diff --git a/src/vouch/storage.py b/src/vouch/storage.py
index 653ea806..466810bd 100644
--- a/src/vouch/storage.py
+++ b/src/vouch/storage.py
@@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ def _deserialize_page(text: str) -> Page:
     return Page(body=body, **meta)
 
 
+def _load_page_or_skip(path: Path) -> Page | None:
+    """Parse one page file; skip corrupt/unreadable files like ``_load_or_skip``."""
+    try:
+        return _deserialize_page(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    except (yaml.YAMLError, ValidationError, UnicodeDecodeError, OSError, ValueError) as e:
+        _log.warning("skipping unreadable page %s: %s", path.name, e)
+        return None
+
+
 class KBStore:
     """File-backed CRUD layer. Pure I/O — no business logic."""
 
@@ -550,8 +559,9 @@ def list_pages(self) -> list[Page]:
         if not pdir.is_dir():
             return []
         return [
-            _deserialize_page(p.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+            pg
             for p in sorted(pdir.glob("*.md"))
+            if (pg := _load_page_or_skip(p)) is not None
         ]
 
     # --- entities ----------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/tests/test_storage.py b/tests/test_storage.py
index 03ce0fba..70d2b43e 100644
--- a/tests/test_storage.py
+++ b/tests/test_storage.py
@@ -860,3 +860,12 @@ def test_list_claims_skips_unreadable_file(store: KBStore) -> None:
 
     claims = store.list_claims()
     assert [c.id for c in claims] == ["c-ok"]
+
+
+def test_list_pages_skips_unreadable_file(store: KBStore) -> None:
+    """One corrupt page must not take down vouch search/status/lint."""
+    store.put_page(Page(id="p-ok", title="ok", body="content"))
+    (store.kb_dir / "pages" / "p-bad.md").write_text("not valid frontmatter")
+
+    pages = store.list_pages()
+    assert [p.id for p in pages] == ["p-ok"]