From dd3a820e5754a0f8896d3030cb9a475f6a8ce4b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: damocles <damocles@hyperhive>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 23:31:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hive-forge: reject empty/whitespace-only comment bodies
 (closes #297, closes #299)

---
 nix/packages/hive-forge-tools.nix | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nix/packages/hive-forge-tools.nix b/nix/packages/hive-forge-tools.nix
index 2b2cbda..188b279 100644
--- a/nix/packages/hive-forge-tools.nix
+++ b/nix/packages/hive-forge-tools.nix
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ pkgs.writeShellApplication {
       else
         _body="$*"
       fi
+      if [ -z "$(printf '%s' "$_body" | tr -d '[:space:]')" ]; then
+        echo "hive-forge comment: refusing to post empty comment body" >&2; exit 1
+      fi
       local _payload
       _payload=$(jq -n --arg body "$_body" '{body:$body}')
       forge_post "$FORGE_API/repos/$_repo/issues/$_n/comments" "$_payload" \
@@ -174,6 +177,9 @@ pkgs.writeShellApplication {
         _body="$1"; shift
         if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then _repo="$1"; fi
       fi
+      if [ -z "$(printf '%s' "$_body" | tr -d '[:space:]')" ]; then
+        echo "hive-forge comment-edit: refusing to post empty comment body" >&2; exit 1
+      fi
       local _payload
       _payload=$(jq -n --arg body "$_body" '{body:$body}')
       forge_patch "$FORGE_API/repos/$_repo/issues/comments/$_id" "$_payload" \