diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7d7f2d3..c8911d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,28 @@ is deliberate: see [Releasing](docs/releasing.md). Twelve releases were cut on
 live, every one of those interrupts every user. An alert people learn to ignore is
 worse than no alert, because one day it carries a security fix.
 
+## Unreleased
+### Fixed
+
+- **The compatibility bot filed a new duplicate bug report on every Gitea run.**
+  `find_issue()` skipped pull requests by testing for the *presence* of the
+  `pull_request` key. GitHub omits that key on a plain issue; Gitea sends it as
+  `null`. So on Gitea every issue was discarded as a PR, the lookup always came back
+  empty, and the bot took the "nothing filed yet" branch and opened a fresh report
+  each run — **nine copies on the canonical forge**, four of them filed *after* the
+  commit that was meant to stop precisely this. The mirror was fine, which is why it
+  went unnoticed: GitHub's payload shape is the one the filter was written against.
+
+  It is the same failure the anti-spam fix was written to prevent, moved from
+  comments to issues, and it survived because `find_issue` was the only function in
+  `compat_publish.py` with no test. It now has one, per forge, and the daily cron —
+  which had not yet run once — no longer accumulates a report a day.
+
+  The issue list is also requested with **both** paging parameters (`per_page` for
+  GitHub, `limit` for Gitea). Each forge ignores the other's, and Gitea's default page
+  is 30, so the lookup would have started missing the report again once the pile it
+  was creating grew past one page.
+
 ## v0.7.0 — 2026-07-14
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/tests/test_compat.py b/tests/test_compat.py
index 5bad42c..4f18633 100644
--- a/tests/test_compat.py
+++ b/tests/test_compat.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import pytest
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "tools"))
 
 import compat  # noqa: E402
+import compat_publish  # noqa: E402
 from compat import (  # noqa: E402
     NESTED,
     PROVIDERS,
@@ -574,3 +575,57 @@ class TestATransientNetworkBlipDoesNotWakeAnybody:
             "def get_restic_config(entry, credentials):\n    pass\n"
         )
         assert compat.fingerprint(self._rows(worse)) != compat.fingerprint(self._rows(broken))
+
+
+class TestTheBotFindsItsOwnIssueOnBOTHForges:
+    """`find_issue` decides "have I already filed this?" -- and it ran on two forges.
+
+    It used to skip pull requests with `"pull_request" not in i`. GitHub omits that key
+    on a plain issue; **Gitea sends it as `null`**. So on Gitea every issue looked like
+    a PR, the match list was always empty, and the bot took the "nothing filed yet"
+    branch on EVERY run: nine duplicate copies of the same report on the canonical
+    forge, four of them filed after the commit that was supposed to stop exactly this.
+
+    It is the same failure the spam fix was written to prevent, moved from comments to
+    issues -- and it survived because `find_issue` was the one function here with no
+    test. So the payload shapes are pinned, per forge, by hand.
+    """
+
+    TITLE = compat_publish.TITLE
+
+    def _find(self, monkeypatch, payload):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(compat_publish, "_call", lambda *a, **k: payload)
+        return compat_publish.find_issue("https://forge/api", "tok", self.TITLE)
+
+    def test_gitea_sends_pull_request_as_null_and_the_issue_is_still_found(self, monkeypatch):
+        found = self._find(monkeypatch, [
+            {"number": 7, "title": self.TITLE, "state": "open", "pull_request": None},
+            {"number": 1, "title": self.TITLE, "state": "open", "pull_request": None},
+        ])
+        assert found is not None, (
+            "find_issue missed a Gitea issue, so the bot files a NEW duplicate report "
+            "every run -- which is how nine of them piled up"
+        )
+        assert found["number"] == 1, "lowest-numbered wins"
+
+    def test_github_omits_the_key_entirely_and_the_issue_is_still_found(self, monkeypatch):
+        found = self._find(monkeypatch, [
+            {"number": 2, "title": self.TITLE, "state": "open"},
+        ])
+        assert found is not None and found["number"] == 2
+
+    def test_a_real_PR_with_the_same_title_is_still_skipped_on_both(self, monkeypatch):
+        # The reason the filter exists at all: both forges list PRs on /issues, and
+        # commenting on a PR instead of the bug report would be worse than useless.
+        assert self._find(monkeypatch, [
+            {"number": 3, "title": self.TITLE, "state": "open",           # Gitea PR
+             "pull_request": {"merged": False}},
+            {"number": 4, "title": self.TITLE, "state": "open",           # GitHub PR
+             "pull_request": {"url": "https://api.github.com/..."}},
+        ]) is None
+
+    def test_an_unrelated_issue_is_not_mistaken_for_the_report(self, monkeypatch):
+        assert self._find(monkeypatch, [
+            {"number": 1, "title": "TypeError when create B2 backup on Electric Eel",
+             "state": "closed", "pull_request": None},
+        ]) is None
diff --git a/tools/compat_publish.py b/tools/compat_publish.py
index 441f2f7..adfec1f 100644
--- a/tools/compat_publish.py
+++ b/tools/compat_publish.py
@@ -69,11 +69,18 @@ def find_issue(api, token, title):
     existed once (an earlier version put the ref list in the title, so the identity
     changed whenever that set changed), and an order-dependent pick would alternate
     between them -- reopening one while commenting on the other.
+
+    Both forges list PRs alongside issues, but they SAY SO DIFFERENTLY: GitHub omits
+    the `pull_request` key on a plain issue, Gitea sends it as `null`. Testing for the
+    KEY therefore discards every Gitea issue as if it were a PR -- so this returned
+    None on every Gitea run, and the bot filed a brand-new duplicate report each time
+    instead of editing the one it already had. Test the VALUE; it is the only form
+    that is true on both.
     """
-    issues = _call(f"{api}/issues?state=all&per_page=100", token)
+    issues = _call(f"{api}/issues?state=all&per_page=100&limit=100", token)
     mine = [
         i for i in issues
-        if i.get("title") == title and "pull_request" not in i   # GitHub lists PRs here
+        if i.get("title") == title and not i.get("pull_request")
     ]
     return min(mine, key=lambda i: i["number"]) if mine else None
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7518fc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version = 1
+revision = 3
+requires-python = ">=3.12"