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holocron/plugins/gitea/skills/gitea-branches/references/branches.md
Defame1297 38f1ba4e03 fix(kyberforge): bridge apm content to Claude Code's flat plugin discovery
Claude Code's (and Copilot's) native plugin installer has zero awareness of
.apm/ nesting -- it convention-scans only flat skills/, agents/, commands/,
hooks.json at each plugin's root. Confirmed via strings on the installed
claude binary and live installs of git@holocron/gitea@holocron/kyberforge@
holocron, all reporting Skills(0) Agents(0) Hooks(0) post ADR-0015's apm
conversion. Root cause (apm_cli/core/plugin_manifest.py): apm's plugin.json
compiler deliberately strips skills/agents/commands keys, assuming the host
already auto-discovers those convention directories -- it has no model of
.apm/ being host-visible at all. Separately, apm's own bundle exporter
(apm_cli/bundle/plugin_exporter.py, behind `apm pack --format plugin`)
implements the correct .apm/ -> flat mapping, but only ever targeted
build/<name>-<version>/, a path nothing in marketplace.json's source: points
at.

scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh wraps that bundle exporter and copies its
agents/, skills/, commands/, instructions/, extensions/, and merged
hooks.json back into each plugin's own root as a second tracked
compiled-output category -- same governance status as
.claude-plugin/plugin.json: generated from .apm/, never hand-edited. tests/
subdirectories are excluded from the mirror (dev fixtures, not host-visible
runtime content; several hardcode a relative repo-root walk-up sized for the
.apm/-nested depth, which breaks when duplicated one level shallower).
Applied for real across all 6 plugins and verified two ways: `claude plugin
validate --strict` passes on every real plugin directory, and a live
`claude --plugin-dir <path> -p "list skills/agents"` behavioral test
confirms content is now actually discovered.

Also, from the same issue #90 review round:
- scripts/check-manifests.sh pointed at each plugin's root-level plugin.json
  (checking skills/hooks/mcpServers/agents pointer fields) -- that file was a
  stale near-duplicate of .claude-plugin/plugin.json nothing else read or
  wrote, now deleted across all 6 plugins. check-manifests.sh is rewritten to
  validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json instead, and drops the pointer-field
  checks entirely (nothing to check -- those fields are correctly absent by
  design). Content-presence drift is now check-plugin-content-sync's job, a
  new pre-push hook wired in .pre-commit-config.yaml.

docs/adr/0017 records the root cause and decision in full, including two
rejected alternatives (patching plugin.json's path fields directly -- apm's
compiler strips them on every run; pointing marketplace.json at apm pack's
build/ output -- a version-suffixed non-source directory nothing can install
from without an extra build step). ADR-0015 and CONTEXT.md are updated to
point at it.

Refs: #90
2026-08-13 16:59:03 +00:00

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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

All three — list_branches, create_branch, delete_branch — require write:repository. Gitea gates reads behind write scope for repo-scoped operations, so list_branches needs the same scope as the write operations, not write:issue alone. An earlier version of this doc claimed write:issue alone was sufficient for list_branches, based on empirical testing under a token that held both write:issue and write:repository simultaneously — that test didn't isolate the variable, so it couldn't actually establish write:issue alone as sufficient.