diff --git a/tooling/tea-comment b/tooling/tea-comment
index 971496cfe..a63d13729 100755
--- a/tooling/tea-comment
+++ b/tooling/tea-comment
@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ fi
 NUMBER="$1"
 INPUT="$2"
 
+# Resolve tea: PATH first, then the known linuxbrew keg (agent shells often
+# miss the brew shellenv — clide FR-1).
+TEA="$(command -v tea || true)"
+[[ -n "$TEA" ]] || TEA="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/tea"
+if [[ ! -x "$TEA" ]]; then
+    echo "Error: tea CLI not found (PATH or /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin)" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 # If the body starts with @, read from file
 if [[ "$INPUT" == @* ]]; then
     FILEPATH="${INPUT#@}"
@@ -29,4 +38,4 @@ TMPFILE="/tmp/tea-comment-${NUMBER}-${HASH}.md"
 trap 'rm -f "$TMPFILE"' EXIT
 
 printf '%s' "$BODY" > "$TMPFILE"
-tea comment --login schweitz --repo jpmschweitzer/settled-reach "$NUMBER" "$(cat "$TMPFILE")"
+"$TEA" comment --login schweitz --repo jpmschweitzer/settled-reach "$NUMBER" "$(cat "$TMPFILE")"