holocron/plugins/gitea/skills/gitea-prs/references/pull-requests.md

topic, source_keys

topic	source_keys
pull-requests	gitea-mcp-repo gitea-mcp-slim-go

Pull request read/write execution detail

Parameter signatures below are cross-checked live against the deployed gitea-mcp server tool schemas at authoring time — not copied verbatim from the plugin's research doc for this domain, which has a known history of drifting from the deployed server (e.g. a prior type parameter that no longer exists on list_issues, and the review_scomments typo covered in references/reviews.md). Re-verify via ToolSearch before trusting this file if the gitea-mcp version changes.

list_pull_requests

Parameters:

• owner (string, required)
• repo (string, required)
• state (string, optional, default "all") — "open" | "closed" | "all"
• sort (string, optional, default "recentupdate") — "oldest" | "recentupdate" | "leastupdate" | "mostcomment" | "leastcomment" | "priority"
• milestone (number, optional) — milestone ID filter, not a title
• page (number, optional, default 1)
• per_page (number, optional, default 30)

List responses trim PRs down to summary fields — head/base are bare ref strings and milestone does not appear as an object. Don't rely on this call to resolve a milestone's ID; see the Gotcha below.

pull_request_read

Parameters:

• method (string, required) — "get" | "get_diff" | "get_files" | "get_status" | "get_reviews" | "get_review" | "get_review_comments"
• owner (string, required)
• repo (string, required)
• pull_number (number, required)
• review_id (number, optional) — required for "get_review" and "get_review_comments"; see references/reviews.md
• binary (boolean, optional) — include binary diff content for "get_diff"
• page (number, optional, default 1)
• per_page (number, optional, default 30)

"get", "get_diff", "get_files", and "get_status" are covered here. "get_reviews", "get_review", and "get_review_comments" are covered in references/reviews.md.

• "get" returns the full PR object: state, draft, merged, mergeable flags; head/base as full objects ({ref, sha, repo?}); milestone as a bare title string (not {id, title}); review_scomments (typo, see references/reviews.md).
• "get_diff" returns raw diff text.
• "get_files" returns the list of changed file objects.
• "get_status" returns the combined commit status for the PR's head commit — CI result only, not review/approval state (see references/merging.md).

Milestone gotcha: because pull_request_read only ever returns a milestone title, never an ID, resolving "which milestone ID does this PR belong to" requires calling into gitea-labels-milestones' milestone_read method: "list" and matching by title. Do not attempt to infer or guess the ID. This is the read-side milestone problem; for the separate write-side one, see the "create" drop Gotcha under pull_request_write.

pull_request_write

Parameters:

• method (string, required) — "create" | "update" | "close" | "reopen" | "merge" | "update_branch" | "add_reviewers" | "remove_reviewers"
• owner (string, required)
• repo (string, required)
• pull_number (number, required for every method except "create" — this is enforced by convention, not by the tool's schema, so passing it incorrectly produces a runtime error rather than a client-side validation error)
• title (string, required for "create"; optional for "update")
• body (string, required for "create"; optional for "update")
• head (string, required for "create") — source branch; same-repo PRs use a bare branch name, cross-repo fork PRs use "fork-owner:branch-name" (see Gotcha)
• base (string, required for "create") — target branch
• assignee (string, optional) — single login; "update" only — silently dropped on "create" (see Gotcha)
• assignees (array of strings, optional) — login names; "update" only — silently dropped on "create" (see Gotcha)
• milestone (number, optional) — milestone ID, never a title; "update" only — silently dropped on "create" (see Gotcha)
• state (string, optional, for "update") — "open" | "closed" (no "all" — unlike issue state filters)
• allow_maintainer_edit (boolean, optional, for "update")
• labels (array of numbers, optional) — label IDs, never names — resolve via gitea-labels-milestones first
• deadline (string, optional) — ISO 8601
• remove_deadline (boolean, optional)
• reviewers (array of strings, optional) — login names; "add_reviewers"/"remove_reviewers" only — silently dropped on both "create" and "update" (see Gotcha)
• team_reviewers (array of strings, optional) — same as reviewers: "add_reviewers"/"remove_reviewers" only
• draft (boolean, optional) — prepends "WIP:" to the title; honoured on both "create" and "update" (see Gotcha)

Merge-specific parameters (merge_style, delete_branch, force_merge, merge_when_checks_succeed, head_commit_id, message as merge commit message) are covered in references/merging.md.

"create" silently drops most optional parameters. "create" reads only owner, repo, title, body, head, base, draft, labels, and deadline. Every other optional parameter — assignee, assignees, milestone, reviewers, team_reviewers — is accepted without error and discarded. There is no error, no warning, and nothing in the response distinguishing a dropped parameter from one that was never passed: the response simply omits the key. Setting any of them requires a second call after the PR exists — "update" for assignee/assignees/milestone, "add_reviewers" for reviewers/team_reviewers.

Two things make this easy to miss:

• labels does apply on "create". It sits next to milestone in the parameter list and reads identically, so a caller who confirms the labels landed will reasonably assume the milestone did too.
• issue_write method: "create" does honour assignees and milestone. The asymmetry is specific to pull requests; experience with the issue write does not transfer.

To verify a milestone actually applied, re-read the PR and check for the milestone key, or check that the milestone's open_issues count moved — the create response alone cannot tell you.

Cross-repo head format: head must be "fork-owner:branch-name" for a PR originating from a fork of the base repo. Passing a bare branch name causes Gitea to search for that branch in the base repo instead, and returns 422 when it isn't found there.

Draft/WIP behavior: draft: true on "create" is implemented by prepending "WIP:" to the title — there is no first-class draft boolean stored separately from the title. The title returned by subsequent reads will include the prefix. To un-draft, call "update" with draft: false and no title — the server reads the PR's current title and strips the prefix itself, so you do not need to reconstruct the un-prefixed text. Passing title alongside draft applies the prefix rule to the title you passed rather than the stored one.

update_branch: takes only owner, repo, pull_number — no other parameters. It merges the current base branch into the PR's head branch server-side, resolving a PR that Gitea reports as behind its base (analogous to GitHub's "Update branch" button). Use it when a PR shows mergeable: false or an out-of-date status due to base-branch drift rather than an actual conflict; if the head and base have truly diverged with conflicting changes, this call fails and the conflict must be resolved by pushing a merge/rebase to the head branch directly, outside this skill's scope.