diff --git a/docs/reviewer-report.md b/docs/reviewer-report.md
index 881b2c309..2dbdd7918 100644
--- a/docs/reviewer-report.md
+++ b/docs/reviewer-report.md
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ reviews on a single PR).
 | Metric | Definition |
 |---|---|
 | **Total PRs** | Review-eligible (non-draft) PRs active in the window; the denominator each row is measured against. |
-| **Reviews** | Count of real review submissions by the bot, **each occurrence** (multiple per PR from multiple commits all count). Rate-limit notices are never counted as reviews. |
+| **Reviews** | Count of reviews the bot submitted, **each occurrence** (multiple per PR from multiple commits all count). A bot that posts no formal review but delivers its verdict as a top-level comment (e.g. SonarCloud's quality-gate comment) has that comment counted as its review; bots that do submit formal reviews are unaffected, so their extra summary comments are never double-counted. Rate-limit notices are never counted. |
 | **✅ / 🔄** | Of those reviews, how many carried state APPROVED / CHANGES_REQUESTED. |
 | **Rate-limited** | Count of out-of-quota / rate-limit refusal events (detected by body text via the shared gate pattern), each occurrence. |
 | **No response** | Eligible PRs the bot never engaged with at all — no review, comment, or refusal. |
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ reviews on a single PR).
 Per-PR bucket counts (`reviewed_prs` / `refused_prs` / `no_response_prs`, which partition the
 eligible PRs), plus thread-resolution and reaction counts, are still computed and stored in the
 snapshot for downstream use — they're just kept out of the headline table to keep it legible.
-SonarCloud posts status-check comments rather than GitHub reviews, so its **Reviews** reads 0
-by design.
 
 ### Week-over-week deltas
 
diff --git a/scripts/reviewer_report.sh b/scripts/reviewer_report.sh
index 8cb3702f4..537809aa7 100755
--- a/scripts/reviewer_report.sh
+++ b/scripts/reviewer_report.sh
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ _NORMALIZE_JQ='
       | ($mine | map(select(.refusal | not))) as $real
       | ($mine | map(select(.refusal)))       as $refd
       | ($real | map(.at) | min) as $first_real
+      | ($real | map(select(.kind=="review")) | length) as $rev_events
       | { kind: "bot_pr", repo: $repo, pr: ($pr.url),
           bot: $grp[0].bot, created: $pr.createdAt,
           real_responses: ($real | length),
@@ -195,7 +196,14 @@ _NORMALIZE_JQ='
           # so refusals never pollute the latency percentiles).
           latency_s: (if ($real | length) == 0 then null
                       else (($first_real | fromdateiso8601) - ($pr.createdAt | fromdateiso8601)) end),
-          reviews:      ($real | map(select(.kind=="review")) | length),
+          # Reviews = formal review submissions. A bot that posts NO formal review
+          # but delivers its verdict as a top-level comment (e.g. SonarCloud'"'"'s
+          # quality-gate comment) has that comment counted as its review, so its
+          # work is not invisible. Bots that DO submit reviews are unaffected, so
+          # their extra summary comments are never double-counted. Refusals are
+          # already excluded ($real holds only non-refusal responses).
+          reviews:      (if $rev_events > 0 then $rev_events
+                         else ($real | map(select(.kind=="issue")) | length) end),
           approved:     ($real | map(select(.kind=="review" and .state=="APPROVED")) | length),
           changes_req:  ($real | map(select(.kind=="review" and .state=="CHANGES_REQUESTED")) | length),
           inline_comments:  ($real | map(select(.kind=="inline")) | length),
@@ -335,11 +343,10 @@ render_reviewer_report() {
   done
   printf '\n'
   printf -- '- **Total PRs** — review-eligible (non-draft) PRs in the window; the denominator each row is measured against.\n'
-  printf -- '- **Reviews** — count of real reviews the bot submitted, **each occurrence** (a PR re-reviewed on 5 commits = 5). Rate-limit notices are excluded.\n'
-  printf -- '- **✅ / 🔄** — of those reviews, how many were APPROVED / CHANGES_REQUESTED.\n'
+  printf -- '- **Reviews** — count of reviews the bot submitted, **each occurrence** (a PR re-reviewed on 5 commits = 5). A bot that posts no formal review but delivers its verdict as a comment (e.g. SonarCloud'"'"'s quality-gate comment) has that comment counted as its review. Rate-limit notices are never counted.\n'
+  printf -- '- **✅ / 🔄** — of those reviews, how many were APPROVED / CHANGES_REQUESTED (comment-only responses carry no verdict).\n'
   printf -- '- **Rate-limited** — count of out-of-quota / rate-limit refusals, each occurrence.\n'
-  printf -- '- **No response** — eligible PRs the bot never engaged with at all (no review, comment, or refusal).\n'
-  printf -- '- _Note: SonarCloud posts status-check comments rather than GitHub reviews, so its Reviews count reads 0 by design._\n\n'
+  printf -- '- **No response** — eligible PRs the bot never engaged with at all (no review, comment, or refusal).\n\n'
 
   # ---- Coverage / overlap --------------------------------------------------
   local co_review multi_bot
diff --git a/tests/reviewer_report.bats b/tests/reviewer_report.bats
index b6f0bf93c..9ec76cd60 100644
--- a/tests/reviewer_report.bats
+++ b/tests/reviewer_report.bats
@@ -97,6 +97,31 @@ JSON
   echo "$output" | jq -e '.[] | select(.bot=="copilot-pull-request-reviewer") | .thumbs_up==2 and .thumbs_down==1 and .threads_resolved==1'
 }
 
+@test "reviews: a comment-only responder (SonarCloud) has its comment counted as a review" {
+  tmp="$(mktemp "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/tmp.XXXXXX")"
+  cat > "$tmp" <<'JSON'
+{"url":"u","createdAt":"2026-07-10T10:00:00Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-10T10:00:00Z","mergedAt":null,"isDraft":false,"author":{"login":"h"},
+ "reviews":{"nodes":[]},
+ "reviewThreads":{"nodes":[]},
+ "comments":{"nodes":[{"author":{"login":"sonarqubecloud"},"createdAt":"2026-07-10T10:02:00Z","bodyText":"Quality Gate passed"}]}}
+JSON
+  run jq -c --arg repo "r" --argjson bots "$BOTS" --arg rl "$RATE_LIMIT_RE" "[ $_NORMALIZE_JQ ]" "$tmp"
+  echo "$output" | jq -e '.[] | select(.bot=="sonarqubecloud") | .reviews==1 and .real_responses==1'
+}
+
+@test "reviews: a bot with a formal review does NOT also count its summary comment (no double-count)" {
+  tmp="$(mktemp "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/tmp.XXXXXX")"
+  cat > "$tmp" <<'JSON'
+{"url":"u","createdAt":"2026-07-10T10:00:00Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-10T10:00:00Z","mergedAt":null,"isDraft":false,"author":{"login":"h"},
+ "reviews":{"nodes":[{"author":{"login":"coderabbitai"},"state":"COMMENTED","submittedAt":"2026-07-10T10:05:00Z","bodyText":"formal review"}]},
+ "reviewThreads":{"nodes":[]},
+ "comments":{"nodes":[{"author":{"login":"coderabbitai"},"createdAt":"2026-07-10T10:01:00Z","bodyText":"Walkthrough summary comment"}]}}
+JSON
+  run jq -c --arg repo "r" --argjson bots "$BOTS" --arg rl "$RATE_LIMIT_RE" "[ $_NORMALIZE_JQ ]" "$tmp"
+  # 1 formal review only — the summary issue comment is not counted as a second review.
+  echo "$output" | jq -e '.[] | select(.bot=="coderabbitai") | .reviews==1'
+}
+
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 # aggregate_snapshot
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