diff --git a/src/scribe/services/family.py b/src/scribe/services/family.py
index e0ed02ad..b0fb7a0c 100644
--- a/src/scribe/services/family.py
+++ b/src/scribe/services/family.py
@@ -119,7 +119,15 @@ _LINEAGE = re.compile(
 _LINEAGE_WINDOW = 80
 
 # Note kinds the repeat trigger compares: recorded knowledge and shapes, not
-# the to-do list.
+# the to-do list — and each only against its own kind (#5130). A repeat is the
+# same KIND of thing made twice: two shapes built, or two ideas written down.
+# Across kinds the score stops meaning that. One chunk of a long narrative
+# note that mentions a shape's vocabulary scores like the shape itself: a
+# dated release log matched a signed-APK CI snippet at 0.83, above this
+# trigger's floor, and opened the log as a candidate. The cross-kind relation
+# that IS real — code built from an idea written elsewhere — has its own
+# routes: the citation trigger when the lineage is named, and the shape ledger
+# once the idea is canon.
 _REPEAT_KINDS = ("snippet", "note")
 
 MEMBER_STATES = ("declared", "detected")
@@ -928,13 +936,15 @@ async def citation_trigger(user_id: int, note) -> str | None:
 
 
 async def repeat_trigger(user_id: int, note) -> str | None:
-    """A new record whose meaning repeats a record in ANOTHER project that
-    shares a platform with this one opens an evaluation of the earlier record.
-    Silent when the projects share no platform, below the threshold, or when
-    the project has no platforms yet."""
+    """A new record whose meaning repeats a record OF THE SAME KIND in another
+    project that shares a platform with this one opens an evaluation of the
+    earlier record. Silent when the projects share no platform, below the
+    threshold, when the project has no platforms yet, or when the only match
+    is a different kind (`_REPEAT_KINDS` says why)."""
     from scribe.services.embeddings import embedding_text, semantic_search_notes
 
-    if not getattr(note, "project_id", None) or note.is_task:
+    kind = getattr(note, "note_type", None) or "note"
+    if not getattr(note, "project_id", None) or note.is_task or kind not in _REPEAT_KINDS:
         return None
     async with async_session() as session:
         mine = await _member_platform_ids(session, note.project_id)
@@ -942,12 +952,14 @@ async def repeat_trigger(user_id: int, note) -> str | None:
         return None
     hits = await semantic_search_notes(
         user_id, embedding_text(note.title, note.body), exclude_ids={note.id},
-        limit=8, threshold=REPEAT_THRESHOLD, scope="read", note_type=_REPEAT_KINDS,
+        limit=8, threshold=REPEAT_THRESHOLD, scope="read", note_type=kind,
         is_task=False, demote_superseded=False,
     )
     for score, other in hits:
         if not other.project_id or other.project_id == note.project_id:
             continue
+        if (other.note_type or "note") != kind:
+            continue
         async with async_session() as session:
             shared = mine & await _member_platform_ids(session, other.project_id)
         if not shared or not await access.can_write_note(user_id, other.id):
diff --git a/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py b/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
index 31cddbb4..39dc8479 100644
--- a/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
+++ b/tests/test_integration_family_promotion.py
@@ -278,6 +278,26 @@ async def test_a_repeat_with_no_shared_platform_is_silent(family):
     assert await _idea(family["note"]) is None
 
 
+async def test_a_repeat_across_kinds_is_silent(family):
+    """A snippet whose only match is a NOTE is not a repeat (#5130): a dated
+    release log scored 0.83 against a signed-APK CI snippet on shared
+    vocabulary and was opened as a candidate. The stub hands back the
+    cross-kind hit directly, so this pins the trigger's own check, not the
+    search filter in front of it."""
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        snippet = Note(user_id=family["owner"], project_id=family["b"], note_type="snippet",
+                       title="android-release lane", body="sign with the one release key")
+        s.add(snippet)
+        await s.commit()
+        await s.refresh(snippet)
+        original = await s.get(Note, family["note"])
+    assert original.note_type == "note"
+    with patch("scribe.services.embeddings.semantic_search_notes",
+               AsyncMock(return_value=[(0.86, original)])):
+        assert await family_svc.repeat_trigger(family["owner"], snippet) is None
+    assert await _idea(family["note"]) is None
+
+
 async def test_a_milestone_closing_on_a_platform_asks_and_one_off_platform_does_not(family):
     async with async_session() as s:
         on_platform = Milestone(user_id=family["owner"], project_id=family["a"], title="m1")