diff --git a/ecosystem.light.config.cjs b/ecosystem.light.config.cjs
index 969e1321..4718e70b 100644
--- a/ecosystem.light.config.cjs
+++ b/ecosystem.light.config.cjs
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ module.exports = defineProfile({
     'officer-agent', // spawns `claude` — chat is dead without it
     'officer-opencode', // the alternative agent
     'officer-pty', // the terminal
+    // Included even though a light host runs no Gitea: this sidecar fronts a REMOTE instance. Its URL
+    // and token live in `service_connections`, set from /gitea, so it needs nothing installed here.
+    // That is what separates it from the sidecars below, which supervise a local daemon or container.
+    // Same reasoning as the mac light profile, which has included it since it was added.
+    'officer-gitea',
   ],
 
   // Excluded by CHOICE rather than by platform limits — every one of these would run on a Linux host.