diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
index 1e5fb39405..db0544fcef 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.test.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,32 @@ describe("extractTerminalLinks", () => {
       },
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("finds Windows absolute paths with forward slashes", () => {
+    const line = "see C:/Users/someone/project/src/file.ts:42 for details";
+    const path = "C:/Users/someone/project/src/file.ts:42";
+    const start = line.indexOf(path);
+    expect(extractTerminalLinks(line)).toEqual([
+      {
+        kind: "path",
+        text: path,
+        start,
+        end: start + path.length,
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("trims trailing punctuation from Windows forward-slash paths", () => {
+    const line = "(C:/tmp/x.ts).";
+    expect(extractTerminalLinks(line)).toEqual([
+      {
+        kind: "path",
+        text: "C:/tmp/x.ts",
+        start: 1,
+        end: 12,
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("resolvePathLinkTarget", () => {
@@ -60,6 +86,12 @@ describe("resolvePathLinkTarget", () => {
       resolvePathLinkTarget("/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12", "/Users/julius/project"),
     ).toBe("/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12");
   });
+
+  it("keeps Windows absolute paths with forward slashes unchanged", () => {
+    expect(
+      resolvePathLinkTarget("C:/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12", "C:\\Users\\julius\\project"),
+    ).toBe("C:/Users/julius/project/src/main.ts:12");
+  });
 });
 
 describe("isTerminalLinkActivation", () => {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
index 1119fc9087..e07904e180 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/terminal-links.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export interface TerminalLinkMatch {
 
 const URL_PATTERN = /https?:\/\/[^\s"'`<>]+/g;
 const FILE_PATH_PATTERN =
-  /(?:~\/|\.{1,2}\/|\/|[A-Za-z]:\\|\\\\)[^\s"'`<>]+|[A-Za-z0-9._-]+(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+)+(?::\d+){0,2}/g;
+  /(?:~\/|\.{1,2}\/|\/|[A-Za-z]:[\\/]|\\\\)[^\s"'`<>]+|[A-Za-z0-9._-]+(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+)+(?::\d+){0,2}/g;
 const TRAILING_PUNCTUATION_PATTERN = /[.,;!?]+$/;
 
 function trimClosingDelimiters(value: string): string {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/wsTransport.test.ts b/apps/web/src/wsTransport.test.ts
index e66ed7fc0d..c9b963286b 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/wsTransport.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/wsTransport.test.ts
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ describe("WsTransport", () => {
     expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
       1,
       "Dropped inbound WebSocket envelope",
-      "SyntaxError: Expected property name or '}' in JSON at position 2 (line 1 column 3)",
+      expect.stringMatching(/^SyntaxError:/),
     );
     expect(warnSpy).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
       2,