diff --git a/.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/04-job-evaluation.md b/.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/04-job-evaluation.md
index b11eb07..376ced9 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/04-job-evaluation.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/04-job-evaluation.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-framework_version: 1.2.3
+framework_version: 1.2.4
 ---
 
 # Job Evaluation Framework
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ A role that fails this gate is not scored and not drafted. Everything below appl
 
 ## Language Gate — run before scoring
 
-No dimension or gate anywhere in this framework currently checks a posting's language requirements against what the candidate actually speaks - it is not one of the five Scoring Dimensions below, not a field `/scrape` or `/rank` track, and not something `/apply`'s language detection (Step 1, which already extracts a posting's required language generically) has anywhere to report to. This gate adds that check, structured the same way as the Eligibility Gate above: read the posting, classify against profile data, and treat a hard mismatch as FAIL before scoring.
+This gate checks a posting's language requirements against what the candidate actually speaks. It is not one of the five Scoring Dimensions below - it runs before them, structured the same way as the Eligibility Gate above: read the posting, classify against profile data, and treat a hard mismatch as FAIL before scoring. Its verdict is tracked downstream: `/rank` records the result as `language_gate` (PASS/FAIL/FLAG) with a supporting `language_note`, persists both into `seen_jobs.json`, and treats a FAIL as a shortlist veto; `/scrape` surfaces the flag in its results table and carries a language-override rule for postings whose ad language differs from the role's working language. `/apply`'s language detection (Step 1, which extracts a posting's required language generically) feeds this same check.
 
 Read the posting's language requirements as stated for **the role itself** — not the language the ad happens to be written in. A posting written in a language you don't work in, for a role that only needs languages you do work in on the job, passes fine; only an explicit job-condition requirement ("fluent X required," "must communicate with the Y team in Z") triggers this check. For each language the posting requires as a job condition, compare it against your Languages table in CLAUDE.md / `01-candidate-profile.md`:
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13e077b..acf4217 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ per-file diff commands.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **Language Gate preamble no longer claims the gate is untracked** (`framework_version`
+  1.2.3 -> 1.2.4 in `04-job-evaluation.md`) - the paragraph still said the result "is not
+  a field `/scrape` or `/rank` track", written before the gate was wired into both
+  consumers. An agent reading the authoritative framework file learned the opposite of
+  what `rank.md` itself insists on ("These veto fields are as important to persist as
+  the score itself"). The preamble now names `language_gate`/`language_note` and how each
+  consumer uses them; a coupling test in `tests/test_rank_command.py` keeps the framework
+  text honest about the tracking.
 - **`/reset documents` now clears `documents/postings/`** - the drop folder for
   hand-pasted job posting text was absent from the preview, the delete block, and the
   user-facing scope description, after which the command told the user "The `documents/`
diff --git a/tests/test_rank_command.py b/tests/test_rank_command.py
index bc20976..dbb8d06 100644
--- a/tests/test_rank_command.py
+++ b/tests/test_rank_command.py
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ except ImportError:
 REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
 COMMAND = REPO / ".claude" / "commands" / "rank.md"
 SCRAPER_SKILL = REPO / ".claude" / "skills" / "job-scraper" / "SKILL.md"
+EVALUATION = (
+    REPO / ".claude" / "skills" / "job-application-assistant" / "04-job-evaluation.md"
+)
 
 
 def _sections(text: str) -> dict[str, str]:
@@ -102,6 +105,33 @@ class RankCommandSpec(unittest.TestCase):
             "not only when /rank re-scores it",
         )
 
+    def test_evaluation_framework_acknowledges_language_gate_tracking(self):
+        """04-job-evaluation.md is the authoritative file /rank tells its agents
+        to read. Its Language Gate preamble once said the gate result "is not a
+        field /scrape or /rank track" - written before the gate was wired into
+        both consumers, and never updated. An agent reading that learns the
+        opposite of what rank.md itself insists on ("These veto fields are as
+        important to persist as the score itself"). The framework text must name
+        the tracked fields and must not claim they are untracked."""
+        text = EVALUATION.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+        gate = text.partition("## Language Gate")[2].partition("\n## ")[0]
+        self.assertTrue(gate, "04-job-evaluation.md has no Language Gate section")
+        self.assertIn(
+            "language_gate",
+            gate,
+            "the Language Gate section must name the language_gate field /rank persists",
+        )
+        self.assertIn(
+            "language_note",
+            gate,
+            "the Language Gate section must name the language_note field /rank persists",
+        )
+        self.assertNotIn(
+            "not a field",
+            gate,
+            "stale claim: the gate result IS tracked by /scrape and /rank now",
+        )
+
     def test_step2_schema_includes_language_gate_fields(self):
         sections = _sections(COMMAND.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
         step2 = sections.get("Step 2: Batch-Fetch and Score", "")