The old renderer rewrote the text: it found "[n]" with regexes, renumbered
them, and swapped the result back in — which broke inside `arr[2][1]`, inside
HTML attributes, and whenever two turns disagreed about what "[3]" meant. It
also had a fallback markdown renderer of its own for when the rewrite
produced something markdown-it would not parse.
Now "[n]" is an inline rule registered on the same markdown-it instance that
renders everything else. The parser decides what is prose and what is code, a
link, or a URL, so the rule never sees "[1]" inside a code span, and it steps
aside for "[1](url)". Math is two more rules on the same parser instead of a
regex pre-pass, so "$" inside a URL is no longer math.
Identity vs display: the stored "[n]" and each card's id are the source's
identity (sourceNumber) and are never rewritten. The number a reader sees is
the order of first appearance, computed at render time from the token stream
(orderSourcesByCitation), so "one, then seven" cannot happen and a saved chat
re-opens pointing at the same cards it was saved with. Stored messages and
sources are untouched; export and the modal resolve by identity.
Translated HTML gets the same links through a TreeWalker over text nodes
(linkCitationsInHtml) rather than a regex over markup.
Deleted: renderCitationLinks, normalizeAdjacentCitationClusters, the
fallback renderer (fallbackMarkdown/renderMixedList/renderFallbackTable),
renderLatexText, CITATION_SCAN. Tests that asserted rewritten text now assert
token output; harnesses that render for real are given a parser.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dv6sqaY6Vq3ChZHMem3cnU
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