diff --git a/.tekton/doc-build.yaml b/.tekton/doc-build.yaml
index 6b7e97f..3127b9b 100644
--- a/.tekton/doc-build.yaml
+++ b/.tekton/doc-build.yaml
@@ -15,9 +15,22 @@ metadata:
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 spec:
+  # `tasks` is the budget for all tasks together, not per task — a run whose
+  # steps add up past it is cancelled wherever it happens to be, and everything
+  # already done is thrown away because `upload-translations` runs last.
+  #
+  # Sized from immutable-infra-docs on 2026-09-03/04, where 6h cancelled two
+  # runs during `auto-translate-ru` after Chinese had already succeeded:
+  #   auto-translate-zh   2h06m–2h25m for one attempt, 3h25m–3h34m with retries
+  #   auto-translate-ru   still running at 2h25m and 2h30m when the budget ran out
+  # so the realistic total is over 8h once either language needs a retry.
+  #
+  # This is the coarse bound. What stops a genuinely stuck step is the per-task
+  # `timeout` in the pipeline body (ops/edge-devops-task), and with retries: 2
+  # on each translate task no aggregate can cover the true worst case.
   timeouts:
-    pipeline: 8h
-    tasks: 6h
+    pipeline: 12h
+    tasks: 10h
 
   params:
     - name: doc-base