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What this adds

Every pr command addressed by NUMBER now also accepts the URL Forgejo prints for that pull request. The URL carries the repository, so --repo becomes unnecessary:

$ forgejo-axi pr view https://forgejo.example/owner/repo/pulls/42

A caller holding a URL previously had to parse OWNER/REPO and the number out of it before it could call anything, so every such caller grew its own copy of that parser.

Applies to pr view, history, reviews, diff, update, checks, mergeability, merge, and merged.

The host is read but not used, and that is the point

The URL supplies the repository and the number and nothing else. Its host is deliberately not adopted as the base URL, for two reasons:

  1. Routing a credentialled request at whatever host arrived in an argument is the same hazard CROSS_ORIGIN_REDIRECT already exists to refuse. A pasted URL is untrusted input.
  2. It would break every host reached through a forward or a proxy, where the printed URL and the reachable one legitimately differ. That is not hypothetical -- it is how I verified this PR (see below).

A test pins it: a URL naming elsewhere.example still issues its request to the configured base URL, and elsewhere.example never appears in the output.

Other decisions worth reviewing

  • A scheme is the discriminator. Anything without one goes to parsePullNumber unchanged, so zero, 0, -1 and 4.2 still fail with Pull request number must be a positive integer. The existing error-shape test passes untouched.
  • A contradicting --repo is a usage error, not a precedence rule. Two explicit addresses disagreeing means one is wrong, and guessing would act on a repository the caller did not name. FORGEJO_REPOSITORY is ambient rather than explicit, so an explicit URL simply overrides it.
  • The path is scanned from the end and anchored on the pulls/N pair, so a repository named pulls cannot capture the match, and a host served under a path prefix resolves correctly.
  • Sub-pages work. /pulls/42/files and /pulls/42/commits are what a reviewer actually copies out of a browser.
  • Dot segments are resolved by URL normalization before the path is read, so the target is the one the URL denotes rather than the one its literal text suggests. An encoded separator (%2f, %5c) survives normalization and is refused by the existing parseRepository hazard check. Both are pinned by tests.
  • A URL carrying credentials is refused, and the rejection message does not echo them -- also pinned by a test.

Contract

Additive: a positional that accepted one form now accepts two, no output field changed, no flag renamed. Every previously valid invocation behaves identically.

Verification

  • npm run check passes: lint, typecheck, 247 tests (237 before, 10 added), smoke.
  • npm run gen:skill regenerated; the byte comparison in check passes.

Live lanes: neither was run. I have no credential for a Forgejo host these lanes may mutate, and they mutate the repository they point at. Per CONTRIBUTING I am saying so rather than guessing.

What I did verify, against a real Forgejo 15.0.6+gitea-1.22.0 instance read unauthenticated over a loopback forward:

# web form, no --repo, and the URL's host is NOT the configured base URL
$ forgejo-axi pr view http://tugboat-cloud.example:4488/axitest/axi-demo/pulls/1 \
    --base-url http://127.0.0.1:4488
pull_request:
  number: 1
  state: closed
  merged: true
  head_sha: d86904b3a505a149b77aad53789a4c0edca93800
  ...

# api form
$ forgejo-axi pr merged http://.../api/v1/repos/axitest/axi-demo/pulls/1 --base-url http://127.0.0.1:4488
proof:
  merged: true
  ...

# sub-page form
$ forgejo-axi pr checks http://.../axitest/axi-demo/pulls/1/files --base-url http://127.0.0.1:4488
checks:
  sha: d86904b3a505a149b77aad53789a4c0edca93800
  ...

# contradicting --repo
$ forgejo-axi pr view http://.../axitest/axi-demo/pulls/1 --repo other/repo --base-url http://127.0.0.1:4488
error: "--repo other/repo contradicts the pull request URL (axitest/axi-demo)"
code: VALIDATION_ERROR
[exit=2]

That run is itself the proxy case the design note above describes: the printed URL's host and the reachable host differ, and the request correctly went to the configured one. It exercises real response shapes but not the mutating lanes, so it is weaker evidence than lane 15 and should not be read as equivalent.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Pull request commands now accept either a pull request number or URL.
    • URLs automatically provide the repository and pull request number.
    • Explicit repository options are validated against the URL’s repository.
    • Pull request URLs take precedence over configured repository settings.
  • Documentation

    • Updated command help, usage examples, and documentation to explain URL support and validation behavior.

coditan and others added 2 commits August 19, 2026 20:16
Every pr command addressed by NUMBER now also accepts the URL Forgejo prints
for that pull request, which carries the repository with it and makes --repo
unnecessary. A caller holding a URL had to parse OWNER/REPO and the number out
of it first, so every such caller grew its own parser.

The URL supplies the repository and the number and nothing else. Its host is
deliberately not adopted as the base URL: routing a credentialled request at
whatever host arrived in an argument is the hazard CROSS_ORIGIN_REDIRECT
already refuses, and it would break every host reached through a forward or a
proxy, where the printed URL and the reachable one legitimately differ.

A scheme is the discriminator, so anything without one still reaches
parsePullNumber and fails with the message it always did. A --repo that
contradicts the URL is a usage error rather than a guess; an ambient
FORGEJO_REPOSITORY is simply overridden by the explicit URL.

The web form, the /api/v1/repos/ form, a host under a path prefix, and a
trailing /files or /commits sub-page all resolve to the same target.
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Pull request commands now accept numeric identifiers or pull request URLs. URL targets provide the repository and number, validate repository conflicts, override ambient repository context, and continue routing through the configured Forgejo server.

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Pull request URL addressing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pull target parsing and validation
src/forgejo.ts, test/forgejo.test.ts
Added PullRequestTarget and parsePullTarget. HTTP(S) URLs support path prefixes, sub-pages, queries, and normalized dot segments. Credentials, unsupported protocols, malformed paths, and encoded separators are rejected.
CLI target resolution and command integration
src/cli.ts, test/cli.test.ts
Pull request commands and pull request history use resolvePullTarget. URL repositories override FORGEJO_REPOSITORY; conflicting --repo values fail validation. Requests use the configured base URL.
Command contract and usage documentation
docs/contract.md, src/help.ts, skills/forgejo-axi/SKILL.md
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Malformed pull-request URLs can be reproduced in validation errors, potentially exposing credentials or other sensitive URL content in terminal output, structured responses, or logs across the affected commands. The request destination remains controlled by configuration, but this bounded security issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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  participant User
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  User->>CLI: provide pull request NUMBER or URL
  CLI->>resolvePullTarget: resolve command target
  resolvePullTarget->>parsePullTarget: parse URL or number
  parsePullTarget-->>resolvePullTarget: repository and number
  resolvePullTarget->>ConfiguredForgejo: perform pull request operation
  ConfiguredForgejo-->>User: return command result
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