diff --git a/src/selfhost/queue-common.ts b/src/selfhost/queue-common.ts
index 45583acebb..a7c62699b5 100644
--- a/src/selfhost/queue-common.ts
+++ b/src/selfhost/queue-common.ts
@@ -689,10 +689,6 @@ export function githubRateLimitRetryDelayMs(
   return null;
 }
 
-export function nonConsumingRetryDelayMs(error: unknown): number | null {
-  return githubRateLimitRetryDelayMs(error);
-}
-
 export function consumingRetryDelayMs(
   error: unknown,
   defaultDelayMs: number,
diff --git a/test/unit/selfhost-queue-common.test.ts b/test/unit/selfhost-queue-common.test.ts
index 1948e42a17..72e50476c0 100644
--- a/test/unit/selfhost-queue-common.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/selfhost-queue-common.test.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import {
   jobClaimSortKey,
   jobPriority,
   matchesGitHubRateLimitAdmissionTarget,
-  nonConsumingRetryDelayMs,
   parsePositiveIntEnv,
   queueBackgroundConcurrency,
   queueDeadLetterAutoRetryMaxExtraAttempts,
@@ -1481,25 +1480,6 @@ describe("self-host queue common helpers", () => {
     ).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("keeps only GitHub rate limits on the non-consuming retry path", () => {
-    expect(nonConsumingRetryDelayMs(new Error("boom"))).toBeNull();
-    expect(
-      nonConsumingRetryDelayMs({
-        status: 429,
-        response: { headers: new Headers({ "retry-after": "2" }) },
-      }),
-    ).toBe(2_000);
-    expect(
-      nonConsumingRetryDelayMs(
-        new RetryableJobError("AI review pending", {
-          retryAfterMs: 1234,
-          retryKind: "ai_review_public_summary_missing",
-        }),
-      ),
-    ).toBeNull();
-    expect(nonConsumingRetryDelayMs(new Error("openai rate limit"))).toBeNull();
-  });
-
   it("uses RetryableJobError delays on the bounded consuming retry path", () => {
     expect(consumingRetryDelayMs(new Error("boom"), 77)).toBe(77);
     expect(