diff --git a/swarm-controller/src/forge.rs b/swarm-controller/src/forge.rs
index 5bd19bff..7b726dfe 100644
--- a/swarm-controller/src/forge.rs
+++ b/swarm-controller/src/forge.rs
@@ -31,19 +31,12 @@ use crate::webhook::DeliveryKind;
 /// The forge org that owns agent repos. Same org `hive-c0re::forge`
 /// already uses for its own single-hive `CreateRepo` path — this is
 /// the same forge instance, not a separate one, so the same org.
-pub const AGENTS_ORG: &str = "agents";
-
-/// The repo an agent's config lives in — one repo per agent inside
-/// [`AGENTS_ORG`], named after the agent.
 ///
-/// The identity here is the point, not an accident to be inlined: this is
-/// the single home for the naming convention, so a caller holding an agent
-/// name never writes the repo name itself. Callers used to pass both, which
-/// meant every node payload carried the same string twice and any future
-/// change to the convention would have been a search rather than an edit.
-pub fn agent_repo(agent: &str) -> &str {
-    agent
-}
+/// There is no per-agent repo-vs-agent naming convention to maintain here:
+/// agent names are unique and every agent's repo lives in this one org, so
+/// the agent name IS the repo name at every call site (dropped the
+/// `agent_repo` identity function this used to go through, per review).
+pub const AGENTS_ORG: &str = "agents";
 
 /// The `operators` team, whitelisted for the merge gate on every repo
 /// this client protects — provisioned by `hive-c0re::forge::repos`
diff --git a/swarm-controller/src/main.rs b/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
index 37100d6a..3c39cf79 100644
--- a/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
+++ b/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ async fn run_swarm_node(
                  SWARM_CONTROLLER_FORGE_TOKEN_FILE unset)"
                     .to_owned(),
             ),
-            Some(client) => match client.create_repo(forge::agent_repo(&agent)).await {
+            Some(client) => match client.create_repo(&agent).await {
                 Ok(full_name) => {
                     tracing::info!(%full_name, "swarm jobq: create_repo done");
                     Outcome::Done
@@ -169,10 +169,7 @@ async fn run_swarm_node(
                  SWARM_CONTROLLER_FORGE_TOKEN_FILE unset)"
                     .to_owned(),
             ),
-            Some(client) => match client
-                .add_repo_member(forge::agent_repo(&agent), &agent)
-                .await
-            {
+            Some(client) => match client.add_repo_member(&agent, &agent).await {
                 Ok(()) => Outcome::Done,
                 Err(e) => Outcome::Failed(format!("{e:#}")),
             },
@@ -183,10 +180,7 @@ async fn run_swarm_node(
                  SWARM_CONTROLLER_FORGE_TOKEN_FILE unset)"
                     .to_owned(),
             ),
-            Some(client) => match client
-                .seed_agent_config(forge::agent_repo(&agent), &agent)
-                .await
-            {
+            Some(client) => match client.seed_agent_config(&agent, &agent).await {
                 Ok(()) => Outcome::Done,
                 Err(e) => Outcome::Failed(format!("{e:#}")),
             },