diff --git a/.github/workflows/agent-e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/agent-e2e.yml
index 11c63b32..9f3710a1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/agent-e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/agent-e2e.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
-  CONDUCTOR_SERVER_VERSION: "3.32.0-rc18"   # pinned server release — bump deliberately
+  # Tracks the org-level E2E_TEST_OSS_CONDUCTOR_VERSION, set by conductor's
+  # publish.yml on each release (shared with the pull_request.yml docker e2e).
+  # Fork PRs can't read org vars, so they fall back to the pinned default.
+  CONDUCTOR_SERVER_VERSION: ${{ vars.E2E_TEST_OSS_CONDUCTOR_VERSION || '3.33.0' }}
 
 jobs:
   agent-e2e:
diff --git a/e2e/test_suite1_basic_validation.py b/e2e/test_suite1_basic_validation.py
index 81448d64..53448066 100644
--- a/e2e/test_suite1_basic_validation.py
+++ b/e2e/test_suite1_basic_validation.py
@@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ def _judge_call_anthropic(model: str, system: str, user: str) -> str:
         max_tokens=1024,
         system=system,
         messages=[{"role": "user", "content": user}],
-        extra_body={"temperature": 0},
     )
     return response.content[0].text.strip()