diff --git a/docs/forge.md b/docs/forge.md
index a2dfd793..527ca5ac 100644
--- a/docs/forge.md
+++ b/docs/forge.md
@@ -129,16 +129,16 @@ best-effort: logged at debug/warn and retried next tick.
Forgejo fires notifications for the agent's own actions (it opened a
PR, posted a comment, submitted a review). Surfacing those would
-loop claude on its own writes. Two filter rules drop them silently
-(mark-read without delivery):
+loop claude on its own writes. The comment/review case is dropped
+silently (mark-read without delivery):
-- **Self-authored new items** — notifications with
- `reason == "author"` AND subject state `open` (or missing). State
- transitions (merge / close) on the agent's own PRs DO surface,
- since those are triggered by someone else.
- **Self-authored comments / reviews** — comment payload's
`user.login` matches `own_login`.
+Self-authored *new items* (an agent opening its own PR/issue) are not
+filtered and do surface — the notification subject carries no author
+field to match against without a per-notification fetch.
+
`own_login` is fetched once at startup via `GET /api/v1/user`. On
fetch failure the filter degrades open (no filtering) rather than
crashing the task — a noisy inbox beats a silently-stuck poller.
@@ -181,11 +181,11 @@ Five shapes, distinguished by the notification's classification:
| Trigger | Wrapper |
| --- | --- |
-| Comment on issue / PR | `[comment on PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\nauthor: body\nassignee: ...\nreason: mention` |
-| Review submission | `[PR approved #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\nreviewer: body\nassignee: ...\nreason: review_requested` |
-| New issue / PR | `[new PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\n
\nassignee: ...\nreason: subscribed` |
-| Later activity (open, not creation) | `[activity on PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\n\nassignee: ...\nreason: subscribed` |
-| State change | `[PR merged #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\nassignee: ...\nreason: subscribed` |
+| Comment on issue / PR | `[comment on PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\nauthor: body\nassignee: ...` |
+| Review submission | `[PR approved #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\nreviewer: body\nassignee: ...` |
+| New issue / PR | `[new PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\n\nassignee: ...` |
+| Later activity (open, not creation) | `[activity on PR #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\n\n\nassignee: ...` |
+| State change | `[PR merged #N owner/repo] title\nurl: ...\nassignee: ...` |
Review labels come from the Forgejo `state` field: `APPROVED` →
`approved`, `REQUEST_CHANGES` → `changes requested`, `COMMENT` →
@@ -222,14 +222,6 @@ Every wrapper ends with one or more of:
the line shape is stable.
- `reviewer: ` — PR notifications only, present only when
`requested_reviewers` is non-empty.
-- `reason: ` — always present when the notification
- carries a reason; absent when the field is null/missing.
-
-The `reason` line distinguishes otherwise-identical messages: Forgejo
-emits one notification per applicable reason for the same event
-(e.g. both `mention` and `subscribed` arrive for a PR comment that
-tags the agent). Without the suffix, the agent would see duplicated
-wrapper text with no signal which Forgejo path triggered each copy.
### Review-request override
diff --git a/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs b/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
index b56b4c7d..4a8c5b26 100644
--- a/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
+++ b/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
@@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ async fn format_notification(
};
let is_pr = matches!(notif_type, "Pull Request" | "Pull");
- let reason = notif["reason"].as_str().unwrap_or("");
- let meta_suffix = build_meta_suffix(subject.as_ref(), is_pr, reason);
+ let meta_suffix = build_meta_suffix(subject.as_ref(), is_pr);
// Determine whether this notification was triggered by a comment/review or
// by creation/state-change of the subject itself.
@@ -396,7 +395,6 @@ async fn format_notification(
num,
repo,
meta_suffix,
- reason,
subject,
is_pr,
};
@@ -411,7 +409,7 @@ async fn format_notification(
)
.await
} else {
- format_state_change_notification(notif, &meta, own_login)
+ Some(format_state_change_notification(notif, &meta, own_login))
}
}
@@ -423,19 +421,15 @@ struct NotifMeta<'a> {
num: String,
repo: String,
meta_suffix: String,
- /// Forgejo `reason` value (e.g. "mention", "assigned", "subscribed").
- /// Appended to every wrapper as the `reason:` line in the meta
- /// suffix (see `docs/forge.md::Meta suffix`).
- reason: &'a str,
/// Fetched subject detail (issue/PR JSON); used for review-request detection.
subject: Option,
is_pr: bool,
}
-/// Build the `\nassignee: ...` (and optionally `\nreviewer: ...` and
-/// `\nreason: ...`) suffix appended to every wrapper. Shape +
-/// presence rules live in `docs/forge.md::Meta suffix`.
-fn build_meta_suffix(subject: Option<&serde_json::Value>, is_pr: bool, reason: &str) -> String {
+/// Build the `\nassignee: ...` (and optionally `\nreviewer: ...`)
+/// suffix appended to every wrapper. Shape + presence rules live in
+/// `docs/forge.md::Meta suffix`.
+fn build_meta_suffix(subject: Option<&serde_json::Value>, is_pr: bool) -> String {
let assignees: Vec<&str> = subject
.and_then(|s| s["assignees"].as_array())
.map(|arr| arr.iter().filter_map(|a| a["login"].as_str()).collect())
@@ -459,21 +453,10 @@ fn build_meta_suffix(subject: Option<&serde_json::Value>, is_pr: bool, reason: &
} else {
None
};
- // Always include reason so multiple notifications for the same
- // event (each with a different Forgejo reason) stay
- // distinguishable.
- let reason_line = if reason.is_empty() {
- None
- } else {
- Some(format!("reason: {reason}"))
- };
let mut out = format!("\n{assignee_line}");
if let Some(r) = reviewer_line {
write!(out, "\n{r}").ok();
}
- if let Some(r) = reason_line {
- write!(out, "\n{r}").ok();
- }
out
}
@@ -574,7 +557,7 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
notif: &serde_json::Value,
meta: &NotifMeta<'_>,
own_login: &str,
-) -> Option {
+) -> String {
// Classification uses notif["subject"]["state"] directly — Forgejo
// returns "open" / "closed" / "merged" here. We do NOT rely on
// fetching the PR/issue detail for `merged`:
@@ -583,14 +566,9 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
// - Forgejo API type is "Pull" / "Issue", never "Pull Request".
let notif_state = notif["subject"]["state"].as_str().unwrap_or("");
- // Self-notification filter: drop new items we authored ourselves
- // (`reason == "author"` + open state). State transitions on our
- // own PRs (merge / close) come from someone else, so those stay.
+ // "New" = the subject is open (or state is absent). Used below for
+ // the review-request override.
let is_new = notif_state == "open" || notif_state.is_empty();
- if is_new && meta.reason == "author" && !own_login.is_empty() {
- debug!(%own_login, "forge_notify: skipping self-authored new item");
- return None;
- }
let NotifMeta {
title,
@@ -599,7 +577,6 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
num,
repo,
meta_suffix,
- reason: _,
subject,
is_pr,
} = meta;
@@ -658,7 +635,7 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
let mut out = format!("[{kind}] {title}\nurl: {html_url}{body_block}");
out.push_str(meta_suffix);
- Some(out)
+ out
}
/// Decide whether a state-change notification represents the subject's