diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress-flow.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress-flow.test.ts
index 9002fae03bd..52d13dc1cfb 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress-flow.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress-flow.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { link, mkdir, mkdtemp, rm, utimes } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { basename, join } from 'node:path'
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import type { AiVaultScanProgress, AiVaultScanWork } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scan-progress'
 import {
@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ import {
   resetLocalAiVaultScanProgressForTests,
   startLocalAiVaultScanProgress
 } from './ai-vault-local-scan-progress'
+import * as parseCache from './session-scanner-parse-cache'
+import * as transcriptFs from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-access'
 import { AiVaultScanTally } from './ai-vault-scan-tally'
 import { aiVaultScanWork, trackAiVaultScanProgress } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { writeOpenCodeSqliteDatabase } from './session-scanner-opencode-sqlite-fixture'
 import { scanAiVaultSessions } from './session-scanner'
 import { resetSessionParseCacheForTests } from './session-scanner-parse-cache'
 import { AiVaultScannerServiceClient } from './session-scanner-service-client'
@@ -22,10 +25,25 @@ import {
 } from './session-scanner-service-test-child'
 import { isolatedScanRoots, writeJsonlFile } from './session-scanner-test-fixtures'
 
+// Source fixtures exercise the real SQLite readers without a packaged worker bundle.
+vi.mock('./session-scanner-opencode-sqlite-worker-spawn', async () => {
+  const { listOpenCodeSqliteSessions } = await import('./session-scanner-opencode-sqlite-list')
+  const { listOpenCode2SqliteSessions } = await import('./session-scanner-opencode2-sqlite-list')
+  const { parseOpenCodeSqliteSession } = await import('./session-scanner-opencode-sqlite')
+  return {
+    listOpenCode2SqliteSessionsViaWorker: listOpenCode2SqliteSessions,
+    listOpenCodeSqliteSessionsViaWorker: listOpenCodeSqliteSessions,
+    listZcodeSqliteSessionsViaWorker: (args: Parameters<typeof listOpenCodeSqliteSessions>[0]) =>
+      listOpenCodeSqliteSessions({ ...args, agent: 'zcode' }),
+    parseOpenCodeSqliteSessionViaWorker: parseOpenCodeSqliteSession
+  }
+})
+
 let tempRoot: string | null = null
 
 afterEach(async () => {
   vi.useRealTimers()
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
   resetSessionParseCacheForTests()
   resetLocalAiVaultScanProgressForTests()
   if (tempRoot) {
@@ -102,8 +120,16 @@ describe('Session History scan progress, scanner child to window', () => {
     expect(reports.some((work) => work.stage === 'finding')).toBe(true)
     expect(final).toEqual({
       stage: 'reading',
-      agents: [{ agent: 'claude', files: 3, databases: 0, walking: false }],
-      read: { done: 4, total: 4 }
+      agents: [
+        {
+          agent: 'claude',
+          files: 3,
+          databases: 0,
+          walking: false,
+          read: { done: 4, total: 4, skipped: 0 }
+        }
+      ],
+      read: { done: 4, total: 4, skipped: 0 }
     })
 
     const { child, scan, published } = startScan()
@@ -135,8 +161,11 @@ describe('Session History scan progress, scanner child to window', () => {
 
   it('reaches its total when the first pass stops before reading every file it planned', async () => {
     // The newest file fills a limit of 1, so the pass never reads the older ones it announced.
-    const { final } = await scanInChild(1)
-    expect(final.read).toEqual({ done: 1, total: 1 })
+    const { reports, final } = await scanInChild(1)
+    expect(final.read).toEqual({ done: 1, total: 2, skipped: 1 })
+    expect(
+      reports.filter((work) => work.stage === 'reading').every((work) => work.read.total === 2)
+    ).toBe(true)
   })
 
   it('keeps a replacement entry when the scan it replaced fails late', () => {
@@ -202,3 +231,204 @@ describe('Session History scan progress, scanner child to window', () => {
     expect(tally.snapshot().agents).toMatchObject([{ agent: 'codex', files: 3 }])
   })
 })
+
+it.each(['cutoff', 'bucket', 'filtered'] as const)(
+  'freezes %s work without changing cold/warm execution',
+  async (flow) => {
+    tempRoot = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-scan-frozen-'))
+    const roots = isolatedScanRoots(tempRoot)
+    for (let index = 0; index < (flow === 'filtered' ? 27 : 6); index++) {
+      const timestamp = new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 9, 19) - index * 60_000).toISOString()
+      const cwd =
+        index >= 3 && (flow === 'bucket' || (index - 3) % 8 === 0) ? '/repo' : '/elsewhere'
+      const path =
+        flow === 'filtered'
+          ? join(roots.codexSessionsDir, `rollout-${index}.jsonl`)
+          : join(
+              roots.claudeProjectsDir,
+              cwd === '/repo' ? '-repo' : '-elsewhere',
+              `${index}.jsonl`
+            )
+      await writeJsonlFile(
+        path,
+        flow === 'filtered'
+          ? [
+              { timestamp, type: 'session_meta', payload: { id: `fixture-${index}`, cwd } },
+              {
+                timestamp,
+                type: 'event_msg',
+                payload: { type: 'user_message', message: `Generated ${index}` }
+              }
+            ]
+          : [
+              {
+                type: 'user',
+                sessionId: `fixture-${index}`,
+                timestamp,
+                cwd,
+                message: { role: 'user', content: `Generated ${index}` }
+              }
+            ]
+      )
+      await utimes(path, Date.parse(timestamp) / 1000, Date.parse(timestamp) / 1000)
+    }
+    const listed = vi.spyOn(parseCache, 'parseListedSessionFile')
+    const walked = vi.spyOn(parseCache, 'parseAgentSessionFileCached')
+    const stats = vi.spyOn(parseCache, 'createSessionParseStats')
+    const opened = vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'openTranscriptReadStream')
+    const ids =
+      flow === 'cutoff'
+        ? [0, 1, 2]
+        : flow === 'filtered'
+          ? [0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 19]
+          : [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
+    for (const warm of [false, true]) {
+      const reports: AiVaultScanWork[] = []
+      const signal = new AbortController().signal
+      let now = 0
+      const stop = trackAiVaultScanProgress(
+        signal,
+        (work) => reports.push(work),
+        () => (now += 1000)
+      )
+      try {
+        const result = await scanAiVaultSessions({
+          ...roots,
+          platform: 'darwin',
+          limit: 3,
+          limitPerAgent: 50,
+          signal,
+          ...(flow === 'cutoff' ? {} : { scopePaths: ['/repo'] })
+        })
+        expect(result.issues).toEqual([])
+        expect(result.sessions.map((row) => row.sessionId)).toEqual(
+          ids.map((id) => `fixture-${id}`)
+        )
+        const attempts = [...listed.mock.calls, ...walked.mock.calls].map(
+          ([candidate]) => candidate.file.path
+        )
+        expect(
+          attempts.map((path) =>
+            Number(basename(path).replace('rollout-', '').replace('.jsonl', ''))
+          )
+        ).toEqual(ids)
+        // Captured from the same generated corpus before the change; representatives move earlier.
+        expect(opened.mock.calls).toHaveLength(warm ? 0 : flow === 'bucket' ? 7 : ids.length)
+        expect(stats.mock.results.at(-1)?.value).toEqual({
+          reused: warm ? ids.length : 0,
+          incremental: 0,
+          fullParses: warm ? 0 : ids.length,
+          earlyStopped: 0,
+          bytesRead: warm ? 0 : flow === 'filtered' ? 1363 : flow === 'bucket' ? 873 : 444
+        })
+        const reading = reports.filter((work) => work.stage === 'reading')
+        const total = flow === 'filtered' ? 27 : 6
+        let settled = 0
+        for (const work of reading) {
+          expect(work.read.total).toBe(total)
+          expect(work.read.done + (work.read.skipped ?? 0)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(settled)
+          settled = work.read.done + (work.read.skipped ?? 0)
+          expect(work.agents.reduce((sum, agent) => sum + (agent.read?.total ?? 0), 0)).toBe(total)
+          expect(work.agents.reduce((sum, agent) => sum + (agent.read?.done ?? 0), 0)).toBe(
+            work.read.done
+          )
+          expect(work.agents.reduce((sum, agent) => sum + (agent.read?.skipped ?? 0), 0)).toBe(
+            work.read.skipped
+          )
+        }
+        expect(aiVaultScanWork(signal)?.read).toEqual({
+          done: ids.length,
+          total,
+          skipped: total - ids.length
+        })
+      } finally {
+        stop()
+      }
+      listed.mockClear()
+      walked.mockClear()
+      opened.mockClear()
+    }
+  }
+)
+
+it.each([false, true])(
+  'counts repeated global visits and database sessions once (scoped=%s)',
+  async (scoped) => {
+    tempRoot = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-scan-repeat-'))
+    const roots = isolatedScanRoots(tempRoot)
+    await writeJsonlFile(join(roots.droidSessionsDir, 'same.jsonl'), [
+      { type: 'session_start', id: 'same', cwd: '/repo', timestamp: '2026-10-19T00:00:00Z' },
+      { type: 'message', message: { role: 'user', content: 'Generated' } }
+    ])
+    const database = join(tempRoot, 'opencode.db')
+    writeOpenCodeSqliteDatabase(database, [
+      { id: 'db-session', directory: '/repo', turns: [{ role: 'user', parts: ['Generated'] }] }
+    ])
+    const listed = vi.spyOn(parseCache, 'parseListedSessionFile')
+    const signal = new AbortController().signal
+    const reports: AiVaultScanWork[] = []
+    let pendingAfterParses = false
+    let now = 0
+    const stop = trackAiVaultScanProgress(
+      signal,
+      (work) => {
+        reports.push(work)
+        if (listed.mock.calls.length === 3 && work.stage === 'reading' && work.read.done === 0) {
+          pendingAfterParses = true
+        }
+      },
+      () => (now += 1000)
+    )
+    try {
+      const result = await scanAiVaultSessions({
+        ...roots,
+        droidProjectsDir: roots.droidSessionsDir,
+        opencodeDbPaths: [database],
+        scopePaths: scoped ? ['/repo'] : [],
+        signal,
+        limit: 20,
+        platform: 'darwin'
+      })
+      expect(result.sessions.map((row) => row.sessionId).sort()).toEqual(
+        scoped ? ['db-session', 'same'] : ['db-session', 'same', 'same']
+      )
+      expect(listed.mock.calls.filter(([candidate]) => candidate.agent === 'droid')).toHaveLength(2)
+      expect(aiVaultScanWork(signal)?.read).toEqual({ done: 2, total: 2, skipped: 0 })
+      if (scoped) {
+        expect(pendingAfterParses).toBe(true)
+      }
+      expect(
+        reports.filter((work) => work.stage === 'reading').every((work) => work.read.total === 2)
+      ).toBe(true)
+      expect(
+        aiVaultScanWork(signal)?.agents.find((agent) => agent.agent === 'opencode')?.read
+      ).toEqual({ done: 1, total: 1, skipped: 0 })
+    } finally {
+      stop()
+    }
+  }
+)
+
+it('does not settle a batch interrupted during its real parser invocation', async () => {
+  tempRoot = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-scan-abort-'))
+  const roots = isolatedScanRoots(tempRoot)
+  await writeJsonlFile(join(roots.claudeProjectsDir, 'project', 'a.jsonl'), [
+    { type: 'user', sessionId: 'a', message: { role: 'user', content: 'Generated' } }
+  ])
+  const controller = new AbortController()
+  const original = parseCache.parseListedSessionFile
+  vi.spyOn(parseCache, 'parseListedSessionFile').mockImplementation(async (...args) => {
+    const result = await original(...args)
+    controller.abort()
+    return result
+  })
+  const stop = trackAiVaultScanProgress(controller.signal, () => undefined)
+  try {
+    await expect(
+      scanAiVaultSessions({ ...roots, signal: controller.signal })
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ name: 'AbortError' })
+    expect(aiVaultScanWork(controller.signal)?.read).toEqual({ done: 0, total: 1, skipped: 0 })
+  } finally {
+    stop()
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.test.ts
index c89bd929cf4..76d003517fc 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import type { AiVaultScanWork } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scan-progress'
 import {
   AI_VAULT_SCAN_PROGRESS_INTERVAL_MS,
   noteAiVaultScanFileFound,
+  aiVaultScanWork,
+  openAiVaultScanSource,
   noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged,
   trackAiVaultScanProgress
 } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
@@ -103,3 +105,19 @@ describe('scan progress reporting', () => {
     expect(reports.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ stage: 'reading', read: { done: 3, total: 3 } })
   })
 })
+
+it('keeps source ownership and final facts independent of immediate and trailing sink faults', () => {
+  vi.useFakeTimers()
+  const signal = new AbortController().signal
+  const sink = vi.fn(() => {
+    throw new Error('Synthetic reporting sink fault')
+  })
+  const stop = trackAiVaultScanProgress(signal, sink, () => Date.now())
+  const close = openAiVaultScanSource(signal, 'claude')
+  expect(aiVaultScanWork(signal)?.agents[0]?.walking).toBe(true)
+  close()
+  expect(() => vi.advanceTimersByTime(AI_VAULT_SCAN_PROGRESS_INTERVAL_MS)).not.toThrow()
+  expect(sink).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  expect(aiVaultScanWork(signal)?.agents).toEqual([])
+  stop()
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
index f261ce06bc2..6182945825d 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ export function trackAiVaultScanProgress(
   const tally = new AiVaultScanTally()
   const publish = (): void => {
     lastReportedAt = now()
-    report(tally.snapshot())
+    const snapshot = tally.snapshot()
+    try {
+      report(snapshot)
+    } catch {
+      // Reporting cannot interrupt scanning or strand source ownership.
+    }
   }
   const workChanged = (): void => {
     if (trailing) {
@@ -90,24 +95,15 @@ export function noteAiVaultScanDatabases(
   reporter?.workChanged()
 }
 
-/** Discovery is over: the scan now reads `total` more transcripts. */
-export function noteAiVaultScanReading(signal: AbortSignal | undefined, total: number): void {
+/** The scan has registered all candidate opportunities. */
+export function noteAiVaultScanReading(signal: AbortSignal | undefined): void {
   const reporter = signal ? reporters.get(signal) : undefined
-  reporter?.tally.startReading(total)
+  reporter?.tally.startReading()
   reporter?.workChanged()
 }
 
-/** A pass stopped early: `count` transcripts it announced will not be read. */
-export function noteAiVaultScanUnread(signal: AbortSignal | undefined, count: number): void {
-  const reporter = signal ? reporters.get(signal) : undefined
-  reporter?.tally.dropUnread(count)
-  reporter?.workChanged()
-}
-
-export function noteAiVaultScanFilesRead(signal: AbortSignal | undefined, count: number): void {
-  const reporter = signal ? reporters.get(signal) : undefined
-  reporter?.tally.addRead(count)
-  reporter?.workChanged()
+export function aiVaultScanWorkload(signal: AbortSignal | undefined) {
+  return tallyFor(signal)?.workload
 }
 
 /** Sends the tally after a batch of files was counted. */
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-tally.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-tally.ts
index b4b2ce971fd..d93c42d554a 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-tally.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-tally.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { AI_VAULT_AGENTS, type AiVaultAgent } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
 import type { AiVaultScanWork } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { AiVaultScanWorkload } from './ai-vault-scan-workload'
 import { sessionFileExecutionNamespace } from './codex-session-root-dedup'
 
 type AgentTally = {
@@ -12,8 +13,7 @@ type AgentTally = {
 export class AiVaultScanTally {
   private readonly agents = new Map<AiVaultAgent, AgentTally>()
   private stage: AiVaultScanWork['stage'] = 'finding'
-  private readDone = 0
-  private readTotal = 0
+  readonly workload = new AiVaultScanWorkload()
 
   openSource(agent: AiVaultAgent): () => void {
     const tally = this.agent(agent)
@@ -45,28 +45,30 @@ export class AiVaultScanTally {
     this.agent(agent).databases += count
   }
 
-  startReading(total: number): void {
+  startReading(): void {
     this.stage = 'reading'
-    this.readTotal += total
-  }
-
-  addRead(count: number): void {
-    this.readDone += count
-  }
-
-  dropUnread(count: number): void {
-    this.readTotal -= count
   }
 
   snapshot(): AiVaultScanWork {
     const agents: AiVaultScanWork['agents'] = []
+    for (const agent of AI_VAULT_AGENTS) {
+      if (this.workload.has(agent)) {
+        this.agent(agent)
+      }
+    }
     for (const [agent, tally] of this.agents) {
-      if (tally.files.size > 0 || tally.databases > 0 || tally.openSources > 0) {
+      if (
+        tally.files.size > 0 ||
+        tally.databases > 0 ||
+        tally.openSources > 0 ||
+        this.workload.has(agent)
+      ) {
         agents.push({
           agent,
           files: tally.files.size,
           databases: tally.databases,
-          walking: tally.openSources > 0
+          walking: tally.openSources > 0,
+          ...(this.stage === 'reading' ? { read: this.workload.snapshot(agent) } : {})
         })
       }
     }
@@ -75,10 +77,7 @@ export class AiVaultScanTally {
     return {
       stage: this.stage,
       agents,
-      read: {
-        done: Math.min(this.readDone, this.readTotal),
-        total: this.readTotal
-      }
+      read: this.stage === 'reading' ? this.workload.total() : { done: 0, total: 0 }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-workload.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-workload.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..02479e09170
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/ai-vault-scan-workload.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import type { AiVaultAgent } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
+import type { AiVaultScanReadingProgress } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import type { SessionFileCandidate } from './session-scanner-types'
+
+type Ownership = { globalRemaining: number; owners: number; parsed: boolean }
+export type ScanReadPass = 'global' | 'walk' | 'bucket'
+const OWNER = { walk: 1, bucket: 2 } as const
+
+/** Logical membership is fixed before execution; repeated execution visits stay independent. */
+export class AiVaultScanWorkload {
+  private readonly keys = new Map<AiVaultAgent, Map<string, Ownership>>()
+  private readonly agents = new Map<AiVaultAgent, AiVaultScanReadingProgress>()
+
+  register(candidate: SessionFileCandidate, pass: ScanReadPass): void {
+    this.registerPath(candidate.agent, candidate.file.path, pass)
+  }
+
+  registerPath(agent: AiVaultAgent, path: string, pass: ScanReadPass): void {
+    let keys = this.keys.get(agent)
+    let key = keys?.get(path)
+    if (!key) {
+      this.counts(agent).total++
+      // Walk-only paths are unique and cannot occur in bucket agents.
+      if (pass === 'walk') {
+        return
+      }
+      keys ??= new Map<string, Ownership>()
+      key = { globalRemaining: 0, owners: 0, parsed: false }
+      keys.set(path, key)
+      this.keys.set(agent, keys)
+    }
+    if (pass === 'global') {
+      key.globalRemaining++
+    } else {
+      key.owners |= OWNER[pass]
+    }
+  }
+
+  settle(candidate: SessionFileCandidate, pass: ScanReadPass, parsed: boolean): void {
+    this.settlePath(candidate.agent, candidate.file.path, pass, parsed)
+  }
+
+  settlePath(agent: AiVaultAgent, path: string, pass: ScanReadPass, parsed: boolean): void {
+    const keys = this.keys.get(agent)
+    const key = keys?.get(path)
+    if (!key) {
+      this.complete(agent, parsed)
+      return
+    }
+    key.parsed ||= parsed
+    if (pass === 'global') {
+      key.globalRemaining--
+    } else {
+      key.owners &= ~OWNER[pass]
+    }
+    if (key.globalRemaining === 0 && key.owners === 0) {
+      this.complete(agent, key.parsed)
+      keys?.delete(path)
+    }
+  }
+
+  *bucketPaths(agent: AiVaultAgent): Iterable<string> {
+    for (const [path, key] of this.keys.get(agent) ?? []) {
+      if ((key.owners & OWNER.bucket) !== 0) {
+        yield path
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  snapshot(agent: AiVaultAgent): AiVaultScanReadingProgress {
+    return { ...this.counts(agent) }
+  }
+
+  has(agent: AiVaultAgent): boolean {
+    return this.agents.has(agent)
+  }
+
+  total(): AiVaultScanReadingProgress {
+    const total = { done: 0, total: 0, skipped: 0 }
+    for (const count of this.agents.values()) {
+      total.done += count.done
+      total.total += count.total
+      total.skipped += count.skipped ?? 0
+    }
+    return total
+  }
+
+  private complete(agent: AiVaultAgent, parsed: boolean): void {
+    const count = this.counts(agent)
+    if (parsed) {
+      count.done++
+    } else {
+      count.skipped = (count.skipped ?? 0) + 1
+    }
+  }
+
+  private counts(agent: AiVaultAgent): AiVaultScanReadingProgress {
+    let counts = this.agents.get(agent)
+    if (!counts) {
+      counts = { done: 0, total: 0, skipped: 0 }
+      this.agents.set(agent, counts)
+    }
+    return counts
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scan-issues.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scan-issues.ts
index b3e21f9c5a8..456e40dd5bb 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scan-issues.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scan-issues.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { AiVaultScanIssue } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
 // discovered path, so an uncapped list ships one row per transcript file in the
 // tree over IPC. Local and remote scans share the bound — the failure shape is
 // the same and both feed the same panel.
-const SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT = 500
+export const SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT = 500
 
 /** Append a scan issue, collapsing everything past the cap into one notice. */
 export function recordSessionScanIssue(issues: AiVaultScanIssue[], issue: AiVaultScanIssue): void {
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-candidate-parse.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-candidate-parse.ts
index 8d070889454..563a3654e6f 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-candidate-parse.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-candidate-parse.ts
@@ -21,11 +21,7 @@ import { canStopParsingSessions } from './session-scan-cutoff'
 import type { SessionFileCandidate, SessionParseResult } from './session-scanner-types'
 import { errorMessage } from './session-scanner-values'
 import { throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled } from './ai-vault-scan-cancellation'
-import {
-  noteAiVaultScanFilesRead,
-  noteAiVaultScanReading,
-  noteAiVaultScanUnread
-} from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
 
 const SESSION_PARSE_CONCURRENCY = 8
 
@@ -42,16 +38,11 @@ export async function parseSessionCandidates(args: {
   selectCandidate?: (candidate: SessionFileCandidate) => Promise<boolean>
   admitSession?: (session: AiVaultSession) => boolean
   listed?: boolean
+  settled?: (candidate: SessionFileCandidate, parsed: boolean) => void
 }): Promise<AiVaultSession[]> {
   const sessions = new ScannedSessionCollection()
   let nextYieldIndex = 256
   let nextCutoffIndex = 0
-  // Why: the loop alone knows what it will read, so it owns its share of the read total;
-  // a filtered walk announces each selected batch, an unfiltered pass its whole list.
-  if (!args.selectCandidate) {
-    noteAiVaultScanReading(args.signal, args.candidates.length)
-  }
-
   let index = 0
   while (index < args.candidates.length) {
     if (index >= nextYieldIndex) {
@@ -89,9 +80,6 @@ export async function parseSessionCandidates(args: {
       : batch.map(() => true)
     throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
     const selected = batch.filter((_, batchIndex) => verdicts[batchIndex])
-    if (args.selectCandidate) {
-      noteAiVaultScanReading(args.signal, selected.length)
-    }
     const results = await Promise.all(
       selected.map((candidate) =>
         parseSessionCandidate(candidate, {
@@ -107,7 +95,8 @@ export async function parseSessionCandidates(args: {
     // An abort can land while a batch settles: a read it cut short is not that
     // file's issue, and a partial parse must never be cached or returned.
     throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
-    noteAiVaultScanFilesRead(args.signal, selected.length)
+    batch.forEach((candidate, index) => args.settled?.(candidate, verdicts[index]))
+    noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged(args.signal)
 
     results.forEach((result, resultIndex) => {
       if (result.issue) {
@@ -127,9 +116,14 @@ export async function parseSessionCandidates(args: {
     })
   }
 
-  if (!args.selectCandidate) {
-    noteAiVaultScanUnread(args.signal, args.candidates.length - index)
+  for (; index < args.candidates.length; index++) {
+    if (index % 256 === 0) {
+      await yieldToEventLoop()
+    }
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
+    args.settled?.(args.candidates[index], false)
   }
+  noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged(args.signal)
   return [...sessions.values()]
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-cwd-facts.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-cwd-facts.test.ts
index fd6c22d0d72..6cd0d939abb 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-cwd-facts.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-cwd-facts.test.ts
@@ -63,10 +63,9 @@ it.each([false, true])('keeps cold authority with read failure=%s', async (failR
     )
     if (index === 0) {
       const context = jsonLines([{ type: 'turn_context', payload: { cwd: '/repo' } }])
+      const { atime, mtime } = await stat(path)
       await appendFile(path, `\n${context}\n`)
-      // Why: the append stamps wall-clock mtime, which overtakes the busy files once real time passes their date.
-      const day1 = new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 9, 1, 10))
-      await utimes(path, day1, day1)
+      await utimes(path, atime, mtime)
     }
     const { mtimeMs, size: sizeBytes, mtime } = await stat(path)
     const parsed = await parseAgentSessionFileCached(
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-discovery.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-discovery.ts
index f74051ca3d2..1b1beead140 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-discovery.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-discovery.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ import {
   wslGatedStat
 } from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-access'
 import { WslTranscriptFsError } from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-gate'
-import { createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scope-cwd-match'
+import type { createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scope-cwd-match'
 import type { CwdBucketLayout } from './session-cwd-bucket-layouts'
 import type { AiVaultAgent, AiVaultScanIssue } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
 import { parseWslUncPath } from '../../shared/wsl-paths'
-import { recordSessionScanIssue } from './session-scan-issues'
+import { throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled } from './ai-vault-scan-cancellation'
+import { yieldToEventLoop } from '../../shared/event-loop-yield'
 import type { FileWithMtime } from './session-scanner-types'
 import { errorMessage, extractString, parseJsonObject } from './session-scanner-values'
 
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ const TRANSCRIPT_EXTENSIONS = new Set(['.jsonl'])
 // Bucket encodings are lossy; retain Claude’s cache and verify other transcripts individually.
 const PROJECT_DIR_CWD_CACHE_MAX = 2048
 const projectDirCwdCache = new Map<string, string>()
+export type IssueSink = (issue: AiVaultScanIssue) => void
 
 export function resetProjectDirCwdCacheForTests(): void {
   projectDirCwdCache.clear()
@@ -30,21 +32,22 @@ export function resetProjectDirCwdCacheForTests(): void {
 
 // A gate refusal is a stalled WSL root, not an empty one: keep the existing
 // degrade-to-empty containment but make the gap visible in the scan issues.
-function recordRefusal(
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[],
+export function recordRefusal(
+  issues: IssueSink,
   path: string,
   error: unknown,
   agent: AiVaultAgent
 ): void {
   if (error instanceof WslTranscriptFsError) {
-    recordSessionScanIssue(issues, { agent, path, message: error.message })
+    issues({ agent, path, message: error.message })
   }
 }
 
-async function cachedProjectDirCwd(
+export async function cachedProjectDirCwd(
   projectDir: string,
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[],
-  agent: AiVaultAgent
+  issues: IssueSink,
+  agent: AiVaultAgent,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
 ): Promise<string | null> {
   const cached = projectDirCwdCache.get(projectDir)
   if (cached !== undefined) {
@@ -53,7 +56,7 @@ async function cachedProjectDirCwd(
     projectDirCwdCache.set(projectDir, cached)
     return cached
   }
-  const cwd = await readProjectDirCwd(projectDir, issues, agent)
+  const cwd = await readProjectDirCwd(projectDir, issues, agent, signal)
   if (cwd) {
     if (projectDirCwdCache.size >= PROJECT_DIR_CWD_CACHE_MAX) {
       const oldest = projectDirCwdCache.keys().next()
@@ -66,62 +69,7 @@ async function cachedProjectDirCwd(
   return cwd
 }
 
-type InScopeDiscoveryArgs = {
-  rootDirs: readonly string[]
-  scopePaths: readonly string[]
-  limit: number
-  excludedFilePaths: ReadonlySet<string>
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[]
-}
-
-/**
- * Fully include the transcripts of cwd-bucket directories (Claude, Pi, CodeBuddy) whose cwd
- * falls inside the active workspace/project paths.
- *
- * Why: these agents keep one directory per cwd, e.g. `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-encoded>/`.
- * The global scan is recency-capped, so a project the user hasn't touched recently
- * can drop off the list entirely even though the agent's own resume still finds it.
- * For scoped panel views we resolve each bucket's cwd cheaply and bypass the cap for
- * the ones that belong to the active scope.
- */
-export async function discoverInScopeCwdBucketFiles(
-  layout: CwdBucketLayout,
-  args: InScopeDiscoveryArgs
-): Promise<FileWithMtime[]> {
-  if (args.scopePaths.length === 0 || args.limit <= 0) {
-    return []
-  }
-  const scopeProjectPrefixes = cwdBucketScopePrefixes(layout, args.scopePaths)
-  const inScope = createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher(args.scopePaths)
-  const collected = new Map<string, FileWithMtime>()
-  for (const rootDir of args.rootDirs) {
-    for (const projectDir of await listProjectDirs(
-      layout,
-      rootDir,
-      scopeProjectPrefixes,
-      args.issues
-    )) {
-      if (layout.agent === 'claude') {
-        const cwd = await cachedProjectDirCwd(projectDir, args.issues, layout.agent)
-        if (!inScope(cwd, projectDir)) {
-          continue
-        }
-      }
-      await collectBucketFiles({
-        agent: layout.agent,
-        inScope: layout.agent !== 'claude' ? inScope : undefined,
-        projectDir,
-        issues: args.issues,
-        collected,
-        limit: args.limit,
-        excludedFilePaths: args.excludedFilePaths
-      })
-    }
-  }
-  return [...collected.values()].sort((left, right) => right.mtimeMs - left.mtimeMs)
-}
-
-function cwdBucketScopePrefixes(
+export function cwdBucketScopePrefixes(
   layout: CwdBucketLayout,
   scopePaths: readonly string[]
 ): Set<string> {
@@ -141,16 +89,21 @@ function scopePathCandidates(scopePath: string): string[] {
   return wslScopePath ? [scopePath, wslScopePath.linuxPath] : [scopePath]
 }
 
-async function listProjectDirs(
+export async function listProjectDirs(
   layout: CwdBucketLayout,
   rootDir: string,
   scopeProjectPrefixes: ReadonlySet<string>,
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[]
+  issues: IssueSink,
+  signal?: AbortSignal,
+  listed?: () => void
 ): Promise<string[]> {
   let entries
   try {
-    entries = await wslGatedReaddir(rootDir, 'scan')
+    entries = await wslGatedReaddir(rootDir, 'scan', signal)
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
+    listed?.()
   } catch (err) {
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
     recordRefusal(issues, rootDir, err, layout.agent)
     return []
   }
@@ -161,12 +114,13 @@ async function listProjectDirs(
 
 async function readProjectDirCwd(
   projectDir: string,
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[],
-  agent: AiVaultAgent
+  issues: IssueSink,
+  agent: AiVaultAgent,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
 ): Promise<string | null> {
-  const files = await newestTranscriptsInDir(projectDir, issues, agent)
+  const files = await newestTranscriptsInDir(projectDir, issues, agent, signal)
   for (const file of files.slice(0, REPRESENTATIVE_FILE_LIMIT)) {
-    const cwd = await readFirstCwd(file, issues, agent)
+    const cwd = await readFirstCwd(file, issues, agent, signal)
     if (cwd) {
       return cwd
     }
@@ -176,18 +130,25 @@ async function readProjectDirCwd(
 
 async function newestTranscriptsInDir(
   projectDir: string,
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[],
-  agent: AiVaultAgent
+  issues: IssueSink,
+  agent: AiVaultAgent,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
 ): Promise<string[]> {
   let entries
   try {
-    entries = await wslGatedReaddir(projectDir, 'scan')
+    entries = await wslGatedReaddir(projectDir, 'scan', signal)
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
   } catch (err) {
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
     recordRefusal(issues, projectDir, err, agent)
     return []
   }
   const newest: { path: string; mtimeMs: number }[] = []
-  for (const entry of entries) {
+  for (const [index, entry] of entries.entries()) {
+    if (index % 256 === 0) {
+      await yieldToEventLoop()
+    }
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
     if (!entry.isFile() || !TRANSCRIPT_EXTENSIONS.has(extname(entry.name).toLowerCase())) {
       continue
     }
@@ -195,9 +156,10 @@ async function newestTranscriptsInDir(
     try {
       addBoundedPath(newest, REPRESENTATIVE_FILE_LIMIT, {
         path,
-        mtimeMs: (await wslGatedStat(path, 'scan')).mtimeMs
+        mtimeMs: (await wslGatedStat(path, 'scan', signal)).mtimeMs
       })
     } catch (err) {
+      throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
       // Best effort: unreadable candidates are ignored here and reported during
       // full collection if the project directory proves in-scope.
       recordRefusal(issues, path, err, agent)
@@ -208,14 +170,17 @@ async function newestTranscriptsInDir(
 
 async function readFirstCwd(
   filePath: string,
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[],
-  agent: AiVaultAgent
+  issues: IssueSink,
+  agent: AiVaultAgent,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
 ): Promise<string | null> {
-  const input = openTranscriptReadStream(filePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' }, 'scan')
+  const input = openTranscriptReadStream(filePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' }, 'scan', signal)
   const lines = createInterface({ input, crlfDelay: Infinity })
   let read = 0
   try {
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
     for await (const line of lines) {
+      throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
       if (read++ >= REPRESENTATIVE_CWD_LINE_LIMIT) {
         break
       }
@@ -225,6 +190,7 @@ async function readFirstCwd(
       }
     }
   } catch (err) {
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
     recordRefusal(issues, filePath, err, agent)
     return null
   } finally {
@@ -236,38 +202,33 @@ async function readFirstCwd(
   return null
 }
 
-async function collectBucketFiles(args: {
+export async function collectBucketFiles(args: {
+  paths: readonly string[]
   agent: AiVaultAgent
   inScope?: ReturnType<typeof createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher>
-  projectDir: string
-  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[]
+  issues: IssueSink
   collected: Map<string, FileWithMtime>
   limit: number
   excludedFilePaths: ReadonlySet<string>
+  signal?: AbortSignal
 }): Promise<void> {
-  let entries
-  try {
-    entries = await wslGatedReaddir(args.projectDir, 'scan')
-  } catch (err) {
-    recordRefusal(args.issues, args.projectDir, err, args.agent)
-    return
-  }
-  for (const entry of entries) {
-    if (!entry.isFile() || !TRANSCRIPT_EXTENSIONS.has(extname(entry.name).toLowerCase())) {
-      continue
+  for (const [index, path] of args.paths.entries()) {
+    if (index % 256 === 0) {
+      await yieldToEventLoop()
     }
-    const path = join(args.projectDir, entry.name)
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
     if (args.collected.has(path) || args.excludedFilePaths.has(path)) {
       continue
     }
     try {
       if (args.inScope) {
-        const cwd = await readFirstCwd(path, args.issues, args.agent)
+        const cwd = await readFirstCwd(path, args.issues, args.agent, args.signal)
         if (!args.inScope(cwd, path)) {
           continue
         }
       }
-      const fileStat = await wslGatedStat(path, 'scan')
+      const fileStat = await wslGatedStat(path, 'scan', args.signal)
+      throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
       addBoundedFile(args.collected, args.limit, {
         path,
         mtimeMs: fileStat.mtimeMs,
@@ -275,7 +236,8 @@ async function collectBucketFiles(args: {
         sizeBytes: fileStat.size
       })
     } catch (err) {
-      recordSessionScanIssue(args.issues, { agent: args.agent, path, message: errorMessage(err) })
+      throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
+      args.issues({ agent: args.agent, path, message: errorMessage(err) })
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0008e32c4c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+import { mkdtemp, rm, utimes } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { PassThrough } from 'node:stream'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { afterEach, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import type { AiVaultScanIssue } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
+import * as transcriptFs from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-access'
+import { WslTranscriptFsError } from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-error'
+import { aiVaultScanWork, trackAiVaultScanProgress } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { recordSessionScanIssue } from './session-scan-issues'
+import { CLAUDE_CWD_BUCKET_LAYOUT, PI_CWD_BUCKET_LAYOUT } from './session-cwd-bucket-layouts'
+import { inventoryCwdBucketFiles, selectCwdBucketFiles } from './session-scanner-scope-inventory'
+import { writeJsonlFile } from './session-scanner-test-fixtures'
+let root: string | null = null
+afterEach(async () => {
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
+  if (root) {
+    await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  }
+})
+
+it('replays tied selection, winner exclusion and evicted paths in original root order', async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-bucket-replay-'))
+  const paths = ['b', 'a', 'c', 'winner'].map((name) => join(root!, '--repo--', `${name}.jsonl`))
+  for (const [index, path] of paths.entries()) {
+    await writeJsonlFile(path, [{ type: 'session', cwd: '/repo' }])
+    await utimes(path, index < 2 ? 1 : 2, index < 2 ? 1 : 2)
+  }
+  const read = transcriptFs.wslGatedReaddir
+  vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'wslGatedReaddir').mockImplementation(async (path, ...args) =>
+    (await read(path, ...args)).sort(
+      (left, right) => paths.indexOf(join(path, left.name)) - paths.indexOf(join(path, right.name))
+    )
+  )
+  const opened = vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'openTranscriptReadStream')
+  const inventory = await inventoryCwdBucketFiles(PI_CWD_BUCKET_LAYOUT, {
+    rootDirs: [root, root],
+    scopePaths: ['/repo'],
+    limit: 1
+  })
+  expect(opened).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  const selected = await selectCwdBucketFiles(inventory, {
+    scopePaths: ['/repo'],
+    limit: 1,
+    excludedFilePaths: new Set([paths[3]]),
+    issues: []
+  })
+  expect(selected.map((file) => file.path)).toEqual([paths[2]])
+  expect(opened.mock.calls.map(([path]) => path)).toEqual([
+    paths[0],
+    paths[1],
+    paths[2],
+    paths[0],
+    paths[1]
+  ])
+})
+
+it('replays staged errors after global errors, interleaved with bucket errors under the issue cap', async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-bucket-issues-'))
+  const path = join(root, '--repo--', 'a.jsonl')
+  await writeJsonlFile(path, [{ type: 'session', cwd: '/repo' }])
+  const read = transcriptFs.wslGatedReaddir
+  const refused = join(root, 'refused')
+  vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'wslGatedReaddir').mockImplementation((path, ...args) => {
+    if (path === refused) {
+      throw new WslTranscriptFsError('unavailable', 'Generated root failure')
+    }
+    return read(path, ...args)
+  })
+  const inventory = await inventoryCwdBucketFiles(PI_CWD_BUCKET_LAYOUT, {
+    rootDirs: [root, refused],
+    scopePaths: ['/repo'],
+    limit: 1
+  })
+  vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'wslGatedStat').mockRejectedValue(new Error('Generated stat failure'))
+  const issues: AiVaultScanIssue[] = []
+  for (let index = 0; index < 498; index++) {
+    recordSessionScanIssue(issues, {
+      agent: 'codex',
+      path: String(index),
+      message: 'Generated global failure'
+    })
+  }
+  const expected = [...issues]
+  recordSessionScanIssue(expected, { agent: 'pi', path, message: 'Generated stat failure' })
+  recordSessionScanIssue(expected, {
+    agent: 'pi',
+    path: refused,
+    message: 'Generated root failure'
+  })
+  await selectCwdBucketFiles(inventory, {
+    scopePaths: ['/repo'],
+    limit: 1,
+    excludedFilePaths: new Set(),
+    issues
+  })
+  expect(issues).toEqual(expected)
+  expect(issues.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ kind: 'notice' })
+})
+
+it('closes representative streams and inventory sources on cancellation before reading', async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-bucket-abort-'))
+  await writeJsonlFile(join(root, '-repo', 'a.jsonl'), [{ cwd: '/repo' }])
+  const controller = new AbortController()
+  const input = new PassThrough()
+  vi.spyOn(transcriptFs, 'openTranscriptReadStream').mockImplementation(() => {
+    controller.abort()
+    return input
+  })
+  const stop = trackAiVaultScanProgress(controller.signal, () => undefined)
+  try {
+    await expect(
+      inventoryCwdBucketFiles(CLAUDE_CWD_BUCKET_LAYOUT, {
+        rootDirs: [root],
+        scopePaths: ['/repo'],
+        limit: 1,
+        signal: controller.signal
+      })
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ name: 'AbortError' })
+    expect(input.destroyed).toBe(true)
+    expect(aiVaultScanWork(controller.signal)).toMatchObject({
+      stage: 'finding',
+      agents: [],
+      read: { done: 0, total: 0 }
+    })
+  } finally {
+    stop()
+  }
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f6121b0e90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-inventory.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { extname, join } from 'node:path'
+import { yieldToEventLoop } from '../../shared/event-loop-yield'
+import type { AiVaultScanIssue } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
+import { wslGatedReaddir } from '../native-chat/wsl-transcript-fs-access'
+import { throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled } from './ai-vault-scan-cancellation'
+import { openAiVaultScanSource } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT, recordSessionScanIssue } from './session-scan-issues'
+import { createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scope-cwd-match'
+import type { CwdBucketLayout } from './session-cwd-bucket-layouts'
+import type { FileWithMtime } from './session-scanner-types'
+import {
+  cachedProjectDirCwd,
+  cwdBucketScopePrefixes,
+  listProjectDirs,
+  collectBucketFiles,
+  recordRefusal,
+  type IssueSink
+} from './session-scanner-scope-discovery'
+
+const TRANSCRIPT_EXTENSIONS = new Set(['.jsonl'])
+export type CwdBucketInventory = {
+  layout: CwdBucketLayout
+  directories: string[][]
+  issues: { before: number; issue: AiVaultScanIssue }[]
+}
+
+/** Bounded CPU chunks must let cancellation and other scanner requests run. */
+export async function yieldScanInventory(index: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<void> {
+  if (index % 256 === 0) {
+    await yieldToEventLoop()
+  }
+  throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(signal)
+}
+
+type InScopeDiscoveryArgs = {
+  rootDirs: readonly string[]
+  scopePaths: readonly string[]
+  limit: number
+  excludedFilePaths: ReadonlySet<string>
+  issues: AiVaultScanIssue[]
+  signal?: AbortSignal
+}
+
+export async function discoverInScopeCwdBucketFiles(
+  layout: CwdBucketLayout,
+  args: InScopeDiscoveryArgs
+): Promise<FileWithMtime[]> {
+  const inventory = await inventoryCwdBucketFiles(layout, args)
+  return selectCwdBucketFiles(inventory, args)
+}
+
+/** Freeze names only; winner-dependent header/stat decisions remain in selection. */
+export async function inventoryCwdBucketFiles(
+  layout: CwdBucketLayout,
+  args: Omit<InScopeDiscoveryArgs, 'excludedFilePaths' | 'issues'>,
+  issueLimit = SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT
+): Promise<CwdBucketInventory> {
+  const inventory: CwdBucketInventory = { layout, directories: [], issues: [] }
+  if (args.scopePaths.length === 0 || args.limit <= 0) {
+    return inventory
+  }
+  const record: IssueSink = (issue) => {
+    if (inventory.issues.length < issueLimit) {
+      inventory.issues.push({ before: inventory.directories.length, issue })
+    }
+  }
+  const prefixes = cwdBucketScopePrefixes(layout, args.scopePaths)
+  const inScope = createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher(args.scopePaths)
+  let index = 0
+  for (const rootDir of args.rootDirs) {
+    throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
+    let close: () => void = () => undefined
+    try {
+      const directories = await listProjectDirs(
+        layout,
+        rootDir,
+        prefixes,
+        record,
+        args.signal,
+        () => {
+          close = openAiVaultScanSource(args.signal, layout.agent)
+        }
+      )
+      for (const directory of directories) {
+        await yieldScanInventory(index++, args.signal)
+        if (layout.agent === 'claude') {
+          const cwd = await cachedProjectDirCwd(directory, record, layout.agent, args.signal)
+          if (!inScope(cwd, directory)) {
+            continue
+          }
+        }
+        const paths: string[] = []
+        try {
+          const entries = await wslGatedReaddir(directory, 'scan', args.signal)
+          for (const entry of entries) {
+            await yieldScanInventory(index++, args.signal)
+            if (entry.isFile() && TRANSCRIPT_EXTENSIONS.has(extname(entry.name).toLowerCase())) {
+              paths.push(join(directory, entry.name))
+            }
+          }
+        } catch (err) {
+          throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(args.signal)
+          recordRefusal(record, directory, err, layout.agent)
+        }
+        inventory.directories.push(paths)
+      }
+    } finally {
+      close()
+    }
+  }
+  return inventory
+}
+
+/** Replay the original selector, interleaving earlier diagnostics at their original positions. */
+export async function selectCwdBucketFiles(
+  inventory: CwdBucketInventory,
+  args: Pick<
+    InScopeDiscoveryArgs,
+    'scopePaths' | 'limit' | 'excludedFilePaths' | 'issues' | 'signal'
+  >
+): Promise<FileWithMtime[]> {
+  const { layout } = inventory
+  const collected = new Map<string, FileWithMtime>()
+  const record: IssueSink = (issue) => recordSessionScanIssue(args.issues, issue)
+  const inScope = createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher(args.scopePaths)
+  let issueIndex = 0
+  for (let index = 0; index <= inventory.directories.length; index++) {
+    await yieldScanInventory(index, args.signal)
+    while (inventory.issues[issueIndex]?.before === index) {
+      record(inventory.issues[issueIndex++].issue)
+    }
+    const paths = inventory.directories[index]
+    if (!paths) {
+      break
+    }
+    await collectBucketFiles({
+      paths,
+      agent: layout.agent,
+      inScope: layout.agent !== 'claude' ? inScope : undefined,
+      issues: record,
+      collected,
+      limit: args.limit,
+      excludedFilePaths: args.excludedFilePaths,
+      signal: args.signal
+    })
+  }
+  inventory.directories.length = 0
+  inventory.issues.length = 0
+  return [...collected.values()].sort((left, right) => right.mtimeMs - left.mtimeMs)
+}
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.test.ts
index a83626009be..55d5b47e0f2 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.test.ts
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ it('walks a history larger than the spread-argument limit', async () => {
     modifiedAt: new Date(1).toISOString()
   }))
   const sessions = await scanInScopeSessions({
+    inventory: [],
     discoveries: [
       {
         agent: 'codex',
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.ts
index 1f428c530f2..aaea1adb559 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner-scope-walk.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT } from './session-scan-issues'
 import { createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher } from '../../shared/ai-vault-scope-cwd-match'
 import type { AiVaultScanIssue, AiVaultSession } from '../../shared/ai-vault-types'
 import type { ExecutionHostId } from '../../shared/execution-host'
@@ -16,7 +17,13 @@ import { parseSessionCandidates } from './session-scanner-candidate-parse'
 import { sessionSortTime } from './session-scanner-accumulator'
 import { discoveryFileCandidates, dropCodexHardlinkAliases } from './session-scanner-candidates'
 import type { SessionParseStats } from './session-scanner-parse-cache'
-import { discoverInScopeCwdBucketFiles } from './session-scanner-scope-discovery'
+import {
+  inventoryCwdBucketFiles,
+  selectCwdBucketFiles,
+  yieldScanInventory,
+  type CwdBucketInventory
+} from './session-scanner-scope-inventory'
+import { aiVaultScanWorkload, noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
 import type {
   AiVaultScanOptions,
   FileWithMtime,
@@ -28,6 +35,7 @@ import { sidecarUnchanged } from './session-sidecar-stat'
 import { prioritizeAntigravityTranscriptCandidates } from './antigravity-transcript-candidates'
 
 type ScopeScanArgs = {
+  inventory: CwdBucketInventory[]
   discoveries: readonly SessionFileDiscovery[]
   options: AiVaultScanOptions
   limit: number
@@ -50,24 +58,29 @@ export async function scanInScopeSessions(args: ScopeScanArgs): Promise<AiVaultS
     return []
   }
   const candidates: SessionFileCandidate[] = []
-  for (const source of Object.values(AI_VAULT_SCOPE_CWD_SOURCES)) {
-    if (source.kind !== 'bucket') {
-      continue
-    }
-    const { layout } = source
-    const files = await discoverInScopeCwdBucketFiles(layout, {
-      rootDirs: args.discoveries
-        .filter((discovery) => discovery.agent === layout.agent)
-        .map((discovery) => discovery.rootDir),
+  const workload = aiVaultScanWorkload(args.options.signal)
+  for (const inventory of args.inventory) {
+    const files = await selectCwdBucketFiles(inventory, {
       scopePaths,
       limit: args.limit,
       excludedFilePaths: args.alreadyParsedFilePaths,
-      issues: args.issues
+      issues: args.issues,
+      signal: args.options.signal
     })
+    const selected = new Set(files.map((file) => file.path))
+    let index = 0
+    for (const path of workload?.bucketPaths(inventory.layout.agent) ?? []) {
+      await yieldScanInventory(index++, args.options.signal)
+      if (!selected.has(path)) {
+        workload?.settlePath(inventory.layout.agent, path, 'bucket', false)
+      }
+    }
     for (const file of files) {
-      candidates.push({ agent: layout.agent, file, codexHome: null })
+      candidates.push({ agent: inventory.layout.agent, file, codexHome: null })
     }
   }
+  args.inventory.length = 0
+  noteAiVaultScanWorkChanged(args.options.signal)
   const walked = await walkInScopeSessions(args, scopePaths).finally(clearSessionScopeCwdKnowledge)
   if (candidates.length === 0) {
     return walked
@@ -80,7 +93,8 @@ export async function scanInScopeSessions(args: ScopeScanArgs): Promise<AiVaultS
     executionHostId: args.executionHostId,
     issues: args.issues,
     parseStats: args.parseStats,
-    signal: args.options.signal
+    signal: args.options.signal,
+    settled: (candidate, parsed) => workload?.settle(candidate, 'bucket', parsed)
   })
   return [...bucketed, ...walked]
 }
@@ -96,7 +110,7 @@ async function walkInScopeSessions(
 ): Promise<AiVaultSession[]> {
   const signal = args.options.signal
   const inScope = createAiVaultScopeCwdMatcher(scopePaths)
-  const candidates = walkCandidates(args, scopePaths)
+  const candidates = await walkCandidates(args, scopePaths)
   await lookupScopeCwds(candidates, signal)
   const sessions = await parseSessionCandidates({
     candidates,
@@ -108,6 +122,7 @@ async function walkInScopeSessions(
     antigravityWorkspaceResolver: args.antigravityWorkspaceResolver,
     signal,
     listed: false,
+    settled: (candidate, parsed) => aiVaultScanWorkload(signal)?.settle(candidate, 'walk', parsed),
     selectCandidate: (candidate) => mayBeInScope(candidate, inScope, args.platform, signal),
     admitSession: (session) => inScope(session.cwd, session.filePath)
   })
@@ -116,39 +131,106 @@ async function walkInScopeSessions(
     .slice(0, args.limit)
 }
 
-function walkCandidates(
-  args: ScopeScanArgs,
+/** Pure membership enumeration; pruning and ranking remain execution decisions. */
+async function walkInventory(
+  args: Pick<ScopeScanArgs, 'discoveries' | 'options'>,
   scopePaths: readonly string[]
-): SessionFileCandidate[] {
+): Promise<{ candidates: SessionFileCandidate[]; seenPaths: Set<string> }> {
   const all: SessionFileCandidate[] = []
   const seenPaths = new Set<string>()
+  let index = 0
   for (const discovery of args.discoveries) {
     if (!scopeWalksAgentFiles(discovery.agent, scopePaths)) {
       continue
     }
     const files: FileWithMtime[] = []
-    for (const file of [...discovery.files, ...(discovery.scopeFiles ?? [])]) {
-      if (!seenPaths.has(file.path)) {
-        seenPaths.add(file.path)
-        files.push(file)
+    for (const collection of [discovery.files, discovery.scopeFiles ?? []]) {
+      for (const file of collection) {
+        await yieldScanInventory(index++, args.options.signal)
+        if (!seenPaths.has(file.path)) {
+          seenPaths.add(file.path)
+          files.push(file)
+        }
       }
     }
-    // Why: one item per push; a history-sized list spread into push() exceeds V8's argument limit.
     for (const candidate of discoveryFileCandidates(discovery, files, args.options)) {
       all.push(candidate)
     }
   }
+  return { candidates: dropCodexHardlinkAliases(all), seenPaths }
+}
+
+async function walkCandidates(
+  args: ScopeScanArgs,
+  scopePaths: readonly string[]
+): Promise<SessionFileCandidate[]> {
+  const { candidates, seenPaths } = await walkInventory(args, scopePaths)
   pruneSessionScopeCwds(seenPaths)
-  // Aliases collapse with the listed files still present, so a listed rollout's
-  // hardlink in another Codex home is not parsed again.
+  const workload = aiVaultScanWorkload(args.options.signal)
+  const remaining: SessionFileCandidate[] = []
+  for (const [index, candidate] of candidates.entries()) {
+    await yieldScanInventory(index, args.options.signal)
+    if (args.alreadyParsedFilePaths.has(candidate.file.path)) {
+      workload?.settle(candidate, 'walk', false)
+    } else {
+      remaining.push(candidate)
+    }
+  }
   return prioritizeAntigravityTranscriptCandidates(
-    dropCodexHardlinkAliases(all).filter(
-      (candidate) => !args.alreadyParsedFilePaths.has(candidate.file.path)
-    ),
+    remaining,
     (candidate) => candidate.agent === 'antigravity'
   )
 }
 
+export async function prepareScopeScan(
+  args: Pick<ScopeScanArgs, 'discoveries' | 'options' | 'limit'>
+): Promise<CwdBucketInventory[]> {
+  const scopePaths = args.options.scopePaths ?? []
+  if (scopePaths.length === 0) {
+    return []
+  }
+  const workload = aiVaultScanWorkload(args.options.signal)
+  // H is temporary: walk-only keys settle directly, without a second retained registry.
+  if (workload) {
+    const { candidates } = await walkInventory(args, scopePaths)
+    for (const [index, candidate] of candidates.entries()) {
+      await yieldScanInventory(index, args.options.signal)
+      workload.register(candidate, 'walk')
+    }
+  }
+  const inventories: CwdBucketInventory[] = []
+  let issueLimit = SCAN_ISSUE_LIMIT
+  let index = 0
+  for (const source of Object.values(AI_VAULT_SCOPE_CWD_SOURCES)) {
+    if (source.kind !== 'bucket') {
+      continue
+    }
+    const inventory = await inventoryCwdBucketFiles(
+      source.layout,
+      {
+        rootDirs: args.discoveries
+          .filter((discovery) => discovery.agent === source.layout.agent)
+          .map((discovery) => discovery.rootDir),
+        scopePaths,
+        limit: args.limit,
+        signal: args.options.signal
+      },
+      issueLimit
+    )
+    issueLimit -= inventory.issues.length
+    inventories.push(inventory)
+    if (workload) {
+      for (const paths of inventory.directories) {
+        for (const path of paths) {
+          await yieldScanInventory(index++, args.options.signal)
+          workload.registerPath(source.layout.agent, path, 'bucket')
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return inventories
+}
+
 // Per lookup batch: one database round trip, then a turn for the event loop.
 const SCOPE_LOOKUP_BATCH = 500
 
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner.ts b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner.ts
index 3df46b506e4..d5d8c488ee6 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault/session-scanner.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ import { sessionCandidatesFromDiscoveries } from './session-scanner-candidates'
 import { parseSessionCandidates } from './session-scanner-candidate-parse'
 import { createSessionParseStats } from './session-scanner-parse-cache'
 import { recordSessionScanIssue } from './session-scan-issues'
-import { scanInScopeSessions } from './session-scanner-scope-walk'
+import { aiVaultScanWorkload, noteAiVaultScanReading } from './ai-vault-scan-progress'
+import { yieldScanInventory } from './session-scanner-scope-inventory'
+import { prepareScopeScan, scanInScopeSessions } from './session-scanner-scope-walk'
 import { discoverAiVaultSessionSources } from './session-scanner-source-discovery'
 import { cursorChatMetaRefusals, withCursorChatMetaScan } from './session-scanner-cursor-chat-meta'
 import type { AiVaultScanOptions } from './session-scanner-types'
@@ -75,6 +77,17 @@ async function scanAiVaultSessionStores(options: AiVaultScanOptions): Promise<Ai
         const candidates = await sessionCandidatesFromDiscoveries(discoveries, options)
         const parseCandidates = candidates.slice(0, limit * SESSION_PARSE_CANDIDATE_MULTIPLIER)
 
+        const workload = aiVaultScanWorkload(options.signal)
+        if (workload) {
+          for (const [index, candidate] of parseCandidates.entries()) {
+            await yieldScanInventory(index, options.signal)
+            workload.register(candidate, 'global')
+          }
+        }
+        const inventory = await prepareScopeScan({ discoveries, options, limit })
+        throwIfAiVaultScanCancelled(options.signal)
+        noteAiVaultScanReading(options.signal)
+
         const parsedSessions = await parseSessionCandidates({
           candidates: parseCandidates,
           limit,
@@ -83,7 +96,8 @@ async function scanAiVaultSessionStores(options: AiVaultScanOptions): Promise<Ai
           issues,
           parseStats,
           signal: options.signal,
-          antigravityWorkspaceResolver
+          antigravityWorkspaceResolver,
+          settled: (candidate, parsed) => workload?.settle(candidate, 'global', parsed)
         })
 
         const cappedSessions = dedupeScannedSessions(parsedSessions)
@@ -91,6 +105,7 @@ async function scanAiVaultSessionStores(options: AiVaultScanOptions): Promise<Ai
           .slice(0, limit)
 
         const scopeSessions = await scanInScopeSessions({
+          inventory,
           discoveries,
           options,
           limit,
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.test.tsx
index cfa8122cef5..140f27efcc1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.test.tsx
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ it('keeps real rows through partial rescans, detached keys and failed retries',
   }
   expect(view.getByText('12 files')).toBeTruthy()
   expect(panel.container.querySelectorAll('.animate-spin').length).toBe(1)
-  expect(view.getByText('Reading', { exact: false })).toBeTruthy()
+  expect(view.getByText('Checking', { exact: false })).toBeTruthy()
   // Finished before the list it produced is applied: still one row, now settled.
   act(() => push({ scanKey: 'worktree-a', progress: next }))
   expect(view.getByText('Scanned', { exact: false })).toBeTruthy()
@@ -161,3 +161,18 @@ it('keeps real rows through partial rescans, detached keys and failed retries',
   act(() => push({ scanKey: 'worktree-c', progress: { ...next, agents: [FINISHED.agents[0]!] } }))
   expect(rowCount()).toBe(1)
 })
+
+it('shows settled candidate work and keeps older snapshots without skipped compatible', () => {
+  const reading: AiVaultScanProgress = {
+    ...FINISHED,
+    stage: 'reading',
+    settledAt: null,
+    read: { done: 3, total: 10, skipped: 4 }
+  }
+  const panel = render(<AiVaultScanProgressStrip progress={reading} />)
+  expect(screen.getByRole('button').textContent).toContain('Checking 7 / 10')
+  panel.rerender(
+    <AiVaultScanProgressStrip progress={{ ...reading, read: { done: 3, total: 10 } }} />
+  )
+  expect(screen.getByRole('button').textContent).toContain('Checking 3 / 10')
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.tsx
index 9438b8221e1..00083881cd1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/AiVaultScanProgressStrip.tsx
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ function stripSentence(progress: AiVaultScanProgress): string {
       )
     case 'reading':
       return translate(
-        'auto.components.right.sidebar.AiVaultScanProgressStrip.reading',
-        'Reading {{value0}} files',
+        'auto.components.right.sidebar.AiVaultScanProgressStrip.checking',
+        'Checking {{value0}}',
         { value0 }
       )
     case 'finished':
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ function foundCount(agent: AiVaultScanAgentProgress): number {
 function StripText({ progress, active }: StripActivity): React.JSX.Element {
   const emphasis =
     active && progress.stage === 'reading'
-      ? `${formatCount(progress.read.done)} / ${formatCount(progress.read.total)}`
+      ? `${formatCount(progress.read.done + (progress.read.skipped ?? 0))} / ${formatCount(progress.read.total)}`
       : fileCountLabel(progress.agents.reduce((sum, agent) => sum + foundCount(agent), 0))
   const sentence =
     active || progress.stage === 'finished' ? stripSentence(progress) : EMPHASIS_TOKEN
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
index 45ab0cfe584..3ac5024b1c2 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
@@ -14824,7 +14824,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} database",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} databases",
             "scanning": "Scanning {{value0}}",
-            "reading": "Reading {{value0}} files",
+            "checking": "Checking {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "Scanned {{value0}}"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
index d518b933ead..4cf19c6d0ff 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
@@ -14487,7 +14487,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} base de datos",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} bases de datos",
             "scanning": "Analizando {{value0}}",
-            "reading": "Leyendo {{value0}} archivos",
+            "checking": "Comprobando {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "Analizados {{value0}}"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
index 81f5f5b98ad..134cc5e961b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
@@ -14600,7 +14600,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} base de données",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} bases de données",
             "scanning": "Analyse de {{value0}}",
-            "reading": "Lecture de {{value0}} fichiers",
+            "checking": "Vérification {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "{{value0}} analysés"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
index 0de09af9c45..c90b2c5e303 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
@@ -14492,7 +14492,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} 個のデータベース",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} 個のデータベース",
             "scanning": "{{value0}}をスキャン中",
-            "reading": "{{value0}} ファイルを読み込み中",
+            "checking": "確認中 {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "{{value0}}をスキャン済み"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
index 790d14126a2..ea569a1c2c2 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
@@ -14492,7 +14492,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "데이터베이스 {{value0}}개",
             "databaseCount_other": "데이터베이스 {{value0}}개",
             "scanning": "{{value0}} 스캔 중",
-            "reading": "파일 {{value0}}개 읽는 중",
+            "checking": "확인 중 {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "{{value0}} 스캔함"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/pt.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/pt.json
index 9648c31a8e1..454b425ad70 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/pt.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/pt.json
@@ -10369,7 +10369,6 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} banco de dados",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} bancos de dados",
             "scanning": "Verificando {{value0}}",
-            "reading": "Lendo {{value0}} arquivos",
             "scanned": "Verificação concluída: {{value0}}"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
index 2af56b29582..00a78d2d9b9 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
@@ -14492,7 +14492,7 @@
             "databaseCount_one": "{{value0}} 个数据库",
             "databaseCount_other": "{{value0}} 个数据库",
             "scanning": "正在扫描 {{value0}}",
-            "reading": "正在读取 {{value0}} 个文件",
+            "checking": "正在检查 {{value0}}",
             "scanned": "已扫描 {{value0}}"
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/shared/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts b/src/shared/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
index efec22acfb4..db12fbe61b0 100644
--- a/src/shared/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
+++ b/src/shared/ai-vault-scan-progress.ts
@@ -9,14 +9,19 @@ export type AiVaultScanAgentProgress = {
   databases: number
   /** A folder or database of this agent is still being listed. */
   walking: boolean
+  /** Absent until the scan freezes its candidate workload. */
+  read?: AiVaultScanReadingProgress
 }
 
+/** Terminal candidate outcomes; skipped candidates needed no parser invocation. */
+export type AiVaultScanReadingProgress = { done: number; total: number; skipped?: number }
+
 /** The scanner process's view of the scan it is running. */
 export type AiVaultScanWork = {
   stage: 'finding' | 'reading'
   agents: AiVaultScanAgentProgress[]
-  /** Transcripts read so far, out of the ones this scan will read. */
-  read: { done: number; total: number }
+  /** Fixed candidate workload; settled work is done + skipped. */
+  read: AiVaultScanReadingProgress
 }
 
 /** One local Session History scan entry, as main pushes it to windows. */