.y > search.origin.y);
+    }
+
+    /// A focus on a row the scene filter has hidden falls back to search,
+    /// matching what paint does with the same predicate.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_hidden_topic_row_anchors_at_the_search_field() {
+        let mut state = open_state();
+        state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.focus = SceneTemplateFocus::Generate;
+        state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.filter = op_editor_core::SceneFilter::Scene(
+            op_editor_core::scene_template_catalog::TemplateScene::Card,
+        );
+
+        let panel = SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&state).expect("open");
+        assert!(panel.generate_input_rect(PANEL).is_none());
+        let caret = panel.focused_input_caret_rect(PANEL);
+        assert!(SceneTemplatePanel::search_rect(PANEL).contains(caret.origin));
+    }
+
+    /// The caret advances as text is typed, so the candidate window follows
+    /// the composition instead of sitting at the field's left edge.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_caret_advances_with_the_text() {
+        let mut state = open_state();
+        let empty = SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&state)
+            .expect("open")
+            .focused_input_caret_rect(PANEL);
+
+        state
+            .editor_ui
+            .scene_template_center
+            .search
+            .set_text("presentation");
+        let typed = SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&state)
+            .expect("open")
+            .focused_input_caret_rect(PANEL);
+        assert!(typed.origin.x > empty.origin.x);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/ime.rs b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/ime.rs
index 5e371d260..8ee932256 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/ime.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/ime.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ impl WidgetHostNative {
             }
             return had;
         }
+        if self.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.open {
+            if had {
+                self.mark_dirty();
+            }
+            return had;
+        }
         if self.editor_state.editor_ui.image_panel.search_open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.image_panel.generate_open
         {
@@ -101,6 +107,19 @@ impl WidgetHostNative {
             }
             return consumed;
         }
+        // Above the canvas-text branch on purpose: the gallery covers the
+        // canvas, so a text node left mid-edit underneath it must not take
+        // the candidate the user composed into the panel. Same stale-focus
+        // rule the Prompt Center branch above encodes.
+        if self.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.open {
+            let mut consumed = false;
+            for ch in text.chars() {
+                if !ch.is_control() && self.apply_text(ch) {
+                    consumed = true;
+                }
+            }
+            return consumed;
+        }
         if self.editor_state.editor_ui.image_panel.search_open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.image_panel.generate_open
         {
@@ -159,6 +178,12 @@ impl WidgetHostNative {
         ) {
             return Some(panel.focused_input_caret_rect(rect));
         }
+        if let (Some(panel), Some(rect)) = (
+            op_editor_ui::widgets::SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&self.editor_state),
+            self.scene_template_panel_rect(viewport_w, viewport_h),
+        ) {
+            return Some(panel.focused_input_caret_rect(rect));
+        }
         if image_popover_open {
             self.editor_state
                 .editor_ui
diff --git a/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/input.rs b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/input.rs
index a3ab9565e..470818d88 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/input.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/input.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ impl WidgetHostNative {
                 && self.editor_state.editor_ui.agent_settings.focus.is_some())
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.icon_picker.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.prompt_center.open
+            // The Asset Center owns the keyboard the whole time it is open —
+            // it always has one of its two fields focused, and
+            // `scene_template_keyboard` swallows every key regardless. Its
+            // absence here is what left the gallery unable to take IME input:
+            // `text_input_focus_active` reads this list, and a `false` there
+            // makes the desktop shell call `set_ime_allowed(false)`, so the
+            // platform never opens a composition session and pinyin produced
+            // nothing at all while ASCII still went through `apply_text`.
+            || self.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.chat_model_picker.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.component_browser_open
             || self.editor_state.chat.focused
diff --git a/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b8f587b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/op-host-native/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+//! Contract tests for typing into the Asset Center.
+//!
+//! The gallery is a full-canvas overlay with two text fields, and it reached
+//! users unable to accept IME input: `input_active` — the one list of surfaces
+//! that own the keyboard — did not name it, so `text_input_focus_active` read
+//! false, the desktop shell called `set_ime_allowed(false)`, and the platform
+//! never opened a composition session. Most Latin characters still worked,
+//! because they arrive as ordinary key events and `apply_text` has always
+//! routed the panel — but the same list gates the single-letter tool
+//! switches, so `v r o l t f p y h` were consumed by the toolbar instead and
+//! silently changed the canvas tool behind the overlay. That asymmetry is
+//! what made the bug read as "the caret blinks but nothing types" to anyone
+//! using pinyin, and as nothing at all to anyone testing with `abc`.
+//!
+//! So each field is pinned on both roads: a plain character and a committed
+//! candidate. A test that only drove `apply_text` would have stayed green
+//! through the entire outage.
+
+use crate::WidgetHostNative;
+use op_editor_core::{EditorState, NodeId, SceneTemplateFocus};
+
+const TEXT_DOC: &str = r#"{"version":"1.0.0","children":[
+  {"type":"text","id":"t1","name":"Label","x":0,"y":0,"width":100,"height":40,
+   "content":"","fontSize":20}
+]}"#;
+
+/// The panel open on the tab a user lands on, with generation available.
+fn gallery_host() -> WidgetHostNative {
+    let mut host = WidgetHostNative::new();
+    host.editor_state_mut()
+        .editor_ui
+        .scene_template_generate_supported = true;
+    host.editor_state_mut()
+        .editor_ui
+        .open_scene_template_center(0);
+    host
+}
+
+/// The state "generate from this" leaves behind: topic field focused without
+/// the user ever having clicked it.
+fn topic_focused_host() -> WidgetHostNative {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+    let template = op_editor_core::scene_template_catalog::scene_template_by_id("slide-deck")
+        .expect("the deck template ships");
+    assert!(host
+        .editor_state_mut()
+        .editor_ui
+        .use_scene_template_as_generate_basis(template));
+    assert_eq!(
+        host.editor_state().editor_ui.scene_template_center.focus,
+        SceneTemplateFocus::Generate
+    );
+    host
+}
+
+fn topic(host: &WidgetHostNative) -> String {
+    host.editor_state()
+        .editor_ui
+        .scene_template_center
+        .generate
+        .text()
+        .to_string()
+}
+
+fn search(host: &WidgetHostNative) -> String {
+    host.editor_state()
+        .editor_ui
+        .scene_template_center
+        .search
+        .text()
+        .to_string()
+}
+
+/// The gate the whole bug hung on. Without this the shell disables IME and
+/// no amount of correct routing below ever sees an event.
+#[test]
+fn an_open_gallery_owns_the_keyboard_for_ime_purposes() {
+    let plain = WidgetHostNative::new();
+    assert!(!plain.text_input_focus_active());
+
+    assert!(
+        gallery_host().text_input_focus_active(),
+        "the Asset Center must report a live text input, or the desktop \
+         shell turns the platform IME off while the caret is blinking"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The same list gates the desktop shell's single-letter tool switches
+/// (`keyboard_input.rs`: `Key::Character(..) if !input_active_pub()`), which
+/// consume the key when they fire. While the gallery was missing from it, a
+/// `t` typed into the search box switched the canvas tool to Text and never
+/// reached the field — nine letters of the alphabet were unusable and each
+/// one quietly changed the document's tool behind the overlay.
+#[test]
+fn an_open_gallery_suppresses_the_single_letter_tool_shortcuts() {
+    assert!(
+        gallery_host().input_active_pub(),
+        "tool shortcuts would eat letters typed into the gallery"
+    );
+}
+
+/// Programmatic focus, then a pinyin candidate. This is the user's exact
+/// sequence: press "generate from this", type a Chinese topic.
+#[test]
+fn a_committed_candidate_lands_in_the_programmatically_focused_topic_field() {
+    let mut host = topic_focused_host();
+
+    assert!(host.apply_ime_commit("季度复盘"));
+
+    assert_eq!(topic(&host), "季度复盘");
+    assert!(
+        search(&host).is_empty(),
+        "the topic must not leak into search"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The Latin road through the same focus — green before the fix, and the
+/// reason the outage read as "only Chinese is broken".
+#[test]
+fn plain_characters_land_in_the_programmatically_focused_topic_field() {
+    let mut host = topic_focused_host();
+
+    for c in "Q3".chars() {
+        assert!(host.apply_text(c));
+    }
+
+    assert_eq!(topic(&host), "Q3");
+}
+
+/// The other field, reached by its own focus rather than by the card button.
+#[test]
+fn the_search_field_takes_both_roads_too() {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+    assert_eq!(
+        host.editor_state().editor_ui.scene_template_center.focus,
+        SceneTemplateFocus::Search
+    );
+
+    assert!(host.apply_text('P'));
+    assert!(host.apply_ime_commit("演示"));
+
+    assert_eq!(search(&host), "P演示");
+    assert!(topic(&host).is_empty());
+}
+
+/// A canvas text node left mid-edit sits underneath the gallery. The
+/// candidate belongs to the panel the user is looking at, not to the node
+/// the overlay is covering.
+#[test]
+fn the_gallery_beats_a_stale_canvas_text_edit_and_chat_focus() {
+    let mut host = WidgetHostNative::new();
+    let doc = jian_ops_schema::load_str(TEXT_DOC)
+        .expect("fixture JSON parses")
+        .value;
+    *host.editor_state_mut() = EditorState::from_document(doc);
+    assert!(host.editor_state_mut().start_text_edit(NodeId::new("t1")));
+    host.editor_state_mut().chat.focused = true;
+    host.editor_state_mut()
+        .editor_ui
+        .scene_template_generate_supported = true;
+    host.editor_state_mut()
+        .editor_ui
+        .open_scene_template_center(0);
+
+    assert!(host.apply_ime_commit("模板"));
+
+    assert_eq!(search(&host), "模板");
+    assert!(
+        host.editor_state().chat.input.text().is_empty(),
+        "stale chat focus must not take the commit"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The candidate window has to open under the text being composed. Anchoring
+/// it at the pointer — the fallback when no rect resolves — puts the
+/// candidate list somewhere unrelated to the field.
+#[test]
+fn the_candidate_window_anchors_at_the_focused_field() {
+    let mut host = topic_focused_host();
+
+    let rect = host
+        .ime_anchor_rect(1440.0, 900.0)
+        .expect("an open gallery resolves an anchor");
+
+    let panel_rect = host
+        .scene_template_panel_rect(1440.0, 900.0)
+        .expect("the panel has a rect while open");
+    assert!(
+        panel_rect.contains(rect.origin),
+        "the anchor landed outside the gallery: {rect:?}"
+    );
+}
diff --git a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard.rs b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard.rs
index 373bee5fb..ad2edef15 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ impl WidgetHost {
             }
             return true;
         }
+        // Native parity (`op-host-native/widget_host/keyboard.rs`). Without
+        // this the web Asset Center could not be typed into at all — a
+        // character fell through to the canvas shortcuts, where a bare letter
+        // switches tools behind the open gallery.
+        if let Some(changed) = shared::scene_template_text(&mut self.editor_state, c, self.now_ms) {
+            if changed {
+                self.mark_dirty();
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
         if self.editor_state.editor_ui.collab_join_input_active() {
             let changed = op_editor_ui::widgets::collab_ui::join_address_text(
                 &mut self.editor_state.editor_ui,
diff --git a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_ime.rs b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_ime.rs
index 276ae4f8c..1da04eb39 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_ime.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_ime.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ impl WidgetHost {
         ) {
             return Some(panel.focused_input_caret_rect(rect));
         }
+        if let (Some(panel), Some(rect)) = (
+            op_editor_ui::widgets::SceneTemplatePanel::for_editor(&self.editor_state),
+            self.scene_template_panel_rect(self.last_viewport_w, self.last_viewport_h),
+        ) {
+            return Some(panel.focused_input_caret_rect(rect));
+        }
         if image_popover_open {
             self.editor_state
                 .editor_ui
diff --git a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_text_inputs.rs b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_text_inputs.rs
index d3ab78c37..cdc15f97a 100644
--- a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_text_inputs.rs
+++ b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/keyboard_text_inputs.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ impl WidgetHost {
                 && self.editor_state.editor_ui.agent_settings.focus.is_some())
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.icon_picker.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.prompt_center.open
+            // The Asset Center always has one of its two fields focused and
+            // swallows every key. Native carries the same entry; leaving it
+            // out here kept the hidden IME input from ever taking DOM focus,
+            // so composition events never reached the panel.
+            || self.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.chat_model_picker.open
             || self.editor_state.editor_ui.component_browser_open
             || self.editor_state.chat.focused
@@ -60,6 +65,7 @@ impl WidgetHost {
             || editor_ui.preset_name_input_active()
             || editor_ui.icon_picker.open
             || editor_ui.prompt_center.open
+            || editor_ui.scene_template_center.open
             || editor_ui.component_browser_open
             || self.git_commit_focus_active()
             || self.git_remote_focus_active()
@@ -159,6 +165,12 @@ impl WidgetHost {
             };
             return slice(input);
         }
+        if eui.scene_template_center.open {
+            // Copying from the gallery's own fields, not from whatever the
+            // canvas had selected behind it.
+            return op_editor_core::scene_template_keyboard::selected_text(&self.editor_state)
+                .map(str::to_string);
+        }
         if eui.agent_settings.focus.is_some() {
             return slice(&eui.settings_input);
         }
diff --git a/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bcb6dba7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/op-host-web/src/widget_host/scene_template_ime_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+//! Contract tests for typing into the Asset Center on the web host.
+//!
+//! Web was worse off than native: besides missing from `input_active` — which
+//! is what gives the hidden capture input DOM focus, and therefore the only
+//! reason composition events ever arrive — `apply_text` had no branch for the
+//! panel at all. A character typed into the gallery fell through to the
+//! canvas shortcuts, where a bare letter switches the active tool behind the
+//! open overlay.
+
+use super::WidgetHost;
+use op_editor_core::SceneTemplateFocus;
+
+fn gallery_host() -> WidgetHost {
+    let mut host = WidgetHost::new();
+    host.last_viewport_w = 1440.0;
+    host.last_viewport_h = 900.0;
+    host.editor_state.editor_ui.open_scene_template_center(0);
+    host
+}
+
+fn search(host: &WidgetHost) -> String {
+    host.editor_state
+        .editor_ui
+        .scene_template_center
+        .search
+        .text()
+        .to_string()
+}
+
+/// The gate the browser's hidden IME input hangs off.
+#[test]
+fn an_open_gallery_owns_the_keyboard_for_ime_purposes() {
+    assert!(!WidgetHost::new().text_input_focus_active());
+    assert!(gallery_host().text_input_focus_active());
+}
+
+/// `apply_text` had no branch for the panel at all, so every character fell
+/// through to the canvas paths behind the overlay.
+#[test]
+fn plain_characters_reach_the_panel() {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+
+    for c in "rect".chars() {
+        assert!(host.apply_text(c));
+    }
+
+    assert_eq!(search(&host), "rect");
+}
+
+/// The gate the tool shortcuts read, so a letter typed into the gallery is
+/// never also a tool switch.
+#[test]
+fn an_open_gallery_suppresses_the_editor_shortcuts() {
+    assert!(gallery_host().input_active());
+}
+
+/// A composed candidate arrives through the same door a paste does.
+#[test]
+fn a_committed_candidate_lands_in_the_focused_field() {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+    host.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.focus = SceneTemplateFocus::Generate;
+
+    assert!(host.apply_paste_text("季度复盘"));
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        host.editor_state
+            .editor_ui
+            .scene_template_center
+            .generate
+            .text(),
+        "季度复盘"
+    );
+    assert!(search(&host).is_empty());
+}
+
+/// The candidate window anchors at the field, not at the last pointer
+/// position — the fallback this branch exists to replace.
+#[test]
+fn the_candidate_window_anchors_at_the_focused_field() {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+    host.last_cursor_x = 20.0;
+    host.last_cursor_y = 20.0;
+
+    let rect = host.ime_anchor_rect().expect("an open gallery anchors");
+    let panel_rect = host
+        .scene_template_panel_rect(1440.0, 900.0)
+        .expect("the panel has a rect while open");
+
+    assert!(
+        panel_rect.contains(rect.origin),
+        "the anchor fell back to the pointer: {rect:?}"
+    );
+}
+
+/// Copy takes the gallery's own selection rather than whatever the canvas
+/// had selected behind the overlay.
+#[test]
+fn copy_reads_the_gallery_field() {
+    let mut host = gallery_host();
+    {
+        let input = &mut host.editor_state.editor_ui.scene_template_center.search;
+        input.set_text("演示文稿");
+        input.select_all();
+    }
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        host.focused_input_selected_text().as_deref(),
+        Some("演示文稿")
+    );
+}