diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
index d72001eb9ddd..dff486df8767 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/ChatMarkdown.tsx
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ interface ChatMarkdownProps {
   text: string;
   cwd: string | undefined;
   threadRef?: ScopedThreadRef | undefined;
+  /** Panel that receives pull request links, including the standalone PR view. */
+  pullRequestPanelRef?: ScopedThreadRef | undefined;
   /** Environment that owns non-thread markdown, such as a pull request panel. */
   environmentId?: EnvironmentId | undefined;
   onTaskListChange?: ((input: { markerOffset: number; checked: boolean }) => void) | undefined;
@@ -2160,6 +2162,7 @@ function useChatMarkdownState({
   text,
   cwd,
   threadRef,
+  pullRequestPanelRef,
   environmentId: explicitEnvironmentId,
   onTaskListChange,
   isStreaming = false,
@@ -2320,7 +2323,7 @@ function useChatMarkdownState({
     event.clipboardData.setData("text/plain", payload.text);
     event.clipboardData.setData("text/html", payload.html);
   }, []);
-  const openChangeRequestLink = useOpenChangeRequestLink(threadRef);
+  const openChangeRequestLink = useOpenChangeRequestLink(threadRef, pullRequestPanelRef);
   const openDeferredMarkdownLink = useOpenLink(threadRef);
   // Subscribed rather than read at click time: the anchor has to decide
   // synchronously whether to intercept its `_blank`, and a subscription is what
@@ -2815,7 +2818,12 @@ const CHAT_MARKDOWN_COMPONENTS = {
             // A link to a change request in a workspace project opens beside the
             // conversation instead of in a browser: it is the thing being talked about, and
             // the panel it opens offers the browser as one of its actions.
-            if (!href || openChangeRequestLink(event, href)) return;
+            if (
+              !href ||
+              openChangeRequestLink(event, href, undefined, environmentId ?? undefined)
+            ) {
+              return;
+            }
             // Anything else follows the "Open links in" setting. The system browser
             // keeps the `_blank` the shell already handles; the in-app browser needs
             // the click intercepted here. A modifier click is the way out of the
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
index f8514f83dcdf..733a25a35204 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
@@ -659,6 +659,10 @@ export function PullRequestDetailPanel({
     if (detail?.autoMergeMethod !== undefined) setMergeMethod(detail.autoMergeMethod);
   }, [detail?.autoMergeMethod, pullRequestKey]);
   const repositoryUrl = detail === null ? null : changeRequestRepositoryUrl(detail.url);
+  const markdownContext = useMemo(
+    () => ({ repositoryUrl: detail?.provider === "github" ? repositoryUrl : null, threadRef }),
+    [detail?.provider, repositoryUrl, threadRef],
+  );
   const authorProfileUrl =
     detail?.provider === "github" &&
     detail.author !== null &&
@@ -2328,7 +2332,7 @@ export function PullRequestDetailPanel({
             {...(unavailableGitHubUrl ? { gitHubUrl: unavailableGitHubUrl } : {})}
           />
         ) : detail ? (
-          <PullRequestMarkdownContext value={detail.provider === "github" ? repositoryUrl : null}>
+          <PullRequestMarkdownContext value={markdownContext}>
             {mountedTabs.has("summary") ? (
               <div className={cn("absolute inset-0", tab !== "summary" && "invisible")}>
                 <PullRequestSummaryTab
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx
index 5e9db1347ce7..15921f9ade82 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestMarkdown.tsx
@@ -4,11 +4,15 @@ import { createContext, useContext, useMemo } from "react";
 import type { Options as ReactMarkdownOptions } from "react-markdown";
 
 import { cn } from "~/lib/utils";
+import { PULL_REQUESTS_PANEL_REF } from "~/rightPanelStore";
 
 import ChatMarkdown from "../ChatMarkdown";
 import { remarkPullRequestAutolinks, splitPullRequestBody } from "./pullRequestMarkdown.logic";
 
-export const PullRequestMarkdownContext = createContext<string | null>(null);
+export const PullRequestMarkdownContext = createContext<{
+  repositoryUrl: string | null;
+  threadRef: ScopedThreadRef | null;
+} | null>(null);
 
 /**
  * A pull request body, rendered with the app's markdown renderer plus a card for each upload
@@ -32,7 +36,9 @@ export function PullRequestMarkdown({
   className?: string;
 }) {
   const segments = splitPullRequestBody(text);
-  const repositoryUrl = useContext(PullRequestMarkdownContext);
+  const context = useContext(PullRequestMarkdownContext);
+  const repositoryUrl = context?.repositoryUrl;
+  const resolvedThreadRef = threadRef ?? context?.threadRef ?? undefined;
   const extraRemarkPlugins = useMemo<NonNullable<ReactMarkdownOptions["remarkPlugins"]>>(
     () => (repositoryUrl ? [[remarkPullRequestAutolinks, { repositoryUrl }]] : []),
     [repositoryUrl],
@@ -46,7 +52,8 @@ export function PullRequestMarkdown({
               key={segment.id}
               text={segment.text}
               cwd={cwd}
-              threadRef={threadRef ?? undefined}
+              threadRef={resolvedThreadRef}
+              pullRequestPanelRef={resolvedThreadRef ?? PULL_REQUESTS_PANEL_REF}
               environmentId={environmentId}
               extraRemarkPlugins={extraRemarkPlugins}
             />
diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/openPullRequestLink.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/openPullRequestLink.ts
index 2d46e3984fd9..ae487b67d3ce 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/lib/openPullRequestLink.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/lib/openPullRequestLink.ts
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ export function shouldOpenPullRequestExternally(
 
 export function useOpenChangeRequestLink(
   threadRef?: ScopedThreadRef,
+  panelRef?: ScopedThreadRef,
 ): (
   event: Pick<
     MouseEvent<HTMLElement>,
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ export function useOpenChangeRequestLink(
     (event, targetUrl, targetThreadRef, targetEnvironmentId) => {
       if (shouldOpenPullRequestExternally(event)) return false;
       const resolvedThreadRef = targetThreadRef ?? threadRef;
+      const resolvedPanelRef = panelRef ?? resolvedThreadRef;
       const parsed = parseChangeRequestUrl(targetUrl);
       if (parsed === null) return false;
       const reads = (environmentId: string) =>
@@ -286,14 +288,33 @@ export function useOpenChangeRequestLink(
       if (project === undefined || !reads(project.environmentId)) return false;
       event.preventDefault();
       event.stopPropagation();
-      if (resolvedThreadRef) {
-        useRightPanelStore.getState().openPullRequest(resolvedThreadRef, {
+      if (resolvedPanelRef) {
+        useRightPanelStore.getState().openPullRequest(resolvedPanelRef, {
+          // The standalone PR panel has a synthetic ref; each tab keeps its real environment.
+          ...(resolvedPanelRef.environmentId === project.environmentId
+            ? {}
+            : { environmentId: project.environmentId }),
           projectId: project.id,
           // The identity's own spelling, not the one read out of the URL: the panel asks the
           // provider for this repository, while matching a link only ever compares lower case.
           repository: project.repositoryIdentity?.displayName ?? parsed.repository,
           number: parsed.number,
         });
+        if (!resolvedThreadRef) {
+          void navigate({
+            to: "/pull-requests",
+            search: (previous) => ({
+              ...previous,
+              involvement: previous.involvement ?? "all",
+              state: previous.state ?? "all",
+              repository: project.repositoryIdentity?.displayName ?? parsed.repository,
+              number: parsed.number,
+              selectedProjectId: project.id,
+              selectedEnvironmentId: project.environmentId,
+            }),
+            replace: true,
+          });
+        }
         return true;
       }
       void navigate({
@@ -312,7 +333,7 @@ export function useOpenChangeRequestLink(
       });
       return true;
     },
-    [allProjects, navigate, primaryEnvironmentId, serverConfigs, threadRef],
+    [allProjects, navigate, panelRef, primaryEnvironmentId, serverConfigs, threadRef],
   );
 }