diff --git a/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml b/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
index 7e700f4c..3d8cd0da 100644
--- a/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
+++ b/services/hermes/agent-deployment.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ spec:
         ai.bstein.dev/execution: Hermes Kanban with durable direct Codex and Claude Code CLI workers
         ai.bstein.dev/model-policy: Jetson-assisted AUTO routing, low through xhigh, cross-provider fallback
         ai.bstein.dev/placement: rpi5 preferred; Jetson deferred until state storage is available
-        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260816-review-findings-contract-v4"
+        ai.bstein.dev/config-rev: "20260816-goal-judge-timeout-v5"
         prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
         prometheus.io/path: /metrics
         prometheus.io/port: "9010"
diff --git a/services/hermes/scripts/cli_lane_goal.py b/services/hermes/scripts/cli_lane_goal.py
index 230d2a43..cc96ea79 100644
--- a/services/hermes/scripts/cli_lane_goal.py
+++ b/services/hermes/scripts/cli_lane_goal.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ GOAL_JUDGE_MODEL = os.environ.get(
     "HERMES_GOAL_JUDGE_MODEL",
     "qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q4_0",
 )
+GOAL_JUDGE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = max(
+    30,
+    min(180, int(os.environ.get("HERMES_GOAL_JUDGE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "120"))),
+)
 RESULT_STATUSES = frozenset({"completed", "blocked", "incomplete"})
 GOAL_JUDGE_SCHEMA: dict[str, Any] = {
     "type": "object",
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ def judge_goal_completion(
         method="POST",
     )
     try:
-        with open_request(request, timeout=60) as response:
+        with open_request(request, timeout=GOAL_JUDGE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS) as response:
             document = json.load(response)
         content = document["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
         verdict = json.loads(content)
diff --git a/testing/tests/test_hermes_cli_lane_goal.py b/testing/tests/test_hermes_cli_lane_goal.py
index 7acadffc..24bea93d 100644
--- a/testing/tests/test_hermes_cli_lane_goal.py
+++ b/testing/tests/test_hermes_cli_lane_goal.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def test_goal_judge_uses_local_structured_verdict():
     assert reason == "remote head evidence is missing"
     assert observed["payload"]["model"] == "qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q4_0"
     assert observed["payload"]["response_format"]["json_schema"]["strict"] is True
-    assert observed["timeout"] == 60
+    assert observed["timeout"] == 120
 
 
 def test_goal_judge_fails_closed_on_invalid_response():