diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/rich-editor.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/rich-editor.ts
index 21f0286c9f8..8978d6f1520 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/rich-editor.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/rich-editor.ts
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ import {
   directiveIconElement,
   directiveIconSvg,
   formatRefValue,
+  refChipLabel,
   slashChipClass,
   type SlashChipKind,
   slashIconElement
 } from '@/components/assistant-ui/directive-text'
-import { sessionRefFallbackLabel } from '@/lib/session-refs'
 
 export const RICH_INPUT_SLOT = 'composer-rich-input'
 
@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@ export function unquoteRef(raw: string) {
   return quoted ? raw.slice(1, -1) : raw.replace(/[,.;!?]+$/, '')
 }
 
-export function refLabel(id: string) {
-  return id.split(/[\\/]/).filter(Boolean).pop() || id
-}
-
 /** Always-quote variant of formatRefValue — chips need a fence even for safe values. */
 export function quoteRefValue(value: string) {
   if (!value.includes('`')) {
@@ -60,9 +56,9 @@ export function refChipHtml(kind: string, rawValue: string, displayLabel?: strin
   const id = unquoteRef(rawValue)
   const text = `@${kind}:${quoteRefValue(id)}`
 
-  const label = displayLabel || (kind === 'session' ? sessionRefFallbackLabel(id) : refLabel(id))
+  const label = displayLabel || refChipLabel(kind, id)
 
-  return `<span contenteditable="false" data-ref-text="${escapeHtml(text)}" data-ref-id="${escapeHtml(id)}" data-ref-kind="${escapeHtml(kind)}" class="${DIRECTIVE_CHIP_CLASS}">${directiveIconSvg(kind)}<span class="truncate">${escapeHtml(label)}</span></span>`
+  return `<span contenteditable="false" title="${escapeHtml(id)}" data-ref-text="${escapeHtml(text)}" data-ref-id="${escapeHtml(id)}" data-ref-kind="${escapeHtml(kind)}" class="${DIRECTIVE_CHIP_CLASS}">${directiveIconSvg(kind)}<span class="truncate">${escapeHtml(label)}</span></span>`
 }
 
 export function refChipElement(kind: string, rawValue: string, displayLabel?: string) {
@@ -72,12 +68,13 @@ export function refChipElement(kind: string, rawValue: string, displayLabel?: st
   const label = document.createElement('span')
 
   chip.contentEditable = 'false'
+  chip.title = id
   chip.dataset.refText = text
   chip.dataset.refId = id
   chip.dataset.refKind = kind
   chip.className = DIRECTIVE_CHIP_CLASS
   label.className = 'truncate'
-  label.textContent = displayLabel || (kind === 'session' ? sessionRefFallbackLabel(id) : refLabel(id))
+  label.textContent = displayLabel || refChipLabel(kind, id)
   chip.append(directiveIconElement(kind), label)
 
   return chip
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
index 317489a96f8..312c7d9414d 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ function parseDirectiveText(text: string): Unstable_DirectiveSegment[] {
         start: match.index ?? 0,
         end: (match.index ?? 0) + match[0].length,
         type: match[1] || 'file',
-        label: shortLabel(match[1] as HermesRefType, id),
+        label: refChipLabel(match[1] || 'file', id),
         id
       }
     }),
@@ -320,25 +320,30 @@ function parseDirectiveText(text: string): Unstable_DirectiveSegment[] {
   return segments
 }
 
-function shortLabel(type: HermesRefType, id: string): string {
+/** Display text for a `@kind:value` chip. Shared with the composer's
+ *  contenteditable chips so a link reads the same before and after send: the
+ *  host leads (scheme and `www.` are noise) and the path rides along for the
+ *  chip's `truncate` to cut — a bare hostname can't tell two links apart. */
+export function refChipLabel(type: string, id: string): string {
   if (type === 'terminal') {
     return id || 'terminal'
   }
 
+  if (type === 'session') {
+    return sessionRefFallbackLabel(id)
+  }
+
   if (type === 'url') {
     try {
-      const parsed = new URL(id)
+      const { hostname, pathname, search } = new URL(id)
+      const path = `${pathname}${search}`.replace(/\/$/, '')
 
-      return parsed.hostname || id
+      return `${hostname.replace(/^www\./i, '')}${path}` || id
     } catch {
       return id
     }
   }
 
-  if (type === 'session') {
-    return sessionRefFallbackLabel(id)
-  }
-
   const tail = id.split(/[\\/]/).filter(Boolean).pop()
 
   return tail || id