fix(web): clicking a logged request route no longer opens it in the editor

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Fixes #15757

A plain click on a detected terminal link activates it, and path detection treated request-log routes like /api/trpc/post.list,user.me?batch=1&input=... as file paths. Clicking the terminal to focus it while a dev server was logging opened the preferred editor on a route that isn't a file.

Path detection now skips a match whose whitespace-delimited token carries a query string (? followed by a key character). Real paths keep working on a plain click: src/main.ts:12, absolute, ~/, ./, Windows paths, :line:col suffixes, and prose like did you mean src/main.ts?. URLs with query strings are still URL links. Click and modifier activation is unchanged.

A bare route without a query (/api/trpc/post.list) is still detected, since it looks exactly like a file named post.list. I didn't reuse chat's looksLikePosixFilesystemPath because it would also stop linking real paths outside known roots, such as /app/bin/server in containers.

Before / after

Hovering the logged route in the integrated terminal (printf of the issue's log line plus src/main.ts:1):

Before	After

The real path is still a link after the change (pointer cursor and underline on hover):

Verification

• vp test run apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts: 33 passed. The new query-string cases failed before the fix, and the real-path regression cases pass both before and after.
• Web typecheck clean; lint and fmt clean for the changed files.
• Screenshots from vp run dev on upstream/main vs this branch, hovering the same terminal output in a real browser (cursor style pointer before, text after on the route).

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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped web terminal-link bug fix with focused regression coverage and no schema, infrastructure, security, billing, or static-analysis configuration impact. An unresolved Medium-severity finding does identify edge cases in distinguishing query-bearing routes from filenames, so that correctness risk remains relevant to the change.

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Path-link detection now skips candidates when their containing token has a query string. Tests cover request routes, URLs, and filesystem paths.

Changes

Terminal link detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Query-string filtering and coverage apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts, apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts	Path candidates are discarded when their token contains a query string. Tests verify that request routes with query strings are not links, URLs with query strings remain URL links, bare routes are paths, and representative filesystem paths are detected.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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This change stops request-log routes with query strings from being treated as file links in the terminal. Real file paths and URL links keep working. No merge-blocking risk is apparent.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: logged request routes no longer open in the editor when clicked.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem and fix, references issue #15757, gives scope rationale, and reports focused tests, typecheck, lint, formatting, and screenshots. It is mostly complete, though it …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #15757 asks that clicking terminal output does not open logged request routes as files. terminal-links.ts now rejects path matches when their whitespace-delimited token contains ? followed b…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to terminal path detection and its tests. The added tests protect the issue fix and preserve URL and real-path behavior. No unrelated changes appear in the whole-PR diff.

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