diff --git a/scripts/review-loop-run b/scripts/review-loop-run
index 205d8d1..52b6fb7 100755
--- a/scripts/review-loop-run
+++ b/scripts/review-loop-run
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ _counts_scope() {
 # _is_declaration_line <line> → 0 (true) iff the line is a declaration-only
 # line. After stripping `*` emphasis markers, the line must consist solely of
 # declaration tokens (CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW, any severity) separated by
-# [.,;\s]+, with nothing else except label-style parentheticals matching
-# [A-Z][0-9]+ (e.g. "(C1)" labelling the count) which are stripped before the
-# check. Non-label parentheticals (finding IDs like "(H-R3-1)", annotations
-# like "(see §3.2)", trailing prose after the count) disqualify the line.
+# [.,;\s]+, with nothing else except short label parentheticals matching
+# [A-Z][0-9]+ (e.g. "(C1)"), which are stripped first (CR-8 label
+# exception). Any other parenthetical or trailing prose (finding IDs
+# like "(H-R3-1)", "(see §3.2)") disqualifies the line.
 _is_declaration_line() {
     local line="$1"
     # Strip `*` emphasis markers
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ _is_declaration_line() {
     reduced=$(printf '%s\n' "$clean" | sed -E 's/(CRITICAL|HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW)[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*[0-9]+/__TOK__/g')
     reduced=$(printf '%s\n' "$reduced" | sed -E 's/(CRITICAL|HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW)[[:space:]]*\([0-9]+\)/__TOK__/g')
     reduced=$(printf '%s\n' "$reduced" | sed -E 's/[0-9]+[[:space:]]+(CRITICAL|HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW)/__TOK__/g')
-    # Strip label-style parentheticals (single uppercase letter + digits)
-    reduced=$(printf '%s\n' "$reduced" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]*\([A-Z][0-9]+\)//g')
+    # Strip short label parentheticals (single uppercase letter + digits)
+    reduced=$(printf '%s\n' "$reduced" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]*\(([A-Z][0-9]+)\)//g')
     # Remaining must be only separators + __TOK__s.
     # Use a variable for the pattern to keep bash from mis-parsing the
     # embedded `;` and `[[:space:]]` inside `[[ =~ ]]`.
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ _counts_extract() {
 counts() {
     local f="$1"
     [[ -f "$f" ]] || die "result file not found: $f" 2
-    shopt -s nocasematch
     local scope; scope=$(_counts_scope "$f")
     local -A vals=()
     local sev found_any=0
@@ -163,7 +162,6 @@ counts() {
             fi
         fi
     fi
-    shopt -u nocasematch
 
     local out="" total=0
     for sev in CRITICAL HIGH MEDIUM LOW; do