diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/path-utils.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/path-utils.ts
index d5fd2f4de..cc5b787c6 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/path-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/path-utils.ts
@@ -709,7 +709,12 @@ export async function splitDelimitedPathEntry(
 	const normalizedEntry = normalizePathLikeInput(entry);
 	if (!hasTopLevelPathDelimiter(normalizedEntry)) return null;
 	if (isInternalUrlPath(normalizedEntry)) return null;
-
+	// A real POSIX file may contain the delimiter and a selector-shaped tail
+	// (`a;b:1-2`, `a b:1-2`). Preserve the raw entry whenever the full literal
+	// resolves — or is only ambiguous — so downstream literal-preferring
+	// splitters see it before delimiter expansion peels or splits (issue #4618
+	// reviewer feedback: delimited expansion ran before the literal check).
+	if ((await probeLiteralPathExists(normalizedEntry, cwd)) !== "missing") return null;
 	const splitter = options.splitter ?? parseSearchPath;
 	const peeledEntry = splitPathAndSel(normalizedEntry).path;
 	if (!hasGlobPathChars(peeledEntry) && (await delimitedPathPartResolves(normalizedEntry, cwd, splitter))) {
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/read.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/read.ts
index 23d816bc1..14edfad2b 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/read.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/tools/read.ts
@@ -2118,8 +2118,8 @@ export class ReadTool implements AgentTool<typeof readSchema, ReadToolDetails> {
 		_toolContext?: AgentToolContext,
 	): Promise<AgentToolResult<ReadToolDetails>> {
 		let { path: readPath } = params;
-		const explicitSelector = params.selector?.trim();
-		const explicitParsedSelector = explicitSelector === undefined ? undefined : parseSel(explicitSelector);
+		let explicitSelector = params.selector?.trim();
+		let explicitParsedSelector = explicitSelector === undefined ? undefined : parseSel(explicitSelector);
 		if (
 			params.selector !== undefined &&
 			(explicitSelector === undefined || explicitSelector.length === 0 || explicitParsedSelector?.kind === "none")
@@ -2221,10 +2221,16 @@ export class ReadTool implements AgentTool<typeof readSchema, ReadToolDetails> {
 					skills: this.session.skills,
 				});
 				if (localFile) {
-					readPath =
-						explicitSelector !== undefined || internalTarget.sel === undefined
-							? localFile.path
-							: `${localFile.path}:${internalTarget.sel}`;
+					readPath = localFile.path;
+					// Promote the URL-embedded selector into the explicit-selector state so
+					// downstream literal-preferring routing does NOT re-split the synthesized
+					// `${localFile.path}:${sel}` string — a sibling literal file at that name
+					// would otherwise shadow the intended local:// URL selector semantics
+					// (issue #4618 reviewer feedback on c493d12).
+					if (explicitSelector === undefined && internalTarget.sel !== undefined) {
+						explicitSelector = internalTarget.sel;
+						explicitParsedSelector = parsed;
+					}
 				} else {
 					return this.#handleInternalUrl(internalTarget.path, parsed, signal);
 				}
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/grep-internal-urls.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/grep-internal-urls.test.ts
index 417402f7c..b0d2e48ae 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/grep-internal-urls.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/grep-internal-urls.test.ts
@@ -450,6 +450,35 @@ describe("GrepTool internal URL resolution", () => {
 		expect(text).toMatch(/^\*\d+:.*needle/m);
 	});
 
+	it("read local://<name>:<sel> honors URL selector even when a sibling literal `<name>:<sel>` file exists (issue #4618)", async () => {
+		const localRoot = path.join(artifactsDir, "local");
+		await fs.mkdir(localRoot, { recursive: true });
+		// Base file targeted by `local://notes.md`; selector should slice this one.
+		await Bun.write(
+			path.join(localRoot, "notes.md"),
+			`${Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, i) => `url-target line ${i + 1}`).join("\n")}\n`,
+		);
+		// Sibling literal `notes.md:1-2` under the same local root — must NOT
+		// shadow the URL selector semantics of `local://notes.md:1-2`.
+		await Bun.write(path.join(localRoot, "notes.md:1-2"), "sibling literal shadow\n");
+
+		LocalProtocolHandler.setOverride({ getArtifactsDir: () => artifactsDir, getSessionId: () => "session" });
+
+		const session = createSession({ hasEditTool: true });
+		session.settings.set("read.summarize.enabled", false);
+		const result = await new ReadTool(session).execute("test-read-local-url-selector", {
+			path: "local://notes.md:1-2",
+		});
+
+		const text = getResultText(result);
+		// The base file was targeted (URL selector semantics preserved), not the
+		// sibling literal. Content check is enough — the read tool's context
+		// expansion around the requested range is unrelated to the shadow bug.
+		expect(text).toContain("url-target line 1");
+		expect(text).toContain("url-target line 2");
+		expect(text).not.toContain("sibling literal shadow");
+	});
+
 	it("keeps hashlines on mutable files when mixed with immutable artifact:// inputs", async () => {
 		const content = "alpha line\nbeta needle line\ngamma line\n";
 		await Bun.write(path.join(artifactsDir, "11.bash.log"), content);
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/path-literal-colon-selector.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/path-literal-colon-selector.test.ts
index d6a01afcb..e2a7d2544 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/path-literal-colon-selector.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/tools/path-literal-colon-selector.test.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,24 @@ describe("literal colon filename resolution (issue #4618)", () => {
 			expect(output).toContain("escaped literal needle");
 		});
 
+		it("searches a literal file whose name contains a semicolon and selector-shaped tail (`a;b:1-2`)", async () => {
+			// Semicolon is the delimited-path separator; without a raw-literal
+			// probe in `splitDelimitedPathEntry`, expandDelimitedPathEntries would
+			// split `a;b:1-2` into `["a", "b:1-2"]` before grep saw the literal file.
+			const literal = path.join(tmpDir, "a;b:1-2");
+			await Bun.write(literal, "delimited literal needle\n");
+
+			const tool = new GrepTool(createSession());
+			const result = await tool.execute("grep-literal-semicolon-selector", {
+				pattern: "needle",
+				path: literal,
+			});
+			const output = getText(result);
+
+			expect(output).toContain("delimited literal needle");
+			expect(output).not.toMatch(/not found/i);
+		});
+
 		it("searches a literal file that looks like an archive selector (`data.zip:1-2`)", async () => {
 			// The base archive exists too; grep must not rematerialize the raw
 			// literal path as archive `data.zip` plus phantom member `1-2`.