diff --git a/modules/gitea/client.ts b/modules/gitea/client.ts
index c43e6e8..0aafb42 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/client.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/client.ts
@@ -249,10 +249,24 @@ export class GiteaClient {
    *  `limit` is what is asked for, and a merge that changed more says so rather than being read
    *  page by page: what the mesh does with a partial list is treat the whole repository as changed,
    *  so more pages would buy nothing. */
-  async listPullFiles(owner: string, repo: string, index: number, limit = 100): Promise<{ paths: string[]; truncated: boolean }> {
-    const files = await this.request<any[]>(`/repos/${owner}/${repo}/pulls/${index}/files?limit=${limit}`);
-    const paths = (files ?? []).map((f) => String(f?.filename ?? "")).filter((p) => p !== "");
-    return { paths, truncated: paths.length >= limit };
+  /** Every file a pull request changed, page by page. **The forge caps a page below what is asked**
+   *  (fifty, asked for a hundred), so one page read as the whole list dropped files silently, and a module
+   *  whose own files moved was not rebuilt (novox/hq issue 252). Read until a page comes back short; past
+   *  `most` files the list is cut and says so, and the mesh then rebuilds everything built from the
+   *  repository, the safe direction. */
+  async listPullFiles(owner: string, repo: string, index: number, most = 3000): Promise<{ paths: string[]; truncated: boolean }> {
+    const paths: string[] = [];
+    let pageSize = 0;
+    for (let page = 1; ; page++) {
+      const files = (await this.request<any[]>(`/repos/${owner}/${repo}/pulls/${index}/files?limit=50&page=${page}`)) ?? [];
+      if (page === 1) pageSize = files.length;
+      for (const f of files) {
+        const name = String(f?.filename ?? "");
+        if (name !== "") paths.push(name);
+      }
+      if (files.length === 0 || files.length < pageSize) return { paths, truncated: false };
+      if (paths.length >= most) return { paths, truncated: true };
+    }
   }
 
   async createPullRequest(
diff --git a/modules/gitea/index.ts b/modules/gitea/index.ts
index 947086f..fcb437d 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/index.ts
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 //
 // Emits (novox/hq ADR 0041/0042):
 //   module.gitea.repo.created   — a repository appeared, however it was made (push, web UI, or tool)
+//   module.gitea.pull.merged    — a pull request was merged, however it was merged (web UI, API, or tool)
 //
-// issue.opened and pull.merged are emitted from the tools (tools/index.ts), at the instant the mesh
-// takes that action — the natural point, and one process only. repo.created belongs here instead:
-// a repository is usually born from a `git push` or the web UI, which no tool sees, so polling the
-// repo list is the only way to catch every path — and keeping it out of the create-repo tool means
-// the fact is never announced twice from two processes.
+// issue.opened is emitted from its tool (tools/index.ts). repo.created and pull.merged belong here: a
+// repository or a merge is as often made by the web UI or a plain API call, which no tool sees, so
+// polling is the only way to catch every path — and the only emitter, so a fact is never announced
+// twice. The merge tool announced too until novox/hq issue 250, and every merge it made was heard twice.
 //
 // The polling is deliberately unhurried: an event a minute late is still an event, whereas hammering
 // the forge for an immediacy nobody asked for is not.
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/pages.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/pages.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e6d964
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/pages.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import { createServer } from "node:http";
+import { GiteaClient } from "../client.ts";
+
+test("every page of a pull request's files is read, though the forge caps a page at fifty", async () => {
+  const total = 59;
+  const server = createServer((req, res) => {
+    const url = new URL(req.url ?? "", "http://x");
+    const page = Number(url.searchParams.get("page") ?? "1");
+    const start = (page - 1) * 50;
+    const files = Array.from({ length: Math.max(0, Math.min(50, total - start)) }, (_, i) => ({ filename: `modules/m${start + i}/x` }));
+    res.setHeader("content-type", "application/json");
+    res.end(JSON.stringify(files));
+  });
+  await new Promise<void>((r) => server.listen(0, r));
+  const port = (server.address() as any).port;
+  const client = new GiteaClient(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}`, "t");
+  const got = await client.listPullFiles("novox", "mesh-catalog", 60);
+  server.close();
+  assert.equal(got.paths.length, total);
+  assert.equal(got.truncated, false);
+  assert.equal(new Set(got.paths).size, total);
+});
diff --git a/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts b/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
index 51932f8..5c4cabe 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 // gitea's tools — moved here from the shared sdk (novox/hq ADR 0039), importing gitea's own client.
 // They return structured data; the mesh serves them through the sdk's tool harness.
 //
-// Two tools emit an event at the natural point of the action they take (novox/hq ADR 0041/0042):
-// create-issue emits issue.opened, merge-pull-request emits pull.merged — the mesh's own hand on
-// the forge, announced the instant it moves. repo.created is deliberately NOT emitted here: repos
-// are far more often born from a `git push` or the web UI than from this tool, so the events
-// entrypoint (index.ts) owns that one by polling, which catches every path without this tool and
-// the poll double-announcing the same repo from two processes.
+// One tool emits an event at the natural point of the action it takes (novox/hq ADR 0041/0042):
+// create-issue emits issue.opened. pull.merged and repo.created are deliberately NOT emitted here: a
+// merge or a repository is as often made in the web UI or by a plain API call as by these tools, so the
+// events entrypoint (index.ts) owns both by polling, which catches every path. Announcing a merge here
+// as well announced every merge made through this tool twice — the tool's at once, the poll's moments
+// later (novox/hq issue 250).
 
 import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
@@ -228,29 +228,11 @@ export function getGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient): ToolDefinition[] {
         const number = Number(args.number);
         const method = args.method ? String(args.method) : "merge";
         const deleteBranch = args.delete_branch === undefined ? true : Boolean(args.delete_branch);
-        // Read the PR first, so the merged event carries a title and branches, not just a number.
-        const pull = await gitea.getPullRequest(owner, repo, number);
         await gitea.mergePullRequest(owner, repo, number, method, deleteBranch);
-        // Read it again: the merge commit only exists now, and it is what a build is made from.
+        // The merge commit only exists now; answered so the caller can follow what is built from it.
+        // pull.merged is the events entrypoint's to announce (index.ts), once, within its poll.
         const merged = await gitea.getPullRequest(owner, repo, number);
-        // And what it changed, so the mesh rebuilds the modules whose own files moved rather than
-        // every module built from the repository (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131).
-        const changed = await gitea.listPullFiles(owner, repo, number);
-        await emit("pull.merged", {
-          owner,
-          repo,
-          number,
-          title: pull.title,
-          head: pull.head,
-          base: pull.base,
-          merge_commit_sha: merged.merge_commit_sha,
-          merged_at: merged.merged_at,
-          method,
-          html_url: pull.html_url,
-          paths: changed.paths,
-          paths_truncated: changed.truncated,
-        });
-        return { merged: true, number, method, deleted_branch: deleteBranch };
+        return { merged: true, number, method, deleted_branch: deleteBranch, merge_commit_sha: merged.merge_commit_sha };
       },
     },