diff --git a/apps/api/test-support/reset-db.ts b/apps/api/test-support/reset-db.ts
index 93217b5..cdf8e04 100644
--- a/apps/api/test-support/reset-db.ts
+++ b/apps/api/test-support/reset-db.ts
@@ -18,9 +18,14 @@ function assertRunningAgainstTestDatabase() {
       `resetDatabase() TRUNCATEs almost the whole schema — refusing to run outside NODE_ENV=test (currently "${env.NODE_ENV}").`,
     );
   }
-  if (!env.DATABASE_URL?.includes("test")) {
+  // "test" covers a local `.env.test` (`batchcooking_test`); "ci" covers
+  // CI's own service database (`batchcooking_ci`, set directly via the
+  // workflow's `env:`, not a `.env.test` file — see ci.yml). Neither
+  // matches the real dev database's name (`batchcooking`), which is the
+  // one case this must actually catch.
+  if (!env.DATABASE_URL?.includes("test") && !env.DATABASE_URL?.includes("ci")) {
     throw new Error(
-      `resetDatabase() refuses to run against a DATABASE_URL that doesn't look like a test database (got "${env.DATABASE_URL}", expected it to contain "test") — see .env.test.example.`,
+      `resetDatabase() refuses to run against a DATABASE_URL that doesn't look like a test database (got "${env.DATABASE_URL}", expected it to contain "test" or "ci") — see .env.test.example.`,
     );
   }
 }