diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/edit/snapshot-details.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/edit/snapshot-details.ts
index 97da75a4a..f83e4c9dc 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/edit/snapshot-details.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/edit/snapshot-details.ts
@@ -14,11 +14,15 @@
 import type { EditToolDetails, EditToolPerFileResult } from "./renderer";
 
 /**
- * Combined `oldText` + `newText` character budget per edit-tool result.
+ * Combined `oldText` + `newText` character budget for a single edit-tool
+ * result. Applies both per-entry (one file at a time) and as an aggregate
+ * across `perFileResults` (so a many-small-files batch can't accumulate
+ * unbounded snapshot bytes — see #3787 review).
  *
  * Picked so typical code-file edits keep ACP diff visualization while
- * pathological cases (large generated files, full-file rewrites) drop the raw
- * snapshots before they hit the session JSONL.
+ * pathological cases (large generated files, full-file rewrites, or
+ * many-file batches) drop the raw snapshots before they hit the
+ * session JSONL.
  */
 export const MAX_EDIT_SNAPSHOT_TEXT_CHARS = 32_768;
 
@@ -32,6 +36,28 @@ function pruneSnapshot<T extends WithSnapshot>(details: T): T {
 	return { ...rest, snapshotsPruned: true } as T;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Walk `perFileResults` in order with a shared budget. Each per-entry payload
+ * is first capped individually by {@link pruneSnapshot}; if its kept bytes
+ * would push the running aggregate past the cap, strip and mark this entry
+ * too. Early entries get to keep their diff visualization; later entries in
+ * a large batch degrade to text-only.
+ */
+function capPerFileSnapshots<T extends WithSnapshot>(entries: T[]): T[] {
+	let remaining = MAX_EDIT_SNAPSHOT_TEXT_CHARS;
+	return entries.map(entry => {
+		const perEntry = pruneSnapshot(entry);
+		const kept = (perEntry.oldText?.length ?? 0) + (perEntry.newText?.length ?? 0);
+		if (kept === 0) return perEntry;
+		if (kept <= remaining) {
+			remaining -= kept;
+			return perEntry;
+		}
+		const { oldText: _old, newText: _new, ...rest } = perEntry;
+		return { ...rest, snapshotsPruned: true } as T;
+	});
+}
+
 /**
  * Prune oversized `oldText` / `newText` from an edit-tool details payload,
  * recursing into `perFileResults` when present. Per-file overload comes first
@@ -45,7 +71,7 @@ export function pruneOversizedEditSnapshots(
 ): EditToolDetails | EditToolPerFileResult {
 	const pruned = pruneSnapshot(details);
 	if ("perFileResults" in pruned && pruned.perFileResults) {
-		return { ...pruned, perFileResults: pruned.perFileResults.map(pruneSnapshot) };
+		return { ...pruned, perFileResults: capPerFileSnapshots(pruned.perFileResults) };
 	}
 	return pruned;
 }
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/edit-snapshot-details.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/edit-snapshot-details.test.ts
index 856357c77..7a22d42d5 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/edit-snapshot-details.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/edit-snapshot-details.test.ts
@@ -94,6 +94,35 @@ describe("pruneOversizedEditSnapshots", () => {
 			newText: small,
 		});
 	});
+
+	test("caps cumulative perFileResults snapshots at the shared aggregate budget", () => {
+		// Each entry is individually under the per-entry budget but their sum
+		// busts it: walking left-to-right, the first two fit, the rest must be
+		// stripped so a many-small-files batch can't accumulate unbounded bytes.
+		const entrySize = Math.floor(MAX_EDIT_SNAPSHOT_TEXT_CHARS / 4);
+		const chunk = "y".repeat(entrySize);
+		const entries = Array.from({ length: 5 }, (_, i) => ({
+			path: `/f${i}`,
+			diff: `d${i}`,
+			oldText: chunk,
+			newText: chunk,
+		}));
+		const result = pruneOversizedEditSnapshots({ diff: "agg", perFileResults: entries });
+
+		const kept = result.perFileResults!.filter(e => e.oldText !== undefined);
+		const pruned = result.perFileResults!.filter(e => e.snapshotsPruned === true);
+		expect(kept.length).toBe(2);
+		expect(pruned.length).toBe(3);
+
+		// Total kept snapshot bytes never exceed the shared cap.
+		const totalKept = result.perFileResults!.reduce(
+			(acc, e) => acc + (e.oldText?.length ?? 0) + (e.newText?.length ?? 0),
+			0,
+		);
+		expect(totalKept).toBeLessThanOrEqual(MAX_EDIT_SNAPSHOT_TEXT_CHARS);
+		// Pruned entries keep their diff/path so the renderer still works.
+		expect(pruned[0]).toMatchObject({ path: "/f2", diff: "d2", snapshotsPruned: true });
+	});
 });
 
 describe("executePatchSingle on oversized files", () => {