diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
index d0184ad..94508ae 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci-deploy.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,12 @@ jobs:
           CI: 'false'
           GENERATE_SOURCEMAP: 'false'
           NODE_OPTIONS: --max-old-space-size=4096
-        run: npm run build
+        # CRA's build (Terser minify + fork-ts-checker workers) has repeatedly died silently on
+        # this runner with no error output (OOM/SIGSEGV signature — same resource-starved-runner
+        # class as the npm ci and dotnet-install flakes elsewhere in this workflow). Retry once.
+        run: |
+          npm run build \
+            || ( echo "Frontend build failed ($?) — retrying once..." && npm run build )
 
   deploy:
     needs: test