diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4eecd9e2..c9fccae0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 
 All notable changes to the Toolpath workspace are documented here.
 
+## toolpath-claude 0.13.1 — 2026-08-25
+
+- **Fix:** `.orphaned-*` rotation artifacts are no longer classified as
+  chain successors. Their mangled stems made every entry read as a
+  bridge entry, silently dropping the whole segment's turns and token
+  usage from the merged conversation (#236). Dotted stems are now
+  classified standalone — and deliberately excluded from
+  `list_conversations`, because a derived document id truncates the stem
+  to 8 characters, which for an orphan equals its parent session's
+  prefix and would collide in the cache. Ingesting orphans arrives with
+  the full-stem id work. `read_segment` reads them directly today.
+- **Fix:** bridge-entry filtering in `read_conversation` now skips only
+  the *leading* bridge run of a successor segment — the copied
+  predecessor tail — instead of every entry with a foreign `sessionId`.
+  A foreign id deeper in a segment is data and is kept.
+
 ## toolpath-claude 0.13.0 — 2026-08-23
 
 - **Breaking:** `Conversation.segment_ids` replaces `Conversation.session_ids`.
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 77131a28..dc1a45bd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4226,7 +4226,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "toolpath-claude"
-version = "0.13.0"
+version = "0.13.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "chrono",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5944d9e9..9094b238 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 toolpath = { version = "0.7.1", path = "crates/toolpath" }
 toolpath-convo = { version = "0.11.1", path = "crates/toolpath-convo" }
 toolpath-git = { version = "0.6.0", path = "crates/toolpath-git" }
-toolpath-claude = { version = "0.13.0", path = "crates/toolpath-claude", default-features = false }
+toolpath-claude = { version = "0.13.1", path = "crates/toolpath-claude", default-features = false }
 toolpath-gemini = { version = "0.6.1", path = "crates/toolpath-gemini", default-features = false }
 toolpath-codex = { version = "0.6.1", path = "crates/toolpath-codex" }
 toolpath-copilot = { version = "0.1.0", path = "crates/toolpath-copilot" }
diff --git a/crates/toolpath-claude/Cargo.toml b/crates/toolpath-claude/Cargo.toml
index a0aaf7ab..e49e3345 100644
--- a/crates/toolpath-claude/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/toolpath-claude/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "toolpath-claude"
-version = "0.13.0"
+version = "0.13.1"
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 repository = "https://github.com/empathic/toolpath"
diff --git a/crates/toolpath-claude/src/chain.rs b/crates/toolpath-claude/src/chain.rs
index 5854668e..62fa806b 100644
--- a/crates/toolpath-claude/src/chain.rs
+++ b/crates/toolpath-claude/src/chain.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,19 @@ impl ChainIndex {
             }
             self.known_files.insert(file_stem.clone());
 
+            // Rotation artifacts (`<uuid>.orphaned-<ts>-<hash>`) open with a
+            // foreign-looking `sessionId` — their entries' own uuid, which the
+            // mangled stem no longer equals — so the old classifier chained
+            // them in as successors, whereupon every entry of the segment read
+            // as a bridge entry and the whole segment (turns, usage) silently
+            // vanished from the merged conversation. A session stem never
+            // contains a dot; anything dotted is classified standalone here
+            // and excluded from chain_heads() below.
+            if file_stem.contains('.') {
+                self.non_successors.insert(file_stem.clone());
+                continue;
+            }
+
             let path = resolver.conversation_file(project_path, file_stem)?;
             if let Some(first_sid) = ConversationReader::read_first_session_id(&path) {
                 if first_sid != *file_stem {
@@ -129,10 +142,17 @@ impl ChainIndex {
     }
 
     /// All chain heads — file stems that are not successors of another.
+    ///
+    /// Dotted stems (`.orphaned-*` rotation artifacts) are excluded even
+    /// though they stand outside every chain: a head becomes a derived
+    /// document whose id truncates the stem to its first 8 characters,
+    /// which for an orphan equals its parent session's prefix — the two
+    /// documents would overwrite each other in the cache. Until ids can
+    /// carry the full stem, orphans are neither chained nor listed.
     pub(crate) fn chain_heads(&self) -> Vec<String> {
         self.known_files
             .iter()
-            .filter(|stem| !self.reverse.contains_key(stem.as_str()))
+            .filter(|stem| !self.reverse.contains_key(stem.as_str()) && !stem.contains('.'))
             .cloned()
             .collect()
     }
@@ -382,6 +402,41 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(!is_bridge_entry(&entry, "session-a"));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_orphaned_stem_is_not_a_successor() {
+        let (_temp, resolver) = setup_chain_env();
+
+        write_session(
+            &resolver,
+            "session-a",
+            &[
+                r#"{"type":"user","uuid":"u1","timestamp":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","sessionId":"session-a","message":{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}}"#,
+            ],
+        );
+
+        // A rotation artifact: mangled stem, every entry carrying the
+        // original session's id. Must never be chained onto session-a.
+        write_session(
+            &resolver,
+            "session-a.orphaned-1787626221622-ac84712d",
+            &[
+                r#"{"type":"user","uuid":"u2","timestamp":"2024-01-01T02:00:00Z","sessionId":"session-a","message":{"role":"user","content":"Orphaned"}}"#,
+            ],
+        );
+
+        let mut index = ChainIndex::new();
+        index.refresh(&resolver, "/test/project").unwrap();
+
+        assert!(index.successor_of("session-a").is_none());
+        assert!(!index.is_successor("session-a.orphaned-1787626221622-ac84712d"));
+
+        // And it is not a listable head either: its derived id would
+        // truncate to the parent session's prefix and collide in the cache.
+        let heads = index.chain_heads();
+        assert!(heads.contains(&"session-a".to_string()));
+        assert!(!heads.iter().any(|h| h.contains(".orphaned-")));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_is_bridge_entry_no_session_id() {
         let entry: ConversationEntry = serde_json::from_str(
diff --git a/crates/toolpath-claude/src/lib.rs b/crates/toolpath-claude/src/lib.rs
index a3ae20d9..9078da95 100644
--- a/crates/toolpath-claude/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/toolpath-claude/src/lib.rs
@@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ impl ClaudeConvo {
                 merged.project_path = convo.project_path.clone();
             }
 
+            // Bridge entries are the predecessor's tail copied to the TOP of
+            // a successor file — skip only that leading run. A foreign
+            // `sessionId` deeper in the segment is data, not a bridge; the
+            // old every-entry filter could erase a whole segment's turns and
+            // usage when all its entries carried one (the `.orphaned-*`
+            // failure shape).
+            let mut past_bridge = false;
             for entry in &convo.entries {
-                if chain::is_bridge_entry(entry, segment_id) {
+                if !past_bridge && chain::is_bridge_entry(entry, segment_id) {
                     continue;
                 }
+                past_bridge = true;
                 merged.add_entry(entry.clone());
             }
         }
@@ -716,6 +724,39 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(convo_c.entries.len(), 3);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_bridge_skip_is_leading_run_only() {
+        // A foreign sessionId deeper in a segment is data, not a bridge —
+        // resumed sessions can interleave entries stamped with a prior id.
+        // Only the leading run at the top of a successor file is the copied
+        // predecessor tail.
+        let temp = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        let claude_dir = temp.path().join(".claude");
+        let project_dir = claude_dir.join("projects/-test-project");
+        fs::create_dir_all(&project_dir).unwrap();
+
+        fs::write(
+            project_dir.join("session-a.jsonl"),
+            r#"{"uuid":"a1","type":"user","timestamp":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","sessionId":"session-a","message":{"role":"user","content":"Start"}}"#,
+        ).unwrap();
+        let b = [
+            r#"{"uuid":"b0","type":"user","timestamp":"2024-01-01T01:00:00Z","sessionId":"session-a","message":{"role":"user","content":"Bridge"}}"#,
+            r#"{"uuid":"b1","type":"user","timestamp":"2024-01-01T01:00:01Z","sessionId":"session-b","message":{"role":"user","content":"Own"}}"#,
+            r#"{"uuid":"b2","type":"user","timestamp":"2024-01-01T01:00:02Z","sessionId":"session-a","message":{"role":"user","content":"Foreign but kept"}}"#,
+        ];
+        fs::write(project_dir.join("session-b.jsonl"), b.join("\n")).unwrap();
+
+        let resolver = PathResolver::new().with_claude_dir(claude_dir);
+        let manager = ClaudeConvo::with_resolver(resolver);
+        let convo = manager
+            .read_conversation("/test/project", "session-a")
+            .unwrap();
+
+        // b0 (leading bridge) filtered; b2 (mid-segment foreign id) kept.
+        let uuids: Vec<&str> = convo.entries.iter().map(|e| e.uuid.as_str()).collect();
+        assert_eq!(uuids, vec!["a1", "b1", "b2"]);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_list_conversations_returns_chain_heads() {
         let (_temp, manager) = setup_chained_conversations();
diff --git a/site/_data/crates.json b/site/_data/crates.json
index 489fdd57..47cbf2ef 100644
--- a/site/_data/crates.json
+++ b/site/_data/crates.json
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "toolpath-claude",
-    "version": "0.13.0",
+    "version": "0.13.1",
     "description": "Derive from Claude conversation logs",
     "docs": "https://docs.rs/toolpath-claude",
     "crate": "https://crates.io/crates/toolpath-claude",