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Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP 598a7c326a refactor(skills): retrofit the corpus to the ADR-0020 context contract (#129)
Retrofits all 39 skills to ADR-0020's description/body context contract, then fixes what six rounds of independent review found in that retrofit — including four ways the hot gate itself failed open.

Closes #99, #107, #108, #110, #111, #114, #115, #120.

## The retrofit (waves 1-5)

| | Start | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Description FAILs (>400 chars) | 26 | **0** |
| Body FAILs (>900 words, body-only) | 9 | **0** |
| Dangling routing targets | 2 | **0** |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` | 10 | **0** |
| Preload tax | 21,005 chars | **~10,500** |

Under the 12,000-char success criterion. Per-wave detail is on #99.

## The review fixes

**The gate failed open four ways, three of them found after the retrofit shipped.** An unrecognised follower token made a dangling target vanish. A skill directory with no `SKILL.md` resolved as a valid target, so a commit could be green locally and red in a fresh clone — three existing fixtures were relying on that, one of which made the install-leak A/B pass vacuously. Then the free-standing `/name` sweep turned out to be gated on the sentence carrying a boundary marker, so route notation in any other sentence was invisible — not an ERROR, not a SUGGESTION, not an INFO — which left the documented "`/name` always blocks" promise false from a second direction. All four fixed and pinned.

**Two checks were silently not running.** `validate-provenance.sh` checks 7-8 were dead across nine skills. Waking them exposed a deeper problem: they assume `Research doc:` names a source index, but 30 of 121 entries point at topic content documents, so every new check-7 INFO was a false positive and check 8 was saved from a false-FAIL flood only by an *unannounced* skip. Checks 7/8 are now scoped to source indexes and every skip announces itself (#121).

**The retrofit's own anti-goal, four times.** ADR-0020 warns that a blunt gate gets satisfied by deleting content rather than relocating it. `diagnose` and `skill-audit` relocated prose and then read it unconditionally; `prototype` and `vale-config` deleted rules outright that survived nowhere. All four addressed.

## Verification

- `bash tests/run-tests.sh --strict` — 24 suites, 0 skipped, 0 failed
- `bash tests/run-bats.sh` — 325 tests, 0 failures
- `pre-commit run --all-files` — 17/17
- `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` — 16/16, with `apm marketplace check` and `apm pack --check-clean` run against the remote, not skipped
- `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` over all 39 skills — rc 0, 0 ERROR/FAIL, SUGGESTION-only
- Preload tax measured at **10,498 chars**, max description 390 — both inside budget
- Every new test proven non-vacuous by a deliberate mutation of the behaviour it covers

**Per-commit sync, stated accurately:** the ten commits from the latest review round each pass `check-plugin-content-sync` in isolation, verified by checking each out in a detached worktree with a clean between. The earlier gitea window (`dfacf05..bedbd1d`, nine commits) does **not** — its mirror was regenerated in one batch at `bbc7300`. An earlier revision of this description claimed the property held for every commit; it does not, and a bisect through that window lands on a red commit. **Squash-merge** to collapse it, or accept that this range is not bisectable.

## Version bump

Six plugins and the catalog take a **patch**, not a minor. The branch is **89 commits — 40 `fix` / 30 `refactor` / 12 `docs` / 5 `chore` / 2 `test` — zero `feat`, zero `!`, zero `BREAKING CHANGE`** — and adds no skill, agent, command or hook. (Two earlier revisions of this section cited a stale histogram, most recently 78 commits; the figures above are measured at HEAD.) Both rules this repo ships (`forge/references/version-bump.md`, landing in this PR, and `git-commits/references/conventional-commits-spec.md`) make that a patch, and the catalog set is unchanged at 7 entries.

Not settled by that: four published files were removed from the installed tree, three moved, and `caveman` gained `disable-model-invocation`, retiring its old triggers. Under a strict reading those are major-class and currently ship under `refactor:` with no marker. Whether the deployed skill surface is a public contract is written down nowhere — worth deciding, but it outlives this PR.

## Deliberately not in scope

#112 (cherry-pick ownership, now resolved in favour of `git-commits`), #113 (`rtk git` normalisation), #116 (research fan-out), #101 (audit-skill merge), #122 (non-spec skill-root files), #123 (no PRD producer) stay open. #117 is the one worth reading: the contract's remedy is to move prose into `references/`, which is exactly where neither the size gate nor Vale looks — and the blind spot is wider than #117 currently records, since there is no root `.vale.ini` at all, so every ADR, `CONTEXT.md` and `README.md` is unlinted too.

That blind spot let this branch carry two `level: error` `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` violations into `references/` files it created — `provider-adapter-author/references/provider-matrix.md:31` and `agent-audit/references/finding-criteria.md:95`. Both are reworded in `afadaae`, confirmed by routing each file through the audit's own `vale-wrap.sh` (1 error each before, 0 after). Five further occurrences sit in `references/` files already on `main`; those are the pre-existing corpus and stay with #117, which is the real fix.

Also unfixed and not this PR's: `apm install` appends a duplicate `SessionStart` entry to `.claude/settings.json`, so a fresh clone cannot get pre-push green without an edit AGENTS.md warns against. Reproduces identically on `main`.

Co-authored-by: Defame1297 <gitea@rkdr.net>
Reviewed-on: https://git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/pulls/129
Co-authored-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
Co-committed-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
2026-09-01 13:47:46 +00:00

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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. These files were last verified against gitea-mcp v1.7.0, as reported by get_gitea_mcp_server_version. Re-verify via ToolSearch before trusting this file if the deployed version differs — drift has bitten this skill in both directions, adding methods it does not list and fixing quirks it still warns about.

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", which errors with review_id is required without it. Optional for "get_review_comments": omit it to list every inline comment on the PR in one call. 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}); and review_comments, when present, as an integer count rather than comment objects — it was absent from a live "get" on a PR with no inline comments, so verify the key before reading it (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"; optional for "update") — target branch; passing it on "update" retargets an open PR onto a different base
  • 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) — "update" only — silently dropped on "create" (harmless there, but it does not do anything)
  • 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 — including assignee, assignees, milestone, reviewers, team_reviewers and remove_deadline — is accepted without error and discarded. Nothing marks the drop: 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. Two prefixes are recognised for stripping — WIP: and [WIP] — matched case-insensitively, even though only "WIP: " is ever added. 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.