diff --git a/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/global.ts b/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/global.ts
index d5938b925..133bbee46 100644
--- a/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/global.ts
+++ b/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/global.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import process from 'node:process';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { setupGlobal } from 'sv/testing';
 import { exec } from 'tinyexec';
+import { collectPrewarmSpecs } from './prewarm.ts';
 
 const TEST_DIR = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../../.test-output/addons/', import.meta.url));
 const CI = Boolean(process.env.CI);
@@ -9,10 +10,31 @@ const CI = Boolean(process.env.CI);
 export default setupGlobal({
 	TEST_DIR,
 	pre: async () => {
-		if (CI) {
+		if (!CI) return;
+
+		await Promise.all([
 			// prefetch the storybook cli during ci to reduce fetching errors in tests
-			const { stdout } = await exec('pnpm', ['dlx', `create-storybook@latest`, '--version']);
-			console.info('storybook version:', stdout);
-		}
+			exec('pnpm', ['dlx', `create-storybook@latest`, '--version']).then(({ stdout }) =>
+				console.info('storybook version:', stdout)
+			),
+			// Warm the pnpm store with every dependency the add-on test projects install, so the
+			// parallel test files only hard-link from the store instead of each downloading cold -
+			// which is what saturates the CI runner. Specs are read from source, never hardcoded.
+			(async () => {
+				const specs = collectPrewarmSpecs();
+				const start = Date.now();
+				const { exitCode, stderr } = await exec('pnpm', ['store', 'add', ...specs], {
+					throwOnError: false
+				});
+				// best effort: a miss just means some installs download cold, it must never fail the suite
+				if (exitCode !== 0) {
+					console.warn(`store prewarm skipped (pnpm store add exited ${exitCode})\n${stderr}`);
+					return;
+				}
+				console.info(
+					`prewarmed ${specs.length} deps into the pnpm store in ${Date.now() - start}ms`
+				);
+			})()
+		]);
 	}
 });
diff --git a/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/prewarm.ts b/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/prewarm.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f216ace12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sv/src/addons/tests/_setup/prewarm.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const ADDONS_DIR = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../', import.meta.url));
+const TEMPLATES_DIR = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../create/templates/', import.meta.url));
+const SHARED_DIR = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../create/shared/', import.meta.url));
+
+// same extraction the `update-deps` script uses, see scripts/update-dependencies.js
+const DEP_PATTERNS = [
+	// sv.dependency('pkg', '^1.2.3') / sv.devDependency('pkg', '^1.2.3')
+	/sv\.(?:dependency|devDependency)\('([^']+)',\s*'([^']+)'\)/g,
+	// object literals: { package: 'pkg', version: '^1.2.3' } (ex: tailwind add-on)
+	/package:\s*'([^']+)',\s*version:\s*'([^']+)'/g,
+	// constants tagged for update-deps: /* update-deps: pkg */ '^1.2.3' (ex: common.ts)
+	/\/\*\s*update-deps:\s*(\S+)\s*\*\/\s*'([^']+)'/g
+];
+
+function addSpec(specs: Map<string, string>, name: string, version: string): void {
+	// keep only real registry ranges; skip `workspace:*`, `latest`, placeholders, computed versions
+	if (!/^[\^~]?\d/.test(version)) return;
+	specs.set(name, version);
+}
+
+function collectFromSources(specs: Map<string, string>): void {
+	for (const file of fs.readdirSync(ADDONS_DIR)) {
+		if (!file.endsWith('.ts')) continue;
+		const content = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ADDONS_DIR, file), 'utf8');
+		for (const pattern of DEP_PATTERNS) {
+			for (const [, name, version] of content.matchAll(pattern)) addSpec(specs, name, version);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+function collectFromPackageJsons(dir: string, fileName: string, specs: Map<string, string>): void {
+	if (!fs.existsSync(dir)) return;
+	for (const entry of fs.readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+		if (!entry.isDirectory()) continue;
+		const filePath = path.join(dir, entry.name, fileName);
+		if (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) continue;
+		const pkg = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8'));
+		for (const deps of [pkg.dependencies, pkg.devDependencies]) {
+			for (const [name, version] of Object.entries(deps ?? {})) {
+				if (typeof version === 'string') addSpec(specs, name, version);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Collects every `pkg@range` declared across the add-ons and project templates, read straight
+ * from source (same way `update-deps` does) so it never goes stale. Used to warm the pnpm store
+ * before the addon test files install their generated projects in parallel.
+ */
+export function collectPrewarmSpecs(): string[] {
+	const specs = new Map<string, string>();
+	collectFromSources(specs);
+	collectFromPackageJsons(TEMPLATES_DIR, 'package.template.json', specs);
+	collectFromPackageJsons(SHARED_DIR, 'package.json', specs);
+	return [...specs].map(([name, version]) => `${name}@${version}`).sort();
+}