diff --git a/src/bot.ml b/src/bot.ml
index 575609ea..f0732bd3 100644
--- a/src/bot.ml
+++ b/src/bot.ml
@@ -147,16 +147,7 @@ let callback _conn req body =
     , coqbot_ci_minimize_text_of_body
     , coqbot_resume_ci_minimize_text_of_body )
   in
-  let strip_quoted_bot_name body =
-    (* If someone says "`@coqbot minimize foo`", (with backticks), we
-       don't want to treat that as them tagging coqbot, so we adjust
-       the tagging to "@`coqbot minimize foo`" so that the matching
-       below doesn't pick up the name *)
-    Str.global_replace
-      (Str.regexp (f "\\(`\\|<code>\\)@%s " @@ Str.quote github_bot_name))
-      (f "@\\1%s " @@ Str.quote github_bot_name)
-      body
-  in
+
   let body = Cohttp_lwt.Body.to_string body in
   (* print_endline "Request received."; *)
   match Uri.path (Request.uri req) with
@@ -308,7 +299,7 @@ let callback _conn req body =
           Server.respond_string ~status:`OK
             ~body:"Note card removed from project: nothing to do." ()
       | Ok (_, IssueOpened ({body= Some body} as issue_info)) -> (
-          let body = body |> Helpers.trim_comments |> strip_quoted_bot_name in
+          let body = body |> trim_comments |> strip_quoted_bot_name ~github_bot_name in
           match coqbot_minimize_text_of_body body with
           | Some (options, script) ->
               (fun () ->
@@ -329,7 +320,7 @@ let callback _conn req body =
                 () )
       | Ok (signed, CommentCreated comment_info) -> (
           let body =
-            comment_info.body |> Helpers.trim_comments |> strip_quoted_bot_name
+            comment_info.body |> trim_comments |> strip_quoted_bot_name ~github_bot_name
           in
           match coqbot_minimize_text_of_body body with
           | Some (options, script) ->
diff --git a/src/helpers.ml b/src/helpers.ml
index 0d8acc39..697eef24 100644
--- a/src/helpers.ml
+++ b/src/helpers.ml
@@ -52,6 +52,23 @@ let trim_comments comment =
   in
   aux comment 0 false
 
+let strip_quoted_bot_name ~github_bot_name body =
+  (* If someone says "`@coqbot minimize foo`", (with backticks), we
+     don't want to treat that as them tagging coqbot, so we adjust
+     the tagging to "@`coqbot minimize foo`" so that the matching
+     below doesn't pick up the name *)
+  Str.global_replace
+    (Str.regexp (f "\\(`\\|<code>\\)@%s:? " @@ Str.quote github_bot_name))
+    (f "@\\1%s " @@ Str.quote github_bot_name)
+    body
+
+let%expect_test "strip_quoted_bot_name" =
+  Stdio.printf "%s\n"
+    (strip_quoted_bot_name ~github_bot_name:"coqbot"
+       {|>this didn't produce a pipeline for some reason\r\n\r\nI think that this is normal. @herbelin was maybe expecting that adding the `request: full CI` label would trigger a new run immediately, but the semantics is that this label will produce such a full CI run at the next update (next push) of this PR. Cf. the [documentation](https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#understanding-automatic-feedback):\r\n\r\n>you can request a full run of the CI by putting the `request: full CI` label before pushing to your PR branch, or by commenting `@coqbot: run full CI` after having pushed. |}) ;
+  [%expect
+  {| >this didn't produce a pipeline for some reason\r\n\r\nI think that this is normal. @herbelin was maybe expecting that adding the `request: full CI` label would trigger a new run immediately, but the semantics is that this label will produce such a full CI run at the next update (next push) of this PR. Cf. the [documentation](https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#understanding-automatic-feedback):\r\n\r\n>you can request a full run of the CI by putting the `request: full CI` label before pushing to your PR branch, or by commenting @`coqbot run full CI` after having pushed. |}]
+
 let github_repo_of_gitlab_project_path ~gitlab_mapping ~gitlab_domain
     ~gitlab_repo_full_name =
   let full_name_with_domain = gitlab_domain ^ "/" ^ gitlab_repo_full_name in
diff --git a/src/helpers.mli b/src/helpers.mli
index 7c2786e5..c3a32fb8 100644
--- a/src/helpers.mli
+++ b/src/helpers.mli
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ val remove_between : string -> int -> int -> string
 
 val trim_comments : string -> string
 
+val strip_quoted_bot_name : github_bot_name:string -> string -> string
+
 val github_repo_of_gitlab_project_path :
      gitlab_mapping:(string, string) Base.Hashtbl.t
   -> gitlab_domain:string