diff --git a/.loopover.yml b/.loopover.yml
index 64a0651dd6..631a1be3fe 100644
--- a/.loopover.yml
+++ b/.loopover.yml
@@ -111,6 +111,22 @@ settings:
         trustMaintainerAuthoredIssueForReward: true
   reviewEvasionProtection: close
   draftPrClosePolicy: close
+  # Before/after screenshot-table gate (#2006), re-enabled after the 2026-07-26 false-close incident --
+  # config-as-code this time so the scoping survives DB moves and is reviewable in git history. The incident:
+  # the gate was enabled with over-broad path scoping that swept in apps/gittensory-ui/public/**, and
+  # public/openapi.json is a GENERATED artifact this repo's own contribution rules require regenerating on
+  # every API change (`npm run ui:openapi`) -- so perfectly good non-visual API PRs were auto-closed for
+  # missing screenshots (5 PRs recovered by hand). whenPaths below therefore names only paths whose changes
+  # are genuinely visual, and deliberately EXCLUDES apps/gittensory-ui/public/** (generated + static assets)
+  # and src/routeTree.gen.ts (generated, sits outside routes/). A PR touching only excluded paths is simply
+  # out of scope -- the gate never evaluates it.
+  screenshotTableGate:
+    enabled: true
+    action: close
+    whenPaths:
+      - "apps/gittensory-ui/src/components/**"
+      - "apps/gittensory-ui/src/routes/**"
+      - "apps/gittensory-ui/src/styles.css"
   # Agent-layer autonomy dial (#773): without this block every action class defaults to "observe"
   # (deny-by-default) -- loopover had NO repository_settings DB row at all, so merge/close/approve
   # actions were silently never taken regardless of review verdict (#6401, #6402 sat fully reviewed,