diff --git a/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed-model.ts b/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed-model.ts
index 4efc4721c3..550143b2da 100644
--- a/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed-model.ts
+++ b/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed-model.ts
@@ -125,5 +125,8 @@ export function skipReasonTone(reason: string): "ready" | "info" | "warn" | "deg
   if (reason === "bot_author" || reason === "not_official_gittensor_miner") return "info";
   if (reason === "surface_off" || reason === "maintainer_author") return "warn";
   if (reason === "miner_detection_unavailable" || reason === "missing_author") return "degraded";
-  return "ready";
+  // #8666: an unrecognized reason degrades to the neutral "info" tone (matching
+  // contributor-quality-table-model's `band` convention), not "ready" -- a green/healthy tone would imply a
+  // successful state for a value that is actually unclassified, since none of the enumerated reasons map to "ready".
+  return "info";
 }
diff --git a/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed.test.tsx b/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed.test.tsx
index 563d20bb0c..d26c4c2e0c 100644
--- a/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/loopover-ui/src/components/site/audit-feed.test.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   normalizeSinceInput,
   normalizeSkippedPrAuditExport,
   pullRequestHref,
+  skipReasonTone,
 } from "@/components/site/audit-feed-model";
 import { AuditFeed } from "@/components/site/audit-feed";
 
@@ -62,6 +63,19 @@ describe("audit feed helpers", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("maps each enumerated skip reason to its tone and degrades an unrecognized reason to neutral 'info', not 'ready' (#8666)", () => {
+    expect(skipReasonTone("bot_author")).toBe("info");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("not_official_gittensor_miner")).toBe("info");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("surface_off")).toBe("warn");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("maintainer_author")).toBe("warn");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("miner_detection_unavailable")).toBe("degraded");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("missing_author")).toBe("degraded");
+    // An unrecognized/legacy reason must NOT read as a green "ready" (healthy) pill -- it degrades to the
+    // neutral "info" tone, matching contributor-quality-table-model's convention for unknown enum-like values.
+    expect(skipReasonTone("some_future_reason")).not.toBe("ready");
+    expect(skipReasonTone("some_future_reason")).toBe("info");
+  });
+
   it("formats skip reasons and pull request links", () => {
     expect(formatSkipReason("surface_off")).toBe("Surface off");
     expect(formatSkipReason("legacy_skip_reason")).toBe("legacy skip reason");