diff --git a/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts b/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
index 8269add1e..4523664df 100644
--- a/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
+++ b/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ export const HANDLER_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS: Readonly<Record<string, number>> = {
   // few writes. Generous 10-min budget (vs the tight null-default) covers a
   // slow gateway without the 30-min loop budget.
   chronicle_extract: TEN_MIN_MS,
+  // #3207 — same shape as chronicle_extract: one page = one LLM extraction
+  // call + a few writes. Was missing from this map, so it inherited the tight
+  // null-default and got dead-lettered mid-generation on slow chat providers
+  // (facts silently lost) — exactly the failure this file exists to prevent.
+  'facts-absorb': TEN_MIN_MS,
   // Per-page contextual reindex jobs process chunks sequentially with one
   // rate-leased LLM synopsis call per chunk; large transcript pages need more
   // than the standard 30-min long-job budget.
diff --git a/test/minions.test.ts b/test/minions.test.ts
index 90148361e..afeabe15c 100644
--- a/test/minions.test.ts
+++ b/test/minions.test.ts
@@ -354,6 +354,15 @@ describe('MinionQueue: #1737 per-handler default timeout', () => {
     expect(sub.timeout_ms).toBe(30 * 60 * 1000);
   });
 
+  // #3207 — facts-absorb is one LLM extraction call per page (same shape as
+  // chronicle_extract) but was missing from HANDLER_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS, so it
+  // inherited the tight null-default wall-clock and was dead-lettered
+  // mid-generation on slow chat providers (facts silently lost).
+  test('facts-absorb gets the 10-min LLM-extraction default (#3207)', async () => {
+    const job = await queue.add('facts-absorb', { slug: 'people/alice-example' });
+    expect(job.timeout_ms).toBe(10 * 60 * 1000);
+  });
+
   test('contextual per-chunk reindex gets the 60-min default', async () => {
     const job = await queue.add('contextual_reindex_per_chunk', { page_slug: 'large-transcript' }, undefined, {
       allowProtectedSubmit: true,