diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 19746ff..7197b79 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,20 +65,28 @@ Worker (`docker/worker.Dockerfile`, `eclipse-temurin:21-jdk`) pobiera Ghidrę i
 nadpisz URL realnym wydaniem z [releases NSA](https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases)
 (nazwa pliku: `ghidra_<wer>_PUBLIC_<data>.zip`).
 
-> **Musi to być Ghidra ≤ 11.3.x.** Ekstraktor to skrypt **Pythona (`.py`)**, który Ghidra w trybie
-> headless uruchamia przez wbudowanego **Jythona**. Ghidra **11.4+ / 12.x usunęły Jythona** — tam
-> `.py` headless wymaga **PyGhidry** (CPython), której ten obraz nie inicjalizuje, i dostaniesz
-> `Ghidra was not started with PyGhidra. Python is not available` (analiza przejdzie, ale post-skrypt
-> nie wyemituje snapshotu). Domyślny `GHIDRA_URL` celuje w 11.2.1 (z Jythonem). Chcesz zostać na 12.x?
-> Trzeba doinstalować `pyghidra` i odpalać headless przez PyGhidrę — sam skrypt jest CPython-kompatybilny,
-> więc zadziała, gdy interpreter wstanie (patrz dokumentacja PyGhidra w danej wersji Ghidry).
+> **Domyślnie wymaga Ghidry ≤ 11.3.x.** Ekstraktor to skrypt **Pythona (`.py`)**, który Ghidra
+> w headless uruchamia przez wbudowanego **Jythona**. Ghidra **11.4+ / 12.x usunęły Jythona** — tam
+> `.py` headless przez `analyzeHeadless` nie ruszy (`Ghidra was not started with PyGhidra...`):
+> analiza przejdzie, ale post-skrypt nie wyemituje snapshotu. Domyślny `GHIDRA_URL` celuje w 11.2.1.
 
+**Wariant Jython (domyślny, ≤ 11.3.x):**
 ```bash
 docker compose build worker \
   --build-arg GHIDRA_URL=https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/download/Ghidra_11.2.1_build/ghidra_11.2.1_PUBLIC_20241105.zip
 docker compose up
 ```
 
+**Wariant PyGhidra (Ghidra 11.4+ / 12.x):** obraz workera ma już `pyghidra`; ten sam skrypt leci
+przez CPython (`pyghidra.run_script`, bez zmian w kodzie). Zbuduj z nowszą Ghidrą i włącz przełącznik:
+```bash
+docker compose build worker \
+  --build-arg GHIDRA_URL=https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/download/Ghidra_11.4.2_build/ghidra_11.4.2_PUBLIC_20250826.zip
+AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA=1 docker compose up
+```
+Pod spodem worker woła `ams.acquire.ghidra.run_extractor_pyghidra` (uruchamia Ghidrę in-process,
+importuje + analizuje binarkę, odpala nasz GhidraScript z `getScriptArgs()=[out_path]`).
+
 ### 4. Ekstrakcja ręcznie w GUI Ghidry (alternatywa, bez Dockera)
 
 *Script Manager → Manage Script Directories* → wskaż `ghidra_scripts/`, otwórz program (DLL),
diff --git a/ams/acquire/ghidra.py b/ams/acquire/ghidra.py
index ece2eb6..e62ecca 100644
--- a/ams/acquire/ghidra.py
+++ b/ams/acquire/ghidra.py
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
-"""Drive Ghidra's `analyzeHeadless` to run the engine-surface extractor on a DLL.
+"""Drive Ghidra to run the engine-surface extractor on a DLL.
 
 This is the heavy worker step: it imports the binary into a throwaway Ghidra
 project, auto-analyses it, then runs `ghidra_scripts/extract_engine_surface.py`
-as a post-script that writes the snapshot JSON to a path we pick.
+to write the snapshot JSON to a path we pick.
 
-Ghidra isn't a Python package, so it must be located on disk. Resolution order:
-  1. $GHIDRA_HEADLESS  — full path to the analyzeHeadless launcher
-  2. $GHIDRA_HOME/support/analyzeHeadless
-  3. `analyzeHeadless` on PATH
+Two back-ends, picked by the `AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA` env var:
+
+* default — `analyzeHeadless` runs the script as a post-script via Ghidra's bundled
+  **Jython**. Works on Ghidra <= 11.3.x; on 11.4+/12.x Jython is gone and the script
+  silently doesn't run ("Ghidra was not started with PyGhidra").
+* `AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA=1` — run the same script through **PyGhidra** (CPython) via
+  `pyghidra.run_script`, so modern Ghidra (11.4+/12.x) works. Needs `pip install pyghidra`
+  and Ghidra's dir in `$GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR` (falls back to `$GHIDRA_HOME`).
+
+analyzeHeadless resolution order: $GHIDRA_HEADLESS, $GHIDRA_HOME/support/analyzeHeadless,
+then `analyzeHeadless` on PATH.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -58,6 +65,9 @@ def run_extractor(
 
     Raises GhidraNotFound if no launcher is configured, GhidraRunError on failure or if
     the script produced no output."""
+    if os.environ.get("AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA"):
+        return run_extractor_pyghidra(dll_path, out_path, script_dir=script_dir)
+
     headless = headless or find_headless()
     if not headless:
         raise GhidraNotFound(
@@ -91,3 +101,38 @@ def run_extractor(
         raise GhidraRunError(
             "extractor produced no snapshot at {0}\n--- headless tail ---\n{1}".format(out_path, tail))
     return out_path
+
+
+def run_extractor_pyghidra(dll_path: str, out_path: str, *, script_dir: str | None = None) -> str:
+    """Run the extractor through PyGhidra (CPython) instead of analyzeHeadless/Jython.
+
+    `pyghidra.run_script` boots Ghidra in-process, imports + auto-analyses the binary, and
+    executes our GhidraScript with `getScriptArgs() == [out_path]` - the same script, just under
+    CPython, so it works on Ghidra 11.4+/12.x where Jython is gone."""
+    os.environ.setdefault("GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR", os.environ.get("GHIDRA_HOME", ""))
+    try:
+        import pyghidra
+    except ImportError:
+        raise GhidraNotFound(
+            "AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA is set but the 'pyghidra' package isn't installed (pip install pyghidra)")
+
+    script_dir = script_dir or os.environ.get("AMS_GHIDRA_SCRIPTS") or str(_SCRIPT_DIR)
+    script_path = os.path.join(script_dir, _SCRIPT_NAME)
+    out_path = os.path.abspath(out_path)
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(out_path) or ".", exist_ok=True)
+
+    proj_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="ams_pyghidra_")
+    try:
+        pyghidra.run_script(
+            dll_path, script_path,
+            project_location=proj_dir, project_name="ams_" + uuid.uuid4().hex[:8],
+            script_args=[out_path], analyze=True, verbose=False,
+        )
+    except Exception as e:  # jpype/Ghidra errors aren't a tidy hierarchy
+        raise GhidraRunError("pyghidra.run_script failed: {0}".format(e))
+    finally:
+        shutil.rmtree(proj_dir, ignore_errors=True)
+
+    if not os.path.isfile(out_path):
+        raise GhidraRunError("extractor produced no snapshot at {0} (PyGhidra path)".format(out_path))
+    return out_path
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 2780fe4..37272ba 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ services:
       DATABASE_URL: postgresql+psycopg://ams:ams@db:5432/ams
       REDIS_URL: redis://redis:6379/0
       AMS_UPLOAD_DIR: /data/uploads
+      # Set to 1 (e.g. `AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA=1 docker compose up`) to run the extractor through
+      # PyGhidra instead of Jython - needed for Ghidra 11.4+/12.x (build worker with that GHIDRA_URL).
+      AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA: ${AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA:-}
     volumes:
       - uploads:/data/uploads
     depends_on:
diff --git a/docker/worker.Dockerfile b/docker/worker.Dockerfile
index 422928e..865e272 100644
--- a/docker/worker.Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/worker.Dockerfile
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ RUN wget -q "$GHIDRA_URL" -O /tmp/ghidra.zip \
 RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
 
 ENV GHIDRA_HOME=/opt/ghidra
+ENV GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/ghidra
 ENV AMS_GHIDRA_SCRIPTS=/app/ghidra_scripts
 ENV AMS_UPLOAD_DIR=/data/uploads
 
@@ -38,7 +39,9 @@ COPY ams ./ams
 COPY ghidra_scripts ./ghidra_scripts
 COPY snapshots ./snapshots
 
-RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir ".[api,acquire,worker]"
+# pyghidra enables the CPython back-end (set AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA=1) for Ghidra 11.4+/12.x, which
+# dropped Jython. Harmless when unused; the default Jython path doesn't import it.
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir ".[api,acquire,worker]" pyghidra
 
 # Drain the 'acquire' queue. Shell form so $REDIS_URL expands at runtime.
 CMD rq worker --url "${REDIS_URL:-redis://redis:6379/0}" acquire
diff --git a/tests/test_acquire.py b/tests/test_acquire.py
index 60f7a45..6dacad6 100644
--- a/tests/test_acquire.py
+++ b/tests/test_acquire.py
@@ -136,6 +136,18 @@ def test_acquire_zip_no_sink(tmp_path, golden_snapshot):
     assert r.imported_id is None and r.sink == "none"
 
 
+def test_pyghidra_dispatch_without_dep(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA routes to the PyGhidra back-end; without the package it fails clearly."""
+    import importlib.util
+
+    from ams.acquire import ghidra
+    if importlib.util.find_spec("pyghidra") is not None:
+        pytest.skip("pyghidra is installed; this exercises the missing-dependency path")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AMS_USE_PYGHIDRA", "1")
+    with pytest.raises(ghidra.GhidraNotFound, match="pyghidra"):
+        ghidra.run_extractor(str(tmp_path / "x.dll"), str(tmp_path / "out.json"))
+
+
 def test_acquire_loose_dll_into_db(tmp_path, golden_snapshot):
     from ams.api.db import configure