diff --git a/changelog.d/gst-544-consumer-scan-timeout.md b/changelog.d/gst-544-consumer-scan-timeout.md
index cb1d242e7..71262c329 100644
--- a/changelog.d/gst-544-consumer-scan-timeout.md
+++ b/changelog.d/gst-544-consumer-scan-timeout.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ### Changed
 - **The consumer scan searches only files that can match** (`lib/review-collect.ts`). A cheap first pass lists the files that contain a changed file's extension, such as `.json`; the full search then reads only those files, a batch of paths per `git grep` call, with docs files left out. The result is the same as before.
-- **One deadline for the whole scan:** 300 seconds by default, set in milliseconds with `GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS` (docs/review-policy.md#review-depth). Past it the depth still fails closed with `consumer_scan_failed`, and the detail now says whether git timed out or exited with an error, and names the deadline. Other git reads keep their 60-second limit.
+- **One deadline for the whole scan:** 120 seconds by default, a minute under the 180 seconds /ship gives the whole planner, set in milliseconds with `GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS` (docs/review-policy.md#review-depth). Past it the depth still fails closed with `consumer_scan_failed`, and the detail now says whether git timed out or exited with an error, and names the deadline. Other git reads keep their 60-second limit.
 
 ### Tests
-- `test/review-collect.test.ts`: the narrowed search prints the same lines as one whole-tree `git grep` at the head, the merge base and the working tree; the same holds when every file is its own call; consumed sets on a mixed fixture (a chain through a data manifest, an untracked consumer, docs mentions ignored); a tiny deadline fails closed and says it timed out. The three new behavior tests failed before the fix.
+- `test/review-collect.test.ts`: the narrowed search prints the same lines as one whole-tree `git grep` at the head, the merge base and the working tree; the same holds when every file is its own call; consumed sets on a mixed fixture (a chain through a data manifest, an untracked consumer, docs mentions ignored); a tiny deadline fails closed and says it timed out; the default deadline stays a minute under the planner timeout in `gstack-review-dispatch` and `gstack-ship-preflight`. The new behavior tests failed before the fix.
diff --git a/docs/review-policy.md b/docs/review-policy.md
index 3c27e6e53..7c0542b56 100644
--- a/docs/review-policy.md
+++ b/docs/review-policy.md
@@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ consumer each keep the path code, and YAML, TOML and SVG are always code. More t
 2,000 data paths keep every one code; a `git grep` failure is `consumer_scan_failed`
 and fails the depth closed. The scan first lists the files that contain a candidate's
 extension and then searches only those, docs files left out, so a large data tree
-costs one cheap pass. The whole scan gets one 300-second deadline, set in milliseconds
-with `GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS`; a scan that runs past it is also
+costs one cheap pass. The whole scan gets one 120-second deadline, a minute under the
+180 seconds /ship gives `gstack-review-plan`, set in milliseconds with
+`GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS`; a scan that runs past it is also
 `consumer_scan_failed`, and its detail says it timed out and names the deadline. Only `classifyDiff` applies the rule (`lib/review-collect.ts`
 finds the consumers, `gstack-ship-preflight`'s `RUNTIME_LINES` reads the same
 function); every path-only caller (the receipt's gate-scan decision, the Step 16
diff --git a/lib/review-collect.ts b/lib/review-collect.ts
index 7807143d5..ca052d958 100644
--- a/lib/review-collect.ts
+++ b/lib/review-collect.ts
@@ -104,9 +104,12 @@ function readDiff(root: string, range: string[], errors: DepthError[]): Pick<Col
 export const CONSUMER_SCAN_CAP = 2000;
 /** How many data files deep a chain of data naming data is followed (a manifest naming a data file) before the rest count as consumed. */
 export const CONSUMER_SCAN_DEPTH = 4;
-/** One consumer scan's whole budget, every git grep in it (GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS overrides it); past it the scan fails closed. */
-export const CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS = 300_000;
-/** Pathspec bytes per git grep call, so a long list of files to search stays under Windows' 32 KB command line. */
+/**
+ * One consumer scan's whole budget, every git grep in it (GSTACK_CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS overrides it); past it the scan fails
+ * closed. It stays a minute under the 180 s gstack-review-dispatch and gstack-ship-preflight give all of gstack-review-plan.
+ */
+export const CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000;
+/** Pathspec bytes per git grep call: a long list of files to search splits across calls instead of growing one command line. */
 export const CONSUMER_SCAN_PATHSPEC_BYTES = 16_000;
 
 export function consumerScanTimeoutMs(): number {
diff --git a/test/review-collect.test.ts b/test/review-collect.test.ts
index 7a7e478d4..fc2e364ca 100644
--- a/test/review-collect.test.ts
+++ b/test/review-collect.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
 import * as fs from 'node:fs';
 import * as os from 'node:os';
 import * as path from 'node:path';
-import { collectCommit, collectLive, CONSUMER_SCAN_CAP, grepConsumers, loadRegistryAt, scanConsumers } from '../lib/review-collect';
+import { collectCommit, collectLive, CONSUMER_SCAN_CAP, CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS, grepConsumers, loadRegistryAt, scanConsumers } from '../lib/review-collect';
 import { depthOfCommitInput } from '../lib/review-depth';
 
 const dirs: string[] = [];
@@ -236,7 +236,15 @@ describe('GST-544: the consumer scan reads only files that can match, under one
     }
     r.git('config', 'grep.lineNumber', 'not-a-bool');
     const failed: Parameters<typeof scanConsumers>[5] = [];
-    expect(scanConsumers(r.dir, ['data/rows.json'], [r.head], false, r.dir, failed)).toBe('all');
-    expect(failed[0]!.detail).toMatch(/^git grep exited \d+: .*\(deadline 300 s\)$/);
+    expect(scanConsumers(r.dir, ['data/rows.json'], [r.head], false, r.dir, failed, CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS)).toBe('all');
+    expect(failed[0]!.detail).toMatch(new RegExp(`^git grep exited \\d+: .*\\(deadline ${CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS / 1000} s\\)$`));
+  });
+  // Value: protects=a slow scan ends in its own fail-closed consumer_scan_failed, not in the parent killing gstack-review-plan;
+  //   fails_when=the scan deadline reaches the timeout the dispatch and preflight callers give the whole plan; seam=caller source
+  test('the default scan deadline leaves a minute of the plan timeout its callers set', () => {
+    const callers = ['bin/gstack-review-dispatch', 'lib/ship-preflight.ts'].map(f => fs.readFileSync(path.join(import.meta.dir, '..', f), 'utf8'));
+    const limits = callers.flatMap(src => [...src.matchAll(/gstack-review-plan'[^\n]*?(?:timeout: |\], )(\d[\d_]+)/g)].map(m => Number(m[1]!.replace(/_/g, ''))));
+    expect(limits.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    expect(CONSUMER_SCAN_TIMEOUT_MS).toBeLessThanOrEqual(Math.min(...limits) - 60_000);
   });
 });