diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-test.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-test.yml
index 68aa942b..ac6db7ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-test.yml
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m venv tests/host_smoke/.venv
           tests/host_smoke/.venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           cd tests/host_smoke
-          .venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
+          .venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-cov requests
 
       - name: Exercise OpenAPI routes on a real Functions host
         run: |
@@ -613,6 +613,14 @@ jobs:
             --output "$RUNNER_TEMP/swagger.html"
           grep -q 'SwaggerUIBundle' "$RUNNER_TEMP/swagger.html"
 
+          # Request every route register_openapi_routes registered (JSON, YAML, docs;
+          # anonymous and protected): indexing alone never proved they respond (#824).
+          # The status is kept so the host log is still printed and scanned before failing.
+          pytest_status=0
+          (cd ../.. && HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:7071 \
+            tests/host_smoke/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/host_smoke -m host_smoke --no-cov -rs) \
+            || pytest_status=$?
+
           kill "$host_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
           wait "$host_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
           cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/host-smoke.log"
@@ -622,6 +630,11 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
+          if [ "$pytest_status" -ne 0 ]; then
+            echo "::error::The real-host route tests failed (pytest exit $pytest_status)"
+            exit "$pytest_status"
+          fi
+
   # azure-functions 2.x compatibility proof lane (issues #488 / #528),
   # following the sibling proof-lane pattern (azure-functions-validation #351 /
   # azure-functions-langgraph #350). It installs the package from a WHEEL, then
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0417ba40..a241bf36 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -142,12 +142,13 @@ pretty = true
 module = "examples.*"
 follow_imports = "skip"
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
-addopts = "--cov=src/azure_functions_openapi --cov-report=xml --cov-report=term-missing -ra -q -m 'not e2e and not perf and not browser'"
+addopts = "--cov=src/azure_functions_openapi --cov-report=xml --cov-report=term-missing -ra -q -m 'not e2e and not perf and not browser and not host_smoke'"
 testpaths = ["tests"]
 pythonpath = ["src", "."]
 markers = [
     "e2e: real Azure end-to-end tests (require E2E_BASE_URL)",
     "perf: spec-generation regression budgets (run with make perf)",
+    "host_smoke: requests a running tests/host_smoke Functions host (set HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL)",
     "browser: offline Chromium script checks (require cached Playwright 1.54.1 and Chromium)",
     "browser_cdn: real SRI-enforced Swagger UI CDN checks (skip when CDN network is unavailable)",
 ]
diff --git a/tests/host_smoke/test_fixture_routes.py b/tests/host_smoke/test_fixture_routes.py
index e109e207..fa15f8d5 100644
--- a/tests/host_smoke/test_fixture_routes.py
+++ b/tests/host_smoke/test_fixture_routes.py
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@
 Core Tools that the `host-smoke` CI job spins up. Reverting the fix (dropping
 app=app from get_openapi_json() in function_app.py) makes
 test_fixture_handler_documents_the_route_it_actually_serves fail.
+
+The tests marked `host_smoke` are the opposite: they request the routes of an
+already running host (HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL) and are deselected from the offline
+run by pyproject.toml's addopts. The `host-smoke` CI job selects them with
+`-m host_smoke`, and a missing HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL fails them instead of
+skipping them (#824).
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -107,10 +113,29 @@ def test_protected_docs_fixture_never_echoes_key(fixture_module: ModuleType) ->
     assert b'url: "/api/protected/openapi.json"' in response.get_body()
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(
-    not os.environ.get("HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL"),
-    reason="Set HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL to a running tests/host_smoke Functions host",
+@pytest.mark.host_smoke
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("route", "needle"),
+    [
+        ("registered/openapi.json", '"openapi"'),
+        ("registered/openapi.yaml", "openapi:"),
+        ("registered/docs", "SwaggerUIBundle"),
+        ("protected/openapi.json", '"openapi"'),
+        ("protected/openapi.yaml", "openapi:"),
+        ("protected/docs", "SwaggerUIBundle"),
+    ],
 )
+def test_real_host_serves_every_registered_route(route: str, needle: str) -> None:
+    # Given: the app indexed by the host (#814 acceptance: request each helper route)
+    base = os.environ["HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL"]
+    # When
+    response = requests.get(f"{base}/api/{route}", timeout=10, allow_redirects=False)
+    # Then
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert needle in response.text
+
+
+@pytest.mark.host_smoke
 def test_real_host_protected_docs_never_echoes_key() -> None:
     # Given: Core Tools does not enforce keys locally; this proves no-echo, NOT key enforcement.
     base = os.environ["HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL"]
diff --git a/tests/test_ci_workflow_hardening.py b/tests/test_ci_workflow_hardening.py
index c8e1d277..119a21e9 100644
--- a/tests/test_ci_workflow_hardening.py
+++ b/tests/test_ci_workflow_hardening.py
@@ -92,3 +92,12 @@ def test_gate_accepts_a_successful_unknown_dependency() -> None:
     jobs["future-job"] = {"result": "success", "outputs": {}}
 
     assert run_gate(jobs).returncode == 0
+
+
+def test_host_smoke_job_runs_the_real_host_tests() -> None:
+    steps = yaml.safe_load(WORKFLOW.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))["jobs"]["host-smoke"]["steps"]
+    script = "\n".join(step.get("run", "") for step in steps)
+
+    assert "HOST_SMOKE_BASE_URL=" in script
+    assert "-m host_smoke" in script
+    assert 'exit "$pytest_status"' in script