diff --git a/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.disconnect-flush.spec.ts b/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.disconnect-flush.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b24d82a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.disconnect-flush.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import { PersistenceExtension } from './persistence.extension';
+
+/**
+ * Regression for the QA #119 "loss-on-fast-close" data loss: editing a page then
+ * closing the tab within the collab debounce window (~3-18s) lost the edit
+ * because, with `unloadImmediately: false`, Hocuspocus does NOT flush the
+ * debounced onStoreDocument on a last-client disconnect. PersistenceExtension
+ * now flushes the pending store on the LAST disconnect (and only then).
+ */
+describe('PersistenceExtension.onDisconnect flush (loss-on-fast-close)', () => {
+  function makeExt(): PersistenceExtension {
+    // onDisconnect touches none of the injected deps; pass casts.
+    return new PersistenceExtension(
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+      null as any,
+    );
+  }
+
+  function makeData(opts: {
+    clientsCount: number;
+    isDebounced: boolean;
+    isLoading?: boolean;
+  }) {
+    const executeNow = jest.fn(async () => undefined);
+    const isDebounced = jest.fn(() => opts.isDebounced);
+    return {
+      executeNow,
+      isDebounced,
+      payload: {
+        clientsCount: opts.clientsCount,
+        context: {},
+        document: { isLoading: opts.isLoading ?? false } as any,
+        documentName: 'page.abc',
+        instance: { debouncer: { isDebounced, executeNow } } as any,
+        requestHeaders: {},
+        requestParameters: new URLSearchParams(),
+        socketId: 's',
+      } as any,
+    };
+  }
+
+  it('flushes the pending store when the LAST client disconnects', async () => {
+    const ext = makeExt();
+    const { executeNow, payload } = makeData({
+      clientsCount: 0,
+      isDebounced: true,
+    });
+    await ext.onDisconnect(payload);
+    expect(executeNow).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(executeNow).toHaveBeenCalledWith('onStoreDocument-page.abc');
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT flush while other editors remain connected', async () => {
+    const ext = makeExt();
+    const { executeNow, payload } = makeData({
+      clientsCount: 2,
+      isDebounced: true,
+    });
+    await ext.onDisconnect(payload);
+    expect(executeNow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT write when nothing is pending (already persisted)', async () => {
+    const ext = makeExt();
+    const { executeNow, payload } = makeData({
+      clientsCount: 0,
+      isDebounced: false,
+    });
+    await ext.onDisconnect(payload);
+    expect(executeNow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('does NOT flush a doc that is still loading (load error guard)', async () => {
+    const ext = makeExt();
+    const { executeNow, payload } = makeData({
+      clientsCount: 0,
+      isDebounced: true,
+      isLoading: true,
+    });
+    await ext.onDisconnect(payload);
+    expect(executeNow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.extension.ts b/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.extension.ts
index 4512ec0e..52ecadf0 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.extension.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/collaboration/extensions/persistence.extension.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import {
   afterUnloadDocumentPayload,
   Extension,
   onChangePayload,
+  onDisconnectPayload,
   onLoadDocumentPayload,
   onStoreDocumentPayload,
 } from '@hocuspocus/server';
@@ -164,6 +165,40 @@ export class PersistenceExtension implements Extension {
     return new Y.Doc();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * LOSS-ON-FAST-CLOSE FIX (QA #119). When the LAST editor disconnects, FLUSH any
+   * pending (debounced) store to the DB IMMEDIATELY instead of waiting out the
+   * up-to-10s `debounce` window.
+   *
+   * The collab server runs with `unloadImmediately: false` (collaboration.gateway),
+   * so on a last-client disconnect Hocuspocus does NOT flush the debounced
+   * onStoreDocument — it relies on the timer firing later. A quick edit-then-close
+   * (closing the tab within the debounce window, ~3-18s) therefore left the edit
+   * only in the soon-to-be-unloaded in-memory Y.Doc; meanwhile git-sync mirrored
+   * the STALE/empty DB body to the vault (the reported "59-byte frontmatter-only"
+   * data loss). Running the already-scheduled store now closes that window.
+   *
+   * Gated tightly so it never adds a redundant write: only on the LAST disconnect
+   * (`clientsCount === 0`), only for a fully-loaded doc, and only when a store is
+   * actually pending (`isDebounced`). `executeNow` runs the SAME payload Hocuspocus
+   * scheduled (preserving the edit's context/actor) and clears the timer.
+   */
+  async onDisconnect(data: onDisconnectPayload) {
+    const { instance, document, documentName, clientsCount } = data;
+    if (clientsCount > 0) return;
+    if (!document || document.isLoading) return;
+    const debounceId = `onStoreDocument-${documentName}`;
+    if (!instance?.debouncer?.isDebounced(debounceId)) return;
+    try {
+      await instance.debouncer.executeNow(debounceId);
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.error(
+        `onDisconnect flush failed for ${documentName}: ` +
+          (err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)),
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
   async onStoreDocument(data: onStoreDocumentPayload) {
     const { documentName, document, context } = data;
 
diff --git a/apps/server/src/integrations/git-sync/services/yjs-body-merge.callout.spec.ts b/apps/server/src/integrations/git-sync/services/yjs-body-merge.callout.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16a9ad14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/server/src/integrations/git-sync/services/yjs-body-merge.callout.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+import { TiptapTransformer } from '@hocuspocus/transformer';
+import * as Y from 'yjs';
+import {
+  markdownToProseMirror,
+  convertProseMirrorToMarkdown,
+} from '@docmost/git-sync';
+
+import { tiptapExtensions } from '../../../collaboration/collaboration.util';
+import { mergeXmlFragments, mergeXmlFragments3Way } from './yjs-body-merge';
+
+/**
+ * Regression for the QA #119 callout findings (body-duplication re-verify +
+ * "callout strips the whole body"). These reproduce the ACTUAL live merge path:
+ *
+ *   live  = TiptapTransformer.toYdoc(editor JSON, tiptapExtensions)   (the
+ *           collaboration server's materialization — schema defaults stamped)
+ *   git   = toYdoc(markdownToProseMirror(convertProseMirrorToMarkdown(editor)))
+ *           (the engine round-trip the push side feeds into writePageBody)
+ *
+ * A page containing a callout (with a neighbouring heading + paragraphs) must:
+ *   - merge with ZERO ops on an unchanged resync (no duplication — bug #1), and
+ *   - NEVER lose blocks / collapse to empty (no strip — bug #2),
+ * across repeated cycles, for every editor-canonical callout type.
+ */
+
+const toYdoc = (content: unknown[]) =>
+  TiptapTransformer.toYdoc(
+    { type: 'doc', content },
+    'default',
+    tiptapExtensions as any,
+  );
+
+const blockTypes = (f: Y.XmlFragment) =>
+  f.toArray().map((n: any) => n.nodeName);
+
+function editorPage(calloutType: string) {
+  return [
+    {
+      type: 'heading',
+      attrs: { id: 'h1', level: 1 },
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Title here' }],
+    },
+    {
+      type: 'paragraph',
+      attrs: { id: 'p1' },
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Para before callout' }],
+    },
+    {
+      type: 'callout',
+      attrs: { type: calloutType },
+      content: [
+        {
+          type: 'paragraph',
+          attrs: { id: 'pc' },
+          content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Inside the callout' }],
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    {
+      type: 'paragraph',
+      attrs: { id: 'p2' },
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Para after callout' }],
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+async function gitRoundTrip(content: unknown[]): Promise<any[]> {
+  const md = await convertProseMirrorToMarkdown({ type: 'doc', content });
+  const json = await markdownToProseMirror(md);
+  return json.content;
+}
+
+describe('git-sync callout merge is idempotent + non-destructive (QA #119)', () => {
+  for (const type of ['info', 'note', 'warning', 'danger', 'success', 'default']) {
+    it(`callout(${type}) resyncs with 0 ops and never strips the body`, async () => {
+      const editor = editorPage(type);
+      const gitContent = await gitRoundTrip(editor);
+
+      const liveDoc = toYdoc(editor);
+      const live = liveDoc.getXmlFragment('default');
+      const before = live.toArray().length;
+      expect(before).toBe(4);
+
+      // 2-way: live vs the git round-trip -> no-op (no dup, no strip).
+      let applied = -1;
+      liveDoc.transact(() => {
+        applied = mergeXmlFragments(live, toYdoc(gitContent).getXmlFragment('default'));
+      });
+      expect(applied).toBe(0);
+      expect(live.toArray().length).toBe(before);
+
+      // 3-way across 4 cycles with base == git (the steady-state) -> stable.
+      for (let cycle = 0; cycle < 4; cycle++) {
+        let a = -1;
+        liveDoc.transact(() => {
+          a = mergeXmlFragments3Way(
+            live,
+            toYdoc(gitContent).getXmlFragment('default'),
+            toYdoc(gitContent).getXmlFragment('default'),
+          );
+        });
+        expect(a).toBe(0);
+        expect(live.toArray().length).toBe(before);
+        expect(blockTypes(live)).toEqual([
+          'heading',
+          'paragraph',
+          'callout',
+          'paragraph',
+        ]);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('3-way with a stale base (callout JUST added) keeps the callout + neighbours', async () => {
+    // base = the previously-synced version WITHOUT the callout (git round-trip);
+    // the human just inserted the callout -> the merge must KEEP everything.
+    const prev = [
+      { type: 'heading', attrs: { id: 'h1', level: 1 }, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Title here' }] },
+      { type: 'paragraph', attrs: { id: 'p1' }, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Para before callout' }] },
+      { type: 'paragraph', attrs: { id: 'p2' }, content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Para after callout' }] },
+    ];
+    const editor = editorPage('info');
+    const baseContent = await gitRoundTrip(prev);
+    const gitContent = await gitRoundTrip(editor);
+
+    const liveDoc = toYdoc(editor);
+    const live = liveDoc.getXmlFragment('default');
+    liveDoc.transact(() => {
+      mergeXmlFragments3Way(
+        live,
+        toYdoc(gitContent).getXmlFragment('default'),
+        toYdoc(baseContent).getXmlFragment('default'),
+      );
+    });
+    // Body survives in full — NOT stripped to empty / a lone paragraph.
+    expect(blockTypes(live)).toEqual([
+      'heading',
+      'paragraph',
+      'callout',
+      'paragraph',
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('git-sync callout type fidelity (QA "callout type -> [!info]")', () => {
+  for (const type of ['info', 'note', 'warning', 'danger', 'success', 'default']) {
+    it(`preserves callout type "${type}" across the engine round-trip`, async () => {
+      const content = editorPage(type);
+      const gitContent = await gitRoundTrip(content);
+      const co = gitContent.find((b: any) => b.type === 'callout');
+      expect(co?.attrs?.type).toBe(type);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('flattens a genuinely unknown callout type to info', async () => {
+    const content = editorPage('tip'); // not an editor-canonical type
+    const gitContent = await gitRoundTrip(content);
+    const co = gitContent.find((b: any) => b.type === 'callout');
+    expect(co?.attrs?.type).toBe('info');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/cycle.ts b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/cycle.ts
index d666a1fe..985e9645 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/cycle.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/cycle.ts
@@ -85,14 +85,30 @@ export async function runCycle(deps: RunCycleDeps): Promise<RunCycleResult> {
   await vault.assertGitAvailable();
   await vault.ensureRepo();
 
-  // 2. Refuse to run on top of an unresolved merge (SPEC §9): a prior
-  //    conflicting pull leaves the vault mid-merge; the next checkout would fail.
+  // 2. RECOVER from a vault left mid-merge by a PRIOR cycle (SPEC §9 wedge fix).
+  //    A leftover merge used to WEDGE THE WHOLE SPACE: this check returned
+  //    `skipped: "merge-in-progress"` so EVERY later cycle skipped the entire
+  //    space (all pages, both directions) forever, with no recovery. The pull
+  //    phase below no longer leaves the vault mid-merge (it commits a conflicting
+  //    merge with markers and isolates the one bad page), but a vault wedged by a
+  //    PRE-FIX build (or a manual/interrupted git op) must still self-heal.
+  //    So instead of skipping, ABORT the stale half-merge and continue — the
+  //    fresh pull re-runs and, on a real conflict, commits-with-markers rather
+  //    than re-wedging. A stray unmerged index that `merge --abort` can't clear
+  //    (no MERGE_HEAD) is force-cleared with a hard reset to HEAD.
   if (await vault.isMergeInProgress()) {
     log(
-      `vault has an unresolved merge — resolve it (or 'git merge --abort') ` +
-        `and re-run (SPEC §9); skipping cycle.`,
+      `vault was left mid-merge by a prior cycle — aborting the stale merge and ` +
+        `continuing so the space is not wedged (SPEC §9 recovery).`,
     );
-    return { ran: false, skipped: "merge-in-progress" };
+    await vault.abortMerge();
+    if (await vault.isMergeInProgress()) {
+      log(
+        `vault still mid-merge after 'merge --abort' — hard-resetting to HEAD ` +
+          `to recover (SPEC §9).`,
+      );
+      await vault.resetHardToHead();
+    }
   }
 
   // 3. Pull writes happen on `docmost`; be on it BEFORE applying (see docstring).
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/git.ts b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/git.ts
index 894e0ee4..f334263d 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/git.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/git.ts
@@ -414,6 +414,65 @@ export class VaultGit {
     return r.code === 0 && r.stdout.trim().length > 0;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The vault-relative (forward-slash) paths with UNMERGED (conflicted) index
+   * entries after a conflicting merge. NUL-delimited + `core.quotepath=false`
+   * (the `runRaw` baseline) so Cyrillic/space paths come back verbatim. Used by
+   * the pull cycle to LOG and ISOLATE the conflicted page(s) when it commits a
+   * conflicted merge instead of leaving the whole vault wedged (SPEC §9 wedge
+   * fix). Returns `[]` on any error (best-effort diagnostics).
+   */
+  async listUnmergedPaths(): Promise<string[]> {
+    const r = await this.runRaw([
+      "diff",
+      "--name-only",
+      "--diff-filter=U",
+      "-z",
+    ]);
+    if (r.code !== 0) return [];
+    return r.stdout.split("\0").filter((p) => p.length > 0);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Commit an IN-PROGRESS (conflicted) merge AS-IS so the vault is NOT left
+   * wedged mid-merge (SPEC §9 wedge fix). A `git merge` that conflicts leaves
+   * `MERGE_HEAD` + unmerged index entries; the next cycle's `isMergeInProgress`
+   * check would then skip the ENTIRE space forever (the reported wedge). Instead
+   * we stage everything — including the conflicted file(s), whose conflict
+   * markers are PRESERVED in the committed tree — and record the two-parent merge
+   * commit. The cleanly-merged pages land normally; the conflicted page carries
+   * its markers on `main`, where the push side isolates it (a per-page push
+   * failure when `autoMergeConflicts` is off; the markers never reach Docmost)
+   * while every other page keeps syncing. Recovery: resolve the markers in git
+   * and the next push sends the clean body.
+   *
+   * `--allow-empty` guards the degenerate case where the staged conflict
+   * resolution nets to no tree change; while `MERGE_HEAD` exists `git commit`
+   * still records the merge commit so the half-merge is cleared.
+   */
+  async commitMerge(message: string, opts: CommitOptions): Promise<void> {
+    await this.run(["add", "-A"]);
+    await this.commitRaw(message, { ...opts, allowEmpty: true });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Abort an in-progress merge (`git merge --abort`), restoring the pre-merge
+   * working tree + index. Best-effort: a non-zero exit (e.g. no MERGE_HEAD) is
+   * swallowed. Used by the cycle's RECOVERY path to unwedge a vault that a
+   * PRIOR (pre-fix) cycle left mid-merge, so the fresh pull can re-run instead of
+   * skipping the space forever (SPEC §9 wedge recovery).
+   */
+  async abortMerge(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.runRaw(["merge", "--abort"]);
+  }
+
+  /** Hard-reset the working tree + index to HEAD (drops a stray half-merge that
+   * `merge --abort` could not clear — no MERGE_HEAD but lingering unmerged
+   * entries). Best-effort recovery primitive (SPEC §9). */
+  async resetHardToHead(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.runRaw(["reset", "--hard", "HEAD"]);
+  }
+
   /**
    * List tracked files on the current branch (paths relative to the vault
    * root, forward-slash separated). An optional glob (a git pathspec) narrows
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/pull.ts b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/pull.ts
index 6e79f552..771735bd 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/src/engine/pull.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/src/engine/pull.ts
@@ -218,7 +218,15 @@ export function computePullActions(input: PullActionsInput): PullActions {
  */
 export interface ApplyPullActionsDeps {
   client: Pick<GitSyncClient, "getPageJson">;
-  git: Pick<VaultGit, "stageAll" | "commit" | "checkout" | "merge">;
+  git: Pick<
+    VaultGit,
+    | "stageAll"
+    | "commit"
+    | "checkout"
+    | "merge"
+    | "listUnmergedPaths"
+    | "commitMerge"
+  >;
   /** Write a file by ABSOLUTE path (mkdir of the parent is done internally). */
   writeFile: (absPath: string, text: string) => Promise<void>;
   /** Recursive mkdir of an ABSOLUTE directory path. */
@@ -240,6 +248,13 @@ export interface ApplyResult {
   failed: number;
   committed: boolean;
   merge: { ok: boolean; conflict: boolean; output: string };
+  /**
+   * Vault-relative paths of the page(s) that CONFLICTED in the docmost -> main
+   * merge and were committed WITH conflict markers (so the rest of the space
+   * keeps syncing — SPEC §9 wedge fix). Empty on a clean merge. The push side
+   * isolates these (per-page failure when `autoMergeConflicts` is off).
+   */
+  conflictedPaths: string[];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -404,20 +419,47 @@ export async function applyPullActions(
     trailers: [SOURCE_TRAILER],
   });
 
-  // Merge docmost -> main. Conflicts are surfaced and left in git (SPEC §9);
-  // we never push to Docmost. Push to a git remote is deferred (SPEC §7).
+  // Merge docmost -> main. A CONFLICT must NOT wedge the whole space (the
+  // reported bug: ONE same-line conflict on ONE page froze sync for EVERY page
+  // in both directions because the next cycle's `isMergeInProgress` check kept
+  // skipping the entire space). So instead of leaving the vault mid-merge, we
+  // COMMIT the conflicted merge with markers in place (SPEC §9 wedge fix): the
+  // cleanly-merged pages land, the conflicted page carries its markers on `main`
+  // and is isolated by the push side (a per-page failure when `autoMergeConflicts`
+  // is off — the markers never reach Docmost), and the NEXT cycle is NOT wedged.
+  // Recovery: resolve the markers in git; the next push then sends the clean body.
   await git.checkout(DEFAULT_BRANCH);
   const merge = await git.merge(DOCMOST_BRANCH);
+  let conflictedPaths: string[] = [];
   if (merge.conflict) {
+    conflictedPaths = await git.listUnmergedPaths();
+    await git.commitMerge(
+      `docmost: sync with unresolved conflict in ${conflictedPaths.length} page(s)`,
+      {
+        authorName: BOT_AUTHOR_NAME,
+        authorEmail: BOT_AUTHOR_EMAIL,
+        trailers: [SOURCE_TRAILER],
+      },
+    );
     log(
-      "pull: merge of docmost -> main CONFLICTED. Conflict markers were left " +
-        "in the vault for manual resolution (SPEC §9). Nothing is pushed to " +
-        "Docmost (read-only). Resolve locally, then re-run.",
+      `pull: merge of docmost -> main CONFLICTED on ${conflictedPaths.length} ` +
+        `page(s): ${conflictedPaths.join(", ")}. Committed the merge WITH ` +
+        `conflict markers so the rest of the space keeps syncing (SPEC §9). The ` +
+        `conflicted page(s) are isolated on push (markers never reach Docmost); ` +
+        `resolve the markers in git to recover.`,
     );
   } else if (!merge.ok) {
     log(`pull: merge of docmost -> main failed: ${merge.output}`);
   }
   log("pull: git push to remote is DEFERRED in this increment (SPEC §7).");
 
-  return { written, movedApplied, deleted, failed, committed, merge };
+  return {
+    written,
+    movedApplied,
+    deleted,
+    failed,
+    committed,
+    merge,
+    conflictedPaths,
+  };
 }
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/src/lib/docmost-schema.ts b/packages/git-sync/src/lib/docmost-schema.ts
index 3595866b..304a7c92 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/src/lib/docmost-schema.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/src/lib/docmost-schema.ts
@@ -49,8 +49,18 @@ function getStyleProperty(element: HTMLElement, propertyName: string): string |
   return null;
 }
 
-/** Allowed Docmost callout types; anything else falls back to "info". */
-const CALLOUT_TYPES = ["info", "warning", "danger", "success"];
+/**
+ * Allowed Docmost callout types; anything else falls back to "info".
+ *
+ * This MUST stay in lockstep with the editor's canonical set
+ * (`getValidCalloutType` in `@docmost/editor-ext` callout/utils.ts:
+ * default | info | note | success | warning | danger). A type missing here is
+ * silently flattened to "info" on the markdown -> ProseMirror round-trip, so a
+ * `[!note]` / `[!default]` callout authored in the editor would come back as
+ * `[!info]` after a git sync (the QA "callout type -> [!info]" fidelity loss).
+ * `note` and `default` were previously absent and so were being flattened.
+ */
+const CALLOUT_TYPES = ["default", "info", "note", "success", "warning", "danger"];
 export const clampCalloutType = (value: string | null | undefined): string =>
   value && CALLOUT_TYPES.includes(value.toLowerCase())
     ? value.toLowerCase()
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/test/apply-pull-actions.test.ts b/packages/git-sync/test/apply-pull-actions.test.ts
index 762046e6..c4d07096 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/test/apply-pull-actions.test.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/test/apply-pull-actions.test.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ function makeGit(merge: { ok: boolean; conflict: boolean; output?: string } = {
       order.push('merge');
       return { ok: merge.ok, conflict: merge.conflict, output: merge.output ?? '' };
     }),
+    listUnmergedPaths: vi.fn(async () => ['Conflicted.md']),
+    commitMerge: vi.fn(async (subject: string) => {
+      order.push(`commitMerge:${subject}`);
+    }),
   };
   return {
     git,
@@ -403,7 +407,11 @@ describe('applyPullActions — commit subject reflects ACTUAL counts', () => {
 });
 
 describe('applyPullActions — merge result is surfaced, not swallowed', () => {
-  it('returns conflict:true on a conflicting merge (no auto-resolve)', async () => {
+  it('COMMITS a conflicting merge with markers (no wedge) and surfaces conflictedPaths', async () => {
+    // Regression for the WEDGE bug (QA #119): a conflicting docmost -> main merge
+    // must NOT be left mid-merge (which wedged the whole space). It is committed
+    // WITH markers so the rest of the space keeps syncing; the conflicted page is
+    // surfaced in `conflictedPaths` and isolated by the push side.
     const { client } = makeClient();
     const g = makeGit({ ok: false, conflict: true, output: 'CONFLICT' });
     const fs = makeFs();
@@ -415,6 +423,10 @@ describe('applyPullActions — merge result is surfaced, not swallowed', () => {
     );
     expect(res.merge.conflict).toBe(true);
     expect(res.merge.ok).toBe(false);
+    // The merge was COMMITTED (vault no longer mid-merge) and the bad page named.
+    expect(g.git.commitMerge).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(res.conflictedPaths).toEqual(['Conflicted.md']);
+    expect(g.order.some((o) => o.startsWith('commitMerge:'))).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it('returns ok:false conflict:false on a non-conflict merge failure', async () => {
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/test/cycle-roundtrip.test.ts b/packages/git-sync/test/cycle-roundtrip.test.ts
index e6533f5a..eb6253b6 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/test/cycle-roundtrip.test.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/test/cycle-roundtrip.test.ts
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ describe("runCycle against a REAL VaultGit (integration)", () => {
     expect(onDisk).toContain("new-id");
   });
 
-  it("an unresolved merge short-circuits before any client call", async () => {
+  it("RECOVERS a vault left mid-merge instead of wedging the whole space", async () => {
     if (!available) return;
 
     dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "docmost-cycle-merge-"));
@@ -149,8 +149,9 @@ describe("runCycle against a REAL VaultGit (integration)", () => {
     await writeFile(join(dir, "C.md"), "main-side\n", "utf8");
     await git.stageAll();
     await git.commit("main edit", { authorName: "h", authorEmail: "h@l" });
-    // Start a conflicting merge and leave it unresolved.
+    // Start a conflicting merge and leave it unresolved (the wedged state).
     await execFileAsync("git", ["-C", dir, "merge", "docmost"]).catch(() => {});
+    expect(await git.isMergeInProgress()).toBe(true);
 
     const client = makeEmptyClientFake();
     const res = await runCycle({
@@ -162,8 +163,25 @@ describe("runCycle against a REAL VaultGit (integration)", () => {
       log: () => undefined,
     });
 
-    expect(res).toEqual({ ran: false, skipped: "merge-in-progress" });
-    expect(client.listSpaceTree).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(client.createPage).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    // WEDGE FIX: the cycle does NOT skip forever — it aborts the stale merge and
+    // RUNS the full pull/push. The space is no longer frozen.
+    expect(res.ran).toBe(true);
+    expect(client.listSpaceTree).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    // And crucially, the vault is NOT left mid-merge afterward (the re-merge of a
+    // genuinely conflicting page is committed-with-markers, not wedged), so the
+    // next cycle can run too.
+    expect(await git.isMergeInProgress()).toBe(false);
+
+    // A SECOND cycle also runs cleanly (proves the wedge is gone for good).
+    const res2 = await runCycle({
+      spaceId: "space-1",
+      client: client as any,
+      vault: git,
+      settings: makeSettings(dir),
+      fs: nodeFs,
+      log: () => undefined,
+    });
+    expect(res2.ran).toBe(true);
+    expect(await git.isMergeInProgress()).toBe(false);
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/test/cycle.test.ts b/packages/git-sync/test/cycle.test.ts
index 848dd2c2..276ed940 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/test/cycle.test.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/test/cycle.test.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ function fakeVault(overrides: Record<string, any> = {}) {
     stageAll: rec("stageAll"),
     commit: rec("commit", { committed: false }),
     merge: rec("merge", { ok: true, conflict: false, output: "" }),
+    listUnmergedPaths: vi.fn(async () => [] as string[]),
+    commitMerge: rec("commitMerge"),
+    abortMerge: rec("abortMerge"),
+    resetHardToHead: rec("resetHardToHead"),
     readRef: vi.fn(async () => null),
     revParse: vi.fn(async () => "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"),
     diffNameStatus: vi.fn(async () => [] as any[]),
@@ -64,16 +68,47 @@ function baseDeps(vault: any, over: Partial<RunCycleDeps> = {}): RunCycleDeps {
 }
 
 describe("runCycle (composition)", () => {
-  it("short-circuits with skipped:'merge-in-progress' and runs no pull/push", async () => {
-    const vault = fakeVault({ isMergeInProgress: vi.fn(async () => true) });
+  it("RECOVERS from a vault left mid-merge: aborts the stale merge and continues (no wedge)", async () => {
+    // Regression for the WEDGE bug (QA #119): a vault left mid-merge by a prior
+    // cycle used to skip the WHOLE space forever. Now the cycle aborts the stale
+    // merge and proceeds so the space self-heals.
+    let midMerge = true;
+    const vault = fakeVault({
+      // mid-merge until `abortMerge` clears it (then the cycle continues).
+      isMergeInProgress: vi.fn(async () => midMerge),
+      abortMerge: vi.fn(async () => {
+        midMerge = false;
+      }),
+    });
     const deps = baseDeps(vault);
 
     const res = await runCycle(deps);
 
-    expect(res).toEqual({ ran: false, skipped: "merge-in-progress" });
-    // Never advanced to the pull (listSpaceTree) or push.
-    expect(deps.client.listSpaceTree).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vault.order).not.toContain("checkout:docmost");
+    // The stale merge was aborted and the cycle RAN (no permanent wedge).
+    expect(vault.abortMerge).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(res.ran).toBe(true);
+    expect(deps.client.listSpaceTree).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(vault.order).toContain("checkout:docmost");
+  });
+
+  it("hard-resets when 'merge --abort' cannot clear a stray unmerged index", async () => {
+    // abortMerge does NOT clear it (no MERGE_HEAD but stray unmerged entries);
+    // the cycle falls back to a hard reset, then proceeds.
+    let midMerge = true;
+    const vault = fakeVault({
+      isMergeInProgress: vi.fn(async () => midMerge),
+      abortMerge: vi.fn(async () => undefined), // leaves it mid-merge
+      resetHardToHead: vi.fn(async () => {
+        midMerge = false;
+      }),
+    });
+    const deps = baseDeps(vault);
+
+    const res = await runCycle(deps);
+
+    expect(vault.abortMerge).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(vault.resetHardToHead).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(res.ran).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it("stages ensureRepo -> ensureBranch(docmost,main) -> checkout(docmost) BEFORE pulling", async () => {
diff --git a/packages/git-sync/test/docmost-schema-attrs.test.ts b/packages/git-sync/test/docmost-schema-attrs.test.ts
index 201882e7..b89fe6a4 100644
--- a/packages/git-sync/test/docmost-schema-attrs.test.ts
+++ b/packages/git-sync/test/docmost-schema-attrs.test.ts
@@ -65,9 +65,21 @@ describe('clampCalloutType', () => {
     expect(clampCalloutType('success')).toBe('success');
   });
 
-  it('falls back to "info" for unknown types', () => {
-    expect(clampCalloutType('note')).toBe('info');
+  it('PRESERVES every editor-canonical type (note/default no longer flattened)', () => {
+    // Regression for the QA "callout type -> [!info]" fidelity loss: `note` and
+    // `default` are valid editor callout types and must survive the git
+    // round-trip, not collapse to `info`.
+    expect(clampCalloutType('note')).toBe('note');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('default')).toBe('default');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('info')).toBe('info');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('warning')).toBe('warning');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('danger')).toBe('danger');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('success')).toBe('success');
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to "info" for genuinely unknown types', () => {
     expect(clampCalloutType('tip')).toBe('info');
+    expect(clampCalloutType('banana')).toBe('info');
   });
 
   it('falls back to "info" for empty string and null', () => {