diff --git a/docs/forge.md b/docs/forge.md
index c086fc05..f3bf9d00 100644
--- a/docs/forge.md
+++ b/docs/forge.md
@@ -140,13 +140,14 @@ lookahead.
### Wrapper format
-Four shapes, distinguished by the notification's classification:
+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` |
Review labels come from the Forgejo `state` field: `APPROVED` →
@@ -155,6 +156,22 @@ Review labels come from the Forgejo `state` field: `APPROVED` →
submitted yet — no peer-visible event). Unknown states fall back to
the generic comment wrapper.
+### "new" vs "activity on"
+
+A review submitted with **no body** carries no `latest_comment_url`,
+so it misses the comment path and lands on the state-change path with
+`state == "open"` — exactly like a freshly opened PR. Labeling that
+`new PR` is misleading: agents dismiss it as a duplicate of the
+original open notification and miss the review (#1637). So the `open`
+state only earns the `new ` label when the notification's event
+time (`updated_at`) is within `NEW_ITEM_TOLERANCE_SECS` (120s) of the
+subject's `created_at`. Anything later is labeled `activity on `
+— neutral and non-misleading, since we can't cheaply say *what* the
+activity was without an extra reviews fetch. Missing/unparseable
+timestamps default to `new` (preserve prior behavior rather than mask a
+genuine new item). Timestamps are parsed by a small dependency-free
+RFC 3339 → epoch-seconds helper (`parse_rfc3339_secs`).
+
Number is extracted from `subject.html_url`'s last path segment
(strips `#anchor` first); repo slug from `repository.full_name`.
Both degrade gracefully when absent (number → blank, repo → blank)
diff --git a/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs b/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
index 072c32cf..e3bf3cb4 100644
--- a/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
+++ b/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ const TOKEN_RETRY_SECS: u64 = 30;
/// Give up waiting for the token after this many retries (~10 minutes).
/// Avoids an infinite wait on agents that genuinely have no forge account.
const TOKEN_RETRY_MAX: u32 = 20;
+/// How close (seconds) the notification's event time must be to a
+/// subject's `created_at` for us to call it a genuine creation and emit
+/// a `new ` label. Later activity that lands on the state-change
+/// path because it carries no `latest_comment_url` (e.g. a bodiless
+/// review submission) fires well outside this window, so we must not
+/// claim it's "new" — see #1637.
+const NEW_ITEM_TOLERANCE_SECS: i64 = 120;
/// Spawn point: called once from `hive serve`. Returns immediately if the forge is not
/// configured. Otherwise loops forever, polling every
@@ -577,10 +584,19 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
is_pr,
} = meta;
let label = notif_type_label(notif_type);
+ // Only claim "new" when the notification actually fired at creation
+ // time. A review submitted with no body carries no
+ // `latest_comment_url`, so it lands here instead of on the comment
+ // path — and its event time is well after `created_at`. Labeling
+ // that "new PR" is misleading (#1637): agents dismiss it as a
+ // duplicate of the original open notification. When we can't confirm
+ // creation, fall back to a neutral "activity on" label.
+ let looks_new = notification_is_creation(notif, subject.as_ref());
let kind = match notif_state {
"merged" => format!("{label} merged{num}{repo}"),
"closed" => format!("{label} closed{num}{repo}"),
- "open" | "" => format!("new {label}{num}{repo}"),
+ "open" | "" if looks_new => format!("new {label}{num}{repo}"),
+ "open" | "" => format!("activity on {label}{num}{repo}"),
other => format!("{label}{num}{repo}: {other}"),
};
@@ -624,6 +640,85 @@ fn format_state_change_notification(
Some(out)
}
+/// Decide whether a state-change notification represents the subject's
+/// *creation* (so a `new ` label is truthful) versus later
+/// activity that merely lacked a `latest_comment_url`. Compares the
+/// notification's event time (`updated_at`) against the subject's
+/// `created_at`: within `NEW_ITEM_TOLERANCE_SECS` ⇒ creation. When
+/// either timestamp is missing or unparseable we default to `true`,
+/// preserving the prior "new" behavior rather than masking a genuine
+/// new item behind the neutral fallback. See #1637.
+fn notification_is_creation(
+ notif: &serde_json::Value,
+ subject: Option<&serde_json::Value>,
+) -> bool {
+ let created = subject
+ .and_then(|s| s["created_at"].as_str())
+ .and_then(parse_rfc3339_secs);
+ let event = notif["updated_at"].as_str().and_then(parse_rfc3339_secs);
+ match (created, event) {
+ (Some(c), Some(e)) => (e - c).abs() <= NEW_ITEM_TOLERANCE_SECS,
+ _ => true,
+ }
+}
+
+/// Minimal dependency-free RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 parser → Unix epoch
+/// seconds. Forgejo emits timestamps like `2026-06-13T11:18:42+02:00`
+/// or `...Z`, optionally with fractional seconds. We only need
+/// second-granularity comparison, so the fractional part is skipped.
+/// Returns `None` on any shape we don't recognise so callers can fall
+/// back gracefully.
+fn parse_rfc3339_secs(s: &str) -> Option {
+ if s.len() < 19 {
+ return None;
+ }
+ let year: i64 = s.get(0..4)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let month: i64 = s.get(5..7)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let day: i64 = s.get(8..10)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let hour: i64 = s.get(11..13)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let minute: i64 = s.get(14..16)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let second: i64 = s.get(17..19)?.parse().ok()?;
+
+ let mut epoch =
+ days_from_civil(year, month, day) * 86_400 + hour * 3_600 + minute * 60 + second;
+
+ // Remainder after seconds: optional `.fff` fraction, then a zone.
+ let mut rest = &s[19..];
+ if let Some(frac) = rest.strip_prefix('.') {
+ let end = frac
+ .find(|c: char| !c.is_ascii_digit())
+ .unwrap_or(frac.len());
+ rest = &frac[end..];
+ }
+ // Zone: `Z`/empty = UTC; otherwise `±HH:MM`. Subtract the offset to
+ // normalise to UTC epoch seconds.
+ if !(rest.is_empty() || rest.starts_with('Z')) {
+ let sign = rest.as_bytes()[0];
+ let off = &rest[1..];
+ let oh: i64 = off.get(0..2)?.parse().ok()?;
+ let om: i64 = off.get(3..5).unwrap_or("00").parse().ok()?;
+ let offset = oh * 3_600 + om * 60;
+ match sign {
+ b'+' => epoch -= offset,
+ b'-' => epoch += offset,
+ _ => return None,
+ }
+ }
+ Some(epoch)
+}
+
+/// Days since the Unix epoch for a proleptic-Gregorian `y-m-d`
+/// (Howard Hinnant's `days_from_civil`). Valid for all dates Forgejo
+/// can emit.
+fn days_from_civil(y: i64, m: i64, d: i64) -> i64 {
+ let y = if m <= 2 { y - 1 } else { y };
+ let era = (if y >= 0 { y } else { y - 399 }) / 400;
+ let yoe = y - era * 400;
+ let doy = (153 * (if m > 2 { m - 3 } else { m + 9 }) + 2) / 5 + d - 1;
+ let doe = yoe * 365 + yoe / 4 - yoe / 100 + doy;
+ era * 146_097 + doe - 719_468
+}
+
#[allow(
clippy::too_many_arguments,
reason = "the notification poll's config + mutable subscription state, \
@@ -961,4 +1056,40 @@ mod tests {
"\n\nmentions (truncated from body):\n > cc @damocles\n > @argus second mention",
);
}
+
+ #[test]
+ fn parse_rfc3339_secs_handles_offsets_and_z() {
+ // Same instant expressed three ways must parse equal.
+ let utc = parse_rfc3339_secs("2026-06-13T09:18:42Z").unwrap();
+ let plus2 = parse_rfc3339_secs("2026-06-13T11:18:42+02:00").unwrap();
+ let minus5 = parse_rfc3339_secs("2026-06-13T04:18:42-05:00").unwrap();
+ assert_eq!(utc, plus2);
+ assert_eq!(utc, minus5);
+ // Fractional seconds are skipped (second granularity).
+ assert_eq!(parse_rfc3339_secs("2026-06-13T09:18:42.512Z").unwrap(), utc);
+ }
+
+ #[test]
+ fn parse_rfc3339_secs_rejects_garbage() {
+ assert!(parse_rfc3339_secs("").is_none());
+ assert!(parse_rfc3339_secs("not-a-date").is_none());
+ assert!(parse_rfc3339_secs("2026-06-13").is_none());
+ }
+
+ #[test]
+ fn notification_is_creation_flags_fresh_and_later_activity() {
+ // Fresh PR: notification event time == created_at → "new".
+ let fresh = serde_json::json!({ "updated_at": "2026-06-13T11:18:42+02:00" });
+ let subject = serde_json::json!({ "created_at": "2026-06-13T11:18:40+02:00" });
+ assert!(notification_is_creation(&fresh, Some(&subject)));
+
+ // Review hours later on the same PR → not a creation (#1637).
+ let later = serde_json::json!({ "updated_at": "2026-06-13T14:55:00+02:00" });
+ assert!(!notification_is_creation(&later, Some(&subject)));
+
+ // Missing timestamps → default to creation (preserve prior behavior).
+ let empty = serde_json::json!({});
+ assert!(notification_is_creation(&empty, None));
+ assert!(notification_is_creation(&empty, Some(&subject)));
+ }
}