diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/sf/memory-store.ts b/src/resources/extensions/sf/memory-store.ts
index db2217217..90dd31611 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/sf/memory-store.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/sf/memory-store.ts
@@ -179,13 +179,41 @@ export async function getRelevantMemoriesRanked(
 			embeddingMap,
 		);
 		const byId = new Map(pool.map((m) => [m.id, m]));
-		const out: Memory[] = [];
+		// Top-K from cosine rank — feed this into the optional rerank pass.
+		const topK: Memory[] = [];
 		for (const r of ranked) {
 			const mem = byId.get(r.id);
-			if (mem) out.push(mem);
-			if (out.length >= limit) break;
+			if (mem) topK.push(mem);
+			if (topK.length >= limit) break;
 		}
-		return out;
+		// Optional rerank refinement: when SF_LLM_GATEWAY_RERANK_MODEL is set
+		// AND the gateway has a rerank worker, re-score the cosine top-K with
+		// the cross-encoder rerank model. Returns null in every other case
+		// (no model configured, no worker online, network error) and we keep
+		// the cosine-ranked order as-is — strictly additive precision boost.
+		try {
+			const { loadGatewayConfigFromEnv, rerankCandidates } = await import(
+				"./memory-embeddings-llm-gateway.js"
+			);
+			const cfg = loadGatewayConfigFromEnv();
+			if (cfg?.rerankModel && topK.length > 1) {
+				const scores = await rerankCandidates(
+					cfg,
+					query,
+					topK.map((m) => ({ id: m.id, text: m.content })),
+				);
+				if (scores && scores.length > 0) {
+					const scoreById = new Map(scores.map((s) => [s.id, s.score]));
+					return [...topK].sort(
+						(a, b) =>
+							(scoreById.get(b.id) ?? 0) - (scoreById.get(a.id) ?? 0),
+					);
+				}
+			}
+		} catch {
+			// Rerank is best-effort; cosine order is already a fine answer.
+		}
+		return topK;
 	} catch {
 		return pool.slice(0, limit);
 	}
diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/sf/tests/memory-query-ranking.test.ts b/src/resources/extensions/sf/tests/memory-query-ranking.test.ts
index 1eddf89b3..71808fa5b 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/sf/tests/memory-query-ranking.test.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/sf/tests/memory-query-ranking.test.ts
@@ -234,4 +234,89 @@ describe("getRelevantMemoriesRanked (async, mocked gateway)", () => {
 		const out = await getRelevantMemoriesRanked("anything", 10);
 		assert.equal(out[0].id, a, "high-confidence memory ranks first by static score");
 	});
+
+	test("rerank pass re-orders cosine top-K when worker is online", async () => {
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_KEY = "x";
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_URL = "https://gateway.test/v1";
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_RERANK_MODEL = "bge-reranker";
+		const a = createMemory({ category: "architecture", content: "alpha alpha" });
+		const b = createMemory({ category: "architecture", content: "beta beta" });
+		assert.ok(a && b);
+		// Cosine order (with both vectors aligned to query) → tie broken by
+		// pool order, so a comes first. Rerank flips it: b gets higher score.
+		saveEmbedding(a, Float32Array.from([1, 0, 0]), "test-model");
+		saveEmbedding(b, Float32Array.from([1, 0, 0]), "test-model");
+
+		vi.stubGlobal(
+			"fetch",
+			vi.fn(async (url: string) => {
+				if (url.endsWith("/embeddings")) {
+					return new Response(
+						JSON.stringify({
+							object: "list",
+							data: [
+								{ object: "embedding", index: 0, embedding: [1, 0, 0] },
+							],
+						}),
+						{ status: 200 },
+					);
+				}
+				if (url.endsWith("/rerank")) {
+					return new Response(
+						JSON.stringify({
+							results: [
+								{ index: 1, relevance_score: 0.95 }, // b ranks higher
+								{ index: 0, relevance_score: 0.10 },
+							],
+						}),
+						{ status: 200 },
+					);
+				}
+				return new Response("404", { status: 404 });
+			}),
+		);
+
+		const out = await getRelevantMemoriesRanked("query", 10);
+		assert.equal(out.length, 2);
+		assert.equal(out[0].id, b, "rerank promoted b above a");
+		assert.equal(out[1].id, a);
+	});
+
+	test("rerank no-op when no worker is online", async () => {
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_KEY = "x";
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_URL = "https://gateway.test/v1";
+		process.env.SF_LLM_GATEWAY_RERANK_MODEL = "bge-reranker";
+		const a = createMemory({ category: "architecture", content: "alpha" });
+		const b = createMemory({ category: "architecture", content: "beta" });
+		assert.ok(a && b);
+		saveEmbedding(a, Float32Array.from([0, 1, 0]), "test-model");
+		saveEmbedding(b, Float32Array.from([1, 0, 0]), "test-model");
+
+		vi.stubGlobal(
+			"fetch",
+			vi.fn(async (url: string) => {
+				if (url.endsWith("/embeddings")) {
+					return new Response(
+						JSON.stringify({
+							object: "list",
+							data: [{ object: "embedding", index: 0, embedding: [1, 0, 0] }],
+						}),
+						{ status: 200 },
+					);
+				}
+				if (url.endsWith("/rerank")) {
+					// No rerank worker — gateway returns a soft-degrade body.
+					return new Response("no worker with rerank capability is available", {
+						status: 503,
+					});
+				}
+				return new Response("404", { status: 404 });
+			}),
+		);
+
+		const out = await getRelevantMemoriesRanked("query", 10);
+		// Cosine order survives: b (cosine 1.0) above a (cosine 0).
+		assert.equal(out[0].id, b);
+		assert.equal(out[1].id, a);
+	});
 });