diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7774a96..828575a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Mars includes a small HMAC-validating relay for Gitea webhooks. It forwards the
 authenticated request body unchanged, along with Gitea event and delivery
 headers, to Hermes over localhost. The relay has no event, repository, action,
 payload, or prompt policy; Hermes owns interpretation and response behavior.
-Jupiter's Gitea provisioning service registers the webhook idempotently at
+Add the Gitea repository webhook manually with target URL
 `http://mars.orbit.sol:8645/gitea`.
 
 Hermes separately subscribes to `pull_request_comment` and
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ pull requests not authored by `luna`, then handles external comments in the
 pull request using Tea/Gitea. This route policy is intentionally outside the
 relay.
 
-Before deploying either host, add the same random
-`gitea_hermes_webhook_secret` value to both `secrets/mars.yaml` and
-`secrets/jupiter.yaml` with `sops --set`. The value is intentionally not
-included in the repository.
+Before deploying Mars, add a random `gitea_hermes_webhook_secret` value to
+`secrets/mars.yaml` with `sops --set`. Use that same value when manually
+creating the Gitea webhook. The value is intentionally not included in the
+repository.
 
 ## Test in VirtualBox (no hardware needed)
 
diff --git a/hosts/jupiter/secrets.nix b/hosts/jupiter/secrets.nix
index 752484b..e79f12b 100644
--- a/hosts/jupiter/secrets.nix
+++ b/hosts/jupiter/secrets.nix
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@
   # ci-bot access token to allow the ci-bot user to push to repos
   sops.secrets.gitea_ci_bot_token.owner = "gitea";
 
-  # Add the same value to secrets/jupiter.yaml before deploying Jupiter.
-  sops.secrets.gitea_hermes_webhook_secret = {
-    owner = "gitea";
-  };
-
   # SABnzbd credentials (web UI login, API keys, eweka.nl usenet server) —
   # migrated off the reused ini in services/media/sabnzbd.nix into
   # services.sabnzbd.settings + secretValues. sabnzbd_api_key predates this
diff --git a/services/dev/gitea.nix b/services/dev/gitea.nix
index 3cf81a0..e6ca203 100644
--- a/services/dev/gitea.nix
+++ b/services/dev/gitea.nix
@@ -21,36 +21,6 @@ let
   # nothing she does lands without darman clicking merge.
   lunaRepos = [ "darman/homelab" ];
 
-  # Forward every Gitea event to the generic Mars relay. Hermes owns the
-  # decision about which events matter and what to do with them.
-  giteaWebhookEvents = [
-    "create"
-    "delete"
-    "fork"
-    "push"
-    "issues"
-    "issue_assign"
-    "issue_label"
-    "issue_milestone"
-    "issue_comment"
-    "pull_request"
-    "pull_request_assign"
-    "pull_request_label"
-    "pull_request_milestone"
-    "pull_request_comment"
-    "pull_request_review_approved"
-    "pull_request_review_rejected"
-    "pull_request_review_comment"
-    "pull_request_sync"
-    "pull_request_review_request"
-    "wiki"
-    "repository"
-    "release"
-    "package"
-    "status"
-    "workflow_run"
-    "workflow_job"
-  ];
 in
 {
   services.gitea = {
@@ -296,44 +266,4 @@ in
     '';
   };
 
-  # Register the generic Gitea webhook. This is idempotent: it updates the
-  # existing hook for the relay target or creates it when absent. Event policy
-  # belongs to Hermes, so the source sends the complete Gitea event set.
-  systemd.services.gitea-hermes-webhook-provision = {
-    description = "Provision Gitea webhook for Hermes events";
-    after = [ "gitea.service" ];
-    requires = [ "gitea.service" ];
-    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-    path = [ pkgs.curl pkgs.jq ];
-    environment = {
-      TOKEN_FILE = config.sops.secrets.gitea_provisioning_token.path;
-      SECRET_FILE = config.sops.secrets.gitea_hermes_webhook_secret.path;
-    };
-    serviceConfig = {
-      Type = "oneshot";
-      RemainAfterExit = true;
-      User = config.services.gitea.user;
-    };
-    script = ''
-      set -euo pipefail
-      api=http://127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.gitea.settings.server.HTTP_PORT}/api/v1
-      admin_token="$(cat "$TOKEN_FILE")"
-      secret="$(cat "$SECRET_FILE")"
-      auth=(-H "Authorization: token $admin_token")
-      target="http://mars.orbit.sol:8645/gitea"
-      body="$(jq -n --arg url "$target" --arg secret "$secret" \
-        --argjson events '${builtins.toJSON giteaWebhookEvents}' \
-        '{type: "gitea", config: {content_type: "json", url: $url, secret: $secret}, events: $events, active: true}')"
-
-      hook_id="$(curl -fsS "''${auth[@]}" "$api/repos/darman/homelab/hooks" \
-        | jq -r --arg url "$target" 'first(.[] | select(.type == "gitea" and .config.url == $url)) | .id // empty')"
-      if [ -n "$hook_id" ]; then
-        curl -fsS "''${auth[@]}" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-          -X PATCH "$api/repos/darman/homelab/hooks/$hook_id" -d "$body" >/dev/null
-      else
-        curl -fsS "''${auth[@]}" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-          -X POST "$api/repos/darman/homelab/hooks" -d "$body" >/dev/null
-      fi
-    '';
-  };
 }