diff --git a/crates/freshell-ws/tests/codex_locator_activity.rs b/crates/freshell-ws/tests/codex_locator_activity.rs
index 3a677ee85..17a34e544 100644
--- a/crates/freshell-ws/tests/codex_locator_activity.rs
+++ b/crates/freshell-ws/tests/codex_locator_activity.rs
@@ -82,22 +82,22 @@ async fn send_create(ws: &mut common::TestWs, mode: &str) -> String {
         .to_string()
 }
 
-/// Scan WS text frames until `pred` matches or the 30s budget elapses.
+/// Scan WS text frames until `pred` matches or the 120s budget elapses.
 /// Non-matching frames are simply skipped (no drop-on-mismatch semantics).
 ///
-/// DEFLAKE (f3wp refresh): was 10s. Under workspace-level load (full
-/// cargo-test parallelism alongside a parallel playwright e2e run) the
-/// inotify-driven rollout read plus frame delivery was observed to exceed
-/// 10s once (`/tmp/f3wp-refresh/cargo-runverify1.log`, "expected
-/// terminal.turn.complete ... stamped by the locator adoption",
-/// 15.43s total test time). The assertions are unchanged -- only the wait
-/// budget grew; a genuinely missing frame still fails, 20s later.
+/// DEFLAKE (f3wp refresh → pkvz): was 10s → 30s. Under workspace-level load
+/// (full cargo-test parallelism on a 4-core CI runner) the inotify-driven
+/// rollout read plus the locator adoption sweep latency was observed to
+/// exceed 30s (kata pkvz, 3+ CI occurrences). Bumped to 120s to cover the
+/// observed sweep latency under contention with margin. The assertions are
+/// unchanged — only the wait budget grew; a genuinely missing frame still
+/// fails, 120s later.
 #[cfg(unix)]
 async fn wait_for_frame(
     ws: &mut common::TestWs,
     pred: impl Fn(&serde_json::Value) -> bool,
 ) -> bool {
-    let deadline = tokio::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(30);
+    let deadline = tokio::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(120);
     while tokio::time::Instant::now() < deadline {
         let remaining = deadline.saturating_duration_since(tokio::time::Instant::now());
         match tokio::time::timeout(remaining.max(Duration::from_millis(1)), ws.next()).await {
diff --git a/crates/freshell-ws/tests/pane_reconcile_freshagent.rs b/crates/freshell-ws/tests/pane_reconcile_freshagent.rs
index aee055a6e..53c4c35f9 100644
--- a/crates/freshell-ws/tests/pane_reconcile_freshagent.rs
+++ b/crates/freshell-ws/tests/pane_reconcile_freshagent.rs
@@ -871,15 +871,33 @@ async fn dead_session_verdict_is_warn_logged_with_claimed_identity() {
     assert_eq!(verdicts[0]["verdict"], "dead_session");
     assert_eq!(verdicts[0]["reason"], "session_not_on_disk");
 
-    let events = events.lock().expect("capture lock");
-    let hits: Vec<&CapturedEvent> = events
-        .iter()
-        .filter(|e| e.message.contains("pane_reconcile.dead_session"))
-        .collect();
+    // The WARN is emitted before the response frame is sent, but under CI
+    // contention the tracing layer's push can lag the client's read by a
+    // scheduling quantum. Bounded-poll the capture instead of asserting
+    // immediately so the test is resilient to that lag without masking a
+    // genuinely missing log (a 5s budget on a current-thread runtime).
+    let hits = tokio::time::timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(5), async {
+        loop {
+            let hits: Vec<CapturedEvent> = {
+                let events = events.lock().expect("capture lock");
+                events
+                    .iter()
+                    .filter(|e| e.message.contains("pane_reconcile.dead_session"))
+                    .cloned()
+                    .collect()
+            };
+            if hits.len() == 1 {
+                return hits;
+            }
+            tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(50)).await;
+        }
+    })
+    .await
+    .expect("dead_session WARN was not captured within 5s");
     assert_eq!(
         hits.len(),
         1,
-        "exactly one dead_session WARN per dead verdict; got {events:?}"
+        "exactly one dead_session WARN per dead verdict; got {hits:?}"
     );
     let fields = &hits[0].fields;
     assert!(