diff --git a/crates/tty7-core/src/host/local.rs b/crates/tty7-core/src/host/local.rs
index e49f3cc0..12a7c805 100644
--- a/crates/tty7-core/src/host/local.rs
+++ b/crates/tty7-core/src/host/local.rs
@@ -398,6 +398,27 @@ impl WatchedDirs {
 /// A live local watch: the notify watcher plus the set it is following.
 struct LocalWatch {
     inner: Mutex<LocalWatchInner>,
+    /// The delivery end, kept solely so dropping this handle can close it.
+    ///
+    /// Tearing the watcher down is not instantaneous — the OS backend has its
+    /// own thread, and on Windows a `ReadDirectoryChangesW` completion can fire
+    /// *during* teardown, reach the event closure while `raw_tx` is still
+    /// alive, and be forwarded by a coalescer that has not noticed the
+    /// disconnect yet. A consumer holding a clone of the receiver would then
+    /// see an event for a change made after it unsubscribed.
+    ///
+    /// Closing the channel here makes "dropped" mean "no further batches" at
+    /// the instant of the drop, whatever the backend does afterwards. Batches
+    /// already queued stay readable — `close` stops sends, not receives — which
+    /// is the one thing a consumer racing its own drop may legitimately still
+    /// see.
+    batch_tx: smol::channel::Sender<Vec<PathBuf>>,
+}
+
+impl Drop for LocalWatch {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.batch_tx.close();
+    }
 }
 
 struct LocalWatchInner {
@@ -463,6 +484,7 @@ fn local_watch(dirs: &[PathBuf], gitignore: Arc<Mutex<GitignoreChain>>) -> io::R
             watcher,
             dirs: Arc::clone(&watched),
         }),
+        batch_tx: batch_tx.clone(),
     };
     handle.set_dirs(dirs)?;