diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.test.ts
index 92b25748fb7..fc91cf525be 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.test.ts
@@ -306,6 +306,32 @@ describe('publish-assets', () => {
     expect(ghWithInputPlainMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it('warns when the assets repo is the reviewed repo, case-insensitively', () => {
+    process.env['QWEN_REVIEW_ASSETS_REPO'] = 'qwenlm/qwen-code';
+    ghMock.mockImplementation((...args: string[]) => {
+      if (args[0] === 'repo' && args[1] === 'view') {
+        return JSON.stringify({
+          owner: { login: 'AaronZ345' },
+          name: 'qwen-code',
+          url: 'https://github.com/AaronZ345/qwen-code',
+          parent: { owner: { login: 'QwenLM' }, name: 'qwen-code' },
+        });
+      }
+      return args.includes('.object.sha') ? 'headsha1234567890' : '{}';
+    });
+    ghWithInputMock.mockImplementation(() => '{}');
+
+    run({ files: [pngFile('evidence.png')] });
+
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBeUndefined();
+    const stderr = (stderrSpy.mock.calls.map((c) => c[0]) as string[]).join(
+      '\n',
+    );
+    expect(stderr).toContain(
+      'QWEN_REVIEW_ASSETS_REPO points at the reviewed repository',
+    );
+  });
+
   it('creates the branch when missing, from the default branch head', () => {
     // First ref lookup throws (missing branch); the creation path then asks
     // for the default branch and its head; the post-upload head read follows.
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.ts
index 31c43628ad2..193e3a5dbae 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/review/publish-assets.ts
@@ -67,6 +67,48 @@ interface PublishAssetsArgs {
   defaultComment?: boolean;
 }
 
+interface GhRepoView {
+  owner?: { login?: string };
+  name?: string;
+  parent?: {
+    owner?: { login?: string };
+    name?: string;
+  };
+}
+
+function resolveReviewedRepoForSelfTargetWarning(
+  args: PublishAssetsArgs,
+): string | undefined {
+  if (args.reviewedRepo !== undefined) {
+    return args.reviewedRepo;
+  }
+  try {
+    const view = JSON.parse(
+      gh('repo', 'view', '--json', 'owner,name,url,parent'),
+    ) as GhRepoView;
+    const target = view.parent ?? view;
+    const owner = target.owner?.login;
+    const name = target.name;
+    return owner && name ? `${owner}/${name}` : undefined;
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
+function warnIfAssetsRepoTargetsReviewedRepo(
+  assetsRepo: string,
+  args: PublishAssetsArgs,
+): void {
+  const reviewedRepo = resolveReviewedRepoForSelfTargetWarning(args);
+  if (reviewedRepo?.toLowerCase() !== assetsRepo.toLowerCase()) return;
+  writeStderrLine(
+    'publish-assets: warning — QWEN_REVIEW_ASSETS_REPO points at the reviewed ' +
+      'repository. Evidence images will still be published because the ' +
+      'destination was explicitly designated, but this recreates pr-assets/* refs ' +
+      'in the repository under review.',
+  );
+}
+
 /** The Contents-API dance for one file: create, or update when it exists. */
 function putContent(
   repo: string,
@@ -469,6 +511,7 @@ export function runPublishAssets(args: PublishAssetsArgs): void {
   const outPath = resolve(args.out);
   mkdirSync(dirname(outPath), { recursive: true });
   writeFileSync(outPath, `${JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2)}\n`, 'utf8');
+  warnIfAssetsRepoTargetsReviewedRepo(repo, args);
 
   // ── Pipeline mode: write the URLs back into the findings artifact ─────────
   if (findings && !args.findingsOut) {