diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
index 55e3453..6a9f76f 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -295,6 +295,49 @@ jobs:
             --checklist-confirmed \
             --checklist-categories 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 \
             --body "Auto-approved: all CI checks passed (validate, molecule-tests)."
+      - name: Wait for molecule tests to complete
+        env:
+          CI_GITEA_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_GITEA_API_TOKEN }}
+          HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+        run: |
+          . .venv/bin/activate 2>/dev/null || true
+          # Poll commit status until all required checks pass or fail
+          MAX_WAIT=600  # 10 minutes
+          ELAPSED=0
+          while [ $ELAPSED -lt $MAX_WAIT ]; do
+            STATUS=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token $CI_GITEA_API_TOKEN" \
+              "https://git.oblachno.oblachno.fyi/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}/commits/$HEAD_SHA/status" \
+              | python3 -c "
+          import sys,json
+          d=json.load(sys.stdin)
+          statuses={s['context']:s['status'] for s in d.get('statuses',[])}
+          # Check if all molecule-tests contexts are terminal (success/failure)
+          mol_contexts=[k for k in statuses if 'molecule-tests' in k]
+          if not mol_contexts:
+              print('pending')
+          elif all(statuses[k] in ('success','failure') for k in mol_contexts):
+              if any(statuses[k]=='failure' for k in mol_contexts):
+                  print('failure')
+              else:
+                  print('success')
+          else:
+              print('pending')
+          ")
+            echo "Molecule tests status: $STATUS (elapsed: ${ELAPSED}s)"
+            if [ "$STATUS" = "success" ]; then
+              echo "All molecule tests passed."
+              break
+            elif [ "$STATUS" = "failure" ]; then
+              echo "ERROR: Molecule tests failed. Aborting auto-merge."
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            sleep 30
+            ELAPSED=$((ELAPSED + 30))
+          done
+          if [ $ELAPSED -ge $MAX_WAIT ]; then
+            echo "ERROR: Timed out waiting for molecule tests."
+            exit 1
+          fi
       - name: Squash merge with task ID
         env:
           CI_GITEA_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_GITEA_API_TOKEN }}