diff --git a/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts b/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
index 334e1f231..8269add1e 100644
--- a/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
+++ b/src/core/minions/handler-timeouts.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  */
 
 const THIRTY_MIN_MS = 30 * 60 * 1000;
+const SIXTY_MIN_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
 const TEN_MIN_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
 
 /**
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ 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,
+  // 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.
+  contextual_reindex_per_chunk: SIXTY_MIN_MS,
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/test/minions.test.ts b/test/minions.test.ts
index 3f6bf3c07..04555e43f 100644
--- a/test/minions.test.ts
+++ b/test/minions.test.ts
@@ -354,6 +354,13 @@ describe('MinionQueue: #1737 per-handler default timeout', () => {
     expect(sub.timeout_ms).toBe(30 * 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,
+    });
+    expect(job.timeout_ms).toBe(60 * 60 * 1000);
+  });
+
   test('explicit timeout_ms always wins over the default', async () => {
     const job = await queue.add('embed-backfill', { sourceId: 'x' }, { timeout_ms: 5000 });
     expect(job.timeout_ms).toBe(5000);