diff --git a/apps/web/src/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc.ts b/apps/web/src/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc.ts
index ce83f5d3c3..dd406bd34f 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,44 @@ const RENDERS_AS_NODE = [
   'span[data-type="tag"]'
 ].join(", ");
 
+/**
+ * What survives when an invalid container is unwrapped: its elements, plus text
+ * that is actually visible. Whitespace-only text is dropped, or unwrapping a list
+ * that held nothing but spaces would leave them behind as a blank paragraph.
+ */
+function keptOnUnwrap(el: Element) {
+  return Array.from(el.childNodes).filter(
+    (node) => node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE || node.textContent?.trim()
+  );
+}
+
+/** Elements that only mean anything inside a table. */
+const TABLE_STRUCTURE = "caption, colgroup, col, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, td, th";
+
+/** Anything that must not be tucked inside a paragraph. */
+const BLOCK_LEVEL = [LEADING_BLOCK, "p", "div"].join(", ");
+
+/**
+ * Lifts a rowless table's content out of its structural wrappers.
+ *
+ * ⛔ Do not keep those wrappers. Outside a table the HTML parser will not accept
+ * a <tbody> or a <caption>, and the markup ends up in the document as escaped
+ * literal text: `<p>&lt;caption&gt;Totals&lt;/caption&gt;</p>`. Only the content
+ * inside them is worth anything, and loose inline content becomes a paragraph on
+ * its own. A nested table cannot be lost here, because a table holding one with
+ * any row at all is left alone.
+ */
+function unwrapTableStructure(el: Element): Node[] {
+  return Array.from(el.childNodes).flatMap((node) => {
+    if (node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+      return node.textContent?.trim() ? [node] : [];
+    }
+
+    const child = node as Element;
+    return child.matches(TABLE_STRUCTURE) ? unwrapTableStructure(child) : [child];
+  });
+}
+
 /** True when the element holds nothing the schema would render. */
 function holdsNothingRenderable(el: Element) {
   return !el.textContent?.trim() && !el.querySelector(RENDERS_AS_NODE);
@@ -261,6 +299,47 @@ export function parseAllExtensionsToDoc(value?: string) {
     el.removeAttribute("data-align");
   });
 
+  // A list with no item, and a table with no row, are invalid the same way an empty
+  // item is: bulletList and orderedList are "listItem+", table is "tableRow+". The
+  // paste throws and the user loses everything, not just the empty container.
+  // Both render as nothing, so unwrap the list (which keeps a nested list that was
+  // its only child) and drop the table. This has to run BEFORE the item repair
+  // below so an item left empty here still gets its paragraph.
+  (Array.from(tree.querySelectorAll("ul, ol")) as HTMLElement[]).forEach((list) => {
+    const hasItem = Array.from(list.children).some((child) => child.tagName === "LI");
+    if (!hasItem) {
+      list.replaceWith(...keptOnUnwrap(list));
+    }
+  });
+
+  // Unwrap the table too rather than dropping it: a rowless one can still hold a
+  // caption, and that text is the author's. The wrappers themselves are discarded,
+  // see unwrapTableStructure.
+  (Array.from(tree.querySelectorAll("table")) as HTMLElement[]).forEach((table) => {
+    if (table.querySelector("tr")) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const kept = unwrapTableStructure(table);
+    const isInline = kept.every(
+      (node) => node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE || !(node as Element).matches(BLOCK_LEVEL)
+    );
+
+    // ⛔ Wrap loose inline content in a paragraph rather than leaving it bare.
+    // When the whole paste parses to text alone, tiptap's insertContentAt takes
+    // its isOnlyTextContent branch and calls tr.insertText with the RAW HTML
+    // STRING, so `A &amp; B` reaches the document as the literal characters
+    // `A &amp;amp; B`. A block wrapper keeps it on the normal parse path.
+    if (kept.length && isInline) {
+      const paragraph = document.createElement("p");
+      paragraph.append(...kept);
+      table.replaceWith(paragraph);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    table.replaceWith(...kept);
+  });
+
   // ProseMirror's listItem schema is "paragraph block*", so an item's FIRST child
   // has to be a paragraph. Markdown routinely produces items that break that rule,
   // and insertContent throws for the whole paste rather than for the one bad item,
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/blockquote-paste-normalization.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/blockquote-paste-normalization.spec.ts
index f143f88a06..2c90f1db2e 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/blockquote-paste-normalization.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/blockquote-paste-normalization.spec.ts
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@ function insertPastedMarkdown(markdown: string) {
 describe("blockquote paste normalization", () => {
   // Regression: pasting a bare quote marker produced <blockquote></blockquote>,
   // which ProseMirror rejects with "RangeError: Invalid content for node blockquote: <>"
-  it.each([">", "> ", "hello\n\n>", ">>"])(
-    "inserts markdown %j without throwing",
-    (markdown) => {
-      expect(() => insertPastedMarkdown(markdown)).not.toThrow();
-    }
-  );
+  it.each([">", "> ", "hello\n\n>", ">>"])("inserts markdown %j without throwing", (markdown) => {
+    expect(() => insertPastedMarkdown(markdown)).not.toThrow();
+  });
 
   it("fills empty blockquotes with a paragraph", () => {
     expect(parseAllExtensionsToDoc("<blockquote></blockquote>")).toBe(
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-container-paste.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-container-paste.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..22d756510c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-container-paste.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+import { vi } from "vitest";
+
+// Only the hive-post pass needs stubbing here: it is the one that reads
+// `el.innerText`, which jsdom does not implement, and it calls `.trim()` on it
+// unguarded, so a hive-post-shaped href throws in a spec instead of exercising
+// anything. Everything else, including the YouTube and Loom passes, runs for
+// real. Same re-mock pattern CLAUDE.md documents for `@/utils`.
+vi.mock("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions", async () => ({
+  ...(await vi.importActual("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions")),
+  HIVE_POST_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/
+}));
+
+import { Editor } from "@tiptap/core";
+import { simpleMarkdownToHTML } from "@ecency/render-helper";
+
+import { parseAllExtensionsToDoc } from "@/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc";
+import { PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS } from "./publish-editor-extensions";
+
+const EXTENSIONS = PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS;
+
+function insert(html: string): string {
+  const editor = new Editor({ extensions: EXTENSIONS, content: "<p></p>" });
+  try {
+    editor.chain().insertContent(parseAllExtensionsToDoc(html)).run();
+    return editor.getHTML();
+  } finally {
+    editor.destroy();
+  }
+}
+
+const pasteMarkdown = (markdown: string) => insert(simpleMarkdownToHTML(markdown));
+
+// Regression: bulletList and orderedList are "listItem+" and table is "tableRow+",
+// so a container holding none is schema-invalid. insertContent throws from inside
+// the paste handler, so the user loses the entire clipboard rather than just the
+// empty container.
+describe("pasting an empty list or a rowless table", () => {
+  it.each([
+    ["an empty bullet list", "<ul></ul>"],
+    ["an empty ordered list", "<ol></ol>"],
+    ["a list holding only whitespace", "<ul>   </ul>"],
+    ["an empty list inside an item", "<ul><li>a</li><li><ul></ul></li></ul>"],
+    ["a list whose only child is a list", "<ul><ul><li>x</li></ul></ul>"],
+    ["an empty table", "<table></table>"],
+    ["a table with an empty body", "<table><tbody></tbody></table>"]
+  ])("survives %s", (_label: string, html: string) => {
+    expect(() => insert(html)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it("survives an unfenced table snippet, which the paste guard does not divert", () => {
+    // The guard is /<[a-z]+>.*<\/[a-z]+>/gim with no s flag, so an open and close
+    // tag on separate lines travels the markdown path into this function.
+    expect(() => pasteMarkdown("Use the table tag:\n\n<table>\n</table>")).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the rest of the paste when an empty list is in it", () => {
+    const html = insert("<p>before</p><ul></ul><p>after</p>");
+
+    expect(html).toContain("before");
+    expect(html).toContain("after");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a nested list that was its parent's only child", () => {
+    expect(insert("<ul><ul><li>x</li></ul></ul>")).toContain("x");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an item empty by removal with a paragraph, not a broken bullet", () => {
+    const html = "<ul><li>a</li><li><ul></ul></li></ul>";
+
+    expect(parseAllExtensionsToDoc(html)).toContain("<li><p></p></li>");
+    expect(insert(html)).toBe("<ul><li><p>a</p></li><li><p></p></li></ul>");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["a real list", "- one\n- two", "one"],
+    ["a real table", "| a |\n| --- |\n| 1 |", "<table"]
+  ])("leaves %s alone", (_label: string, markdown: string, kept: string) => {
+    expect(pasteMarkdown(markdown)).toContain(kept);
+  });
+
+  // Review: unwrapping used to carry whitespace-only text out of the container,
+  // which the editor then rendered as a blank paragraph.
+  it.each([
+    ["spaces", "<p>a</p><ul>   </ul><p>b</p>"],
+    ["a newline", "<p>a</p><ul>\n</ul><p>b</p>"]
+  ])(
+    "does not leave a blank paragraph behind for a list holding only %s",
+    (_l: string, html: string) => {
+      expect(parseAllExtensionsToDoc(html)).toBe(html.replace(/<ul>[\s]*<\/ul>/, ""));
+      expect(insert(html)).toBe("<p>a</p><p>b</p>");
+    }
+  );
+
+  // Review: a rowless table can still carry a caption, and that text is the
+  // author's, so unwrap rather than drop. Assert the editor's own output, not the
+  // intermediate HTML: keeping the <caption> wrapper also "contains" the text,
+  // while the editor renders the tag itself as escaped literal markup.
+  it("keeps the caption text of a rowless table as text", () => {
+    const html = insert("<table><caption>Quarterly totals</caption></table>");
+
+    expect(html).toContain("Quarterly totals");
+    expect(html).not.toContain("&lt;");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["an empty body", "<table><tbody></tbody></table>"],
+    ["an empty head and body", "<table><thead></thead><tbody></tbody></table>"],
+    ["a column group", "<table><colgroup><col></colgroup></table>"],
+    ["a caption beside an empty body", "<table><caption>Totals</caption><tbody></tbody></table>"]
+  ])("does not leak the wrappers of a rowless table holding %s", (_l: string, html: string) => {
+    const rendered = insert(html);
+
+    // Not a tag-name proxy: caption TEXT may legitimately contain those words.
+    // What must never appear is escaped markup, which is how tiptap surfaces a
+    // paste that parses to nothing.
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain("&lt;");
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain("&gt;");
+  });
+
+  // Regression: flattening a caption to bare text put the whole paste on tiptap's
+  // isOnlyTextContent branch, which calls tr.insertText with the RAW HTML string,
+  // so an entity in the caption reached the document double-escaped.
+  it.each([
+    ["an ampersand", "<table><caption>A &amp; B</caption></table>", "A &amp; B"],
+    ["a less-than", "<table><caption>1 &lt; 2</caption></table>", "1 &lt; 2"]
+  ])("keeps caption text containing %s intact", (_l: string, html: string, expected: string) => {
+    expect(insert(html)).toBe(`<p>${expected}</p>`);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps an image held in the caption of a rowless table", () => {
+    const rendered = insert(
+      '<table><caption><img src="https://images.test/a.png"></caption></table>'
+    );
+
+    expect(rendered).toContain("https://images.test/a.png");
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain("&lt;");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a nested table whose outer table has no row of its own", () => {
+    const html =
+      "<table><caption><table><tbody><tr><td>x</td></tr></tbody></table></caption></table>";
+
+    expect(() => insert(html)).not.toThrow();
+    expect(insert(html)).toContain("x");
+    expect(insert(html)).not.toContain("&lt;");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a list whose only item is empty", () => {
+    expect(parseAllExtensionsToDoc("<ul><li></li></ul>")).toBe("<ul><li><p></p></li></ul>");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-list-item-paste.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-list-item-paste.spec.ts
index 410b197928..f7e6c27b02 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-list-item-paste.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-list-item-paste.spec.ts
@@ -1,35 +1,24 @@
 import { vi } from "vitest";
 
-vi.mock("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions", () => ({
-  HIVE_POST_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  LOOM_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  TAG_MENTION_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  USER_MENTION_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  YOUTUBE_REGEX:
-    /^https?:\/\/(?:(?:www|m)\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/watch\?v=|youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})(?:[^\s]*)?/i
+// Only the hive-post pass needs stubbing here: it is the one that reads
+// `el.innerText`, which jsdom does not implement, and it calls `.trim()` on it
+// unguarded, so a hive-post-shaped href throws in a spec instead of exercising
+// anything. Everything else, including the YouTube and Loom passes, runs for
+// real. Same re-mock pattern CLAUDE.md documents for `@/utils`.
+vi.mock("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions", async () => ({
+  ...(await vi.importActual("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions")),
+  HIVE_POST_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/
 }));
 
 import { Editor } from "@tiptap/core";
-import StarterKit from "@tiptap/starter-kit";
-import Image from "@tiptap/extension-image";
-import Table from "@tiptap/extension-table";
-import TableCell from "@tiptap/extension-table-cell";
-import TableHeader from "@tiptap/extension-table-header";
-import TableRow from "@tiptap/extension-table-row";
 import { simpleMarkdownToHTML } from "@ecency/render-helper";
 
 import { parseAllExtensionsToDoc } from "@/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc";
+import { PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS } from "./publish-editor-extensions";
 
 // Must mirror the publish editor for the nodes under test. StarterKit alone has
 // no image node, which would make a perfectly renderable image look like a crash.
-const LIST_EXTENSIONS = [
-  StarterKit,
-  Image.configure({ inline: true }),
-  Table,
-  TableRow,
-  TableCell,
-  TableHeader
-];
+const LIST_EXTENSIONS = PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS;
 
 /** Pastes markdown exactly as the clipboard text strategy does. */
 function pasteMarkdown(markdown: string): string {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-table-cell-paste.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-table-cell-paste.spec.ts
index 865c2ce676..1a76b65406 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-table-cell-paste.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/empty-table-cell-paste.spec.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ const TABLE_EXTENSIONS = [StarterKit, Table, TableRow, TableCell, TableHeader];
 function pasteMarkdown(markdown: string): string {
   const editor = new Editor({ extensions: TABLE_EXTENSIONS, content: "<p></p>" });
   try {
-    editor.chain().insertContent(parseAllExtensionsToDoc(simpleMarkdownToHTML(markdown))).run();
+    editor
+      .chain()
+      .insertContent(parseAllExtensionsToDoc(simpleMarkdownToHTML(markdown)))
+      .run();
     return editor.getHTML();
   } finally {
     editor.destroy();
@@ -71,7 +74,9 @@ describe("pasting a markdown table with blank cells", () => {
   });
 
   it("preserves the content of the cells that are not blank", () => {
-    const html = pasteMarkdown("| Date | Memo |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2019-02-11 |  |\n| 2023-01-06 | closed off |");
+    const html = pasteMarkdown(
+      "| Date | Memo |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2019-02-11 |  |\n| 2023-01-06 | closed off |"
+    );
 
     expect(html).toContain("2019-02-11");
     expect(html).toContain("2023-01-06");
@@ -87,7 +92,9 @@ describe("pasting a markdown table with blank cells", () => {
   });
 
   it("fills a blank cell with an empty paragraph rather than dropping it", () => {
-    const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc("<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>");
+    const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc(
+      "<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>"
+    );
 
     expect(doc).toContain("<td><p></p></td>");
   });
@@ -101,14 +108,17 @@ describe("pasting a markdown table with blank cells", () => {
     ["plain spaces", "   "],
     ["a tab", "\t"],
     ["mixed invisible content", " &nbsp; "]
-  ])("normalises a cell holding only %s to a single empty paragraph", (_label: string, filler: string) => {
-    const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc(
-      `<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>${filler}</td></tr></tbody></table>`
-    );
-
-    expect(doc).toContain("<td><p></p></td>");
-    expect(doc).not.toContain("&nbsp;<p>");
-  });
+  ])(
+    "normalises a cell holding only %s to a single empty paragraph",
+    (_label: string, filler: string) => {
+      const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc(
+        `<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>${filler}</td></tr></tbody></table>`
+      );
+
+      expect(doc).toContain("<td><p></p></td>");
+      expect(doc).not.toContain("&nbsp;<p>");
+    }
+  );
 
   it("renders a visually blank cell as exactly one paragraph in the editor", () => {
     const html = pasteHtml("<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table>");
@@ -118,7 +128,9 @@ describe("pasting a markdown table with blank cells", () => {
   });
 
   it("leaves a cell with real content alone", () => {
-    const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc("<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>kept</td></tr></tbody></table>");
+    const doc = parseAllExtensionsToDoc(
+      "<table><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>kept</td></tr></tbody></table>"
+    );
 
     expect(doc).toContain("kept");
     expect(doc).not.toContain("<td><p></p></td>");
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/mention-chip-paste.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/mention-chip-paste.spec.ts
index 4223f3cf4d..41018be7db 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/mention-chip-paste.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/mention-chip-paste.spec.ts
@@ -1,20 +1,34 @@
 import { vi } from "vitest";
 
-vi.mock("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions", () => ({
-  HIVE_POST_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  LOOM_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  YOUTUBE_REGEX: /$a^/,
-  TAG_MENTION_PURE_REGEX: /#\w+/gi,
-  USER_MENTION_PURE_REGEX:
-    /@(?=[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9.-]{1,15}\b)[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,}(?:\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,})*\b/gi
+// Only the hive-post pass needs stubbing here: it is the one that reads
+// `el.innerText`, which jsdom does not implement, and it calls `.trim()` on it
+// unguarded, so a hive-post-shaped href throws in a spec instead of exercising
+// anything. Everything else, including the YouTube and Loom passes, runs for
+// real. Same re-mock pattern CLAUDE.md documents for `@/utils`.
+vi.mock("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions", async () => ({
+  ...(await vi.importActual("@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions")),
+  HIVE_POST_PURE_REGEX: /$a^/
 }));
 
+import { Editor } from "@tiptap/core";
 import { simpleMarkdownToHTML } from "@ecency/render-helper";
 
 import { parseAllExtensionsToDoc } from "@/features/tiptap-editor/functions/parse-all-extensions-to-doc";
+import { PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS } from "./publish-editor-extensions";
 
 const paste = (markdown: string) => parseAllExtensionsToDoc(simpleMarkdownToHTML(markdown));
 
+/** What the editor actually ends up showing, which is what the reader sees. */
+function render(markdown: string): string {
+  const editor = new Editor({ extensions: PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS, content: "<p></p>" });
+  try {
+    editor.chain().insertContent(paste(markdown)).run();
+    return editor.getHTML();
+  } finally {
+    editor.destroy();
+  }
+}
+
 describe("turning mentions and tags into chips on paste", () => {
   // Regression: the rewrite used to run over innerHTML, which carries attribute
   // values. Hive image URLs contain /@author/, so a mention beside a hosted image
@@ -85,3 +99,30 @@ describe("turning mentions and tags into chips on paste", () => {
     expect(doc).toContain('data-id="alice"');
   });
 });
+
+// The assertions above read the intermediate HTML. These pin what the editor
+// itself ends up with, because that is the thing the corruption destroyed and an
+// intermediate-only assertion has already let this class of bug through once.
+describe("what the editor ends up showing", () => {
+  it("still has the image after chipping a mention beside it", () => {
+    const html = render("@alice ![pic](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/@bob/p.png)");
+
+    expect(html).toContain('src="https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/@bob/p.png"');
+    expect(html).toContain('data-type="mention"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain("&lt;");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the mention as a node rather than literal markup", () => {
+    const html = render("hello @alice");
+
+    expect(html).toContain('data-type="mention"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain("&lt;span");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the surrounding words", () => {
+    const html = render("ping @alice about it");
+
+    expect(html).toContain("ping");
+    expect(html).toContain("about it");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/publish-editor-extensions.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/publish-editor-extensions.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..486f3028e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/publish-editor-extensions.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { AnyExtension } from "@tiptap/core";
+import Image from "@tiptap/extension-image";
+import Mention from "@tiptap/extension-mention";
+import Table from "@tiptap/extension-table";
+import TableCell from "@tiptap/extension-table-cell";
+import TableHeader from "@tiptap/extension-table-header";
+import TableRow from "@tiptap/extension-table-row";
+import StarterKit from "@tiptap/starter-kit";
+
+import {
+  HivePostExtension,
+  LoomVideoExtension,
+  ThreeSpeakVideoExtension,
+  YoutubeVideoExtension
+} from "@/features/tiptap-editor/extensions";
+
+/**
+ * The nodes the publish editor really has, for specs that assert what the editor
+ * ends up showing.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ A subset schema gives WRONG answers in both directions: a node the spec is
+ * missing makes perfectly good content look like a crash, and a guard naming a
+ * node the spec lacks can never be verified. That has already bitten twice, once
+ * for `image` and once for the four embeds below. Keep this in step with
+ * app/publish/_hooks/use-publish-editor.ts.
+ *
+ * The real embed extensions are imported rather than stubbed so their parse rules
+ * cannot drift from production. Extensions that add no node or mark (Placeholder,
+ * TextAlign, Selection) are left out; the marks the editor adds are not exercised
+ * by the paste-normalisation specs.
+ */
+export const PUBLISH_EDITOR_EXTENSIONS: AnyExtension[] = [
+  StarterKit.configure({ strike: false }) as AnyExtension,
+  Image.configure({ inline: true }),
+  Table,
+  TableRow,
+  TableCell,
+  TableHeader,
+  Mention,
+  Mention.extend({ name: "tag", priority: 102 }),
+  YoutubeVideoExtension,
+  ThreeSpeakVideoExtension,
+  LoomVideoExtension,
+  HivePostExtension
+];
diff --git a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/text-color-roundtrip.spec.ts b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/text-color-roundtrip.spec.ts
index 256a5ac68a..babcba58ee 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/text-color-roundtrip.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/specs/features/tiptap-editor/text-color-roundtrip.spec.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { vi } from 'vitest';
+import { vi } from "vitest";
 
 vi.mock("@/features/shared", () => ({
   error: vi.fn()
@@ -48,29 +48,19 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
     const colorClass = `${TEXT_COLOR_CLASS_PREFIX}${colorSuffix}`;
     const initialHtml = `<p><span class="${colorClass}">Colored text</span></p>`;
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
-
-    [markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml].forEach(
-      (content) => {
-        expect(content).toContain(colorClass);
-      }
-    );
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+
+    [markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml].forEach((content) => {
+      expect(content).toContain(colorClass);
+    });
   });
 
   it("keeps bold text formatting across the editor lifecycle", async () => {
     const initialHtml = "<p><strong>Bold text</strong></p>";
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toContain("**Bold text**");
     expect(reopenedHtml).toContain("<strong>Bold text</strong>");
@@ -81,12 +71,8 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
   it("keeps strikethrough formatting across the editor lifecycle", async () => {
     const initialHtml = "<p><del>Struck text</del></p>";
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toContain("~~Struck text~~");
     expect(reopenedHtml).toContain("<del>Struck text</del>");
@@ -106,12 +92,8 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
   it("keeps strikethrough formatting applied to headings", async () => {
     const initialHtml = "<h2><del>Struck heading</del></h2>";
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toMatch(/~~Struck heading~~\n[-=]+/);
     expect(reopenedHtml).toContain("<h2");
@@ -124,12 +106,8 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
   it("keeps mixed strikethrough text inside headings", async () => {
     const initialHtml = "<h3><del>Struck</del> and plain</h3>";
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toMatch(/~~Struck~~ and plain/);
     expect(reopenedHtml).toContain("<h3");
@@ -144,12 +122,8 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
   it("keeps paragraph alignment metadata for non-image content", async () => {
     const initialHtml = '<p style="text-align: right">Aligned text</p>';
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     // Turndown outputs data-align, parseAllExtensionsToDoc converts it to style.textAlign
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toContain('data-align="right"');
@@ -162,12 +136,8 @@ describe("editor formatting persistence", () => {
     const initialHtml =
       '<p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://example.com/image.png" alt="Example" /></p>';
 
-    const {
-      markdownAfterSave,
-      reopenedHtml,
-      markdownAfterPublishing,
-      postEditHtml
-    } = await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
+    const { markdownAfterSave, reopenedHtml, markdownAfterPublishing, postEditHtml } =
+      await runEditorRoundTrip(initialHtml);
 
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toContain("<center><img");
     expect(markdownAfterSave).toContain('src="https://example.com/image.png"');