diff --git a/nix/modules/reports.nix b/nix/modules/reports.nix
index e734bfc..775a88f 100644
--- a/nix/modules/reports.nix
+++ b/nix/modules/reports.nix
@@ -3,10 +3,49 @@
 # no secrets — just static files behind traefik + the wildcard TLS (same pattern as dashboard.nix,
 # but a plain nginx:alpine since there's nothing to render server-side). Content is updated by writing
 # files into /var/lib/cc-ci-reports; nginx serves them live (no redeploy needed).
+#
+# It ALSO serves a same-origin realtime PR-status proxy at /pr/<recipe>/<n>: the report's STATUS
+# column fetches it client-side to show each PR's live state (open vs. ✓). Same-origin means no
+# dependency on the Gitea CORS allow-list; the recipe mirrors are public so no token is needed. The
+# proxy is pinned to recipe-maintainers + a safe recipe-name charset and is read-only (GET/HEAD).
 { pkgs, ... }:
 let
   reportsDir = "/var/lib/cc-ci-reports";
 
+  # Custom nginx server: static report files + the /pr/<recipe>/<n> → Gitea-API proxy. Replaces the
+  # stock /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (which the image's nginx.conf includes inside http{}).
+  nginxConf = pkgs.writeText "cc-ci-reports-default.conf" ''
+    server {
+        listen 80;
+        server_name _;
+        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        index index.html;
+
+        # Realtime PR-status proxy for the Recipe Report STATUS column.
+        # GET /pr/<recipe>/<n> -> the PUBLIC Gitea PR JSON ({state, merged, ...}). Same-origin from
+        # the browser's view, so no CORS dependency; unauthenticated, since the recipe mirrors are
+        # public. The repo owner is hard-pinned to recipe-maintainers and the recipe name to a
+        # slashless charset, so the proxied path can only ever address recipe-maintainers/<name>/pulls
+        # (it cannot be coerced to another org or path). Only safe read methods are allowed.
+        location ~ ^/pr/([a-z0-9._-]+)/([0-9]+)$ {
+            limit_except GET HEAD { deny all; }
+            resolver 127.0.0.11 ipv6=off valid=30s;   # docker embedded DNS (forwards external names)
+            proxy_ssl_server_name on;
+            proxy_set_header Host git.autonomic.zone;
+            proxy_set_header Accept "application/json";
+            proxy_pass https://git.autonomic.zone/api/v1/repos/recipe-maintainers/$1/pulls/$2;
+            proxy_intercept_errors off;
+            proxy_connect_timeout 5s;
+            proxy_read_timeout 10s;
+            add_header Cache-Control "no-store" always;  # always fetch live state, never cache in the browser
+        }
+
+        location / {
+            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+        }
+    }
+  '';
+
   stack = pkgs.writeText "cc-ci-reports-stack.yml" ''
     version: "3.8"
     services:
@@ -17,6 +56,10 @@ let
             source: ${reportsDir}
             target: /usr/share/nginx/html
             read_only: true
+          - type: bind
+            source: ${nginxConf}
+            target: /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+            read_only: true
         networks:
           - proxy
         deploy: