diff --git a/docs/development/agent-workflow.md b/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
index 301e3118e..f28a58dc0 100644
--- a/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
+++ b/docs/development/agent-workflow.md
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ including references whose semicolon may be omitted.
 Inline guidance imports are rejected after punctuation as well as whitespace.
 At-signs inside external URIs (including explicit opaque autolinks such as mailto) are excluded
 per HTML text node, preserving adjacent imports. A colon directly before an import
-does not make that import a URI.
+does not make that import a URI. Opaque schemes are excluded only in parsed links
+whose visible text equals their URI, so colon-labeled prose remains checked.
 A closing bracket followed by punctuation and an at-sign terminates a bare URL exclusion.
 Extensionless inline candidates are also imports when they resolve to repository files,
 checking the full filename before prefixes at ASCII/Unicode prose separators.
diff --git a/tools/skills/agent-guidance-markdown.mjs b/tools/skills/agent-guidance-markdown.mjs
index 133a28b52..7c11103d7 100644
--- a/tools/skills/agent-guidance-markdown.mjs
+++ b/tools/skills/agent-guidance-markdown.mjs
@@ -145,9 +145,22 @@ export function guidanceProse(markdown) {
             )
         )
             return ' ';
+        if (node.tagName === 'a') {
+            const href = node.attrs?.find(
+                (attribute) => attribute.name === 'href'
+            )?.value;
+            if (
+                href &&
+                /^[a-z][a-z\d+.-]*:(?!\/\/)/iu.test(href) &&
+                node.childNodes?.length === 1 &&
+                node.childNodes[0].nodeName === '#text' &&
+                node.childNodes[0].value === href
+            )
+                return ' ';
+        }
         if (node.nodeName === '#text')
             return node.value.replace(
-                /(?:(?<![@/\p{L}\p{N}_])[a-z][a-z\d+.-]*:(?![@\s])|\/\/)[^\s]*?(?=[)\]}>][.,;:!?]*@|\s|$)/giu,
+                /(?:\b[a-z][a-z\d+.-]*:\/\/|\/\/)[^\s]*?(?=[)\]}>][.,;:!?]*@|\s|$)/giu,
                 ' '
             );
         const content = (node.childNodes ?? []).map(text).join('');
diff --git a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
index d49b97bb3..ad07a9999 100644
--- a/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
+++ b/tools/skills/validate-agent-guidance.test.mjs
@@ -1522,3 +1522,13 @@ test('colon directly before an import remains checked', async (t) => {
         ).some((message) => message.includes('additional or inline'))
     );
 });
+
+test('colon-labeled prose cannot hide imports', async (t) => {
+    assert.ok(
+        (
+            await diagnostics(t, {
+                'CLAUDE.md': '@AGENTS.md\n\nFallback:then;@docs/guide.md',
+            })
+        ).some((message) => message.includes('additional or inline'))
+    );
+});