An issue was a Gitea row that happened to be cached locally: its identity
was the tracker's number (42.md), its dependencies were tracker numbers
(depends: [#12]), and a local issue existed only as a draft that push
deleted on success. Nothing could be planned or tracked without a tracker.
Split into layers, with knowledge flowing one way:
skills/issue DOMAIN what an issue is: format, validation, dep graph
^ offline; stdlib imports only, no subprocess
| imports
skills/sync BRIDGE map.py md <-> Gitea JSON, pure, no I/O
_gitea.py login pin, api, pagination, filters
skills/use REFERENCE tea CLI docs for non-issue entities
skills/issue never imports skills/sync. Delete the sync layer and the
domain keeps working.
Identity is now a slug derived from the title (wire-sqlc-appclick.md) and
is stable across retitles and pushes. Tracker numbers live in a `gitea:`
field, never in a file name and never in `depends:`; the pair is indexed
in .remote.json, which is a cache over the files, not a second source of
truth.
Behavior changes:
- Pushing is additive. The file is never deleted; it gains gitea:/url:/
synced: and origin: flips from local to gitea. `origin: local` is a
durable state, not a pending one.
- Pushes go in topological order so dependencies get numbers first.
- The dependency graph is computed offline from `depends:` metadata; body
prose is passed through unchanged in both directions rather than being
rewritten between slugs and #N.
- `origin` is domain-owned (whether work exists elsewhere is a fact about
the work); the handle and how to reach it stay with sync.
Script moves:
issue_get.py -> sync/pull.py
issue_push.py -> sync/push.py
issue_list.py -> sync/remote.py
issue_index.py -> issue/issue_index.py
_tea.py -> split into issue/issue.py, sync/map.py, sync/_gitea.py
New: issue/issue_new.py, issue/issue_check.py, issue/issue_tree.py, and
sync/comment.py — comment posting was the last issue operation still
hand-rolled through raw `tea api`.
references/issue-format.md moves to skills/issue/references/format.md;
label hex colors move out of it into map.py, since a color is how a
tracker paints a chip, not what an issue is.
Verified: offline path end to end (new, check, tree, index, push
--dry-run) and read-only against Gitea (remote listing, pull with
mapping, comment guard). Write paths of push.py and comment.py are not
exercised here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
naudachu