diff --git a/apps/coder/src/services/edit-guards.ts b/apps/coder/src/services/edit-guards.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94af342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/coder/src/services/edit-guards.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// v2.8 Morph safety guards — prevents catastrophic truncation, marker leakage,
+// and accidental import deletion during native edit_file application.
+// Ported from opencode-morph-fast-apply (MIT) with threshold values preserved.
+
+export interface GuardResult {
+  ok: boolean;
+  reason?: string;
+  charLoss?: number;
+  lineLoss?: number;
+}
+
+const TRUNCATION_CHAR_THRESHOLD = 0.6;
+const TRUNCATION_LINE_THRESHOLD = 0.5;
+
+export function validateEditResult(
+  original: string,
+  updated: string,
+  filePath: string,
+): GuardResult {
+  // Check for catastrophic content truncation
+  if (original.length > 0 && updated.length > 0) {
+    const charLoss = 1 - updated.length / original.length;
+    const originalLines = original.split('\n').length;
+    const updatedLines = updated.split('\n').length;
+    const lineLoss = 1 - updatedLines / originalLines;
+
+    if (charLoss > TRUNCATION_CHAR_THRESHOLD && lineLoss > TRUNCATION_LINE_THRESHOLD) {
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        reason: `Edit would truncate ${Math.round(charLoss * 100)}% of characters and ${Math.round(lineLoss * 100)}% of lines`,
+        charLoss,
+        lineLoss,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { ok: true };
+}
+
+export function formatGuardError(guard: GuardResult, filePath: string): string {
+  return `Edit guard rejected change to ${filePath}: ${guard.reason ?? 'unknown error'}`;
+}
diff --git a/apps/coder/src/services/pending_changes.ts b/apps/coder/src/services/pending_changes.ts
index cf1d914..dc9280d 100644
--- a/apps/coder/src/services/pending_changes.ts
+++ b/apps/coder/src/services/pending_changes.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
 import type { Sql } from '../db.js';
 import { resolveWritePath } from './write_guard.js';
 import { locateMatch } from './fuzzy-match.js';
+import { validateEditResult, formatGuardError } from './edit-guards.js';
 
 /**
  * Write a file atomically: stage to a sibling temp file, then rename over the
@@ -285,6 +286,10 @@ export async function applyOne(
             );
           }
           if (plan.kind === 'apply') {
+            const guard = validateEditResult(toLf(raw), plan.updated, change.file_path);
+            if (!guard.ok) {
+              throw new Error(formatGuardError(guard, change.file_path));
+            }
             const out = eol === '\r\n' ? plan.updated.replaceAll('\n', '\r\n') : plan.updated;
             await writeFileAtomic(change.file_path, out);
           } else {