diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts
index 3e12724513c..38857d2e8ee 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-refusal-retry.test.ts
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ const UNREACHABLE = new Set<Pair>([
 ])
 
 describe('agentSessionRefusalOperationState host oracle', () => {
-  it('agrees with every refusal the real host path can produce', async () => {
+  // 26 real host round trips; the default 5s budget sits at the edge on CI.
+  it('agrees with every refusal the real host path can produce', { timeout: 30_000 }, async () => {
     const produced = new Set<Pair>()
     const record = (pair: Pair) => produced.add(pair)