diff --git a/.github/workflows/code-quality.yml b/.github/workflows/code-quality.yml
index fe6b47a2..396725e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/code-quality.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/code-quality.yml
@@ -90,7 +90,25 @@ concurrency:
   # This is hermiq's form, already live there. Pull requests keep the bare
   # group (so a PR still supersedes its own earlier run); push, dispatch and
   # schedule each get their own lane.
-  group: quality-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}${{ (github.event_name != 'pull_request' && (github.ref_name == 'main' || github.ref_name == 'development')) && format('-{0}', github.event_name) || '' }}
+  #
+  # THE BRANCH RESTRICTION IS GONE, because it contradicted the sentence above.
+  #
+  # The suffix used to apply only when `ref_name` was `main` or `development`,
+  # so on every OTHER branch push and pull_request computed the SAME group —
+  # and `cancel-in-progress` made them kill each other. That became reachable
+  # when the push allow-list widened on 2026-08-14 to include `feat/**`,
+  # `fix/**`, `perf/**`, `refactor/**` and `chore/**`: those branches now get
+  # both a push run and a pull_request run for one commit.
+  #
+  # `quality / Quality Report` is a `needs:`-gated aggregator and reports
+  # FAILURE when its dependencies are CANCELLED, so the collision shows up as a
+  # red gate on a PR that was never actually evaluated — and re-running collides
+  # the same way. Measured on openregister#2821: a push run left queued and a
+  # pull_request run cancelled, 18 seconds apart, on one commit.
+  #
+  # A branch name is not a unique lane when two event types can each produce a
+  # run for it, so the event is now always part of the key.
+  group: quality-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && format('-{0}', github.event_name) || '' }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 # Permission CEILING for the called quality pipeline. GitHub statically