diff --git a/controller/scripts/retrieval_promise_gate.py b/controller/scripts/retrieval_promise_gate.py
index 5ecf937..6d3705e 100644
--- a/controller/scripts/retrieval_promise_gate.py
+++ b/controller/scripts/retrieval_promise_gate.py
@@ -51,7 +51,24 @@ GO_SOURCES = [
 # R-311 adds `visszanyit`: the honest new message says a customer needs support's help „a régebbi
 # előzményed visszanyitásához". That is the SAME claim in a fourth verb, and the docstring above
 # records what happens when the guard chases words instead of claims — it misses the next one.
-STEMS = ["visszaállíthat", "visszaszerezhet", "visszahozhat", "visszanyit"]
+#
+# R-325: the list is NOT kept here. It lives ONCE in felhom.eu/scripts/customer_copy_vocab.py, which
+# the hub's copy gate imports too — two copies of a word list is the R-299 defect exactly. The
+# sibling clone is read the way controller_gates.py reads reuse_refs_check.py: CI clones felhom.eu
+# beside this repo, and an ABSENT clone is INCONCLUSIVE (exit 2) — never a pass on an empty list.
+# FELHOM_SHARED_SCRIPTS overrides the directory (the decoy suite uses it; nothing else should).
+_SHARED_SCRIPTS = os.environ.get("FELHOM_SHARED_SCRIPTS") or os.path.normpath(
+    os.path.join(_HERE, "..", "..", "..", "felhom.eu", "scripts"))
+if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join(_SHARED_SCRIPTS, "customer_copy_vocab.py")):
+    print("retrieval-promise gate INCONCLUSIVE: the shared vocabulary is missing (%s) — the felhom.eu "
+          "clone must sit beside this repo; without the stems nothing can be judged" %
+          os.path.join(_SHARED_SCRIPTS, "customer_copy_vocab.py"))
+    sys.exit(2)
+sys.path.insert(0, _SHARED_SCRIPTS)
+from customer_copy_vocab import RETRIEVAL_STEMS as STEMS  # noqa: E402
+if not STEMS:
+    print("retrieval-promise gate INCONCLUSIVE: customer_copy_vocab.RETRIEVAL_STEMS is empty")
+    sys.exit(2)
 
 # R-564 — THE SPLIT VERB. Hungarian moves the particle after the verb when something is stressed:
 # „csak akkor ÁLLÍTHATÓK VISSZA", „csak a hiányzó fájlokat HOZOD VISSZA". The joined stems above never
diff --git a/controller/scripts/test_gate_decoys.py b/controller/scripts/test_gate_decoys.py
index e3e3dfc..76bb82c 100644
--- a/controller/scripts/test_gate_decoys.py
+++ b/controller/scripts/test_gate_decoys.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ COVERS = {
     "app-row-dedup":     "hand-rolled row markup in partials/, AND a commented-out partial call",
     "template-id":       "a JS reference to a missing id, in partials/",
     "secret-markup":     "a secret templated into markup, in partials/",
-    "retrieval-promise": "an unregistered retrieval promise, in partials/",
+    "retrieval-promise": "an unregistered retrieval promise, in partials/; R-325: the shared vocabulary "
+                         "absent (INCONCLUSIVE) and an invented stem in it convicting",
     "mojibake":          "CONTROL: already walked; proves the planted file is really reachable",
     "debug-routes":      "a live dispatcher case commented out - the button survives, the handler dies",
     "golden-notice":     "R-410 in the other direction: an empty dir must not count as a bake",
@@ -276,6 +277,53 @@ swapped("go-parity/nested-arg-ok", "i18n_go_parity.py", UPDATE_GO,
         _one(_R576, 'util.MsgError("update.refusal.already", fmt.Sprintf("%s,%s", f(a, b), c)), "lost the race'),
         expect="accept")
 
+# --- retrieval-promise, R-325: the stems are IMPORTED from felhom.eu/scripts/customer_copy_vocab.py. ---
+# Two shapes. (1) The vocabulary absent must be INCONCLUSIVE, never a pass on an empty list.
+# (2) declaration-for-reachability: a gate that still carried a private literal would ignore the
+#     shared file. A doctored vocabulary with one invented stem, and a template using only that stem,
+#     must convict — proof the shared list is the one in force.
+import shutil  # noqa: E402
+import tempfile  # noqa: E402
+
+
+def _retrieval_with_vocab(vocab_src):
+    d = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="r325-")
+    try:
+        if vocab_src is not None:
+            io.open(os.path.join(d, "customer_copy_vocab.py"), "w", encoding="utf-8").write(vocab_src)
+        env = dict(os.environ, FELHOM_SHARED_SCRIPTS=d)
+        p = subprocess.run([sys.executable, os.path.join("scripts", "retrieval_promise_gate.py")],
+                           cwd=CTRL, env=env, capture_output=True, text=True)
+        return p.returncode, p.stdout + p.stderr
+    finally:
+        shutil.rmtree(d, ignore_errors=True)
+
+
+ran += 1
+_rc, _out = _retrieval_with_vocab(None)
+if _rc != 2 or "INCONCLUSIVE" not in _out:
+    fails.append("retrieval-promise/vocab-absent: want rc=2 INCONCLUSIVE, got rc=%d\n%s" % (_rc, _out[-300:]))
+else:
+    print("  ok  %-20s %s" % ("retrieval-promise/vocab-absent", "stays undetermined"))
+
+ran += 1
+_made = not os.path.isdir(SUB)
+if _made:
+    os.makedirs(SUB)
+_planted = os.path.join(SUB, "decoy-r325.html")
+io.open(_planted, "w", encoding="utf-8").write(u"<p>Minden adatod felhomdecoyszohato marad.</p>\n")
+try:
+    _rc, _out = _retrieval_with_vocab(u'RETRIEVAL_STEMS = ["visszaállíthat", "felhomdecoyszo"]\n')
+finally:
+    os.remove(_planted)
+    if _made and os.path.isdir(SUB) and not os.listdir(SUB):
+        os.rmdir(SUB)
+if _rc != 1 or "felhomdecoyszo" not in _out:
+    fails.append("retrieval-promise/vocab-is-live: an invented stem in the SHARED list did not convict — the "
+                 "gate is not reading customer_copy_vocab.py (rc=%d)\n%s" % (_rc, _out[-300:]))
+else:
+    print("  ok  %-20s %s" % ("retrieval-promise/vocab-is-live", "decoy rejected"))
+
 # --- golden-notice: R-410's decoy, in the other direction. It is ADVISORY, so rc is never the ---
 # --- question — what it COUNTED is.                                                            ---
 ran += 1