diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy-staging.yml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy-staging.yml
index d5378f57..db6f873e 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy-staging.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy-staging.yml
@@ -96,7 +96,19 @@ jobs:
           git init .
           git remote remove origin 2>/dev/null || true
           git remote add origin https://git.copse.top/root/Jyotisha.git
-          git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"
+          fetch_succeeded=false
+          for attempt in 1 2 3; do
+            if timeout 120 git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"; then
+              fetch_succeeded=true
+              break
+            fi
+            if [ "$attempt" -eq 3 ]; then
+              echo "trusted main fetch failed after $attempt bounded attempts" >&2
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            sleep $((attempt * 10))
+          done
+          [[ "$fetch_succeeded" == true ]]
           git checkout --detach --force origin/main
           git merge-base --is-ancestor "$DEPLOY_SHA" HEAD || { echo "staging revision is not in trusted main history" >&2; exit 1; }
 
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/migrate-staging-database.yml b/.gitea/workflows/migrate-staging-database.yml
index 0b4e750d..67f2f1c1 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/migrate-staging-database.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/migrate-staging-database.yml
@@ -68,7 +68,19 @@ jobs:
           git init .
           git remote remove origin 2>/dev/null || true
           git remote add origin https://git.copse.top/root/Jyotisha.git
-          git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"
+          fetch_succeeded=false
+          for attempt in 1 2 3; do
+            if timeout 120 git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"; then
+              fetch_succeeded=true
+              break
+            fi
+            if [ "$attempt" -eq 3 ]; then
+              echo "trusted main fetch failed after $attempt bounded attempts" >&2
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            sleep $((attempt * 10))
+          done
+          [[ "$fetch_succeeded" == true ]]
           git checkout --detach --force origin/main
           git merge-base --is-ancestor "$DEPLOY_SHA" HEAD || { echo "staging revision is not in trusted main history" >&2; exit 1; }
 
diff --git a/docs/BUG_HISTORY.md b/docs/BUG_HISTORY.md
index 5c7fa924..967278be 100644
--- a/docs/BUG_HISTORY.md
+++ b/docs/BUG_HISTORY.md
@@ -2223,4 +2223,20 @@
 - 防复发：禁止 staging workflow 直接注入多行私钥或打印 decoded secret 变量；env owner 必须由部署树身份决定，root 受控脚本不得用 root 临时文件改变持久 env owner。任何凭据日志暴露先轮换/撤销/清理，再修代码和重跑。
 - 相关记录：BUG-124、BUG-127、ERR-092、ERR-093、ERR-094
 - 复发自：无
-- 修复版本：待安全修复 PR 与 staging 验收
+- 修复版本：`f7a615a5bf11ed95b3a6c7e6d28dfe8150a825ef`；staging migration/deploy 与安全验收完成
+
+## BUG-129 | staging trusted-main checkout 无界 fetch 导致自动部署长期占用 mutation queue
+
+- 状态：investigating
+- 首次发现：2026-08-06
+- 最近更新：2026-08-06
+- 影响面：Gitea staging deploy/migration 控制器的 trusted-main checkout；production 与 staging 应用数据面未受影响。
+- 用户现象：exact-SHA quality gate run `1473` 成功后，自动 deploy run `1474` 超过通常部署时长仍停在 `git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"`；日志在远端对象压缩阶段停止推进，staging 公网与 `.state/deployed-revision` 均保持上一健康 SHA，SSH/远端 mutation 尚未开始。
+- 触发条件：Gitea runner 在空仓库中抓取 reviewed `main` 和目标 SHA 时，Git HTTP 传输停滞；checkout step 没有命令级 timeout/retry，只依赖 30 分钟 job 总超时。
+- 根因：发布控制器对镜像拉取有 bounded retry，却对 trusted-main Git fetch 采用无界单次调用；短暂远端/runner 传输停滞会长期占用 `staging-mutation` queue，并推迟后续受控重试。
+- 修复：Gitea deploy 与 migration 的 trusted-main fetch 改为最多 3 次、每次 120 秒的 bounded retry，重试间隔递增；耗尽后明确 fail closed。仍只 checkout `origin/main`，仍要求目标 SHA 是 reviewed main ancestor，不改变 exact-SHA artifact、forward-only 或 manual rollback 边界。
+- 验证：待本地 workflow contract、Gitea PR quality gate、原 run `1474` 终止以及修复后 exact-SHA staging deploy 完成；未完成前不得标记 resolved。
+- 防复发：所有 release-controller 网络调用必须同时具备命令级上限和失败闭合；不得仅依赖 job 总 timeout。回归测试必须同时覆盖 deploy 和 migration 的 attempt 数、单次 timeout、最终错误和 ancestry check。
+- 相关记录：BUG-128、ERR-094、ERR-095
+- 复发自：无
+- 修复版本：待控制面修复 PR 与 staging 验收
diff --git a/docs/research/pre_work_error_ledger.md b/docs/research/pre_work_error_ledger.md
index 92620164..e67b52cc 100644
--- a/docs/research/pre_work_error_ledger.md
+++ b/docs/research/pre_work_error_ledger.md
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ A failed exact-SHA staging deploy displayed the multiline staging SSH private ke
 
 Prevention: store `STAGING_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY` only as one unwrapped base64 line; workflows decode it into a mode-`0600` temporary key, validate it with `ssh-keygen`, and delete the temporary directory on every exit. Contract tests must reject direct multiline `SSH_PRIVATE_KEY` injection or `printf` of a decoded secret variable. A leaked staging key must be rotated and revoked before any rerun; production keys remain a separate boundary and were not involved in this incident.
 
+## ERR-095 | Gitea trusted-main fetch can stall until the whole deploy job times out | investigating 2026-08-06
+
+After exact-SHA staging gate `1473` succeeded, automatic deploy `1474` stopped making progress in the empty-repository `git fetch --no-tags origin main "$DEPLOY_SHA"` step before any SSH or staging mutation. Public and state SHAs remained on the previous healthy release. The checkout had no command-level bound, so the 30-minute job timeout was the only escape and the shared mutation queue remained occupied.
+
+Prevention: wrap the Gitea deploy and migration trusted-main fetch in three 120-second bounded attempts with incremental delay and explicit fail-closed exhaustion. Preserve the reviewed-main ancestry check, exact-SHA gate artifact, forward-only deploy policy, and shared mutation queue. Never treat an in-progress or timed-out fetch as a deployment result.
+
 ## Fragment Sweep Command Set
 
 ## ERR-086 | Steve Jobs jyotishganit artifacts used non-San-Francisco coordinates | mitigated 2026-07-21
diff --git a/frontend/tests/staging-backend-workflows.test.ts b/frontend/tests/staging-backend-workflows.test.ts
index cc6e9845..c34a9500 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/staging-backend-workflows.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/staging-backend-workflows.test.ts
@@ -488,7 +488,10 @@ test("Gitea deploy and migration consume the exact successful gate artifact", ()
     assert.match(workflow, /actions\/artifacts\/\$artifact_id\/zip/);
     assert.match(workflow, /node frontend\/scripts\/staging-image-manifest\.mjs/);
     assert.match(workflow, /name: Checkout trusted main controller/);
-    assert.match(workflow, /git fetch --no-tags origin main "\$DEPLOY_SHA"/);
+    assert.match(workflow, /for attempt in 1 2 3/);
+    assert.match(workflow, /timeout 120 git fetch --no-tags origin main "\$DEPLOY_SHA"/);
+    assert.match(workflow, /trusted main fetch failed after \$attempt bounded attempts/);
+    assert.match(workflow, /\[\[ "\$fetch_succeeded" == true \]\]/);
     assert.match(workflow, /git checkout --detach --force origin\/main/);
     assert.match(workflow, /git merge-base --is-ancestor "\$DEPLOY_SHA" HEAD/);
     assert.doesNotMatch(workflow, /docker manifest inspect/);