diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
index 3850ed63a7b114d5b5cfb9a7f69511652b789003..370967c0fb29c471545c6b67c51bc8e37d89ef4d 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
@@ -309,6 +309,57 @@ it.effect("shares detail and activity for a minute, and for ten once merged", ()
   }),
 );
 
+it.effect("re-reads an open pull request after a turn, but not a merged one", () =>
+  Effect.gen(function* () {
+    const reads: Array<string> = [];
+    const service = yield* makeService({
+      projects: [project({ id: "p1", title: "web", workspaceRoot: "/w", repository: "acme/web" })],
+      providers: [
+        fakeProvider(SourceControlProviderKind.make("github"), {
+          getChangeRequest: ({ number }) =>
+            Effect.sync(() => {
+              reads.push(`detail #${number}`);
+              return {
+                ...hostedChangeRequest("Description"),
+                number,
+                state: number === 1 ? ("open" as const) : ("merged" as const),
+              };
+            }),
+          getChangeRequestActivity: ({ number }) =>
+            Effect.sync(() => {
+              reads.push(`activity #${number}`);
+              return {
+                comments: [],
+                commentCount: 0,
+                commentsTruncated: false,
+                reviewThreads: [],
+                commits: [],
+              };
+            }),
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+    // What every client showing #1 (open) and #2 (merged) does on each refresh signal.
+    const merged = { projectId: "p1" as ProjectId, repository: "acme/web", number: 2 };
+    const reread = Effect.forEach([1, 2], (number) => {
+      const ref = { ...merged, number };
+      return Effect.andThen(service.detail(ref), service.activity(ref));
+    }).pipe(
+      Effect.andThen(Effect.yieldNow),
+      Effect.andThen(Effect.sync(() => reads.splice(0).toSorted())),
+    );
+
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(yield* reread, ["activity #1", "activity #2", "detail #1", "detail #2"]);
+    for (let turn = 0; turn < 3; turn++) {
+      yield* service.refreshAfterTurn(merged.projectId);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(yield* reread, ["activity #1", "detail #1"]);
+    }
+    // The refresh button still reads a merged pull request again.
+    yield* service.invalidate({ reference: merged });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(yield* reread, ["activity #2", "detail #2"]);
+  }),
+);
+
 it.effect("does not wait for an in-flight detail read to display a preview", () =>
   Effect.gen(function* () {
     const detailStarted = yield* Deferred.make<void>();
diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
index d57934f10a1678ab7a6404de85c0bc2080974aad..dd60462d5f8c323201577a6f35ff4cc28a35d4ee 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
@@ -2800,11 +2800,28 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
       ref.repository.toLowerCase(),
       ref.number,
     ]);
-  const refEpoch = (ref: PullRequestRef) =>
-    Math.max(
-      projectEpochs.get(ref.projectId) ?? projectEpochFloor,
-      refEpochs.get(refScope(ref)) ?? 0,
+  /**
+   * The project epoch a pull request was first read merged under. A merged pull request cannot
+   * change again, so a turn in its project no longer moves its key; otherwise every reader showing
+   * it would read the host again after every turn. A refresh or a mutation still moves it.
+   */
+  const mergedEpochs = new Map<string, number>();
+  const refEpoch = (ref: PullRequestRef) => {
+    const scope = refScope(ref);
+    return Math.max(
+      mergedEpochs.get(scope) ?? projectEpochs.get(ref.projectId) ?? projectEpochFloor,
+      refEpochs.get(scope) ?? 0,
     );
+  };
+  const noteMerged = (ref: PullRequestRef) => {
+    const scope = refScope(ref);
+    if (mergedEpochs.has(scope)) return;
+    if (mergedEpochs.size >= REF_EPOCH_CAPACITY) {
+      const oldest = mergedEpochs.keys().next().value;
+      if (oldest !== undefined) mergedEpochs.delete(oldest);
+    }
+    mergedEpochs.set(scope, projectEpochs.get(ref.projectId) ?? projectEpochFloor);
+  };
   // Keys carry the reference back out of the cache loader, so the slot layout is shared with
   // `refOfCacheKey` rather than read positionally at every loader.
   const refCacheKey = (ref: CredentialRef) =>
@@ -3213,6 +3230,7 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
     // regression and never ask the host again.
     const read = Cache.get(detailCache, key).pipe(
       Effect.tap((value) => {
+        if (value.state === "merged") noteMerged(input);
         const summary = summaryFromDetail(value, lastGoodSummary.peek(key));
         return noteDetailReading(input, summary).pipe(
           Effect.andThen(