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Description 835 -> 214 chars, body 669 -> 426 words, Gotchas 8 entries/63% of
body -> 3/20.4%. Clears the description FAIL, all three Vale CompositionNote
errors and both Gotchas suggestions. 63% was the worst Gotchas ratio in the
corpus.

Cut the composition sentence to README -- it changes no routing decision and an
agent picks this skill because the user asked about labels, not because two
other skills call it. Cut the capability enumeration; 'list, create, edit,
delete' decompose 'reading or writing' and add no trigger.

Boundary clauses are now one arrow per target. The resolver extracts only the
first name per arrow clause, so the previous '-> gitea-issues / gitea-prs' left
gitea-prs neither dangling nor checked while validate.sh reported 1 of 1. Now
2 of 2.

Makes org-scoped label resolution executable. The org label pool was reachable
in principle -- four *_org_label* methods, and a claim to own name-to-ID
resolution -- but list_org_labels takes org, and Step 1 derived only owner and
repo, so both resolution procedures stalled at the fallback. Fixed once at the
identity step rather than per-procedure. get_user_orgs is outside allowed-tools,
so the failing call is the discriminator: a failure means the owner is a user
account with no org pool, which is an answer, not an error.

Corrects a Gotcha that was false for create_repo_label/create_org_label and
collided with the literal tool name label_write. Same false claim removed from
README.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:29:18 +00:00

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---
topic: label-inference
source_keys:
- context7-websites-gitea
- gitea-mcp-repo
---
# Label inference guide
Maps context-pattern signals from conversation content (an issue being drafted, a bug report, a PR
description) to this repo's `Kind/*` / `Priority/*` / `Status/*` label taxonomy. Used by
`gitea-issues` and `gitea-prs` before creating or updating an issue/PR, and directly when the user
asks to label something without naming exact labels.
## Scoped labels are mutually exclusive — replace, don't stack
Each of `Kind/*`, `Priority/*`, `Status/*` is treated as a scoped-label group by convention (the `/`
delimiter naming pattern). Gitea's `exclusive` flag — the mechanism that would let the server itself
enforce one-label-per-scope — is documented as an org-labels-only setting, and the repo-level
`label_write` methods used here don't accept it at all. So exclusivity within these scopes is a
convention this skill enforces client-side, not something the server guarantees: applying a new
label within a scope is expected to replace any existing label in that same scope on the target
issue/PR, not add alongside it. When inference
selects a `Priority/High` label and the issue already carries `Priority/Medium`, the write should
result in only `Priority/High` remaining — use `replace_labels` scoped to that group's labels, or at
minimum remove the superseded label before adding the new one. Never leave two labels from the same
scope applied at once.
## Signal → label mapping
**`Kind/*`** (what kind of work this is):
| Signal in context | Label |
|---|---|
| Bug report, error, crash, unexpected behavior, "broken", "doesn't work" | `Kind/Bug` |
| New capability, "add support for", net-new functionality | `Kind/Feature` |
| Improvement to existing behavior, "make X better", refactor with behavior change | `Kind/Enhancement` |
| Docs-only change, README/comment/guide updates | `Kind/Documentation` |
| Vulnerability, credential exposure, injection risk, auth bypass | `Kind/Security` |
**`Priority/*`** (urgency):
| Signal in context | Label |
|---|---|
| "blocking", "critical", "urgent", production-down | `Priority/Critical` |
| "soon", "high priority", "should do this sprint" | `Priority/High` |
| No urgency signal present | `Priority/Medium` (default) |
**`Status/*`** (workflow state):
| Signal in context | Label |
|---|---|
| Explicit statement that the work is blocked on something else | `Status/Blocked` |
## Procedure
1. Read the conversation context (issue/PR title, body, or the triggering discussion) for the
signals above.
2. Call `label_read method: "list_repo_labels"` (see `references/labels.md`) to get the current
label set with IDs — inference must never guess an ID, only a name, then resolve it. Because
`exclusive` is an org-labels-only flag, this taxonomy plausibly lives at org scope too: for any
inferred name absent from the repo pool, also call `label_read method: "list_org_labels"` with
`org` set to the repo's `owner` before treating it as unresolved. A failure there means the owner
is a user account, not an organisation, so no org pool exists and the name is genuinely absent.
3. Match inferred label names against the resolved list (case-insensitive). If a scope group
already has a different label applied on the target and a new one is inferred for that same
scope, plan to replace rather than add (see above).
4. **Low-confidence inference omits the label.** If no signal confidently maps to a `Kind/*` value,
do not guess — omit `Kind/*` entirely rather than default to one. `Priority/Medium` is the one
exception: it's the explicit default when no urgency signal is present, not a guess.
5. Hand the resolved IDs (plus which scopes to replace) to the caller's `issue_write`/
`pull_request_write` call — this skill does not apply labels to an issue or PR itself.