diff --git a/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.test.ts b/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.test.ts
index 71026ed6cf..a3df176485 100644
--- a/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.test.ts
+++ b/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.test.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,83 @@ import { historicalCaptureFailure } from "./CaptureFailures.js";
 import { redactExplicitFailure } from "../../domain/explicitSensitiveFailure.js";
 import { OwnedCommandFailure } from "../../process/OwnedCommand.js";
 
+it.each([
+  { label: "POSIX SIGABRT", exitCode: null, signal: "SIGABRT" },
+  { label: "Windows exit 134", exitCode: 134, signal: null },
+] as const)(
+  "reports HAR heap exhaustion for $label",
+  ({ exitCode, signal }) => {
+    const input = inspectWebNetworkCaptureInputSchema.parse({
+      capture_path: "/selected/input.har",
+      format: "har",
+    });
+    const stderr =
+      "FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory\r\n";
+    const cause = new OwnedCommandFailure("process", "Decoder failed", {
+      stdout: { text: "", bytes: 0 },
+      stderr: { text: stderr, bytes: Buffer.byteLength(stderr) },
+      exitCode,
+      signal,
+    });
+    const projected = analysisErrorProjectionSchema.parse(
+      projectAnalysisError(historicalCaptureFailure(input, cause, "decoder")),
+    );
+    expect(projected).toMatchObject({
+      code: "resource_constraint",
+      retryable: false,
+      message: expect.stringContaining("fixed V8 heap"),
+      remediation: {
+        action: expect.stringContaining(
+          "smaller capture exported by its producer",
+        ),
+      },
+      details: {
+        resource: "memory",
+        reported_limits: {
+          observed_exit_code: exitCode,
+          observed_signal: signal,
+        },
+        captured_output: { stdout: "", stderr },
+      },
+    });
+    expect(JSON.stringify(projected)).not.toContain("rea doctor");
+  },
+);
+
+it.each([
+  { exitCode: 134, signal: null, stderr: "Fatal decoder crash" },
+  {
+    exitCode: 2,
+    signal: null,
+    stderr: "FATAL ERROR: JavaScript heap out of memory",
+  },
+  {
+    exitCode: null,
+    signal: "SIGTERM",
+    stderr: "FATAL ERROR: JavaScript heap out of memory",
+  },
+] as const)(
+  "preserves unrelated decoder failures %#",
+  ({ exitCode, signal, stderr }) => {
+    const input = inspectWebNetworkCaptureInputSchema.parse({
+      capture_path: "/selected/input.har",
+      format: "har",
+    });
+    const cause = new OwnedCommandFailure("process", "Decoder failed", {
+      stdout: { text: "", bytes: 0 },
+      stderr: { text: stderr, bytes: Buffer.byteLength(stderr) },
+      exitCode,
+      signal,
+    });
+    expect(
+      projectAnalysisError(historicalCaptureFailure(input, cause, "decoder")),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      code: "execution_failure",
+      details: { diagnostics: { exit_code: exitCode, signal, stderr } },
+    });
+  },
+);
+
 it.each(["before open", "during read"])(
   "preserves observed capture changes %s as retryable acquisition integrity failures",
   (stage) => {
diff --git a/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.ts b/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.ts
index 14b9858e71..13a9a781c5 100644
--- a/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.ts
+++ b/src/browser/history/CaptureFailures.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ export const historicalCaptureFailure = (
       phase === "decoder" &&
       input.format === "har" &&
       cause.reason === "process" &&
-      cause.snapshot?.signal === "SIGABRT" &&
+      (cause.snapshot?.signal === "SIGABRT" ||
+        (cause.snapshot?.signal === null && cause.snapshot.exitCode === 134)) &&
       /FATAL ERROR:[^\r\n]*heap out of memory/u.test(cause.snapshot.stderr.text)
     )
       return captureMemoryFailure(
@@ -182,7 +183,10 @@ export const captureMemoryFailure = (
           }
         : {}),
       ...(cause instanceof OwnedCommandFailure
-        ? { observed_signal: cause.snapshot?.signal ?? null }
+        ? {
+            observed_exit_code: cause.snapshot?.exitCode ?? null,
+            observed_signal: cause.snapshot?.signal ?? null,
+          }
         : {}),
     },
     {
diff --git a/tests/acceptance/tools/historicalCaptureResources.test.ts b/tests/acceptance/tools/historicalCaptureResources.test.ts
index b0e07f353d..1a623aff60 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/tools/historicalCaptureResources.test.ts
+++ b/tests/acceptance/tools/historicalCaptureResources.test.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ it("reports real HAR heap exhaustion through CLI and MCP and preserves server us
         resource: "memory",
         reported_limits: {
           old_generation_heap_mib: 192,
-          observed_signal: "SIGABRT",
+          observed_exit_code: process.platform === "win32" ? 134 : null,
+          observed_signal: process.platform === "win32" ? null : "SIGABRT",
         },
         captured_output: {
           stderr: expect.stringContaining("heap out of memory"),