diff --git a/src/cli/commands/logs.ts b/src/cli/commands/logs.ts
index 50dc3e5..43eaca5 100644
--- a/src/cli/commands/logs.ts
+++ b/src/cli/commands/logs.ts
@@ -187,6 +187,15 @@ export default class Logs extends Command {
         let currentLogFile = latestLogFile;
 
         const existingContent = await fsPromise.readFile(currentLogFile, "utf-8");
+        // Anchor the follow offset to exactly the bytes we just read, NOT a separate
+        // fsPromise.stat() taken afterwards. A later stat is racy: any append landing between
+        // this read and the stat is skipped (position jumps past it) yet was never in the dump
+        // above, so follow mode silently drops those lines. Under load that window widens — this
+        // was the cause of the intermittent CI failure where an appended line was never surfaced
+        // (issue #77). Byte length (not string length) because position indexes bytes in the file.
+        let position = Buffer.byteLength(existingContent, "utf-8");
+        let pendingBuffer = "";
+
         const entries = this._parseLogEntries(existingContent);
         const filtered = this._filterEntries(entries, since, until);
         const streamFiltered = streamFilter ? this._filterByStream(filtered, streamFilter) : filtered;
@@ -194,10 +203,6 @@ export default class Logs extends Command {
         const initialOutput = tailed.map((e) => e.lines.join("\n")).join("\n");
         if (initialOutput) process.stdout.write(initialOutput + "\n");
 
-        const stat = await fsPromise.stat(currentLogFile);
-        let position = stat.size;
-        let pendingBuffer = "";
-
         // Watch for new data by reading directly from `position`. We intentionally do
         // NOT gate on fsPromise.stat().size — on Windows + NTFS, stat() returns a stale
         // size for a short window after another process appends, which causes the gate