diff --git a/e2e/perstack-cli/options.test.ts b/e2e/perstack-cli/options.test.ts
index ffec484a..c1792d82 100644
--- a/e2e/perstack-cli/options.test.ts
+++ b/e2e/perstack-cli/options.test.ts
@@ -161,23 +161,31 @@ describe.concurrent("CLI Options", () => {
 })
 
 describe.concurrent("CLI Options - Filter", () => {
-  /** Verifies --filter option with single type */
+  /** Verifies --filter option with single type.
+   * Retries up to 3 times because --filter completeRun only outputs the final
+   * event; when the LLM call errors the runtime emits stopRunByError (blocked
+   * by the filter) and exits 0 with zero events.
+   */
   it(
     "should filter events to only completeRun",
     async () => {
-      const cmdResult = await runCli(
-        [
-          "run",
-          "--config",
-          GLOBAL_RUNTIME_CONFIG,
-          "--filter",
-          "completeRun",
-          "e2e-global-runtime",
-          "Say hello",
-        ],
-        { timeout: LLM_TIMEOUT },
-      )
-      const result = withEventParsing(cmdResult)
+      const args = [
+        "run",
+        "--config",
+        GLOBAL_RUNTIME_CONFIG,
+        "--filter",
+        "completeRun",
+        "e2e-global-runtime",
+        "Say hello",
+      ]
+      let result = withEventParsing(await runCli(args, { timeout: LLM_TIMEOUT }))
+      for (
+        let attempt = 1;
+        attempt < 3 && result.exitCode === 0 && result.events.length === 0;
+        attempt++
+      ) {
+        result = withEventParsing(await runCli(args, { timeout: LLM_TIMEOUT }))
+      }
       expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0)
 
       // All events should be completeRun