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Defame1297 5854961c1f feat(gitea): add gitea-branches skill (branches + commits)
Adds plugins/gitea/skills/gitea-branches/ per ADR 0011, covering
list_branches/create_branch/delete_branch (migrated from the flat
plugins/bin/skills/gitea/ dispatch) plus list_commits/get_commit (new
read-only commit-history domain). Call signatures were re-verified live
via ToolSearch against the deployed gitea-mcp server rather than copied
from api-reference.md, per issue #6 comment #849's root-cause fix.

Bumps the gitea plugin to 1.1.0 in both manifests for the new skill.
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Branch operations

Call signatures below were verified live against the deployed gitea-mcp server via ToolSearch at authoring time, not copied from research docs — this is deliberate: research docs are generated from source code at a point in time and can drift from the server actually deployed. Re-verify against the live schema if these tools appear to behave differently than documented here.

list_branches

Parameters:

  • owner (string, required)
  • repo (string, required)
  • page (number, optional, default: 1)
  • per_page (number, optional, default: 30)

Call:

list_branches owner: <owner> repo: <repo>

Response: one object per branch: name, protected (bool), commit_sha (present when the underlying commit data is available).

Paginate if you need the full list (see Gotchas in SKILL.md) — iterate page until the returned count is less than per_page.

create_branch

Parameters:

  • owner (string, required)
  • repo (string, required)
  • branch (string, required) — new branch name
  • old_branch (string, optional) — source branch; if omitted, defaults to the repo's default branch server-side (not necessarily your current local checkout)

Call:

create_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <new-name> old_branch: <source-branch>

Default dispatch: if the user gives a base ("branch off of X", "from X"), pass it as old_branch. If they don't specify a base and you're mid-task on a local branch, pass your current branch (git branch --show-current) as old_branch so the new branch forks from where you're actually working, rather than silently falling back to the repo default. If neither applies (e.g. a fresh top-level request with no working branch context), omit old_branch and let it default server-side.

A branch name collision returns 409 Conflict.

delete_branch

Parameters:

  • owner (string, required)
  • repo (string, required)
  • branch (string, required)

Call:

delete_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <name>

Before calling this, see the hard-refusal Gotcha in SKILL.md. If the target branch's name isn't obviously a scratch/feature branch, call list_branches first and check protected on the matching entry — name-matching main/master alone isn't authoritative, since a repo can protect a differently-named default branch. Confirm explicitly with the user before deleting anything protected, every time, regardless of how the request is phrased.

Token scope

list_branches works with write:issue alone. create_branch and delete_branch need write:repository. All three are verified working empirically under a token with both scopes (write:issue + write:repository).