diff --git a/.do/gitnexus/Dockerfile b/.do/gitnexus/Dockerfile
index ede0920593..8b7e538726 100644
--- a/.do/gitnexus/Dockerfile
+++ b/.do/gitnexus/Dockerfile
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 
 FROM node:24.16.0-slim
 
-ARG GITNEXUS_VERSION=1.6.5
-# Pin the native DB to match the index workflow; gitnexus's ^0.16.1 range
+ARG GITNEXUS_VERSION=1.6.7
+# Pin the native DB to match the index workflow; gitnexus's ^0.17.0 range
 # would otherwise let the served image drift from the CI-produced index.
-ARG LADYBUG_VERSION=0.16.1
+ARG LADYBUG_VERSION=0.17.1
 
 # 1. Build native addons with Bookworm toolchain, then remove build tools.
 #    curl stays for the docker healthcheck; Caddy lives in its own container.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RUN echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.
 # 3. Pre-install LadybugDB FTS + vector extensions so ~/.kuzu/extension/
 #    is baked into the image. gitnexus serve loads extensions with a
 #    load-only policy and never installs them at runtime, so the cache
-#    must already exist. (GitNexus 1.6.5 loads the vector extension itself
+#    must already exist. (GitNexus loads the vector extension itself
 #    via loadVectorExtension — no adapter patch needed.)
 COPY install-extensions.js /tmp/install-extensions.js
 RUN node /tmp/install-extensions.js && rm -rf /tmp/install-extensions.js /tmp/lbug-ext-install
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-deploy.yml
index f4cd38bb2b..492918339c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-deploy.yml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: false
 
 env:
-  GITNEXUS_VERSION: '1.6.5'
+  GITNEXUS_VERSION: '1.6.7'
   IMAGE_NAME: ghcr.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/librechat-gitnexus
 
 jobs:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-index.yml b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-index.yml
index fb54888082..8b85487dd2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-index.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-index.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
-  GITNEXUS_VERSION: '1.6.5'
+  GITNEXUS_VERSION: '1.6.7'
 
 jobs:
   index:
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ jobs:
       github.event_name != 'pull_request' ||
       github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'danny-avila'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 25
+    # Embedding generation dominates the budget: ~45 min worst case on
+    # standard runners since the 1.6.x graph (~23k nodes) doubled vs 1.5.x.
+    timeout-minutes: 60
     # Best-effort index: a tool-internal crash must not block PRs. Fail soft on
     # PR events; push/dispatch runs still fail loudly so regressions stay visible.
     continue-on-error: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ jobs:
             --no-save \
             --no-package-lock \
             "gitnexus@${{ env.GITNEXUS_VERSION }}" \
-            "@ladybugdb/core@0.16.1"
+            "@ladybugdb/core@0.17.1"
           test -x "$RUNNER_TEMP/gitnexus-cli/node_modules/.bin/gitnexus"
 
       - name: Checkout repository