URDF and SDF readers treated a Windows path like C:/x/y.stl as a remote URI with scheme 'c' and skipped the mesh; the same logic lived in five places, so fixing only three would let SDF validation pass an SDF the viewer then refuses.
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.