diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
index 8696bcd..f79b656 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -223,15 +223,25 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
 
-      - name: Run the panel frontend test suite
+      # One `npm ci` for both checks below: it is by far the slowest part of
+      # this job, and a second one would learn nothing the first did not.
+      #
+      # `npm ci`, not `npm install`, for the same reason the Dockerfile uses it:
+      # the lockfile is what makes the tree that gets checked the tree that
+      # gets shipped.
+      - name: Type-check and test the panel frontend
         shell: bash
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           cd userbot/panel/frontend
-          # `npm ci`, not `npm install`, for the same reason the Dockerfile
-          # uses it: the lockfile is what makes the tree that gets tested the
-          # tree that gets shipped.
           npm ci
+
+          # svelte-check has been a devDependency all along with no script
+          # pointing at it, so the type errors it reports had nowhere to
+          # surface. It is clean today, which is the only reason it can be a
+          # gate: it stops at whatever upstream introduces rather than
+          # reporting a backlog we inherited.
+          npm run check
           npm test
 
   validate:
diff --git a/userbot/panel/frontend/package.json b/userbot/panel/frontend/package.json
index 9c30d10..97a0d3a 100644
--- a/userbot/panel/frontend/package.json
+++ b/userbot/panel/frontend/package.json
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "vite build",
     "dev": "vite --host 0.0.0.0",
-    "test": "vitest run"
+    "test": "vitest run",
+    "check": "svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "lucide-svelte": "^0.468.0",