diff --git a/modules/services/gitea-instance.nix b/modules/services/gitea-instance.nix
index e6c54f9..00ea1b0 100644
--- a/modules/services/gitea-instance.nix
+++ b/modules/services/gitea-instance.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   flake.nixosModules.gitea-instance = {
     config,
     lib,
+    pkgs,
     ...
   }: let
     cfg = config.hive.gitea-instance;
@@ -84,28 +85,35 @@
       };
 
       # act_runner
-      services.gitea-actions-runner = lib.mkIf cfg.nativeRunner {
-        instances.nixos-host = {
-          enable = true;
-          name = "nixos-host-runner";
-          url = "https://${cfg.instanceFQDN}";
-          tokenFile = "/var/lib/gitea-registration/nixos-host";
+      services.gitea-actions-runner.instances.nixoshost = {
+        enable = cfg.nativeRunner;
+        name = "nixos-host-runner";
+        url = "https://${cfg.instanceFQDN}";
+        tokenFile = "/var/lib/gitea-registration/nixos-host";
 
-          labels = ["nixos:host"];
+        hostPackages = with pkgs; [
+          bash
+          coreutils
+          curl
+          gawk
+          gitMinimal
+          gnused
+          nix
+          nodejs
+          wget
+        ];
 
-          settings = {
-            runner = {
-              capacity = 1;
-            };
+        labels = ["nixos:host"];
+
+        settings = {
+          runner = {
+            capacity = 1;
           };
         };
       };
-      systemd.services.gitea-runner-nixos-host = lib.mkIf cfg.nativeRunner {
+      systemd.services.gitea-runner-nixoshost = lib.mkIf cfg.nativeRunner {
         after = ["gitea-runner-gen-token.service"];
         requires = ["gitea-runner-gen-token.service"];
-        serviceConfig.Environment = ''
-          PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
-        '';
       };
       systemd.services.gitea-runner-gen-token = lib.mkIf cfg.nativeRunner {
         wantedBy = ["multi-user.target"];