diff --git a/THIRD-PARTY.md b/THIRD-PARTY.md
index 3acff507..681c474f 100644
--- a/THIRD-PARTY.md
+++ b/THIRD-PARTY.md
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ ghostty_vte:
   git:
     url: https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git
     path: pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte
-    ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+    ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
 ```
 
 `ghostty_vte_flutter` and `portable_pty` are pinned to the same repository and
diff --git a/app/lib/util/external_url.dart b/app/lib/util/external_url.dart
index 2e8cdfb5..ecec7932 100644
--- a/app/lib/util/external_url.dart
+++ b/app/lib/util/external_url.dart
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Future<void> openTerminalHyperlink(
       }
       return;
     }
-    if (_revealsDestinationOnHover) {
+    if (_browserRevealsDestination) {
       await open(context, target.toString());
       return;
     }
@@ -130,11 +130,18 @@ Future<void> openTerminalHyperlink(
   }
 }
 
-/// Whether this platform shows a link's destination before it is activated.
+/// Whether opening the link lands somewhere that reads the destination back.
 ///
-/// Desktop does, through the terminal's hover affordance, so a click there is
-/// already an informed one. Touch has no hover, which is why the mobile path
-/// asks instead.
-bool get _revealsDestinationOnHover =>
+/// Desktop hands the URI to a browser whose address bar does, which is the same
+/// disclosure every terminal leans on. The terminal's own hover affordance is
+/// NOT it and never was: the view only swaps the cursor to a pointer, and
+/// nothing there or here paints the URI.
+///
+/// Mobile has no such guarantee. An `https:` host holding a verified App Link
+/// opens that app instead of any browser (see [openableTerminalHyperlink]), so
+/// the destination can be acted on without ever being shown. That is why the
+/// mobile path asks first, and why the answer to a spoofed target on desktop is
+/// a hover preview rather than the same sheet on both.
+bool get _browserRevealsDestination =>
     defaultTargetPlatform != TargetPlatform.android &&
     defaultTargetPlatform != TargetPlatform.iOS;
diff --git a/app/lib/widgets/terminal_hyperlink_sheet.dart b/app/lib/widgets/terminal_hyperlink_sheet.dart
index 0cebe15b..ebe75339 100644
--- a/app/lib/widgets/terminal_hyperlink_sheet.dart
+++ b/app/lib/widgets/terminal_hyperlink_sheet.dart
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ import '../design/widgets/ab_dialog.dart';
 ///
 /// OSC 8 lets a link's visible text disagree with its destination, so the text
 /// a user taps is not evidence of anything: `https://github.com@evil.example/`
-/// reads as GitHub and resolves to `evil.example`. Desktop reveals the target
-/// on hover before the click; touch has no hover at all, so without this the
-/// destination is never shown before the browser is already open.
+/// reads as GitHub and resolves to `evil.example`. Desktop gets its disclosure
+/// from the browser's address bar; a tap here may never reach a browser at all,
+/// because a verified App Link opens its own app instead.
 ///
 /// Returns false when dismissed, so a stray tap outside the sheet cancels.
 Future<bool> showTerminalHyperlinkSheet(
diff --git a/app/pubspec.lock b/app/pubspec.lock
index 54b901be..915a3899 100644
--- a/app/pubspec.lock
+++ b/app/pubspec.lock
@@ -682,8 +682,8 @@ packages:
     dependency: "direct overridden"
     description:
       path: "pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte"
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
-      resolved-ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
+      resolved-ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
       url: "https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git"
     source: git
     version: "0.1.4+antgrid.1"
@@ -691,8 +691,8 @@ packages:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:
       path: "pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter"
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
-      resolved-ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
+      resolved-ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
       url: "https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git"
     source: git
     version: "0.1.4+antgrid.1"
@@ -1204,8 +1204,8 @@ packages:
     dependency: "direct overridden"
     description:
       path: "pkgs/pty/portable_pty"
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
-      resolved-ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
+      resolved-ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
       url: "https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git"
     source: git
     version: "0.0.6+antgrid.2"
diff --git a/app/pubspec.yaml b/app/pubspec.yaml
index 5b7e71c9..5971ff6f 100644
--- a/app/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/app/pubspec.yaml
@@ -191,17 +191,17 @@ dependency_overrides:
     git:
       url: https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git
       path: pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
   ghostty_vte:
     git:
       url: https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git
       path: pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
   portable_pty:
     git:
       url: https://github.com/antgrid-ai/dart_terminal.git
       path: pkgs/pty/portable_pty
-      ref: ce7f469dba73216843a3c684b0697b0f8a5ec64c
+      ref: f8e2e8201c7bef116ec04baa4cfc039acb53e29c
 
 # Microsoft Store packaging (MSIX). The Store signs the package itself, so no
 # code-signing cert is used on this path (unlike the Inno Setup installer in