gitea-files' always-loaded Gotchas said "content is base64 both ways" without qualification. The `main` text carried an exception for `withLines: true` and both halves were dropped. Verified live: `get_file_contents` with `withLines: true` returns plain JSON text while the same response still reports `"encoding":"base64"`. An agent that follows the recommendation two sentences later and applies the unconditional decode gets garbage, with the response's own field confirming the wrong answer. Exception restored, and the lying field named. gitea-orchestrate was never updated for `rename_branch`: absent from the operation enum, so an agent caller got "unknown operation", and absent from the destructive-confirm list, though branches.md requires a rename with open PRs or a protection rule to be confirmed exactly as `delete_branch` is. Added to both — the confirm gate rather than the enum alone, because accepting the operation without it routes around a rule the skill states while appearing to support it. The compatibility frontmatter, which the agent reads, still omitted the tool too. Two more always-loaded Gotchas contradicted their own reference files, and the Gotcha was wrong both times: issues and PRs are distinguishable on a list item by the `html_url` path segment (confirmed live — #129 at /pulls/, #128 at /issues/), and `get_repository_tree` takes `tree_sha`, not `ref`. `review_comments` was asserted as unconditionally present on the PR get response. It is absent on a PR with no review comments, so the claim is downgraded to present-when-non-zero rather than stated as response shape. The label-exclusivity relocation moved the rule out of label-inference.md and into labels.md without updating sources.md, leaving the one rule in this branch that writes differently to live repos citing a file that no longer carries it. The rule itself is correct as it stands and `main` was wrong — every Kind/* label on this instance is exclusive:false, every Priority/* and Status/* is true — so only the provenance record is corrected. Routing: gitea-workflow lost the human-caller discriminator and widened from status checks to any request, which sent "close #42" to a branch that resolves the number and presents detail without ever closing it. gitea-branches and gitea-issues regain trigger phrasings the retrofit dropped. Refs: #92
gitea-issues
Read and write Gitea issues — list, get, create, comment, close, and search — via the Gitea MCP server.
What it does
This skill handles the issue lifecycle (list_issues, issue_read, issue_write, search_issues):
listing repo issues, reading a single issue's details/comments/labels, creating an issue, updating
its state, adding/editing comments, applying labels, and searching issues/PRs across repositories.
The create flow closes out four enrichments deferred from issue #6 comment #848: label inference
and milestone assignment (both by composing gitea-labels-milestones), an assignee workaround for
the blocked get_me scope, and the "Depends on #N" dependency-linking convention. It supersedes the
issue/issue <N>/issue close <N>/issue comment <N> dispatch this plugin's old single flat
Gitea skill carried, retired when the plugin was split into per-domain deep modules.
Before you start
Requires a Gitea MCP server configured with a token holding write:issue + write:repository.
Requires a git remote named origin pointing at the Gitea instance, unless an orchestrating caller
(e.g. gitea-workflow) already resolved owner/repo for you.
How it composes
This skill composes gitea-labels-milestones for all label inference, label-name-to-ID
resolution, and milestone lookup, rather than duplicating that taxonomy or its resolution logic —
see references/enrichments.md for the call protocol. Managing the label and milestone definitions
themselves (create/edit/delete a label, create/close a milestone) is out of scope here and goes to
gitea-labels-milestones directly.
One boundary the description does not spend characters on, because it was never going to win an
issue request: local git branch or commit work belongs to gitea-branches (Gitea-side) or
git-branches (working copy).
Usage
/gitea-issues
Describe your task: list issues, create one, get/comment/close/label a specific issue number, or
search across repos. See SKILL.md's dispatch table for the full set of recognized invocations.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
Skill instructions for agents — dispatch table, Gotchas |
references/issues.md |
Verified call signatures and mechanics for list_issues/issue_read/issue_write |
references/search.md |
Verified call signature and mechanics for search_issues |
references/enrichments.md |
Create-flow enrichments — label inference, milestone assignment, assignee workaround, dependency-linking convention |
references/sources.md |
Research sources backing the issue guidance |