diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/GiteaPullRequestApi.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/GiteaPullRequestApi.ts
index 5a0c6fb6fda7..b000063652bc 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/GiteaPullRequestApi.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/GiteaPullRequestApi.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import * as Effect from "effect/Effect";
 import * as Layer from "effect/Layer";
 import * as Option from "effect/Option";
 import * as Schema from "effect/Schema";
+import {
+  PullRequestChecksState as PullRequestChecksStateSchema,
+  PullRequestReviewDecision as PullRequestReviewDecisionSchema,
+} from "@t3tools/contracts";
 import type {
   PullRequestAction,
   PullRequestActor,
@@ -93,10 +97,8 @@ const RawPullRequest = Schema.Struct({
   merged: Schema.optional(Schema.Boolean),
   mergeable: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(Schema.Boolean)),
   draft: Schema.optional(Schema.Boolean),
-  review_decision: Schema.optional(
-    Schema.NullOr(Schema.Literals(["approved", "changes-requested", "review-required"])),
-  ),
-  checks_state: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(Schema.Literals(["passing", "failing", "pending"]))),
+  review_decision: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(PullRequestReviewDecisionSchema)),
+  checks_state: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(PullRequestChecksStateSchema)),
   auto_merge_enabled: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(Schema.Boolean)),
   auto_merge_method: Schema.optional(Schema.NullOr(Schema.String)),
   html_url: Schema.String,
diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
index 0dd5a30fb396..53cd8676b640 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.test.ts
@@ -3840,6 +3840,53 @@ it.effect("judges the review filter only on a host that summarises its reviews",
   }),
 );
 
+it.effect("judges checks from provider rows while preserving rows without a check summary", () =>
+  Effect.gen(function* () {
+    const service = yield* makeService({
+      projects: [
+        project({
+          id: "p1",
+          title: "web",
+          workspaceRoot: "/a",
+          repository: "acme/web",
+          provider: "gitea",
+          host: "forge.example.test",
+        }),
+      ],
+      providers: [
+        // Gitea can carry its check rollup on a row, but older or unconfigured hosts may leave it
+        // undefined. A null rollup is different: it says the host checked and found no checks.
+        fakeProvider("gitea", {
+          listChangeRequests: () =>
+            Effect.succeed({
+              items: [
+                { ...changeRequest(1, "2026-07-04T00:00:00Z"), checksState: "passing" },
+                { ...changeRequest(2, "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z"), checksState: "failing" },
+                { ...changeRequest(3, "2026-07-02T00:00:00Z"), checksState: "pending" },
+                { ...changeRequest(4, "2026-07-01T00:00:00Z"), checksState: null },
+                changeRequest(5, "2026-06-30T00:00:00Z"),
+              ],
+              truncated: false,
+              continues: false,
+            }),
+        }),
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const passing = yield* service.list({ state: "open", filters: { checks: "passing" } });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      passing.entries.map((entry) => entry.number),
+      [1, 5],
+    );
+
+    const failing = yield* service.list({ state: "open", filters: { checks: "failing" } });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      failing.entries.map((entry) => entry.number),
+      [2, 5],
+    );
+  }),
+);
+
 it.effect("sends only the words a rewrite carries", () =>
   Effect.gen(function* () {
     const received: Array<{ title?: string | undefined; body?: string | undefined }> = [];
diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
index f6a0405ec9b2..60ac6ed6d0e5 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/PullRequestService.ts
@@ -833,8 +833,9 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
    * answers unnarrowed, and without this pass a draft filter or a label filter would be sent,
    * accepted and quietly ignored. Idempotent for the hosts that did narrow.
    *
-   * `checks` is absent because no listed row carries its check state: that one filter is the
-   * host's alone, and a row nobody narrowed stays rather than being guessed at.
+   * `checks` is judged when a row carries its check state. A host that leaves the field undefined
+   * cannot be judged, so that row stays rather than being guessed at; null means the host answered
+   * that no checks are present and therefore matches neither passing nor failing.
    */
   const matchesRowFilters = (
     item: ProviderChangeRequest,
@@ -856,6 +857,9 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
         (filters.review === "none"
           ? item.reviewDecision === null
           : item.reviewDecision === filters.review)) &&
+      (filters.checks === undefined ||
+        item.checksState === undefined ||
+        item.checksState === filters.checks) &&
       (filters.labels === undefined || filters.labels.every((group) => group.some(holds))) &&
       (filters.excludedLabels === undefined || !filters.excludedLabels.some(holds)) &&
       (filters.author === undefined ||
diff --git a/packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts b/packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts
index 74ea49ceb9e2..449c2a4c1824 100644
--- a/packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts
+++ b/packages/contracts/src/pullRequest.ts
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ const PullRequestQualifierValues = Schema.Array(PullRequestQualifierValue).check
  * nothing, which is what every listing did before there were any. Optional as a whole so a page
  * and a server of different ages still speak to each other.
  *
- * `checks` is host-side only: no row carries its own check state, so a host that cannot match it
- * answers unnarrowed rather than the page pretending to know.
+ * `checks` is host-side where supported, and is also judged from a row's own state when the
+ * provider carries one. A host that cannot match it answers unnarrowed rather than the page
+ * pretending to know.
  */
 export const PullRequestListFilters = Schema.Struct({
   draft: Schema.optional(Schema.Literals(["only", "hide"])),