diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml
index 52540c4..38ea4df 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml
@@ -287,9 +287,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       suite: functional
       api_base_url: ${{ vars.DEV_API_BASE_URL }}
-      # Provider functional is flaky against dev, so it runs report-only in
-      # provider-functional-report instead of gating the deploy.
-      skip_provider: true
     secrets:
       HOME_URL_DEV: ${{ secrets.HOME_URL_DEV }}
       TEST_EMAIL_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_1 }}
@@ -298,36 +295,12 @@ jobs:
       TEST_PASSWORD_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_2 }}
       KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET }}
 
-  provider-functional-report:
-    name: Provider Functional (report-only)
-    needs: smoke-tests
-    # Report-only: rollback and finalize do not list this job in needs, so
-    # its result never rolls back or blocks a dev deploy. Promote it to a
-    # gate once the provider suite is stable against dev.
-    if: github.ref_name != 'main'
-    uses: CivicDataLab/CivicDataSpace-test/.github/workflows/run-smoke.yml@CI
-    with:
-      suite: functional
-      only_provider: true
-      api_base_url: ${{ vars.DEV_API_BASE_URL }}
-    secrets:
-      HOME_URL_DEV: ${{ secrets.HOME_URL_DEV }}
-      TEST_EMAIL_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_1 }}
-      TEST_PASSWORD_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_1 }}
-      TEST_EMAIL_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_2 }}
-      TEST_PASSWORD_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_2 }}
-      # org_add_permission needs a token to check canAdd; without this every
-      # org-create test skips on both workers and the report is hollow.
-      KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET }}
-
   rollback-on-smoke-failure:
     name: Rollback (smoke tests failed)
     # `deploy` must be in needs: for needs.deploy.result to resolve here.
-    # provider-functional-report is listed so this waits for every test to
-    # finish, but its result is deliberately not checked (report-only).
-    needs: [deploy, smoke-tests, functional-tests, provider-functional-report]
-    # Explicit gating results, not failure(): failure() would also count the
-    # report-only provider job. !cancelled() keeps cancellation a no-op.
+    needs: [deploy, smoke-tests, functional-tests]
+    # Explicit results rather than failure(), so that a skipped functional stage
+    # on main never reads as a failure. !cancelled() keeps cancellation a no-op.
     if: >-
       ${{ !cancelled() && needs.deploy.result == 'success' &&
       (needs.smoke-tests.result == 'failure' || needs.functional-tests.result == 'failure') }}
@@ -377,11 +350,9 @@ jobs:
 
   finalize-deploy:
     name: Finalize Deploy
-    # provider-functional-report is listed so this waits for every test to
-    # finish, but its result is deliberately not checked (report-only).
-    needs: [deploy, smoke-tests, functional-tests, provider-functional-report]
-    # Explicit gating results, not success()/!failure(): on main the functional
-    # jobs are skipped by design, and the provider job must not block.
+    needs: [deploy, smoke-tests, functional-tests]
+    # Explicit results, not success()/!failure(): on main the functional stage
+    # is skipped by design.
     if: >-
       ${{ !cancelled() && needs.deploy.result == 'success' &&
       needs.smoke-tests.result == 'success' &&
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-gate.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-gate.yml
index 3a804c1..5a9f6ce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-gate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-gate.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Full test suite against dev for every PR into main. Required by branch
 # protection on main, so a PR merges (and prod deploys) only once it's green.
-# dev already runs the PR's code (it was merged to dev first); deployed_sha
-# makes the suite fail if dev is running anything else.
+# Releases come from dev, so the suite checks that dev is running dev's head:
+# not the PR head, which is a different commit whenever a release is built as
+# a merge to resolve conflicts.
 name: PR Gate
 
 on:
@@ -22,37 +23,29 @@ jobs:
     name: Django Tests
     uses: ./.github/workflows/django-tests.yml
 
+  dev-head:
+    name: Resolve dev head
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      sha: ${{ steps.dev.outputs.sha }}
+    steps:
+      - id: dev
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: echo "sha=$(gh api repos/${{ github.repository }}/commits/dev --jq .sha)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
   full-suite:
     name: Full Suite (dev)
+    needs: dev-head
     uses: CivicDataLab/CivicDataSpace-test/.github/workflows/run-smoke.yml@CI
     with:
       suite: full
-      # Provider is flaky against dev: it reports in provider-report below, which
-      # branch protection does not require.
-      skip_provider: true
-      api_base_url: ${{ vars.DEV_API_BASE_URL }}
-      deployed_sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-    secrets:
-      HOME_URL_DEV: ${{ secrets.HOME_URL_DEV }}
-      TEST_EMAIL_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_1 }}
-      TEST_PASSWORD_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_1 }}
-      TEST_EMAIL_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_2 }}
-      TEST_PASSWORD_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_2 }}
-      KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET }}
-
-  provider-report:
-    name: Provider Full Suite (report-only)
-    uses: CivicDataLab/CivicDataSpace-test/.github/workflows/run-smoke.yml@CI
-    with:
-      suite: full
-      only_provider: true
       api_base_url: ${{ vars.DEV_API_BASE_URL }}
+      deployed_sha: ${{ needs.dev-head.outputs.sha }}
     secrets:
       HOME_URL_DEV: ${{ secrets.HOME_URL_DEV }}
       TEST_EMAIL_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_1 }}
       TEST_PASSWORD_1: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_1 }}
       TEST_EMAIL_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_EMAIL_2 }}
       TEST_PASSWORD_2: ${{ secrets.TEST_PASSWORD_2 }}
-      # org_add_permission needs a token to check canAdd; without this every
-      # org-create test skips on both workers and the report is hollow.
       KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET }}