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fix(shared): file links with parentheses in the path keep their parent folder labels - #28644
extractMarkdownLinkHrefs ends a bare link destination at the first ), while the Markdown parser that renders the message allows balanced parentheses. So [a](/repo/app/(a)/page.tsx) is scanned as /repo/app/(a.
The visible result is two identical chips. Parent folder labels are computed from the scanned hrefs, so a message linking app/(a)/page.tsx and app/(b)/page.tsx (Next.js route groups) shows page.tsx and page.tsx, with nothing to tell them apart. The label code already handles same-named files; it just never sees these paths. Thread search indexes the same hrefs, so it misses the folder text as well. The chips still open the right file, because ChatMarkdown resolves the href again at render time.
Change
Bare destinations now follow the same rules as the parser: parentheses have to balance, \(, \) and \\ are escapes, an unbalanced destination is not a link, and nesting stops at 32, which is micromark's linkResourceDestinationBalanceMax.
The scan used to reuse a cached ) position to stay linear (#18387). That cache cannot work once the end depends on where the scan started, so the depth limit does that job now. A scan only runs past another link's ( while that ( adds to its depth, so at most about 33 scans can cover any position.
Scope and approval
No prior issue. This is a very small fix for an obvious bug: one helper reads the same destination differently from the parser that renders it. It adds no new link types and changes no defaults. The only code change is how extractMarkdownLinkHrefs finds the end of a bare destination.
#5222 was closed because the render time fallback already makes these chips work and its CommonMark pre-parser was too large. This does not bring that back: it replaces one delimiter search with a 20 line function, and it fixes the labels, which the fallback does not reach.
Separate from #28637, which is about which relative paths count as files. This bug already happens with absolute paths on main. Each PR works without the other. #27970 edits nearby lines of this helper but not the destination scan.
Verification
Environment: macOS, Node 26.12.1, main at 8760d06.
cd packages/shared && vp test run src/markdownLinks.test.ts
Before the fix, with the new rows on main: 7 failed, 35 passed. All 7 new rows fail, for example expected [ '/x/app/(a', '/x/app/(b' ] to deeply equal [ '/x/app/(a)/page.tsx', ... ].
After the fix: 42 passed.
Rendered ChatMarkdown in Chromium with a temporary browser test (not committed), using [a](/tmp/project/app/(a)/page.tsx) [b](/tmp/project/app/(b)/page.tsx) and reading the container's text:
Before: a page.tsx b page.tsx
After: a page.tsx · app/(a) b page.tsx · app... (the assertion output cuts off the rest)
searchableMessageSegments on the same two links, with and between them:
Before: a page.tsx and b page.tsx
After: a page.tsx · app/(a) and b page.tsx · app/(b)
Compared against the real parser with a temporary test (not committed): 60,000 random [l](...) inputs weighted toward parentheses and backslashes, comparing against remark-parse and leaving out links with empty destinations.
Before: 19,319 inputs disagreed.
After: 1 disagreed, [l](a\[x](.tsb/)a[x](.ts), an escaped [ in the label. That is label scanning, which this PR does not touch.
remark-parse accepts 32 nested parentheses and rejects 33, matching the new rows.
Scan time, extractMarkdownLinkHrefs on adversarial input, single runs:
It stays linear, doubling with the input, but the worst case costs more than on main because of the bound above. Text that does not repeat an open ]( is not affected, since the scan only starts after one.
Other checks, all passing: vp test run for markdownLinks, threadFindText, composerTrigger, codexFileCitations, codexMarkdownDirectives and markdownPipeline in packages/shared, src/markdown-links.test.ts in apps/web, src/lib/markdownLinks.test.ts in apps/mobile, and vp run check:changed.
Not checked: no before/after screenshots, since the change is to the text of a label and the rendered text is above. I did not run a full client or a real agent turn, or test on Windows. apps/mobile does not call this helper, so its test only confirms the shared module still behaves.
…t folder labels
extractMarkdownLinkHrefs ended a bare destination at the first closing
parenthesis, so route group paths like app/(a)/page.tsx lost their parent
folder labels and their folder text in thread search. Balance parentheses
and honour escapes the way the parser does, with the same nesting limit.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This fixes parent-folder labels for Markdown file links whose paths contain parentheses, and keeps searchable text consistent. The change is confined to parsing and presentation, with bounded nesting and unchanged file-target validation.
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Review comments at @packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.ts:
- Line 407: Update the Windows absolute-path handling around
isWindowsAbsolutePath so it preserves backslash separators and
punctuation-leading segments while decoding character references to match the
renderer’s destination value; do not return the authored path unchanged. Add
regression cases covering literal & and & in paths with
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Walkthrough
Bare Markdown link destinations now support balanced and nested parentheses, with nesting limited to 32. File-link consumers decode Markdown escapes before normalizing or resolving extracted destinations.
Changes: Markdown link extraction and resolution
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Summary
Scan and validate bare destinations packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.test.ts
The scanner tracks parentheses and escapes. It rejects empty destinations, unmatched parentheses, and nesting beyond 32 levels. Tests cover valid and malformed destinations, plus extraction of a later valid link after an over-depth destination.
Decode destinations before file-link resolution packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, packages/shared/src/threadFindText.ts, packages/shared/src/threadFindText.test.ts
ChatMarkdown and thread search decode Markdown link escapes before normalizing or resolving destinations. Tests cover parenthesized paths and Windows paths.
Some Windows links with character references can show incorrect folder context in file chips and thread search; preserve separators while matching renderer decoding.
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- Line 371: Add a Markdown-escape decoder in the shared markdown link utilities
and apply it immediately after `extractMarkdownLinkHrefs` in both the web
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- Line 407: Update the href unescaping logic in the markdown link pre-scan to
preserve Windows path separators, matching the behavior of
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verified on linux using playwright from the repo, /usr/bin/google-chrome, the running dev web client, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local provider proxy. the project points at a real git worktree. the agent created and read the files through its shell tool; no mocks, replay provider, fixtures, or database edits were used.
reproduced on github/main at 82b10d546c: links to app/(a)/page.tsx and app/(b)/page.tsx rendered identical page.tsx chips. the same conversation on the original pr head showed parent folders, and thread find found the displayed suffixes.
found an incomplete case on the original head: an escaped-only response still lost both parent folders. pushed the small pre-scan decoding fix to this pr's existing branch, with windows drive-path preservation matching the renderer. final head: d0bf1f932f4bd11f7c5ee28dca0c1c98be33ddcd.
restarted the dev server and ran fresh real codex turns. escaped-only chips now show app/(a) and app/(b). clicking each opened its corresponding route-a or route-b file. ordinary notes.txt opened with its expected contents, the external link opened, and thread find highlighted the folder labels.
extended an existing search test. the escaped-path and windows regressions failed before their fixes. final vp run check:changed 8760d063e903406c8e8f695b0852c0a15fc1e00f passed through blacksmith-check: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, 70 tests including existing browser tests, and the compiler check. two independent code reviews approved the final head.
main, before:
pr, same conversation:
escaped-only response, before the follow-up:
same response after the follow-up:
opening both files and finding their displayed labels, recorded from the real client:
Not verified
native electron, ios/android, macos/windows file opening, remote relay/tunnel connections, and other providers were not exercised on this linux vm. windows path label/search preservation is covered by the focused automated assertion, not a native windows run. no performance claim is made.
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Preserve Windows separators while matching renderer character-reference decoding.
For C:\repo\.a\foo&bar\page.tsx, the pre-scan removes \. and resolves C:\repo.a\foo&bar\page.tsx. The renderer preserves \. and decodes the destination to C:\repo\.a\foo&bar\page.tsx. Thread search uses the malformed pre-scan path. A single link still displays page.tsx, but parent-folder suffixes can be wrong when paths collide.
Preserve Windows separators independently from character-reference decoding. Do not return the raw authored path unchanged, because that would leave & different from the renderer's & value. Add regression cases for literal & and & with punctuation-leading segments.
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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.ts at line 407:
Update the Windows absolute-path handling around isWindowsAbsolutePath so it
preserves backslash separators and punctuation-leading segments while decoding
character references to match the renderer’s destination value; do not return
the authored path unchanged. Add regression cases covering literal & and
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Problem
extractMarkdownLinkHrefsends a bare link destination at the first), while the Markdown parser that renders the message allows balanced parentheses. So[a](/repo/app/(a)/page.tsx)is scanned as/repo/app/(a.The visible result is two identical chips. Parent folder labels are computed from the scanned hrefs, so a message linking
app/(a)/page.tsxandapp/(b)/page.tsx(Next.js route groups) showspage.tsxandpage.tsx, with nothing to tell them apart. The label code already handles same-named files; it just never sees these paths. Thread search indexes the same hrefs, so it misses the folder text as well. The chips still open the right file, becauseChatMarkdownresolves the href again at render time.Change
Bare destinations now follow the same rules as the parser: parentheses have to balance,
\(,\)and\\are escapes, an unbalanced destination is not a link, and nesting stops at 32, which is micromark'slinkResourceDestinationBalanceMax.The scan used to reuse a cached
)position to stay linear (#18387). That cache cannot work once the end depends on where the scan started, so the depth limit does that job now. A scan only runs past another link's(while that(adds to its depth, so at most about 33 scans can cover any position.Scope and approval
No prior issue. This is a very small fix for an obvious bug: one helper reads the same destination differently from the parser that renders it. It adds no new link types and changes no defaults. The only code change is how
extractMarkdownLinkHrefsfinds the end of a bare destination.#5222 was closed because the render time fallback already makes these chips work and its CommonMark pre-parser was too large. This does not bring that back: it replaces one delimiter search with a 20 line function, and it fixes the labels, which the fallback does not reach.
Separate from #28637, which is about which relative paths count as files. This bug already happens with absolute paths on
main. Each PR works without the other. #27970 edits nearby lines of this helper but not the destination scan.Verification
Environment: macOS, Node 26.12.1,
mainat 8760d06.cd packages/shared && vp test run src/markdownLinks.test.tsmain: 7 failed, 35 passed. All 7 new rows fail, for exampleexpected [ '/x/app/(a', '/x/app/(b' ] to deeply equal [ '/x/app/(a)/page.tsx', ... ].Rendered
ChatMarkdownin Chromium with a temporary browser test (not committed), using[a](/tmp/project/app/(a)/page.tsx) [b](/tmp/project/app/(b)/page.tsx)and reading the container's text:a page.tsx b page.tsxa page.tsx · app/(a) b page.tsx · app...(the assertion output cuts off the rest)searchableMessageSegmentson the same two links, withandbetween them:a page.tsx and b page.tsxa page.tsx · app/(a) and b page.tsx · app/(b)Compared against the real parser with a temporary test (not committed): 60,000 random
[l](...)inputs weighted toward parentheses and backslashes, comparing againstremark-parseand leaving out links with empty destinations.[l](a\[x](.tsb/)a[x](.ts), an escaped[in the label. That is label scanning, which this PR does not touch.remark-parseaccepts 32 nested parentheses and rejects 33, matching the new rows.Scan time,
extractMarkdownLinkHrefson adversarial input, single runs:main[](ax 32,000 (128 KB)[](ax 64,000[](ax 128,000[](x()x 128,000 (768 KB)[item\nx 8,000 (the #18387 case)It stays linear, doubling with the input, but the worst case costs more than on
mainbecause of the bound above. Text that does not repeat an open](is not affected, since the scan only starts after one.Other checks, all passing:
vp test runformarkdownLinks,threadFindText,composerTrigger,codexFileCitations,codexMarkdownDirectivesandmarkdownPipelineinpackages/shared,src/markdown-links.test.tsinapps/web,src/lib/markdownLinks.test.tsinapps/mobile, andvp run check:changed.Not checked: no before/after screenshots, since the change is to the text of a label and the rendered text is above. I did not run a full client or a real agent turn, or test on Windows.
apps/mobiledoes not call this helper, so its test only confirms the shared module still behaves.Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code