diff --git a/packages/ui/src/context/marked-base.tsx b/packages/ui/src/context/marked-base.tsx
index 0ffb547adebd..b51ce5ea72cf 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/context/marked-base.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/context/marked-base.tsx
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ import { Marked } from "marked"
 export function createMarkdownBase() {
   return new Marked({
     renderer: {
-      link({ href, title, text }) {
+      link({ href, title, tokens }) {
         const titleAttr = title ? ` title="${title}"` : ""
 
-        return `<a href="${href}"${titleAttr} class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">${text}</a>`
+        return `<a href="${href}"${titleAttr} class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">${this.parser.parseInline(tokens)}</a>`
       },
     },
   })
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/context/marked-parser.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/context/marked-parser.test.ts
index 1b7ac3b9c341..30093e45726f 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/context/marked-parser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/context/marked-parser.test.ts
@@ -4,10 +4,18 @@ import { parseSmallMarkdown } from "./marked-base"
 
 const parser = createMarkdownParser((code, language) => `<pre data-language="${language}">${code}</pre>`)
 
-test("renders links with application attributes", async () => {
-  expect(await parser.parse("[OpenCode](https://opencode.ai)")).toBe(
-    '<p><a href="https://opencode.ai" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenCode</a></p>\n',
-  )
+test.each([
+  ["OpenCode", "OpenCode"],
+  ["**`#123`**", "<strong><code>#123</code></strong>"],
+  ["*Review* ~~draft~~", "<em>Review</em> <del>draft</del>"],
+  ["`<example>`", "<code>&lt;example&gt;</code>"],
+  ["\\*literal\\*", "*literal*"],
+])("renders link label %s with application attributes", async (label, html) => {
+  const markdown = `[${label}](https://opencode.ai)`
+  const expected = `<p><a href="https://opencode.ai" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">${html}</a></p>\n`
+
+  expect(await parser.parse(markdown)).toBe(expected)
+  expect(parseSmallMarkdown(markdown)).toBe(expected)
 })
 
 test("renders inline and block math", async () => {