diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-config.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-config.ts
index 4657e275e..4776d897e 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-config.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/language-config.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import fs from 'fs/promises';
+import { createReadStream } from 'fs';
+import { createInterface } from 'readline';
 import path from 'path';
 import type { ImportConfigs } from './import-resolvers/types.js';
-import type { CsharpFileStructure } from './languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.js';
+import type { CsharpStructureLineScanner } from './languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.js';
 
 import { isDev } from './utils/env.js';
 import { getMaxFileSizeBytes } from './utils/max-file-size.js';
@@ -203,14 +205,14 @@ const CSHARP_ROOT_NAMESPACE_RE = /<RootNamespace>\s*([^<]+)\s*<\/RootNamespace>/
 // with phantom namespaces. Imported lazily (and memoized) so the always-on
 // `loadImportConfigs` path — every repo, every language — doesn't eagerly
 // pull tree-sitter-c-sharp in via `namespace-siblings.ts` → `query.ts`.
-let csharpScannerPromise: Promise<(content: string) => CsharpFileStructure> | undefined;
-function getCsharpStructureScanner(): Promise<(content: string) => CsharpFileStructure> {
-  if (csharpScannerPromise === undefined) {
-    csharpScannerPromise = import('./languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.js').then(
-      (mod) => mod.extractCsharpStructureViaScanner,
+let csharpScannerFactoryPromise: Promise<() => CsharpStructureLineScanner> | undefined;
+function getCsharpStructureScannerFactory(): Promise<() => CsharpStructureLineScanner> {
+  if (csharpScannerFactoryPromise === undefined) {
+    csharpScannerFactoryPromise = import('./languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.js').then(
+      (mod) => mod.createCsharpStructureScanner,
     );
   }
-  return csharpScannerPromise;
+  return csharpScannerFactoryPromise;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -298,29 +300,25 @@ export async function scanCSharpProject(repoRoot: string): Promise<CSharpProject
       const batch = csNames.slice(i, i + CSHARP_SCAN_READ_CONCURRENCY);
       const settled = await Promise.allSettled(
         batch.map((name) =>
-          collectDeclaredNamespaces(
-            path.join(dir, name),
-            declaredNamespaces,
-            rootNamespaces,
-            maxFileSizeBytes,
-          ),
+          collectDeclaredNamespaces(path.join(dir, name), declaredNamespaces, rootNamespaces),
         ),
       );
-      // A `.cs` that was skipped (oversized), unreadable, or whose read/scan
-      // unexpectedly rejected leaves its namespaces uncollected → mark truncated
-      // to fail the #1881 gate OPEN rather than wrongly suppress an import.
+      // A `.cs` that was unreadable (or whose read/scan unexpectedly rejected)
+      // leaves its namespaces uncollected → mark truncated to fail the #1881
+      // gate OPEN rather than wrongly suppress an import. The scan streams each
+      // file, so file size no longer trips truncation.
       for (const r of settled) {
-        if (r.status !== 'fulfilled' || r.value) truncated = true;
+        if (r.status !== 'fulfilled' || r.value === 'truncated') truncated = true;
       }
     }
   }
 
   if (truncated) {
-    // Surface the fail-open so a too-small cap (or an unreadable subtree)
-    // silently disabling the #1881 gate repo-wide is observable (#4) rather
-    // than a mystery edge regression.
+    // Surface the fail-open so an incomplete scan (dir/depth cap, or an
+    // unreadable directory or `.cs` file) silently disabling the #1881 gate
+    // repo-wide is observable (#4) rather than a mystery edge regression.
     logger.warn(
-      `[csharp] namespace scan of ${repoRoot} truncated (dir cap ${CSHARP_SCAN_MAX_DIRS}, depth cap ${CSHARP_SCAN_MAX_DEPTH}, or an unreadable directory); the #1881 suffix-fallback gate fails open for unmatched usings`,
+      `[csharp] namespace scan of ${repoRoot} truncated (dir cap ${CSHARP_SCAN_MAX_DIRS}, depth cap ${CSHARP_SCAN_MAX_DEPTH}, an unreadable directory, or an unreadable .cs file); the #1881 suffix-fallback gate fails open for unmatched usings`,
     );
   }
   return { configs, declaredNamespaces, rootNamespaces, truncated };
@@ -352,36 +350,47 @@ async function readCsprojConfig(
 }
 
 /**
- * Collect declared `namespace` names from one `.cs` file into the shared Sets.
+ * Stream one `.cs` file line-by-line and collect its declared `namespace` names
+ * into the shared Sets.
  *
- * Returns `true` when the file was skipped (oversized) or could not be read, so
- * the caller can mark the scan truncated — its namespaces are missing, and the
- * #1881 gate must fail OPEN rather than wrongly suppress an import declared in
- * the unread file. Returns `false` on a successful read.
+ * Streaming (rather than reading the whole file into a string) keeps memory
+ * constant regardless of file size, so a large generated `.cs` (`*.g.cs`, EF /
+ * gRPC output) is fully scanned instead of skipped by a per-file size cap —
+ * which would otherwise trip `truncated` and disable the #1881 gate repo-wide.
+ * Only the cheap line scan streams here; the tree-sitter PARSE path keeps its
+ * own size cap.
+ *
+ * Returns `'truncated'` when the file could not be read, so the caller marks the
+ * scan truncated and the #1881 gate fails OPEN rather than wrongly suppress an
+ * import declared in the unread file. Returns `'ok'` on a complete read.
  */
 async function collectDeclaredNamespaces(
   filePath: string,
   declaredNamespaces: Set<string>,
   rootNamespaces: Set<string>,
-  maxFileSizeBytes: number,
-): Promise<boolean> {
-  let content: string;
+): Promise<'ok' | 'truncated'> {
+  const createScanner = await getCsharpStructureScannerFactory();
+  const scanner = createScanner();
   try {
-    const stat = await fs.stat(filePath);
-    if (stat.size > maxFileSizeBytes) {
-      return true; // oversized source → skip unread, signal truncation
+    // `crlfDelay: Infinity` treats every `\r\n` as a single break; the line
+    // scanner is terminator-agnostic, so a streamed scan yields the same
+    // namespaces as scanning the whole file content at once.
+    const lines = createInterface({
+      input: createReadStream(filePath, { encoding: 'utf-8' }),
+      crlfDelay: Infinity,
+    });
+    for await (const line of lines) {
+      scanner.pushLine(line);
     }
-    content = await fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf-8');
   } catch {
-    return true; // unreadable source → signal truncation (was a silent skip)
+    return 'truncated'; // unreadable source → signal truncation (fail open)
   }
-  const scan = await getCsharpStructureScanner();
-  for (const ns of scan(content).namespaces) {
+  for (const ns of scanner.result().namespaces) {
     declaredNamespaces.add(ns);
     const dot = ns.indexOf('.');
     rootNamespaces.add(dot === -1 ? ns : ns.slice(0, dot));
   }
-  return false;
+  return 'ok';
 }
 
 export async function loadSwiftPackageConfig(repoRoot: string): Promise<SwiftPackageConfig | null> {
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.ts
index f4d29d7e7..fdf79a4de 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/languages/csharp/namespace-siblings.ts
@@ -182,26 +182,51 @@ function advanceCsScanState(
  *  AST is a declaration whose keyword is not at the start of a code line
  *  (split across lines, or sharing a line with a comment/string closer).
  *  Mirrors PHP's `extractNamespaceViaScanner` (issue #1741). */
-export function extractCsharpStructureViaScanner(content: string): CsharpFileStructure {
+/** Incremental form of {@link extractCsharpStructureViaScanner}: feed lines one
+ *  at a time via `pushLine` (in source order), then read the accumulated
+ *  structure with `result()`. Lets a caller stream a file off disk
+ *  (`createReadStream` + `readline`) and scan it for `namespace` / `using
+ *  static` declarations in CONSTANT memory rather than buffering the whole file
+ *  into a string — the line splitting and per-line matching are identical, so a
+ *  streamed scan yields the same result as scanning the full content. The line
+ *  terminator must be stripped (as `readline` does, or `String.split('\n')`); a
+ *  trailing `\r` on a CRLF line is inert to both the matchers and the lexer. */
+export interface CsharpStructureLineScanner {
+  pushLine(line: string): void;
+  result(): CsharpFileStructure;
+}
+
+/** Create a fresh stateful line scanner — see {@link CsharpStructureLineScanner}. */
+export function createCsharpStructureScanner(): CsharpStructureLineScanner {
   const namespaces: string[] = [];
   const usingStaticPaths: string[] = [];
   let state: CsScanState = 'code';
   let rawFence = 0;
-  for (const line of content.split('\n')) {
-    // Only match when the line START is real code — keywords reached while
-    // inside a block comment / multi-line string are skipped.
-    if (state === 'code') {
-      const ns = CS_NAMESPACE_RE.exec(line);
-      if (ns !== null) {
-        namespaces.push(ns[1]!);
-      } else {
-        const us = CS_USING_STATIC_RE.exec(line);
-        if (us !== null) usingStaticPaths.push(us[1]!);
+  return {
+    pushLine(line: string): void {
+      // Only match when the line START is real code — keywords reached while
+      // inside a block comment / multi-line string are skipped.
+      if (state === 'code') {
+        const ns = CS_NAMESPACE_RE.exec(line);
+        if (ns !== null) {
+          namespaces.push(ns[1]!);
+        } else {
+          const us = CS_USING_STATIC_RE.exec(line);
+          if (us !== null) usingStaticPaths.push(us[1]!);
+        }
       }
-    }
-    [state, rawFence] = advanceCsScanState(line, state, rawFence);
-  }
-  return { namespaces, usingStaticPaths };
+      [state, rawFence] = advanceCsScanState(line, state, rawFence);
+    },
+    result(): CsharpFileStructure {
+      return { namespaces, usingStaticPaths };
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+export function extractCsharpStructureViaScanner(content: string): CsharpFileStructure {
+  const scanner = createCsharpStructureScanner();
+  for (const line of content.split('\n')) scanner.pushLine(line);
+  return scanner.result();
 }
 
 /** Build a structural view of a C# file. Prefers `cachedTree` (handed in
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/csharp/csharp-imports.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/csharp/csharp-imports.test.ts
index 552f61888..361bb663b 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/csharp/csharp-imports.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/scope-resolution/csharp/csharp-imports.test.ts
@@ -609,24 +609,27 @@ describe('loadCsharpResolutionConfig — one-pass namespace scan (#1881)', () =>
     }
   });
 
-  it('skips an oversized .cs file and fails open via truncation (#1881)', async () => {
-    // A .cs file larger than the per-file size cap is skipped unread so the
-    // always-on scan can't pull an unbounded buffer into memory. Its namespace
-    // is then missing, so `truncated` trips and the gate fails OPEN rather than
-    // wrongly suppress an import declared there. Sized to the real cap — do NOT
-    // lower the production cap for the test.
+  it('streams a large .cs file end-to-end, collecting namespaces past the old size cap (#1881)', async () => {
+    // The namespace scan streams each file, so a `.cs` far larger than the old
+    // per-file size cap is read end-to-end in constant memory instead of being
+    // skipped. A namespace at the START and one at the very END (well past the
+    // old cap boundary) must BOTH be collected, and `truncated` must stay false
+    // — a big generated file no longer disables the #1881 gate repo-wide.
     const cap = getMaxFileSizeBytes();
-    const oversized = `namespace Deep.Ns;\n${'// pad\n'.repeat(Math.ceil(cap / 7) + 1)}`;
+    const padLine = '// pad pad pad pad pad pad\n';
+    const padding = padLine.repeat(Math.ceil((cap * 3) / padLine.length));
+    const huge = `namespace Generated.Head;\n${padding}namespace Generated.Tail { }\n`;
     const root = await makeTempRepo({
-      'Shallow.cs': 'namespace Shallow.Ns;',
-      'Huge.cs': oversized,
+      'Hand.cs': 'namespace Hand.Written;',
+      'Generated.cs': huge,
     });
     try {
       const config = await loadCsharpResolutionConfig(root);
       const ns = config.namespaces!;
-      expect(ns.truncated).toBe(true);
-      expect(ns.declaredNamespaces!.has('Shallow.Ns')).toBe(true);
-      expect(ns.declaredNamespaces!.has('Deep.Ns')).toBe(false);
+      expect(ns.truncated).toBe(false);
+      expect(ns.declaredNamespaces!.has('Hand.Written')).toBe(true);
+      expect(ns.declaredNamespaces!.has('Generated.Head')).toBe(true);
+      expect(ns.declaredNamespaces!.has('Generated.Tail')).toBe(true);
     } finally {
       await fsp.rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
     }