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/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 };
       },
     },