diff --git a/source/isaaclab_tasks/changelog.d/disable-shadow-hand-kitless-arm.skip b/source/isaaclab_tasks/changelog.d/disable-shadow-hand-kitless-arm.skip
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7fef6f50eefa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/isaaclab_tasks/changelog.d/disable-shadow-hand-kitless-arm.skip
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Test-only change: removed the ``arm_ci`` marker from the shadow-hand kitless rendering test
+to stop intermittent hangs on the arm64 CI runner. No user-facing changes.
diff --git a/source/isaaclab_tasks/test/core/test_rendering_shadow_hand_kitless.py b/source/isaaclab_tasks/test/core/test_rendering_shadow_hand_kitless.py
index bd3f6ddebf8c..1cf1860bcb81 100644
--- a/source/isaaclab_tasks/test/core/test_rendering_shadow_hand_kitless.py
+++ b/source/isaaclab_tasks/test/core/test_rendering_shadow_hand_kitless.py
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
     rendering_test_shadow_hand,
 )
 
-pytestmark = [pytest.mark.isaacsim_ci, pytest.mark.arm_ci]
+# no arm_ci marker: intermittently stalls the arm64 runner mid-file (renderer hang after a few
+# passing cases, killed at the per-file timeout); x86 kitless coverage remains in place
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.isaacsim_ci]
 
 _COMPARISON_SCORES: list[dict] = []