diff --git a/scripts/sonar_triage.mjs b/scripts/sonar_triage.mjs
index 7bdddd3..46e43c3 100644
--- a/scripts/sonar_triage.mjs
+++ b/scripts/sonar_triage.mjs
@@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ export function postWebhook(url, payload) {
 function ghIssues(groups, apply, cap, log) {
   if (run('gh', ['auth', 'status']).status !== 0) { log('gh unauthenticated: skipping GitHub issues (run `gh auth login`).'); return []; }
   const list = run('gh', ['issue', 'list', '--state', 'open', '--label', 'sonar', '--limit', '300', '--json', 'number,body']);
-  const bodies = list.status === 0 ? JSON.parse(list.stdout).map((x) => x.body) : [];
+  // closed fixed-local issues also suppress (Sonar keys stay open until a re-scan)
+  const fixed = run('gh', ['issue', 'list', '--state', 'closed', '--label', 'fixed-local', '--limit', '300', '--json', 'number,body']);
+  const bodies = [list, fixed].flatMap((l) => (l.status === 0 ? JSON.parse(l.stdout).map((x) => x.body) : []));
   const todo = groups.filter((g) => !hasMarker(bodies, g.keys));
   log(`GitHub: ${groups.length - todo.length} duplicate(s) skipped, ${Math.min(todo.length, cap)} of ${todo.length} to create (cap ${cap}).`);
   const done = [];
@@ -196,6 +198,7 @@ export async function main(argv, deps = {}) {
     else if (f === '--fix-small') a.fixSmall = true; else if (f === '--list-rules') a.list = true;
     else if (f === '--json') a.json = argv[++i]; else if (f === '--max-issues') a.max = +argv[++i];
     else if (f === '--cap') a.cap = +argv[++i];
+    else if (f === '--exclude-rules') a.exclude = (argv[++i] || '').split(',').filter(Boolean);
     else throw new Error(`unknown flag ${f}`);
   }
   const cfg = deps.cfg || loadConfig();
@@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ export async function main(argv, deps = {}) {
   }
   if (a.json) writeFileSync(a.json, JSON.stringify(res, null, 2));
   if (deps.noActions) return res;
-  const groups = groupIssues([...res.medium, ...res.large]);
+  const groups = groupIssues([...res.medium, ...res.large]).filter((g) => !(a.exclude || []).includes(g.rule));
   log(`\nMedium+ groups (per rule, max 40 locations): ${groups.length}`);
   ghIssues(groups, a.apply, a.cap, log);
   if (a.fixSmall) { if (a.apply) fixSmall(res.small, log); else log('fix-small needs --apply (dry-run).'); }
diff --git a/tests/sonar_triage.test.mjs b/tests/sonar_triage.test.mjs
index 90f72c4..2319f02 100644
--- a/tests/sonar_triage.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/sonar_triage.test.mjs
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ test('per-run cap limits created issues (dry-run)', async () => {
   assert.match(txt, /10 of \d+ to create \(cap 10\)|gh unauthenticated/);
 });
 
+test('--exclude-rules drops those rule groups', async () => {
+  const out = [];
+  const issues = [mk({ key: 'e1', rule: 'python:S3776' }), mk({ key: 'e2', rule: 'python:S3776' }), mk({ key: 'e3', rule: 'python:R9' })];
+  await main(['--dry-run', '--all', '--exclude-rules', 'python:S3776'], { token: 't', cfg, log: (s) => out.push(s), fetchFn: async () => page(issues) });
+  assert.match(out.join('\n'), /Medium\+ groups \(per rule, max 40 locations\): 1/);
+});
+
 const page = (issues) => ({ ok: true, json: async () => ({ issues, paging: { total: issues.length } }) });
 
 test('fetch sends token as basic username, new-code filter', async () => {