diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 62f63b2c..991da00b 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ fail-closed and only pauses when the agent actually proposed a reviewed output.
 │           ├── approval-summary/ # Safe-outputs summary renderer (bundled to approval-summary.js; end-of-Agent-job summary tab)
 │           ├── github-app-token/ # GitHub App token minter (bundled to github-app-token.js; mints installation token in Agent + Detection when engine.github-app-token is set)
 │           ├── executor-e2e/ # Stage 3 safe-output E2E test harness (not a bundle; runs deterministic scenarios against a real ADO project and files a GitHub issue on failure)
+│           ├── compiler-smoke-e2e/ # Deterministic compiler-candidate smoke E2E orchestrator (not a bundle): stages a compiler candidate, pushes to a short-lived `ado-aw-mirror` branch, queues the five FIXED "candidate lane" pipeline definitions, and asserts they go green. Consumes fixtures from `tests/compiler-smoke-e2e/`; built to `test-bin/` by `build:compiler-smoke-e2e`, listed in `NON_BUNDLE_DIRS`.
 │           ├── prepare-pr-base/ # create-pull-request preparer (bundled to prepare-pr-base.js): Agent mode uses ADO diff metadata + bounded dual-ref fallback to make the merge-base reachable; SafeOutputs mode fetches only the target worktree tip
 │           ├── trigger-e2e/ # Test-only gate-spec / trigger-evaluation harness (not a bundle): mirrors Rust `Fact::ALL` in `gate-spec.ts`; `fact-catalog.gen.json` is generated by `export-fact-catalog` and drift-guarded by CI
 │           └── shared/   # Shared modules across bundles (auth, ado-client, env-facts, types.gen.ts)
diff --git a/docs/ado-script.md b/docs/ado-script.md
index dbcb9021..789d27fb 100644
--- a/docs/ado-script.md
+++ b/docs/ado-script.md
@@ -112,6 +112,20 @@ pipeline** as runtime helpers. Today it produces thirteen bundles:
 > so the `gate-spec.test.ts` test can deep-compare `FACT_META` against the
 > Rust-side `Fact::ALL` registry, catching drift at CI time.
 
+> **Test-only, not shipped: `compiler-smoke-e2e`.** The workspace also contains a
+> `src/compiler-smoke-e2e/` harness that drives the deterministic compiler-candidate
+> smoke E2E suite (see [`tests/compiler-smoke-e2e/`](../tests/compiler-smoke-e2e/)).
+> It stages the compiler candidate produced by the current build (PR or nightly `main`)
+> as a pinned `supply-chain.pipeline-artifact` source across the five real fixtures in
+> `tests/safe-outputs/`, pushes the staged candidate to a short-lived `ado-aw-mirror`
+> branch on the mirror repo, queues the five FIXED "candidate lane" pipeline definitions
+> (tracked in `tests/compiler-smoke-e2e/REGISTERED.md`), and asserts they all go green.
+> It is **not** a runtime bundle: it is built to the non-root `test-bin/compiler-smoke-e2e.js`
+> by `npm run build:compiler-smoke-e2e` (kept out of the main `build` chain and the
+> release `ado-script/*.js` glob), and `compiler-smoke-e2e` is listed in `NON_BUNDLE_DIRS`
+> in `src/__tests__/bundle-coverage.test.ts` so the shipped-bundle guard ignores it. The
+> compiler never references it.
+
 ## What `gate.js` does
 
 `gate.js` is a single-shot Node program that runs as a step in the
@@ -564,7 +578,8 @@ scripts/ado-script/
 │   │   ├── gate-spec.ts         # FACT_META mirror of Rust Fact::ALL; drift-guarded by export-fact-catalog + fact-catalog.gen.json
 │   │   ├── fact-catalog.gen.json # generated by `cargo run -- export-fact-catalog`; deep-compared by gate-spec.test.ts
 │   │   └── __tests__/           # gate-spec drift tests and trigger-evaluation scenario tests
-│   └── executor-e2e/            # test-only: Stage 3 safe-output E2E harness (not a bundle; built to test-bin/executor-e2e.js)
+│   ├── executor-e2e/            # test-only: Stage 3 safe-output E2E harness (not a bundle; built to test-bin/executor-e2e.js)
+│   └── compiler-smoke-e2e/      # test-only: deterministic compiler-candidate smoke E2E orchestrator (not a bundle; built to test-bin/ by build:compiler-smoke-e2e)
 ├── test/                        # End-to-end smoke tests (gate, import, exec-context-pr)
 ├── gate.js                      # ncc bundle output (gitignored)
 ├── import.js                    # ncc bundle output (gitignored)