diff --git a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/orchestrate.test.ts b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/orchestrate.test.ts
index 41e9bd53fa..a79dc0c2f1 100644
--- a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/orchestrate.test.ts
+++ b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/orchestrate.test.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,68 @@ describe("orchestrateProviders", () => {
 		vi.useRealTimers();
 	});
 
+	it("preserves a successful sibling when another provider throws synchronously", async () => {
+		const synchronousFailure: HousekeepingProvider<Item> = {
+			id: "synchronously-broken",
+			capability: anyCapability("housekeeping.read"),
+			run: () => {
+				throw new Error("synchronous dependency failure");
+			},
+		};
+
+		expect(
+			await orchestrateProviders(
+				[
+					synchronousFailure,
+					provider("fast", [{ key: "fast", label: "Fast", order: 1 }]),
+				],
+				allowedContext,
+				policy,
+			),
+		).toMatchObject({
+			items: [{ key: "fast", label: "Fast", order: 1 }],
+			errors: [{ providerId: "synchronously-broken", code: "INTERNAL" }],
+		});
+	});
+
+	it("keeps the timeout result and sibling success when a provider rejects late", async () => {
+		vi.useFakeTimers();
+		let observedAbort = false;
+		const lateFailure: HousekeepingProvider<Item> = {
+			id: "late-failure",
+			capability: anyCapability("housekeeping.read"),
+			run: async (_context, signal) =>
+				await new Promise<never>((_resolve, reject) => {
+					signal.addEventListener("abort", () => {
+						observedAbort = true;
+					});
+					setTimeout(() => reject(new Error("late dependency failure")), 2_001);
+				}),
+		};
+
+		const batch = orchestrateProviders(
+			[
+				lateFailure,
+				provider("fast", [{ key: "fast", label: "Fast", order: 1 }]),
+			],
+			allowedContext,
+			policy,
+		);
+		await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(2_000);
+
+		expect(await batch).toMatchObject({
+			items: [{ key: "fast", label: "Fast", order: 1 }],
+			errors: [{ providerId: "late-failure", code: "TIMEOUT" }],
+		});
+		expect(observedAbort).toBe(true);
+		await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(1);
+		expect(await batch).toMatchObject({
+			items: [{ key: "fast", label: "Fast", order: 1 }],
+			errors: [{ providerId: "late-failure", code: "TIMEOUT" }],
+		});
+		vi.useRealTimers();
+	});
+
 	it("keeps the first duplicate before applying deterministic sorting", async () => {
 		const result = await orchestrateProviders(
 			[
@@ -108,4 +170,20 @@ describe("orchestrateProviders", () => {
 			{ key: "one", label: "One", order: 3 },
 		]);
 	});
+
+	it("applies the per-provider cap before cross-provider deduplication", async () => {
+		const result = await orchestrateProviders(
+			[
+				provider("first", [{ key: "shared", label: "First", order: 1 }]),
+				provider("second", [
+					{ key: "shared", label: "Second", order: 2 },
+					{ key: "unique", label: "Unique", order: 3 },
+				]),
+			],
+			allowedContext,
+			{ ...policy, perProviderLimit: 1, combinedLimit: 5 },
+		);
+
+		expect(result.items).toEqual([{ key: "shared", label: "First", order: 1 }]);
+	});
 });
diff --git a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.test.ts b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.test.ts
index d72c6b9ebd..1afb82f4c6 100644
--- a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.test.ts
+++ b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import {
 	anyCapability,
+	fail,
 	type HousekeepingCapabilityContext,
 	ok,
 } from "../contracts";
@@ -75,4 +76,75 @@ describe("runProvider", () => {
 			await runProvider(provider, context(["housekeeping.read"]), 2_000),
 		).toEqual({ providerId: "broken", items: [], error: "INTERNAL" });
 	});
+
+	it("maps a synchronous provider throw to one INTERNAL partial error", async () => {
+		const provider: HousekeepingProvider<string> = {
+			id: "synchronously-broken",
+			capability: anyCapability("housekeeping.read"),
+			run: () => {
+				throw new Error("synchronous dependency failure");
+			},
+		};
+
+		await expect(
+			runProvider(provider, context(["housekeeping.read"]), 2_000),
+		).resolves.toEqual({
+			providerId: "synchronously-broken",
+			items: [],
+			error: "INTERNAL",
+		});
+	});
+
+	it("times out an abort-ignoring provider exactly at 2,000 ms", async () => {
+		vi.useFakeTimers();
+		let observedAbort = false;
+		const provider: HousekeepingProvider<string> = {
+			id: "abort-ignoring",
+			capability: anyCapability("housekeeping.read"),
+			run: async (_context, signal) => {
+				signal.addEventListener("abort", () => {
+					observedAbort = true;
+				});
+				return await new Promise<never>(() => undefined);
+			},
+		};
+
+		const result = runProvider(provider, context(["housekeeping.read"]), 2_000);
+		let settled = false;
+		void result.then(() => {
+			settled = true;
+		});
+		await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(1_999);
+		expect(settled).toBe(false);
+		await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(1);
+
+		expect(await result).toEqual({
+			providerId: "abort-ignoring",
+			items: [],
+			error: "TIMEOUT",
+		});
+		expect(observedAbort).toBe(true);
+		vi.useRealTimers();
+	});
+
+	it("preserves a returned typed provider failure code once", async () => {
+		const provider: HousekeepingProvider<string> = {
+			id: "dependency-failure",
+			capability: anyCapability("housekeeping.read"),
+			run: async () =>
+				fail(
+					"DEPENDENCY_UNAVAILABLE",
+					"errors.housekeeping.dependencyUnavailable",
+					"provider-correlation",
+				),
+		};
+
+		expect(
+			await runProvider(provider, context(["housekeeping.read"]), 2_000),
+		).toEqual({
+			providerId: "dependency-failure",
+			items: [],
+			error: "DEPENDENCY_UNAVAILABLE",
+		});
+	});
 });
diff --git a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.ts b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.ts
index f64ae06ae0..295dc5cc27 100644
--- a/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.ts
+++ b/src/features/housekeeping/foundation/providers/run-provider.ts
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ export async function runProvider<T>(
 
 	const controller = new AbortController();
 	let timeout: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
-	const run = provider
-		.run(context, controller.signal)
+	const run = Promise.resolve()
+		.then(() => provider.run(context, controller.signal))
 		.then(
 			(result): ProviderRunResult<T> =>
 				result.ok