diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index cb6df8df3f..4262306093 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -100,12 +100,21 @@ adapters, smoke tests, public docs, or commit/push workflows, use the
 For small, low-risk PRs, maintainers may self-merge after validation when all
 of the following are true:
 
-Here, "自合并" means: 自己 review/refine, then admin-bypass merge after the
-required validation and authorization.
+Here, "自合并" means: 自己 review/refine, publish that review on the exact head,
+then admin-bypass merge after the required validation and authorization. A
+self-merge whose head carries no published review is a process gap, not a
+smaller form of review: repair it by publishing the exact-head review for the
+merged commit and correcting the rule that let it through.
 
 - the PR only touches public docs, contributor metadata, or narrow cleanup;
 - the change is single-purpose and easy to review from the diff;
 - required checks or focused smokes have passed;
+- the exact head carries a published self-review, and
+  `loopx pr-review --check-merge-readiness NUMBER@HEAD_OID` returned ready for
+  that unchanged head. GitHub blocks formal self-approval, so on an
+  author-owned PR the record is a `COMMENTED` review on the exact head that
+  states the approval conclusion and an English verdict; a green CI run, a diff
+  read, or the merge itself is not that record;
 - private state, raw benchmark evidence, credentials, local paths, and
   generated logs are excluded;
 - there is no runtime behavior, benchmark adapter, permission, destructive git,
diff --git a/skills/loopx-pr-merge/SKILL.md b/skills/loopx-pr-merge/SKILL.md
index 8951a0602e..2e427d098b 100644
--- a/skills/loopx-pr-merge/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/loopx-pr-merge/SKILL.md
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ then reports separately authorized admin bypass, never permission to merge.
 4. Decide: approve, self-merge with owner authorization, request changes, or
    hold for the maintainer path. Record the decision on the pull request with
    the changed surfaces, the checks that ran, failures and skips, manual holds,
-   and the reason that coverage is enough.
+   and the reason that coverage is enough. Record it as a published review on
+   the exact head, not as a summary in another channel: on an author-owned PR
+   GitHub blocks formal self-approval, so the record is the `COMMENTED` review
+   carrying the approval conclusion and the English verdict. A self-merge whose
+   head carries no such record is a process gap to repair, not an authorized
+   merge.
 5. After the merge, sync the local default branch, leave unrelated dirty
    worktree state alone, and update LoopX todo or evidence when the work is
    tracked.