diff --git a/docs/forge.md b/docs/forge.md
index f3bf9d00..c086fc05 100644
--- a/docs/forge.md
+++ b/docs/forge.md
@@ -140,14 +140,13 @@ lookahead.
### Wrapper format
-Five shapes, distinguished by the notification's classification:
+Four 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` →
@@ -156,22 +155,6 @@ 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 86e0753b..072c32cf 100644
--- a/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
+++ b/hive-ag3nt/src/forge_notify.rs
@@ -27,13 +27,6 @@ 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 docs/forge.md, "new vs activity on".
-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
@@ -584,20 +577,10 @@ 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 (see docs/forge.md, "new vs activity
- // on"): 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" | "" if looks_new => format!("new {label}{num}{repo}"),
- "open" | "" => format!("activity on {label}{num}{repo}"),
+ "open" | "" => format!("new {label}{num}{repo}"),
other => format!("{label}{num}{repo}: {other}"),
};
@@ -641,86 +624,6 @@ 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 docs/forge.md, "new vs
-/// activity on".
-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, \
@@ -1058,40 +961,4 @@ 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.
- 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)));
- }
}