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What

The Markdown parser (src/lib/markdown.ts) runs while the page draws, on whatever an agent printed. Some shapes of text cost far more than their length: one crashes the chat in Chrome, the others freeze the tab for up to twelve seconds. The first five were found by the second adversarial pass on #535, which shows changelog text through the same parser; the last three by the adversarial pass on this PR.

Input (48,000 characters)	Before, Bun (JSC)	Before, Node (V8)	After, Bun	After, Node
_ repeated, then x	338 ms	RangeError (stack)	3 ms	3 ms
a URL, then ) repeated	5,858 ms	12,459 ms	2 ms	4 ms
\[ on 16,000 lines	1,860 ms	3,368 ms	8 ms	21 ms
a table header, then a line of spaces	1,504 ms	1,734 ms	0 ms	0 ms
---|---, then spaces and a letter	1,246 ms	1,484 ms	0 ms	0 ms
a list item with 12,000 continuation lines	911 ms	1,232 ms	6 ms	13 ms
# , spaces, then a U+2028 in the text	1,500 ms	1,249 ms	1 ms	4 ms
+ repeated (the path pattern alone)	494 ms	1,745 ms	0.2 ms	0.4 ms
4,000 nested \frac in one formula (KaTeX, then the depth check)	1,034 ms	296 ms	0.1 ms	0.1 ms

How

• Emphasis nesting (parseInline): a run of underscores is read as emphasis around a shorter run, one call per pair, so 48,000 of them go 12,000 calls deep. V8 runs out of stack, and nothing around a chat message catches a throw from Markdown. Nesting stops after sixteen levels and what is inside stays text. A link's label is not counted as a level.
• trimUrl: took both parenthesis counts again (two splits of the whole URL) at every closing parenthesis it considered. They are counted once and the closing count goes down as one is cut. src/lib/sshOutput.ts uses the same function.
• Display math: a \[ that never closes searched to the end of the text, and so did every \[ after it. A search that ends without a close covers every later \[ up to where it stopped (the end, or a fence): those lines are not searched again.
• Table separator: one pattern, ^\s*\|?\s*:?-{3,}:?\s*(?:\|\s*:?-{3,}:?\s*)+\|?\s*$, whose optional parts share a run of spaces in every possible way before it fails. isTableSeparator reads the line cell by cell.
• List continuation: item.content = [...item.content, …] at every indented line of an item. The nodes are pushed.
• Heading and list lines: \s+(.+)$ fails when the text holds U+2028 or U+2029 (. stops there, and only \n ends a line here), then tries every split of the spaces before it. Both patterns take the s flag. Such a line is now the heading or item it reads as; it was a paragraph.
• File paths in text (src/lib/filePaths.ts, called while a text node is drawn): + is a character of a path, but did not stop a path from starting right after it, so a run of plus signs was tried from every one of them. A path starts once in such a run. ~/ after a plus sign still starts one (+~/notes/a.md). Compared with the old pattern on 597,870 generated lines: the only lines read differently have ~ or / right before a run that holds a plus sign (~+a/b.ts, //+a/b.ts), where the old pattern found a path in the middle of the run.
• Nested formulas: KaTeX takes over a second on thousands of nested fractions before it throws, and the throw was already caught. A formula whose braces nest deeper than a hundred is shown as its source without asking KaTeX.

Not in this PR

• Quote nesting (> repeated) also overflows the stack. feat(updates): show a release's notes before it is installed #535 caps it, in the blockquote branch this PR does not touch; the two merge in either order.
• Openers that never close on one long line ([a repeated, \( repeated, _a repeated) still grow with the square of the line: 220 to 680 ms at 48,000 characters in V8. They come from the one pattern that finds every inline mark, and making them linear means writing that scanner by hand. Not a freeze of seconds at this size; left for its own change.
• Parsing stays synchronous, inside useMemo in Markdown.tsx.

Review

Codex adversarial review (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh) on the first two commits: output identical to main for trimUrl, isTableSeparator, the display-math skip and the list change on its own generated inputs; every new test fails with its fix reverted; fixed cases peak at 31 ms under the one-second limits. Four findings, all reproduced and fixed in f03a734: the two patterns that fail on a line separator, the plus-sign scan in the path matcher, the KaTeX stall, and a link label counted as a level of emphasis.

Tests

src/lib/markdown.test.ts, a new describe, and one test in src/lib/filePaths.test.ts. Each fails without its fix (checked by putting the old code back):

• trimUrl gives the answer of the old rule on every string of up to six of a ( ) . _ after a URL (19,531 URLs), and cuts 48,000 parentheses within a second.
• isTableSeparator gives the old pattern's answer on every line of up to six of , |, ---, --, :, x (55,987 lines), and the two long lines parse within a second.
• 32,000 unclosed \[ lines parse within a second, as paragraphs; a formula after a fence is still found.
• An item of 48,000 continuation lines parses within a second, with all of them in it.
• 48,000 underscores come back less than twenty levels deep with the rest as text; **a _b ~~c~~_** and eight nested __ nest as before; sixteen levels read whole, inside a link's label too.
• A heading, a - item and a 1. item with 48,000 spaces and a line separator parse within a second, as a heading and an item.
• 4,000 nested fractions are shown as their source within a second with KaTeX loaded, and the formula beside them is still drawn.
• 48,000 plus signs are split within 250 ms; +src/app.ts, c++/x/y.cc, a+b/c.ts and +~/notes/a.md read as before.

The time limits are a second where the fixed parser takes a few milliseconds and main takes 1.3 to 7.5 s on the same inputs.

bun run test:unit (1591 tests), bun run typecheck and bun run build pass locally. The table above is parseMarkdown on each input under Bun 1.4.2 and Node 24.18.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Markdown rendering now handles unusually long or malformed inputs more quickly, including long URLs, unclosed formulas, whitespace-heavy headings and items, and lengthy list items.
  • Deeply nested emphasis is bounded while preserving remaining text and ordinary nested formatting. Formulas nested beyond 100 brace levels display as source text.
  • Table separators and URL punctuation are handled more consistently.
  • File paths in diff-added lines are recognized, including after long runs of plus signs.

Walkthrough

Markdown parsing now limits nested emphasis and formula input, adjusts URL and table-separator handling, and avoids repeated searches for unclosed display math. File-path matching handles plus-sign sequences. Regression tests cover these parsing cases and performance.

Changes

Markdown Parser Robustness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inline and block parsing src/lib/markdown.ts, src/lib/markdown.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md	URL trimming counts parentheses before removing unmatched trailing closers. Inline parsing limits nesting to 16 levels. Table separator recognition checks each cell, and list continuation appends text to existing content. Heading and list patterns handle line separators. Tests cover these behaviors and large inputs.
Formula limits and display-math search src/lib/markdown.ts, src/components/Markdown.tsx, src/lib/markdown.test.ts	The parser detects brace nesting beyond 100 and skips repeated display-math searches over previously checked lines. MathExpression displays over-nested formulas as source text. Tests cover formula nesting, rendering, and unclosed display-math input.

File-Path Matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plus-sign path matching src/lib/filePaths.ts, src/lib/filePaths.test.ts	The bare-path pattern recognizes paths beginning at plus signs while preserving the +~/... case. Tests cover long plus-sign sequences and plus signs adjacent to paths.

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🟡 Minor · Stop before creating the seventeenth emphasis node. · markdown.ts:97

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Stop before creating the seventeenth emphasis node.

With seventeen nested emphasis markers, the parser creates a node at depth === 16. The depth > MAX_INLINE_DEPTH check converts only that node’s children to text. Guard node creation at the limit while still allowing ordinary inline content inside sixteen levels. This preserves the stated sixteen-level limit.

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Review comment at @src/lib/markdown.ts at line 97:
Update the nesting guard in the inline parser to prevent creating an emphasis
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sixteen levels. Adjust the check before emphasis-node creation so a seventeenth
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Enforce the 16-level emphasis limit.

At depth 16, this condition still parses a matching emphasis token. The parser can therefore create one more emphasis node before it falls back to plain text. Change > to >=.

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-  if (depth > MAX_INLINE_DEPTH) return source === "" ? [] : [{ type: "text", value: source }];
+  if (depth >= MAX_INLINE_DEPTH) return source === "" ? [] : [{ type: "text", value: source }];

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Update the inline parser’s depth guard to fall back to plain text when depth
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