diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 23b264a..3a531de 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -91,6 +91,28 @@ unguarded hover style sits latched on a phone until the next tap elsewhere.
 Any hover rule that changes a control's fill belongs inside
 `@media (hover: hover)`.
 
+## Sharing is gated on the pointer, not on the API
+
+`navigator.share` exists on desktop Chromium and desktop Safari, so a
+feature-detect alone sends Brave, Chrome and Safari on macOS into the OS
+share sheet. That sheet offers Mail, Messages, Notes and Reminders and no
+clipboard entry, which leaves no way to get the link out of a button that
+otherwise says Copy Link. The test is
+`navigator.share && matchMedia("(pointer: coarse)")`, and the markup
+comment beside the button says so too, because the label it describes is
+written from the script.
+
+The failure is quiet in both directions: a desktop visitor gets a sheet
+that cannot do the one thing they pressed for, and a `share()` that
+rejects for any reason other than a cancelled sheet leaves the button
+doing nothing at all. Only `AbortError` returns early; everything else
+falls through to the clipboard.
+
+The browser pane cannot verify the clipboard half of this.
+`navigator.clipboard.writeText` throws `NotAllowedError` there because the
+pane's document is never focused, so the copy path can be read but not
+run. Press the button in a real browser before believing it.
+
 ## The inline script has one scope
 
 `index.html` holds a single long inline script. Two consequences:
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index b016667..f5c1001 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -911,10 +911,11 @@ <h2 class="section-title export-title">Export &amp; share</h2>
           <button id="themeToggleBtn" class="secondary icon-btn" title="Switch to light theme"><i class="ph ph-sun"></i></button>
         </div>
         <div class="split-btn">
-          <!-- Label and icon swap to "Share" wherever the OS share sheet
-               is available (see the feature-detect below); the id, the
-               menu beside it, and the link it hands off all stay the
-               same either way. -->
+          <!-- Label and icon swap to "Share" on a touch device, where
+               the OS sheet is the better hand-off (see the pointer test
+               below; desktop browsers expose the API too and must not
+               take that branch). The id, the menu beside it, and the
+               link it hands off all stay the same either way. -->
           <button id="copyLinkBtn" class="secondary split-btn-main" title="Copy a link to this exact composition, locks included"><i class="ph ph-link"></i> Copy Link</button>
           <!-- Whether the copied link opens as a plain still or also
                offers the recipient Auto-randomize at the current speed
@@ -4164,26 +4165,23 @@ <h1 class="brand"><a href="./">Flield<span class="sr-only">: seamless animated b
 
     const copyLinkBtn = document.getElementById("copyLinkBtn");
 
-    // Wherever the OS share sheet exists (Messages, AirDrop, most mobile
-    // and some desktop browsers), the button hands the link straight to
-    // it instead of the clipboard; the label and icon change to match so
-    // it's never a hidden feature riding along under an unrelated label.
-    const canShare = !!navigator.share;
+    // On a touch device the OS share sheet is the better hand-off
+    // (Messages, AirDrop, whatever else is installed), so the button
+    // gives it the link instead of the clipboard, and the label and icon
+    // change to match rather than hiding the swap under Copy Link.
+    //
+    // Gated on the pointer, not on the API: desktop Chromium (Brave and
+    // Chrome on macOS) exposes navigator.share too, and the sheet it
+    // opens there offers Mail, Messages, Notes and Reminders but no
+    // clipboard, which is the one thing someone pressing a button
+    // labelled Copy Link was after.
+    const canShare = !!navigator.share && window.matchMedia("(pointer: coarse)").matches;
     if (canShare) {
       copyLinkBtn.innerHTML = iconTag("share-network") + " Share";
       copyLinkBtn.title = "Share this exact composition, locks included";
     }
 
-    copyLinkBtn.addEventListener("click", async () => {
-      const { url, autoplay } = buildShareLink();
-      if (canShare) {
-        try {
-          await navigator.share({ title: "Flield", text: "A composition I made with Flield:", url });
-        } catch (err) {
-          // AbortError on a cancelled share sheet is normal, not a failure.
-        }
-        return;
-      }
+    async function copyShareLink(url, autoplay) {
       try {
         await navigator.clipboard.writeText(url);
         showToast(autoplay ? "Link copied, plays on open" : "Link copied");
@@ -4194,6 +4192,23 @@ <h1 class="brand"><a href="./">Flield<span class="sr-only">: seamless animated b
           // Dialogs are unavailable in some environments; nothing more to do.
         }
       }
+    }
+
+    copyLinkBtn.addEventListener("click", async () => {
+      const { url, autoplay } = buildShareLink();
+      if (canShare) {
+        try {
+          await navigator.share({ title: "Flield", text: "A composition I made with Flield:", url });
+          return;
+        } catch (err) {
+          // A cancelled sheet is normal and wants nothing after it. Any
+          // other failure (a browser that refuses the call, a sheet that
+          // never opens) would leave the button doing nothing at all, so
+          // the clipboard below still gets the link.
+          if (err && err.name === "AbortError") return;
+        }
+      }
+      copyShareLink(url, autoplay);
     });
 
     if (!loadStateFromURL()) {
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index 5889e1e..894a63e 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
     <loc>https://flield.com/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2026-09-29</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2026-10-02</lastmod>
     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     <priority>1.0</priority>
   </url>