diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e1c4e9e3..21e6ccea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 - Added an explicit operator provisioner for the official Digitaal Vlaanderen Mol municipality boundary (NIS `13025`) and the complete GRB GBG building population clipped to that boundary.
 - Added auditable source artifacts and a manifest with page count, checksums, exact WGS84 bounds, municipality area, feature totals and truncation state; incomplete pagination now fails closed.
 - Declared EPSG:4326 explicitly in both official GeoJSON artifacts so downstream QA does not downgrade known OGC provenance to an inferred CRS.
+- Added bounded exponential retries for safe official-source GET requests after a live transient GRB page failure; upload POST requests are never retried automatically.
 - Provisioning remains explicit and imports Project, Area and Dataset records through existing canonical API routes and DatasetService/VectorFeatureService persistence rather than writing directly to PostGIS.
 - Made the complete `Mol Municipality Workbench` the preferred fresh-session context and the official municipality boundary its lightweight default layer, ahead of historical Postel validation projects.
 - Replaced large coordinate arrays and spread-based bounds calculations with streaming, memoized GeoJSON bounds so municipality-scale vector layers remain safe in MapLibre.
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_sprint181_mol_municipality_workspace.py b/backend/tests/test_sprint181_mol_municipality_workspace.py
index 82e3d01f..1220be59 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_sprint181_mol_municipality_workspace.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_sprint181_mol_municipality_workspace.py
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ def test_mol_provisioner_refuses_a_truncated_municipality_dataset() -> None:
         module.build_municipality_buildings(pages, boundary, max_features=1)
 
 
+def test_mol_source_session_retries_only_safe_get_requests() -> None:
+    module = load_provisioner()
+
+    with module.build_source_session() as session:
+        retry = session.get_adapter("https://").max_retries
+
+    assert retry.total == 5
+    assert retry.allowed_methods == frozenset({"GET"})
+    assert set(retry.status_forcelist) == {429, 500, 502, 503, 504}
+
+
 def test_large_vector_persistence_flushes_once_without_per_feature_refresh() -> None:
     class FakeSession:
         def __init__(self) -> None:
diff --git a/docs/CODEX_EXECUTION_LOG.md b/docs/CODEX_EXECUTION_LOG.md
index 5046b8ce..1975336a 100644
--- a/docs/CODEX_EXECUTION_LOG.md
+++ b/docs/CODEX_EXECUTION_LOG.md
@@ -7408,6 +7408,9 @@ Open:
   explicit truncation flag. Pagination and identity checks fail closed.
 - Declared EPSG:4326 in both generated GeoJSON FeatureCollections so the
   importer records `crs_assumed=false` for this known official OGC source.
+- Added bounded retries for safe source GETs after the live refresh exposed a
+  transient GRB HTTP 500 on page 66. Mutating GeoIntel API requests are not
+  retried automatically.
 - Kept the provider boundary honest: provisioning is an operator action and
   imports through canonical Project, Area and Dataset HTTP routes. It does not
   enable the dormant live GRB provider or write directly to `vector_features`.
diff --git a/scripts/provision_mol_municipality_workspace.py b/scripts/provision_mol_municipality_workspace.py
index bb2d0be9..d365890c 100644
--- a/scripts/provision_mol_municipality_workspace.py
+++ b/scripts/provision_mol_municipality_workspace.py
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Iterable
 
 import requests
+from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from pyproj import Transformer
 from shapely.geometry import GeometryCollection, MultiPolygon, Polygon, mapping, shape
 from shapely.ops import transform, unary_union
 from shapely.validation import make_valid
+from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
 
 
 MUNICIPALITY_NAME = "Mol"
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ DEFAULT_API_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
 DEFAULT_PAGE_LIMIT = 1000
 DEFAULT_MAX_FEATURES = 100000
 GEOJSON_CRS = {"type": "name", "properties": {"name": "EPSG:4326"}}
+RETRYABLE_SOURCE_STATUS_CODES = (429, 500, 502, 503, 504)
 
 
 def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
@@ -116,6 +119,25 @@ def write_json(path: Path, payload: dict[str, Any], *, pretty: bool = False) ->
     )
 
 
+def build_source_session() -> requests.Session:
+    retry = Retry(
+        total=5,
+        connect=5,
+        read=5,
+        status=5,
+        backoff_factor=1.0,
+        status_forcelist=RETRYABLE_SOURCE_STATUS_CODES,
+        allowed_methods=frozenset({"GET"}),
+        raise_on_status=True,
+    )
+    adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)
+    session = requests.Session()
+    session.headers.update({"User-Agent": "GeoIntel-Mol-Municipality-Operator/1.0"})
+    session.mount("https://", adapter)
+    session.mount("http://", adapter)
+    return session
+
+
 def next_page_url(payload: dict[str, Any]) -> str | None:
     links = payload.get("links") or []
     for link in links:
@@ -319,8 +341,7 @@ def prepare_artifacts(args: argparse.Namespace) -> tuple[Path, Path, dict[str, A
     if args.page_limit <= 0 or args.max_features <= 0:
         raise RuntimeError("--page-limit and --max-features must be positive integers")
 
-    with requests.Session() as session:
-        session.headers.update({"User-Agent": "GeoIntel-Mol-Municipality-Operator/1.0"})
+    with build_source_session() as session:
         boundary_feature, boundary, boundary_source_url = fetch_mol_boundary(session, args.request_timeout)
         buildings, building_summary = build_municipality_buildings(
             iter_grb_pages(