diff --git a/hive-forge/src/verbs/dependency.rs b/hive-forge/src/verbs/dependency.rs
index 76f5a6cb..7fd82521 100644
--- a/hive-forge/src/verbs/dependency.rs
+++ b/hive-forge/src/verbs/dependency.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use std::collections::HashSet;
 
 use anyhow::{Result, bail};
 use clap::{Args as ClapArgs, Subcommand};
+use forgejo_api::ForgejoError;
 use forgejo_api::structs::IssueMeta;
 use serde_json::Value;
 
@@ -70,14 +71,18 @@ pub fn run(client: &Client, args: Args) -> Result<()> {
 /// verify by reading the dependency list back rather than trusting the
 /// HTTP status this verb family returns.
 ///
-/// Measured: the status code lies in both directions on this endpoint
-/// pair. `create` can 500 on a call that actually wrote the
-/// edge (an intermittent server-side double-processing, not a client
-/// retry — ruled out separately). `remove` can answer `201 Created` on a
-/// call that actually deleted the edge, which the typed client's
-/// endpoint spec maps to an error since 201 isn't the expected status for
-/// a deletion. So a `send()` error here only means "maybe" — the
-/// authoritative signal is whether the edge is actually there afterward.
+/// Measured: `create` can 500 on a call that actually wrote the edge (an
+/// intermittent server-side double-processing, not a client retry —
+/// ruled out separately). A `send()` error there only means "maybe" —
+/// the authoritative signal is whether the edge is actually there
+/// afterward.
+///
+/// `remove`'s known quirk is handled below, before it ever reaches this
+/// path: the forge always answers `201 Created` for a successful
+/// deletion, which the generated client's endpoint spec doesn't expect
+/// (it only treats 200 as success for that verb), so that specific
+/// status is treated as success outright rather than routed through the
+/// read-back below.
 ///
 /// Calls that errored are only re-classified as real failures if the
 /// read-back does NOT show the expected converged state (edge present
@@ -107,7 +112,19 @@ fn apply_and_verify(
                 .send()
         };
         if let Err(e) = res {
-            call_errors.push((*dep, e));
+            // `remove` always answers 201 for a successful deletion (not
+            // the 200 the generated client expects for that verb) — a
+            // deterministic, always-on mismatch, not a "something else
+            // went wrong after the write" anomaly, so it's not worth a
+            // read-back or a warning: just accept it.
+            let is_remove_201 = !adding
+                && matches!(
+                    &e,
+                    ForgejoError::UnexpectedStatusCode(code) if *code == reqwest::StatusCode::CREATED
+                );
+            if !is_remove_201 {
+                call_errors.push((*dep, e));
+            }
         }
     }
     if call_errors.is_empty() {