diff --git a/.woodpecker/test.yaml b/.woodpecker/test.yaml
index edb3e5c..f81d81a 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/test.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/test.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ steps:
   - name: suites
     image: alpine:3
     commands:
-      - apk add --no-cache bash python3 wget >/dev/null
+      # git is required by tests/filing.test.sh's hermetic worktree-discipline
+      # remote-resolution fixture (kotkan/claude-plugin-inference-arbitrage#30).
+      - apk add --no-cache bash python3 wget git >/dev/null
       # bin/offload-scan (design decision 0.1) deliberately never vendors
       # token-budget's pricing/token-accounting logic -- it imports the real
       # cc-tokens module and fails loudly if it's missing. This bare alpine
diff --git a/tests/filing.test.sh b/tests/filing.test.sh
index 1eaa1e6..27f9396 100755
--- a/tests/filing.test.sh
+++ b/tests/filing.test.sh
@@ -201,15 +201,28 @@ else
 fi
 
 echo "== a writable target resolves through its own checkout's remote =="
-if [ -d ../worktree-discipline/.git ]; then
-	$BIN queries --classified "$tmp/cls.json" --judgments "$JUD" \
-		--target-path ../worktree-discipline >"$tmp/wd-q.json"
-	check "repo" "$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['repo']")" "kotkan/claude-plugin-worktree-discipline"
-	check "filing" "$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['filing']")" "available"
-	check "label scan is the authoritative query" \
-		"$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['queries']['label_scan']['labels']")" "['token-offload']"
-else
-	echo "  skip (no sibling worktree-discipline checkout)"
-fi
+# Was: read the live remote of a sibling ../worktree-discipline checkout on
+# disk. That checkout is outside this repo and outside version control, so
+# its remote can drift independently of anything here — e.g. a stale clone
+# still pointing at the pre-rename slug `kotkan/worktree-discipline` instead
+# of `kotkan/claude-plugin-worktree-discipline` (kotkan org repos were
+# renamed to the claude-plugin-<name> convention on 2026-07-22). That drift
+# produced a false "repo" mismatch (kotkan/claude-plugin-inference-arbitrage#30)
+# with nothing to fix in this repo's source or fixtures — both already agreed
+# with the current live repo name. It also meant this assertion silently
+# never ran in CI, since the bare CI container has no sibling checkout at all
+# and the test just printed "skip". A synthetic git repo with a fixed remote
+# tests the same resolve_repo()/parse_remote() code path deterministically,
+# with no dependency on what else happens to be checked out next door.
+wd_git="$tmp/wd-fixture"
+mkdir -p "$wd_git"
+git -C "$wd_git" init -q
+git -C "$wd_git" remote add origin git@git.oleks.space:kotkan/claude-plugin-worktree-discipline.git
+$BIN queries --classified "$tmp/cls.json" --judgments "$JUD" \
+	--target-path "$wd_git" >"$tmp/wd-q.json"
+check "repo" "$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['repo']")" "kotkan/claude-plugin-worktree-discipline"
+check "filing" "$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['filing']")" "available"
+check "label scan is the authoritative query" \
+	"$(q "$tmp/wd-q.json" "d['queries']['label_scan']['labels']")" "['token-offload']"
 
 exit "$fail"