diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9e71da6..b6b75ba 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   into fresh packages showed 4 changed files in the footer and on the session
   card, while the Review tab listed all of them. The count now asks git for
   every untracked file; the line totals were already right.
+- **Merging a pull request now clears its badge everywhere, at once.** The
+  footer, the session cards and the sidebar's "Pull request" entry only looked
+  the pull request up again when the checkout's HEAD moved, or when the window
+  lost focus and got it back — and a merge does neither, since the commit lands
+  on the base branch, on the remote. Merging from the Pulls screen emptied that
+  screen while every badge around it went on reading `#N Open` until you clicked
+  away to another window and back. Merging, opening a pull request and the
+  header's reload button now retire the shared answer and re-read it.
 - **A model newer than your lich no longer reads its context window as 200k.**
   Opus 5 sessions showed five times their real usage in the footer, because the
   window came from a table of the 1M models and anything missing from it fell
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/pulls/Pulls.tsx b/frontend/src/components/pulls/Pulls.tsx
index 704a9de..f245c2e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/pulls/Pulls.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/pulls/Pulls.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { Notice } from "@/components/common/Notice"
 import { closePulls } from "@/lib/pulls-card-store"
 import { activeTarget, sessionsOf } from "@/lib/session/sessions"
 import { useGitStatus } from "@/lib/git/use-git-status"
+import { invalidatePullRequests } from "@/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup"
 import { usePullRequestDetail } from "@/lib/pulls/use-pull-request-detail"
 import { useInject } from "@/lib/use-inject"
 import { cn, errorText } from "@/lib/utils"
@@ -68,6 +69,15 @@ export function Pulls() {
   const { detail, loading, error, refresh } = usePullRequestDetail(path, branch, head)
   const inject = useInject(sessionId)
 
+  // This screen and the badges around it read the same pull request through two
+  // separate lookups, so a change with HEAD standing still — a merge, a PR
+  // opened, whatever the reload button was pressed for — has to retire both.
+  // The check poll and the focus re-read stay this screen's own.
+  const reload = () => {
+    invalidatePullRequests()
+    refresh()
+  }
+
   // A merged branch leaves its checkout behind — the one cleanup the user would
   // otherwise walk back to the sidebar for. Refuse a dirty worktree: whatever
   // was never committed lives only there, and the sidebar's flow is the one that
@@ -97,7 +107,7 @@ export function Pulls() {
   }
 
   const onMerged = () => {
-    refresh()
+    reload()
     const merged = `Merged #${detail?.number} into ${detail?.baseRefName}`
     // Only a worktree checkout has something to clean up; the project's own
     // directory stays where it is.
@@ -122,7 +132,7 @@ export function Pulls() {
         path={path}
         head={head}
         detail={detail}
-        onRefresh={refresh}
+        onRefresh={reload}
         onMerged={onMerged}
         onInject={inject}
       />
@@ -130,7 +140,7 @@ export function Pulls() {
   } else if (loading) {
     body = <PullSkeleton />
   } else {
-    body = <EmptyState path={path} branch={branch} onOpened={refresh} />
+    body = <EmptyState path={path} branch={branch} onOpened={reload} />
   }
 
   return <div className="absolute inset-0 z-10 flex flex-col bg-background">{body}</div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.test.ts
index 192f46d..bce5ff2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest"
-import { lookupPullRequest } from "./pull-request-lookup"
+import {
+  invalidatePullRequests,
+  lookupPullRequest,
+  onPullRequestInvalidated,
+} from "./pull-request-lookup"
 
 // The RPC is the boundary here; stub it so the test asserts how many gh calls
 // the lookup actually makes. Each test uses its own checkout path, so the
@@ -70,6 +74,24 @@ describe("pull-request-lookup", () => {
     expect(pullRequest).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
   })
 
+  // Merging moves no HEAD and changes no branch, so an invalidation is the only
+  // thing that can retire the answer the badge is still showing.
+  it("asks gh again after an invalidation, inside the share window", async () => {
+    await lookupPullRequest("/g", "main", "sha1")
+    invalidatePullRequests()
+    await lookupPullRequest("/g", "main", "sha1")
+    expect(pullRequest).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+  })
+
+  it("notifies subscribers until they unsubscribe", () => {
+    const reload = vi.fn()
+    const unsubscribe = onPullRequestInvalidated(reload)
+    invalidatePullRequests()
+    unsubscribe()
+    invalidatePullRequests()
+    expect(reload).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
   it("resolves a failed lookup to no pull request", async () => {
     pullRequest.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("gh: not found"))
     await expect(lookupPullRequest("/e", "main", "sha1")).resolves.toBeNull()
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.ts b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.ts
index 1be4b06..cc7efa0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/pull-request-lookup.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,34 @@ interface Shared {
 
 const shared = new Map<string, Shared>()
 
+const listeners = new Set<() => void>()
+
+// onPullRequestInvalidated registers a badge's re-read, returning its
+// unsubscribe. Every badge of every checkout is called, not just the one that
+// changed: a merge is a rare, deliberate action, and the callers of one
+// checkout still collapse into a single gh call. Key the listeners by path if
+// that ever stops being cheap enough.
+export function onPullRequestInvalidated(reload: () => void): () => void {
+  listeners.add(reload)
+  return () => {
+    listeners.delete(reload)
+  }
+}
+
+// invalidatePullRequests drops every shared answer and asks the badges to look
+// up again — for a change only lich itself can announce. Merging does not move
+// the checkout's HEAD (the commit lands on the base branch, on the remote), so
+// without this the footer, the session cards and the sidebar's pull request
+// entry keep reading "Open" until the window loses focus and gets it back.
+// Clearing the map matters as much as the notify: a re-read inside the share
+// window would otherwise replay the pre-merge answer.
+export function invalidatePullRequests(): void {
+  shared.clear()
+  for (const reload of listeners) {
+    reload()
+  }
+}
+
 // lookupPullRequest resolves a checkout's open PR, sharing one gh call across
 // every caller asking about the same checkout+branch+commit at the same time.
 // It never rejects: a failed lookup (no gh, not a GitHub repo) reads as "no
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/use-pull-request.ts b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/use-pull-request.ts
index 13494a3..c966537 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/pulls/use-pull-request.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/pulls/use-pull-request.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react"
-import { lookupPullRequest } from "./pull-request-lookup"
+import { lookupPullRequest, onPullRequestInvalidated } from "./pull-request-lookup"
 import type { PullRequest } from "@/lib/api-types"
 
 export type { PullRequest }
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ export type { PullRequest }
 // round-trip — but it refetches whenever the checkout's HEAD moves, so a PR the
 // session just opened (or a merge that closed one) reaches the badge without
 // waiting for a window focus. It also refetches on focus, for a PR opened or
-// merged in the browser. Callers asking about the same checkout share one gh
-// call (pull-request-lookup). Returns null while loading, on any error, or when
-// the branch has no open PR (a merged or closed one is filtered server-side),
-// so the caller hides the badge.
+// merged in the browser, and on invalidatePullRequests, for a merge landed from
+// the Pulls screen — which moves no HEAD at all. Callers asking about the same
+// checkout share one gh call (pull-request-lookup). Returns null while loading,
+// on any error, or when the branch has no open PR (a merged or closed one is
+// filtered server-side), so the caller hides the badge.
 export function usePullRequest(path: string, branch: string, head: string): PullRequest | null {
   const [pr, setPr] = useState<PullRequest | null>(null)
 
@@ -35,9 +36,11 @@ export function usePullRequest(path: string, branch: string, head: string): Pull
     }
     load()
     window.addEventListener("focus", load)
+    const unsubscribe = onPullRequestInvalidated(load)
     return () => {
       alive = false
       window.removeEventListener("focus", load)
+      unsubscribe()
     }
   }, [path, branch, head])