diff --git a/packages/gitea-mcp/src/index.ts b/packages/gitea-mcp/src/index.ts
index abbe7af..761c447 100644
--- a/packages/gitea-mcp/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/gitea-mcp/src/index.ts
@@ -562,14 +562,25 @@ server.setRequestHandler(CallToolRequestSchema, async (request) => {
         jobs.map(async (job: any) => {
           let console_log = undefined;
 
-          // Fetch log text if job failed to provide context
-          if (job.conclusion === "failure" || job.status === "failure") {
+          // Fetch log text for failed, running, or stuck jobs
+          if (
+            job.conclusion === "failure" ||
+            job.status === "failure" ||
+            job.status === "in_progress" ||
+            job.status === "running"
+          ) {
             try {
               const logResponse = await giteaClient.get(
                 `/repos/${owner}/${repo}/actions/jobs/${job.id}/logs`,
               );
               if (typeof logResponse.data === "string") {
                 let fullLog = logResponse.data;
+
+                // First, truncate to 20000 characters to prevent OOM / regex crashes on multi-megabyte strings and avoid docker exec pipe buffer limits
+                if (fullLog.length > 20000) {
+                  fullLog = "...[truncated]...\n" + fullLog.slice(-20000);
+                }
+
                 // Strip ANSI escape codes
                 fullLog = fullLog.replace(/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]/g, "");
 
@@ -577,10 +588,6 @@ server.setRequestHandler(CallToolRequestSchema, async (request) => {
                 // DO NOT strip characters > 0x7F, as they are part of valid UTF-8 multibyte characters (like emojis 🧹).
                 fullLog = fullLog.replace(/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]/g, "");
 
-                // Truncate to 10000 characters to prevent message size limits
-                if (fullLog.length > 10000) {
-                  fullLog = "...[truncated]...\n" + fullLog.slice(-10000);
-                }
                 console_log = fullLog;
               }
             } catch (err: any) {