Covers list_issues, issue_read, issue_write, and search_issues, closing out all four enrichments deferred from issue #6 comment #848: label inference (delegated to gitea-labels-milestones), milestone assignment on create, an assignee workaround for the blocked get_me/read:user scope, and the "Depends on #N" dependency-linking convention validated by Gitea's automatic cross-reference rendering. Call signatures were re-verified live via ToolSearch against the deployed gitea-mcp server rather than copied from api-reference.md, per ADR 0011 -- this caught that list_issues has no `type` or `milestones` parameter on the live schema, despite the research doc documenting both (the exact drift that caused issue #6 comment #849). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FNJWdVvdgvZCHi1hZGqgVQ
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Issue operations
Call signatures below were verified live against the deployed gitea-mcp server via ToolSearch
at authoring time, not copied from api-reference.md — this is deliberate: research docs are
generated from source at a point in time and can drift from the server actually deployed (see the
list_issues gotcha below, which is the exact drift this policy exists to catch). Re-verify against
the live schema if these tools appear to behave differently than documented here.
list_issues
Parameters (live schema):
owner(string, required)repo(string, required)state(string, optional, default"all") — conventional values"open"/"closed"/"all", not schema-enforced as an enumlabels(array of strings, optional) — filter by label name (not ID)since(string, optional) — ISO 8601, issues updated after this timebefore(string, optional) — ISO 8601, issues updated before this timepage(number, optional, default1)per_page(number, optional, default30)
There is no type parameter and no milestones parameter, despite both appearing in
api-reference.md. This tool cannot filter issues-vs-PRs or by milestone — see the Gotchas section
of SKILL.md for the consequence (PR entries can appear in results with no way to exclude them here).
Call:
list_issues owner: <owner> repo: <repo> state: "open"
Response (list item): number, title, state, html_url, user, comments, created_at,
updated_at, and optionally labels ([]string), milestone ({id, title}), ref, deadline.
Body and closed_at are omitted from list responses — call issue_read method: "get" for those.
Paginate with page/per_page until the returned count is less than per_page.
issue_read
Parameters (live schema, matches api-reference.md):
method(string, required, enum) —"get"|"get_comments"|"get_labels"owner(string, required)repo(string, required)issue_number(number, required)
get — full issue: number, title, body, state, html_url, user, labels
([]string), comments, created_at, updated_at, closed_at, and optionally assignees
([]string), milestone ({id, title}), ref, deadline, is_pull (present only when this
number is backed by a pull request — absent, not false, on true issues).
get_comments — array of {id, body, user, html_url, created_at, updated_at}.
get_labels — array of full label objects (id, name, color, description — not slimmed
to name strings, unlike the labels array on get).
Call:
issue_read method: "get" owner: <owner> repo: <repo> issue_number: <N>
Always check is_pull before treating a number as a plain issue — see the shared number-space
gotcha in SKILL.md.
issue_write
Parameters (live schema, matches api-reference.md):
method(string, required, enum) —"create"|"update"|"add_comment"|"edit_comment"|"add_labels"|"remove_label"|"replace_labels"|"clear_labels"owner(string, required)repo(string, required)issue_number(number, required for every method except"create")title(string, required for"create")body(string, required for"create","add_comment","edit_comment")assignees(array of strings, optional) — login names (seereferences/enrichments.mdfor why this is usually omitted)milestone(number, optional) — milestone ID, never a titlestate(string, enum"open"/"closed"/"all", optional) — for"update"commentID(number, optional, required for"edit_comment")labels(array of numbers, optional) — label IDs, never names — foradd_labels/replace_labelslabel_id(number, optional, required for"remove_label") — singular, not the array formref(string, optional) — branch association, informational onlydeadline(string, optional) — ISO 8601remove_deadline(boolean, optional)
Create:
issue_write method: "create"
owner: <owner> repo: <repo>
title: <title> body: <body>
labels: [<resolved IDs>] ← omit if none confidently inferred
milestone: <resolved ID> ← omit if none clearly fits
assignees: ["<login>"] ← omit if no default configured
Close:
issue_write method: "update" owner: <owner> repo: <repo> issue_number: <N> state: "closed"
There is no method: "close" — using one will error.
Comment:
issue_write method: "add_comment" owner: <owner> repo: <repo> issue_number: <N> body: <text>
Apply resolved label IDs directly (bypassing references/enrichments.md's inference step, e.g.
when the caller already named exact labels):
issue_write method: "add_labels" owner: <owner> repo: <repo> issue_number: <N> labels: [<IDs>]
To replace all labels atomically instead of adding: method: "replace_labels".
To remove one: method: "remove_label" label_id: <single ID>.
Token scope
All of list_issues, issue_read, and issue_write are verified working under a token holding
write:issue + write:repository.