diff --git a/frontend/src/v2/__tests__/V2MessageRow.realMarkdown.test.tsx b/frontend/src/v2/__tests__/V2MessageRow.realMarkdown.test.tsx
index 8f2e68faa..e8a952529 100644
--- a/frontend/src/v2/__tests__/V2MessageRow.realMarkdown.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/v2/__tests__/V2MessageRow.realMarkdown.test.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // asserted here is the one a reader would click.
 import React from 'react';
 import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
-import { linkifyBareUrls, prUrlsToRefLinks } from '../components/V2MessageRow';
+import { linkifyBareUrls, messageMarkdownComponents, prUrlsToRefLinks } from '../components/V2MessageRow';
 import V2GithubPrCard from '../components/V2GithubPrCard';
 
 const RealReactMarkdown = jest.requireActual('../../../node_modules/react-markdown/index.js').default;
@@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ describe('bare URL linkification through the real react-markdown', () => {
     expect(text).toBe('see the PR now');
   });
 
+  // TASK-306. react-markdown hands every component its mdast `node`; the
+  // renderers must not spread it onto the DOM as node="[object Object]".
+  it('rendered links and fenced code carry no node attribute', () => {
+    const { container, unmount } = render(
+      <RealReactMarkdown components={messageMarkdownComponents}>
+        {'see [docs](https://example.com/docs)\n\n```\nconst x = 1;\n```'}
+      </RealReactMarkdown>,
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector('a')).not.toHaveAttribute('node');
+    expect(container.querySelector('pre')).not.toHaveAttribute('node');
+    unmount();
+  });
+
   it('a PR URL in a sentence reads as a short ref, with its punctuation intact', () => {
     const { container, unmount } = render(
       <RealReactMarkdown>{prUrlsToRefLinks('Review: https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/pull/12. Then merge.')}</RealReactMarkdown>,
diff --git a/frontend/src/v2/components/V2MessageRow.tsx b/frontend/src/v2/components/V2MessageRow.tsx
index 0c97f7f7d..11069309e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/v2/components/V2MessageRow.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/v2/components/V2MessageRow.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import React, { lazy, Suspense, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import V2Lightbox, { type V2LightboxImage } from './V2Lightbox';
 import { Link, useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next';
-import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
+import ReactMarkdown, { type ExtraProps } from 'react-markdown';
 import V2Avatar from './V2Avatar';
 import V2GithubPrCard, { parseGithubPrUrls } from './V2GithubPrCard';
 import V2ApprovalCard from './V2ApprovalCard';
@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@ export const MessageMarkdownImage = ({ src, alt }: React.ImgHTMLAttributes<HTMLI
   return <span>{alt || src}</span>;
 };
 
-const messageMarkdownComponents = {
+export const messageMarkdownComponents = {
   img: MessageMarkdownImage,
-  a: ({ children, ...props }: React.AnchorHTMLAttributes<HTMLAnchorElement>) => (
+  // react-markdown passes its mdast `node` to every component; spreading it
+  // onto the DOM element renders node="[object Object]".
+  a: ({ children, node: _node, ...props }: React.AnchorHTMLAttributes<HTMLAnchorElement> & ExtraProps) => (
     <a {...props} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">{renderWithMentions(children)}</a>
   ),
   p: ({ children }: React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLParagraphElement>) => (
@@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ const messageMarkdownComponents = {
   // `<pre>`. Both fall through to v2.css selectors `.v2-msg__content code`
   // and `.v2-msg__content pre`. Mentions inside code are NOT transformed.
   // Fenced code past six lines collapses (direction C).
-  pre: (props: React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLPreElement>) => <CollapsiblePre {...props} />,
+  pre: ({ node: _node, ...props }: React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLPreElement> & ExtraProps) => <CollapsiblePre {...props} />,
 };
 
 interface V2MessageRowProps {