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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
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topic: branches
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source_keys:
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- gitea-mcp-repo
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- gitea-mcp-slim-go
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---
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# Branch operations
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Call signatures below were verified live against the deployed `gitea-mcp` server via `ToolSearch`,
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not copied from research docs — this is deliberate: research docs are generated from source code at
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a point in time and can drift from the server actually deployed. **Last verified against gitea-mcp
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v1.7.0**, as reported by `get_gitea_mcp_server_version`. Re-verify against the live schema if the
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deployed version differs or these tools behave differently than documented here.
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## `list_branches`
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**Parameters:**
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- `owner` (string, required)
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- `repo` (string, required)
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- `page` (number, optional, default: `1`)
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- `per_page` (number, optional, default: `30`)
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**Call:**
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```text
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list_branches owner: <owner> repo: <repo>
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```
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**Response:** one object per branch: `name`, `protected` (bool), `commit_sha` (present when the
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underlying commit data is available).
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Paginate for the full list (see Gotchas) — iterate `page` until the count is less than `per_page`.
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## `create_branch`
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**Parameters:**
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- `owner` (string, required)
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- `repo` (string, required)
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- `branch` (string, required) — new branch name
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- `old_branch` (string, optional) — source branch; if omitted, defaults to the repo's default
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branch server-side (not necessarily your current local checkout)
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**Call:**
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```text
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create_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <new-name> old_branch: <source-branch>
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```
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Default dispatch: if the user gives a base ("branch off of X", "from X"), pass it as `old_branch`.
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If they don't specify a base and you're mid-task on a local branch, pass your current branch
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(`rtk git branch --show-current`) as `old_branch` so the new branch forks from where you're actually
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working, rather than silently falling back to the repo default. If neither applies (e.g. a fresh
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top-level request with no working branch context), omit `old_branch` and let it default server-side.
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A branch name collision returns `409 Conflict`.
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## `rename_branch`
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**Parameters:**
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- `owner` (string, required)
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- `repo` (string, required)
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- `branch` (string, required) — the branch's current name
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- `new_name` (string, required) — the name to move it to
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**Call:**
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```text
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rename_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <current-name> new_name: <new-name>
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```
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A rename moves the ref server-side; it is not a delete-plus-create, and no commit history is
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rewritten. What it does to things *pointing at* the old name — open pull requests using it as head or
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base, a branch protection rule matching it, CI config, and tracking branches on every other clone —
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is **not confirmed** by this skill's sources: the deployed tool describes itself only as "Rename an
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existing branch in a repository". Treat a rename of a branch with open PRs or a protection rule as a
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change needing verification afterward (`list_branches`, plus `gitea-prs` for the PR side), and
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confirm with the user first, exactly as for `delete_branch` below. A collision with an existing
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branch name is expected to return `409 Conflict` by analogy with `create_branch`, not separately
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confirmed.
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## `delete_branch`
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**Parameters:**
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- `owner` (string, required)
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- `repo` (string, required)
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- `branch` (string, required)
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**Call:**
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```text
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delete_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <name>
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```
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Before calling this, see the `delete_branch` Gotcha in SKILL.md. If the target branch's name isn't
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obviously a scratch/feature branch, call `list_branches` first and check `protected` on the
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matching entry — name-matching `main`/`master` alone isn't authoritative, since a repo can protect
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a differently-named default branch. Confirm explicitly with the user before deleting anything
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protected, every time, regardless of how the request is phrased.
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## Token scope
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`list_branches`, `create_branch` and `delete_branch` all require `write:repository`. Gitea
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gates reads behind write scope for repo-scoped operations, so `list_branches` needs the same scope
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as the write operations, not `write:issue` alone. An earlier version of this doc claimed
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`write:issue` alone was sufficient for `list_branches`, based on empirical testing under a token
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that held both `write:issue` and `write:repository` simultaneously — that test didn't isolate the
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variable, so it couldn't actually establish `write:issue` alone as sufficient.
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`rename_branch` is a write on the same repo-scoped surface and is inferred to need `write:repository`
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too — inferred by analogy, not separately confirmed.
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