diff --git a/src/openultrasast/model/scan.py b/src/openultrasast/model/scan.py
index b8a66cc..55f5a69 100644
--- a/src/openultrasast/model/scan.py
+++ b/src/openultrasast/model/scan.py
@@ -152,6 +152,21 @@ def scan_repository(
     # `add_filter("hook", )`. See `mapping.php_hook_callbacks`.
     hooks = _hook_callbacks(root, regions)
 
+    # The region cap is a COVERAGE fact, not a tuning knob nobody needs to hear about. Paid Memberships Pro
+    # yields 4,463 regions from 637 files, so a default budget of 500 examines 11% of the repository -- and
+    # a report that does not say so invites its silence to be read as a clean bill of health for the other
+    # 89%. `budget_exhausted` is a different thing: that is the JUDGE running out, this is the work never
+    # being collected at all.
+    if len(ordered_regions) > limits.max_regions:
+        degradations.append(
+            {
+                "stage": "model",
+                "reason": "regions_truncated",
+                "examined": limits.max_regions,
+                "total": len(ordered_regions),
+            }
+        )
+
     # Phase 1: collect the whole scan's questions, for at most `max_regions` regions. Nothing is asked yet.
     work: list[tuple[str, ScanRegion, ArbiterSpec]] = []
     for region in ordered_regions[: limits.max_regions]:
diff --git a/src/openultrasast/reports.py b/src/openultrasast/reports.py
index e5fadc1..be66bd7 100644
--- a/src/openultrasast/reports.py
+++ b/src/openultrasast/reports.py
@@ -436,6 +436,10 @@ _COVERAGE_DEGRADATIONS: dict[str, str] = {
     "files_unparsed": "{count} file(s) could not be parsed and are absent from the graph: {files}.",
     "query_failed": "A `{kind}` query failed for {requests} region(s), so those regions were not decided.",
     "budget_exhausted": "The model-call budget ran out with {regions_unasked} region(s) still unasked.",
+    "regions_truncated": (
+        "Only the **{examined} highest-ranked of {total} regions** were examined. Nothing above says anything "
+        "about the rest of the repository."
+    ),
     "region_failed": "The region `{path}` could not be arbitrated.",
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/test_model_scan.py b/tests/test_model_scan.py
index 84b9299..ba09a74 100644
--- a/tests/test_model_scan.py
+++ b/tests/test_model_scan.py
@@ -390,3 +390,30 @@ def test_a_query_the_engine_could_not_answer_is_recorded_not_ignored() -> None:
     assert failures, "a query that could not be asked must be reported"
     assert failures[0]["kind"] == "taint"
     assert result.findings == ()
+
+
+def test_a_region_cap_that_hides_most_of_a_repository_is_reported() -> None:
+    """Paid Memberships Pro yields 4,463 regions from 637 files. A default budget of 500 examines 11% of it,
+    and a report that does not say so invites its silence to be read as a clean bill of health for the rest.
+    """
+    from openultrasast.model.regions import ScanRegion
+    from openultrasast.model.scan import ScanBudget, scan_repository
+
+    class _Backend:
+        def available(self) -> bool:
+            return True
+
+        def build(self, root, *, language=""):  # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
+            from openultrasast.cpg.backend import CpgResult
+
+            return CpgResult(cpg_path=Path("cpg.bin"), run=lambda query, params: [])
+
+    regions = [
+        ScanRegion(path=f"f{n}.py", function="handler", language="python", families=("injection",), rank=0.5, source="entry_point")
+        for n in range(30)
+    ]
+    result = scan_repository(Path("."), regions, backend=_Backend(), budget=ScanBudget(max_model_calls=0, max_regions=10))
+
+    truncated = [d for d in result.degradations if d.get("reason") == "regions_truncated"]
+    assert truncated, "the cap hid two thirds of the regions and said nothing"
+    assert truncated[0]["examined"] == 10 and truncated[0]["total"] == 30