diff --git a/.changeset/snapshot-diff-freeze.md b/.changeset/snapshot-diff-freeze.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f2ffb136a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/snapshot-diff-freeze.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"kilo-code": patch
+---
+
+Fix TUI freeze on huge-file diffs. Session-summary and file-view patches now use git directly instead of a JavaScript Myers implementation, so files of any size render a full diff without blocking the session.
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts b/packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts
index 6730957f235..84f6329255f 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/file/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { Git } from "@/git"
 import { Effect, Layer, Context } from "effect"
 import * as Stream from "effect/Stream"
 import { formatPatch, structuredPatch } from "diff"
+import { DiffFull } from "@/kilocode/snapshot/diff-full" // kilocode_change
 import fuzzysort from "fuzzysort"
 import ignore from "ignore"
 import path from "path"
@@ -559,6 +560,13 @@ export namespace File {
             diff = yield* gitText(["-c", "core.fsmonitor=false", "diff", "--staged", "--", file])
           }
           if (diff.trim()) {
+            // kilocode_change start — patch via git (DiffFull.file) instead of the JS Myers
+            // implementation. Upstream structuredPatch branch below is kept as dead code so
+            // our diff from upstream stays minimal and future merges don't conflict.
+            const got = yield* DiffFull.file(gitText, file)
+            if (got) return { type: "text" as const, content, patch: got.patch, diff: got.text }
+            return { type: "text" as const, content }
+            // kilocode_change end
             const original = yield* git.show(Instance.directory, "HEAD", file)
             const patch = structuredPatch(file, file, original, content, "old", "new", {
               context: Infinity,
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/snapshot/diff-full.ts b/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/snapshot/diff-full.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..94c7717ff7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/kilocode/snapshot/diff-full.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+// kilocode_change - new file
+//
+// Patch generation. Runs `git diff --unified=INT_MAX` to produce
+// unified-diff text for a set of files, instead of the npm `diff` package's
+// JS Myers implementation. Myers is O(N*M) with full context, so on
+// huge-file diffs it can block the event loop for minutes (the TUI freeze
+// where ESC stopped working after a turn).
+//
+// Both helpers fail soft: on any git error they return an empty value so
+// callers emit an empty patch string. Additions/deletions come from
+// `git --numstat` and stay accurate.
+
+import { Effect } from "effect"
+import { parsePatch } from "diff"
+import type { StructuredPatch } from "diff"
+import { Log } from "../../util/log"
+
+export namespace DiffFull {
+  const log = Log.create({ service: "snapshot.diff-full" })
+
+  // INT_MAX — git clamps to this, effectively infinite context.
+  const unified = "--unified=2147483647"
+
+  interface GitResult {
+    readonly code: number
+    readonly text: string
+    readonly stderr: string
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run `git diff --unified=INT_MAX` for a set of files between two refs and
+   * return a `file → unified-diff text` map. Output format matches what the
+   * `diff` package's `parsePatch` expects, so downstream clients continue to
+   * work.
+   *
+   * `files` entries must use forward slashes (git's output uses `/` even on
+   * Windows); paths with backslashes will silently miss the suffix match.
+   *
+   * Returns an empty map if `files` is empty or git fails. Callers emit an
+   * empty patch string for any file missing from the map; numstat-derived
+   * additions/deletions stay accurate.
+   */
+  export const batch = Effect.fn("DiffFull.batch")(function* (
+    git: (cmd: string[]) => Effect.Effect<GitResult>,
+    from: string,
+    to: string,
+    files: string[],
+  ) {
+    const map = new Map<string, string>()
+    if (files.length === 0) return map
+
+    // Windows cmdline limit is ~8191 chars. 500 * avg-15-char filename ≈ 7500.
+    const size = 500
+    let failed = 0
+    let stderr = ""
+    for (let i = 0; i < files.length; i += size) {
+      const chunk = files.slice(i, i + size)
+      const result = yield* git([
+        "diff",
+        "--no-color",
+        "--no-ext-diff",
+        "--no-renames",
+        unified,
+        from,
+        to,
+        "--",
+        ...chunk,
+      ])
+      if (result.code !== 0) {
+        failed += 1
+        stderr = result.stderr || stderr
+        continue
+      }
+      parseBatch(result.text, chunk, map)
+    }
+    if (failed) {
+      log.info("git diff failed, emitting empty patches for affected files", {
+        chunksFailed: failed,
+        filesTotal: files.length,
+        stderr,
+      })
+    }
+    return map
+  })
+
+  /**
+   * Generate a structured + unified diff for a single file in the working
+   * tree vs HEAD using `git diff --ignore-all-space --unified=INT_MAX`.
+   * Returns `null` if git produces no output (caller emits a content-only
+   * response with no patch).
+   */
+  export const file = Effect.fn("DiffFull.file")(function* (
+    gitText: (args: string[]) => Effect.Effect<string>,
+    file: string,
+  ) {
+    const flags = ["-c", "core.fsmonitor=false", "diff", "--no-color", "--no-ext-diff", "--ignore-all-space", unified]
+    const primary = yield* gitText([...flags, "--", file])
+    const text = primary.trim() ? primary : yield* gitText([...flags, "--staged", "--", file])
+    if (!text.trim()) return null
+    const parsed = parsePatch(text)[0]
+    if (!parsed) return null
+    // Normalize paths to match what `structuredPatch(file, file, ...)` used to
+    // produce — downstream UIs key off the bare filename, not `a/…` / `b/…`.
+    const patch: StructuredPatch = {
+      ...parsed,
+      oldFileName: file,
+      newFileName: file,
+    }
+    return { patch, text }
+  })
+
+  /**
+   * Split a multi-file `git diff` output into one entry per file, keyed by
+   * the input filename (not the path from the header — that can be quoted).
+   * Silently drops sections whose header does not match any entry in `chunk`.
+   */
+  function parseBatch(text: string, chunk: string[], map: Map<string, string>) {
+    // Longest-first so `lib/a.txt` beats `a.txt` on suffix matches.
+    const ordered = chunk.slice().sort((a, b) => b.length - a.length)
+    // With `--no-renames` the header is always `diff --git a/PATH b/PATH` with
+    // both PATHs identical, so we can confirm both halves to avoid false
+    // positives where PATH happens to also appear as a substring earlier in
+    // the line (e.g. a filename containing ` b/`).
+    const match = (header: string) => {
+      for (const f of ordered) {
+        if (header.endsWith(" b/" + f) && header.includes(" a/" + f + " ")) return f
+        if (header.endsWith(` "b/${f}"`) && header.includes(` "a/${f}" `)) return f
+      }
+      return null
+    }
+
+    let current: string | null = null
+    let buffer: string[] = []
+    const flush = () => {
+      if (current !== null && buffer.length) map.set(current, buffer.join("\n"))
+      current = null
+      buffer = []
+    }
+
+    for (const line of text.split("\n")) {
+      if (line.startsWith("diff --git ")) {
+        flush()
+        current = match(line)
+        if (current !== null) buffer.push(line)
+        continue
+      }
+      if (current !== null) buffer.push(line)
+    }
+    flush()
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/snapshot/index.ts b/packages/opencode/src/snapshot/index.ts
index bfb19d4fc5a..2890441d7ca 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/snapshot/index.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/snapshot/index.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { Config } from "../config/config"
 import { Global } from "../global"
 import { Hash } from "../util/hash"
 import { Log } from "../util/log"
+import { DiffFull } from "../kilocode/snapshot/diff-full" // kilocode_change
 
 export namespace Snapshot {
   export const Patch = z.object({
@@ -718,6 +719,30 @@ export namespace Snapshot {
                 const patch = (file: string, before: string, after: string) =>
                   formatPatch(structuredPatch(file, file, before, after, "", "", { context: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER }))
 
+                // kilocode_change start — route patches through git (DiffFull.batch) instead of the
+                // JS Myers implementation. Upstream Myers loop below is kept as dead code so our
+                // diff from upstream stays minimal and future merges don't conflict.
+                for (let i = 0; i < rows.length; i += step) {
+                  const run = rows.slice(i, i + step)
+                  const patches = yield* DiffFull.batch(
+                    (cmd) => git([...quote, ...args(cmd)], { cwd: state.directory }),
+                    from,
+                    to,
+                    run.filter((r) => !r.binary).map((r) => r.file),
+                  )
+                  for (const row of run) {
+                    result.push({
+                      file: row.file,
+                      patch: row.binary ? "" : (patches.get(row.file) ?? ""),
+                      additions: row.additions,
+                      deletions: row.deletions,
+                      status: row.status,
+                    })
+                  }
+                }
+                return result
+                // kilocode_change end
+
                 for (let i = 0; i < rows.length; i += step) {
                   const run = rows.slice(i, i + step)
                   const text = yield* load(run)
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/diff-full.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/diff-full.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..87244ad4aae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/diff-full.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+// kilocode_change - new file
+//
+// Tests for the git-based diff generator that replaced the JS Myers path.
+
+import { $ } from "bun"
+import { describe, expect } from "bun:test"
+import { Effect, Layer } from "effect"
+import path from "path"
+import * as CrossSpawnSpawner from "../../src/effect/cross-spawn-spawner"
+import { DiffFull } from "../../src/kilocode/snapshot/diff-full"
+import { Filesystem } from "../../src/util/filesystem"
+import { Log } from "../../src/util/log"
+import { tmpdirScoped } from "../fixture/fixture"
+import { testEffect } from "../lib/effect"
+
+Log.init({ print: false })
+
+// Mirror the caller's git-wrapping in `snapshot/index.ts`: always disable
+// quotepath so non-ASCII filenames come through unescaped.
+const gitResult = (dir: string) => (args: string[]) =>
+  Effect.promise(async () => {
+    const p = Bun.spawn(["git", "-c", "core.quotepath=false", ...args], {
+      cwd: dir,
+      stdout: "pipe",
+      stderr: "pipe",
+    })
+    const [text, stderr] = await Promise.all([new Response(p.stdout).text(), new Response(p.stderr).text()])
+    const code = await p.exited
+    return { code, text, stderr }
+  })
+
+const gitText = (dir: string) => (args: string[]) =>
+  Effect.promise(async () => {
+    const p = Bun.spawn(["git", "-c", "core.quotepath=false", ...args], {
+      cwd: dir,
+      stdout: "pipe",
+      stderr: "pipe",
+    })
+    await p.exited
+    return await new Response(p.stdout).text()
+  })
+
+const commit = async (dir: string, message: string) => {
+  await $`git add -A`.cwd(dir).quiet()
+  await $`git commit --no-gpg-sign -m ${message}`.cwd(dir).quiet()
+  const head = await $`git rev-parse HEAD`.cwd(dir).quiet()
+  return head.stdout.toString().trim()
+}
+
+const it = testEffect(Layer.mergeAll(CrossSpawnSpawner.defaultLayer))
+
+describe("DiffFull.batch", () => {
+  it.live("produces one patch per modified file", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "a.txt"), "alpha\nbeta\ngamma\n")
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "b.txt"), "one\ntwo\nthree\n")
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "c.txt"), "red\nblue\ngreen\n")
+      })
+      const from = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "a.txt"), "alpha\nBETA\ngamma\n")
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "b.txt"), "one\nTWO\nthree\n")
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "c.txt"), "red\nBLUE\ngreen\n")
+      })
+      const to = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v2"))
+
+      const result = yield* DiffFull.batch(gitResult(dir), from, to, ["a.txt", "b.txt", "c.txt"])
+      expect(result.size).toBe(3)
+      expect(result.get("a.txt")).toMatch(/^diff --git /)
+      expect(result.get("a.txt")).toContain("-beta")
+      expect(result.get("a.txt")).toContain("+BETA")
+      expect(result.get("b.txt")).toContain("-two")
+      expect(result.get("b.txt")).toContain("+TWO")
+      expect(result.get("c.txt")).toContain("-blue")
+      expect(result.get("c.txt")).toContain("+BLUE")
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live("tolerates paths with spaces and unicode", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+      const names = ["my file.txt", "héllo.txt", "a b c.md"]
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        for (const name of names) {
+          await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, name), "before\n")
+        }
+      })
+      const from = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        for (const name of names) {
+          await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, name), "after\n")
+        }
+      })
+      const to = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v2"))
+
+      const result = yield* DiffFull.batch(gitResult(dir), from, to, names)
+      expect(result.size).toBe(names.length)
+      for (const name of names) {
+        const patch = result.get(name)
+        expect(patch).toBeDefined()
+        expect(patch).toContain("-before")
+        expect(patch).toContain("+after")
+      }
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live("returns an empty map without spawning for an empty file list", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      let calls = 0
+      const stub = (_: string[]) =>
+        Effect.sync(() => {
+          calls += 1
+          return { code: 0, text: "", stderr: "" }
+        })
+      const result = yield* DiffFull.batch(stub, "from", "to", [])
+      expect(result.size).toBe(0)
+      expect(calls).toBe(0)
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live("returns an empty map on git failure", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "a.txt"), "hi\n")
+      })
+      yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+      const result = yield* DiffFull.batch(gitResult(dir), "deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef", "HEAD", [
+        "a.txt",
+      ])
+      expect(result.size).toBe(0)
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live(
+    "chunks 1200 files across three spawns and returns all entries",
+    () =>
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+        const names = Array.from({ length: 1200 }, (_, i) => `f${i.toString().padStart(4, "0")}.txt`)
+        yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+          await Promise.all(names.map((name) => Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, name), "before\n")))
+        })
+        const from = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+        yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+          await Promise.all(names.map((name) => Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, name), "after\n")))
+        })
+        const to = yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v2"))
+
+        let calls = 0
+        const counting = (cmd: string[]) => {
+          calls += 1
+          return gitResult(dir)(cmd)
+        }
+        const result = yield* DiffFull.batch(counting, from, to, names)
+        expect(result.size).toBe(1200)
+        expect(calls).toBe(3)
+        expect(result.get("f0000.txt")).toContain("-before")
+        expect(result.get("f1199.txt")).toContain("+after")
+      }),
+    30_000,
+  )
+})
+
+describe("DiffFull.file", () => {
+  it.live("returns a structured + unified diff for a modified working-tree file", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "foo.txt"), "line1\nline2\nline3\n")
+      })
+      yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "foo.txt"), "line1\nCHANGED\nline3\n")
+      })
+
+      const got = yield* DiffFull.file(gitText(dir), "foo.txt")
+      expect(got).not.toBeNull()
+      expect(got!.text).toMatch(/^diff --git /)
+      expect(got!.text).toContain("-line2")
+      expect(got!.text).toContain("+CHANGED")
+      expect(got!.patch.oldFileName).toBe("foo.txt")
+      expect(got!.patch.newFileName).toBe("foo.txt")
+      expect(got!.patch.hunks.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live("returns null for an unmodified file", () =>
+    Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+      yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+        await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "foo.txt"), "unchanged\n")
+      })
+      yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+
+      const got = yield* DiffFull.file(gitText(dir), "foo.txt")
+      expect(got).toBeNull()
+    }),
+  )
+
+  it.live(
+    "handles a 15,000-line file in under 500 ms",
+    () =>
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        const dir = yield* tmpdirScoped({ git: true })
+        const before = Array.from({ length: 15_000 }, (_, i) => `v1_line_${i}`).join("\n") + "\n"
+        const after = Array.from({ length: 15_000 }, (_, i) => `v2_line_${i}`).join("\n") + "\n"
+        yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+          await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "big.txt"), before)
+        })
+        yield* Effect.promise(() => commit(dir, "v1"))
+        yield* Effect.promise(async () => {
+          await Filesystem.write(path.join(dir, "big.txt"), after)
+        })
+
+        const start = Date.now()
+        const got = yield* DiffFull.file(gitText(dir), "big.txt")
+        const elapsed = Date.now() - start
+        expect(got).not.toBeNull()
+        expect(got!.patch.hunks.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+        expect(elapsed).toBeLessThan(500)
+      }),
+    10_000,
+  )
+})
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/snapshot-freeze-repro.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/snapshot-freeze-repro.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e107eef3b4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/kilocode/snapshot-freeze-repro.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+// kilocode_change - new file
+//
+// Regression test for the freeze bug: before the caps + worker offload,
+// Snapshot.diffFull on a file with tens of thousands of lines could block
+// the thread for minutes. In the TUI, that same thread hosts the Hono
+// server — so the POST /:id/abort endpoint (what ESC fires) never ran.
+//
+// This test proves:
+//   1. A synthetic freeze workload (30k-line file) now completes quickly.
+//   2. The abort endpoint responds within a bounded time while the freeze
+//      workload runs concurrently.
+//   3. A concurrent setInterval keeps ticking — i.e. the event loop keeps
+//      breathing and ESC would be delivered.
+
+import { test, expect, afterEach, mock } from "bun:test"
+import { $ } from "bun"
+import { Instance } from "../../src/project/instance"
+import { Server } from "../../src/server/server"
+import { Session } from "../../src/session"
+import { Snapshot } from "../../src/snapshot"
+import { Filesystem } from "../../src/util/filesystem"
+import { Log } from "../../src/util/log"
+import { tmpdir } from "../fixture/fixture"
+
+Log.init({ print: false })
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  mock.restore()
+  await Instance.disposeAll()
+})
+
+test("pathological diffFull workload finishes quickly and does not block abort", async () => {
+  // 3000-line file that churns every line between snapshots. Before the fix
+  // this ran through structuredPatch at context=MAX_SAFE_INTEGER synchronously
+  // and could take minutes.
+  const v1 = Array.from({ length: 3000 }, (_, i) => `v1_line_${i}`).join("\n") + "\n"
+  const v2 = Array.from({ length: 3000 }, (_, i) => `v2_line_${i}`).join("\n") + "\n"
+
+  await using tmp = await tmpdir({
+    git: true,
+    init: async (dir) => {
+      await Filesystem.write(`${dir}/fat.json`, v1)
+      await $`git add .`.cwd(dir).quiet()
+      await $`git commit --no-gpg-sign -m init`.cwd(dir).quiet()
+    },
+  })
+
+  await Instance.provide({
+    directory: tmp.path,
+    fn: async () => {
+      const session = await Session.create({})
+
+      const before = await Snapshot.track()
+      expect(before).toBeTruthy()
+
+      await Filesystem.write(`${tmp.path}/fat.json`, v2)
+      const after = await Snapshot.track()
+      expect(after).toBeTruthy()
+
+      // Kick off a diffFull that exercises the freeze path.
+      const diffPromise = Snapshot.diffFull(before!, after!)
+
+      // Concurrently keep a tick counter running. If the event loop blocks we
+      // will see this count fall behind wall-clock elapsed.
+      let ticks = 0
+      const start = Date.now()
+      const timer = setInterval(() => {
+        ticks++
+      }, 25)
+
+      // Fire an abort request against the Hono app in the middle of the diff.
+      const app = Server.Default().app
+      const abortStart = Date.now()
+      const res = await app.request(`/session/${session.id}/abort`, { method: "POST" })
+      const abortLatency = Date.now() - abortStart
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200)
+      // The abort endpoint must respond well under a second even under load.
+      expect(abortLatency).toBeLessThan(2000)
+
+      const diffs = await diffPromise
+      clearInterval(timer)
+      const total = Date.now() - start
+
+      // The freeze workload must finish in bounded time. Five seconds is
+      // generous even for a slow CI box; without the fix this hangs.
+      expect(total).toBeLessThan(5000)
+      // And we must have ticked at least a few times during the work — proves
+      // the event loop stayed responsive (ESC would actually arrive).
+      expect(ticks).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+
+      // With git-based diff the patch is a real unified diff, not empty.
+      const hit = diffs.find((d) => d.file === "fat.json")
+      expect(hit).toBeDefined()
+      expect(hit!.patch).toMatch(/^diff --git /m)
+      expect(hit!.patch).toContain("-v1_line_0")
+      expect(hit!.patch).toContain("+v2_line_0")
+      expect(hit!.additions).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+      expect(hit!.deletions).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    },
+  })
+})