hive-forge: precise wording on stale-branches rebase+ff ancestry claim

claude-plugins/plugins/base/skills/forge-triage/SKILL.md

@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ dimension directly.
   neglected owner.
 - **Stale branches** - `hive-forge lint stale-branches --days <n>`
   finds remote branches with no recent commits (skips branches that are
-  heads of open PRs), useful for spotting abandoned work.
+  heads of open PRs) and reports each one's merge outcome (PR merged /
+  closed unmerged / no PR at all) — hyperhive's rebase+ff merges mean
+  ancestry can't tell those apart, so don't delete a stale branch on the
+  age alone; check the verdict first. On a repo with enough PRs to
+  exceed the verb's own page cap, an old branch's outcome may come back
+  "unknown" instead of a verdict — that's not the same claim as "no PR",
+  treat it as "can't tell, don't delete" too.
 
 ## Using them as a sweep
 

docs/tools/forge.md

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ hive-forge -r other-org/other-repo pr 7     # target a different repo
 hive-forge lint unassigned                  # open issues/PRs with no assignee
 hive-forge lint no-reviewer                   # PRs with zero formally requested reviewers
 hive-forge lint no-reviewer --reviewer argus  # PRs where argus specifically isn't a requested reviewer
-hive-forge lint stale-branches --days 14    # branches with no recent activity
+hive-forge lint stale-branches --days 14    # branches with no recent activity, each with its merge outcome (PR #n merged / closed unmerged / no PR)
 hive-forge lint assignments                 # per-assignee open item count
 hive-forge lint unlabeled --scope type      # open issues/PRs with no exclusive type/* label (any scope works, e.g. --scope area)
 hive-forge pr-status --pr 42                # PR health: mergeable, CI, reviews, last comment (exit 0 = ready)

hive-forge/src/verbs/lint.rs

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use anyhow::{Result, bail};
 use clap::{Args as ClapArgs, Subcommand, ValueEnum};
 use forgejo_api::structs::{
-    Issue, IssueListIssuesQuery, IssueListIssuesQueryState, IssueListIssuesQueryType,
+    Issue, IssueListIssuesQuery, IssueListIssuesQueryState, IssueListIssuesQueryType, PullRequest,
-    RepoListPullRequestsQuery, RepoListPullRequestsQueryState,
+    RepoListPullRequestsQuery, RepoListPullRequestsQueryState, StateType,
 };
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use time::OffsetDateTime;
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ enum Sub {
     Unassigned(UnassignedArgs),
     /// List PRs with no formally requested reviewer.
     NoReviewer(NoReviewerArgs),
-    /// List remote branches with no commits in N days.
+    /// List remote branches with no commits in N days, each with its
-    /// Skips branches that are heads of open PRs.
+    /// merge outcome (skips branches that are heads of open PRs).
     StaleBranches(StaleBranchesArgs),
     /// Group open issues + PRs by assignee.
     Assignments(AssignmentsArgs),
@@ -281,12 +281,26 @@ fn run_stale_branches(client: &Client, args: StaleBranchesArgs) -> Result<()> {
             break;
         }
     }
-    // Collect active PR head refs to skip — a branch with an open PR
+    // One pass over every PR, any state, doing double duty: an open
-    // isn't "stale", it's "in review".
+    // head isn't "stale", it's "in review" (skip-list, as before), and
-    let mut active_heads: std::collections::HashSet<String> = std::collections::HashSet::new();
+    // a closed one tells a surviving stale branch its actual fate —
+    // merged (branch is a leftover copy, safe to delete) vs. closed
+    // unmerged / never had a PR (the branch is the only copy). hyperhive
+    // merges via rebase + fast-forward: a branch needing an actual
+    // rebase gets its commits replayed with new SHAs before main moves,
+    // so its original tip is usually no longer an ancestor — though a
+    // branch that needed no rebase (already current) still is. Ancestry
+    // therefore answers inconsistently, which is why this map exists.
+    // Whether the walk below hit `MAX_PAGES` without ever seeing a
+    // short page — i.e. there are more PRs than the cap fetched, so
+    // `latest_pr_by_head` is missing an unknown number of the oldest
+    // ones. Distinct from "no PR was found": that's a claim this walk
+    // can only make honestly when it actually saw everything.
+    let mut prs_truncated = false;
+    let mut prs = Vec::new();
     for page in 1..=MAX_PAGES {
         let query = RepoListPullRequestsQuery {
-            state: Some(RepoListPullRequestsQueryState::Open),
+            state: Some(RepoListPullRequestsQueryState::All),
             ..Default::default()
         };
         let (_, batch) = client
@@ -296,14 +310,32 @@ fn run_stale_branches(client: &Client, args: StaleBranchesArgs) -> Result<()> {
             .page_size(PAGE_LIMIT)
             .send()?;
         let short = batch.len() < PAGE_LIMIT as usize;
-        active_heads.extend(
+        prs.extend(batch);
-            batch
-                .iter()
-                .filter_map(|p| p.head.as_ref().and_then(|h| h.r#ref.clone())),
-        );
         if short {
             break;
         }
+        if page == MAX_PAGES {
+            prs_truncated = true;
+        }
+    }
+    let mut active_heads: std::collections::HashSet<String> = std::collections::HashSet::new();
+    // Highest-numbered (most recent) PR per head branch, in case a
+    // branch name was reused across more than one PR over its life.
+    let mut latest_pr_by_head: std::collections::HashMap<String, &PullRequest> =
+        std::collections::HashMap::new();
+    for pr in &prs {
+        let Some(head_ref) = pr.head.as_ref().and_then(|h| h.r#ref.clone()) else {
+            continue;
+        };
+        if pr.state == Some(StateType::Open) {
+            active_heads.insert(head_ref.clone());
+        }
+        let is_newer = latest_pr_by_head
+            .get(&head_ref)
+            .is_none_or(|existing| pr.number.unwrap_or(0) > existing.number.unwrap_or(0));
+        if is_newer {
+            latest_pr_by_head.insert(head_ref, pr);
+        }
     }
 
     let today = OffsetDateTime::now_utc().date();
@@ -320,17 +352,41 @@ fn run_stale_branches(client: &Client, args: StaleBranchesArgs) -> Result<()> {
         // date-granular, matching the old YYYY-MM-DD prefix math.
         let age_days = (today - ts.date()).whole_days();
         if age_days >= args.days {
+            // A branch surviving to here can only have a *closed* PR
+            // (an open one would already be in `active_heads`), so
+            // `merged` is unambiguous when a PR exists at all. But
+            // "no PR found" is only true when the PR walk above wasn't
+            // truncated — otherwise this branch's PR may simply be
+            // older than the page cap reached, and reporting "no PR"
+            // would misrepresent an unknown as a verified negative.
+            let pr = latest_pr_by_head.get(branch_name);
+            let outcome_unknown = pr.is_none() && prs_truncated;
             stale.push(json!({
                 "name": branch_name,
                 "last_commit": rfc3339(Some(ts)),
                 "age_days": age_days,
+                "pr": pr.and_then(|p| p.number),
+                "merged": pr.and_then(|p| p.merged),
+                "outcome_unknown": outcome_unknown,
             }));
         }
     }
     emit(client, &stale, |it| {
         let name = it.get("name").and_then(Value::as_str).unwrap_or("?");
         let age = it.get("age_days").and_then(Value::as_i64).unwrap_or(0);
-        format!("{name} ({age}d)")
+        let verdict = match (
+            it.get("pr").and_then(Value::as_i64),
+            it.get("merged").and_then(Value::as_bool),
+            it.get("outcome_unknown")
+                .and_then(Value::as_bool)
+                .unwrap_or(false),
+        ) {
+            (Some(pr), Some(true), _) => format!("PR #{pr} merged"),
+            (Some(pr), Some(false), _) => format!("PR #{pr} closed, not merged"),
+            (_, _, true) => "unknown (PR history too large to fully scan)".to_string(),
+            _ => "no PR".to_string(),
+        };
+        format!("{name} ({age}d) — {verdict}")
     })
 }