From 91831a033be648abe0824e69e6a9ab86b5fe20d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gustavo Madeira Santana <gumadeiras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 19:37:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: normalize escaped newlines in send actions (#8768)
 (thanks @victormier)

---
 src/infra/outbound/message-action-runner.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/infra/outbound/message-action-runner.ts b/src/infra/outbound/message-action-runner.ts
index bc4ae734ff95..e60a01e87b0b 100644
--- a/src/infra/outbound/message-action-runner.ts
+++ b/src/infra/outbound/message-action-runner.ts
@@ -728,6 +728,9 @@ async function handleSendAction(ctx: ResolvedActionContext): Promise<MessageActi
       required: !mediaHint && !hasCard,
       allowEmpty: true,
     }) ?? "";
+  if (message.includes("\\n")) {
+    message = message.replaceAll("\\n", "\n");
+  }
 
   const parsed = parseReplyDirectives(message);
   const mergedMediaUrls: string[] = [];