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Summary

Restore Markdown link round trips for URL-only links by teaching the custom parser to recognize the autolink syntax already emitted by the serializer.

Closes #3114.
Addresses #3035 without adding a serialization option: URL-only links retain the compact GFM literal form while preserving link semantics on reparse.

Rationale

The Markdown serializer emits a bare URL when link text equals its destination. Since the custom parser did not recognize autolinks, parsing that output converted the link into plain text. Supporting standard autolinks keeps the compact output and restores parser/serializer agreement.

Changes

  • Parse CommonMark angle-bracket URL and email autolinks.
  • Parse GFM HTTP(S) and www autolink literals.
  • Preserve trailing punctuation outside URL literals and handle balanced URL parentheses.
  • Add parser snapshots for CommonMark and GFM forms.
  • Add an export-to-parse regression test for a URL-only link.

Impact

Existing URL-only Markdown serialization remains unchanged. Markdown imports now preserve supported autolinks as link content instead of plain text.

Testing

  • Type-aware lint on changed TypeScript files.
  • Focused format-conversion suites: 3 files, 665 tests passed.

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  • Code follows the project coding standards.
  • Unit tests covering the new behavior have been added.
  • Relevant existing tests pass.
  • Documentation updated; no public API or documented behavior changed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Bare https:// and www. text no longer becomes a link when parsing Markdown. Angle-bracket CommonMark autolinks continue to work.
    • Links with formatted text no longer interpret that text as nested links.
    • Markdown export now uses angle-bracket autolinks for eligible links whose label matches the URL, and explicit link syntax for other links.

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Walkthrough

The Markdown parser recognizes angle-bracket CommonMark autolinks and leaves bare URL literals as text. The exporter uses angle-bracket syntax when a link’s label matches its scheme-based URL. Added tests cover parsing and Markdown link round trips.

Changes

Markdown autolinks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Autolink tokenization and validation
packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts, tests/src/unit/core/formatConversion/parse/parseTestInstances.ts
The parser recognizes angle-bracket CommonMark autolinks and leaves bare URL text unlinked. Tests cover angle-bracket URLs, invalid email text, bare URLs, and formatted link text.
URL link round trips
packages/core/src/api/exporters/markdown/htmlToMarkdown.ts, tests/src/unit/core/formatConversion/exportParseEquality/exportParseEqualityTestInstances.ts
The exporter emits angle-bracket autolink syntax when the label matches a URL with a URI scheme. Other links use inline-link syntax. Round-trip tests cover URL labels, a URL without a domain, terminal punctuation, and a www. URL.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Suggested reviewers: matthewlipski

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 455f6

URL-only links use a form the parser recognizes. The previously reported Markdown parsing failures do not remain on the current path, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description includes the required sections and testing information, but it materially conflicts with the changes. It claims support for GFM URL literals, trailing punctuation, and balanced parenth… Update the description to match the implementation. Document that CommonMark angle-bracket autolinks are supported, bare GFM URL and www. literals remain plain text, and URL-only scheme links may serialize using CommonMark autolink syntax…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: fixing Markdown autolink round trips.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The pull request satisfies the required coding behavior in [#3114]. htmlToMarkdown.ts now emits CommonMark angle-bracket autolinks when the link label equals a valid URI. markdownToHtml.ts parses …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within [#3114]. The serializer update produces parser-compatible CommonMark autolinks. The tokenizer changes support autolink parsing and prevent nested links. The tests cover the r…
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The description includes the required sections and testing information, but it materially conflicts with the changes. It claims support for GFM URL literals, trailing punctuation, and balanced parentheses, while the implementation removes GFM literal parsing and tests expect bare URLs to remain plain text. It also claims serialization remains unchanged, but htmlToMarkdown.ts changes serialization behavior.

Resolution

Update the description to match the implementation. Document that CommonMark angle-bracket autolinks are supported, bare GFM URL and www. literals remain plain text, and URL-only scheme links may serialize using CommonMark autolink syntax. Add any relevant information to the Additional Notes section.

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts`:
- Around line 152-158: Update the parenthesis trimming loop in the
markdown-to-HTML parser to count opening and closing parentheses once, then
remove any surplus trailing closing parentheses in one operation. Preserve the
existing behavior of retaining balanced closing parentheses.
- Line 132: Update the literal autolink matching flow around literalMatch to
validate the domain after trimAutolinkLiteral processes the candidate; when the
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- Line 137: Update formatLink and the tryAutolink path around
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🟡 Minor · Reject empty email domain labels. · markdownToHtml.ts:114

packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts:114
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject empty email domain labels.

<a@b..c> matches this expression and becomes an autolink. The CommonMark email grammar rejects empty domain labels. Use label-constrained domain segments instead of [a-zA-Z0-9.-]*. (github.github.com)

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts` at line 114, Update
the email autolink regex in the markdown parser to match domain names as
non-empty, label-constrained segments instead of allowing arbitrary dots in the
domain; ensure addresses such as a@b..c are not recognized as autolinks.

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In `@packages/core/src/api/exporters/markdown/htmlToMarkdown.ts`:
- Line 717: Update the autolink decision branch using isGfmAutolinkLiteral and
trimGfmAutolinkLiteral so raw www. href values use bracket-link syntax unless
reparsing the literal preserves the original destination; keep literal output
only when the parsed destination matches the href.

In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/autolink.ts`:
- Line 22: Update trimGfmAutolinkLiteral to also remove a trailing entity-like
suffix from literal autolinks, so an entity reference such as “&amp;copy;”
remains text rather than part of the URL; preserve the existing punctuation
trimming behavior.

In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts`:
- Line 448: Propagate allowLinks through parseDelimited and its callers in
parseInline so formatted link text remains subject to link suppression. Ensure
tryBold and other delimiter parsing use the current allowLinks value rather than
parseInline’s default, preventing nested anchors in link text.

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/markdownToHtml.ts`:
- Line 114: Update the email autolink regex in the markdown parser to match
domain names as non-empty, label-constrained segments instead of allowing
arbitrary dots in the domain; ensure addresses such as a@b..c are not recognized
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In `@packages/core/src/api/exporters/markdown/htmlToMarkdown.ts`:
- Line 714: Before emitting a bare URL, check the surrounding Markdown for
adjacent content that prevents literal URL recognition; when an inline link
immediately follows a word, emit it as an explicit Markdown link instead. Update
the bare-URL decision around the autolink href check while preserving bare URLs
where they are recognized correctly.

In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/autolink.ts`:
- Around line 17-18: Update parseAutolinkLiteral’s findLinks call to match HTTP
and HTTPS schemes case-insensitively, consistent with the parser’s prefix check,
so mixed-case schemes produce a match starting at zero.
- Line 17: Update the autolink handling around findLinks so an invalid
schemeless URL, such as one with an out-of-range port, is left unlinked without
propagating a URL-construction exception through Markdown parsing.
- Line 17: Update the shared trimTrailing helper used by findLinks to count
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// Markdown leaves entity-like suffixes outside an autolink.
const value = candidate.replace(/&[a-zA-Z0-9]+;$/, "");
const match = findLinks(value, { defaultProtocol: "http" })[0];

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject invalid schemeless URLs without aborting the import.

For www.example.com:99999, findLinks matches the schemeless URL and passes it to new URL("http://" + value). The out-of-range port makes that constructor throw. The new call propagates the exception through Markdown parsing instead of leaving the text unlinked. Handle invalid URL construction in findLinks, or reject this candidate before calling it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/autolink.ts` at line 17, Update the
autolink handling around findLinks so an invalid schemeless URL, such as one
with an out-of-range port, is left unlinked without propagating a
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Keep the one-pass parenthesis trim in findLinks.

parseAutolinkLiteral now routes Markdown literals through findLinks. Its trimTrailing helper calls countChar for the full remaining URL before removing each unmatched closing parenthesis. A long ) suffix therefore causes quadratic work.

Port the one-pass parenthesis count from the earlier Markdown helper into the shared trimTrailing helper.

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/autolink.ts` at line 17, Update the
shared trimTrailing helper used by findLinks to count opening and closing
parentheses in a single pass, then remove only unmatched trailing closing
parentheses using that count. Avoid rescanning the remaining URL with countChar
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const match = findLinks(value, { defaultProtocol: "http" })[0];
if (!match || match.start !== 0) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Recognize mixed-case HTTP schemes consistently.

The prefix check accepts HTTPS://example.com, but findLinks matches protocol URLs case-sensitively. Its first match therefore does not start at zero, and parseAutolinkLiteral rejects the literal. Align protocol matching with the case-insensitive checks in this parser. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@packages/core/src/api/parsers/markdown/autolink.ts` around lines 17 - 18,
Update parseAutolinkLiteral’s findLinks call to match HTTP and HTTPS schemes
case-insensitively, consistent with the parser’s prefix check, so mixed-case
schemes produce a match starting at zero.

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Is it actually correct that we don't export links like so:

[https://google.com](https://google.com)

Cuz I assume that for the <> link syntax we still need the parsing autolink logic, but exporting links explicitly like that seems like it's the simpler solution. And semantically, if I didn't create a link in the Markdown doc using []() syntax, I'm not sure if I would want to have it auto convert to a link on import.


/** Characters that can start an inline syntax token. */
const SPECIAL_CHARS = new Set("\\`![~*_\n<");
const SPECIAL_CHARS = new Set("\\`![~*_\n<hHwW");

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What's up with this change?

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We now care when something starts with h, w (and their capital variants) because we are linkifying bare http & www. urls

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Is it actually correct that we don't export links like so:

[https://google.com](https://google.com)

Cuz I assume that for the <> link syntax we still need the parsing autolink logic, but exporting links explicitly like that seems like it's the simpler solution. And semantically, if I didn't create a link in the Markdown doc using []() syntax, I'm not sure if I would want to have it auto convert to a link on import.

Markdown is annoying, GFM allows bare links as text like abc https://google.com and it will link https://google.com (<- like it did just there)

In CommonMark (an attempt to standardize markdown), bare http/https does not get linkified, so it'd just be plaintext.

I'd argue that it should just be linked since that mostly preserves user intent & isn't that annoying to remove a link as it is to go in & add links for something you thought would be linked.

As for why I don't serialize always to the same shape, I'm purposefully doing the simpler option because it makes the markdown "cleaner", it is also how it was being serialized before our change, so I'm just keeping the same format if the link text happens to be the same as the URL since we will now linkify text properly for round-tripping.

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I went ahead with the simplification & went with commonmark on this and now it allows <https://example.com> links as the output instead which GFM also reads in properly https://example.com, so I'll take it since it is simpler. User expectations around markdown are weird so I didn't buy my own argument

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Ah, dang this was the reason: #2661 I'll roll it back

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Markdown round trip turns URL links into plain text (no autolink parsing since 0.51)

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