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Agent responses containing LaTeX currently display as plain text. This adds formula rendering on web, desktop, and native mobile.

Supports \(inline math\), \[display math\], $$ delimiters, and fenced math blocks. Prices and code remain unchanged, invalid formulas fall back to readable source, and copying formulas preserves their LaTeX.

Web and desktop reuse the existing KaTeX version. Mobile renders formulas as SVG in horizontally scrollable rows, including inline-authored formulas.

Verified with focused rendering, streaming, clipboard, and native parsing tests; a live web check; iOS/Android bundle exports; and manual native mobile verification by the contributor.

Before:

Before: LaTeX displayed as plain text

After:

After: LaTeX rendered as formulas

Implemented with GPT-6-Astra through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a substantial cross-platform Markdown feature that changes active rendering and parsing paths and adds KaTeX/MathJax integrations. An unresolved High-severity mobile parsing issue involving adjacent formulas also remains open.

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Move math parsing into the shared Markdown pipeline and preserve native rendering support.
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The PR adds shared TeX parsing for Markdown and formula rendering in web and native mobile chat. The web path uses KaTeX, and the mobile path uses MathJax-generated SVG. Both paths retain source-formula fallbacks.

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Chat Markdown Math

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared TeX delimiter parsing
packages/shared/src/markdownMath.ts, packages/shared/src/markdownPipeline.ts, packages/shared/package.json, pnpm-workspace.yaml, third-party-licenses.config.json, apps/web/src/markdown-incremental.test.tsx
Adds a shared plugin for backslash-delimited TeX, disables single-dollar text math, registers the plugin in both Markdown pipelines, and permits display metadata through sanitization. The shared parser export, dependency catalog, license notices, and incremental parsing tests are updated.
Web chat math rendering
apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/web/src/components/MarkdownMath.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.test.tsx, apps/web/src/index.css, apps/web/src/markdown-clipboard.ts, apps/web/package.json
Routes math nodes and fences to KaTeX rendering, adds math-specific layout styles, and expands clipboard selections to include a complete formula wrapper. Tests cover formula rendering and clipboard behavior.
Native math parsing and chunking
apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownMath.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/SelectableMarkdownText.tsx, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownText.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownMath.test.ts
Protects recognized formulas during native parsing, restores them as math nodes, and classifies inline math as rich content. Tests cover supported inputs, excluded inputs, and placeholder handling.
Native formula rendering
apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/mathSvg.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/NativeMathFormula.tsx, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/NativeMarkdownBlock.tsx, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/mathSvg.test.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/package.json, apps/mobile/package.json
Adds MathJax-to-SVG conversion and a native formula component with selectable source fallback and formula copying. The native renderer separates math nodes during paragraph grouping, and tests cover SVG output, scaling, invalid input, and macro isolation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MarkdownPipeline
  participant remarkChatMath
  participant ChatMarkdown
  participant MarkdownMath
  participant KaTeX
  MarkdownPipeline->>remarkChatMath: Parse TeX delimiters
  remarkChatMath-->>ChatMarkdown: Provide math code nodes
  ChatMarkdown->>MarkdownMath: Render formula and display mode
  MarkdownMath->>KaTeX: Convert TeX to HTML
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sequenceDiagram
  participant SelectableMarkdownText
  participant parseNativeMarkdownMath
  participant NativeMarkdownBlock
  participant NativeMathFormula
  participant mathSvg
  participant MathJax
  SelectableMarkdownText->>parseNativeMarkdownMath: Protect and restore formulas
  parseNativeMarkdownMath-->>SelectableMarkdownText: Return parsed nodes
  SelectableMarkdownText->>NativeMarkdownBlock: Render parsed nodes
  NativeMarkdownBlock->>NativeMathFormula: Pass formula source
  NativeMathFormula->>mathSvg: Request SVG conversion
  mathSvg->>MathJax: Convert TeX to SVG
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e8386

The native parser test now covers the previously missed inline-code shape, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e8386

Formula rendering adds new processing of untrusted chat text. Both rendering paths restrict supported behavior and preserve readable fallbacks. No introduced security issue was established, but incomplete coverage leaves residual uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Attacker-influenced assistant message text can reach the new typeset-output paths when a user views the message. The inspected sinks operate in the viewing web or native client; these formula paths do not show a transfer of server, shell, credential, or tool authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Web formula text reaches an HTML insertion sink only after KaTeX conversion configured with trust=false, throwOnError=true, maxSize=10, and maxExpand=1000. Conversion failure renders the source as React code text instead.
  • observed — Native conversion enables only base, ams, and newcommand packages with maxBuffer=10000. HTML/URL and require extensions are not enabled. Generated SVG must have finite positive dimensions no greater than 100000 each and contain no MathJax error marker before it is supplied to SvgXml.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Each native conversion constructs a fresh TeX input and document, preventing the implementation from intentionally sharing authored macros between expressions. Parser markers are also invocation-local. Static tests assert macro isolation and fallback for unsupported URL and require commands, but their runtime pass status was not independently verified.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: rendering LaTeX formulas in Markdown. It is concise and uses a conventional commit format.
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apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/nativeMarkdownMath.test.ts (1)

7-21: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the native code_inline.content shape in the test helper.

codeSpans creates nested child text, so the tests cover only the fallback at nativeMarkdownMath.ts:57. The production parser supplies the marker through code_inline.content. A regression in that direct-content lookup would pass these tests.

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-      children.push({ type: "code_inline", children: [{ type: "text", content: node.value }] });
+      children.push({ type: "code_inline", content: node.value });
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Update the codeSpans test helper to represent inline code using the direct
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Addressed the remaining CodeRabbit test-coverage note in e8386ca. Verified the native C++ parser emits inline code via code_inline.content, and updated the test helper to use that shape. All 23 native math parsing tests pass.

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