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Defame1297 ed8c99efbd fix(git): stop prefixing rtk where it rewrites the output skills parse
The #113 sweep rested on CLAUDE.md's premise that rtk either filters or passes through unchanged,
so prefixing is always safe. Measured against rtk 0.42.4, that premise is false for several of the
commands the sweep prefixed, and two skills were left giving wrong answers silently.

Why:
- `rtk git worktree list --porcelain -z` discards both flags and renders its own format. The
  `locked`/`lock_reason` fields git-worktrees Step 2 must emit are absent entirely, and paths under
  $HOME are abbreviated to `~/`.
- `rtk git branch --list <name>` prints a phantom `* ` line even when nothing matches, so
  git-branches' stated ambiguity test — "output from both means the name is ambiguous" — reported
  every name as ambiguous. `tag --list` is a clean passthrough, so only one half broke.
- `rtk git diff --name-only`/`--name-status` append a `Changes:` trailer to output documented as
  "one per line"; `--word-diff` emits none of the `[-removed-] {+added+}` markers its table
  describes; `rtk git log -L` truncates each line at ~72 chars, on the one command whose purpose is
  showing line content.
- `rtk git stash pop` prints only `FAILED: git stash pop`, swallowing the conflict diagnostic and
  retained-entry message the surrounding prose tells the agent to rely on.

Implementation notes:
- Eleven sites reverted to bare `git`, each carrying its reason inline so the next sweep does not
  undo it. `mergetool` and `rebase -i` are reverted on clause 3's interactive limb only: the TTY
  defect does not reproduce — rtk filters exactly twelve subcommands and execs the rest — and
  ADR-0023 records that measurement rather than a convenient one.
- ADR-0023 states the rule repo-wide with a third clause: a command whose output the skill parses,
  or which is interactive, stays bare. `plugins/git/README.md` is reduced to a pointer; its claim
  that gitea skills "contain no git/rtk mentions at all" was false, and its citation of
  `hard-rules.md` pointed at a file containing no occurrence of "rtk".
- Eight gitea sites swept, all verified byte-identical passthroughs first.
- `scripts/check-rtk-prefix.sh` gates clause 1. Run against main's pre-sweep corpus it reports 99
  findings including every gitea site, so it would have caught the drift #113 was filed about.

Impact: the gate covers clause 1 only, in shell-tagged fences and the opening span of Run cells.
Clause 2 is not gateable — "Run `git switch`" and "`git switch` refuses" are the same tokens — and
prose bullets are invisible to it. Both limits are recorded in gates.md rather than left implied.

Refs: #113
ADR: 0023
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeH8SCbcrCAQrtymkNuhKP
2026-09-09 05:14:54 +00:00

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name, description, compatibility, metadata, allowed-tools
name description compatibility metadata allowed-tools
gitea-branches Use when listing, creating, renaming, or deleting branches in a Gitea repository, or reading its commit history — "what commits are on this branch", "what changed in that commit" — even when the user does not say "Gitea". Not a local checkout's branches -> `git-branches`. Not local history -> `git-history`. Not a PR's head or base -> `gitea-prs`. Requires Gitea MCP server configured with a token with write:repository scope; this is confirmed to gate list_branches, create_branch, and delete_branch (Gitea gates reads behind write scope for repo-scoped operations), and is inferred by analogy (not explicitly confirmed by source docs) to also gate rename_branch, list_commits, and get_commit. Requires git remote "origin" pointing to the Gitea instance.
category version source_keys
integration 0.1.3
gitea-mcp-repo
gitea-mcp-slim-go
context7-websites-gitea
Bash mcp__gitea__list_branches mcp__gitea__create_branch mcp__gitea__rename_branch mcp__gitea__delete_branch mcp__gitea__list_commits mcp__gitea__get_commit

Gotchas

  • 404 often means 403. Gitea masks permission errors as not-found; on an unexpected one, check token scope before reporting a branch or commit missing.
  • Nothing auto-paginates. list_branches and list_commits return one page; iterate page until the returned count is below per_page.
  • delete_branch has no force-push guard. Treat deleting a protected branch as a hard refusal unless the user explicitly confirms it in the conversation. Check protected from list_branches first — a protected branch need not be named main.

Step 1 — Resolve owner and repo

Before any tool call, extract owner and repo from the git remote:

rtk git remote get-url origin

get_me and list_my_repos are blocked under the token scope this skill assumes, so the remote is the only source. If origin is not set or the URL is not a Gitea URL, stop and report: "No Gitea remote found — set origin to your Gitea instance URL."

Step 2 — Dispatch

Invocation Action
/gitea-branches or /gitea-branches list List branches
/gitea-branches create <name> [from <base>] Create branch
/gitea-branches rename <name> to <new-name> Rename branch
/gitea-branches delete <name> Delete branch
/gitea-branches commits [on <branch>] [touching <path>] List commit history
/gitea-branches commit <sha> Get full detail for one commit

For branch operations (list/create/rename/delete), read references/branches.md — it carries the call signatures, the old_branch source rule, and the protected-branch refusal in full. For commit operations (list/get), read references/commits.md.

Step 3 — Report

For reads: display branches as name + protected flag; display commits as SHA (short), message summary, author, date.

For writes (create/rename/delete): confirm the action taken, the branch name, and (for create) the base it forked from or (for rename) the name it had before.

For errors: surface the HTTP code and message, applying the 404 gotcha above before reporting "not found" to the user.