diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
index 841e91fe4c4b..d6ee2a433570 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/markdown-text.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import {
   parseMarkdownIntoBlocks,
   type StreamdownTextComponents,
   StreamdownTextPrimitive,
-  type SyntaxHighlighterProps
+  type SyntaxHighlighterProps,
+  tailBoundedRemend
 } from '@assistant-ui/react-streamdown'
 import { code } from '@streamdown/code'
 import { type ComponentProps, memo, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
@@ -29,7 +30,6 @@ import {
   mediaStreamUrl
 } from '@/lib/media'
 import { previewTargetFromMarkdownHref } from '@/lib/preview-targets'
-import { tailBoundedRemend } from '@/lib/remend-tail'
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils'
 
 import { detectEmbed, extractAlert, MarkdownAlert, RichCodeBlock, UrlEmbed } from './embeds'
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ import { detectEmbed, extractAlert, MarkdownAlert, RichCodeBlock, UrlEmbed } fro
 const mathPlugin = createMemoizedMathPlugin({ singleDollarTextMath: true })
 
 // Replaces Streamdown's `parseIncompleteMarkdown` (full-text remend per
-// flush) with a tail-bounded repair — see lib/remend-tail.ts. Must stay
-// module-scope so the prop identity is stable across renders.
+// flush) with a tail-bounded repair. Must stay module-scope so the prop
+// identity is stable across renders.
 function preprocessWithTailRepair(text: string): string {
   try {
     return tailBoundedRemend(preprocessMarkdown(text))
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index c730937356d5..000000000000
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-import { parseMarkdownIntoBlocks } from '@assistant-ui/react-streamdown'
-import remend from 'remend'
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-
-import { findRemendWindowStart, tailBoundedRemend } from './remend-tail'
-
-const CORPUS = `# Heading one
-
-Intro paragraph with **bold**, *italic*, \`inline code\`, and a [link](https://example.com).
-
-## Code
-
-\`\`\`python
-def main():
-    cost = "$5"
-    print(f"total: $\{cost}")
-\`\`\`
-
-Some text after the fence with $x^2 + y^2$ inline math.
-
-$$
-\\int_0^1 f(x) dx
-$$
-
-- list item one with **bold**
-- list item two
-
-| col a | col b |
-| ----- | ----- |
-| 1     | 2     |
-
-~~~js
-const s = \`template \${value}\`
-~~~
-
-Final paragraph with ~~strike~~ and unfinished [link text](https://exa
-`
-
-/**
- * Render-equivalence oracle: full-text remend and tail-bounded remend may
- * differ in raw string output ONLY in ways that cannot affect rendering —
- * i.e. after block splitting, every block must be identical. (Streamdown
- * renders blocks independently, so block-level equality IS render equality.)
- */
-function blocksOf(text: string): string[] {
-  return parseMarkdownIntoBlocks(text)
-}
-
-describe('tailBoundedRemend', () => {
-  it('matches full remend block output at every streaming prefix', () => {
-    for (let end = 1; end <= CORPUS.length; end++) {
-      const prefix = CORPUS.slice(0, end)
-      const full = blocksOf(remend(prefix))
-      const tail = blocksOf(tailBoundedRemend(prefix))
-
-      expect(tail, `prefix length ${end}: ${JSON.stringify(prefix.slice(-60))}`).toEqual(full)
-    }
-  })
-
-  it('repairs an unclosed fence opened early in a long message', () => {
-    const text = `intro\n\n\`\`\`python\n${'x = 1\n'.repeat(500)}print("$dollar")`
-    const repaired = tailBoundedRemend(text)
-
-    expect(blocksOf(repaired)).toEqual(blocksOf(remend(text)))
-    // the window must reach back to the fence opener
-    expect(findRemendWindowStart(text)).toBe(text.indexOf('```python'))
-  })
-
-  it('bounds the window to the tail paragraph when no fence is open', () => {
-    const text = `para one\n\npara two\n\npara three with **bold`
-    const start = findRemendWindowStart(text)
-
-    expect(start).toBe(text.indexOf('para three'))
-    expect(tailBoundedRemend(text)).toBe(remend(text))
-  })
-
-  it('widens the window across an open $$ math block', () => {
-    const text = `before\n\n$$\n\\frac{a}{b}`
-    const start = findRemendWindowStart(text)
-
-    expect(start).toBeLessThanOrEqual(text.indexOf('$$'))
-    expect(blocksOf(tailBoundedRemend(text))).toEqual(blocksOf(remend(text)))
-  })
-
-  it('handles closed constructs without modification', () => {
-    const text = `done **bold** and \`code\`\n\n\`\`\`js\nconst a = 1\n\`\`\`\n\nlast line.`
-
-    expect(tailBoundedRemend(text)).toBe(text)
-  })
-
-  it('intentionally diverges from full remend on cross-block dangling openers', () => {
-    // Full remend scans the whole document and appends `**` for an opener
-    // left dangling in an EARLIER block, dumping stray asterisks into the
-    // unrelated tail block ("|**"). Because Streamdown splits into blocks
-    // after the repair, that opener never renders as bold either way — the
-    // tail-bounded result is the cleaner of the two. This test documents
-    // the divergence so a future remend upgrade that changes the behavior
-    // gets noticed.
-    const text = `- item with **dangling\n- item two\n\n|`
-
-    expect(remend(text).endsWith('|**')).toBe(true)
-    expect(tailBoundedRemend(text).endsWith('|')).toBe(true)
-    expect(tailBoundedRemend(text).endsWith('|**')).toBe(false)
-  })
-})
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 683f7dc193e0..000000000000
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/remend-tail.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-import remend from 'remend'
-
-// Tail-bounded incomplete-markdown repair.
-//
-// Streamdown's built-in `parseIncompleteMarkdown` runs `remend` over the whole
-// accumulated message on every streaming flush (~18% of script time on 50KB+
-// messages). But repairs only ever matter in the trailing block: inline
-// constructs can't cross a blank line, and Streamdown splits into blocks AFTER
-// the repair, so a dangling opener in an earlier block can't reach the tail.
-// We run `remend` on just that block instead.
-
-const BACKTICK = 96 // `
-const TILDE = 126 // ~
-const SPACE = 32
-const TAB = 9
-const BACKSLASH = 92
-
-const isSpace = (c: number) => c === SPACE || c === TAB
-
-/**
- * Index of the last top-level block start — the char after the most recent
- * blank line that sits outside any open code fence or `$$` math block. An
- * unclosed fence/math always begins after that blank, so it stays wholly
- * inside the window without separate tracking. One cheap char pass, no regex.
- */
-export function findRemendWindowStart(text: string): number {
-  const n = text.length
-  let inFence = false
-  let fenceChar = 0
-  let fenceRun = 0
-  let inMath = false
-  let boundary = 0
-  let pending = -1 // a blank line, committed to `boundary` once content follows
-
-  for (let lineStart = 0; lineStart <= n; ) {
-    let lineEnd = text.indexOf('\n', lineStart)
-
-    if (lineEnd === -1) {
-      lineEnd = n
-    }
-
-    let i = lineStart
-
-    while (i < lineEnd && isSpace(text.charCodeAt(i))) {
-      i += 1
-    }
-
-    const first = i < lineEnd ? text.charCodeAt(i) : -1
-    let marker = false
-
-    // Fence open/close (``` or ~~~, ≤3 spaces indent).
-    if ((first === BACKTICK || first === TILDE) && i - lineStart <= 3) {
-      let run = i
-
-      while (run < lineEnd && text.charCodeAt(run) === first) {
-        run += 1
-      }
-
-      if (run - i >= 3) {
-        marker = true
-
-        if (!inFence) {
-          inFence = true
-          fenceChar = first
-          fenceRun = run - i
-        } else if (first === fenceChar && run - i >= fenceRun && onlyWhitespace(text, run, lineEnd)) {
-          inFence = false
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    // Toggle `$$` math state on plain lines ($$ inside a fence is literal).
-    if (!inFence && !marker) {
-      for (let s = text.indexOf('$$', lineStart); s !== -1 && s < lineEnd - 1; s = text.indexOf('$$', s + 2)) {
-        if (s === 0 || text.charCodeAt(s - 1) !== BACKSLASH) {
-          inMath = !inMath
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    if (first === -1 && !inFence && !inMath) {
-      pending = lineEnd + 1
-    } else if (pending !== -1) {
-      boundary = pending
-      pending = -1
-    }
-
-    lineStart = lineEnd + 1
-  }
-
-  return boundary
-}
-
-function onlyWhitespace(text: string, from: number, to: number): boolean {
-  for (let i = from; i < to; i += 1) {
-    if (!isSpace(text.charCodeAt(i))) {
-      return false
-    }
-  }
-
-  return true
-}
-
-export function tailBoundedRemend(text: string): string {
-  const start = findRemendWindowStart(text)
-
-  return start <= 0 ? remend(text) : text.slice(0, start) + remend(text.slice(start))
-}