diff --git a/src/web/public/app.js b/src/web/public/app.js
index 7c8297ca..d7cc0d8a 100644
--- a/src/web/public/app.js
+++ b/src/web/public/app.js
@@ -2053,6 +2053,28 @@ class CodemanApp {
           wrap.appendChild(actions);
           wrap.appendChild(pre);
         });
+        // Links open in a NEW tab.
+        //
+        // marked emits a bare `<a href>` and the sanitizer's allowlist has no
+        // `target`, so a tap in the chat NAVIGATED THE APP AWAY: on a phone that
+        // unloads the whole dashboard — SSE, terminal buffers, unsent composer
+        // text — and the OS back gesture reloads it from scratch, which is what
+        // "links don't open" reads as on mobile, with no middle-click or
+        // open-in-new-tab affordance to work around it.
+        //
+        // This pass runs AFTER sanitizing, so it is the only source of these two
+        // attributes: whatever an agent wrote is already gone, and `rel` is set on
+        // the same element in the same breath, so no page Codeman opens ever gets
+        // a `window.opener` handle back (reverse tabnabbing).
+        //
+        // A fragment link stays in-page, and mailto:/tel: are handed to the OS —
+        // giving those a target just strands an empty tab.
+        tmpl.content.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach((a) => {
+          const href = a.getAttribute('href') || '';
+          if (!href || href.startsWith('#') || /^(?:mailto|tel):/i.test(href)) return;
+          a.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
+          a.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
+        });
         return tmpl.innerHTML;
       } catch { /* fall through */ }
     }
diff --git a/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js b/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
index 09bc7585..18eec8a2 100644
--- a/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
+++ b/src/web/public/terminal-ui.js
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
     // Debug: Track if provider is being invoked
     let lastInvokedLine = -1;
 
-    this.terminal.registerLinkProvider({
+    const provider = {
       provideLinks(bufferLineNumber, callback) {
         // Debug logging - only log if line changed to avoid spam
         if (bufferLineNumber !== lastInvokedLine) {
@@ -1523,11 +1523,124 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
         }
         callback(links.length > 0 ? links : undefined);
       },
-    });
+    };
+
+    // Keep the provider reachable: on touch devices xterm's linkifier never
+    // resolves a link (it is driven by mousemove/mouseup, which a tap does not
+    // produce), so the tap path asks this SAME provider what is under the finger
+    // rather than growing a second, driftable copy of the patterns.
+    // See _terminalLinkAtPoint.
+    this._terminalLinkProvider = provider;
+    this.terminal.registerLinkProvider(provider);
 
     console.log('[LinkProvider] File path link provider registered');
   },
 
+  /**
+   * The terminal link under a viewport point, or null.
+   *
+   * Resolved through the provider registered above, so a tap and a desktop click
+   * can never disagree about what is a link or where it ends. Containment
+   * mirrors xterm's own `_linkAtPosition` — flattened `y * cols + x`, inclusive
+   * at both ends — for the same reason.
+   *
+   * ⚠️ The provider answers its callback SYNCHRONOUSLY (every path in
+   * `registerFilePathLinkProvider` does, including the empty ones). xterm's
+   * ILinkProvider contract permits an async reply, so this reads whatever
+   * arrived by the time the call returns and answers null otherwise: a tap then
+   * keeps its normal meaning instead of opening a link late, after the gesture
+   * that made `window.open` permissible is gone.
+   */
+  _terminalLinkAtPoint(clientX, clientY) {
+    const provider = this._terminalLinkProvider;
+    const buffer = this.terminal?.buffer?.active;
+    if (!provider || !buffer) return null;
+    const pos = this._clientPointToCell(clientX, clientY);
+    if (!pos) return null;
+    // Link ranges are 1-based ABSOLUTE buffer lines (xterm adds ydisp to the
+    // viewport row before asking), which is what the provider's coordAt() emits.
+    const y = (buffer.viewportY || 0) + pos.row;
+    let links = null;
+    try {
+      provider.provideLinks(y, (result) => {
+        links = result || [];
+      });
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (!links || links.length === 0) return null;
+    const cols = Math.max(1, this.terminal.cols || 1);
+    const current = y * cols + pos.col;
+    return (
+      links.find((link) => {
+        const start = link?.range?.start;
+        const end = link?.range?.end;
+        if (!start || !end) return false;
+        return start.y * cols + start.x <= current && current <= end.y * cols + end.x;
+      }) || null
+    );
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Is this point on the caret's logical line — the editable composer?
+   *
+   * There a tap means "put the cursor here", so a URL the USER typed or pasted
+   * into a prompt must stay editable rather than opening itself. The caret is the
+   * signal that works for every CLI: claude's composer row carries it, and in a
+   * plain shell it sits on the prompt line while output scrolls above, so the
+   * same test covers both without asking what mode is running (tap
+   * classification cannot answer this — a shell session classifies EVERY tap as
+   * 'input', which would leave every URL in shell output inert).
+   *
+   * The caret's line is walked out through soft wraps, since a long prompt spans
+   * rows.
+   */
+  _tapIsOnCaretLine(clientX, clientY) {
+    const buffer = this.terminal?.buffer?.active;
+    if (!buffer?.getLine) return false;
+    const pos = this._clientPointToCell(clientX, clientY);
+    if (!pos) return false;
+    const rows = Math.max(1, this.terminal.rows || 1);
+    const cursorRow = Math.max(0, Math.min(rows - 1, buffer.cursorY || 0));
+    const tappedRow = pos.row - 1;
+    if (tappedRow === cursorRow) return true;
+    let start = cursorRow;
+    while (start > 0 && buffer.getLine(buffer.viewportY + start)?.isWrapped) start--;
+    let end = cursorRow;
+    while (end + 1 < rows && buffer.getLine(buffer.viewportY + end + 1)?.isWrapped) end++;
+    return tappedRow >= start && tappedRow <= end;
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Activate the terminal link under a touch point. Returns true when one was.
+   *
+   * xterm activates a link from a `mousemove` that resolves what is under the
+   * pointer, followed by a `mouseup` on its SCREEN element — and on a touch
+   * device it receives neither: `touch-action: none` plus touchstart's
+   * preventDefault suppress the browser's compatibility mouse events,
+   * _installMobileTapMouseGuard drops the ones that still arrive, and the
+   * synthetic pair dispatched for mouse REPORTING goes to the `.xterm` root,
+   * an ANCESTOR of the node the linkifier listens on (so it cannot reach it) and
+   * carries no mousemove either way. Every URL and file path in the terminal was
+   * therefore inert on phones and tablets — Claude Code's own `/login` URL
+   * included, which is unfinishable from a phone without this.
+   *
+   * Activating here, synchronously inside the touchend handler, is what keeps
+   * the user gesture that lets the URL branch's `window.open` through the popup
+   * blocker; a later activation (a timer, a promise) is silently swallowed.
+   */
+  _activateTerminalLinkAtPoint(clientX, clientY) {
+    const link = this._terminalLinkAtPoint(clientX, clientY);
+    if (!link || typeof link.activate !== 'function') return false;
+    try {
+      link.activate(null, link.text);
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.warn('[LinkProvider] tap activation failed:', err);
+      return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  },
+
   showWelcome() {
     // Phones get the session overview instead of the welcome screen: on a small
     // screen "which session is blocked on me" beats "how do I start one". The
@@ -3705,6 +3818,32 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
     // touchstart already classified this exact point; reuse it rather than paying
     // a second full-viewport scan for the same gesture.
     const intent = cachedIntent ?? this._classifyMobileTerminalTap(touch.clientX, touch.clientY);
+    // Computed once and reused by the keyboard decision at the tail of this
+    // method: both ask the same question, and the pane cannot change in between
+    // (a mouse report only reaches the PTY; its output lands on a later turn).
+    const actionable = this._isActionableMobileTerminalTap(touch.clientX, touch.clientY);
+
+    // A tap that lands ON a link activates it, at any scroll position and before
+    // any mouse report — exactly what a desktop click does, where the provider's
+    // activate() runs and _handleDesktopTerminalClick deliberately skips the SGR
+    // tap for a hovered link so the CLI never also sees a click there.
+    //
+    // Two kinds of row keep their existing meaning instead: the composer, where a
+    // tap places the caret in text the USER typed (_tapIsOnCaretLine), and
+    // TUI-owned rows, where a numbered choice or an expandable readback is
+    // answering a dialog and routinely carries the very path the tap would
+    // otherwise open — on a phone the dialog is the only interaction that
+    // matters, so it wins.
+    if (
+      !actionable &&
+      !this._tapIsOnCaretLine(touch.clientX, touch.clientY) &&
+      this._activateTerminalLinkAtPoint(touch.clientX, touch.clientY)
+    ) {
+      // No focus change: a 'content' tap was already blurred by touchstart, and
+      // popping the keyboard behind a tab that is about to take over is noise.
+      return 'link';
+    }
+
     if (intent === 'history') {
       // Scrolled up: send NO mouse report — a tap on old output must not be
       // delivered to the CLI as a click on whatever row now occupies that cell.
@@ -3728,7 +3867,7 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
       this._sendSyntheticSgrTap(touch.clientX, touch.clientY);
     }
 
-    if (intent === 'content' && this._isActionableMobileTerminalTap(touch.clientX, touch.clientY)) {
+    if (intent === 'content' && actionable) {
       // A synthetic xterm click can focus its helper textarea. Blur after the
       // report so collapsing a readback never opens or retains the keyboard.
       this._blurMobileTerminalInput();
diff --git a/test/response-viewer-external-links.test.ts b/test/response-viewer-external-links.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a0cfd69d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/response-viewer-external-links.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Response-viewer links open in a NEW tab (`CodemanApp._renderMarkdown`).
+ *
+ * `marked` emits a bare `<a href>` and the markdown sanitizer's allowlist carries no
+ * `target`, so every link in the chat used to navigate the CURRENT tab. On a phone that
+ * unloads the whole dashboard — SSE, terminal buffers, unsent composer text — and the OS
+ * back gesture reloads it from scratch, with no middle-click or open-in-new-tab affordance
+ * to work around it. That is the "links don't open on mobile" report.
+ *
+ * `_renderMarkdown` therefore decorates anchors AFTER sanitizing, which makes it the single
+ * source of both attributes: whatever an agent wrote is already stripped by then, and `rel`
+ * is set on the same element in the same pass, so no page Codeman opens can reach back
+ * through `window.opener` (reverse tabnabbing).
+ *
+ * Drives the SHIPPING artifacts — vendored `marked`, vendored DOMPurify + `sanitize-html.js`,
+ * and `app.js` itself — in a `vm` with a jsdom document injected (the technique from
+ * markdown-sanitizer.test.ts / response-viewer-file-links.test.ts; a per-file jsdom
+ * environment would externalize node:fs under vite).
+ *
+ * No port / server needed.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { performance } from 'node:perf_hooks';
+import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+import vm from 'node:vm';
+import { JSDOM } from 'jsdom';
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+const publicFile = (name: string) => readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../src/web/public', name), 'utf8');
+
+const dom = new JSDOM('<!DOCTYPE html><html><body></body></html>');
+const jsdomWindow = dom.window as unknown as Window & typeof globalThis;
+const { document, NodeFilter } = dom.window;
+
+/** The shipping sanitizer: vendored DOMPurify bound to our jsdom window + the real config. */
+function loadShippingSanitizer(): (html: string) => string {
+  const dpModule: { exports: unknown } = { exports: {} };
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-implied-eval, no-new-func
+  new Function('module', 'exports', publicFile('vendor/dompurify.min.js'))(dpModule, dpModule.exports);
+  const DOMPurify = (dpModule.exports as (win: unknown) => unknown)(jsdomWindow);
+
+  const sanModule: { exports: { createMarkdownSanitizer?: (dp: unknown) => (html: string) => string } } = {
+    exports: {},
+  };
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-implied-eval, no-new-func
+  new Function('module', 'exports', publicFile('sanitize-html.js'))(sanModule, sanModule.exports);
+  const create = sanModule.exports.createMarkdownSanitizer;
+  if (typeof create !== 'function') throw new Error('createMarkdownSanitizer not exported');
+  return create(DOMPurify);
+}
+
+/** The vendored `marked` build the page loads, evaluated as CommonJS. */
+function loadShippingMarked(): { parse: (src: string, opts?: unknown) => string } {
+  const module: { exports: unknown } = { exports: {} };
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-implied-eval, no-new-func
+  new Function('module', 'exports', publicFile('vendor/marked.min.js'))(module, module.exports);
+  return module.exports as { parse: (src: string, opts?: unknown) => string };
+}
+
+type RenderApp = { _renderMarkdown(text: string): string };
+
+function loadCodemanAppClass(): { prototype: RenderApp } {
+  const context = vm.createContext({
+    console,
+    performance,
+    setInterval: vi.fn(),
+    clearInterval: vi.fn(),
+    setTimeout,
+    clearTimeout,
+    requestAnimationFrame: vi.fn(),
+    HTMLCanvasElement: class HTMLCanvasElement {},
+    fetch: vi.fn(),
+    document,
+    NodeFilter,
+    localStorage: { length: 0, key: vi.fn(), getItem: vi.fn(), setItem: vi.fn(), removeItem: vi.fn() },
+    // The page wires the sanitizer onto window; _sanitizeHtml fails closed without it,
+    // and a closed-failing render would make every assertion below vacuous.
+    window: { addEventListener: vi.fn(), removeEventListener: vi.fn(), sanitizeMarkdownHtml: loadShippingSanitizer() },
+    marked: loadShippingMarked(),
+    MobileDetection: {},
+  });
+  vm.runInContext(
+    `${publicFile('constants.js')}\n${publicFile('app.js')}\nglobalThis.__CodemanApp = CodemanApp;`,
+    context
+  );
+  return (context as { __CodemanApp: { prototype: RenderApp } }).__CodemanApp;
+}
+
+const CodemanApp = loadCodemanAppClass();
+
+/** Render markdown the way the response viewer does and return the resulting element. */
+function render(markdown: string): HTMLElement {
+  const app = Object.create(CodemanApp.prototype) as RenderApp;
+  const root = document.createElement('div');
+  root.className = 'rv-text';
+  root.innerHTML = app._renderMarkdown(markdown);
+  return root as unknown as HTMLElement;
+}
+
+const anchor = (root: HTMLElement, index = 0) => Array.from(root.querySelectorAll('a'))[index];
+
+describe('response viewer external links', () => {
+  it('opens a markdown link in a new tab, with rel set in the same pass', () => {
+    const root = render('See [the docs](https://example.com/docs?a=1&b=2) for details.');
+
+    const a = anchor(root);
+    expect(a, 'the link survived sanitizing').toBeDefined();
+    expect(a.getAttribute('href')).toBe('https://example.com/docs?a=1&b=2');
+    expect(a.getAttribute('target')).toBe('_blank');
+    expect(a.getAttribute('rel')).toBe('noopener noreferrer');
+  });
+
+  it('opens an autolinked bare URL in a new tab too', () => {
+    // gfm autolinks a bare URL, which is how an agent usually prints one.
+    const root = render('Login at https://claude.ai/oauth/authorize?code=true&client_id=abc to continue.');
+
+    const a = anchor(root);
+    expect(a.getAttribute('href')).toBe('https://claude.ai/oauth/authorize?code=true&client_id=abc');
+    expect(a.getAttribute('target')).toBe('_blank');
+    expect(a.getAttribute('rel')).toBe('noopener noreferrer');
+  });
+
+  it('sends a same-origin path to a new tab as well — it is still a navigation away', () => {
+    const root = render('Check [status](/api/status).');
+
+    expect(anchor(root).getAttribute('target')).toBe('_blank');
+  });
+
+  it('leaves an in-page fragment link alone', () => {
+    // A target here would open a second copy of the app to scroll it.
+    const root = render('Jump to [the section](#results).');
+
+    const a = anchor(root);
+    expect(a.getAttribute('href')).toBe('#results');
+    expect(a.hasAttribute('target')).toBe(false);
+    expect(a.hasAttribute('rel')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves mailto: and tel: to the OS instead of stranding an empty tab', () => {
+    const root = render('Mail [me](mailto:a@example.com) or call [now](tel:+15551234).');
+
+    for (const a of Array.from(root.querySelectorAll('a'))) {
+      expect(a.hasAttribute('target'), a.getAttribute('href') || '').toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('is the ONLY source of target/rel: an agent cannot ask for an opener', () => {
+    // The sanitizer's allowlist has neither attribute, so agent-authored ones are gone
+    // before this pass runs — and the pass sets both together, so `rel` can never end up
+    // weaker than the target it accompanies.
+    const root = render('<a href="https://evil.example/" target="_self" rel="opener">click</a>');
+
+    const a = anchor(root);
+    expect(a.getAttribute('target')).toBe('_blank');
+    expect(a.getAttribute('rel')).toBe('noopener noreferrer');
+  });
+
+  it('still drops a javascript: link rather than decorating it', () => {
+    const root = render('[x](javascript:alert(1))');
+
+    const a = anchor(root);
+    // DOMPurify strips the unsafe href; whatever is left must not carry a target either,
+    // which would turn a hollow anchor into a window-opening one.
+    expect(a?.getAttribute('href') ?? null).toBeNull();
+    expect(a?.hasAttribute('target') ?? false).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('keeps code blocks and their copy affordance intact', () => {
+    // The anchor pass shares the one template walk with the code-block wrapper; a mistake
+    // there would silently drop the toolbar rather than fail loudly.
+    const root = render('```\nconst a = 1;\n```');
+
+    expect(root.querySelector('.rv-code-wrap')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(root.querySelector('.rv-copy-btn')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(root.querySelector('pre code')?.textContent).toContain('const a = 1;');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts b/test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts
index be05e937..4db77035 100644
--- a/test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts
+++ b/test/terminal-touch-tap.test.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ function loadTerminalUiHarness() {
   let now = 1_000;
   let keyboardVisible = false;
   let activeElement: unknown = null;
+  // The module hangs its constants off window (CodemanTerminalInput) and the URL branch of
+  // the link provider opens through window.open, so tests need a handle on the same object.
+  const windowRef: Record<string, any> = {};
   const context = vm.createContext({
-    window: {},
+    window: windowRef,
     document: {
       body: { classList: { contains: () => false } },
       get activeElement() {
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@ function loadTerminalUiHarness() {
       getElementById: () => null,
     },
     CodemanApp,
-    console: { warn: vi.fn(), log: vi.fn() },
+    console: { warn: vi.fn(), log: vi.fn(), debug: vi.fn() },
     _crashDiag: { log: vi.fn() },
     performance: { now: () => now },
     requestAnimationFrame: (_fn: () => void) => 1,
@@ -43,12 +46,18 @@ function loadTerminalUiHarness() {
     TERMINAL_CHUNK_SIZE: 32 * 1024,
   });
 
+  // constants.js first: the link provider calls absoluteFilePathPattern() and
+  // previewsInFileViewer() at scan time, and the SHIPPED definitions are what keep a tap and
+  // a hover resolving the same links.
+  const constants = readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../src/web/public/constants.js'), 'utf8');
   const code = readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../src/web/public/terminal-ui.js'), 'utf8');
+  vm.runInContext(constants, context, { filename: 'constants.js' });
   vm.runInContext(code, context, { filename: 'terminal-ui.js' });
 
   const app = new (CodemanApp as any)();
   return {
     app,
+    windowRef,
     setNow: (value: number) => {
       now = value;
     },
@@ -732,3 +741,161 @@ describe('terminal touch tap mouse guard', () => {
     expect(event.stopImmediatePropagation).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 });
+
+describe('terminal link tap', () => {
+  // xterm resolves a link from mousemove and activates it on mouseup over its SCREEN element.
+  // A touch tap produces none of those (touch-action:none and touchstart's preventDefault
+  // suppress the compatibility mouse events, the post-tap guard drops the rest, and the
+  // synthetic pair this app dispatches for mouse REPORTING lands on the .xterm root, an
+  // ancestor of the node the linkifier listens on). So the tap path activates the link
+  // itself, through the same provider, or every URL and path in the terminal stays inert on
+  // a phone.
+  //
+  // Grid geometry from createTerminalGrid: 8×16 cells, screen rect at (0,0), viewportY 0 —
+  // so 0-based character index i on 0-based row r sits at (i * 8 + 4, r * 16 + 8).
+  const at = (index: number, row = 0) => ({ clientX: index * 8 + 4, clientY: row * 16 + 8 });
+
+  /** A claude-mode app with the shipped link provider registered over `lines`. */
+  function linkHarness(lines: string[], cursorY = lines.length - 1) {
+    const harness = loadTerminalUiHarness();
+    const { app, windowRef } = harness;
+    const sent: string[] = [];
+    app.activeSessionId = 'sess-1';
+    app.sessions = new Map([['sess-1', { mode: 'claude' }]]);
+    app._sendInputAsync = (_id: string, data: string) => sent.push(data);
+    app.terminal = createTerminalGrid(lines, cursorY);
+    app.terminal.registerLinkProvider = vi.fn();
+    app.openFilePreview = vi.fn();
+    app.openLogViewerWindow = vi.fn();
+    app._isExternalPreviewPath = () => false;
+    windowRef.open = vi.fn();
+    app.registerFilePathLinkProvider();
+    return { app, windowRef, sent };
+  }
+
+  it('opens a URL under the finger in a new tab', () => {
+    const line = 'Login at https://claude.ai/oauth/authorize?code=true&client_id=abc to finish';
+    const { app, windowRef } = linkHarness([line, '', '❯ ']);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('https')), false, 'content')).toBe('link');
+    expect(windowRef.open).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'https://claude.ai/oauth/authorize?code=true&client_id=abc',
+      '_blank',
+      'noopener,noreferrer'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('sends no mouse report for the tap it just spent on a link', () => {
+    // The CLI must not also see a click there: that is how a tap on a URL printed inside a
+    // permission dialog would answer the dialog. Desktop already skips the SGR tap for a
+    // hovered link (_handleDesktopTerminalClick).
+    const line = 'see https://example.com/x for more';
+    const { app, sent } = linkHarness([line, '', '❯ ']);
+
+    expect(app._sessionUsesServerMouseStrip()).toBe(true);
+    app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('https')), false, 'content');
+
+    expect(sent).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a tap beside the link as an ordinary tap', () => {
+    // Containment is xterm's own rule (flattened cell index), so tap and click agree on
+    // where a link ends; a tap on the prose around it keeps its mouse report.
+    const line = 'see https://example.com/x for more';
+    const { app, windowRef, sent } = linkHarness([line, '', '❯ ']);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('for more') + 3), false, 'content')).toBe('content');
+    expect(windowRef.open).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(sent).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it('opens a tapped file path in the preview overlay', () => {
+    const line = 'wrote the chart to /tmp/out/chart.png just now';
+    const { app } = linkHarness([line, '', '❯ ']);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('/tmp')), false, 'content')).toBe('link');
+    expect(app.openFilePreview).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/tmp/out/chart.png', 'sess-1');
+    expect(app.openLogViewerWindow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('sends a tapped log path to the log viewer', () => {
+    const line = 'tail -f /var/log/app.log';
+    const { app } = linkHarness([line, '', '❯ ']);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('/var')), false, 'content')).toBe('link');
+    expect(app.openLogViewerWindow).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/var/log/app.log', 'sess-1');
+  });
+
+  it('activates a link in scrollback, where the tap sends no report at all', () => {
+    // A scrolled-up tap deliberately reports nothing (it would land on whatever row now
+    // occupies the cell), but reading old output and tapping a URL in it is the common case.
+    const line = 'docs at https://example.com/guide';
+    const { app, windowRef, sent } = linkHarness([line, '', '']);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('https')), false, 'history')).toBe('link');
+    expect(windowRef.open).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    expect(sent).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('never hijacks a TUI-owned choice row that happens to carry a path', () => {
+    // On a phone the dialog is the only interaction that matters, and its rows routinely
+    // name the very file a link would open — answering it must keep winning.
+    // ⚠️ The caret is parked on the QUESTION row, not the choice: with the caret on the
+    // tapped row this would pass through _tapIsOnCaretLine and pin nothing.
+    const line = '❯ 1. Yes, edit /home/user/src/app.ts';
+    const { app, windowRef, sent } = linkHarness(['Do you want to make this edit?', line, '  2. No, keep it as is'], 0);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(line.indexOf('/home'), 1), false, 'content')).toBe('content');
+    expect(windowRef.open).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(app.openFilePreview).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(sent).toHaveLength(1); // the choice still reaches the CLI
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a URL the user typed in the composer editable', () => {
+    // Tapping your own prompt text means "put the caret here". Opening it instead would
+    // punish the phone gesture for fixing a typo in a pasted link.
+    const composer = '❯ summarize https://example.com/guide for me';
+    const { app, windowRef, sent } = linkHarness(['earlier output', '', composer], 2);
+
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(at(composer.indexOf('https'), 2), true, 'input')).toBe('input');
+    expect(windowRef.open).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(sent).toHaveLength(1); // the tap still positions the caret via the mouse report
+  });
+
+  it('activates a link in a plain shell session, where every tap classifies as input', () => {
+    // A shell has no TUI to own taps, so _classifyMobileTerminalTap short-circuits to
+    // 'input' for the whole screen — gating link taps on the intent would leave every URL
+    // in shell output (curl, npm, git remote) inert. The caret line is the real boundary.
+    const line = 'remote: https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git';
+    const harness = loadTerminalUiHarness();
+    const { app, windowRef } = harness;
+    app.activeSessionId = 'sess-1';
+    app.sessions = new Map([['sess-1', { mode: 'shell' }]]);
+    app._sendInputAsync = vi.fn();
+    app.terminal = createTerminalGrid([line, '', 'bash-5.3$ '], 2);
+    app.terminal.registerLinkProvider = vi.fn();
+    windowRef.open = vi.fn();
+    app.registerFilePathLinkProvider();
+
+    // No cachedIntent below: real classification runs, and for a shell it answers 'input'.
+    const point = at(line.indexOf('https'));
+    expect(app._classifyMobileTerminalTap(point.clientX, point.clientY)).toBe('input');
+    expect(app._handleMobileTerminalTap(point, false)).toBe('link');
+    expect(windowRef.open).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git',
+      '_blank',
+      'noopener,noreferrer'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps taps working when no provider was ever registered', () => {
+    const harness = loadTerminalUiHarness();
+    const { app } = harness;
+    app.activeSessionId = 'sess-1';
+    app.sessions = new Map([['sess-1', { mode: 'claude' }]]);
+    app.terminal = createTerminalGrid(['plain output', '', '❯ '], 2);
+
+    expect(app._terminalLinkAtPoint(4, 8)).toBeNull();
+    expect(app._activateTerminalLinkAtPoint(4, 8)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});