diff --git a/dotnet/tests/Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.UnitTests/InputWaiterAndOutputFilterTests.cs b/dotnet/tests/Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.UnitTests/InputWaiterAndOutputFilterTests.cs
index dead5454b4..c7c231c63e 100644
--- a/dotnet/tests/Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.UnitTests/InputWaiterAndOutputFilterTests.cs
+++ b/dotnet/tests/Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.UnitTests/InputWaiterAndOutputFilterTests.cs
@@ -34,7 +34,13 @@ public sealed class InputWaiterTests : IDisposable
     [Fact]
     public async Task InputWaiter_WaitForInputAsync_BlocksUntilSignaledAsync()
     {
-        Task waitTask = this._waiter.WaitForInputAsync(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
+        // Use the no-timeout overload so that the wait can only be released by SignalInput.
+        // A finite timeout would make this test's logic racy: the component correctly
+        // honors the timeout, but if the test thread is starved of CPU time (CI load,
+        // GC pause) long enough for the timeout to fire, waitTask completes before
+        // SignalInput is called and the "should not complete before signaled" assertion
+        // flakes. Timeout behavior is covered separately below.
+        Task waitTask = this._waiter.WaitForInputAsync(CancellationToken.None);
 
         Task completedBeforeSignal = await Task.WhenAny(waitTask, Task.Delay(100));
         completedBeforeSignal.Should().NotBeSameAs(
@@ -100,6 +106,21 @@ public sealed class InputWaiterTests : IDisposable
         this._waiter.SignalInput();
         await this._waiter.WaitForInputAsync(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
     }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task InputWaiter_WaitForInputAsync_CompletesWhenTimeoutExpiresAsync()
+    {
+        // Verify that a finite timeout releases the block even without a signal.
+        // We only assert that it *does* complete (within a generous outer bound);
+        // we intentionally do not assert that it stays blocked until the timeout,
+        // because that would re-introduce the same wall-clock flakiness
+        // described in BlocksUntilSignaledAsync (see comment on that test).
+        Task waitTask = this._waiter.WaitForInputAsync(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300));
+
+        Task completed = await Task.WhenAny(waitTask, Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)));
+        completed.Should().BeSameAs(waitTask, "the wait task should complete once the timeout expires");
+        await waitTask;
+    }
 }
 
 public class OutputFilterTests