fix(client): inline code URL paths no longer render as file chips

apps/web/src/markdown-links.ts

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export function resolveInlineCodeFileLinkMeta(
   cwd?: string,
   baseDir: string | undefined = cwd,
 ): MarkdownFileLinkMeta | null {
-  const candidate = inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(codeText);
+  const candidate = inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(codeText, cwd);
   if (candidate === null) return null;
 
   return resolveMarkdownFileLinkMeta(

packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.test.ts

@@ -26,11 +26,30 @@ describe("inlineCodeFilePathCandidate", () => {
     ["origin/main", null],
     ["z-ai/glm-5.3", null],
     ["share/man/ls.1", "share/man/ls.1"],
+    ["usr/lib/libfoo.so.1", "usr/lib/libfoo.so.1"],
+    ["vendor/jquery-3.6.0.min.js", "vendor/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"],
+    ["./models/glm-5.3", "./models/glm-5.3"],
+    ["/D:/Programme/t3code/file.ts", "/D:/Programme/t3code/file.ts"],
+    ["/D%3A/Programme/other/file.ts", "/D%3A/Programme/other/file.ts"],
+    ["/%74mp/image.png", "/%74mp/image.png"],
+    ["/tmp/image.png", "/tmp/image.png"],
+    ["/images/ZOOM/provider/te115_2.jpg", null],
+    ["/api/v1/users.json", null],
     ["src/main.ts/", null],
     ["./patches/", "./patches/"],
   ])("distinguishes file paths from code and hostnames in %s", (source, candidate) => {
     expect(inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(source)).toBe(candidate);
   });
+
+  it("keeps absolute paths inside a workspace outside the usual roots", () => {
+    expect(inlineCodeFilePathCandidate("/code/app/src/index.ts", "/code/app")).toBe(
+      "/code/app/src/index.ts",
+    );
+    expect(inlineCodeFilePathCandidate("/images/logo.png", "/code/app")).toBeNull();
+    expect(inlineCodeFilePathCandidate("/code/my%20app/src/main.ts", "/code/my app")).toBe(
+      "/code/my%20app/src/main.ts",
+    );
+  });
 });
 
 describe("parseMarkdownFileLink", () => {

packages/shared/src/markdownLinks.ts

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ function looksLikeHostname(segment: string, hasPosition: boolean): boolean {
   return !hasPosition && COUNTRY_HOSTNAME_TLDS.has(lastLabel);
 }
 
-export function inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(codeText: string): string | null {
+export function inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(codeText: string, cwd?: string): string | null {
   const trimmed = codeText.trim();
   if (trimmed.length === 0 || INLINE_CODE_DISQUALIFIER_PATTERN.test(trimmed)) return null;
 
@@ -197,6 +197,16 @@ export function inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(codeText: string): string | null {
     if (VERSION_SUFFIX_PATTERN.test(basename)) return null;
     if (!hasPosition && !FILE_EXTENSION_PATTERN.test(basename)) return null;
   }
+  // `/images/logo.jpg` in code is usually a URL path, not a file.
+  const decodedCandidate = safeDecodeURIComponent(candidate);
+  if (
+    candidate.startsWith("/") &&
+    !isWindowsAbsolutePath(stripSlashPrefixedWindowsDrive(decodedCandidate)) &&
+    !POSIX_FILE_ROOT_PREFIXES.some((prefix) => decodedCandidate.startsWith(prefix)) &&
+    workspaceRelativeFilePath(decodedCandidate, cwd) === null
+  ) {
+    return null;
+  }
   return candidate;
 }
 

packages/shared/src/threadFindText.ts

@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ function markdownThreadFindText(
   const tree = processor.runSync(processor.parse(markdown));
   const paths = [
     ...extractMarkdownLinkHrefs(renderCodexInlineDirectivesAsMarkdown(markdown)),
-    ...extractInlineCodeSpans(markdown).flatMap((span) => inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(span) ?? []),
+    ...extractInlineCodeSpans(markdown).flatMap(
+      (span) => inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(span, cwd) ?? [],
+    ),
   ].flatMap((href) => {
     const target = resolveMarkdownFileLinkTarget(href, cwd);
     return target ? [splitFilePathPosition(target).path] : [];
@@ -155,6 +157,7 @@ function markdownThreadFindText(
       ) {
         candidate = inlineCodeFilePathCandidate(
           (node.children ?? []).map((child) => child.value ?? "").join(""),
+          cwd,
         );
       }
       const target = candidate ? resolveMarkdownFileLinkTarget(candidate, cwd) : null;