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holocron/plugins/gitea/.apm/skills/gitea-files/references/reading.md
Defame1297 d5954d3d99 refactor(gitea-files): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 787 -> 263 chars, body 922 -> 302 words, Gotchas 9 entries/69% of
body -> 3/24.8%. Clears both size FAILs and both Gotchas suggestions.

Deleted the second trigger register outright -- ~300 chars re-quoting the same
six verbs as user phrasings, which ADR-0020 names this skill for specifically.

Split the body on the read/write boundary: one invocation cannot both read and
write, so a dispatch table is mandatory. Six operations collapse into two flow
files rather than six -- create/update/delete share one tool pair and one
SHA-first lifecycle whose preamble would otherwise be triplicated, and the three
read tools share ref selection plus a 'neither listing is a SHA source'
comparison that only exists between them.

references/examples.md removed; all eight of its content blocks and all nine
named parameters carry into references/writing.md, verified against git HEAD.
Two deltas are corrections: the repo tree is now ruled out as a SHA source, and
reusing a SHA captured earlier in the conversation is now forbidden.

Four Gotchas relocated to the flow file that needs them; two promoted to gates
(SHA-as-concurrency-token opens writing.md; owner/repo became ## Inputs).

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Reading files, directories and trees

All three read calls select what to read with ref — a branch name, tag, or commit SHA. On get_repository_tree the same value goes in tree_sha despite the name.

Single file

get_file_contents(owner, repo, ref, path).

The response carries the file's sha at the top level, not nested under content. That field is the write-ready SHA, so capture it whenever a write may follow. Content comes back base64-encoded — decode it. Pass withLines: true only when you need numbered lines to quote specific lines back to the user; omit it for a normal content fetch.

One directory level

get_dir_contents(owner, repo, ref, path) returns the immediate entries only — name, path, type, size. No recursion, no content, no sha.

Whole repository tree

get_repository_tree(owner, repo, tree_sha, recursive). Set recursive: true to walk subdirectories in one call.

The response sets truncated: true when one page does not hold every entry. Page through with page/per_page (defaults 1 and 30) until a page returns fewer entries than per_page.

Neither listing is a SHA source for a write

get_dir_contents entries carry no sha at all. get_repository_tree entries do carry a blob or tree hash, but reaching it costs an extra round trip and returns no content. get_file_contents is the canonical path for a write's SHA: one call returns the decoded content and the write-ready sha together.

A 404 that is really a 403

These reads gate on write:repository, not on read access alone, and some Gitea endpoints answer an under-scoped token with 404 instead of 403 so they do not leak whether the resource exists. A 404 on a path you are confident about is a scope problem until proven otherwise — check the token's configured scopes before concluding the file or directory does not exist.