diff --git a/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.test.ts b/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.test.ts
index 159f00086..7d0aa0cec 100644
--- a/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.test.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,26 @@ describe('detectRepoIcon', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('resolves relative declared icon hrefs from nested source files', async () => {
+    const repoPath = await makeTempRepoDir()
+    await mkdir(join(repoPath, 'src', 'routes', 'brand'), { recursive: true })
+    await writeFile(
+      join(repoPath, 'src', 'routes', '__root.tsx'),
+      'export const links = () => [{ rel: "icon", href: "./brand/icon.png" }]'
+    )
+    await writeFile(
+      join(repoPath, 'src', 'routes', 'brand', 'icon.png'),
+      Buffer.from(PNG_1X1_BASE64, 'base64')
+    )
+
+    await expect(detectRepoIcon({ repoPath, kind: 'folder' })).resolves.toEqual({
+      type: 'image',
+      src: `data:image/png;base64,${PNG_1X1_BASE64}`,
+      source: 'file',
+      label: 'src/routes/brand/icon.png'
+    })
+  })
+
   it('skips oversized source files when looking for declared icon hrefs', async () => {
     const repoPath = await makeTempRepoDir()
     await writeFile(
diff --git a/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.ts b/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.ts
index 3ade240a3..6101c3a79 100644
--- a/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.ts
+++ b/src/main/repo-icon-autodetect.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
 import { getRepoSlug } from './github/client'
 import { getSshFilesystemProvider } from './providers/ssh-filesystem-dispatch'
 import type { IFilesystemProvider } from './providers/types'
+import { iconHrefCandidates } from './repo-icon-href-candidates'
 import { joinWorktreeRelativePath } from './runtime/runtime-relative-paths'
 
 const REPO_ICON_FILE_CANDIDATES = [
@@ -79,27 +80,6 @@ function extractIconHref(source: string): string | null {
   return source.match(LINK_ICON_HTML_RE)?.[1] ?? source.match(LINK_ICON_OBJECT_RE)?.[1] ?? null
 }
 
-function normalizeIconHrefPath(href: string): string | null {
-  const trimmed = href.trim()
-  if (!trimmed || trimmed.startsWith('//') || /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\d+.-]*:/.test(trimmed)) {
-    return null
-  }
-
-  const pathOnly = (trimmed.split(/[?#]/)[0] ?? '').replace(/^\/+/, '').replace(/\\/g, '/')
-  const parts = pathOnly.split('/').filter((part) => part && part !== '.')
-  // Why: declared icon hrefs are repo content. Never let a best-effort icon
-  // probe resolve outside the worktree through `../` path segments.
-  if (parts.length === 0 || parts.some((part) => part === '..')) {
-    return null
-  }
-  return parts.join('/')
-}
-
-function iconHrefCandidates(href: string): string[] {
-  const clean = normalizeIconHrefPath(href)
-  return clean ? [`public/${clean}`, clean] : []
-}
-
 async function readLocalPngIcon(repoPath: string, relativePath: string): Promise<RepoIcon | null> {
   const filePath = joinWorktreeRelativePath(repoPath, relativePath)
   const info = await stat(filePath)
@@ -167,7 +147,7 @@ async function detectLocalPngIcon(repoPath: string): Promise<RepoIcon | null> {
       if (!href) {
         continue
       }
-      for (const relativePath of iconHrefCandidates(href)) {
+      for (const relativePath of iconHrefCandidates(href, sourceFile)) {
         try {
           const icon = await readLocalPngIcon(repoPath, relativePath)
           if (icon) {
@@ -213,7 +193,7 @@ async function detectRemotePngIcon(
       if (!href) {
         continue
       }
-      for (const relativePath of iconHrefCandidates(href)) {
+      for (const relativePath of iconHrefCandidates(href, sourceFile)) {
         try {
           const icon = await readRemotePngIcon(repoPath, fsProvider, relativePath)
           if (icon) {
diff --git a/src/main/repo-icon-href-candidates.ts b/src/main/repo-icon-href-candidates.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e2c52acc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/repo-icon-href-candidates.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { posix } from 'path'
+
+function normalizeIconHrefPath(href: string): { path: string; rootRelative: boolean } | null {
+  const trimmed = href.trim()
+  if (!trimmed || trimmed.startsWith('//') || /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\d+.-]*:/.test(trimmed)) {
+    return null
+  }
+
+  const rootRelative = trimmed.startsWith('/')
+  const pathOnly = (trimmed.split(/[?#]/)[0] ?? '').replace(/^\/+/, '').replace(/\\/g, '/')
+  const parts = pathOnly.split('/').filter((part) => part && part !== '.')
+  // Why: declared icon hrefs are repo content. Never let a best-effort icon
+  // probe resolve outside the worktree through `../` path segments.
+  if (parts.length === 0 || parts.some((part) => part === '..')) {
+    return null
+  }
+  return { path: parts.join('/'), rootRelative }
+}
+
+export function iconHrefCandidates(href: string, sourceFile: string): string[] {
+  const clean = normalizeIconHrefPath(href)
+  if (!clean) {
+    return []
+  }
+
+  const candidates = new Set<string>()
+  if (!clean.rootRelative) {
+    const sourceDirectory = posix.dirname(sourceFile)
+    if (sourceDirectory && sourceDirectory !== '.') {
+      // Why: relative hrefs in nested route/root files resolve next to that
+      // source file, not from the repository root.
+      candidates.add(posix.join(sourceDirectory, clean.path))
+    }
+  }
+  candidates.add(`public/${clean.path}`)
+  candidates.add(clean.path)
+  return [...candidates]
+}