diff --git a/src/review/maintainer-recap-wire.ts b/src/review/maintainer-recap-wire.ts
index 6ad9096b4c..96e09daaac 100644
--- a/src/review/maintainer-recap-wire.ts
+++ b/src/review/maintainer-recap-wire.ts
@@ -96,10 +96,12 @@ export function shouldFireMaintainerRecap(
 }
 
 /** The repos this recap scans. Mirrors ops-wire.ts's opsScanRepos / pr-reconciliation.ts's watchedRepos: prefer
- *  agent-configured repos when any opted in (the acting-autonomy surface), else fall back to every registered
- *  repo so the digest still reports before the agent is enabled anywhere. */
+ *  agent-configured repos when any opted in (the acting-autonomy surface), else fall back to every installed
+ *  repo so the digest still reports before the agent is enabled anywhere. The maintainer recap digest reports
+ *  on PR/issue backlog and review activity for repos the agent runs on -- core review-ops, unrelated to
+ *  gittensor-subnet registry membership, so `isInstalled` (#5016), not `isRegistered`. */
 async function recapScanRepos(env: Env): Promise<string[]> {
-  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isRegistered);
+  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isInstalled);
   const configured: string[] = [];
   for (const repo of repos) {
     try {
diff --git a/src/review/ops-wire.ts b/src/review/ops-wire.ts
index 5db38f87a0..40ab66331c 100644
--- a/src/review/ops-wire.ts
+++ b/src/review/ops-wire.ts
@@ -172,12 +172,15 @@ export function worstAnomaly(anomalies: string[]): { line: string; severity: Pag
 
 // ── Cron alerts: scan gittensory's outcome data, emit a structured log on drift (flag-gated by the caller) ──
 
-/** The registered repos to scan. Scoped to REGISTERED repos (the ones gittensory actually tracks outcomes
- *  for) — same `isRegistered` filter the other scheduled fan-outs use. */
+/** The installed repos to scan. Mirrors fanOutAgentRegateSweepJobs's own repo population (#5016): outcome
+ *  telemetry (gate precision, slop calibration, review-burst detection) is core review-quality monitoring for
+ *  any repo the review agent actually runs on, unrelated to gittensor-subnet registry membership -- NOT
+ *  `isRegistered`, which this used to (wrongly) match, despite this doc comment's own inner installationId
+ *  guard below already assuming installation, not registration, is what matters. */
 async function opsScanRepos(env: Env): Promise<string[]> {
-  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isRegistered);
+  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isInstalled);
   // Prefer agent-configured repos when any opted in (the acting-autonomy surface, like the regate sweep); fall
-  // back to every registered repo so outcome telemetry is still scanned before the agent is enabled anywhere.
+  // back to every installed repo so outcome telemetry is still scanned before the agent is enabled anywhere.
   const configured: string[] = [];
   for (const repo of repos) {
     try {
diff --git a/src/review/selftune-wire.ts b/src/review/selftune-wire.ts
index 3aeafb942d..18474e1567 100644
--- a/src/review/selftune-wire.ts
+++ b/src/review/selftune-wire.ts
@@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ async function buildEvalRow(env: Env, repoFullName: string): Promise<GateEvalRow
   return evalRowFromCalibration(repoFullName, calibration.recommendations.positive, calibration.recommendations.negative);
 }
 
-/** The registered, agent-configured repos to tune over — SAME scoping the ops scan + regate sweep use (only
- *  repos that opt into the acting-autonomy surface). A repo whose settings blip is skipped, never aborts.
+/** The installed, agent-configured repos to tune over — SAME scoping the ops scan + regate sweep use (only
+ *  repos that opt into the acting-autonomy surface). Self-tune calibrates the review gate's own confidence
+ *  floor from outcome data, core review-quality machinery unrelated to gittensor-subnet registry membership,
+ *  so this is `isInstalled` (#5016), not `isRegistered`. A repo whose settings blip is skipped, never aborts.
  *
  *  Per-repo opt-out (#4104): unlike rag/reputation/grounding, selftune has no `LOOPOVER_REVIEW_REPOS`
  *  allowlist to fall back to — every agent-configured repo is already IN by default once the global flag is
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ async function buildEvalRow(env: Env, repoFullName: string): Promise<GateEvalRow
  *  safety boundary this config key must not touch. Unset (the default) changes nothing. A manifest-load error
  *  fails open (repo stays included), matching the existing settings-blip fail-safe below. */
 async function selfTuneRepos(env: Env): Promise<string[]> {
-  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isRegistered);
+  const repos = (await listRepositories(env)).filter((repo) => repo.isInstalled);
   const configured: string[] = [];
   for (const repo of repos) {
     try {
diff --git a/test/unit/maintainer-recap-wire.test.ts b/test/unit/maintainer-recap-wire.test.ts
index 79426f6e5b..bc444203bd 100644
--- a/test/unit/maintainer-recap-wire.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/maintainer-recap-wire.test.ts
@@ -192,6 +192,32 @@ describe("runMaintainerRecapJob — cross-repo digest (#1963, #2248)", () => {
     expect(posted).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it("#5016: includes an installed-but-not-subnet-registered repo in the digest (PR/issue backlog reporting is core review-ops, not subnet-gated)", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv({ DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL: HOOK });
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 1, 0)")
+      .bind("acme/installed-not-registered", "acme", "installed-not-registered")
+      .run();
+    await seedMergedPr(env, "acme/installed-not-registered", 1);
+    stubDiscordFetch();
+
+    const { report } = ranRecap(await runMaintainerRecapJob(env));
+
+    expect(report.repos.map((r) => r.repoFullName)).toContain("acme/installed-not-registered");
+  });
+
+  it("#5016: excludes a subnet-registered-but-not-installed repo from the digest", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv({ DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL: HOOK });
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0, 1)")
+      .bind("acme/registered-not-installed", "acme", "registered-not-installed")
+      .run();
+    await seedMergedPr(env, "acme/registered-not-installed", 1);
+    stubDiscordFetch();
+
+    const { report } = ranRecap(await runMaintainerRecapJob(env));
+
+    expect(report.repos.map((r) => r.repoFullName)).not.toContain("acme/registered-not-installed");
+  });
+
   it("keeps miner cohort diagnostics out of the scheduled external recap", async () => {
     const env = createTestEnv({ DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL: HOOK });
     await seedRegisteredRepo(env, "owner/alpha");
diff --git a/test/unit/ops-wire.test.ts b/test/unit/ops-wire.test.ts
index c67add3abb..53522d60ef 100644
--- a/test/unit/ops-wire.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/ops-wire.test.ts
@@ -291,6 +291,30 @@ describe("runOpsAlerts — cron path over gittensory's outcome data", () => {
     expect(found["owner/no-install"]).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it("#5016: scans an installed-but-not-subnet-registered repo (outcome monitoring is core review-ops, not subnet-gated)", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv();
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 1, 0)")
+      .bind("acme/installed-not-registered", "acme", "installed-not-registered")
+      .run();
+    await seedGateFalsePositiveAnomaly(env, "acme/installed-not-registered");
+
+    const found = await runOpsAlerts(env);
+
+    expect(found["acme/installed-not-registered"]?.some((a) => /gate false-positive spike/.test(a))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("#5016: excludes a subnet-registered-but-not-installed repo from the ops scan", async () => {
+    const env = createTestEnv();
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0, 1)")
+      .bind("acme/registered-not-installed", "acme", "registered-not-installed")
+      .run();
+    await seedGateFalsePositiveAnomaly(env, "acme/registered-not-installed");
+
+    const found = await runOpsAlerts(env);
+
+    expect(found["acme/registered-not-installed"]).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
   it("detects and reports a review burst end-to-end (a PR published far more review surfaces than normal in the window)", async () => {
     setSelfHostedMetricsMode(true); // keep the repo label so the counter assertion can target the exact series
     const env = createTestEnv();
diff --git a/test/unit/selftune-wiring.test.ts b/test/unit/selftune-wiring.test.ts
index 0e120ddab4..20379f8efc 100644
--- a/test/unit/selftune-wiring.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/selftune-wiring.test.ts
@@ -301,6 +301,40 @@ describe("selfTuneRepos — per-repo review.selftune FORCE-OFF (#4104)", () => {
     expect(await loadShadowOverride(env as never, `${owner}/${name}`)).toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("#5016: tunes an installed-but-not-subnet-registered repo (gate self-calibration is core review-ops, not subnet-gated)", async () => {
+    const owner = "acme";
+    const name = "installed-not-registered";
+    const env = createTestEnv({ LOOPOVER_REVIEW_SELFTUNE: "true" });
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered, installation_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 1, 0, ?)")
+      .bind(`${owner}/${name}`, owner, name, 9601)
+      .run();
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repository_settings (repo_full_name, autonomy_json) VALUES (?, ?)")
+      .bind(`${owner}/${name}`, ACTING_AUTONOMY)
+      .run();
+    await seedRecommendationOutcomes(env, `${owner}/${name}`, 5, 10);
+
+    await runSelfTune(env);
+
+    expect((await loadShadowOverride(env as never, `${owner}/${name}`))?.override.confidenceFloor).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  it("#5016: excludes a subnet-registered-but-not-installed repo from the tuning pass", async () => {
+    const owner = "acme";
+    const name = "registered-not-installed";
+    const env = createTestEnv({ LOOPOVER_REVIEW_SELFTUNE: "true" });
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repositories (full_name, owner, name, is_installed, is_registered, installation_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0, 1, ?)")
+      .bind(`${owner}/${name}`, owner, name, 9602)
+      .run();
+    await env.DB.prepare("INSERT INTO repository_settings (repo_full_name, autonomy_json) VALUES (?, ?)")
+      .bind(`${owner}/${name}`, ACTING_AUTONOMY)
+      .run();
+    await seedRecommendationOutcomes(env, `${owner}/${name}`, 5, 10);
+
+    await runSelfTune(env);
+
+    expect(await loadShadowOverride(env as never, `${owner}/${name}`)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
   it("unset review.selftune (the default) does not change today's behavior — an agent-configured repo still tunes normally", async () => {
     const env = createTestEnv({ LOOPOVER_REVIEW_SELFTUNE: "true" });
     await seedRegisteredRepo(env, "owner/repo", ACTING_AUTONOMY);