diff --git a/.github/workflows/labels.yml b/.github/workflows/labels.yml
index f787729..31f859e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/labels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/labels.yml
@@ -128,4 +128,19 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
           SWEEP_WORKFLOW: ${{ inputs.sweep_workflow }}
-        run: gh workflow run "$SWEEP_WORKFLOW" -R "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" -f bootstrap=no
+          # This step speaks gh and says so, the same declaration
+          # actions/refs-not-closing carries (#198 spec 4). A workflow has no
+          # shell to call forge_preflight from, so the refusal is inline
+          # below; #205 owns the REST port that removes both.
+          CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT: gh
+        run: |
+          # Never `command not found`. On a runner without gh the wake is
+          # genuinely lost, and that is worth a warning rather than a failed
+          # job: this trigger is the misconfiguration alarm for a CONSUMER's
+          # missing sweep caller, and reddening every sweep on a forge whose
+          # runner has no gh would drown that signal in a known gap (#205).
+          if ! command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "::warning::labels: the sweep was NOT woken from this trigger — it dispatches with \`gh\`, which this runner does not carry. #205 ports it to REST. Scheduled and issue-event sweeps are unaffected; only this caller's event-driven wake is lost."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          gh workflow run "$SWEEP_WORKFLOW" -R "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" -f bootstrap=no
diff --git a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
index 4117544..cf7022a 100644
--- a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
+++ b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
@@ -949,7 +949,12 @@ The merge releases the claim; no builder owes a draft. Triage owes completion in
     # how the wrong addressee comes back.
     if [ "$(ruling_nudge_decision "$NOW" "$evidence_age")" = NUDGE ]; then
       local quiet_days=$(((NOW - evidence_age) / 86400))
-      run forge_issue_comment "$n" "@${TRIAGE_ACTORS[0]} — this \`post-merge\` item has had no comment for ${quiet_days} days: ${GITHUB_SERVER_URL:-}/$REPO/issues/$n
+      # Trailing slash stripped so a server URL that carries one does not
+      # render `//owner/repo` — `:-` first so an absent value is empty rather
+      # than fatal, `%/` second so a present one is normalized (#198).
+      local server="${GITHUB_SERVER_URL:-}"
+      server="${server%/}"
+      run forge_issue_comment "$n" "@${TRIAGE_ACTORS[0]} — this \`post-merge\` item has had no comment for ${quiet_days} days: ${server}/$REPO/issues/$n
 
 Its wake evidence is still owed. \`post-merge\` means the merge landed and
 triage owns completion — judge the remaining criteria against the evidence
diff --git a/changelog.d/198.md b/changelog.d/198.md
index f4f6acb..5a58f55 100644
--- a/changelog.d/198.md
+++ b/changelog.d/198.md
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@
   naming the client and #199, instead of standing red on every PR. It reaches
   the forge zero times, so no verdict is produced either way (#198).
 
+- `.github/workflows/labels.yml`'s sweep dispatch declares the client it
+  speaks and refuses by name on a runner without it, instead of dying with
+  `command not found` on every sweep. #205 ports it to REST (#198).
+
+- The post-merge nudge strips a trailing slash from the server URL, so a forge
+  URL carrying one does not render `//owner/repo` (#198).
+
 - `.github/scripts/release-path.sh` names `lib/forge.sh`: #191 put the shim on
   the release doors' executable path here, so a doors-unchanged record that
   omitted it was measuring the wrong set (#198).
diff --git a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
index 06ed19f..c115695 100644
--- a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
+++ b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
@@ -785,6 +785,18 @@ check "...addressed to the triage actor, never the human reviewer" 0 "" \
   bash -c 'grep -qF "@triage-one" "$1" && ! grep -qF "@danmt" "$1"' _ "$TMP/posted-80"
 check "...with the issue link as the payload" 0 "" \
   grep -qF 'https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/80' "$TMP/posted-80"
+# The host comes from the environment, and a server URL that carries a
+# trailing slash must not render `//owner/repo` (@codex-reviewer-andresmgsl,
+# #198). Same forge, same issue, one character of difference in the input.
+quiet_comment 80 $((8 * 86400))
+PROBE_SERVER_URL=https://forgejo.example.test/ issue_probe 80 post-merge 0 >/dev/null
+check "a trailing slash on the server URL does not double the separator" 0 "" \
+  grep -qF 'https://forgejo.example.test/owner/repo/issues/80' "$TMP/posted-80"
+check "...and no doubled separator appears at all" 1 "" \
+  grep -qF 'forgejo.example.test//owner' "$TMP/posted-80"
+quiet_comment 80 $((8 * 86400))
+: >"$TMP/posted-80"
+issue_probe 80 post-merge 0 >/dev/null
 check "...carrying the do-not-add-a-marker warning in the comment" 0 "" \
   grep -qF 'Do not add a marker.' "$TMP/posted-80"
 # Asserted directly, not merely omitted: a marker would turn "once per 7
diff --git a/test/no-runtime-gh.test.sh b/test/no-runtime-gh.test.sh
index c7bedb3..703efb0 100755
--- a/test/no-runtime-gh.test.sh
+++ b/test/no-runtime-gh.test.sh
@@ -36,30 +36,32 @@ ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
 # The backend that is ALLOWED to speak gh — it is the whole point of the file.
 ALLOWED_FILE='lib/forge-github.sh'
 
-# The one exemption a FILE cannot declare for itself. A workflow has no shell
-# to source lib/forge.sh from and no forge_preflight to refuse with, so the
-# CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT escape hatch that covers actions/refs-not-closing is
-# unavailable to it. `.github/workflows/labels.yml`'s trigger job dispatches
-# the sweep caller with `gh workflow run`; the 0.6.0 merge introduced it
-# (#209 upstream) and it is the eighth call site that merge brought in — the
-# one every reviewer's `*.sh` grep missed, this one included, until this guard
-# read the workflows too.
-#
-# It is NOT ported here, deliberately. Forgejo's dispatch route exists but
-# does not answer like GitHub's: `GET /actions/workflows` 404s on this
-# instance while `POST .../dispatches` returns 500 rather than a 4xx, which is
-# the same mis-status class #192 is open about. Porting on that evidence would
-# be guessing, and the only way to finish measuring it is to dispatch a real
-# workflow run on the operator's repo. So it is named here with its reason and
-# its follow-up, which is what an exemption is for — an unnamed one is just a
-# hole. #205 owns the port; remove this entry when it lands.
-EXEMPT_WORKFLOWS='.github/workflows/labels.yml'
 
 # A file may opt out by declaring the client it speaks, which makes
 # forge_preflight refuse by name on a forge that cannot serve it. Today that
 # is actions/refs-not-closing, whose only gather is GraphQL and which Forgejo
 # therefore cannot run at all (#199 ports it and drops the declaration).
-declares_gh_client() { grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*(export[[:space:]]+)?CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT=gh\b' "$1"; }
+# Both spellings, because both surfaces must be able to declare: `=` for a
+# shell script, `:` for a workflow's env block. A filename exemption was the
+# first shape here and @codex-reviewer-andresmgsl was right to reject it —
+# it exempts the whole FILE, so any later gh call anywhere in that workflow
+# would ride in free, and it lets a declaration exist without a refusal.
+declares_gh_client() { grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*(export[[:space:]]+)?CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT[=:][[:space:]]*gh[[:space:]]*$' "$1"; }
+
+# Declaring is half of it. #197's bar is "declared AND refuses loudly", so a
+# declaring file must also carry the refusal — forge_preflight for a script,
+# an inline availability check for a workflow that has no shell to call it
+# from. A declaration without one is a permission slip for `command not found`.
+# Comments stripped first, for the same reason gh_calls strips them and with
+# the same lesson learned the hard way: the first version of this predicate
+# was satisfied by the word `forge_preflight` inside labels.yml's own comment
+# EXPLAINING that it has no forge_preflight to call. A guard that reads prose
+# as evidence is the blind sweep again, and it passed its own mutation test
+# because of it.
+refuses_when_unavailable() {
+  sed 's/[[:space:]]#.*$//; s/^[[:space:]]*#.*$//' "$1" \
+    | grep -qE 'forge_preflight|command -v gh'
+}
 
 # A runtime invocation, not the word. `gh` must be at a command position and
 # followed by a gh subcommand — and comment lines are stripped first, because
@@ -92,9 +94,12 @@ offenders() {
   local rel abs
   while IFS= read -r rel; do
     [ "$rel" = "$ALLOWED_FILE" ] && continue
-    [ "$rel" = "$EXEMPT_WORKFLOWS" ] && continue
     abs="$ROOT/$rel"
-    declares_gh_client "$abs" && continue
+    if declares_gh_client "$abs"; then
+      refuses_when_unavailable "$abs" && continue
+      printf '%s: declares CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT=gh but carries no refusal\n' "$rel"
+      continue
+    fi
     gh_calls "$abs" | sed "s|^|$rel:|"
   done < <(scanned_files)
 }
@@ -154,6 +159,29 @@ check "lookalike identifiers are not call sites" 1 "" gh_calls "$TMP/lookalike.s
 printf '%s\n' '#!/usr/bin/env bash' 'export CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT=gh' \
   'gh api graphql -f query=x' >"$TMP/declared.sh"
 check "a declared-client file opts out" 0 "" declares_gh_client "$TMP/declared.sh"
+# A workflow declares in YAML, not shell — both spellings must count, or the
+# only surface that cannot call forge_preflight is also the only one that
+# cannot declare.
+printf '%s\n' 'jobs:' '  t:' '    steps:' '      - env:' \
+  '          CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT: gh' '        run: gh workflow run x' \
+  >"$TMP/declared.yml"
+check "...and so does a workflow declaring it in YAML" 0 "" \
+  declares_gh_client "$TMP/declared.yml"
+# Declared is not enough: #197's bar is declared AND refuses loudly.
+check "a declaration without a refusal is not enough" 1 "" \
+  refuses_when_unavailable "$TMP/declared.yml"
+printf '%s\n' 'jobs:' '  t:' '    steps:' '      - env:' \
+  '          CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT: gh' \
+  '        run: |' \
+  '          command -v gh >/dev/null || { echo "::warning::not woken"; exit 0; }' \
+  '          gh workflow run x' >"$TMP/declared-refusing.yml"
+check "...and a declaration WITH one is" 0 "" \
+  refuses_when_unavailable "$TMP/declared-refusing.yml"
+# The shipped workflow is the real customer for that pair.
+check "labels.yml declares the client it speaks" 0 "" \
+  declares_gh_client "$ROOT/.github/workflows/labels.yml"
+check "...and refuses by name rather than dying on command not found" 0 "" \
+  refuses_when_unavailable "$ROOT/.github/workflows/labels.yml"
 check "...and an undeclared one does not" 1 "" declares_gh_client "$TMP/bad.sh"
 # A mention of the variable in prose is not a declaration.
 printf '%s\n' '#!/usr/bin/env bash' '# CEREMONY_FORGE_CLIENT=gh would opt out' \