diff --git a/scripts/cluster_power_recovery.sh b/scripts/cluster_power_recovery.sh
index fedec2ab..0b9bbd6c 100755
--- a/scripts/cluster_power_recovery.sh
+++ b/scripts/cluster_power_recovery.sh
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ STARTUP_IGNORE_PODS_REGEX="${STARTUP_IGNORE_PODS_REGEX:-}"
 STARTUP_IGNORE_WORKLOADS_REGEX="${STARTUP_IGNORE_WORKLOADS_REGEX:-}"
 STARTUP_WORKLOAD_NAMESPACE_EXCLUDES_REGEX="${STARTUP_WORKLOAD_NAMESPACE_EXCLUDES_REGEX:-^(kube-system|kube-public|kube-node-lease|flux-system)$}"
 STARTUP_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS="${STARTUP_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS:-}"
+RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS="${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS:-ai-llm,descheduler,finance,game-stream,gitops-ui,health,jellyfin,jenkins,longhorn-ui,mailu,nextcloud,nextcloud-mail-sync,outline,planka,quality,resource-guardrails,typhon,vaultwarden,veles,wallet-monero-temp,xmr-miner}"
+RECOVERY_FLUX_CRITICAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS="${RECOVERY_FLUX_CRITICAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS:-flux-system,core,helm,cert-manager,longhorn-adopt,longhorn,metallb,traefik,vault-csi,vault-injector,vault,postgres,harbor,gitea,keycloak,oauth2-proxy,openldap,openclaw,monitoring,bstein-dev-home,bstein-dev-home-migrations,comms,crypto,logging,maintenance,monerod,sui-metrics}"
+RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE="${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE:-${HOME}/${STATE_SUBDIR:-.local/share/ananke}/longhorn_unlock_optional_flux.tsv}"
+RECOVERY_FLUX_RESTART_KUSTOMIZE_CONTROLLER="${RECOVERY_FLUX_RESTART_KUSTOMIZE_CONTROLLER:-1}"
 STARTUP_SERVICE_CHECK_TIMEOUT_SECONDS="${STARTUP_SERVICE_CHECK_TIMEOUT_SECONDS:-10}"
 STARTUP_SERVICE_CHECKLIST="${STARTUP_SERVICE_CHECKLIST:-}"
 STARTUP_INCLUDE_INGRESS_CHECKS="${STARTUP_INCLUDE_INGRESS_CHECKS:-1}"
@@ -965,6 +969,74 @@ patch_kustomization_suspend() {
   fi
 }
 
+csv_each() {
+  local csv="$1"
+  local item
+  IFS=',' read -r -a _csv_items <<< "${csv}"
+  for item in "${_csv_items[@]}"; do
+    item="${item//[[:space:]]/}"
+    [[ -n "${item}" ]] || continue
+    printf '%s\n' "${item}"
+  done
+}
+
+save_recovery_optional_flux_snapshot() {
+  [[ "${EXECUTE}" -eq 1 ]] || return 0
+  mkdir -p "$(dirname "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}")"
+  : > "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}"
+  local name suspend
+  while IFS= read -r name; do
+    if ! kubectl -n flux-system get kustomization "${name}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      continue
+    fi
+    suspend="$(kubectl -n flux-system get kustomization "${name}" -o jsonpath='{.spec.suspend}' 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    [[ -n "${suspend}" ]] || suspend="false"
+    printf '%s\t%s\n' "${name}" "${suspend}" >> "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}"
+  done < <(csv_each "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS}")
+  log "recovery-flux-optional-snapshot=${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}"
+}
+
+patch_recovery_optional_flux_suspend() {
+  local value="$1"
+  local name
+  if [[ "${value}" == "true" ]]; then
+    save_recovery_optional_flux_snapshot
+  fi
+  while IFS= read -r name; do
+    patch_kustomization_suspend "${name}" "${value}"
+  done < <(csv_each "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS}")
+}
+
+restore_recovery_optional_flux_suspend() {
+  [[ -f "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}" ]] || return 0
+  local name suspend
+  while IFS=$'\t' read -r name suspend; do
+    [[ -n "${name}" ]] || continue
+    [[ "${suspend}" == "true" || "${suspend}" == "false" ]] || suspend="false"
+    patch_kustomization_suspend "${name}" "${suspend}"
+  done < "${RECOVERY_FLUX_OPTIONAL_SNAPSHOT_FILE}"
+}
+
+annotate_flux_kustomizations() {
+  local now name
+  now="$(date --iso-8601=seconds)"
+  while IFS= read -r name; do
+    if kubectl -n flux-system get kustomization "${name}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      run kubectl -n flux-system annotate kustomization "${name}" reconcile.fluxcd.io/requestedAt="${now}" --overwrite
+    fi
+  done < <(csv_each "$1")
+}
+
+restart_kustomize_controller_for_critical_thaw() {
+  if [[ "${RECOVERY_FLUX_RESTART_KUSTOMIZE_CONTROLLER}" != "1" && "${RECOVERY_FLUX_RESTART_KUSTOMIZE_CONTROLLER}" != "true" ]]; then
+    return 0
+  fi
+  if kubectl -n flux-system get deployment kustomize-controller >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    warn "Restarting kustomize-controller after optional Flux suspension to clear any single-worker health-check backlog."
+    run kubectl -n flux-system rollout restart deployment kustomize-controller
+  fi
+}
+
 patch_helmrelease_suspend() {
   local namespace="$1"
   local name="$2"
@@ -1372,13 +1444,18 @@ resume_deadlock_automation_after_core_recovery() {
   fi
 
   patch_flux_suspend_all false
+  patch_recovery_optional_flux_suspend true
   if kubectl -n flux-system get deployment kustomize-controller >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     run kubectl -n flux-system scale deployment kustomize-controller --replicas=1
   fi
   if kubectl -n flux-system get deployment helm-controller >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     run kubectl -n flux-system scale deployment helm-controller --replicas=1
   fi
-  trigger_flux_reconcile_all || true
+  restart_kustomize_controller_for_critical_thaw
+  if command -v flux >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    run flux reconcile source git flux-system -n flux-system --timeout=3m || true
+  fi
+  annotate_flux_kustomizations "${RECOVERY_FLUX_CRITICAL_KUSTOMIZATIONS}" || true
   mark_checkpoint longhorn_unlock_automation_resumed
 }