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fix: chat file links open the file agents cite - #33943
Clicking a file link in chat often opened the "file could not be accessed" page. I audited 14,000 file links in real threads on three of our machines by running each one through the chat resolver and checking whether it exists on disk. In the last two weeks, 24% of Claude's links were broken, against 1% of Codex's. Codex writes absolute Markdown links. Claude mostly writes inline code paths that are relative to a package (cloud/http.ts), bare filenames that several packages share (index.ts:5), or relative to a checkout other than the thread's (src/worker.ts in a scratch thread). Chat resolves every relative path against the thread's working directory, so these open a file that doesn't exist.
Fixed on both sides:
Agent instructions.runtime_info used to ask agents to link only the files they produce by absolute path. It now covers files they cite too, with an example of a link with a line number: [http.ts:42](/abs/path/http.ts:42). This text is 50 bytes larger, so the agent-context budget is updated.
Clients. When a relative link misses, web and mobile now open the one workspace file it is the suffix of. The same check also covers bare filenames and repeated repo prefixes. Both clients use the new pickWorkspaceLinkMatch / workspaceLinkLookupQuery in client-runtime; mobile previously handled only bare filenames. Web checks the literal path first, so a link that already works costs no extra search. When more than one file matches, the link opens as written.
Eval.mcp-tool-use gets four file-links cases built from the audit's failure types, plus a fileLinks check. The check replays the final answer through the shared resolver and fails on any link that wouldn't open.
Eval results
Old text: 3 samples. New text: 6 samples over two runs.
Case
Opus 5.5
Sonnet 5.5
Paths relative to a package
1/3 → 5/6
2/3 → 6/6
Paths into another checkout
1/3 → 6/6
0/3 → 3/6
Bare filenames shared by several packages
0/3 → 1/6
0/3 → 1/6
Control (no files needed)
3/3 → 6/6
3/3 → 6/6
With the new text, the first reference to a file is an absolute link. The remaining failures come from two other kinds of span. Some repeat the file later as relative inline code. Others quote values rather than cite files, such as main set to src/index.ts or the import ./ws.
Full suite on the new text: every other case that failed there also fails on main's text when rerun. One case, merge-permission-after-unwatch-polls on Sonnet, looked like a regression at 1/3. Resampled, it was 6/9 on the new text against 7/9 on the old, which is noise. A full run costs about $25 on Sonnet and $45 on Opus.
Before / after
The same link from a real thread, client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts, in a worktree where the file is at packages/client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts.
Before: the panel shows the error page for the joined path.
After: the panel opens packages/client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts.
Mobile uses the same shared picker. It is unit-tested but was not checked on a device.
Claude cites files as package-relative inline code (`cloud/http.ts`) or
paths into another checkout, and chat resolves them against the thread
cwd, so about a quarter of its recent file pills opened an error page.
- Runtime instructions ask agents to link cited files by absolute path,
not only files they produce.
- Web and mobile resolve a missing relative link to the one workspace file
it is the suffix of, sharing pickWorkspaceLinkMatch.
- mcp-tool-use gains file-links cases graded by the shared resolver.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Chat file links gain workspace suffix resolution while retaining existing literal paths. The shared agent instructions also change default citation formatting to absolute links for every cited file, which requires human review.
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Mobile checked lookup eligibility on the resolved relative path, which
drops an authored ./ or absolute form, so ./src/config.ts could open
another package's src/config.ts. The eval grader also kept #L4 on the
lookup path and counted working links as broken.
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The change updates workspace file-link lookup in web and mobile, adds file-link grading to MCP tool-use evaluations, changes runtime file-link instructions, updates transcript fixtures, and increases two provider context byte budgets.
Changes: Workspace File Links and Evaluation
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Summary
File-link instructions and lookup rules packages/provider-core/src/server/runtimeInstructions.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/workspaceBasenameLookup.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/testkit/fixtures/*, apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.test.ts
Runtime instructions and transcript fixtures require absolute-path links for cited or produced files. Shared lookup helpers derive eligible queries and select exact or unique suffix matches.
Web and mobile file-link handling apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/web/src/workspaceBasenameLookup.test.ts
Web and mobile use shared lookup helpers with path and metadata checks. Tests cover normalized inputs and ambiguous or invalid matches.
File-link evaluation and grading evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/regrade.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.test.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/file-links.ndjson, evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md
MCP tool-use grading resolves final-answer file links against the run cwd and world-file paths. Cases and documentation describe the checks and results.
pingdotgg/t3code#30021: It checks workspace existence before rendering inline-code paths as file links and uses workspace search for path resolution. This PR updates the shared workspace-link query and matching behavior used by that resolution.
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Some broken links can pass evaluation, and a rare incomplete search can open the wrong file. These bounded issues merit follow-up.
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2897-2897: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift
Check the literal path first. A search on every file-link tap adds avoidable latency.
workspaceLinkLookupQuery now returns a non-null query for almost every relative path. The runtime instructions now ask agents to link files by absolute path. Most taps therefore resolve to a path that exists. Each of these taps runs a searchEntries query. Navigation waits for that query. The web client avoids this. In findWorkspaceFileMatch, it calls getFilesystemMetadata first and searches only when the literal path is missing.
Use the same order here. Call fileMetadata on originalPath for non-basename paths. If the entry exists, call openAt(relativePath) directly. Search only when the entry is null. The existing metadata gate can then be reduced.
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx at line 2897:
Update the file-link tap flow using workspaceLinkLookupQuery so non-basename
paths check fileMetadata for originalPath before searching. Open the resolved
relativePath directly with openAt when metadata exists, and run
workspaceLinkLookupQuery only when metadata is null; simplify the existing
metadata gate to preserve this ordering.
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Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts:
- Line 40: Update the workspace lookup path derived by splitFilePathPosition so
Markdown link anchors are excluded, using the parsed source path while
preserving the distinction between relative and absolute links. Keep the
original source as the fallback when parsing yields no path.
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- Line 2897: Update the file-link tap flow using workspaceLinkLookupQuery so
non-basename paths check fileMetadata for originalPath before searching. Open
the resolved relativePath directly with openAt when metadata exists, and run
workspaceLinkLookupQuery only when metadata is null; simplify the existing
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Chat renders [`src/index.ts`](/abs/.../src/index.ts) as one pill, but the
grader also counted the label's inline code, so a working link could fail.
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Major · Resolve relative media links before opening previews. · ThreadFeed.tsx:2841
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx:2841 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Resolve relative media links before opening previews.
PDF, image, audio, and video links enter this branch before the workspace lookup. For example, docs/report.pdf still opens the missing literal path when the file exists at packages/app/docs/report.pdf. Apply the same lookup before opening workspace media previews. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx at line 2841:
Update the media preview branch guarded by media.kind !== "file" to resolve
relative media links through the existing workspace lookup before opening the
preview. Preserve the current preview behavior for links that are already
resolved or cannot be mapped to a workspace file.
Minor · Normalize paths before comparing them. · file-link-grading.ts:48
evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts:48 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Normalize paths before comparing them.
For [ws](./packages/server/src/ws.ts), the resolver retains ./, but worldFiles contains the normalized path. The comparison therefore marks an existing file as broken, and workspace lookup cannot recover it. This can cause valid model answers to fail the eval. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Normalize paths before comparison and add a valid explicit-path case to the existing test.
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Review comment at @evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts at line 48:
Normalize the resolved path and each entry in files before the exact and
directory-prefix comparisons, so paths with a leading ./ match normalized
workspace paths. Add a valid explicit-path case to the existing file-link
grading test.
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- Line 2897: Update the lookup gate using presentation.path so paths beginning
with ~/ or ~\ are excluded before calling workspaceLinkLookupQuery; preserve the
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- Line 2841: Update the media preview branch guarded by media.kind !== "file" to
resolve relative media links through the existing workspace lookup before
opening the preview. Preserve the current preview behavior for links that are
already resolved or cannot be mapped to a workspace file.
Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts:
- Line 48: Normalize the resolved path and each entry in files before the exact
and directory-prefix comparisons, so paths with a leading ./ match normalized
workspace paths. Add a valid explicit-path case to the existing file-link
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Kiro and Muse replay fixtures and the Codex runtime-context test pinned
the old file-linking sentence.
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The resolver keeps ./ and ../ segments, which the file system resolves,
and the client opens a unique case-insensitive basename match. The
grader counted both as broken.
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~/repo/src/config.ts names an exact file, like ./ and absolute paths, so
a missing one must not open another package's src/config.ts.
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@coderabbitai Replies to the two outside-diff comments in your last review:
Media previews (ThreadFeed.tsx:2841): skipping this one. Relative PDF, image and media links go straight to the preview on both web and mobile, with no workspace lookup, and they behaved that way before this PR. This PR covers links that open in the file panel. Adding the lookup to media previews would change both clients, so it belongs in its own PR.
Grader normalization (file-link-grading.ts:48): already fixed in c7cc38e, after the commit you reviewed. The grader normalizes the resolved path, and the test includes ./packages/server/src/ws.ts.
The grader's paths are absolute POSIX paths, so a short segment resolver
replaces path.posix.normalize and its file-wide diagnostic suppression.
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- Line 63: Update the file-link grading filter around splitFilePathPosition to
include files under the workspace root, including workspaces located under /tmp,
while preserving support for files in another checkout and excluding unrelated
system paths. Update the documented filter and add a grader test covering a
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The grader ignored every path outside /home and /Users, so a template
with its cwd under /tmp graded no workspace links.
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- Line 65: Update the link extraction in the file-link grading flow so
`extractMarkdownLinkHrefs(prose)` ignores Markdown links inside inline code
spans, while preserving the separate inline-code path check. Ensure ordinary
Markdown links continue to be collected for file-link grading.
- Line 65: Update the file-link grading flow around extractMarkdownLinkHrefs so
image destinations rendered as media are excluded from broken-link grading,
while image destinations rendered as file-link chips remain included. Use the
same distinction the chat renderer uses to classify media versus file-link
chips; preserve grading for other extracted links.
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#!/bin/bashset -u
printf'%s\n''=== Locate referenced files ==='
fd -t f '^(ThreadFeed\.tsx|file-link-grading(\.test)?\.ts|ChatMarkdown\.tsx)$'.printf'%s\n''=== Outline referenced source ==='
ast-grep outline apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx --items all --match 'ThreadFeed|File|Link|Preview'2>&1| head -120
ast-grep outline evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts --items all 2>&1
ast-grep outline evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.test.ts --items all 2>&1printf'%s\n''=== Mobile media and link context ==='
rg -n -C 5 'preview|Preview|workspaceLinkLookupQuery|pickWorkspaceLinkMatch' apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx | tail -200
printf'%s\n''=== Web media and link context ==='
rg -n -C 4 'preview|Preview|findWorkspaceFileMatch|workspaceLinkLookupQuery' apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx | head -240
printf'%s\n''=== Grader source and tests ==='
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git show --format=fuller --stat --no-renames c7cc38e4b7f -- evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.test.ts 2>&1
Length of output: 32440
@juliusmarminge Thanks for the clarification.
Media previews: Agreed. This is outside the scope of this PR. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue?
Grader normalization: Confirmed in the current code. The grader normalizes the resolved path, and the test expects ./packages/server/src/ws.ts to work. I inspected the test but did not run it.
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Minor · Do not infer suffix uniqueness from a truncated result. · workspaceBasenameLookup.ts:93-100
packages/client-runtime/src/workspaceBasenameLookup.ts:93-100 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not infer suffix uniqueness from a truncated result.
If a file is added after its directory is scanned, a timed-out initial scan can return one of two suffix matches. Both clients discard truncated and can open that file instead of falling back to the link as written.
Pass the response status to the shared matcher and reject truncated results in the suffix-uniqueness branch. Preserve the existing basename and repeated-prefix behavior.
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lines 93 - 100:
Update the shared matcher used by both clients to receive the scan response
status and reject truncated results when determining suffix uniqueness, so
incomplete scans cannot select a file from an ambiguous suffix match. Preserve
the existing basename and repeated-prefix behavior.
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Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/file-link-grading.ts:
- Line 66: Update the link-extraction preprocessing around
extractMarkdownLinkHrefs so it excludes links only when they are inside actual
Markdown code spans, not when backticks are escaped; add a regression test
confirming that a link between escaped backticks is still graded.
- Around line 72-79: Update the target selection in the grading flow around
resolveMarkdownFileLinkTarget and parseMarkdownFileLink so media-preview
references are checked against their literal paths and cannot pass by matching
another file elsewhere in the workspace. Preserve workspace lookup for
references handled by the file-link branch, including links with line positions.
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- Around line 93-100: Update the shared matcher used by both clients to receive
the scan response status and reject truncated results when determining suffix
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Mobile opens PDFs, images, video and audio in a preview with no workspace
lookup, so the grader no longer rescues them by suffix.
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff comment on workspaceBasenameLookup.ts (suffix uniqueness on truncated results): not changing this. truncated is set whenever the fuzzy search matches more entries than the 25-result limit, not only when the index is incomplete. Rejecting it would disable the suffix lookup in large repos for common names like cloud/http.ts, where exact suffix matches rank first. The existing basename lookup accepts the same tradeoff. The redirect also happens only after a metadata check confirms the literal path is missing.
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printf'%s\n''=== Workspace search index locations ==='
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@juliusmarminge Understood. Rejecting every truncated result would also discard useful matches when the search exceeds the limit. The suffix match is unique only among the returned entries, and I understand you accept that tradeoff. I won’t pursue the change.
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Clicking a file link in chat often opened the "file could not be accessed" page. I audited 14,000 file links in real threads on three of our machines by running each one through the chat resolver and checking whether it exists on disk. In the last two weeks, 24% of Claude's links were broken, against 1% of Codex's. Codex writes absolute Markdown links. Claude mostly writes inline code paths that are relative to a package (
cloud/http.ts), bare filenames that several packages share (index.ts:5), or relative to a checkout other than the thread's (src/worker.tsin a scratch thread). Chat resolves every relative path against the thread's working directory, so these open a file that doesn't exist.Fixed on both sides:
runtime_infoused to ask agents to link only the files they produce by absolute path. It now covers files they cite too, with an example of a link with a line number:[http.ts:42](/abs/path/http.ts:42). This text is 50 bytes larger, so the agent-context budget is updated.pickWorkspaceLinkMatch/workspaceLinkLookupQueryin client-runtime; mobile previously handled only bare filenames. Web checks the literal path first, so a link that already works costs no extra search. When more than one file matches, the link opens as written.mcp-tool-usegets fourfile-linkscases built from the audit's failure types, plus afileLinkscheck. The check replays the final answer through the shared resolver and fails on any link that wouldn't open.Eval results
Old text: 3 samples. New text: 6 samples over two runs.
With the new text, the first reference to a file is an absolute link. The remaining failures come from two other kinds of span. Some repeat the file later as relative inline code. Others quote values rather than cite files, such as
mainset tosrc/index.tsor the import./ws.Full suite on the new text: every other case that failed there also fails on main's text when rerun. One case,
merge-permission-after-unwatch-pollson Sonnet, looked like a regression at 1/3. Resampled, it was 6/9 on the new text against 7/9 on the old, which is noise. A full run costs about $25 on Sonnet and $45 on Opus.Before / after
The same link from a real thread,
client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts, in a worktree where the file is atpackages/client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts.Before: the panel shows the error page for the joined path.
After: the panel opens
packages/client-runtime/src/state/pullRequests.ts.Mobile uses the same shared picker. It is unit-tested but was not checked on a device.
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