diff --git a/teaagent/spec_grounding.py b/teaagent/spec_grounding.py
index 99a45433..84c3e772 100644
--- a/teaagent/spec_grounding.py
+++ b/teaagent/spec_grounding.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 _BRACKET_PATH = re.compile(r'\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)')
 _PLAIN_PATH = re.compile(r'(?<!\w)(?:\.\/|(?:\w+\/)+)[\w./-]+\.\w+(?!\w)')
 
-_MARKER_COMMENT = re.compile(r'#\s|//\s|--\s|<!--|-->|\*/|"""', re.MULTILINE)
+_MARKER_COMMENT = re.compile(r'#\s|//\s|--\s|<!--|--!?>|\*/|"""', re.MULTILINE)
 
 
 def _is_likely_path(raw: str) -> bool: