diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/ChecksPanel.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/ChecksPanel.tsx
index 59d148434ae..063aad0366e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/ChecksPanel.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/ChecksPanel.tsx
@@ -134,7 +134,11 @@ import {
   shouldPollChecksPanelRuntimeSshStatus,
   type ChecksPanelGitStatusSnapshot
 } from './checks-panel-git-status-snapshot'
-import { resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest } from './checks-panel-pr-refresh-request'
+import {
+  getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey,
+  resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest,
+  resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider
+} from './checks-panel-pr-refresh-request'
 import { installWindowVisibilityInterval } from '@/lib/window-visibility-interval'
 import { useMountedRef } from '@/hooks/useMountedRef'
 import { callRuntimeRpc, getActiveRuntimeTarget } from '@/runtime/runtime-rpc-client'
@@ -965,7 +969,22 @@ export default function ChecksPanel(): React.JSX.Element {
     hostedReviewCreation?.review?.number ??
     checksPanelReviewLookupResult.openReviewUrl ??
     'unknown'
-  const unrenderedReviewEvidenceProvider = hostedReviewCreation?.provider ?? hostedReview?.provider
+  const unrenderedReviewEvidenceProvider = resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider({
+    linkedGitHubPR: linkedPR,
+    linkedGitLabMR,
+    linkedBitbucketPR,
+    linkedAzureDevOpsPR,
+    linkedGiteaPR,
+    eligibilityProvider: hostedReviewCreation?.provider,
+    cachedProvider: hostedReview?.provider
+  })
+  const foregroundReviewEvidenceKey = getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey({
+    refreshContextKey,
+    reviewEvidenceIdentity: unrenderedReviewEvidenceIdentity,
+    reviewEvidenceProvider: unrenderedReviewEvidenceProvider,
+    hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence,
+    isGitHubReviewContext
+  })
   // Confirmed readiness from the last eligibility snapshot, not live canCreate (which would be circular and flap during transient failures).
   const hardErrorObservedAt =
     isGitHubReviewContext && hardRefreshError && hardRefreshError.contextKey === panelContextKey
@@ -1359,7 +1378,7 @@ export default function ChecksPanel(): React.JSX.Element {
   }, [agentComposerState?.commentResolution, stateRequestKey])
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (!hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence || !isPanelVisible) {
+    if (foregroundReviewEvidenceKey === null || !isPanelVisible) {
       foregroundedUnrenderedReviewKeyRef.current = null
     }
     if (isPanelVisible && repo && !isFolder && branch) {
@@ -1376,17 +1395,17 @@ export default function ChecksPanel(): React.JSX.Element {
       })
       // Why: the gh-based refresh coordinator is GitHub-only; running it elsewhere gave a spurious gh_unavailable error hiding a valid composer.
       if (activeWorktreeId && isGitHubReviewContext) {
-        const evidenceKey = `${refreshContextKey}::${unrenderedReviewEvidenceIdentity}`
         const refreshRequest = resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest({
           cachedHasPR: prCachedHasPR,
           cachedFetchedAt: prFetchedAt ?? null,
           panelVisibleSince: panelVisibleSinceRef.current,
-          hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence,
-          reviewEvidenceProvider: unrenderedReviewEvidenceProvider,
-          hasRequestedForegroundRefresh: foregroundedUnrenderedReviewKeyRef.current === evidenceKey
+          hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence: foregroundReviewEvidenceKey !== null,
+          hasRequestedForegroundRefresh:
+            foregroundReviewEvidenceKey !== null &&
+            foregroundedUnrenderedReviewKeyRef.current === foregroundReviewEvidenceKey
         })
-        if (refreshRequest.reason === 'active' && hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence) {
-          foregroundedUnrenderedReviewKeyRef.current = evidenceKey
+        if (refreshRequest.reason === 'active' && foregroundReviewEvidenceKey !== null) {
+          foregroundedUnrenderedReviewKeyRef.current = foregroundReviewEvidenceKey
         }
         enqueueGitHubPRRefresh(activeWorktreeId, refreshRequest.reason, refreshRequest.priority)
       }
@@ -1397,7 +1416,7 @@ export default function ChecksPanel(): React.JSX.Element {
     enqueueGitHubPRRefresh,
     fallbackGitHubPRNumber,
     fetchHostedReviewForBranch,
-    hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence,
+    foregroundReviewEvidenceKey,
     isFolder,
     isGitHubReviewContext,
     isPanelVisible,
@@ -1409,9 +1428,6 @@ export default function ChecksPanel(): React.JSX.Element {
     linkedPR,
     prCachedHasPR,
     prFetchedAt,
-    refreshContextKey,
-    unrenderedReviewEvidenceIdentity,
-    unrenderedReviewEvidenceProvider,
     repo
   ])
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.test.ts
index df9786e62f7..cc3c9c49b7f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,73 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
-import { resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest } from './checks-panel-pr-refresh-request'
+import {
+  getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey,
+  resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest,
+  resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider
+} from './checks-panel-pr-refresh-request'
+
+describe('resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider', () => {
+  const noLinkedReviews = {
+    linkedGitHubPR: null,
+    linkedGitLabMR: null,
+    linkedBitbucketPR: null,
+    linkedAzureDevOpsPR: null,
+    linkedGiteaPR: null
+  }
+
+  it.each([
+    ['linkedGitHubPR', 'github'],
+    ['linkedGitLabMR', 'gitlab'],
+    ['linkedBitbucketPR', 'bitbucket'],
+    ['linkedAzureDevOpsPR', 'azure-devops'],
+    ['linkedGiteaPR', 'gitea']
+  ] as const)('lets an explicit %s link outrank stale cached metadata', (linkedField, provider) => {
+    expect(
+      resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider({
+        ...noLinkedReviews,
+        [linkedField]: 42,
+        cachedProvider: 'unsupported'
+      })
+    ).toBe(provider)
+  })
+
+  it('uses eligibility before cached provider metadata when no review is linked', () => {
+    expect(
+      resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider({
+        ...noLinkedReviews,
+        eligibilityProvider: 'bitbucket',
+        cachedProvider: 'gitlab'
+      })
+    ).toBe('bitbucket')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey', () => {
+  const input = {
+    refreshContextKey: 'worktree::cache::branch',
+    reviewEvidenceIdentity: 42,
+    hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence: true,
+    isGitHubReviewContext: true
+  } as const
+
+  it('keeps optimistic and confirmed GitHub evidence on one request key', () => {
+    const optimisticKey = getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey(input)
+    const confirmedKey = getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey({
+      ...input,
+      reviewEvidenceProvider: 'github'
+    })
+    expect(optimisticKey).toBe('worktree::cache::branch::github::42')
+    expect(confirmedKey).toBe(optimisticKey)
+  })
+
+  it('clears the request key when evidence switches to another provider', () => {
+    expect(
+      getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey({
+        ...input,
+        reviewEvidenceProvider: 'gitlab'
+      })
+    ).toBeNull()
+  })
+})
 
 describe('resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest', () => {
   it('uses an active refresh for a cached miss from before the checks panel became visible', () => {
@@ -56,18 +124,6 @@ describe('resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest', () => {
     ).toEqual({ reason: 'swr', priority: 30 })
   })
 
-  it('does not promote non-GitHub review evidence into an active GitHub lookup', () => {
-    expect(
-      resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest({
-        cachedHasPR: null,
-        cachedFetchedAt: null,
-        panelVisibleSince: 200,
-        hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence: true,
-        reviewEvidenceProvider: 'gitlab'
-      })
-    ).toEqual({ reason: 'swr', priority: 30 })
-  })
-
   it('keeps populated or unknown cache entries on the background path', () => {
     expect(
       resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest({
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.ts
index c2a52b5eb3f..2ade777964d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/right-sidebar/checks-panel-pr-refresh-request.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ type ChecksPanelPRRefreshRequestInput = {
   panelVisibleSince: number | null
   // A known-but-unrendered review needs one foreground lookup to resolve its transient state.
   hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence?: boolean
-  reviewEvidenceProvider?: HostedReviewProvider
   hasRequestedForegroundRefresh?: boolean
 }
 
@@ -16,6 +15,58 @@ type ChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest = {
   priority: number
 }
 
+type ChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProviderInput = {
+  linkedGitHubPR: number | null
+  linkedGitLabMR: number | null
+  linkedBitbucketPR: number | null
+  linkedAzureDevOpsPR: number | null
+  linkedGiteaPR: number | null
+  eligibilityProvider?: HostedReviewProvider | undefined
+  cachedProvider?: HostedReviewProvider | undefined
+}
+
+type ChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKeyInput = {
+  refreshContextKey: string
+  reviewEvidenceIdentity: number | string
+  reviewEvidenceProvider?: HostedReviewProvider | undefined
+  hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence: boolean
+  isGitHubReviewContext: boolean
+}
+
+export function resolveChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProvider(
+  input: ChecksPanelReviewEvidenceProviderInput
+): HostedReviewProvider | undefined {
+  if (input.linkedGitHubPR !== null) {
+    return 'github'
+  }
+  if (input.linkedGitLabMR !== null) {
+    return 'gitlab'
+  }
+  if (input.linkedBitbucketPR !== null) {
+    return 'bitbucket'
+  }
+  if (input.linkedAzureDevOpsPR !== null) {
+    return 'azure-devops'
+  }
+  if (input.linkedGiteaPR !== null) {
+    return 'gitea'
+  }
+  return input.eligibilityProvider ?? input.cachedProvider
+}
+
+export function getChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKey(
+  input: ChecksPanelForegroundReviewEvidenceKeyInput
+): string | null {
+  if (
+    !input.hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence ||
+    !input.isGitHubReviewContext ||
+    (input.reviewEvidenceProvider !== undefined && input.reviewEvidenceProvider !== 'github')
+  ) {
+    return null
+  }
+  return `${input.refreshContextKey}::github::${input.reviewEvidenceIdentity}`
+}
+
 export function resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest(
   input: ChecksPanelPRRefreshRequestInput
 ): ChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest {
@@ -25,9 +76,7 @@ export function resolveChecksPanelPRRefreshRequest(
     input.panelVisibleSince !== null &&
     input.cachedFetchedAt < input.panelVisibleSince
   const unresolvedEvidenceNeedsForeground =
-    input.hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence &&
-    input.cachedHasPR !== true &&
-    (input.reviewEvidenceProvider === undefined || input.reviewEvidenceProvider === 'github')
+    input.hasUnrenderedReviewEvidence && input.cachedHasPR !== true
 
   if (
     !input.hasRequestedForegroundRefresh &&