diff --git a/_render_test.v b/_render_test.v
index a8f0429..35ca521 100644
--- a/_render_test.v
+++ b/_render_test.v
@@ -840,3 +840,84 @@ fn test_invalid_clip_is_skipped_and_next_draw_kept() {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// svg_with_triangle_floats builds a DrawSvg with a triangle float array of the given
+// length (x,y pairs). Used to exercise the budget helpers (group_triangle_vertices does
+// not validate geometry; it only sums lengths).
+fn svg_with_triangle_floats(float_len int, is_mask bool, group int) Renderer {
+	return Renderer(DrawSvg{
+		triangles:    []f32{len: float_len}
+		color:        gg.Color{255, 255, 255, 255}
+		is_clip_mask: is_mask
+		clip_group:   group
+		x:            0
+		y:            0
+		scale:        1
+	})
+}
+
+// admit_triangle_vertices accumulates within the budget and rejects (warning once) the
+// batch that would overflow the shared sokol-gl buffer, leaving the running total intact.
+fn test_admit_triangle_vertices_accumulates_and_caps() {
+	mut w := make_window()
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == 0
+	// More than half the budget, so a second identical batch must overflow. Derived from
+	// the const so the boundary stays valid if max_frame_triangle_vertices is retuned.
+	half := max_frame_triangle_vertices / 2 + 1
+	assert 2 * half > max_frame_triangle_vertices
+	assert w.admit_triangle_vertices(half)
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == half
+	// half + half > budget -> rejected, total unchanged, warned once.
+	assert !w.admit_triangle_vertices(half)
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == half
+	assert w.render_guard_warned['triangle_vertex_budget']
+	// A batch that exactly fills the remaining budget is admitted (boundary fit).
+	assert w.admit_triangle_vertices(max_frame_triangle_vertices - half)
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == max_frame_triangle_vertices
+}
+
+// A single batch larger than the whole buffer is rejected outright.
+fn test_admit_triangle_vertices_rejects_single_oversized() {
+	mut w := make_window()
+	assert !w.admit_triangle_vertices(max_frame_triangle_vertices + 1)
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == 0
+	assert w.render_guard_warned['triangle_vertex_budget']
+}
+
+// group_triangle_vertices counts a clip mask's geometry TWICE (stencil write + clear)
+// and content once, matching the real sokol-gl emissions of draw_clipped_svg_group.
+fn test_group_triangle_vertices_counts_mask_twice() {
+	// mask: 90 vertices (len 180) drawn twice -> 180; content: 30 vertices (len 60) -> 30.
+	renderers := [
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(180, true, 1),
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(60, false, 1),
+	]
+	assert group_triangle_vertices(renderers, 0, renderers.len) == 180 + 30
+}
+
+// A clip group with no mask (unclipped fallback) is budgeted as content-only.
+fn test_group_triangle_vertices_content_only() {
+	renderers := [
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(60, false, 1),
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(120, false, 1),
+	]
+	assert group_triangle_vertices(renderers, 0, renderers.len) == 30 + 60
+}
+
+// The clipped-group draw path decision: a group whose doubled-mask + content total would
+// overflow is rejected atomically (admit returns false, nothing accumulated) — even
+// though the mask and content each fit individually. This is the all-or-nothing skip
+// that prevents both the unclipped-content fallback and the buffer overflow.
+fn test_clip_group_over_budget_rejected_atomically() {
+	// mask 32766 vertices (len 65532) -> counted 65532 (2x); already over budget alone.
+	renderers := [
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(65532, true, 1),
+		svg_with_triangle_floats(60, false, 1),
+	]
+	total := group_triangle_vertices(renderers, 0, renderers.len)
+	assert total > max_frame_triangle_vertices
+	mut w := make_window()
+	assert !w.admit_triangle_vertices(total)
+	assert w.frame_triangle_vertices == 0
+	assert w.render_guard_warned['triangle_vertex_budget']
+}
diff --git a/render_draw_dispatch.v b/render_draw_dispatch.v
index ebbbae5..afd7bc7 100644
--- a/render_draw_dispatch.v
+++ b/render_draw_dispatch.v
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ fn draw_quad_uv(x f32, y f32, w f32, h f32, z f32, u0 f32, v0 f32, u1 f32, v1 f3
 // draw logic of GUI
 fn renderers_draw(mut window Window) {
 	renderers := window.renderers
+	window.frame_triangle_vertices = 0 // reset the sokol-gl triangle budget for this draw pass
 	mut active_clip := window.window_rect()
 
 	mut i := 0
@@ -199,6 +200,9 @@ fn draw_svg_batch(renderers []Renderer, start int, end int, c gg.Color, x f32, y
 			continue
 		}
 		if renderer is DrawSvg {
+			if !window.admit_triangle_vertices(renderer.triangles.len / 2) {
+				continue // over the frame's triangle budget — skip this batch member
+			}
 			mut i := 0
 			for i < renderer.triangles.len - 5 {
 				x0 := (x + renderer.triangles[i] * tri_scale) * scale
@@ -308,6 +312,15 @@ fn draw_clipped_svg_group(renderers []Renderer, idx int, mut window Window) int
 		return group_end
 	}
 
+	// Budget the clipped group atomically against this frame's sokol-gl triangle buffer:
+	// a mask is drawn twice (stencil write + clear), content once. If the group would
+	// overflow, drop the WHOLE group — drawing content without its mask renders it
+	// unclipped — with a one-time warning. Per consecutive run, so clip-group ids that
+	// repeat across different SVGs never interfere.
+	if !window.admit_triangle_vertices(group_triangle_vertices(renderers, group_start, group_end)) {
+		return group_end
+	}
+
 	if !has_mask {
 		// No mask — draw content unclipped
 		for i in group_start .. group_end {
@@ -548,6 +561,9 @@ fn draw_triangles_gradient(triangles []f32, vertex_colors []gg.Color, x f32, y f
 	if triangles.len < 6 || vertex_colors.len < 3 {
 		return
 	}
+	if !window.admit_triangle_vertices(triangles.len / 2) {
+		return
+	}
 
 	scale := window.ui.scale
 
diff --git a/render_validate.v b/render_validate.v
index 5e3f61c..37aaa13 100644
--- a/render_validate.v
+++ b/render_validate.v
@@ -3,6 +3,66 @@ module gui
 import log
 import math
 
+// max_frame_triangle_vertices caps the triangle geometry emitted in a single frame.
+// gg sets up sokol-gl with the default descriptor, so every triangle drawn in a frame
+// is batched into ONE fixed-capacity vertex buffer (sokol's 64k-vertex default).
+// Overflowing that buffer makes sokol-gl silently drop the WHOLE frame's geometry — a
+// blank window — with no error surfaced to the application.
+//
+// The budget is metered in the DRAW pass (render_draw_dispatch.v) at the points where
+// triangle geometry is actually emitted to sokol-gl, via admit_triangle_vertices(). It
+// covers the only UNBOUNDED contributor — DrawSvg triangle geometry (draw_canvas
+// polylines/polygons, SVG paths). Vector chrome (rounded rects, circles, images) shares
+// the same buffer but is bounded by the widget count, so it is covered by a fixed
+// reserve (the 16k below) rather than metered per-draw. A runaway DrawSvg batch (e.g. a
+// plot fed far more points than the canvas has pixels) is skipped — for a clipped group,
+// the whole group is skipped atomically — with a one-time warning, instead of blanking.
+// DrawSvg.triangles are x,y pairs, so a renderer's vertex count is triangles.len / 2.
+const max_frame_triangle_vertices = 49152 // 64k sokol-gl buffer − 16k chrome reserve
+
+// render_guard_warn_once logs a render-guard warning at most once per key per window.
+fn render_guard_warn_once(mut w Window, key string, msg string) {
+	if !w.render_guard_warned[key] {
+		log.warn(msg)
+		w.render_guard_warned[key] = true
+	}
+}
+
+// admit_triangle_vertices reserves `vertices` from this frame's sokol-gl triangle
+// budget. Returns true (and accumulates) if it fits, or false (warning once) if drawing
+// it would overflow the shared vertex buffer and blank the frame. Called from the draw
+// pass at each triangle-emission site; frame_triangle_vertices is reset per draw pass in
+// renderers_draw().
+fn (mut window Window) admit_triangle_vertices(vertices int) bool {
+	if window.frame_triangle_vertices + vertices > max_frame_triangle_vertices {
+		render_guard_warn_once(mut window, 'triangle_vertex_budget',
+			'renderer guard skipped triangle geometry: per-frame budget (${max_frame_triangle_vertices}) exceeded — sokol-gl buffer would overflow')
+		return false
+	}
+	window.frame_triangle_vertices += vertices
+	return true
+}
+
+// group_triangle_vertices sums the sokol-gl vertices a stencil-clipped DrawSvg group
+// emits in renderers[start..end]: a clip mask is drawn TWICE (stencil write + clear, so
+// triangles.len = 2 × triangles.len/2), content once (triangles.len/2). Used to budget a
+// clipped group atomically — drawing content without its mask renders it unclipped, so it
+// is all-or-nothing.
+fn group_triangle_vertices(renderers []Renderer, start int, end int) int {
+	mut total := 0
+	for idx in start .. end {
+		r := renderers[idx]
+		if r is DrawSvg {
+			if r.is_clip_mask {
+				total += r.triangles.len // drawn twice: len/2 vertices × 2: len/2 vertices × 2
+			} else {
+				total += r.triangles.len / 2
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return total
+}
+
 fn f32_is_finite(value f32) bool {
 	return !math.is_nan(value) && !math.is_inf(value, 0)
 }
@@ -143,13 +203,7 @@ fn guard_renderer_or_skip(r Renderer, mut w Window) bool {
 	}
 
 	kind := renderer_kind(r)
-	if w.render_guard_warned.len == 0 {
-		w.render_guard_warned = map[string]bool{}
-	}
-	if !w.render_guard_warned[kind] {
-		log.warn('renderer guard skipped invalid renderer: ${kind}')
-		w.render_guard_warned[kind] = true
-	}
+	render_guard_warn_once(mut w, kind, 'renderer guard skipped invalid renderer: ${kind}')
 	return false
 }
 
@@ -157,6 +211,9 @@ fn emit_renderer_if_valid(r Renderer, mut window Window) bool {
 	if !renderer_valid_for_draw(r) {
 		return false
 	}
+	// Triangle-vertex budgeting happens in the DRAW pass (render_draw_dispatch.v), at
+	// the actual sokol-gl emission sites — not here — so it meters real emissions and
+	// budgets clipped groups atomically. See max_frame_triangle_vertices.
 	window.renderers << r
 	return true
 }
diff --git a/window.v b/window.v
index f14972b..17b19e9 100644
--- a/window.v
+++ b/window.v
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ mut:
 	refresh_layout           bool                   // Trigger full view/layout/renderer rebuild next frame
 	refresh_render_only      bool                   // Trigger renderer-only rebuild from existing layout
 	render_guard_warned      map[string]bool        // Renderer kinds warned by render guard (prod only)
+	frame_triangle_vertices  int                    // Running sokol-gl triangle-vertex count for the current draw pass (reset in renderers_draw)
 	renderers                []Renderer             // Flat list of drawing instructions for the current frame
 	scratch                  ScratchPools           // Bounded scratch arrays reused in hot paths
 	stats                    Stats                  // Rendering statistics