diff --git a/packages/website/docs/tutorials/orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows.md b/packages/website/docs/tutorials/orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows.md
index 1bb51ae5..1bed429b 100644
--- a/packages/website/docs/tutorials/orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows.md
+++ b/packages/website/docs/tutorials/orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows.md
@@ -535,13 +535,20 @@ retry: `# → retry N` re-runs the command until it exits `0`, up to `N` attempt
 second apart. `jq -e` supplies the exit code — non-zero until `.state` is
 actually `review`.
 
+Size `N` from measurement, not optimism. On the CI sandbox (`qwen2.5:0.5b`, CPU
+only, output capped at 256 tokens) the five generations took **32s, 72s, 36s,
+22s and 16s — 179s end to end**, and each poll attempt costs its one-second sleep
+plus the CLI round trip. The budget below is roughly double the observed total so
+ordinary variance does not fail the run; it is a ceiling, not a cost, since the
+loop exits as soon as the card lands.
+
 <Tabs groupId="client">
 <TabItem value="cli" label="CLI" default>
 
 ```bash
 soat transition-task --task-id "$TASK_ID" --transition start | jq '{ state, automation_status }'
 
-# → retry 90
+# → retry 240
 soat get-task --task-id "$TASK_ID" | jq -e '.state == "review"'
 
 soat get-task --task-id "$TASK_ID" | jq '{ state, status, sonnet: .last_result.content }'
@@ -557,7 +564,8 @@ await adminSoat.tasks.transitionTask({
 });
 
 const waitForState = async (target: string) => {
-  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 90; attempt += 1) {
+  // ~4 minutes: the five sandbox generations measured 179s end to end.
+  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 240; attempt += 1) {
     const { data: current } = await adminSoat.tasks.getTask({
       path: { task_id: TASK_ID },
     });
@@ -616,7 +624,7 @@ modelling decision, and it is the difference between a fast loop and a slow one.
 ```bash
 soat transition-task --task-id "$TASK_ID" --transition revise --note "tighten the closing couplet" | jq '{ state }'
 
-# → retry 40
+# → retry 120
 soat get-task --task-id "$TASK_ID" | jq -e '.state == "review"'
 ```
 
diff --git a/tests/.tutorialsignore b/tests/.tutorialsignore
index c1218691..811ddce4 100644
--- a/tests/.tutorialsignore
+++ b/tests/.tutorialsignore
@@ -8,26 +8,6 @@
 
 index
 connect-third-party-llms
-# orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows is disabled pending evidence, not pending a
-# fix. Its original rationale — inherent `on_enter` dispatch nondeterminism,
-# "same class as review-panel-discussion" — was wrong on both counts and is
-# corrected here. The tutorial declares no `output_schema` anywhere and every
-# `on_complete` is `{"when": true}`, so the card advances on any completion
-# regardless of content; nothing in it depends on model quality. The actual
-# causes were fixed in #881:
-#   - the AI provider pinned `llama3.2`, which this stack never pulls (it pulls
-#     `qwen2.5:0.5b` only), so every generation failed outright;
-#   - the `# → 400` annotation sat after its command, so it bound to the next
-#     one, leaving the expected guard rejection unannotated;
-#   - this stack had no `MAX_COMPLETION_TOKENS`, so output was unbounded;
-#   - `revise` re-entered `create_text`, running ten generations per run instead
-#     of six;
-#   - no state declared `on_failure`, so a failed generation stalled the card.
-# What is still missing is a green run: nothing has executed this tutorial end to
-# end since those fixes landed. Remove this entry once
-# `TUTORIAL_ID=orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows` passes locally a few times in
-# a row.
-orchestrate-a-sonnet-with-workflows
 
 # call-aws-and-gcp-apis-from-an-agent creates tools whose `execute.auth` signs
 # requests with real AWS credentials or mints a GCP service account token. The