diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1c09d32d..c6cfad0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ jobs:
   unit-test:
     uses: sxzz/workflows/.github/workflows/unit-test.yml@main
     with:
+      build: pnpm run ci:build
+      # The Build step above already produced a fresh dist/ for this exact
+      # checkout, so skip `test`'s own `build && vitest` — running plain
+      # vitest halves the number of full-monorepo `turbo run build` passes
+      # per job, which is where the flaky Windows native-toolchain crash
+      # (see scripts/ci-retry.ts) shows up.
+      test: pnpm exec vitest
       lint: pnpm run lint && pnpm run knip
 
   e2e:
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 71514b55..5fdb4af9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   "bugs": "https://github.com/devframes/devframe/issues",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "turbo run build --concurrency=3",
+    "ci:build": "tsx scripts/ci-retry.ts pnpm run build",
     "watch": "pnpm -r run watch",
     "play": "tsx scripts/play.ts",
     "dev": "tsx scripts/play.ts",
diff --git a/scripts/ci-retry.ts b/scripts/ci-retry.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6edc094d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/ci-retry.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process'
+import process from 'node:process'
+
+/**
+ * Windows CI runners intermittently crash while spawning devframe's native
+ * build toolchain (rolldown, via tsdown/vite) with
+ * `STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED` (exit code -1073741502, surfaced by pnpm/turbo
+ * as 3221225794) under `turbo run build`'s concurrency — an environment
+ * fault unrelated to the code under test. `unit-test / test
+ * (windows-latest, *)` in the "CI" workflow has failed on this signature
+ * across many unrelated commits and packages.
+ *
+ * Retries the given command a bounded number of times instead of failing
+ * the run on this class of transient crash. A genuine compile error fails
+ * the same way on every attempt, so it still surfaces after the retry
+ * budget is spent.
+ */
+
+const [, , ...commandParts] = process.argv
+if (commandParts.length === 0) {
+  console.error('Usage: tsx scripts/ci-retry.ts <command...>')
+  process.exit(1)
+}
+
+const command = commandParts.join(' ')
+const attempts = Number(process.env.CI_RETRY_ATTEMPTS ?? 3)
+const delayMs = Number(process.env.CI_RETRY_DELAY_MS ?? 5000)
+
+function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
+  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
+}
+
+async function main(): Promise<void> {
+  for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= attempts; attempt++) {
+    const result = spawnSync(command, { stdio: 'inherit', shell: true })
+    if (result.status === 0)
+      return
+
+    const code = result.status ?? result.signal ?? 'unknown'
+    const isLastAttempt = attempt === attempts
+    console.error(`\n[ci-retry] \`${command}\` failed (exit ${code}), attempt ${attempt}/${attempts}${isLastAttempt ? '' : ` — retrying in ${delayMs}ms`}\n`)
+
+    if (isLastAttempt)
+      process.exit(typeof result.status === 'number' ? result.status : 1)
+
+    await sleep(delayMs)
+  }
+}
+
+main()