diff --git a/.changeset/react-compiler-todo-title.md b/.changeset/react-compiler-todo-title.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04d274e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/react-compiler-todo-title.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"react-doctor": patch
+---
+
+Title `react-hooks-js/todo` diagnostics "React Compiler doesn't support this syntax" instead of the generic "React Compiler can't optimize this" headline. The `todo` rule fires when the compiler bails out on syntax it doesn't handle yet, so the headline now says what actually happened.
diff --git a/packages/core/src/runners/oxlint/parse-output.ts b/packages/core/src/runners/oxlint/parse-output.ts
index edf0d8ed3..fef837646 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/runners/oxlint/parse-output.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/runners/oxlint/parse-output.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ const FILEPATH_WITH_LOCATION_PATTERN = /\S+\.\w+:\d+:\d+[\s\S]*$/;
 // `react-hooks-js/todo` id. Give them a human headline & an impact-first
 // message; the specific bail-out reason stays in `help`.
 const REACT_COMPILER_TITLE = "React Compiler can't optimize this";
+// The compiler's `todo` rule fires on syntax it doesn't handle yet —
+// an unsupported-syntax bail-out, not an optimization miss in the
+// user's code, so it gets its own headline.
+const REACT_COMPILER_TODO_TITLE = "React Compiler doesn't support this syntax";
 const REACT_COMPILER_MESSAGE =
   "This component misses React Compiler's automatic memoization & re-renders more than it should. Rewrite the flagged code so the compiler can optimize it.";
 
@@ -88,8 +92,10 @@ const getRuleTitle = (ruleName: string): string | undefined =>
 
 // react-doctor rules carry their own `title`; adopted React Compiler
 // diagnostics get a fixed human headline instead of their bare id.
-const resolveDiagnosticTitle = (plugin: string, rule: string): string | undefined =>
-  plugin === "react-hooks-js" ? REACT_COMPILER_TITLE : getRuleTitle(rule);
+const resolveDiagnosticTitle = (plugin: string, rule: string): string | undefined => {
+  if (plugin !== "react-hooks-js") return getRuleTitle(rule);
+  return rule === "todo" ? REACT_COMPILER_TODO_TITLE : REACT_COMPILER_TITLE;
+};
 
 const cleanDiagnosticMessage = (
   message: unknown,
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/react-compiler-diagnostic-title.test.ts b/packages/core/tests/react-compiler-diagnostic-title.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db3adf63d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/react-compiler-diagnostic-title.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vite-plus/test";
+import type { ProjectInfo } from "@react-doctor/core";
+import { parseOxlintOutput } from "../src/runners/oxlint/parse-output.js";
+
+const ROOT_DIRECTORY = "/home/user/app";
+
+const buildProject = (): ProjectInfo => ({
+  rootDirectory: ROOT_DIRECTORY,
+  projectName: "app",
+  reactVersion: "19.2.0",
+  reactMajorVersion: 19,
+  tailwindVersion: null,
+  zodVersion: null,
+  zodMajorVersion: null,
+  framework: "nextjs",
+  hasTypeScript: true,
+  hasReactCompiler: true,
+  hasTanStackQuery: false,
+  nextjsVersion: "15.0.0",
+  nextjsMajorVersion: 15,
+  hasReactNativeWorkspace: false,
+  expoVersion: null,
+  shopifyFlashListVersion: null,
+  shopifyFlashListMajorVersion: null,
+  hasReanimated: false,
+  isPreES2023Target: false,
+  preactVersion: null,
+  preactMajorVersion: null,
+  sourceFileCount: 10,
+});
+
+const buildOxlintStdout = (code: string, message: string): string =>
+  JSON.stringify({
+    diagnostics: [
+      {
+        message,
+        code,
+        severity: "error",
+        causes: [],
+        url: "",
+        help: "",
+        filename: "src/components/widget.tsx",
+        labels: [{ label: "", span: { offset: 0, length: 1, line: 12, column: 3 } }],
+        related: [],
+      },
+    ],
+    number_of_files: 1,
+    number_of_rules: 1,
+  });
+
+describe("parseOxlintOutput react-hooks-js diagnostic titles", () => {
+  it("titles `todo` diagnostics as unsupported syntax", () => {
+    const stdout = buildOxlintStdout(
+      "react-hooks-js(todo)",
+      "(BuildHIR::lowerExpression) Handle TaggedTemplateExpression expressions",
+    );
+    const [diagnostic] = parseOxlintOutput(stdout, buildProject(), ROOT_DIRECTORY);
+
+    expect(diagnostic).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+      {
+        "category": "Performance",
+        "column": 3,
+        "filePath": "src/components/widget.tsx",
+        "help": "(BuildHIR::lowerExpression) Handle TaggedTemplateExpression expressions",
+        "length": 1,
+        "line": 12,
+        "message": "This component misses React Compiler's automatic memoization & re-renders more than it should. Rewrite the flagged code so the compiler can optimize it.",
+        "offset": 0,
+        "plugin": "react-hooks-js",
+        "rule": "todo",
+        "severity": "error",
+        "title": "React Compiler doesn't support this syntax",
+        "url": "",
+      }
+    `);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the generic headline for other react-hooks-js rules", () => {
+    const stdout = buildOxlintStdout("react-hooks-js(refs)", "Cannot access ref during render");
+    const [diagnostic] = parseOxlintOutput(stdout, buildProject(), ROOT_DIRECTORY);
+
+    expect(diagnostic.title).toBe("React Compiler can't optimize this");
+  });
+});