diff --git a/scripts/parsers/directives/reference-links.ts b/scripts/parsers/directives/reference-links.ts
index 7f3123e2e..eef527a18 100644
--- a/scripts/parsers/directives/reference-links.ts
+++ b/scripts/parsers/directives/reference-links.ts
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 // node.label is non-empty. Directives that need a computed display label mutate
 // node.label in their expand hook; render() then omits `label` from output.params.
 
-import { createRequire } from 'module';
 import type { DirectiveDef, DirectiveRenderOutput } from '../directive-registry.js';
 import { DirectiveParseError } from '../directives.js';
 import type { DirectiveNode, ExpandDirectivesContext } from '../directives.js';
+import apiLibsJson from './api-libs.json';
 
-// Load api-libs.json at module init time
-const _require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const API_LIBS: Record<string, string> = _require('./api-libs.json');
+// api-libs.json is inlined at bundle time (static JSON import) so no sidecar
+// file is needed next to the built parsers.bundle.mjs.
+const API_LIBS: Record<string, string> = apiLibsJson as Record<string, string>;
 
 // ─── :tutorial-ref[slug]{label?} ─────────────────────────────────────────────
 //
diff --git a/scripts/parsers/directives/ui.ts b/scripts/parsers/directives/ui.ts
index 3e30e1ac4..a44e71841 100644
--- a/scripts/parsers/directives/ui.ts
+++ b/scripts/parsers/directives/ui.ts
@@ -10,14 +10,12 @@
 // Side-effect: call registerUiDirectives() once at startup.
 // In tests: resetRegistry(); registerUiDirectives()
 
-import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
 import { registerDirective, getRegistry } from '../directive-registry.js';
 import { DirectiveParseError } from '../directives.js';
 import type { DirectiveNode } from '../directives.js';
+import iconAllowlistJson from './icon-allowlist.json';
 
-const _require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-const iconAllowlist: string[] = _require('./icon-allowlist.json') as string[];
+const iconAllowlist: string[] = iconAllowlistJson as string[];
 
 // ─── Key token constants ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
diff --git a/test/unit/option-tail-leak.test.ts b/test/unit/option-tail-leak.test.ts
index c17c26ccb..308a1f355 100644
--- a/test/unit/option-tail-leak.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/option-tail-leak.test.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const REPO_ROOT = join(__dirname, '..', '..');
 const SHORTCODES = join(REPO_ROOT, 'hugo', 'layouts', 'shortcodes');
 const MARKUP = join(REPO_ROOT, 'hugo', 'layouts', '_default', '_markup');
+const PARTIALS = join(REPO_ROOT, 'hugo', 'layouts', 'partials');
 
 function hugoBinary(): string {
   return process.env.HUGO || 'hugo';
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ function renderThroughPipeline(stepBody: string): string {
   const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'opt-tail-leak-'));
   mkdirSync(join(dir, 'layouts', 'shortcodes'), { recursive: true });
   mkdirSync(join(dir, 'layouts', '_default', '_markup'), { recursive: true });
+  mkdirSync(join(dir, 'layouts', 'partials'), { recursive: true });
   mkdirSync(join(dir, 'content'), { recursive: true });
 
   for (const sc of ['os-options.html', 'os-panel.html', 'option-tabs.html', 'tab.html']) {
@@ -67,6 +69,10 @@ function renderThroughPipeline(stepBody: string): string {
     const p = join(MARKUP, h);
     if (existsSync(p)) copyFileSync(p, join(dir, 'layouts', '_default', '_markup', h));
   }
+  // render-blockquote.html delegates GitHub-style alerts (`> [!TIP]`) to the
+  // tut-alert partial (#2595/#71a8d70bc), so it must be present or the Hugo
+  // build fails resolving `partial "tut-alert.html"`.
+  copyFileSync(join(PARTIALS, 'tut-alert.html'), join(dir, 'layouts', 'partials', 'tut-alert.html'));
 
   writeFileSync(join(dir, 'hugo.toml'),
     'baseURL = "http://example.org/"\n' +