diff --git a/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs b/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
index e3f08e7..6237789 100644
--- a/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-registry/src/lib.rs
@@ -455,6 +455,17 @@ impl Registry {
             Err(_) => return Ok(None), // no store yet -> nothing matches
         };
         let mut found = None;
+        // Collect-then-diff-append (#191): the walk's last-wins mapping is
+        // built locally first, and only entries whose FINAL value differs
+        // from the pre-walk `index` snapshot are appended, once, after the
+        // walk. This is what makes a repeated scan over an already-converged
+        // index a no-op even in the duplicate-identity/distinct-content twin
+        // corner (two stored blueprints sharing an identity id, e.g.
+        // differing only in debug names): comparing each entry against the
+        // stale pre-walk snapshot mid-walk would append one alternating line
+        // per twin every time, since the snapshot never equals both of them
+        // at once.
+        let mut walked = std::collections::BTreeMap::new();
         for entry in entries {
             let entry = entry?;
             let json = fs::read_to_string(entry.path())?;
@@ -467,23 +478,18 @@ impl Registry {
             else {
                 continue;
             };
-            if index.get(&entry_identity) != Some(&content_id) {
-                // absent-or-different only, so a walk over an already-correct
-                // index appends nothing — *for the common one-content-per-
-                // identity case*. In the duplicate-identity/distinct-content
-                // corner (two stored blueprints sharing an identity id, e.g.
-                // differing only in debug names), `index` is this call's
-                // snapshot and is never updated mid-walk, so every entry
-                // whose content id differs from that stale snapshot appends
-                // a line, one per full-scan lookup, even though each write is
-                // individually a valid mapping. Best-effort regardless — a
-                // cache write must never degrade a correct read.
-                let _ = self.append_identity_index(&entry_identity, &content_id);
-            }
+            walked.insert(entry_identity.clone(), content_id);
             if found.is_none() && entry_identity == identity_id {
                 found = Some(json);
             }
         }
+        for (walked_identity, content_id) in &walked {
+            if index.get(walked_identity) != Some(content_id) {
+                // Best-effort — a cache write must never degrade a correct
+                // read.
+                let _ = self.append_identity_index(walked_identity, content_id);
+            }
+        }
         Ok(found)
     }
 }