diff --git a/packages/agent-bff/src/openapi/schemas.ts b/packages/agent-bff/src/openapi/schemas.ts
index 23dacfc4c6..9f1aa14cb0 100644
--- a/packages/agent-bff/src/openapi/schemas.ts
+++ b/packages/agent-bff/src/openapi/schemas.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@ export const SortClauseSchema = SortClauseInput.openapi('SortClause', {
 export const PageSchema = PageInput.openapi('Page', {
   description:
     'The agent paginates by page number, so `offset` must be a whole multiple of `limit`. ' +
-    'Any other offset is rejected with 400 invalid_request.',
+    'Any other offset is rejected with 400 invalid_request. `limit` and `offset` are both ' +
+    'required once `page` is sent, but the object itself is optional on every list — and ' +
+    'omitting it is not a request for the whole collection. The BFF then forwards no ' +
+    'pagination, so the agent applies its own default: the first page (offset 0), a limit ' +
+    'of 15 records on the Node agent. Anything past that page is silently missing. Send ' +
+    '`page` and walk it to read a collection in full.',
 });
 
 export const TimezoneSchema = TimezoneInput.openapi('Timezone', {
@@ -161,7 +166,12 @@ export const ListResponseSchema = z
   .openapi('ListResponse', {
     description:
       'Records are flat, each carrying a `__forest` envelope. The list never carries a total: ' +
-      'call the count endpoint for that, which is why `countStatus` is always `not_requested`.',
+      'call the count endpoint for that, which is why `countStatus` is always `not_requested`. ' +
+      'It is always one page, not guaranteed to be the whole collection: a request that omitted ' +
+      "`page` still gets a page, the agent's default (up to 15 records from the start on the " +
+      'Node agent), so a response of exactly that default length is probably truncated, and ' +
+      'nothing in the body says so. Send `page` and walk it. Count gives the total unless the ' +
+      'collection disables it.',
   });
 
 export const CountResponseSchema = z
diff --git a/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-document.test.ts b/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-document.test.ts
index eb62e23b72..80a88ea3fc 100644
--- a/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-document.test.ts
+++ b/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-document.test.ts
@@ -530,6 +530,25 @@ describe('the documented search inputs', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('the documented pagination inputs', () => {
+  it('should publish the default page applied when page is absent', () => {
+    expect(schemas.Page.description).toContain('the object itself is optional');
+    expect(schemas.Page.description).toContain('the first page (offset 0)');
+    expect(schemas.Page.description).toContain('a limit of 15 records on the Node agent');
+    expect(schemas.Page.description).toContain('silently missing');
+  });
+
+  it('should require both limit and offset once page is sent', () => {
+    expect(schemas.Page.required).toEqual(['limit', 'offset']);
+  });
+
+  it('should warn on the response that a page-less list is one page, not the collection', () => {
+    expect(schemas.ListResponse.description).toContain('not guaranteed to be the whole collection');
+    expect(schemas.ListResponse.description).toContain('up to 15 records from the start');
+    expect(schemas.ListResponse.description).toContain('probably truncated');
+  });
+});
+
 describe('serializeOpenApi', () => {
   it('should produce indented JSON that parses back to the same document', () => {
     const serialized = serializeOpenApi(document);
diff --git a/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-unfolded.test.ts b/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-unfolded.test.ts
index 1c9de502d1..5a54b8d71f 100644
--- a/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-unfolded.test.ts
+++ b/packages/agent-bff/test/openapi/openapi-unfolded.test.ts
@@ -192,6 +192,16 @@ describe('the unfolded document', () => {
     expect(request.properties.sort.items?.$ref).toBe('#/components/schemas/SortClause_My_Coll');
   });
 
+  it('should leave page optional here too, pointing at the shared Page component', () => {
+    const request = requestSchema('My%20Coll/list') as unknown as {
+      required?: string[];
+      properties: Record<string, { $ref?: string }>;
+    };
+
+    expect(request.required ?? []).not.toContain('page');
+    expect(request.properties.page.$ref).toBe('#/components/schemas/Page');
+  });
+
   it('should make every leaf and the branch mutually exclusive, which the runtime enforces', () => {
     const branch = branchOf('Filter_My_Coll') as unknown as { not: { required: string[] } };