diff --git a/test/e2e/dream-cycle-phase-order-pglite.test.ts b/test/e2e/dream-cycle-phase-order-pglite.test.ts
index c9356d752..7588d14e8 100644
--- a/test/e2e/dream-cycle-phase-order-pglite.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/dream-cycle-phase-order-pglite.test.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ mock.module('../../src/core/embedding.ts', () => ({
   estimateEmbeddingCostUsd: (tokens: number) => (tokens / 1000) * 0.00013,
   // v0.41.31: embed phase reads the current signature to stamp provenance.
   currentEmbeddingSignature: () => 'text-embedding-3-large:1536',
+  // The cycle sync phase reaches commands/sync.ts, whose static embedding.ts
+  // imports must all resolve against this mock (missing names are a load-time
+  // SyntaxError, not a runtime undefined).
+  currentEmbeddingPricePerMTok: () => 0.13,
+  willEmbedSynchronously: (opts: { v2Enabled: boolean; serialFlag: boolean; noEmbed: boolean }) => {
+    const effectiveNoEmbed = opts.v2Enabled && !opts.serialFlag && !opts.noEmbed ? true : opts.noEmbed;
+    return effectiveNoEmbed ? 'deferred' : 'inline';
+  },
+  shouldBlockSync: (costUsd: number, floorUsd: number, mode: string, posture: 'gated' | 'tokenmax' = 'gated') =>
+    posture === 'tokenmax' ? false : mode === 'inline' && costUsd > floorUsd,
 }));
 
 const { runCycle, ALL_PHASES } = await import('../../src/core/cycle.ts');