diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 868b4b51a..04f05bdb3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -191,3 +191,15 @@ jobs:
         run: bun test apps/hub/test
         env:
           E2E_REQUIRED: "1"
+
+      # Every DB-gated suite under packages/* and apps/hub/src gates on
+      # DATABASE_URL and describe.skip's without one, so build-test (no
+      # Postgres) never runs them. Find them by the same signal they
+      # gate on rather than hardcoding a file list, so a newly added
+      # suite gets picked up automatically. E2E_REQUIRED=1 turns a
+      # would-be skip into a hard failure.
+      - name: Run the database-backed package suites
+        run: |
+          bun test $(grep -rl DATABASE_URL --include='*.test.ts' packages apps | grep -v apps/hub/test)
+        env:
+          E2E_REQUIRED: "1"