refactor(gitea-releases): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract

Description 500 -> 211 chars, body 676 -> 462 words, Gotchas 5 entries/41% of
body -> 3/21%. Clears the description FAIL and both Gotchas suggestions.

Cut the second trigger register (the re-quoted user phrasings), the doubled
capability enumeration across releases and tags, and the gitea-issues/gitea-prs
boundary, which defended against nothing -- neither was going to win a release
request. Kept the indirect trigger and the one real near-miss, gitea-branches.

Releases and tags are one flow, not two: 'delete the release and its tag' is a
single invocation that takes both branches, which disqualifies mutual
exclusivity, so no dispatch split. Two Gotchas moved to references/ behind
explicit triggers; one deleted as a paraphrase of the step below it.

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name: gitea-releases
description: >
Use when managing Gitea releases and tags for a repository: listing, creating, or deleting
releases (with draft/prerelease flags and release notes), and listing, creating, or deleting the
underlying git tags. Use even if the user doesn't say "release" explicitly — "cut a v1.2.0",
"publish a prerelease", "tag this commit", or "what's the latest release" all apply. Do not use
for git branch or commit history operations (use gitea-branches) or for issue/PR management (use
gitea-issues / gitea-prs).
Use when managing Gitea releases or the git tags underneath them — list, get,
create, or delete either — even when the user does not say "release" or
"Gitea". Not branches or commit history -> `gitea-branches`.
metadata:
category: gitea
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## Gotchas
- **`delete_release` takes a numeric `id`, never a tag name.** `delete_tag` is the mirror opposite — it takes the `tag_name` string, never a numeric id. These two tools are asymmetric on purpose; passing a tag name to `delete_release` or a numeric id to `delete_tag` fails. Always resolve the numeric release id via `list_releases` or `get_release` first if you only have a tag name in hand.
- **Deleting a release does not delete its tag.** They are separate destructive operations against separate resources — a release is a wrapper (title, notes, draft/prerelease flags, assets) around a tag, not the tag itself. If the intent is to remove both, call `delete_release` and `delete_tag` separately.
- **`list_releases`/`list_tags` default to `per_page: 20`**, unlike most other gitea-mcp tools which default to 30. The MCP layer does no auto-pagination — to get a complete result set, loop `page` upward until a page returns fewer than `per_page` results.
- **`is_draft`/`is_pre_release` are explicit booleans the caller sets on `create_release` — never inferred from `tag_name`.** Note the input param is `is_draft`, which maps to the `draft` field on the *response* object (see Dispatch table below and `references/call-signatures.md`) — `draft` is never a valid input key. Practitioner convention (per the `tea` CLI) uses `-beta`/`-rc` suffixes for prereleases (e.g. `v2.0.0-beta.1`), but Gitea does not enforce or infer this from the tag string. If the user names a tag that looks like a prerelease, set `is_pre_release: true` explicitly rather than assuming the flag is redundant with the name.
- **Tag names are conventionally semver, `v`-prefixed** (`v1.2.0`, `v2.0.0-beta.1`), but this is a practitioner convention, not a Gitea constraint — don't reject or rewrite a caller-supplied tag name that doesn't follow it.
- **Deleting a release never deletes its tag, and deleting a tag never deletes the release wrapping it.** A release is a metadata wrapper around a tag, so removing both takes two independent destructive calls.
- **`is_draft`/`is_pre_release` are booleans the caller sets — Gitea never infers a prerelease from a `-beta`/`-rc` tag name.** The response object names them `draft`/`prerelease`; passing `draft` as an input key is silently ignored, not rejected.
- **`list_releases`/`list_tags` default `per_page` to 20**, where most other gitea-mcp list tools default to 30 — a caller assuming 30 under-counts the pages a full sweep needs.
## Dispatch table
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| Create tag | `create_tag` | `owner`, `repo`, `tag_name` | `target`, `message` |
| Delete tag | `delete_tag` | `owner`, `repo`, `tag_name` | — |
`target` (on `create_release`/`create_tag`) is a commitish — a branch name, existing tag, or commit SHA — the point the new tag is cut from. See `references/call-signatures.md` for response shapes.
`target` (on `create_release`/`create_tag`) is a commitish — a branch name, existing tag, or commit SHA — the point the new tag is cut from.
## Workflow
- [ ] **Creating a release:** Call `create_release` directly with `tag_name` + `target` + `title` — Gitea is assumed to create the underlying tag automatically if `tag_name` doesn't already exist (this is plausible behavior inferred from the API shape, not directly confirmed in the research docs), so a separate `create_tag` call is only needed when you want to tag a commit without wrapping it in a release yet. Verify the tag exists afterward if this matters to the caller. Set `is_pre_release`/`is_draft` explicitly per the Gotchas above; don't leave them to default inference.
- [ ] **Deleting a release safely:** Resolve the numeric id first — call `list_releases` (paginate if needed, see Gotchas) or `get_release` if the id is already known, find the entry matching the target `tag_name`, then call `delete_release` with that `id`. Never pass `tag_name` to `delete_release`.
- [ ] **Deleting a tag along with its release:** Delete the release first (frees the id lookup), then call `delete_tag` with the `tag_name` separately — confirm both are intended before proceeding, since each is an independent irreversible operation.
- [ ] **Listing every page:** If the caller needs all releases or tags (not just the first page), loop `page: 1, 2, 3...` until a response has fewer than `per_page` entries.
- [ ] **Creating a release:** Call `create_release` with `tag_name`, `target`, and `title`. Gitea is assumed to create the tag from `target` when `tag_name` does not yet exist — plausible from the API shape, not confirmed in the research docs — so a separate `create_tag` is only needed to tag a commit without wrapping it in a release. Verify with `get_tag` afterward if the caller depends on it.
- [ ] **Deleting a release:** `delete_release` takes the numeric `id` and never a `tag_name`; `delete_tag` is the mirror opposite and never takes an id. With only a tag name in hand, resolve the id through `list_releases` (paginating if needed) or `get_release` first.
- [ ] **Deleting a tag along with its release:** Delete the release first, then call `delete_tag` — confirm both are intended before proceeding, since each is irreversible on its own.
- [ ] **Listing every page:** Loop `page: 1, 2, 3...` until a response returns fewer than `per_page` entries. Nothing here auto-paginates.
If exact response field shapes or additional conventions are needed, read `references/call-signatures.md` and `references/conventions.md`.
If exact input params or response field shapes are needed, read `references/call-signatures.md`. If the caller raises semver tag naming, release-notes sourcing, or how a release relates to its tag, read `references/conventions.md`.

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- **Research doc:** plugins/gitea/docs/research/docs/gitea/workflow-conventions.md (Release and tag conventions section)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — semver tag naming)
- references/conventions.md
- references/conventions.md (semver tag naming, release-notes sourcing)
**Status:** `extracted`