diff --git a/scripts/pr_review.py b/scripts/pr_review.py
index 636708668..dce7f1ef4 100755
--- a/scripts/pr_review.py
+++ b/scripts/pr_review.py
@@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ def heading_of(block: str) -> str:
 # `<details>(.*?)</details>` lazily pairs each open with the *next* close, which is the innermost one once a shape nests, silently losing everything the outer wrapper still carries after it.
 # CodeRabbit's outside-diff section does exactly that: a file wrapper nested inside the section heading, itself wrapping a per-finding "Prompt for AI Agents" block three levels deep.
 DETAILS_TAG = re.compile(
-    r"<details(?:[ \t\n\f\r][^>]*|/)?>|</details[ \t]*>"
+    r"<details(?:[ \t\n\f\r][^<>]*|/)?>|</details[ \t]*>"
     r"|(?<![^\n\r])</details(?:[ \t][^<>\n\r\v\f\x1c\x1d\x1e\x85\u2028\u2029]*|/)>",
     re.IGNORECASE,
 )
diff --git a/tests/test_pr_review.py b/tests/test_pr_review.py
index ff5d835bc..e0e2457ce 100755
--- a/tests/test_pr_review.py
+++ b/tests/test_pr_review.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def flowed_text(text: str) -> str:
 # The shape 28 of the 333 measured bodies carry: an overview, and no count of what was read.
 # A body of no text at all is not one of the shapes, and the reader now says so, correctly.
 OVERVIEW = "## Pull request overview\n\nThe change is narrow.\n"
-# The wall-clock ceiling the two backtracking cases read, stated once so they cannot drift apart.
+# The wall-clock ceiling the backtracking cases read, stated once so they cannot drift apart.
 # Each case sizes its own input so that a regression finishes and trips this rather than running long enough to hang the suite.
 # Three seconds against readings of microseconds and milliseconds, which is the margin that makes a loaded runner a non-issue rather than the clock being trusted.
 BACKTRACK_BOUND = 3.0
@@ -3347,6 +3347,7 @@ def test_a_tag_is_bounded_by_html_s_own_syntax(self) -> None:
         """A tail reaching another line or another tag swallowed the opener or heading after it."""
         cases = {
             "</details x <details>": ["<details>"],
+            "<details x <details>": ["<details>"],
             "</details x\n### Suppressed comments (1)\n>": [],
             "</details\v>": [],
             "<details\v>": [],
@@ -3359,6 +3360,16 @@ def test_a_tag_is_bounded_by_html_s_own_syntax(self) -> None:
                 found = [m.group() for m in pr_review.DETAILS_TAG.finditer(text)]
                 self.assertEqual(tags, found)
 
+    def test_a_body_of_unclosed_openers_is_read_in_linear_time(self) -> None:
+        """An opener with no closing `>` ends its scan at the next `<`, so a body of such openers reads in linear time."""
+        body = "<details x\n" * 9000
+        start = time.monotonic()
+        self.assertEqual([], pr_review.details_spans(body)[0])
+        self.assertEqual(body, pr_review.mask_narrative(body))
+        pr_review.unrecognized_in(body)
+        self.assertEqual([], pr_review.marker_blocks(body, pr_review.SUPPRESSED))
+        self.assertLess(time.monotonic() - start, BACKTRACK_BOUND)
+
     def test_a_region_ends_at_a_close_in_another_html_spelling(self) -> None:
         """The section readers pair on the same tags, so their regions end where HTML ends them."""
         body = "<details>\na\n</details >\nb\n<details>\nc\n</details>\n"