diff --git a/blast_radius.go b/blast_radius.go
index 29ea98c..34f3f3f 100644
--- a/blast_radius.go
+++ b/blast_radius.go
@@ -1034,6 +1034,12 @@ func buildBlastRadiusRendered(diffProject scanner.Project, depsProject scanner.D
 	}
 	var renderable []renderableImporter
 	for _, report := range reports {
+		// Decide on the data, not on the rendered text: every report now
+		// carries a coverage line, so rendering first would make a file with
+		// no importers look like it had content.
+		if len(report.Importers) == 0 && len(report.HubImports) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
 		text := renderImportersReportString(report)
 		if strings.TrimSpace(text) == "" {
 			continue
@@ -1449,7 +1455,7 @@ func buildImportersReportFromGraph(root, file string, fg *scanner.FileGraph) (sc
 		Imports:        imports,
 		ImporterCount:  len(importers),
 		IsHub:          fg.IsHub(file),
-		CoverageStatus: string(fg.Coverage.Status),
+		CoverageStatus: string(fg.Coverage.EffectiveStatus()),
 		CoverageNotes:  append([]string(nil), fg.Coverage.Notes...),
 	}
 
diff --git a/mcp/analysis_output.go b/mcp/analysis_output.go
index 4d55227..fa9390c 100644
--- a/mcp/analysis_output.go
+++ b/mcp/analysis_output.go
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ func newImportersOutput(root, file string, graph *scanner.FileGraph) ImportersOu
 		Kind: kind, Root: root, Mode: "importers", File: file,
 		Importers: boundedImporters, Imports: boundedImports, HubImports: boundedHubs,
 		ImporterCount: len(importers), IsHub: graph.IsHub(file),
-		CoverageStatus: string(graph.Coverage.Status), CoverageNotes: nonNilCopy(graph.Coverage.Notes),
+		CoverageStatus: string(graph.Coverage.EffectiveStatus()), CoverageNotes: nonNilCopy(graph.Coverage.Notes),
 		Truncated: omittedCount > 0, OmittedCount: omittedCount,
 	}
 }
diff --git a/mcp/structured_contract_test.go b/mcp/structured_contract_test.go
index 77c5db8..84f5a92 100644
--- a/mcp/structured_contract_test.go
+++ b/mcp/structured_contract_test.go
@@ -228,6 +228,26 @@ func writeParityRepository(t *testing.T) string {
 	return root
 }
 
+// A graph built with nothing to report against it has the zero-value status.
+// The MCP answer must spell that out as "complete": an empty coverage_status
+// makes a zero-importer answer on a fully checked graph indistinguishable from
+// one the scanner could not check at all (#148).
+func TestNewImportersOutputSpellsOutCompleteCoverage(t *testing.T) {
+	graph := &scanner.FileGraph{
+		Importers: map[string][]string{},
+		Imports:   map[string][]string{},
+	}
+	out := newImportersOutput("/repo", "pkg/user.go", graph)
+	if out.CoverageStatus != "complete" {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage_status = %q, want %q for a zero-value graph coverage", out.CoverageStatus, "complete")
+	}
+	graph.Coverage.Status = "partial"
+	out = newImportersOutput("/repo", "pkg/user.go", graph)
+	if out.CoverageStatus != "partial" {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage_status = %q, want %q when the graph reports partial", out.CoverageStatus, "partial")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestNewImportersOutputSortsDeterministically(t *testing.T) {
 	graph := &scanner.FileGraph{
 		Importers: map[string][]string{
diff --git a/scanner/filegraph.go b/scanner/filegraph.go
index 73227c1..bd6c4f5 100644
--- a/scanner/filegraph.go
+++ b/scanner/filegraph.go
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ func buildFileGraphFromAnalysesWithCargoMetadataAndFilters(ctx context.Context,
 			break
 		}
 	}
+	// Languages whose imports name modules rather than files cannot produce
+	// intra-project edges at all, so an empty graph over them is a blind spot
+	// rather than a finding. Recording it here is what keeps --importers and
+	// blast-radius honest too: both read this graph's provenance.
+	fg.Coverage.AddSymbolLevelImportCoverage(files)
 
 	var jsResolver *jsWorkspaceResolver
 	if useJSWorkspace {
diff --git a/scanner/importmodel.go b/scanner/importmodel.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e2a8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scanner/importmodel.go
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+package scanner
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	"codemap/analysis"
+)
+
+// symbolLevelImportLanguages are languages whose import statements name a
+// module, package or namespace rather than a file, and where two files in the
+// same package reference each other with no import statement at all. The
+// file-to-file edge model cannot represent intra-package structure for them:
+// resolving their imports yields framework names (SwiftUI, System.Text) that
+// belong to no file in the project, so the graph comes back structurally empty
+// rather than empty-by-accident.
+//
+// Languages absent from this set express intra-project structure as a path an
+// import can be resolved to (Go package paths, Python module paths, relative
+// JS/TS specifiers, Rust mod declarations, C/C++ includes), so an empty graph
+// there is a real finding and stays complete.
+var symbolLevelImportLanguages = map[string]string{
+	"csharp": "C#",
+	"java":   "Java",
+	"kotlin": "Kotlin",
+	"scala":  "Scala",
+	"swift":  "Swift",
+}
+
+// symbolLevelCoverageNote explains why a symbol-level language cannot be
+// covered by file-level import resolution, in the terms a consumer needs to
+// decide whether to trust a zero-dependent answer.
+const symbolLevelCoverageNote = "imports name modules, not files, and same-package files need no import: intra-project edges need symbol-reference resolution and are not represented"
+
+// ResolvesFileLevelImports reports whether import resolution can produce
+// file-to-file edges for a language.
+func ResolvesFileLevelImports(language string) bool {
+	_, symbolLevel := symbolLevelImportLanguages[language]
+	return !symbolLevel
+}
+
+// symbolLevelInventory counts scanned files per symbol-level language, keyed by
+// the language's display name.
+func symbolLevelInventory(files []FileInfo) map[string]int {
+	counts := make(map[string]int)
+	for _, file := range files {
+		display, symbolLevel := symbolLevelImportLanguages[DetectLanguage(file.Path)]
+		if symbolLevel {
+			counts[display]++
+		}
+	}
+	return counts
+}
+
+// symbolLevelSources renders one source per symbol-level language present, so
+// the source list names which slice of the project the graph cannot see rather
+// than emitting a bare "partial" with nothing to point at.
+func symbolLevelSources(counts map[string]int) []analysis.Source {
+	if len(counts) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	displays := make([]string, 0, len(counts))
+	for display := range counts {
+		displays = append(displays, display)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(displays)
+
+	sources := make([]analysis.Source, 0, len(displays))
+	for _, display := range displays {
+		sources = append(sources, analysis.Source{
+			Name:   "symbol-imports/" + strings.ToLower(display),
+			Status: analysis.SourceUnavailable,
+			Detail: fmt.Sprintf("%s (%d files): %s", display, counts[display], symbolLevelCoverageNote),
+		})
+	}
+	return sources
+}
+
+// ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage downgrades coverage that would otherwise claim
+// complete knowledge of a project whose files are in languages the file-level
+// edge model does not apply to. A consumer reading "complete" next to zero
+// dependents concludes a change is isolated; for these languages that
+// conclusion is unfounded, so the status must not be complete and the reason
+// must be attached.
+//
+// Coverage that is already partial or unavailable keeps its status; this only
+// ever removes confidence.
+func ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(coverage analysis.Coverage, files []FileInfo) analysis.Coverage {
+	sources := symbolLevelSources(symbolLevelInventory(files))
+	if len(sources) == 0 {
+		return coverage
+	}
+	coverage.Sources = append(append([]analysis.Source(nil), coverage.Sources...), sources...)
+	if coverage.Status == analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		coverage.Status = analysis.CoveragePartial
+	}
+	return analysis.NormalizeCoverage(coverage)
+}
+
+// AddSymbolLevelImportCoverage applies the same rule to a graph's coverage, so
+// --importers and blast-radius inherit it alongside --deps.
+func (c *GraphCoverage) AddSymbolLevelImportCoverage(files []FileInfo) {
+	if c == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	counts := symbolLevelInventory(files)
+	sources := symbolLevelSources(counts)
+	if len(sources) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	c.Sources = append(c.Sources, sources...)
+	displays := make([]string, 0, len(counts))
+	for display := range counts {
+		displays = append(displays, display)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(displays)
+	c.Notes = append(c.Notes, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", strings.Join(displays, ", "), symbolLevelCoverageNote))
+	if c.Status == "" || c.Status == analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		c.Status = analysis.CoveragePartial
+	}
+}
+
+// EffectiveStatus reports the coverage status a consumer should see. The zero
+// value means the graph was built with nothing to report against it, which is
+// complete knowledge — but an empty string tells a consumer nothing, so it is
+// spelled out. A zero-importer answer has to say how much it checked.
+func (c GraphCoverage) EffectiveStatus() analysis.CoverageStatus {
+	if c.Status == "" {
+		return analysis.CoverageComplete
+	}
+	return c.Status
+}
diff --git a/scanner/importmodel_test.go b/scanner/importmodel_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e318e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scanner/importmodel_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+package scanner
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"codemap/analysis"
+)
+
+// A Swift project is the clearest case of a language whose files never import
+// each other: the graph is structurally empty, so reporting complete coverage
+// tells a consumer a change is isolated when nothing checked that.
+func TestSwiftFixtureNeverReportsCompleteCoverage(t *testing.T) {
+	graph, err := BuildFileGraph(context.Background(), "../testdata/symbol-imports-swift", Filters{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("build swift fixture graph: %v", err)
+	}
+	if graph.Coverage.Status == analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		t.Fatalf("swift fixture coverage = %q, want anything but complete", graph.Coverage.Status)
+	}
+	if edges := len(graph.Imports) + len(graph.Importers); edges != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("swift fixture produced %d edges, want 0 (the fixture has no file-level imports)", edges)
+	}
+
+	var named bool
+	for _, source := range graph.Coverage.Sources {
+		if source.Name == "symbol-imports/swift" {
+			named = true
+			if !strings.Contains(source.Detail, "Swift (3 files)") {
+				t.Fatalf("source detail = %q, want it to name the language and file count", source.Detail)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !named {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage sources %+v omit a symbol-imports source naming Swift", graph.Coverage.Sources)
+	}
+	if len(graph.Coverage.Notes) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("coverage carries no note explaining why the graph cannot see intra-project edges")
+	}
+}
+
+// The counterpart guard: a language whose imports do resolve to files keeps
+// complete coverage, so this never becomes a blanket downgrade.
+func TestGoFixtureKeepsCompleteCoverage(t *testing.T) {
+	graph, err := BuildFileGraph(context.Background(), "../testdata/file-imports-go", Filters{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("build go fixture graph: %v", err)
+	}
+	if graph.Coverage.Status != "" && graph.Coverage.Status != analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		t.Fatalf("go fixture coverage = %q, want complete", graph.Coverage.Status)
+	}
+	for _, source := range graph.Coverage.Sources {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(source.Name, "symbol-imports/") {
+			t.Fatalf("go fixture gained %q; the file-level edge model applies to Go", source.Name)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolvesFileLevelImports(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, language := range []string{"go", "python", "typescript", "javascript", "rust", "c", "cpp", "dart", "ruby", "php", "lua", "solidity", "bash", "cue"} {
+		if !ResolvesFileLevelImports(language) {
+			t.Errorf("ResolvesFileLevelImports(%q) = false, want true", language)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, language := range []string{"swift", "kotlin", "java", "csharp", "scala"} {
+		if ResolvesFileLevelImports(language) {
+			t.Errorf("ResolvesFileLevelImports(%q) = true, want false", language)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Coverage that already knows less must never be talked back up.
+func TestApplySymbolLevelImportCoverageOnlyRemovesConfidence(t *testing.T) {
+	swift := []FileInfo{{Path: "App/Model.swift"}}
+	for _, status := range []analysis.CoverageStatus{analysis.CoveragePartial, analysis.CoverageUnavailable} {
+		got := ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(analysis.Coverage{Status: status}, swift)
+		if got.Status != status {
+			t.Errorf("status %q became %q, want it preserved", status, got.Status)
+		}
+	}
+
+	got := ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(analysis.Coverage{Status: analysis.CoverageComplete}, swift)
+	if got.Status != analysis.CoveragePartial {
+		t.Errorf("complete coverage over Swift = %q, want partial", got.Status)
+	}
+
+	unchanged := ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(
+		analysis.Coverage{Status: analysis.CoverageComplete},
+		[]FileInfo{{Path: "main.go"}, {Path: "app.py"}},
+	)
+	if unchanged.Status != analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		t.Errorf("complete coverage over Go and Python = %q, want it left complete", unchanged.Status)
+	}
+}
+
+// Every symbol-level language present is named, so a mixed project says which
+// slice it cannot see rather than emitting a bare partial.
+func TestSymbolLevelSourcesNameEveryLanguagePresent(t *testing.T) {
+	coverage := ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(
+		analysis.Coverage{Status: analysis.CoverageComplete},
+		[]FileInfo{
+			{Path: "main.go"},
+			{Path: "App/Model.swift"},
+			{Path: "src/Main.kt"},
+			{Path: "src/Other.kt"},
+		},
+	)
+	var got []string
+	for _, source := range coverage.Sources {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(source.Name, "symbol-imports/") {
+			got = append(got, source.Name+"|"+source.Detail)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d symbol-imports sources %v, want one per language present", len(got), got)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(got[0], "Kotlin (2 files)") || !strings.Contains(got[1], "Swift (1 files)") {
+		t.Fatalf("sources %v omit per-language file counts in sorted order", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// The milestone's exit test: the fixture's importer list must be exact, so a
+// future resolver change that widens or narrows it is caught here rather than
+// in someone's repository.
+func TestFixtureImporterListsAreExact(t *testing.T) {
+	swift, err := BuildFileGraph(context.Background(), "../testdata/symbol-imports-swift", Filters{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("build swift fixture graph: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got := swift.Importers["Sources/App/Models.swift"]; len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("swift Models.swift importers = %v, want none (no file-level import exists to find)", got)
+	}
+
+	golang, err := BuildFileGraph(context.Background(), "../testdata/file-imports-go", Filters{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("build go fixture graph: %v", err)
+	}
+	got := golang.Importers["pkg/user.go"]
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "main.go" {
+		t.Fatalf("go pkg/user.go importers = %v, want exactly [main.go]", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A zero-importer answer has to say how much it checked, so the field is
+// always present — the complete case is exactly where an omitted status let a
+// silent zero read as a thorough one.
+func TestEffectiveStatusSpellsOutComplete(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := (GraphCoverage{}).EffectiveStatus(); got != analysis.CoverageComplete {
+		t.Fatalf("zero-value coverage EffectiveStatus() = %q, want %q", got, analysis.CoverageComplete)
+	}
+	for _, status := range []analysis.CoverageStatus{analysis.CoveragePartial, analysis.CoverageUnavailable} {
+		if got := (GraphCoverage{Status: status}).EffectiveStatus(); got != status {
+			t.Fatalf("EffectiveStatus() = %q, want %q preserved", got, status)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/scanner/types.go b/scanner/types.go
index 967cfab..42b9190 100644
--- a/scanner/types.go
+++ b/scanner/types.go
@@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ func newDepsProject(root string, files []FileAnalysis, externalDeps map[string][
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if len(inventory) > 0 {
+		coverage = ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(coverage, inventory[0])
+	} else {
+		analysed := make([]FileInfo, 0, len(files))
+		for _, file := range files {
+			analysed = append(analysed, FileInfo{Path: file.Path})
+		}
+		coverage = ApplySymbolLevelImportCoverage(coverage, analysed)
+	}
 	return NewDepsProjectWithCoverage(root, files, externalDeps, diffRef, coverage)
 }
 
@@ -171,7 +180,7 @@ type ImportersReport struct {
 	HubImports     []string `json:"hub_imports,omitempty"`
 	ImporterCount  int      `json:"importer_count"`
 	IsHub          bool     `json:"is_hub"`
-	CoverageStatus string   `json:"coverage_status,omitempty"`
+	CoverageStatus string   `json:"coverage_status"`
 	CoverageNotes  []string `json:"coverage_notes,omitempty"`
 }
 
diff --git a/testdata/file-imports-go/go.mod b/testdata/file-imports-go/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4f0126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/file-imports-go/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module fixture
+
+go 1.24
diff --git a/testdata/file-imports-go/main.go b/testdata/file-imports-go/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44c1080
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/file-imports-go/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package main
+
+import "fixture/pkg"
+
+func main() {
+	_ = pkg.User{ID: "1", Name: "ada"}
+}
diff --git a/testdata/file-imports-go/pkg/user.go b/testdata/file-imports-go/pkg/user.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b69669
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/file-imports-go/pkg/user.go
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package pkg
+
+// User is referenced by main.go through an import of this package, so a
+// file-level edge does exist and an empty graph here would be a real finding.
+type User struct {
+	ID   string
+	Name string
+}
diff --git a/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/ContentView.swift b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/ContentView.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dae4b71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/ContentView.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import SwiftUI
+
+struct ContentView: View {
+    @StateObject var model = UserViewModel()
+
+    var body: some View {
+        Text(model.user?.name ?? "")
+    }
+}
diff --git a/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/Models.swift b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/Models.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d7600e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/Models.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import Foundation
+
+struct User {
+    let id: String
+    let name: String
+}
diff --git a/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/UserViewModel.swift b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/UserViewModel.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6bcc42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/symbol-imports-swift/Sources/App/UserViewModel.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import Foundation
+import SwiftUI
+
+// References User, declared in Models.swift, with no import statement:
+// same-module Swift files never import each other, so no file-level edge
+// exists for the graph to find.
+final class UserViewModel: ObservableObject {
+    @Published var user: User?
+
+    func load() {
+        user = User(id: "1", name: "ada")
+    }
+}