Desktop app URL and markdown link rendering bugs
Cluster 38209 · apps/desktop. Data as of
Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #122078 on 26 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.
The short answer
- Known?
- Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #122078. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
unresolved. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
- Nothing open on GitHub.
Multiple bugs and fixes related to how the desktop app handles URLs in assistant messages, including bare URLs rendering as invisible text and markdown links being malformed or corrupted by a URL preprocessing step.
Open issues0
Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#122078 fix(desktop): pop-out scope adoption, bare URLs stay visible, citeturn markers, traffic-light overlap, SSH paste attachments
files:
agent/context_references.py,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/browser-popout-handoff.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/app/chat/right-rail/preview.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.bare-url.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/narrow-overlays.test.tsx,apps/desktop/src/components/pane-shell/tree/renderer/narrow-overlays.tsx,apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.citation.test.ts,apps/desktop/src/lib/markdown-preprocess.ts,apps/desktop/src/store/preview.ts,contributors/emails/[redacted:email],contributors/emails/[email protected],tests/agent/test_context_references.py,tests/tools/test_credential_files.py,tools/credential_files.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
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#38213 fix(desktop): render bare URLs visibly in assistant messages · superseded by another PR →
#122078
Closed issues · 1
- Closed#38209[Bug]: Desktop assistant responses render bare URLs as blank/invisible text
How this cluster was grouped
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Link evidence (
structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference. -
Pairwise link density
0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36.1.00means every pair is linked.
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Open the LabAt a glance
- Subsystem
- apps/desktop
- Merged PRs
- #122078
- Closed issues
- 1
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 26 Sep 2026