diff --git a/src/auth/store.test.ts b/src/auth/store.test.ts
index 169773d25..f2b980793 100644
--- a/src/auth/store.test.ts
+++ b/src/auth/store.test.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,102 @@ describe("createAuthStore", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  test("keeps a same-process burst of profile saves without shared-deadline loss", async () => {
+    const home = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "oauth-store-burst-"));
+    try {
+      const store = createAuthStore<TestTokens>({
+        filename: "test-auth.json",
+        settingsDirName: TEST_SETTINGS_DIR,
+        isTokens: isTestTokens,
+      });
+
+      // Without the per-path queue, a large same-process burst shares one lock
+      // deadline from invoke time and some waiters time out. With the queue,
+      // each save gets its own window and all land.
+      const names = Array.from(
+        { length: 50 },
+        (_, index) => `profile-${String(index)}`,
+      );
+      const results = await Promise.allSettled(
+        names.map((name) =>
+          store.saveProfile(
+            {
+              name,
+              tokens: {
+                access: `access-${name}`,
+                refresh: `refresh-${name}`,
+                expiresAt: 1,
+              },
+              createdAt: 1,
+            },
+            home,
+          ),
+        ),
+      );
+
+      const failures = results.flatMap((result, index) =>
+        result.status === "rejected"
+          ? [`${names[index]}: ${String(result.reason)}`]
+          : [],
+      );
+      expect(failures).toEqual([]);
+      expect(
+        (await store.listProfiles(home)).map((profile) => profile.name),
+      ).toEqual([...names].sort());
+    } finally {
+      await rm(home, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("gives queued same-process writes their own lock window", async () => {
+    const home = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "oauth-store-queue-"));
+    try {
+      const store = createAuthStore<TestTokens>({
+        filename: "test-auth.json",
+        settingsDirName: TEST_SETTINGS_DIR,
+        isTokens: isTestTokens,
+      });
+      await store.saveProfile(
+        {
+          name: "work",
+          tokens: { access: "a", refresh: "r", expiresAt: 1 },
+          createdAt: 1,
+        },
+        home,
+      );
+
+      // Hold the lock until the head of the same-process queue times out; the
+      // queued write must still get its own lock window after we release.
+      // `second` may already be polling when `first` rejects — release must land
+      // inside LOCK_TIMEOUT_MS of that handoff.
+      const lockPath = `${store.authPath(home)}.lock`;
+      await writeFile(lockPath, "foreign", { mode: 0o600 });
+
+      const first = store.updateTokens(
+        "work",
+        { access: "first", refresh: "r1", expiresAt: 2 },
+        home,
+      );
+      const second = store.updateTokens(
+        "work",
+        { access: "second", refresh: "r2", expiresAt: 3 },
+        home,
+      );
+
+      await expect(first).rejects.toThrow(
+        "Timed out waiting for OAuth credential lock",
+      );
+      await rm(lockPath, { force: true });
+      await expect(second).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+
+      expect((await store.loadProfile("work", home))?.tokens.access).toBe(
+        "second",
+      );
+    } finally {
+      await rm(home, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
   test("round-trips profiles under an injected home and survives corrupt files", async () => {
     const home = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "oauth-store-"));
     try {
diff --git a/src/auth/store.ts b/src/auth/store.ts
index 349997663..903d50a33 100644
--- a/src/auth/store.ts
+++ b/src/auth/store.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ export type { AuthProfile, BaseTokens };
 // for the same provider, so credentials are keyed by a user-chosen profile name
 // within a single file. Tokens are credentials, so the file is owner-only (0o600)
 // and the directory 0o700. Writes go through a temp file + rename so a concurrent
-// reader never observes a torn file.
+// reader never observes a torn file. Same-process writers also queue per auth path
+// so each lock wait starts its own deadline.
 
 export interface AuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens> {
   authPath: (home?: string) => string;
@@ -48,6 +49,15 @@ interface AuthFile<TTokens extends BaseTokens> {
 const LOCK_RETRY_MS = 25;
 const LOCK_TIMEOUT_MS = 1_000;
 
+// Per-call unique temp (pid + counter). Matches mcp/auth-store — pid alone is not
+// unique per call if writeAuthFile ever overlaps in-process.
+let tmpWriteCounter = 0;
+
+// Same-process ops on one auth file queue here so a caller's lock deadline
+// starts when it actually runs, not when it was invoked — otherwise one lock
+// held past LOCK_TIMEOUT_MS fails the whole burst, not just the first waiter.
+const updateChains = new Map<string, Promise<unknown>>();
+
 const AuthFileShape = type({
   profiles: "Record<string, unknown>",
 });
@@ -115,7 +125,7 @@ export function createAuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens>(
   ): Promise<void> {
     const path = authPath(home);
     await mkdir(dirname(path), { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 });
-    const tmp = `${path}.${String(process.pid)}.tmp`;
+    const tmp = `${path}.${process.pid}.${(tmpWriteCounter += 1)}.tmp`;
     await writeFile(tmp, JSON.stringify(file, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
     await rename(tmp, path);
   }
@@ -158,6 +168,26 @@ export function createAuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens>(
     }
   }
 
+  function enqueueAuthFileOp<TResult>(
+    home: string,
+    op: () => Promise<TResult>,
+  ): Promise<TResult> {
+    const path = authPath(home);
+    const previous = updateChains.get(path) ?? Promise.resolve();
+    const run = previous.then(
+      () => withAuthFileLock(home, op),
+      () => withAuthFileLock(home, op),
+    );
+    updateChains.set(
+      path,
+      run.then(
+        () => undefined,
+        () => undefined,
+      ),
+    );
+    return run;
+  }
+
   return {
     authPath,
     async listProfiles(
@@ -179,7 +209,7 @@ export function createAuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens>(
       profile: AuthProfile<TTokens>,
       home: string = homedir(),
     ): Promise<void> {
-      await withAuthFileLock(home, async () => {
+      await enqueueAuthFileOp(home, async () => {
         const file = await readAuthFile(home);
         file.profiles[profile.name] = profile;
         await writeAuthFile(file, home);
@@ -192,7 +222,7 @@ export function createAuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens>(
       tokens: TTokens,
       home: string = homedir(),
     ): Promise<void> {
-      await withAuthFileLock(home, async () => {
+      await enqueueAuthFileOp(home, async () => {
         const file = await readAuthFile(home);
         const existing = file.profiles[name];
         if (existing === undefined) return;
@@ -204,7 +234,7 @@ export function createAuthStore<TTokens extends BaseTokens>(
       name: string | undefined,
       home: string = homedir(),
     ): Promise<string[]> {
-      return withAuthFileLock(home, async () => {
+      return enqueueAuthFileOp(home, async () => {
         const file = await readAuthFile(home);
         if (name === undefined) {
           const removed = Object.keys(file.profiles);