diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.ts
index 1b3bc4fc55..e79217a3c2 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,51 @@ const SAFE_PARSE_CHUNK_CHARS = 16 * 1024;
  */
 const DIRECT_PARSE_LIMIT_CHARS = 16 * 1024;
 
+/**
+ * Optional per-parse timeout, opt-in via `GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS`.
+ *
+ * When unset (default) the parser has no timeout — behaviour is identical to
+ * previous versions. When set to a positive integer, `parser.setTimeoutMicros`
+ * is applied before each parse so tree-sitter aborts long-running parses
+ * cooperatively (returning `null` from `parse()`); this wrapper then converts
+ * the `null` into a catchable `ParseTimeoutError`, which existing callers in
+ * `call-processor.ts` already handle by skipping the file.
+ *
+ * Motivation: on large repos the worker-pool idle timeout can fire while
+ * tree-sitter is blocked inside a sync `parser.parse()` on a pathological
+ * file. The replacement path (`worker.terminate()`) then races the native
+ * parser and surfaces as `libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception
+ * of type Napi::Error`, killing the analysis run. Setting a per-parse
+ * timeout slightly below the worker idle timeout lets the parser abort
+ * cleanly before the pool tries to terminate it.
+ */
+const readParseTimeoutMicros = (): number => {
+  const raw = process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS;
+  if (!raw) return 0;
+  const value = Number(raw);
+  return Number.isFinite(value) && value > 0 ? Math.floor(value) : 0;
+};
+
+export class ParseTimeoutError extends Error {
+  constructor(timeoutMicros: number, sourceLength: number) {
+    super(
+      `tree-sitter parse exceeded GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS=${timeoutMicros} ` +
+        `(source length ${sourceLength} chars).`,
+    );
+    this.name = 'ParseTimeoutError';
+  }
+}
+
+const applyAndClearTimeout = <T>(parser: Parser, timeoutMicros: number, run: () => T): T => {
+  if (timeoutMicros <= 0) return run();
+  parser.setTimeoutMicros(timeoutMicros);
+  try {
+    return run();
+  } finally {
+    parser.setTimeoutMicros(0);
+  }
+};
+
 /**
  * Parse `sourceText` safely on every platform. See {@link SAFE_PARSE_CHUNK_CHARS}
  * for the underlying tree-sitter binding bug this works around.
@@ -29,12 +74,17 @@ export function parseSourceSafe(
   oldTree?: Parser.Tree,
   options?: Parser.Options,
 ): Parser.Tree {
-  if (sourceText.length <= DIRECT_PARSE_LIMIT_CHARS) {
-    return parser.parse(sourceText, oldTree, options);
-  }
-  const input: Parser.Input = (index) => {
-    if (index >= sourceText.length) return null;
-    return sourceText.slice(index, index + SAFE_PARSE_CHUNK_CHARS);
-  };
-  return parser.parse(input, oldTree, options);
+  const timeoutMicros = readParseTimeoutMicros();
+  const tree = applyAndClearTimeout(parser, timeoutMicros, () => {
+    if (sourceText.length <= DIRECT_PARSE_LIMIT_CHARS) {
+      return parser.parse(sourceText, oldTree, options);
+    }
+    const input: Parser.Input = (index) => {
+      if (index >= sourceText.length) return null;
+      return sourceText.slice(index, index + SAFE_PARSE_CHUNK_CHARS);
+    };
+    return parser.parse(input, oldTree, options);
+  });
+  if (!tree) throw new ParseTimeoutError(timeoutMicros, sourceText.length);
+  return tree;
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/safe-parse.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/safe-parse.test.ts
index e536bbd40d..b083e15a16 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/safe-parse.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/safe-parse.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { describe, it, expect, afterEach } from 'vitest';
 import Parser from 'tree-sitter';
 import Python from 'tree-sitter-python';
-import { parseSourceSafe } from '../../src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.js';
+import { parseSourceSafe, ParseTimeoutError } from '../../src/core/tree-sitter/safe-parse.js';
 
 const makeParser = (): Parser => {
   const p = new Parser();
@@ -71,4 +71,35 @@ describe('parseSourceSafe', () => {
     expect(tree.rootNode.hasError).toBe(false);
     expect(tree.rootNode.endIndex).toBe(large.length);
   });
+
+  describe('GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS opt-in', () => {
+    const ORIGINAL = process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS;
+    afterEach(() => {
+      if (ORIGINAL === undefined) delete process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS;
+      else process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS = ORIGINAL;
+    });
+
+    it('is a no-op when the env var is unset (backward compatible)', () => {
+      delete process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS;
+      const tree = parseSourceSafe(makeParser(), 'x = 1\n');
+      expect(tree.rootNode.hasError).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('throws ParseTimeoutError when parsing exceeds the configured timeout', () => {
+      // 1 microsecond is below any real parse latency — tree-sitter aborts
+      // immediately and returns null, which the wrapper converts to a throw.
+      process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS = '1';
+      const src = buildSource(64 * 1024);
+      expect(() => parseSourceSafe(makeParser(), src)).toThrowError(ParseTimeoutError);
+    });
+
+    it('resets the parser timeout after each call so reuse is unaffected', () => {
+      const parser = makeParser();
+      process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS = '1';
+      expect(() => parseSourceSafe(parser, buildSource(64 * 1024))).toThrow();
+      delete process.env.GITNEXUS_PARSE_TIMEOUT_MICROS;
+      const tree = parseSourceSafe(parser, 'x = 1\n');
+      expect(tree.rootNode.hasError).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
 });