diff --git a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/__tests__/structural-review.spec.ts b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/__tests__/structural-review.spec.ts
index af50dbb2..4d360b10 100644
--- a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/__tests__/structural-review.spec.ts
+++ b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/__tests__/structural-review.spec.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ import {
   compareSeverity,
 } from '../domain/rubrics/structural-review-rubric';
 import type { CollectionContext, CollectionTarget } from '../domain/ports/quality-signal-provider.port';
+import { DEFAULT_SKILLS } from '../adapters/skills/default-skills';
+import { buildEvaluationContext } from '../application/context-mapper';
+import { parseAgentRuntimeRequest } from '../domain/contracts/agent-runtime-request';
+import type { SkillDescriptor } from '../domain/contracts/capability';
 
 /** A deterministic stub reviewer standing in for the probabilistic LLM/agent. */
 function stubReviewer(findings: readonly RawStructuralFinding[]): IStructuralReviewer {
@@ -208,3 +212,38 @@ describe('Structural Quality Gate (deterministic severity → decision)', () =>
     expect(decideForSeverity('medium', DEFAULT_STRUCTURAL_GATE_POLICY)).toBe('warn');
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * Kind routing (GT-535) — the structural-review skill must forward a canonical
+ * EvaluationKind through buildEvaluationContext, NOT be dropped to the 'gate'
+ * fallback. Regression guard: 'code-quality' is a quality-signal DIMENSION, not a
+ * kind; the skill declares the canonical 'evidence' kind so the provider stays
+ * reachable when the IStructuralReviewer adapter lands.
+ */
+describe('structural-review skill kind routing (GT-535)', () => {
+  const skill = DEFAULT_SKILLS.find((s) => s.id === 'code-quality-structural-review');
+  const req = parseAgentRuntimeRequest({ tenant: 't-1', intent: 'structural_review' });
+
+  it('declares a canonical evaluation kind (not the code-quality dimension)', () => {
+    expect(skill).toBeDefined();
+    expect(skill?.evaluationKinds).toEqual(['evidence']);
+    // 'code-quality' is the Evidence DIMENSION, never an EvaluationKind.
+    expect(skill?.evaluationKinds).not.toContain('code-quality');
+  });
+
+  it('forwards the declared kind through buildEvaluationContext (not the gate fallback)', () => {
+    const ctx = buildEvaluationContext(req, skill as SkillDescriptor);
+    expect(ctx.kinds).toEqual(['evidence']);
+    // Guard the regression: an unknown/dimension-shaped kind would collapse to ['gate'].
+    expect(ctx.kinds).not.toEqual(['gate']);
+  });
+
+  it('drops a non-canonical kind to the gate fallback (documents the filter)', () => {
+    const bogus: SkillDescriptor = {
+      ...(skill as SkillDescriptor),
+      evaluationKinds: ['code-quality'],
+    };
+    const ctx = buildEvaluationContext(req, bogus);
+    expect(ctx.kinds).toEqual(['gate']);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/adapters/skills/default-skills.ts b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/adapters/skills/default-skills.ts
index 8f96bbc1..40c192f7 100644
--- a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/adapters/skills/default-skills.ts
+++ b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/adapters/skills/default-skills.ts
@@ -93,8 +93,14 @@ export const DEFAULT_SKILLS: readonly SkillDescriptor[] = [
     intents: ['structural_review', 'code_quality_review', 'review_structure'],
     // Orchestration runs the probabilistic reviewer behind IStructuralReviewer and
     // hands the normalized Evidence to the Core as a code-quality signal (GT-535).
+    // NOTE: 'code-quality' is the quality-signal DIMENSION the emitted Evidence is
+    // tagged with (StructuralReviewProvider.DEFAULT_DIMENSION), NOT an EvaluationKind.
+    // The canonical EvaluationKind for declared quality-signal Evidence is 'evidence'
+    // (ADR-0111 / GT-533). Declaring it here keeps the kind routed by
+    // buildEvaluationContext instead of being dropped to the 'gate' fallback, so the
+    // StructuralReviewProvider stays reachable when the IStructuralReviewer adapter lands.
     kind: 'evaluation',
-    evaluationKinds: ['code-quality'],
+    evaluationKinds: ['evidence'],
     permissions: ['read:repo'],
     requiresApproval: false,
     emitsTrace: true,
diff --git a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/application/context-mapper.ts b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/application/context-mapper.ts
index e0da69dd..b8b55718 100644
--- a/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/application/context-mapper.ts
+++ b/src/packages/agent-runtime/src/application/context-mapper.ts
@@ -35,9 +35,18 @@ export function toPhaseId(phase?: string): PhaseIdT | undefined {
   return (CANONICAL_PHASES as readonly string[]).includes(v) ? (v as PhaseIdT) : undefined;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Allowlist of canonical evaluation kinds a skill may forward to the Core. It MUST
+ * mirror the core-domain `EvaluationKind` union (evaluation-context.ts) — a skill
+ * that declares a kind absent from this list is silently dropped to the 'gate'
+ * fallback (that is the bug GT-535 hit: 'code-quality' is a quality-signal
+ * DIMENSION, not a kind). Kept as a literal (not imported) because this file is a
+ * type-only consumer of core-domain — the hexagon carries no runtime dependency.
+ */
 const KNOWN_KINDS: readonly string[] = [
   'gate', 'artifact', 'evidence', 'architecture', 'blueprint',
   'topology', 'checkpoint', 'deployment', 'rule', 'compliance',
+  'design', 'phase-artifacts',
 ];
 
 /** Build a canonical EvaluationContext from a runtime request + resolved skill. */
diff --git a/src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/enforcement/policy-compiler.spec.ts b/src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/enforcement/policy-compiler.spec.ts
index 6952356a..25b0888b 100644
--- a/src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/enforcement/policy-compiler.spec.ts
+++ b/src/packages/core-domain/src/application/validators/enforcement/policy-compiler.spec.ts
@@ -170,22 +170,26 @@ describe('PolicyCompiler — compileRuleset partitions and never wholesale-fails
 });
 
 describe('PolicyCompiler ⇄ ADR-0002 pilot (GT-516 AC1: HXA rules compile/fallback)', () => {
-  it('routes every HXA-01..07 rule through the enforcer and partitions compile vs per-rule fallback', () => {
+  it('routes the import-graph-expressible HXA rules through the enforcer and partitions compile vs per-rule fallback', () => {
     const ruleset = JSON.parse(readFileSync(findUp('src/rulesets/adr/adr-0002-hexagonal-architecture.rules.json'), 'utf8'));
     const rules: CompilableRule[] = ruleset.rules;
     const enforced = rules.filter((r) => r.enforce?.engine === 'enforcer');
 
-    // The pilot populates an enforce block on all seven HXA rules.
-    expect(enforced.map((r) => r.id).sort()).toEqual(['HXA-01', 'HXA-02', 'HXA-03', 'HXA-04', 'HXA-05', 'HXA-06', 'HXA-07']);
+    // HXA-03 ("Infrastructure IMPLEMENTS Core ports") is a POSITIVE/structural assertion.
+    // dependency-cruiser is a forbidden-dependency tool and cannot express "X implements Y",
+    // so HXA-03 carries NO enforce block and is left on the native engine — routing it through
+    // the enforcer would only ever degrade to a native fallback (or, with a config, false-positive).
+    // The remaining six HXA rules are enforcer-routed.
+    expect(enforced.map((r) => r.id).sort()).toEqual(['HXA-01', 'HXA-02', 'HXA-04', 'HXA-05', 'HXA-06', 'HXA-07']);
 
     const { compiled, fallbacks } = compileRuleset(rules);
 
     // The five import-graph-expressible rules lower to a dependency-cruiser check.
     expect(compiled.map((c) => c.ruleId).sort()).toEqual(['HXA-01', 'HXA-02', 'HXA-04', 'HXA-05', 'HXA-07']);
-    // The two structural/positive rules (implements-ports, AOP-in-infra-only) are not
-    // import-graph-expressible → they take the documented per-rule NATIVE fallback rather
-    // than emitting an all-matching (false-positive-prone) rule, and never fail the run.
-    expect(fallbacks.map((f) => f.ruleId).sort()).toEqual(['HXA-03', 'HXA-06']);
+    // HXA-06 (AOP-in-infra-only) is enforcer-routed but not import-graph-expressible → it takes the
+    // documented per-rule NATIVE fallback rather than emitting an all-matching (false-positive-prone)
+    // rule, and never fails the run. (HXA-03 is native-only and never enters the enforcer partition.)
+    expect(fallbacks.map((f) => f.ruleId).sort()).toEqual(['HXA-06']);
     for (const f of fallbacks) {
       expect(f.fallback).toBe('native');
       expect(f.tool).toBe('dependency-cruiser');
diff --git a/src/rulesets/adr/adr-0002-hexagonal-architecture.rules.json b/src/rulesets/adr/adr-0002-hexagonal-architecture.rules.json
index b4d2692a..8ba371a1 100644
--- a/src/rulesets/adr/adr-0002-hexagonal-architecture.rules.json
+++ b/src/rulesets/adr/adr-0002-hexagonal-architecture.rules.json
@@ -63,13 +63,7 @@
       "rationale": "ADR-0002 §Decision: Infrastructure is the adapter layer. It implements the ports defined by Core.",
       "validationQuery": "Infrastructure files implement interfaces defined in Core layer. No domain logic lives here.",
       "blocking": true,
-      "layer": "Infrastructure",
-      "enforce": {
-        "engine": "enforcer",
-        "tool": "dependency-cruiser",
-        "toolRuleId": "hxa-03-infra-implements-ports",
-        "runtime": "node"
-      }
+      "layer": "Infrastructure"
     },
     {
       "id": "HXA-04",