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holocron/plugins/gitea/.apm/skills/gitea-branches/SKILL.md
Defame1297 6cfc3577e2 docs: trim repeated boilerplate in git, gitea, and bin skills
Finding 13: five blocks of near-identical wording were repeated across
skills within a plugin — the gitea "resolve owner and repo" step (5
skills), the 404-masks-403 note (6 files), the manual pagination
explanation (8 files), the git plugin's main/master force-push refusal
(7 files, some with multiple internal restatements), and the bin
skills' domain-glossary/ADR paragraph (5 skills). Tightened each
instance in place — same meaning, fewer words — rather than extracting
to a shared file, which ADR-0014's one-file-per-skill install
constraint rules out. Left the three git skills' structured-result
JSON shapes alone (coupled to the separate, out-of-scope git-orchestrate
merge candidate, finding 19).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
2026-09-12 19:48:31 +00:00

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name, description, compatibility, metadata, allowed-tools
name description compatibility metadata allowed-tools
gitea-branches Use when listing, creating, renaming, or deleting branches in a Gitea repository, or reading its commit history — "what commits are on this branch", "what changed in that commit" — even when the user does not say "Gitea". Not a local checkout's branches -> `git-branches`. Not local history -> `git-history`. Not a PR's head or base -> `gitea-prs`. Requires Gitea MCP server configured with a token with write:repository scope; this is confirmed to gate list_branches, create_branch, and delete_branch (Gitea gates reads behind write scope for repo-scoped operations), and is inferred by analogy (not explicitly confirmed by source docs) to also gate rename_branch, list_commits, and get_commit. Requires git remote "origin" pointing to the Gitea instance.
category version source_keys
integration 0.1.3
gitea-mcp-repo
gitea-mcp-slim-go
context7-websites-gitea
Bash mcp__gitea__list_branches mcp__gitea__create_branch mcp__gitea__rename_branch mcp__gitea__delete_branch mcp__gitea__list_commits mcp__gitea__get_commit

Gotchas

  • 404 can mean 403. Gitea masks permission errors as not-found — check token scope before reporting a branch or commit missing.
  • Nothing auto-paginates. list_branches/list_commits return one page — iterate page until the count is below per_page.
  • delete_branch has no force-push guard. Treat deleting a protected branch as a hard refusal unless the user explicitly confirms it in the conversation. Check protected from list_branches first — a protected branch need not be named main.

Step 1 — Resolve owner and repo

Extract owner and repo from the git remote before any tool call — get_me and list_my_repos are blocked under this skill's token scope, so the remote is the only source:

rtk git remote get-url origin

No origin, or not a Gitea URL: stop and report "No Gitea remote found — set origin to your Gitea instance URL."

Step 2 — Dispatch

Invocation Action
/gitea-branches or /gitea-branches list List branches
/gitea-branches create <name> [from <base>] Create branch
/gitea-branches rename <name> to <new-name> Rename branch
/gitea-branches delete <name> Delete branch
/gitea-branches commits [on <branch>] [touching <path>] List commit history
/gitea-branches commit <sha> Get full detail for one commit

For branch operations (list/create/rename/delete), read references/branches.md — it carries the call signatures, the old_branch source rule, and the protected-branch refusal in full. For commit operations (list/get), read references/commits.md.

Step 3 — Report

For reads: display branches as name + protected flag; display commits as SHA (short), message summary, author, date.

For writes (create/rename/delete): confirm the action taken, the branch name, and (for create) the base it forked from or (for rename) the name it had before.

For errors: surface the HTTP code and message, applying the 404 gotcha above before reporting "not found" to the user.