diff --git a/.agents/docs/code-review.md b/.agents/docs/code-review.md
index 9257295a1..179858260 100644
--- a/.agents/docs/code-review.md
+++ b/.agents/docs/code-review.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ line, not as background reading.
 
 - A posted review carries findings only: no summary, no praise. Nothing to report means one line
   saying so.
+- Label `To Be Merged` only on a merge-ready PR, approved or not; remove `Ready to be Reviewed` in
+  the same step.
 - A finding names what is wrong, why it matters and the fix, on the offending line. Findings are
   bugs, crashes, lifetime and memory errors, data-integrity problems, injection, and violations of
   a rule written down in AGENTS.md or `.agents/docs/`; taste no rule covers is not a finding.