diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 36e5837..169eb23 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,24 @@ jobs:
             "pytest>=8.2" "pytest-asyncio>=0.23" \
             ruff
 
+      - name: Install document recognition engine (pinned tag, needs ENGINES_TOKEN)
+        # The engine repo is private; ENGINES_TOKEN is a PAT with read access
+        # to GoodOneFather/TeamHUB_Engines. --no-deps keeps CI light: docling
+        # and ocrmypdf are imported lazily inside engine functions, only
+        # pdfminer.six is needed at import time. Pin must match
+        # app/ingestion/ENGINE_SOURCE.md.
+        env:
+          ENGINES_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ENGINES_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$ENGINES_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::ENGINES_TOKEN secret is not available to Actions (repo Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          git config --global url."https://x-access-token:${ENGINES_TOKEN}@github.com/".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
+          pip install "pdfminer.six>=20240706"
+          pip install --no-deps \
+            "teamhub-document-recognition-engine @ git+https://github.com/GoodOneFather/TeamHUB_Engines.git@teamhub-document-recognition-engine-v0.1.0#subdirectory=engines/teamhub-document-recognition-engine"
+
       - name: Ruff
         run: ruff check app scripts tests
 
@@ -43,12 +61,12 @@ jobs:
         run: python scripts/report_module_sizes.py
 
       - name: Pytest (unit only — heavy deps excluded)
-        # test_chunker.py skips here: it needs the pinned document recognition
-        # engine (private TeamHUB_Engines repo, no PAT secret configured).
-        # It runs in the Docker image and in dev envs with the engine installed.
+        # The pinned engine is installed above, so test_chunker.py and the
+        # engine adapter tests run for real here; -rs surfaces any skips.
         run: |
           pytest tests/test_hashing.py tests/test_quality.py \
                  tests/test_chunker.py tests/test_duplicates.py \
+                 tests/test_document_recognition_engine_adapter.py \
                  tests/test_hybrid_search.py -q -rs
 
       - name: docker compose config