diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-extractor-bridge.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-extractor-bridge.ts
index 19e16e940..1774cefca 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-extractor-bridge.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/scope-extractor-bridge.ts
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@
  *      `emitScopeCaptures`. Returns `undefined`; zero work done. This is
  *      the state of every language today — `ParsedFile` production stays
  *      dormant until a language migrates.
- *   2. Invokes the hook + feeds its output to `ScopeExtractor.extract`.
- *   3. **Swallows exceptions from either side.** A failure here returns
+ *   2. Short-circuits empty / whitespace-only files. There is no scope
+ *      content to extract, and some tree-sitter queries do not match an
+ *      otherwise valid empty root node.
+ *   3. Invokes the hook + feeds its output to `ScopeExtractor.extract`.
+ *   4. **Swallows exceptions from either side.** A failure here returns
  *      `undefined` and emits a warning via `onWarn`; legacy parsing on
  *      the same file continues unaffected by the scope-extraction miss.
  *      Scope-based resolution is the new path under construction — it
@@ -41,6 +44,7 @@ export function extractParsedFile(
   cachedTree?: unknown,
 ): ParsedFile | undefined {
   if (provider.emitScopeCaptures === undefined) return undefined;
+  if (sourceText.trim().length === 0) return undefined;
   try {
     const captures = provider.emitScopeCaptures(sourceText, filePath, cachedTree);
     return extractScope(captures, filePath, provider);
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/parse-worker-scope-integration.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/parse-worker-scope-integration.test.ts
index c824a18b4..6b67db11b 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/parse-worker-scope-integration.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/parse-worker-scope-integration.test.ts
@@ -67,6 +67,27 @@ describe('extractParsedFile', () => {
   });
 
   describe('provider HAS migrated', () => {
+    it('returns undefined without warning for whitespace-only source', () => {
+      const warnings: string[] = [];
+      let called = false;
+      const provider = fakeProvider({
+        emitScopeCaptures: () => {
+          called = true;
+          throw new Error('should not inspect empty source');
+        },
+      });
+
+      for (const src of ['', ' \n\t']) {
+        const result = extractParsedFile(provider, src, 'pkg/__init__.py', (msg) => {
+          warnings.push(msg);
+        });
+        expect(result).toBeUndefined();
+      }
+
+      expect(called).toBe(false);
+      expect(warnings).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
     it('threads emitScopeCaptures output through ScopeExtractor', () => {
       const provider = fakeProvider({
         emitScopeCaptures: () => [moduleScopeMatch()],
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/python/python-fixtures.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/python/python-fixtures.test.ts
index 06bf98280..a4b14d53c 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/python/python-fixtures.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/python/python-fixtures.test.ts
@@ -56,15 +56,23 @@ function findDef(file: ParsedFile, name: string) {
 
 describe('Python scopes — module / class / function', () => {
   it('case 01: minimal module produces a single Module scope', () => {
-    // Empty source produces a zero-range module node; the central
-    // extractor treats zero-range scopes as malformed (and rightly so —
-    // they collide with sibling-overlap detection on subsequent reparses).
-    // Real Python files always have at least a newline.
     const f = parse('pass\n');
     expect(f.scopes).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(f.scopes[0]!.kind).toBe('Module');
   });
 
+  it('case 01a: empty and whitespace-only files are skipped without warnings', () => {
+    for (const src of ['', ' \n\t']) {
+      const warnings: string[] = [];
+      const parsed = extractParsedFile(pythonProvider, src, 'pkg/__init__.py', (msg) => {
+        warnings.push(msg);
+      });
+
+      expect(parsed).toBeUndefined();
+      expect(warnings).toEqual([]);
+    }
+  });
+
   it('case 01b: large cache-miss files use the adaptive tree-sitter buffer', () => {
     const padding = 'x'.repeat(600 * 1024);
     const f = parse(`# ${padding}\ndef after_padding():\n    return 1\n`);