diff --git a/src/main/azure-devops/pull-request-creation.test.ts b/src/main/azure-devops/pull-request-creation.test.ts
index 2b3be3d9eea..f4a8c2a5c81 100644
--- a/src/main/azure-devops/pull-request-creation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/azure-devops/pull-request-creation.test.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ vi.mock('../git/runner', () => ({
 }))
 
 vi.mock('../providers/ssh-git-dispatch', () => ({
-  getSshGitProvider: getSshGitProviderMock
+  getSshGitProvider: getSshGitProviderMock,
+  getSshGitProviderGeneration: () => 0
 }))
 
 vi.mock('../source-control/pull-request-template', () => ({
diff --git a/src/main/git/coalesced-probe.ts b/src/main/git/coalesced-probe.ts
index 57bc705135e..ce09ba4eaeb 100644
--- a/src/main/git/coalesced-probe.ts
+++ b/src/main/git/coalesced-probe.ts
@@ -8,16 +8,21 @@
  * progress is what lets a host recover in-session.
  */
 
-export type CoalescedProbe<T> = { startedAt: number; promise: Promise<T> }
+export type CoalescedProbe<T> = { startedAt: number; token: object; promise: Promise<T> }
 export type CoalescedProbes<T> = Map<string, CoalescedProbe<T>>
 
 /** Every step under a probe is bounded well inside this, so an older one is wedged, not slow. */
 export const PROBE_COALESCE_STALE_MS = 60_000
 
+/**
+ * `createProbe` receives `ownsKey`: false once this probe has been abandoned for
+ * a successor, which is what tells a late one not to publish its answer over the
+ * fresher one someone else is already being served.
+ */
 export async function runCoalescedProbe<T>(
   probes: CoalescedProbes<T>,
   key: string,
-  createProbe: () => Promise<T>,
+  createProbe: (ownsKey: () => boolean) => Promise<T>,
   staleAfterMs: number = PROBE_COALESCE_STALE_MS
 ): Promise<T> {
   const now = Date.now()
@@ -29,7 +34,12 @@ export async function runCoalescedProbe<T>(
     // The abandoned probe keeps running; nothing here will await it again.
     void existing.promise.catch(() => {})
   }
-  const entry: CoalescedProbe<T> = { startedAt: now, promise: createProbe() }
+  const token = {}
+  const entry: CoalescedProbe<T> = {
+    startedAt: now,
+    token,
+    promise: createProbe(() => probes.get(key)?.token === token)
+  }
   probes.set(key, entry)
   try {
     return await entry.promise
diff --git a/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.test.ts b/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c1f6b0f0981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+const { getSshGitProviderMock, getSshGitProviderGenerationMock, gitExecFileAsyncMock } = vi.hoisted(
+  () => ({
+    getSshGitProviderMock: vi.fn(),
+    getSshGitProviderGenerationMock: vi.fn(() => 0),
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock: vi.fn()
+  })
+)
+
+vi.mock('../providers/ssh-git-dispatch', () => ({
+  getSshGitProvider: getSshGitProviderMock,
+  getSshGitProviderGeneration: getSshGitProviderGenerationMock,
+  SSH_GIT_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE_MESSAGE: 'SSH Git provider unavailable'
+}))
+
+vi.mock('./runner', () => ({ gitExecFileAsync: gitExecFileAsyncMock }))
+
+import { PROBE_COALESCE_STALE_MS } from './coalesced-probe'
+import { createRemoteRefProbeCache, NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS } from './remote-ref-probe-cache'
+
+/** Stands in for a forge's parser: claims one host, rejects everything else. */
+function parseExampleRef(remoteUrl: string): { repo: string } | null {
+  const match = remoteUrl.trim().match(/^git@example\.com:(.+?)(?:\.git)?$/)
+  return match ? { repo: match[1] } : null
+}
+
+function deferred<T>(): { promise: Promise<T>; resolve: (value: T) => void } {
+  let resolve: (value: T) => void = () => {}
+  const promise = new Promise<T>((settle) => {
+    resolve = settle
+  })
+  return { promise, resolve }
+}
+
+describe('remote ref probe cache (P1-D)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReset()
+    getSshGitProviderGenerationMock.mockReset()
+    getSshGitProviderGenerationMock.mockReturnValue(0)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockReset()
+    vi.useFakeTimers()
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000)
+  })
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.useRealTimers()
+  })
+
+  it('answers concurrent lookups for one repo with a single probe', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+
+    const answers = await Promise.all([
+      cache.get('/repo', 'origin'),
+      cache.get('/repo', 'origin'),
+      cache.get('/repo', 'origin')
+    ])
+
+    expect(answers).toEqual([{ repo: 'team/repo' }, { repo: 'team/repo' }, { repo: 'team/repo' }])
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  it('re-probes a repo whose remotes could have changed since the miss', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("fatal: No such remote 'origin'"))
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+
+    // A remote added after the miss is only visible once the negative expires;
+    // nothing here watches .git/config, and SSH/WSL repos have no file to watch.
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000 + NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS + 1)
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps a resolved ref without re-probing', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000 + NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS * 10)
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  it('does not let a lookup on a reconnected provider join the old connection probe', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    let releaseStalled = (): void => {}
+    const execMock = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockImplementationOnce(
+        async () => await new Promise((resolve) => (releaseStalled = () => resolve({ stdout: '' })))
+      )
+      .mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({ exec: execMock })
+
+    const stalled = cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')
+    getSshGitProviderGenerationMock.mockReturnValue(1)
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    expect(execMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+
+    releaseStalled()
+    await expect(stalled).resolves.toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('does not let a probe abandoned as stale overwrite its successor answer', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    const stalled = deferred<{ stdout: string }>()
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock
+      .mockImplementationOnce(async () => await stalled.promise)
+      .mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+
+    const abandoned = cache.get('/repo', 'origin')
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000 + PROBE_COALESCE_STALE_MS + 1)
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+
+    // The abandoned probe still answers the caller that started it, but the repo
+    // state it read is older than the one already cached — it must not publish.
+    stalled.resolve({ stdout: 'git@elsewhere.example:team/repo.git\n' })
+    await expect(abandoned).resolves.toBeNull()
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it('holds a parsed-as-not-mine remote for the negative interval, then re-asks', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@elsewhere.example:team/repo.git\n' })
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000 + NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS + 1)
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it('never caches a miss from a runtime that could not be asked at all', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValueOnce(undefined)
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toBeNull()
+
+    // The provider was gone, not the remote: reconnecting must not need the TTL.
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({
+      exec: vi.fn(async () => ({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' }))
+    })
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+  })
+
+  it('holds an SSH repo that has no such remote instead of re-asking every poll', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    const exec = vi.fn(async () => {
+      throw new Error("fatal: No such remote 'origin'")
+    })
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({ exec })
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    expect(exec).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+
+    vi.setSystemTime(1_000_000 + NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS + 1)
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    expect(exec).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps re-asking an SSH repo whose probe died with its transport', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    const exec = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('relay request failed: connection closed'))
+      .mockResolvedValue({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({ exec })
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin', 'conn-1')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    expect(exec).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it('does not cache a probe killed on its deadline as a definitive miss', async () => {
+    const cache = createRemoteRefProbeCache(parseExampleRef)
+    gitExecFileAsyncMock
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('git timed out.'))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({ stdout: 'git@example.com:team/repo.git\n' })
+
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toBeNull()
+    await expect(cache.get('/repo', 'origin')).resolves.toEqual({ repo: 'team/repo' })
+    expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.ts b/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.ts
index 166e511ede0..3bc2f676fbb 100644
--- a/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.ts
+++ b/src/main/git/remote-ref-probe-cache.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+import { getSshGitProviderGeneration } from '../providers/ssh-git-dispatch'
+import { runCoalescedProbe, type CoalescedProbes } from './coalesced-probe'
 import { isTransientGitProbeError, readRemoteUrl } from './remote-url-probe'
+import { isStableMissingGitRemoteError } from './stable-missing-git-remote-error'
 
 /**
  * The "is this repo mine?" probe every forge integration runs: read the remote's
@@ -8,6 +11,18 @@ import { isTransientGitProbeError, readRemoteUrl } from './remote-url-probe'
 
 const REPO_REF_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES = 512
 
+/**
+ * Why: "not this provider" only holds until someone edits the repo's remotes —
+ * and a repo first probed before it had any remote answers that way too.
+ * Nothing here watches `.git/config`, and a watcher cannot cover the SSH and WSL
+ * runtimes this cache also serves, so negatives expire instead: one probe per
+ * repo per interval is what lets a remote added mid-session be picked up without
+ * a restart. Positives stay, as they did before.
+ */
+export const NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS = 5 * 60_000
+
+type CachedRepoRef<Ref> = { value: Ref | null; expiresAt: number }
+
 export type RemoteRefLocalGitOptions = {
   wslDistro?: string
 }
@@ -26,10 +41,14 @@ export type RemoteRefProbeCache<Ref> = {
 export function createRemoteRefProbeCache<Ref>(
   parseRemoteUrl: (remoteUrl: string) => Ref | null
 ): RemoteRefProbeCache<Ref> {
-  const repoRefCache = new Map<string, Ref | null>()
+  const repoRefCache = new Map<string, CachedRepoRef<Ref>>()
+  const inFlight: CoalescedProbes<Ref | null> = new Map()
 
   function remember(cacheKey: string, value: Ref | null): void {
-    repoRefCache.set(cacheKey, value)
+    repoRefCache.set(cacheKey, {
+      value,
+      expiresAt: value === null ? Date.now() + NEGATIVE_ENTRY_TTL_MS : Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY
+    })
     while (repoRefCache.size > REPO_REF_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES) {
       const oldestKey = repoRefCache.keys().next().value
       if (oldestKey === undefined) {
@@ -39,41 +58,83 @@ export function createRemoteRefProbeCache<Ref>(
     }
   }
 
-  return {
-    async get(repoPath, remoteName, connectionId, localGitOptions = {}) {
-      const runtimeKey = connectionId ?? `local:${localGitOptions.wslDistro ?? 'host'}`
-      const cacheKey = `${runtimeKey}\0${repoPath}\0${remoteName}`
-      if (repoRefCache.has(cacheKey)) {
-        return repoRefCache.get(cacheKey)!
+  async function probe(
+    cacheKey: string,
+    ownsKey: () => boolean,
+    repoPath: string,
+    remoteName: string,
+    connectionId: string | null | undefined,
+    localGitOptions: RemoteRefLocalGitOptions
+  ): Promise<Ref | null> {
+    // Why: a probe abandoned as stale still runs, and its answer describes a repo
+    // state older than whatever the successor is about to store — or already has.
+    // It may still answer its own callers; it may not publish.
+    const publish = (value: Ref | null): void => {
+      if (ownsKey()) {
+        remember(cacheKey, value)
       }
-      try {
-        const stdout = await readRemoteUrl(
-          {
-            repoPath,
-            connectionId,
-            ...(localGitOptions.wslDistro ? { wslDistro: localGitOptions.wslDistro } : {})
-          },
-          remoteName
-        )
-        if (stdout === null) {
-          return null
-        }
-        const result = parseRemoteUrl(stdout)
-        remember(cacheKey, result)
-        return result
-      } catch (error) {
-        if (connectionId || isTransientGitProbeError(error)) {
-          // Why: SSH provider failures are often transient reconnect/tunnel states,
-          // and a probe killed on its deadline says nothing about the remote either;
-          // caching them as "not this provider" would poison the repo for the session.
-          return null
-        }
-        remember(cacheKey, null)
+    }
+    try {
+      const stdout = await readRemoteUrl(
+        {
+          repoPath,
+          connectionId,
+          ...(localGitOptions.wslDistro ? { wslDistro: localGitOptions.wslDistro } : {})
+        },
+        remoteName
+      )
+      // Why: null is the SSH runtime being disconnected, not an answer about the
+      // remote — and it costs no `git`, so there is nothing here to spare. It is
+      // deliberately the one negative with no TTL floor: flooring it would make a
+      // reconnected host wait the interval out for a probe it could serve now.
+      if (stdout === null) {
         return null
       }
+      const result = parseRemoteUrl(stdout)
+      publish(result)
+      return result
+    } catch (error) {
+      // Why: a probe killed on its deadline says nothing about the remote, and an
+      // SSH failure is usually a reconnect or tunnel state rather than an answer.
+      // Only "no such remote" is the repo itself saying it is not this provider's
+      // — anything else cached would poison it, on SSH for the generation's life.
+      if (isTransientGitProbeError(error)) {
+        return null
+      }
+      if (connectionId && !isStableMissingGitRemoteError(error)) {
+        return null
+      }
+      publish(null)
+      return null
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    async get(repoPath, remoteName, connectionId, localGitOptions = {}) {
+      // Why: a reconnect retires the connection an answer came from, and with it
+      // the probe still running on it — stamping the generation stops a caller on
+      // the new connection from adopting either.
+      const runtimeKey = connectionId
+        ? `${connectionId}:${getSshGitProviderGeneration(connectionId)}`
+        : `local:${localGitOptions.wslDistro ?? 'host'}`
+      const cacheKey = `${runtimeKey}\0${repoPath}\0${remoteName}`
+      const cached = repoRefCache.get(cacheKey)
+      if (cached) {
+        if (cached.expiresAt > Date.now()) {
+          return cached.value
+        }
+        repoRefCache.delete(cacheKey)
+      }
+      // Why: every branch of a repo resolves its forge through this probe, so a
+      // poll of the worktree list arrives as a burst of identical lookups. One
+      // young probe answers all of them instead of spawning a `git` per branch.
+      return runCoalescedProbe(inFlight, cacheKey, (ownsKey) =>
+        probe(cacheKey, ownsKey, repoPath, remoteName, connectionId, localGitOptions)
+      )
     },
     clear() {
       repoRefCache.clear()
+      inFlight.clear()
     },
     size() {
       return repoRefCache.size
diff --git a/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.test.ts b/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.test.ts
index a2bd0c8f52d..8a7672cb229 100644
--- a/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.test.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,42 @@ describe('remote URL probe', () => {
     expect(REMOTE_URL_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS).toBe(30_000)
   })
 
+  it('bounds the SSH remote read with the same deadline as the local one', async () => {
+    const exec = vi.fn(
+      async (_args: string[], _cwd: string, _options?: { signal?: AbortSignal }) => ({
+        stdout: 'git@github.com:acme/orca.git\n'
+      })
+    )
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({ exec })
+
+    await expect(
+      readRemoteUrl({ repoPath: '/repo', connectionId: 'ssh-1' }, 'origin')
+    ).resolves.toContain('github.com')
+
+    const [args, cwd, options] = exec.mock.calls[0]
+    expect(args).toEqual(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'])
+    expect(cwd).toBe('/repo')
+    // The relay bounds each phase separately and resets on every frame, so only a
+    // signal spans the whole round trip.
+    expect(options?.signal).toBeInstanceOf(AbortSignal)
+    expect(options?.signal?.aborted).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('reports a probe cut off by its deadline as unavailable, not as an answer', async () => {
+    const aborted = new Error('Request was cancelled')
+    aborted.name = 'AbortError'
+    getSshGitProviderMock.mockReturnValue({
+      exec: vi.fn(async () => {
+        throw aborted
+      })
+    })
+
+    expect(isTransientGitProbeError(aborted)).toBe(true)
+    await expect(
+      assertRemoteUrlReadable({ repoPath: '/repo', connectionId: 'ssh-1' })
+    ).rejects.toBe(aborted)
+  })
+
   it('rethrows a timed-out local probe so callers can report unavailable', async () => {
     const timeout = new Error('git timed out.')
     gitExecFileAsyncMock.mockRejectedValue(timeout)
diff --git a/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.ts b/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.ts
index 4615e74e4b0..7b18c1deac9 100644
--- a/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.ts
+++ b/src/main/git/remote-url-probe.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ import { gitExecFileAsync } from './runner'
  * wedged host — a dead network mount or stalled WSL interop. Unbounded, the call
  * never returns and every caller above it hangs with it. Passing a timeout is
  * also what arms the runner's kill path; Node's own waits forever on a child
- * that ignores signals. The SSH branch is bounded by the relay mux's own 30s
- * request timeout.
+ * that ignores signals. The SSH branch spends the same budget as one deadline
+ * over the whole round trip: the relay's own bounds are per-phase and restart on
+ * every frame, so a relay dribbling output outlives them.
  */
 export const REMOTE_URL_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
 
@@ -33,7 +34,9 @@ export async function readRemoteUrl(
     if (!provider) {
       return null
     }
-    const { stdout } = await provider.exec(['remote', 'get-url', remoteName], context.repoPath)
+    const { stdout } = await provider.exec(['remote', 'get-url', remoteName], context.repoPath, {
+      signal: AbortSignal.timeout(REMOTE_URL_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS)
+    })
     return stdout
   }
   const { stdout } = await gitExecFileAsync(['remote', 'get-url', remoteName], {
@@ -58,6 +61,15 @@ const TRANSIENT_PROBE_PATTERNS = [
  * report it as "no review": it is an unavailable result, not a negative one.
  */
 export function isTransientGitProbeError(error: unknown): boolean {
+  // Why: an abort — this probe's deadline, or a caller cancelling — carries no
+  // message a pattern could match, but it is the emptiest answer of all.
+  if (
+    typeof error === 'object' &&
+    error !== null &&
+    (error as { name?: unknown }).name === 'AbortError'
+  ) {
+    return true
+  }
   const parts: string[] = []
   if (error instanceof Error) {
     parts.push(error.message)
diff --git a/src/main/github/stable-missing-git-remote-error.ts b/src/main/git/stable-missing-git-remote-error.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from src/main/github/stable-missing-git-remote-error.ts
rename to src/main/git/stable-missing-git-remote-error.ts
diff --git a/src/main/gitea/pull-request-creation.test.ts b/src/main/gitea/pull-request-creation.test.ts
index 9680726c302..a8dad194408 100644
--- a/src/main/gitea/pull-request-creation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/gitea/pull-request-creation.test.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ vi.mock('../git/runner', () => ({
 }))
 
 vi.mock('../providers/ssh-git-dispatch', () => ({
-  getSshGitProvider: getSshGitProviderMock
+  getSshGitProvider: getSshGitProviderMock,
+  getSshGitProviderGeneration: () => 0
 }))
 
 vi.mock('../source-control/pull-request-template', () => ({
@@ -131,7 +132,9 @@ describe('Gitea pull request creation', () => {
       ok: true,
       number: 14
     })
-    expect(remoteGit.exec).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/remote/repo')
+    expect(remoteGit.exec).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/remote/repo', {
+      signal: expect.any(AbortSignal)
+    })
     expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 
diff --git a/src/main/gitea/repository-ref.test.ts b/src/main/gitea/repository-ref.test.ts
index 7169bd69b7c..678dd5c6912 100644
--- a/src/main/gitea/repository-ref.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/gitea/repository-ref.test.ts
@@ -189,7 +189,9 @@ describe('Gitea repository ref parsing', () => {
       repo: 'project'
     })
 
-    expect(sshExecMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/repo')
+    expect(sshExecMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/repo', {
+      signal: expect.any(AbortSignal)
+    })
     expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 
diff --git a/src/main/github/gh-utils.test.ts b/src/main/github/gh-utils.test.ts
index 9c4461e5e18..0d7329e21e3 100644
--- a/src/main/github/gh-utils.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/github/gh-utils.test.ts
@@ -209,7 +209,10 @@ describe('github owner/repo resolution', () => {
     expect(getSshGitProviderMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith('openclaw-2')
     expect(sshProvider.exec).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       ['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'],
-      '/home/user/orca'
+      '/home/user/orca',
+      {
+        signal: expect.any(AbortSignal)
+      }
     )
   })
 
diff --git a/src/main/github/github-repository-identity.ts b/src/main/github/github-repository-identity.ts
index 0490b19c5aa..e348fbc6459 100644
--- a/src/main/github/github-repository-identity.ts
+++ b/src/main/github/github-repository-identity.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   type GitHubRemoteIdentity
 } from './github-remote-identity-parsing'
 import { classifyGitHubOwnerRepoFromRemoteUrl } from './github-ssh-host-alias-resolution'
-import { isStableMissingGitRemoteError } from './stable-missing-git-remote-error'
+import { isStableMissingGitRemoteError } from '../git/stable-missing-git-remote-error'
 
 export type OwnerRepo = GitHubOwnerRepo
 
diff --git a/src/main/gitlab/gl-utils.test.ts b/src/main/gitlab/gl-utils.test.ts
index 1e1e3d0cca4..23e159671c6 100644
--- a/src/main/gitlab/gl-utils.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/gitlab/gl-utils.test.ts
@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ describe('gitlab project ref resolution', () => {
       path: 'remote/orca'
     })
 
-    expect(sshExecMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/repo')
+    expect(sshExecMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['remote', 'get-url', 'origin'], '/repo', {
+      signal: expect.any(AbortSignal)
+    })
     expect(gitExecFileAsyncMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 
diff --git a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.test.ts b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.test.ts
index 17c69038d58..a9b509873c3 100644
--- a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import {
   HOSTED_REVIEW_LOOKUP_DEADLINE_MS,
   LOOKUP_BACKOFF_MAX_MS,
   MAX_BRANCH_MAP_ENTRIES,
+  MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS,
   MAX_INFLIGHT_LOOKUPS,
+  MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS,
   MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY
 } from './hosted-review-refresh-pacing'
 
@@ -788,12 +790,16 @@ describe('hosted review branch cache (#11532)', () => {
       }
       const filler = stuckLookup()
       const wedged = stuckLookup()
-      /** Drops the branch's in-flight record without expiring it, so it runs on untracked. */
-      const evictInflightRecords = (round: number): void => {
+      /**
+       * Drops the branch's in-flight record without expiring it, so it runs on
+       * untracked. Reuses one set of filler branches per round: fresh keys every
+       * round would spend the unsettled-map bound instead of the in-flight cap.
+       */
+      const evictInflightRecords = (): void => {
         for (let index = 0; index < MAX_INFLIGHT_LOOKUPS; index += 1) {
           swallow(
             withHostedReviewBranchCache(
-              { ...identity, branch: `filler/${round}/${index}` },
+              { ...identity, branch: `filler/${index}` },
               { headOid: null },
               filler.lookup
             )
@@ -803,7 +809,7 @@ describe('hosted review branch cache (#11532)', () => {
 
       for (let attempt = 0; attempt < MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY; attempt += 1) {
         swallow(withHostedReviewBranchCache(identity, { headOid: null }, wedged.lookup))
-        evictInflightRecords(attempt)
+        evictInflightRecords()
       }
       expect(wedged.lookup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY)
 
@@ -816,6 +822,71 @@ describe('hosted review branch cache (#11532)', () => {
       expect(wedged.lookup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY)
     })
 
+    it('stops admitting new branches once the unsettled map is full', async () => {
+      const swallow = (promise: Promise<unknown>): void => {
+        void promise.catch(() => {})
+      }
+      const filler = stuckLookup()
+      for (let index = 0; index < MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS; index += 1) {
+        swallow(
+          withHostedReviewBranchCache(
+            { ...identity, branch: `filler/${index}` },
+            { headOid: null },
+            filler.lookup
+          )
+        )
+      }
+      expect(filler.lookup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS)
+
+      // Nothing has reached its deadline, so only the map bound can hold this
+      // back — without it the wave keeps widening until the detached cap does.
+      // This branch never started a lookup, so it must not be told one of its own
+      // is still out there.
+      const fresh = vi.fn(async () => openReview)
+      const refusal = await withHostedReviewBranchCache(
+        { ...identity, branch: 'fresh' },
+        { headOid: null },
+        fresh
+      ).catch((error: unknown) => (error as Error).message)
+      expect(refusal).toMatch(/Too many hosted review lookups are already in progress/)
+      expect(refusal).not.toMatch(/never answered/)
+      expect(fresh).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+      // A branch already counted keeps its second attempt: the bound is on new
+      // keys, not on the retry that proves a host recovered.
+      const retry = stuckLookup()
+      swallow(
+        withHostedReviewBranchCache(
+          { ...identity, branch: 'filler/0' },
+          { headOid: null },
+          retry.lookup
+        )
+      )
+      expect(retry.lookup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    })
+
+    it('names the process-wide cap when abandoned lookups have filled it', async () => {
+      const wedged = stuckLookup()
+      for (let index = 0; index < MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS; index += 1) {
+        void withHostedReviewBranchCache(
+          { ...identity, branch: `wedged/${index}` },
+          { headOid: null },
+          wedged.lookup
+        ).catch(() => {})
+      }
+      await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(HOSTED_REVIEW_LOOKUP_DEADLINE_MS)
+
+      // The host wedged every branch on it, not this one in particular.
+      const fresh = vi.fn(async () => openReview)
+      const refusal = await withHostedReviewBranchCache(
+        { ...identity, branch: 'fresh' },
+        { headOid: null },
+        fresh
+      ).catch((error: unknown) => (error as Error).message)
+      expect(refusal).toMatch(/abandoned without answering/)
+      expect(fresh).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+    })
+
     it('does not adopt a straggler whose invalidated scope was evicted', async () => {
       const stale = stuckLookup()
       const inflight = withHostedReviewBranchCache(identity, { headOid: null }, stale.lookup)
diff --git a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.ts b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.ts
index b99943bda0e..6d0338a1a5c 100644
--- a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.ts
+++ b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-branch-cache.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from './hosted-review-active-branch-claims'
 import {
   __resetUnsettledHostedReviewLookupsForTests,
-  hasLookupCapacity,
+  lookupCapacityRefusal,
   noteDetachedLookup,
   noteLookupStarted,
   settleDetachedLookup,
@@ -251,10 +251,7 @@ function lookupUnavailableReason(key: string): string | null {
       until
     ).toLocaleTimeString()}.`
   }
-  if (!hasLookupCapacity(key)) {
-    return 'Hosted review lookup is still running from an earlier attempt that never answered. It will be retried once that attempt settles.'
-  }
-  return null
+  return lookupCapacityRefusal(key)
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-refresh-pacing.ts b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-refresh-pacing.ts
index ed36463afe5..991478f29ab 100644
--- a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-refresh-pacing.ts
+++ b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-refresh-pacing.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ export const MAX_INFLIGHT_LOOKUPS = MAX_BRANCH_MAP_ENTRIES
  */
 export const MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY = 2
 
+/**
+ * How many branches may hold unsettled lookups at once. Deliberately above the
+ * in-flight cap: that one evicts, which costs memory but never an answer, so it
+ * has to be what fires at realistic fan-out. Refusing a branch outright is for a
+ * wave no plausible worktree list explains, and only bounds the map holding it.
+ */
+export const MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS = 2 * MAX_BRANCH_MAP_ENTRIES
+
 /** Process-wide backstop for the same leak when many branches wedge at once. */
 export const MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS = 64
 
diff --git a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-unsettled-lookups.ts b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-unsettled-lookups.ts
index 96ed0eddfe0..fd8f1aabdda 100644
--- a/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-unsettled-lookups.ts
+++ b/src/main/source-control/hosted-review-unsettled-lookups.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-import { MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS, MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY } from './hosted-review-refresh-pacing'
+import {
+  MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS,
+  MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS,
+  MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY
+} from './hosted-review-refresh-pacing'
 
 /**
  * Accounting for lookups that have not settled (P1-D).
@@ -48,12 +52,28 @@ export function settleDetachedLookup(): void {
   detachedTotal = Math.max(0, detachedTotal - 1)
 }
 
-/** False once this branch — or the process — is holding too many unsettled lookups. */
-export function hasLookupCapacity(key: string): boolean {
-  return (
-    (unsettledByKey.get(key) ?? 0) < MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY &&
-    detachedTotal < MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS
-  )
+/**
+ * Why this branch cannot start a lookup, or null when it can. Only the per-branch
+ * cap may blame an attempt of its own: the other two hold back branches that have
+ * never asked for anything, and telling those users to wait on a lookup they
+ * never started sends them looking for a stall that is not theirs.
+ */
+export function lookupCapacityRefusal(key: string): string | null {
+  if ((unsettledByKey.get(key) ?? 0) >= MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUPS_PER_KEY) {
+    return 'Hosted review lookup is still running from an earlier attempt that never answered. It will be retried once that attempt settles.'
+  }
+  // Why: this map is bounded by refusing new branches, not by evicting old ones —
+  // its entries are lookups still out there, and dropping a key would re-admit
+  // one for a branch already wedged. The bound sits above the in-flight cap so a
+  // wave wide enough to reach it is pathological, not the ordinary fan-out of a
+  // client polling a long worktree list.
+  if (!unsettledByKey.has(key) && unsettledByKey.size >= MAX_UNSETTLED_LOOKUP_KEYS) {
+    return 'Too many hosted review lookups are already in progress to start another. This branch will be retried once some of them settle.'
+  }
+  if (detachedTotal >= MAX_DETACHED_LOOKUPS) {
+    return 'Too many hosted review lookups have been abandoned without answering. This branch will be retried once the host catches up.'
+  }
+  return null
 }
 
 /** @internal - exposed for tests only */