diff --git a/packages/session-ui/src/components/markdown-inline-code-kind.ts b/packages/session-ui/src/components/markdown-inline-code-kind.ts
index c20043f609..3679fe4ff4 100644
--- a/packages/session-ui/src/components/markdown-inline-code-kind.ts
+++ b/packages/session-ui/src/components/markdown-inline-code-kind.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 export function inlineCodeKind(text: string): "path" | "url" | undefined {
   if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(text)) return "url"
   if (/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:\/\//i.test(text)) return
+  if (text === "/") return
   if (/^\/[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$/i.test(text)) return
   if (/\s/.test(text)) return
   if (/[()\[\]{}*+=<>|&^"';]/.test(text)) return