diff --git a/tests/cli-status-menubar.test.ts b/tests/cli-status-menubar.test.ts
index 954f2a07..d2186b46 100644
--- a/tests/cli-status-menubar.test.ts
+++ b/tests/cli-status-menubar.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
 import { delimiter as pathDelimiter, join } from 'node:path'
 import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process'
 
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+// Every case here spawns the real CLI and does genuine multi-provider parse
+// work; the 5s default is fine on a dev laptop and not on a shared 2-core
+// runner, where individual cases have been observed needing 6-8s.
+vi.setConfig({ testTimeout: 30_000 })
 
 function runCli(args: string[], home: string, extraEnv: Record<string, string | undefined> = {}) {
   return spawnSync(process.execPath, ['--import', 'tsx', 'src/cli.ts', ...args], {
@@ -268,7 +273,7 @@ describe('codeburn status --format menubar-json', () => {
     } finally {
       await rm(home, { recursive: true, force: true })
     }
-  }, 30_000)
+  })
 
   it('keeps idle Claude config options visible for the selected period', async () => {
     const home = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'codeburn-menubar-claude-config-idle-'))