diff --git a/__tests__/resolution-oversized-file.test.ts b/__tests__/resolution-oversized-file.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c0a607c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/__tests__/resolution-oversized-file.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/**
+ * Resolution-side oversized-file guard.
+ *
+ * Pins the contract that reference resolution treats files larger than
+ * extraction's MAX_FILE_SIZE exactly like extraction does: invisible.
+ * Asset imports (`import video from "./intro.mp4"`, aliased or relative)
+ * hand the resolver a verbatim path to a file extraction never parsed —
+ * it can't contain resolvable symbols, but the import/re-export chase
+ * used to `readFileSync` it whole, decode it as UTF-8, and regex-scan
+ * it. On a real project a single ~240 MB video import OOM'd an 8 GB heap
+ * at "Resolving refs" ~65%, killing every `codegraph init`.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import * as os from 'os';
+import { CodeGraph } from '../src';
+import { initGrammars, loadAllGrammars } from '../src/extraction/grammars';
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  await initGrammars();
+  await loadAllGrammars();
+});
+
+describe('resolution skips oversized import targets', () => {
+  let tmpDir: string | undefined;
+  afterEach(() => {
+    if (tmpDir) fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    tmpDir = undefined;
+  });
+
+  it('does not chase re-exports through a barrel extraction skipped for size', async () => {
+    tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-bigbarrel-'));
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'src'));
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(tmpDir, 'src/real.ts'),
+      'export function play(): number {\n  return 1;\n}\n'
+    );
+
+    // A syntactically valid barrel pushed over MAX_FILE_SIZE by padding.
+    // Extraction skips it (too big), so resolution must not read it either
+    // — chasing its re-export would resolve through a file the graph
+    // doesn't contain, and reading arbitrarily large targets is the OOM.
+    const padding = `// ${'x'.repeat(120)}\n`.repeat(9000); // ~1.1 MB
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(tmpDir, 'src/barrel.ts'),
+      `export { play as video } from "./real";\n${padding}`
+    );
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(tmpDir, 'src/app.ts'),
+      'import { video } from "./barrel";\n' +
+        'export function run(): number {\n' +
+        '  return video();\n' +
+        '}\n'
+    );
+
+    const cg = CodeGraph.initSync(tmpDir);
+    await cg.indexAll();
+
+    // Sanity: the small files are in the graph, the oversized barrel is not.
+    const fns = cg.getNodesByKind('function');
+    const play = fns.find((n) => n.name === 'play');
+    const run = fns.find((n) => n.name === 'run');
+    expect(play).toBeDefined();
+    expect(run).toBeDefined();
+    expect(cg.getNodesInFile('src/barrel.ts')).toHaveLength(0);
+
+    // The chase must stop at the oversized barrel: no call edge may reach
+    // play() — resolving run()'s `video()` there requires reading
+    // barrel.ts's content. (The structural `contains` edge from real.ts
+    // itself is expected.)
+    const playCalls = cg.getIncomingEdges(play!.id).filter((e) => e.kind === 'calls');
+    expect(playCalls).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('indexes a project importing a >1MB binary asset without dying', async () => {
+    tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-bigasset-'));
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'src'));
+
+    // Pseudo-binary garbage over MAX_FILE_SIZE. (The real-world trigger
+    // was a 240 MB .mp4; the guard threshold is what matters, not scale.)
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'src/intro.mp4'), Buffer.alloc(2 * 1024 * 1024, 0xfe));
+
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      path.join(tmpDir, 'src/app.ts'),
+      'import video from "./intro.mp4";\n' +
+        'export function play(): string {\n' +
+        '  return video;\n' +
+        '}\n'
+    );
+
+    const cg = CodeGraph.initSync(tmpDir);
+    await cg.indexAll();
+
+    const fns = cg.getNodesByKind('function');
+    expect(fns.find((n) => n.name === 'play')).toBeDefined();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/resolution/index.ts b/src/resolution/index.ts
index e956794e7..d3c086be1 100644
--- a/src/resolution/index.ts
+++ b/src/resolution/index.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ const PHP_PROP_SHAPE = /^this->\w+\.\w+$/;
  * caches) when tuning for very large or very small projects.
  */
 const DEFAULT_CACHE_LIMIT = 5_000;
+
+/**
+ * Skip resolution-side file reads above this size (bytes). Matches
+ * extraction's MAX_FILE_SIZE: anything larger was never parsed into the
+ * graph, so its content can't answer an import/re-export chase — but a
+ * `import intro from "./intro.mp4"` ref would otherwise pull the whole
+ * asset into the V8 heap and OOM the index (a single ~240 MB binary is
+ * enough to kill an 8 GB heap once decoded and regex-scanned).
+ */
+const MAX_RESOLUTION_FILE_SIZE = 1024 * 1024;
 function resolveCacheLimit(): number {
   const raw = process.env.CODEGRAPH_RESOLVER_CACHE_SIZE;
   if (!raw) return DEFAULT_CACHE_LIMIT;
@@ -381,6 +391,18 @@ export class ReferenceResolver {
     }
     const fullPath = path.join(this.projectRoot, filePath);
     try {
+      // Mirror extraction's MAX_FILE_SIZE guard. Resolution follows import
+      // targets verbatim, so `import video from "./intro.mp4"` (or any large
+      // asset/bundle an alias resolves to) lands here — extraction never
+      // indexed a file this large, so it can't contain resolvable symbols or
+      // re-exports, but decoding hundreds of MB as UTF-8 and regex-scanning
+      // it for re-exports OOMs the whole index at "Resolving refs".
+      const stats = fs.statSync(fullPath);
+      if (stats.size > MAX_RESOLUTION_FILE_SIZE) {
+        logDebug('Skipping oversized file for resolution', { filePath, size: stats.size });
+        this.fileCache.set(filePath, null);
+        return null;
+      }
       const content = fs.readFileSync(fullPath, 'utf-8');
       this.fileCache.set(filePath, content);
       return content;