GitHub <img> tags lose alt, replaced with auth-gated silo URLs #9073

Affected: Plane Cloud, official GitHub integration. See also: meta-issue on destructive overwrite (issue 01).

Symptom

Inline HTML <img> tags pointing at GitHub-hosted assets are destroyed by a GH→Plane import + Plane→GH round-trip.

Input (GH markdown):

<img width="746" height="253" alt="Screenshot of chart"
     src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/<uuid>" />

Plane stored HTML (image mirrored into Plane's silo asset store, wrapped in an anchor pointing at a 5-minute AWS presigned URL):

<a target="_blank" href="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/.../?jwt=...&X-Amz-Expires=300...">
  <image-component src="<plane-asset-uuid>" width="746" height="253"></image-component>
</a>

Pushed back to GH markdown:

[![](https://silo.plane.so/api/assets/github/<workspace>/<user>/<asset>)](https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/.../?jwt=...)

Four distinct issues

• <img> HTML form is destroyed. GitHub renders native HTML <img> tags inline; the round-trip converts to markdown image syntax which loses HTML attributes.
• alt attribute dropped. width and height survive in the stored HTML but alt does not. This is a real accessibility regression for screen-reader users on both sides of the sync.
• Silo URL requires Plane workspace auth. The silo.plane.so/api/assets/... URL is gated behind Plane authentication. It breaks for any GitHub viewer not signed into that Plane workspace — i.e. essentially everyone reading the issue on GitHub.
• AWS fallback expires after 5 minutes. The anchor's href is an AWS presigned URL with X-Amz-Expires=300. Within minutes of the round-trip, even the fallback link errors.

Impact

Images embedded in issues become unviewable on GitHub within minutes of any Plane→GH push. The original GH-hosted asset URL that humans pasted is gone from the body and cannot be recovered from the rendered GitHub page.

Ask

Preserve raw <img> HTML tags that point at GitHub-hosted assets, including their width / height / alt attributes.

At minimum, do not wrap them in an anchor pointing at a short-lived AWS presigned URL.

Reproduction

1. Connect a GitHub repo to a Plane workspace via the official GitHub integration. Set sync to bidirectional.
2. Create a GitHub issue with body containing an <img> referencing a GH user-attachments URL. Apply the Plane label.
3. Within seconds the Plane work item has stored HTML with the anchor-wrapped <image-component> form shown above.
4. To exercise the destructive Plane→GH push, follow the trigger recipe in meta-issue 01. Wait >5 minutes after the push and reload the GH issue: the fallback URL errors.