diff --git a/src/core/ai/gateway.ts b/src/core/ai/gateway.ts
index 21c5ce57a7..8778f8ba7a 100644
--- a/src/core/ai/gateway.ts
+++ b/src/core/ai/gateway.ts
@@ -509,6 +509,33 @@ const _warnedRecipes = new Set<string>();
  * The warning calls that out before production traffic hits it, while avoiding
  * unrelated startup noise from recipes the current brain is not using.
  */
+/**
+ * Pure predicate: would this recipe trip the missing-max_batch_tokens startup
+ * warning? A recipe warns when it declares an embedding touchpoint that
+ * (a) has no `max_batch_tokens`, (b) is not the OpenAI canonical fast-path
+ * recipe, and (c) has not explicitly opted out via `no_batch_cap: true`.
+ *
+ * Exported for testability. As of the google/gemini cap, every SHIPPED recipe
+ * is either capped or opts out, so the warning has no live fixture left in the
+ * registry. Tests exercise the guardrail through this predicate with a
+ * synthetic capless recipe — the mechanism that catches a FUTURE recipe which
+ * inherits the embedding touchpoint but forgets the cap stays covered without
+ * depending on any real recipe being left uncapped.
+ */
+export function shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(recipe: Recipe): boolean {
+  const embedding = recipe.touchpoints?.embedding;
+  if (!embedding || embedding.max_batch_tokens !== undefined) return false;
+  // OpenAI is the canonical "no cap declared, fast path is intentional"
+  // recipe; suppress the warning for it. Every other recipe missing the
+  // field is suspicious.
+  if (recipe.id === 'openai') return false;
+  // v0.32 (#779): explicit opt-out for dynamic-cap recipes (Ollama,
+  // LiteLLM proxy, llama-server) — they ship without a static cap because
+  // the cap depends on a user-launched server. Warning is noise for them.
+  if (embedding.no_batch_cap === true) return false;
+  return true;
+}
+
 function warnRecipesMissingBatchTokens(): void {
   const configuredProviderIds = new Set<string>();
   for (const model of [_config?.embedding_model, _config?.embedding_multimodal_model]) {
@@ -519,16 +546,7 @@ function warnRecipesMissingBatchTokens(): void {
 
   for (const recipe of listRecipes()) {
     if (!configuredProviderIds.has(recipe.id)) continue;
-    const embedding = recipe.touchpoints?.embedding;
-    if (!embedding || embedding.max_batch_tokens !== undefined) continue;
-    // OpenAI is the canonical "no cap declared, fast path is intentional"
-    // recipe; suppress the warning for it. Every other recipe missing the
-    // field is suspicious.
-    if (recipe.id === 'openai') continue;
-    // v0.32 (#779): explicit opt-out for dynamic-cap recipes (Ollama,
-    // LiteLLM proxy, llama-server) — they ship without a static cap because
-    // the cap depends on a user-launched server. Warning is noise for them.
-    if (embedding.no_batch_cap === true) continue;
+    if (!shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(recipe)) continue;
     if (_warnedRecipes.has(recipe.id)) continue;
     _warnedRecipes.add(recipe.id);
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
diff --git a/src/core/ai/recipes/google.ts b/src/core/ai/recipes/google.ts
index 58e47cab35..3c81cd27c7 100644
--- a/src/core/ai/recipes/google.ts
+++ b/src/core/ai/recipes/google.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ export const google: Recipe = {
       dims_options: [768, 1536, 3072],
       cost_per_1m_tokens_usd: 0.15,
       price_last_verified: '2026-04-20',
+      // gemini-embedding-001 caps each input at 2048 tokens and — unlike most
+      // providers — effectively accepts only ONE text per request (the
+      // batchEmbedContents batch size is 1; excess tokens error when
+      // AUTO_TRUNCATE=false). gbrain batches by token budget, not item count,
+      // so this can't enforce the 1-item rule outright, but a conservative
+      // 2048-token cap (1 char ≈ 1 token dense content, 0.5 utilization —
+      // same assumption as the voyage recipe) keeps any single request under
+      // the per-text limit and arms the gateway's recursive-halving safety
+      // net. Sources: https://ai.google.dev/api/embeddings ;
+      // langchain-ai/langchainjs#8490 (single-input batch limit).
+      max_batch_tokens: 2_048,
+      chars_per_token: 1,
+      safety_factor: 0.5,
     },
     expansion: {
       models: ['gemini-2.0-flash', 'gemini-2.0-flash-lite'],
diff --git a/test/ai/adaptive-embed-batch.test.ts b/test/ai/adaptive-embed-batch.test.ts
index 33050d4d4c..e7c687a75a 100644
--- a/test/ai/adaptive-embed-batch.test.ts
+++ b/test/ai/adaptive-embed-batch.test.ts
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@ import {
   embed,
   splitByTokenBudget,
   isTokenLimitError,
+  shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens,
   __setEmbedTransportForTests,
   __getShrinkStateForTests,
 } from '../../src/core/ai/gateway.ts';
 import { AIConfigError, AITransientError } from '../../src/core/ai/errors.ts';
+import type { EmbeddingTouchpoint, Recipe } from '../../src/core/ai/types.ts';
 
 // --------- Test helpers ---------
 
@@ -383,34 +385,57 @@ describe('shrink-on-miss adaptive cache', () => {
 describe('startup warning for recipes missing max_batch_tokens', () => {
   beforeEach(() => resetGateway());
 
-  test('configured missing-cap recipe warns once; unrelated recipes stay quiet', () => {
+  test('every shipped embedding recipe declares a batch cap or opts out (no startup warnings)', () => {
     const warnings: string[] = [];
     const original = console.warn;
     console.warn = (msg: string) => warnings.push(String(msg));
     try {
+      // Configuring the gateway walks the whole recipe registry once. As of
+      // the google max_batch_tokens fix, EVERY built-in embedding recipe
+      // either declares max_batch_tokens (voyage, openai, google, …) or sets
+      // no_batch_cap: true (litellm-proxy, llama-server, ollama), so the
+      // missing-cap guardrail must stay silent. Reconfiguring must not
+      // resurrect a warning either.
       configureOpenAI();
-      expect(warnings.length).toBe(0);
       configureGoogle();
-      const firstCallCount = warnings.length;
-      // Reconfigure: the warning should NOT re-fire for the same recipes
-      // within one process (we already told the operator).
       configureGoogle();
-      expect(warnings.length).toBe(firstCallCount);
     } finally {
       console.warn = original;
     }
 
-    // The warning text should match the documented contract.
+    // No recipe should trip the missing-max_batch_tokens contract warning.
     const contractMatch = warnings.filter(w =>
       w.includes('[ai.gateway]') && w.includes('declares an embedding touchpoint'),
     );
-    expect(contractMatch.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(contractMatch.length).toBe(0);
 
-    // Voyage declares max_batch_tokens → suppressed. OpenAI is the
-    // canonical fast-path recipe → also suppressed by id. Both must be
-    // absent from the warnings.
+    // google previously warned (it was the sole capless recipe); it now
+    // declares max_batch_tokens, so it must be suppressed like the rest.
+    expect(warnings.find(w => w.includes('"google"'))).toBeUndefined();
     expect(warnings.find(w => w.includes('"voyage"'))).toBeUndefined();
     expect(warnings.find(w => w.includes('"openai"'))).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(warnings.find(w => w.includes('"google"'))).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  test('the guardrail still detects a recipe that forgets the cap (synthetic fixture)', () => {
+    // The invariant above proves no SHIPPED recipe warns. This proves the
+    // mechanism that WOULD warn is still armed for a future recipe that
+    // inherits the embedding touchpoint but forgets max_batch_tokens — the
+    // "warns once" coverage that used to live on the (now-capped) google
+    // recipe, now decoupled from any real recipe being left uncapped.
+    const base: EmbeddingTouchpoint = { models: ['synthetic-embed-001'], default_dims: 768 };
+    const mk = (id: string, embedding: EmbeddingTouchpoint | undefined): Recipe => ({
+      id,
+      name: `synthetic ${id}`,
+      tier: 'openai-compat',
+      implementation: 'openai-compatible',
+      touchpoints: { embedding },
+    });
+    // Forgets the cap → the guardrail fires.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base }))).toBe(true);
+    // Suppression paths stay silent.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base, max_batch_tokens: 4096 }))).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base, no_batch_cap: true }))).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('openai', { ...base }))).toBe(false);
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('chat-only', undefined))).toBe(false);
   });
 });
diff --git a/test/ai/no-batch-cap-suppression.serial.test.ts b/test/ai/no-batch-cap-suppression.serial.test.ts
index 1241b3b5ad..1cbfdc18a9 100644
--- a/test/ai/no-batch-cap-suppression.serial.test.ts
+++ b/test/ai/no-batch-cap-suppression.serial.test.ts
@@ -4,14 +4,24 @@
  * Coverage:
  *  - Recipes with `embedding.no_batch_cap: true` suppress the
  *    missing-max_batch_tokens startup warning (#779)
- *  - Real-provider recipes without the flag still warn (regression guard)
+ *  - The warning MECHANISM still fires for a recipe that declares an
+ *    embedding touchpoint but forgets the cap (regression guard). Every
+ *    SHIPPED recipe is now capped or opts out (google/gemini included), so
+ *    this is exercised through `shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens` with a
+ *    synthetic capless recipe rather than a real one.
+ *  - google now declares max_batch_tokens → stays silent even when configured.
  *  - listRecipes returns expected dynamic-cap recipes (ollama, litellm,
  *    llama-server) all flagged
  */
 
 import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, mock, test } from 'bun:test';
-import { configureGateway, resetGateway } from '../../src/core/ai/gateway.ts';
+import {
+  configureGateway,
+  resetGateway,
+  shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens,
+} from '../../src/core/ai/gateway.ts';
 import { listRecipes, getRecipe } from '../../src/core/ai/recipes/index.ts';
+import type { EmbeddingTouchpoint, Recipe } from '../../src/core/ai/types.ts';
 
 describe('v0.32 #779: no_batch_cap suppresses the missing-max_batch_tokens warning', () => {
   let warnSpy: ReturnType<typeof mock>;
@@ -52,7 +62,34 @@ describe('v0.32 #779: no_batch_cap suppresses the missing-max_batch_tokens warni
     }
   });
 
-  test('configureGateway warns for google only when google embedding is configured', () => {
+  test('warning mechanism still fires for a synthetic capless recipe (guardrail armed)', () => {
+    // Every SHIPPED recipe is now capped or opts out (google/gemini included),
+    // so the registry has no live capless fixture. Exercise the guardrail
+    // directly with a synthetic recipe that inherits the embedding touchpoint
+    // but forgets max_batch_tokens — the exact v0.27 Voyage-backfill footgun
+    // this warning exists to catch — plus the suppression paths.
+    const base: EmbeddingTouchpoint = { models: ['synthetic-embed-001'], default_dims: 768 };
+    const mk = (id: string, embedding: EmbeddingTouchpoint | undefined): Recipe => ({
+      id,
+      name: `synthetic ${id}`,
+      tier: 'openai-compat',
+      implementation: 'openai-compatible',
+      touchpoints: { embedding },
+    });
+
+    // Forgets the cap → warns.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base }))).toBe(true);
+    // Declares a cap → silent.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base, max_batch_tokens: 8192 }))).toBe(false);
+    // Explicit dynamic-cap opt-out → silent.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('acme-embed', { ...base, no_batch_cap: true }))).toBe(false);
+    // OpenAI canonical fast path → silent even without a cap.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('openai', { ...base }))).toBe(false);
+    // No embedding touchpoint at all → silent.
+    expect(shouldWarnMissingBatchTokens(mk('chat-only', undefined))).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test('google now declares max_batch_tokens → no missing-cap warning even when configured', () => {
     warnSpy.mockClear();
     resetGateway();
     configureGateway({ env: {} });
@@ -62,6 +99,9 @@ describe('v0.32 #779: no_batch_cap suppresses the missing-max_batch_tokens warni
       'google should not warn while OpenAI default is configured',
     ).toBe(false);
 
+    // gemini-embedding-001 has a real per-text cap (2048 tokens, ~1 text/req);
+    // the google recipe now declares max_batch_tokens, so configuring it must
+    // NOT trip the guardrail. Regression guard on the cap itself.
     warnSpy.mockClear();
     resetGateway();
     configureGateway({
@@ -72,8 +112,8 @@ describe('v0.32 #779: no_batch_cap suppresses the missing-max_batch_tokens warni
     messages = warnSpy.mock.calls.map(c => String(c[0] ?? ''));
     expect(
       messages.some(m => m.includes('"google"') && m.includes('without max_batch_tokens')),
-      'google should warn when configured because it has fixed-cap models',
-    ).toBe(true);
+      'google must stay silent now that it declares max_batch_tokens',
+    ).toBe(false);
   });
 
   test('every recipe with empty models[] declares user_provided_models OR has openai-fast-path', () => {