diff --git a/layers/registry/app/components/SkillFileTreeNode.vue b/layers/registry/app/components/SkillFileTreeNode.vue
index fd32fd57..9d9c99cc 100644
--- a/layers/registry/app/components/SkillFileTreeNode.vue
+++ b/layers/registry/app/components/SkillFileTreeNode.vue
@@ -101,9 +101,14 @@ function onInlineClick(event: MouseEvent) {
       </ul>
     </template>
     <template v-else>
-      <NuxtLink
+      <!--
+        A plain anchor, so a click swaps the document in place. A router link
+        would first navigate to the file view page. The href still opens that
+        page in a new tab.
+      -->
+      <a
         v-if="node.asset?.type === 'markdown'"
-        :to="node.path === 'SKILL.md' ? registryPath : `${repoSkillPath(owner, repo, name)}/-/${node.path}`"
+        :href="node.path === 'SKILL.md' ? registryPath : `${repoSkillPath(owner, repo, name)}/-/${node.path}`"
         rel="nofollow"
         class="tree-row file"
         :class="{ active: isActive }"
@@ -117,7 +122,7 @@ function onInlineClick(event: MouseEvent) {
           aria-hidden="true"
         />
         <span class="tree-label">{{ node.name }}</span>
-      </NuxtLink>
+      </a>
       <button
         v-else-if="inlineRenderable"
         type="button"
diff --git a/layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name].vue b/layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name]/index.vue
similarity index 100%
rename from layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name].vue
rename to layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name]/index.vue
diff --git a/nuxt.config.ts b/nuxt.config.ts
index c5c6e2b2..a6d9887a 100644
--- a/nuxt.config.ts
+++ b/nuxt.config.ts
@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ export default defineNuxtConfig({
     // Registered here, not scanned from `server/middleware`, because nuxt-ai-ready
     // claims every `.md` path and scanned middleware runs after a module's.
     handlers: [
+      // First, so content negotiation also leaves Skill file URLs alone.
+      { middleware: true, handler: '~~/server/handlers/skill-file-page.ts' },
       { middleware: true, handler: '~~/server/handlers/skill-md-probe.ts' },
       { middleware: true, handler: '~~/server/handlers/content-negotiation.ts' },
     ],
diff --git a/server/handlers/skill-file-page.ts b/server/handlers/skill-file-page.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cc2bef6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/handlers/skill-file-page.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { AI_READY_INTERNAL_HEADER } from '#shared/content-negotiation'
+import { isSkillFilePagePath } from '#shared/skill-asset-path'
+
+/**
+ * Send every Skill file URL to the file view page.
+ *
+ * nuxt-ai-ready answers any `.md` URL with the page at the same path minus
+ * `.md`, converted to Markdown. A Skill file URL keeps the file's own name, so
+ * `/-/reference.md` came back as the Skill page in Markdown. The module offers
+ * no per-route opt-out; it skips only requests that carry its internal header.
+ *
+ * Content negotiation skips the same requests. The file is already the
+ * content, so no Markdown twin exists to redirect to.
+ */
+export default defineEventHandler((event) => {
+  if (isSkillFilePagePath(event.path))
+    event.node.req.headers[AI_READY_INTERNAL_HEADER] = '1'
+})
diff --git a/shared/skill-asset-path.ts b/shared/skill-asset-path.ts
index c4419e85..719719f4 100644
--- a/shared/skill-asset-path.ts
+++ b/shared/skill-asset-path.ts
@@ -23,3 +23,14 @@ export function normalizeSkillAssetFilePath(input: SkillAssetPathInput): string
   )
   return (isDuplicated ? parts.slice(duplicatedPrefix.length) : parts).join('/')
 }
+
+const SKILL_FILE_PAGE_RE = /^\/gh\/[^/?#]+\/[^/?#]+\/[^/?#]+\/-\/[^/?#]/
+
+/**
+ * Whether a request path opens one file inside a Skill:
+ * `/gh/<owner>/<repo>/<name>/-/<file>`. The URL ends in the file's own name,
+ * so `/-/reference.md` is reference.md itself, never a page's Markdown twin.
+ */
+export function isSkillFilePagePath(path: string): boolean {
+  return SKILL_FILE_PAGE_RE.test(path)
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/skill-file-deep-link.spec.ts b/test/e2e/skill-file-deep-link.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b04a679d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/skill-file-deep-link.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { expect, test } from './test-utils'
+
+const BROWSER_ACCEPT = 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'
+const TITLE_RE = /<title>([^<]*)<\/title>/
+
+// The file view titles itself from the route, so these hold whatever the local D1 holds.
+test.describe('Skill file deep link', () => {
+  for (const { file, title } of [
+    { file: 'scripts/check_bounding_boxes.py', title: 'check_bounding_boxes.py · pdf' },
+    { file: 'LICENSE.txt', title: 'LICENSE.txt · pdf' },
+    // nuxt-ai-ready claims every `.md` URL as a page's Markdown twin.
+    { file: 'reference.md', title: 'reference.md · pdf' },
+  ]) {
+    test(`opens the file view for /-/${file}`, async ({ request }) => {
+      const response = await request.get(`/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/${file}`, {
+        headers: { 'accept': BROWSER_ACCEPT, 'sec-fetch-dest': 'document' },
+      })
+
+      expect(response.headers()['content-type']).toContain('text/html')
+      expect((await response.text()).match(TITLE_RE)?.[1]).toContain(title)
+    })
+  }
+})
diff --git a/test/unit/page-routing.test.ts b/test/unit/page-routing.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..143ba3f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/page-routing.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import type { Component } from 'vue'
+import type { Router, RouteRecordRaw } from 'vue-router'
+import { relative } from 'node:path'
+import { glob } from 'tinyglobby'
+import { buildTree, toVueRouter4 } from 'unrouting'
+import { defineComponent } from 'vue'
+import { createMemoryHistory, createRouter } from 'vue-router'
+
+// Nuxt merges every layer's pages into one router with unrouting. This builds
+// the same tree, with a stub component named after each page file.
+const PAGE_ROOTS = [
+  'app/pages',
+  'layers/admin/app/pages',
+  'layers/identity/app/pages',
+  'layers/marketing/app/pages',
+  'layers/registry/app/pages',
+].map(root => `${process.cwd()}/${root}`)
+
+interface PageRoute {
+  /** Page file relative to its pages directory. */
+  page: string
+  /** Absolute route path, with parent paths joined in. */
+  path: string
+}
+
+async function pageRouter(): Promise<{ router: Router, pages: PageRoute[] }> {
+  const files = await glob(PAGE_ROOTS.map(root => `${root}/**/*.vue`), { absolute: true })
+  const routes = toVueRouter4(buildTree(files, { roots: PAGE_ROOTS }))
+  const pages: PageRoute[] = []
+
+  function toRecord(route: (typeof routes)[number], parentPath: string): RouteRecordRaw {
+    const path = route.path.startsWith('/') ? route.path : `${parentPath.replace(/\/$/, '')}/${route.path}`
+    const page = pageName(route.file)
+    pages.push({ page, path })
+    return {
+      path: route.path,
+      component: defineComponent({ name: page }) as Component,
+      children: route.children.map(child => toRecord(child, path)),
+    }
+  }
+
+  const records = routes.map(route => toRecord(route, ''))
+  return { router: createRouter({ history: createMemoryHistory(), routes: records }), pages }
+}
+
+function pageName(file: string | undefined): string {
+  const root = PAGE_ROOTS.find(root => file?.startsWith(`${root}/`))
+  return root && file ? relative(root, file) : String(file)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The page a visitor sees at a URL. The root `<NuxtPage>` renders the first
+ * matched record, and a nested page shows only if its parent renders its own
+ * `<NuxtPage>`.
+ */
+function renderedPage(router: Router, url: string): string | undefined {
+  return (router.resolve(url).matched[0]?.components?.default as { name?: string } | undefined)?.name
+}
+
+/** A concrete URL for a route path: every param filled, catch-alls two deep. */
+function sampleUrl(path: string): string {
+  return path.replace(/:(\w+)(\([^)]*\))?([?*+])?/g, (_, name: string, _pattern: string | undefined, modifier: string | undefined) =>
+    modifier === '*' || modifier === '+' ? `sample-${name}/nested.txt` : `sample-${name}`)
+}
+
+describe('page routing', () => {
+  it.each([
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/scripts/check_bounding_boxes.py',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/LICENSE.txt',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/reference.md',
+  ])('renders the file view for the Skill file deep link %s', async (url) => {
+    const { router } = await pageRouter()
+
+    expect(renderedPage(router, url)).toBe('gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name]/-/[...file].vue')
+  })
+
+  it('renders the Skill page at the Skill URL', async () => {
+    const { router } = await pageRouter()
+
+    expect(renderedPage(router, '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf')).toBe('gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name]/index.vue')
+  })
+
+  // A page file with a sibling folder of the same name becomes the parent
+  // route of every page in that folder. Without its own `<NuxtPage>`, direct
+  // links to those pages render the parent instead. It happened to `/me` and
+  // then to Skill file links.
+  it('renders every page file at its own URL', async () => {
+    const { router, pages } = await pageRouter()
+
+    const misrouted = pages
+      .map(({ page, path }) => ({ page, url: sampleUrl(path), rendered: renderedPage(router, sampleUrl(path)) }))
+      .filter(({ page, rendered }) => rendered !== page)
+
+    expect(misrouted).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/unit/skill-asset-path.test.ts b/test/unit/skill-asset-path.test.ts
index 0fa68cec..e25becd9 100644
--- a/test/unit/skill-asset-path.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/skill-asset-path.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { normalizeSkillAssetFilePath } from '../../shared/skill-asset-path'
+import { isSkillFilePagePath, normalizeSkillAssetFilePath } from '../../shared/skill-asset-path'
 
 describe('skill asset path normalization', () => {
   it('collapses a stale relative registry link duplicated into the asset path', () => {
@@ -42,3 +42,24 @@ describe('skill asset path normalization', () => {
     })).toBe('gh/acme/skills/review/checklist.md')
   })
 })
+
+describe('isSkillFilePagePath', () => {
+  it.each([
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/reference.md',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/scripts/check_bounding_boxes.py',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/LICENSE.txt?ref=main',
+  ])('claims the Skill file URL %s', (path) => {
+    expect(isSkillFilePagePath(path)).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    // The Skill page and its Markdown twin stay with nuxt-ai-ready.
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf.md',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills/pdf/-/',
+    '/gh/anthropics/skills.md',
+    '/api/skill-asset/anthropics/skills/pdf/reference.md',
+  ])('leaves %s alone', (path) => {
+    expect(isSkillFilePagePath(path)).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/unit/skill-detail-route-title.test.ts b/test/unit/skill-detail-route-title.test.ts
index 34f846c9..af221c50 100644
--- a/test/unit/skill-detail-route-title.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/skill-detail-route-title.test.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ mockNuxtImport('useRoute', () => {
 describe('skill detail route title', () => {
   it('sets a useful title before the skill payload loads', async () => {
     const wrapper = await mountSuspended(
-      await import('../../layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name].vue').then(module => module.default),
+      await import('../../layers/registry/app/pages/gh/[owner]/[repo]/[name]/index.vue').then(module => module.default),
       {
         global: {
           stubs: {