diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/gates.yml b/.gitea/workflows/gates.yml
index 4ee8d7d..1e82093 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/gates.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/gates.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,26 @@ jobs:
           git checkout -q FETCH_HEAD
           echo "checked out $(git rev-parse HEAD)"
 
+      - name: Fetch the agent (wire-contract gate needs BOTH sibling repos)
+        # G-1's gate (scripts/wire_contract_gate.py) compares what one component EMITS against what
+        # the other can RECEIVE, so it needs the source of the controller AND the agent, not just a
+        # CHANGELOG. Without this the gate exits 2 (INCONCLUSIVE) and CI is red for ever.
+        #
+        # ⚠ THIS STEP WAS MISSING FOR ONE COMMIT AND CI WENT RED, exactly as the alarm mail below
+        # predicts: "if the local pre-push hook was GREEN, then CI and the hook disagree — that is a
+        # finding about the gates themselves". It was. The pre-push hook runs on a workstation where
+        # every sibling is a real clone, so a gate needing a sibling passes locally and is
+        # INCONCLUSIVE here; the two homes are NOT interchangeable and a new gate must be checked in
+        # both. Fixed by giving the gate what it needs — never by letting it skip, which would be
+        # the fail-open shape and would leave it running in NEITHER home (R-29).
+        run: |
+          git init -q ../felhom-agent
+          cd ../felhom-agent
+          git remote add origin http://gitea.gitea-system.svc.cluster.local:3000/admin/felhom-agent.git
+          git fetch -q --depth 1 origin main
+          git checkout -q FETCH_HEAD
+          echo "agent at $(git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)"
+
       - name: Fetch the controller CHANGELOG (golden-currency gate needs the sibling repo)
         # R-242's gate compares the newest RELEASED controller against the newest golden baked here,
         # and it reads the released version from the sibling clone's CHANGELOG.md — the same sibling