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Summary

Seventh layer of letting organizations post commits (#938), after #1368. When an organization replies to someone, quotes them or mentions them, they now hear about it from the organization, like @laravel replied to your commit. Before this, those notified no one, so that a notification would never show which member posted.

Posting as an organization stays behind the organization_commits switch, off in production.

Changes

• notifications.actor_id points to profiles, no longer to users, so an organization can be the actor. A user's profile has the user's id, so every existing row is already valid.
  • The migration swaps the foreign key in one short transaction, then validates it separately, so the scan doesn't block new notifications. It can be run again.
  • It keeps the existing ON DELETE CASCADE, moved from users to profiles. Deleting an account deletes the profile, so what someone did still goes with them. Code still deploying while the migration runs deletes accounts as before.
• Replies, quotes and mentions come from the commit's author (author_id), the organization for its commits. For personal commits, nothing changes.
  • Mutes and blocks are checked against the organization, so blocking or muting the member who posted doesn't silence it, as decided. Nobody can block or mute an organization.
  • Whoever posted it still never hears about it.
  • It still goes out once the member who posted it deleted their account, for a commit approved after that.
• What an organization does to itself notifies none of its members: replying to its own commit, quoting it, or mentioning itself. Someone else it mentions in that commit still hears about it.
• First commits: an organization's first commit still tells no one.
• API: in /api/v1/notifications, actor and actors are now profiles, as commit.author is since refactor: show commits with the profile they are from, in pages and the API #1348.
  • A user gets type: "user".
  • An organization comes with type: "organization" and an organization's fields, with no company, feed_url, created_at, live or is_followed.
• Inbox: an organization actor has its square avatar, its color, and a link to its page, with no hover card or follow button.
• KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md says when people hear from an organization.

Visual evidence

Local preview with seeded data, Chromium. @local-dev posted three commits as @laravel: a reply to @kozey-ethyl's commit, a quote of another of their commits, and a mention of them. The viewer is @kozey-ethyl.

Before, 1440×900	After, 1440×900

Before, 390×844	After, 390×844

Device verification

Viewport emulation in headless Chromium at 390×844 only, not a real phone. Nothing scrolls sideways.

Limitations

• Apps that decode actor as a user will fail on a notification from an organization, as they did on commit.author in refactor: show commits with the profile they are from, in pages and the API #1348. None can exist until the switch is on.

Decisions for this layer (#938)

• When the organization replies to, mentions or quotes someone who blocked or muted the person who posted for it? They're notified anyway: the organization is not the person who posted. (interview)
• Does an organization replying to, quoting or mentioning itself notify its members? No: they would hear about their own organization's doing. (my call)
• What happens to these notifications when someone deletes their account or GitHub drops an organization? They are deleted with the profile, as they were with the user. (my call: keeping the existing cascade keeps account deletion working during the deploy)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Replies, quotes, and mentions on organization-authored commits can notify the people involved, with the organization shown as the actor.
  • These notifications are also sent when organization commits are approved. First-commit notifications remain limited to personal commits.
  • Organization members are not notified when the organization replies to, quotes, or mentions itself.
  • Notifications display organization profiles with organization-style avatars. Follow actions are available for user actors only.

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Walkthrough

Organization-authored commits can now generate reply, quote, and mention notifications attributed to organization profiles. Notification storage, API resources, group queries, and the notification page now support user and organization actors. Members are excluded from notifications about the organization’s own commits and self-mentions.

Changes: Organization notifications

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store notification actors as profiles database/migrations/*, app/Models/Notification.php, app/Http/Resources/NotificationResource.php, app/Queries/NotificationGroupsQuery.php, database/factories/NotificationFactory.php	Notification actors now reference profiles. Resources serialize profile actors, and queries load associated user and organization records.
Generate notifications for organization activity app/Actions/CreateCommit.php, app/Actions/UpdateCommitStatuses.php, app/Actions/Create*Notifications.php, tests/Feature/OrganizationNotificationsTest.php, KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md	Commit creation and approval now process organization replies, quotes, and mentions. Notifications identify the organization as actor. Tests cover recipient exclusions and organization-attributed notifications.
Load profile actors and update user-specific behavior tests/Feature/*Notification*Test.php, tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteStarNotificationTest.php, tests/Unit/Models/NotificationTest.php, tests/Unit/Queries/NotificationBuilderTest.php, tests/Unit/Queries/NotificationGroupsQueryTest.php	Backend tests access associated users for user-specific notification actions. Query tests account for the updated actor loading.
Render user and organization actors resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx, resources/js/types/notification.ts, tests/Unit/*.test.tsx	The notification page renders user and organization actors with author avatars and actor-based lane colors. Follow actions are limited to user actors. Tests cover organization presentation and the updated actor type.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CreateCommit
  participant NotificationHandlers
  participant Notification
  participant NotificationResource
  CreateCommit->>NotificationHandlers: Process organization replies, quotes, and mentions
  NotificationHandlers->>Notification: Create notification with author profile as actor
  Notification->>NotificationResource: Serialize profile actor

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Possibly related issues

• [RFC] Gists #1363 — This issue calls for notifications for activity on organization commits. This PR adds organization-attributed reply, quote, and mention notifications for those commits.
• [RFC] Orgs #938 — This issue proposes organization profiles that post commits and receive mentions. This PR supports organization profiles as actors for reply, quote, and mention notifications.

Suggested reviewers: xheaven

Merge Risk: Low · up to 573e8

Organization quote and mention notifications can regress unnoticed; add approval-path coverage before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 573e8

The change preserves organization attribution and keeps notification creation approval-gated and transactional. The main compatibility risk arises after organization notifications exist: older application versions cannot resolve their actors correctly, so rollout and rollback need coordination.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Once organization actor rows are written, mixed-version readers or an application rollback to the base version cannot resolve those actors through User. Disabling future organization posting does not convert persisted actors. This is a conditional rollback constraint, not evidence of a current production failure; personal actors remain compatible and organization posting is reported disabled in production.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — An organization member's authored activity can now produce organization-attributed inbox entries for reply targets, quote targets, mentioned users, and members of targeted organizations. The actor comes from the stored commit author rather than the posting user's identity.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The inspected web and API author-selection paths use OrganizationToPostAs. It checks the organization-posting feature switch and resolves the selected organization through the authenticated user's memberships, rather than accepting an arbitrary organization identity.
• observed — Mute and block checks now evaluate the commit's author identity. Consequently, muting or blocking the posting member does not suppress organization-origin notifications. This is an explicit delivery-policy change, not an established authorization bypass; the stated design does not support blocking or muting organization actors.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Gate organization actor writes until all notification readers are profile-aware, and define recovery for persisted organization actors before allowing application rollback. Include approval processing among the producers to coordinate; disabling new organization posting alone does not cover previously pending organization commits.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 70.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: organization replies, quotes, and mentions now notify recipients with the organization as the actor.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @app/Actions/CreateCommit.php:
- Around line 97-102: Update CreateCommit and UpdateCommitStatuses to skip
CreateReplyNotifications, CreateQuoteNotifications, and
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• KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
• app/Actions/CreateCommit.php
• app/Actions/CreateMentionNotifications.php
• app/Actions/CreateQuoteNotifications.php
• app/Actions/CreateReplyNotifications.php
• app/Actions/UpdateCommitStatuses.php
• app/Http/Resources/NotificationResource.php
• app/Models/Notification.php
• app/Queries/NotificationGroupsQuery.php
• database/factories/NotificationFactory.php
• database/migrations/2026_11_01_120000_point_notification_actors_to_profiles.php
• resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx
• resources/js/types/notification.ts
• tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/NotificationControllerTest.php
• tests/Feature/Controllers/NotificationControllerTest.php
• tests/Feature/NotificationInboxTest.php
• tests/Feature/OrganizationNotificationsTest.php
• tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteStarNotificationTest.php
• tests/Unit/AuthorHover.test.tsx
• tests/Unit/Models/NotificationTest.php
• tests/Unit/NotificationInbox.test.tsx
• tests/Unit/NotificationIndex.test.tsx
• tests/Unit/Queries/NotificationBuilderTest.php
• tests/Unit/Queries/NotificationGroupsQueryTest.php

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tests/Feature/OrganizationNotificationsTest.php: 1

373-390: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover approved organization quote and mention notifications.

UpdateCommitStatuses sends every approved commit to the reply, quote, and mention handlers. This test approves only a reply and asserts only NotificationType::Replied. A regression in approved organization quote or mention delivery can therefore pass.

Add approved quote and mention commits to this test and assert their recipients, actor IDs, and types. This covers the approval boundary without duplicating the direct-handler test.

Suggested fix

     $alice = User::factory()->create();
+    $bob = User::factory()->create();
+    $carol = User::factory()->create();
     $follower = User::factory()->create();
     $follower->following()->attach($this->member);
     $this->organization->followers()->attach($follower);

     $first = resolve(CreateCommit::class)->handle($this->member, 'Hello from Laravel', organization: $this->organization);
     $reply = resolve(CreateCommit::class)->handle($this->member, 'Thanks!', Commit::factory()->for($alice)->create(), organization: $this->organization);
+    $quote = resolve(CreateCommit::class)->handle($this->member, 'I agree', quotedCommit: Commit::factory()->for($bob)->create(), organization: $this->organization);
+    $mention = resolve(CreateCommit::class)->handle($this->member, 'Hello @'.$carol->handle, organization: $this->organization);

     expect(Notification::query()->exists())->toBeFalse();

-    resolve(UpdateCommitStatuses::class)->handle([$first->id, $reply->id], CommitStatus::Approved);
+    resolve(UpdateCommitStatuses::class)->handle([$first->id, $reply->id, $quote->id, $mention->id], CommitStatus::Approved);

     expect(Notification::query()->get(['recipient_id', 'actor_id', 'type'])->map->only(['recipient_id', 'actor_id', 'type'])->all())->toBe([
         ['recipient_id' => $alice->id, 'actor_id' => $this->organization->id, 'type' => NotificationType::Replied],
+        ['recipient_id' => $bob->id, 'actor_id' => $this->organization->id, 'type' => NotificationType::Quoted],
+        ['recipient_id' => $carol->id, 'actor_id' => $this->organization->id, 'type' => NotificationType::Mentioned],
     ]);

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Review comment at @tests/Feature/OrganizationNotificationsTest.php around lines
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Extend the approved-organization notification test to cover quote and mention
delivery alongside replies. In the test using CreateCommit and
UpdateCommitStatuses, create quote and mention commits for distinct recipients,
approve all commits together, and assert each recipient receives the expected
Quoted or Mentioned notification with the organization as actor.

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- Around line 373-390: Extend the approved-organization notification test to
cover quote and mention delivery alongside replies. In the test using
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