diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 11fb6d56eb..0000000000
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
- * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
- */
-
-import { getPlainTextLength } from './InlineMarkdownRenderer.js';
-import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
-
-describe('getPlainTextLength', () => {
-  it.each([
-    ['**Primary Go', 12],
-    ['*Primary Go', 11],
-    ['**Primary Go**', 10],
-    ['*Primary Go*', 10],
-    ['**', 2],
-    ['*', 1],
-    ['compile-time**', 14],
-  ])(
-    'should measure markdown text length correctly for "%s"',
-    (input, expected) => {
-      expect(getPlainTextLength(input)).toBe(expected);
-    },
-  );
-});
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.tsx b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2b9e0bf645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { RenderInline, getPlainTextLength } from './InlineMarkdownRenderer.js';
+import { renderWithProviders } from '../../test-utils/render.js';
+import { Text } from 'ink';
+
+describe('InlineMarkdownRenderer', () => {
+  describe('getPlainTextLength', () => {
+    it.each([
+      ['**Primary Go', 12],
+      ['*Primary Go', 11],
+      ['**Primary Go**', 10],
+      ['*Primary Go*', 10],
+      ['**', 2],
+      ['*', 1],
+      ['compile-time**', 14],
+      ['$\\rightarrow$', 1],
+      ['Sign Out $\\rightarrow$ Sign In', 18],
+    ])(
+      'should measure markdown text length correctly for "%s"',
+      (input, expected) => {
+        expect(getPlainTextLength(input)).toBe(expected);
+      },
+    );
+  });
+
+  describe('<RenderInline />', () => {
+    it('renders LaTeX rightarrow correctly', () => {
+      const text = 'Sign Out $\\rightarrow$ Sign In';
+      const { lastFrame } = renderWithProviders(
+        <Text>
+          <RenderInline text={text} />
+        </Text>,
+      );
+      expect(lastFrame()).toContain('Sign Out → Sign In');
+    });
+
+    it('renders other LaTeX arrows correctly', () => {
+      const text = '$\\leftarrow$ $\\uparrow$ $\\downarrow$';
+      const { lastFrame } = renderWithProviders(
+        <Text>
+          <RenderInline text={text} />
+        </Text>,
+      );
+      expect(lastFrame()).toContain('← ↑ ↓');
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.tsx b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.tsx
index 8d4c6a7da6..dcba8bf80e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.tsx
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/InlineMarkdownRenderer.tsx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ const RenderInlineInternal: React.FC<RenderInlineProps> = ({
   const nodes: React.ReactNode[] = [];
   let lastIndex = 0;
   const inlineRegex =
-    /(\*\*.*?\*\*|\*.*?\*|_.*?_|~~.*?~~|\[.*?\]\(.*?\)|`+.+?`+|<u>.*?<\/u>|https?:\/\/\S+)/g;
+    /(\*\*.*?\*\*|\*.*?\*|_.*?_|~~.*?~~|\[.*?\]\(.*?\)|`+.+?`+|<u>.*?<\/u>|https?:\/\/\S+|\$\\[a-z]+\$)/g;
   let match;
 
   while ((match = inlineRegex.exec(text)) !== null) {
@@ -143,6 +143,21 @@ const RenderInlineInternal: React.FC<RenderInlineProps> = ({
             {fullMatch}
           </Text>
         );
+      } else if (fullMatch.startsWith('$') && fullMatch.endsWith('$')) {
+        const latexMap: Record<string, string> = {
+          '$\\rightarrow$': '→',
+          '$\\leftarrow$': '←',
+          '$\\uparrow$': '↑',
+          '$\\downarrow$': '↓',
+        };
+        const replacement = latexMap[fullMatch];
+        if (replacement) {
+          renderedNode = (
+            <Text key={key} color={baseColor}>
+              {replacement}
+            </Text>
+          );
+        }
       }
     } catch (e) {
       debugLogger.warn('Error parsing inline markdown part:', fullMatch, e);
@@ -184,6 +199,7 @@ export const getPlainTextLength = (text: string): number => {
     .replace(/~~(.*?)~~/g, '$1')
     .replace(/`(.*?)`/g, '$1')
     .replace(/<u>(.*?)<\/u>/g, '$1')
-    .replace(/.*\[(.*?)\]\(.*\)/g, '$1');
+    .replace(/.*\[(.*?)\]\(.*\)/g, '$1')
+    .replace(/\$\\(rightarrow|leftarrow|uparrow|downarrow)\$/g, '→');
   return stringWidth(cleanText);
 };