diff --git a/src/domain/graph/builder/stages/native-orchestrator.ts b/src/domain/graph/builder/stages/native-orchestrator.ts
index c1a75213c..49d602f8f 100644
--- a/src/domain/graph/builder/stages/native-orchestrator.ts
+++ b/src/domain/graph/builder/stages/native-orchestrator.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import { semverCompare } from '../../../../infrastructure/update-check.js';
 import { getOrCreatePerDbChunkStmt } from '../../../../shared/chunked-stmt-cache.js';
 import { normalizePath, TS_NATIVE_CONFIDENCE_FLOOR } from '../../../../shared/constants.js';
 import { toErrorMessage } from '../../../../shared/errors.js';
+import { CALLABLE_SYMBOL_KINDS } from '../../../../shared/kinds.js';
 import { CODEGRAPH_VERSION } from '../../../../shared/version.js';
 import type {
   BetterSqlite3Database,
@@ -321,6 +322,7 @@ async function runPostNativeStructure(
  */
 async function runDataflowVertexPass(
   ctx: PipelineContext,
+  isFullBuild: boolean,
   changedFiles: string[] | undefined,
 ): Promise<void> {
   if (ctx.opts.dataflow === false) return;
@@ -328,6 +330,19 @@ async function runDataflowVertexPass(
   const native = loadNative();
   if (!native?.extractDataflowAnalysis) return;
 
+  // Quiet incremental: no files changed → no new dataflow edges/vertices to
+  // add, nothing to do. Without this, an incremental no-op rebuild falls
+  // through to the "full build" branch below just like a genuine full
+  // build would (changedFiles is `[]`, not `undefined`, but the `else`
+  // below treats both the same) and re-scans every eligible file for
+  // nothing — mirrors backfillEdgeTechniquesAfterNativeOrchestrator's
+  // identical guard just above (#2483 follow-up: caught by the perf-canary
+  // "No-op rebuild" benchmark after broadening which files that full-build
+  // branch considers eligible).
+  if (!isFullBuild && changedFiles && changedFiles.length === 0) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   // Determine which files to process: changed files for incremental, all for full builds.
   let filesToProcess: string[];
   if (changedFiles && changedFiles.length > 0) {
@@ -338,23 +353,29 @@ async function runDataflowVertexPass(
     //   (a) Non-native language files — NATIVE_SUPPORTED_EXTENSIONS doesn't cover them,
     //       so extractDataflowAnalysis returns null; the wasmStubs path calls buildDataflowEdges
     //       which writes both edges AND vertices for those files.
-    //   (b) Native-language files with dataflow edges already written by the Rust orchestrator
-    //       (flows_to/returns/mutates) — those need vertex rows to connect them.
+    //   (b) Native-language files with at least one function/method definition — every
+    //       such definition gets its own param/return/local vertices regardless of whether
+    //       it participates in any INTER-procedural flow (#2483: a leaf function with no
+    //       cross-function argument/assignment/mutation relationships still has params and a
+    //       return worth recording — extractDataflowAnalysis's vertex output isn't gated on
+    //       argFlows/assignments/mutations being non-empty). An earlier version of this filter
+    //       scoped to files with existing `dataflow` EDGE rows instead, which wrongly skipped
+    //       vertex extraction for every file whose functions happen to have no inter-procedural
+    //       edges — verified empirically: a repro fixture with plain param/return-only functions
+    //       (no cross-function dataflow at all) produced zero dataflow_vertices rows on the
+    //       native engine while WASM correctly recorded them.
     //
-    // Skipping native-language files with no dataflow edges is safe: extractDataflowAnalysis
-    // would return argFlows=[], assignments=[], mutations=[] for them, producing zero vertices
-    // and zero inter-procedural edges. Excluding them avoids O(n_total_files) re-analysis on
-    // every full build (codegraph itself: ~2000 files, ~50-80% with no dataflow edges).
-    const filesWithDataflow = new Set(
+    // Excluding files with NO function/method definitions at all (pure type/data files) is
+    // still a safe, meaningful prune — they can never produce vertices either way — and avoids
+    // O(n_total_files) re-analysis on every full build.
+    const filesWithFunctions = new Set(
       (
         ctx.db
           .prepare(
-            `SELECT DISTINCT n.file
-             FROM dataflow d
-             JOIN nodes n ON n.id = d.source_id
-             WHERE n.file IS NOT NULL`,
+            `SELECT DISTINCT file FROM nodes
+             WHERE file IS NOT NULL AND kind IN (${[...CALLABLE_SYMBOL_KINDS].map(() => '?').join(',')})`,
           )
-          .all() as { file: string }[]
+          .all(...CALLABLE_SYMBOL_KINDS) as { file: string }[]
       ).map((r) => r.file),
     );
 
@@ -368,8 +389,8 @@ async function runDataflowVertexPass(
         const ext = path.extname(f).toLowerCase();
         // Non-native files: always include (WASM handles them via wasmStubs path).
         if (!NATIVE_SUPPORTED_EXTENSIONS.has(ext)) return true;
-        // Native files: only include when Rust wrote dataflow edges for them.
-        return filesWithDataflow.has(f);
+        // Native files: only include when they have at least one function/method definition.
+        return filesWithFunctions.has(f);
       });
   }
 
@@ -2941,7 +2962,7 @@ export async function tryNativeOrchestrator(
   // Languages where Rust has no dataflow rules are silently skipped; a WASM
   // fallback for those is tracked in issue #1614.
   if (ctx.opts.dataflow !== false && !needsAnalysisFallback) {
-    await runDataflowVertexPass(ctx, result.changedFiles);
+    await runDataflowVertexPass(ctx, !!result.isFullBuild, result.changedFiles);
   }
 
   session.close();
diff --git a/tests/integration/issue-2483-native-dataflow-vertices-leaf-functions.test.ts b/tests/integration/issue-2483-native-dataflow-vertices-leaf-functions.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49c145e15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/issue-2483-native-dataflow-vertices-leaf-functions.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+/**
+ * Integration test for #2483: the native engine's full-build dataflow-vertex
+ * pass (`runDataflowVertexPass` in `native-orchestrator.ts`, P6) scoped
+ * itself to files that already had `dataflow` EDGE rows (flows_to/returns/
+ * mutates) from the Rust orchestrator, skipping vertex extraction entirely
+ * for every other native-language file.
+ *
+ * That scoping conflated "has inter-procedural dataflow edges" with "needs
+ * vertex rows at all" — a plain leaf function with params and a return, but
+ * no calls to or from any other function, legitimately has NO dataflow
+ * edges yet still has vertex-worthy params/returns
+ * (`extractDataflowAnalysis`'s vertex output isn't gated on argFlows/
+ * assignments/mutations being non-empty). The WASM engine has always
+ * recorded these vertices unconditionally; the native engine silently
+ * dropped them for every file with zero inter-procedural edges — in
+ * practice, most files in a typical codebase.
+ *
+ * Fix: the full-build file-selection filter now includes any native-
+ * language file with at least one function/method definition (checked via
+ * the `nodes` table, kind IN CALLABLE_SYMBOL_KINDS), not just files that
+ * happen to already have `dataflow` edge rows.
+ *
+ * Follow-up: broadening that filter also broadened how many files a
+ * literal no-op incremental rebuild (zero files changed) re-scans, since
+ * `changedFiles === []` fell into the same "full build" branch as
+ * `changedFiles === undefined` — caught by the perf-canary "No-op rebuild"
+ * benchmark. Fixed by adding the same "quiet incremental: nothing changed"
+ * early return `backfillEdgeTechniquesAfterNativeOrchestrator` already had
+ * for the identical `isFullBuild=false, changedFiles=[]` case. The second
+ * describe block below locks in that a no-op rebuild doesn't lose the
+ * vertices a prior build already inserted.
+ */
+
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import os from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { buildGraph } from '../../src/domain/graph/builder.js';
+import { isNativeAvailable } from '../../src/infrastructure/native.js';
+
+const FIXTURE = {
+  'leaf.js': `
+function greet(name) {
+  return name + '!';
+}
+
+function shout(word) {
+  return word.toUpperCase();
+}
+`,
+};
+
+function writeFixture(rootDir: string) {
+  for (const [rel, content] of Object.entries(FIXTURE)) {
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(rootDir, rel), content);
+  }
+}
+
+function readDataflowVertices(dbPath: string) {
+  const db = new Database(dbPath, { readonly: true });
+  try {
+    return db
+      .prepare(
+        `SELECT n.name AS func_name, dv.kind, dv.name
+         FROM dataflow_vertices dv
+         JOIN nodes n ON n.id = dv.func_id
+         ORDER BY n.name, dv.kind, dv.name`,
+      )
+      .all() as Array<{ func_name: string; kind: string; name: string | null }>;
+  } finally {
+    db.close();
+  }
+}
+
+describe.skipIf(!isNativeAvailable())(
+  'native full-build dataflow vertices for leaf functions (#2483)',
+  () => {
+    let tmpDir: string;
+
+    beforeAll(async () => {
+      tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-2483-native-dfv-'));
+      writeFixture(tmpDir);
+      await buildGraph(tmpDir, {
+        engine: 'native',
+        incremental: false,
+        dataflow: true,
+        skipRegistry: true,
+      });
+    }, 60_000);
+
+    afterAll(() => {
+      fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    });
+
+    it('records param and return vertices for a leaf function with no inter-procedural dataflow', () => {
+      const dbPath = path.join(tmpDir, '.codegraph', 'graph.db');
+      const vertices = readDataflowVertices(dbPath);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'greet' && v.kind === 'param' && v.name === 'name'),
+        `missing greet param vertex; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'greet' && v.kind === 'return'),
+        `missing greet return vertex; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('records vertices for every leaf function in the file, not just the first', () => {
+      const dbPath = path.join(tmpDir, '.codegraph', 'graph.db');
+      const vertices = readDataflowVertices(dbPath);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'shout' && v.kind === 'param' && v.name === 'word'),
+        `missing shout param vertex; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'shout' && v.kind === 'return'),
+        `missing shout return vertex; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+    });
+  },
+);
+
+describe.skipIf(!isNativeAvailable())(
+  'native no-op incremental rebuild preserves dataflow vertices (#2483 follow-up)',
+  () => {
+    let tmpDir: string;
+
+    beforeAll(async () => {
+      tmpDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'cg-2483-native-noop-'));
+      writeFixture(tmpDir);
+      await buildGraph(tmpDir, {
+        engine: 'native',
+        incremental: false,
+        dataflow: true,
+        skipRegistry: true,
+      });
+      // Second build with zero source changes — an incremental no-op.
+      await buildGraph(tmpDir, {
+        engine: 'native',
+        incremental: true,
+        dataflow: true,
+        skipRegistry: true,
+      });
+    }, 60_000);
+
+    afterAll(() => {
+      fs.rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    });
+
+    it("still has both leaf functions' vertices after a no-op incremental rebuild", () => {
+      const dbPath = path.join(tmpDir, '.codegraph', 'graph.db');
+      const vertices = readDataflowVertices(dbPath);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'greet' && v.kind === 'param' && v.name === 'name'),
+        `missing greet param vertex after no-op rebuild; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+      expect(
+        vertices.some((v) => v.func_name === 'shout' && v.kind === 'param' && v.name === 'word'),
+        `missing shout param vertex after no-op rebuild; got: ${JSON.stringify(vertices)}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+    });
+  },
+);