fix(copilot): stop the special-tag parser discarding text it cannot resolve

apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/home/components/message-content/components/chat-content/chat-content.test.ts

@@ -19,4 +19,98 @@ describe('sanitizeChatDisplayContent', () => {
 
     expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)).toBe('Read  and found the issue.')
   })
+
+  it('leaves a backticked mention of the tag name alone', () => {
+    // Unwrapping exists so stray backticks cannot stop a real chip rendering. A
+    // MENTION is not a tag: there is no payload and no closing marker, just the
+    // name written in prose. Stripping its opening backtick leaves the closing
+    // one unpaired, which opens a code span that swallows the rest of the
+    // message — every later `code` toggles to the wrong state.
+    const content = 'The `<workspace_resource>` tag needs a real `path` to render.'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)).toBe(content)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps backticks balanced across a message that mentions the tag repeatedly', () => {
+    const content =
+      'Use `<workspace_resource>` for files.\n\nThe `<workspace_resource>` chip needs an `id`.'
+    const backticks = (text: string) => (text.match(/`/g) || []).length
+
+    expect(backticks(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content))).toBe(backticks(content))
+  })
+
+  it('leaves prose that mentions the opener and the closer separately alone', () => {
+    // The balanced unwrap reads a backticked opener, prose, and a backticked
+    // closer as ONE wrapped tag, and strips the outer pair. This is the shape a
+    // message explaining the tag syntax naturally takes.
+    const content = 'Use `<workspace_resource>` then close with `</workspace_resource>` at the end.'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)).toBe(content)
+  })
+
+  it('leaves a neighbouring code span alone', () => {
+    // Only a backtick DIRECTLY against the tag is the tag's wrapping. Allowing
+    // whitespace between let the pattern reach past the tag and take the
+    // delimiter off an unrelated span, breaking its pair.
+    const content =
+      'Open `config.json` <workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource> then run `bun test`.'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)).toBe(content)
+  })
+
+  it('leaves a code span sitting flush against the tag alone', () => {
+    // No space between them, so the span's delimiter is directly against the
+    // tag and a pattern looking for "a backtick beside a tag" cannot tell the
+    // two apart. A single pass settles it: a span consumes its own delimiters as
+    // the scan reaches them, and a trailing backtick is only taken as a stray
+    // when no further backtick follows on the line.
+    const before =
+      'Open `config.json`<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource> ok'
+    const after =
+      'Open <workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource>`config.json` ok'
+    const both =
+      'Open `a`<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource>`b` ok'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(before)).toBe(before)
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(after)).toBe(after)
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(both)).toBe(both)
+  })
+
+  it('does not break the closing fence of a code block containing a tag', () => {
+    // Whitespace matching used to cross the newline and consume one of the three
+    // closing backticks, so the block never closed and the rest of the message
+    // rendered as code.
+    const content =
+      'Example:\n```md\n<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource>\n```\nDone.'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)).toBe(content)
+  })
+
+  it('stays linear on a message that repeats the tag name without ever closing it', () => {
+    // A lazy scan allowed to cross an opener restarts from every opener, which
+    // is quadratic — 154ms for this input before the bound, on the main thread,
+    // for every streamed chunk. Generous ceiling so the test pins the complexity
+    // rather than the machine.
+    const content = 'The <workspace_resource> tag is used here. '.repeat(4000)
+
+    const startedAt = performance.now()
+    sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content)
+    expect(performance.now() - startedAt).toBeLessThan(50)
+  })
+
+  it('still unwraps a real tag that carries a stray backtick on one side only', () => {
+    // The case the unpaired strip is actually for: the model backticked the
+    // opener but not the closer (or vice versa), which would block the chip.
+    const leading =
+      '`<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource> done'
+    const trailing =
+      '<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource>` done'
+
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(leading)).toBe(
+      '<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource> done'
+    )
+    expect(sanitizeChatDisplayContent(trailing)).toBe(
+      '<workspace_resource>{"type":"file","path":"a.md","title":"a"}</workspace_resource> done'
+    )
+  })
 })

apps/sim/app/workspace/[workspaceId]/home/components/message-content/components/chat-content/chat-sanitize.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,63 @@
 const HIDDEN_INLINE_REFERENCE_PATTERN =
   /`[^`\n]*(?:internal\/tool-results\/|internal\/blocktips\/|components\/integrations\/[^`\n]*README)[^`\n]*`/g
-const WORKSPACE_RESOURCE_CODE_SPAN_PATTERN =
-  /`([^`\n]*<workspace_resource>[\s\S]*?<\/workspace_resource>[^`\n]*)`/g
+
+/**
+ * A complete workspace-resource tag: opener, payload, closer.
+ *
+ * Two constraints on the payload, both load-bearing:
+ *
+ * - **No backtick.** A payload is JSON and carries none, so this is what tells a
+ *   real tag from prose MENTIONING the tag name — a message explaining the
+ *   syntax writes the opener and the closer as two separately backticked spans.
+ * - **No nested opener**, via the negative lookahead. A cost bound rather than a
+ *   correctness rule: a lazy scan allowed to cross an opener restarts from every
+ *   opener, so a message repeating the tag name is quadratic — on the main
+ *   thread, for every streamed chunk.
+ *
+ * Accepted trade: a resource whose title or path itself contains a backtick is
+ * not matched, so it renders as text rather than a chip. That costs one chip and
+ * is rare; the failure it replaces corrupts a whole message and is common.
+ */
+const COMPLETE_TAG_SOURCE =
+  '<workspace_resource>(?:(?!<workspace_resource>)[^`])*?<\\/workspace_resource>'
+
+/** Non-global so {@link RegExp.test} has no `lastIndex` to carry between calls. */
+const COMPLETE_WORKSPACE_RESOURCE_TAG = new RegExp(COMPLETE_TAG_SOURCE)
+
+/**
+ * One left-to-right pass over the two things that can own a backtick: an inline
+ * code span, and a tag with a stray backtick pressed against it.
+ *
+ * ONE pass is the design. Two separate passes each have to guess which backticks
+ * belong together, and every previous arrangement of this file got a different
+ * case wrong — a span two words away, a code fence, then a span sitting flush
+ * against the tag. Here a span consumes its own delimiters as the scan reaches
+ * them, so `` `config.json`<tag> `` keeps its pair without a special case.
+ *
+ * The trailing backtick is only taken when no further backtick follows on the
+ * line; otherwise it is not a stray at all but the opener of the next span, and
+ * `` <tag>`config.json` `` would lose that span's delimiter. A LEADING backtick
+ * needs no such guard, because a backtick that closes a span is consumed as part
+ * of that span. Of the two, only the trailing lookahead is pinned by a test —
+ * swapping the alternatives changes behaviour only for a span that both opens
+ * flush against a tag and closes elsewhere, which no fixture covers.
+ */
+const CODE_SPAN_OR_FLANKED_TAG = new RegExp(
+  `\`[^\`\\n]*\`|\`?(${COMPLETE_TAG_SOURCE})(?:\`(?![^\`\\n]*\`))?`,
+  'g'
+)
 
 export function sanitizeChatDisplayContent(content: string): string {
   return content
-    .replace(WORKSPACE_RESOURCE_CODE_SPAN_PATTERN, '$1')
+    .replace(CODE_SPAN_OR_FLANKED_TAG, (match, tag?: string) => {
+      // A tag with stray backticks against it: keep the tag, drop the strays.
+      if (tag !== undefined) return tag
+
+      // A code span. Unwrap it only when it genuinely holds a tag — the parser
+      // lifts the tag out either way, so leaving the delimiters would strand a
+      // pair of backticks around a hole. Anything else is someone else's span.
+      const inner = match.slice(1, -1)
+      return COMPLETE_WORKSPACE_RESOURCE_TAG.test(inner) ? inner : match
+    })
     .replace(HIDDEN_INLINE_REFERENCE_PATTERN, '')
-    .replace(/`(\s*<workspace_resource>)/g, '$1')
-    .replace(/(<\/workspace_resource>\s*)`/g, '$1')
 }