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holocron/plugins/gitea/.apm/skills/gitea-files/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-files Use when reading or writing files or directories in a Gitea repository via the MCP server, rather than the local filesystem (for a local path use Read/Write/Edit) — even when the user does not say "Gitea". Not commit history -> `gitea-branches`. Not pull requests -> `gitea-prs`. Requires the Gitea MCP server configured with a token scoped to at least write:repository. Tested with a token holding write:issue + write:repository; write:issue is not actually required for any of this domain's five tools.
version category source_keys
1.0.1 gitea
gitea-mcp-repo
gitea-mcp-slim-go
context7-websites-gitea
mcp__gitea__get_file_contents mcp__gitea__get_dir_contents mcp__gitea__get_repository_tree mcp__gitea__create_or_update_file mcp__gitea__delete_file

Gotchas

  • 404 may mean an under-scoped token, not a missing path. These tools gate on write:repository; check scope before concluding the path is missing.
  • Reads take ref (tree_sha on get_repository_tree), writes take branch_name. One concept, three names — carry the wrong key and the branch is dropped.
  • content is base64 both ways — except under withLines: true. Encode before a write, decode after a read; but with withLines: true content is already plain JSON text and the reported "encoding": "base64" is a lie. Decoding it yields garbage.

Inputs

owner, repo and the target branch are caller-supplied. This skill never infers them from a git remote: ask the human when they are not stated, and expect an orchestrating caller to have resolved them already.

Dispatch

Read the reference for the row you land on before making the call.

Condition Flow Reference
Read one file, list one directory level, or walk the repository tree Read references/reading.md — the three read tools, their pagination behaviour, and why neither a directory listing nor a tree entry supplies the SHA a write needs
Create, update, or delete a file Write references/writing.md — the SHA-first sequence every update and delete depends on, the worked multi-call sequence, and how to triage a write that fails

A request that reads and then writes runs both flows in that order: fetch the file first, then write with the SHA that call returned.

Handoff

Scope ends at the commit. Gitea's own web UI edits files directly against a branch, so committing straight to a branch is the normal path rather than an escape hatch — hand off to gitea-prs when the change needs review before merging or the target branch is protected, not by default.