ISSUE_ROOT was the relative `tmp/issues`, so "the store" was whatever
directory the shell happened to be standing in. It is the --out default
in all eight scripts of both layers, which made one `cd` — and a `cd`
outlives the command that ran it — enough for readers to report an empty
store on a full one and for writers to quietly build a second store
beside the first. `issue_index.py` run from inside tmp/issues left
tmp/issues/tmp/issues/ behind and exited 0.
The anchor is issue.py's own __file__, not cwd. A script's location is a
fact about the installation; cwd is a fact about the last `cd`, and the
scripts are invoked by path from wherever the agent happens to be. From
there `store_root()` walks up to the nearest repo marker — `.git`
(exists(), not isdir(): a worktree's .git is a file) or AGENTS.md for a
copy taken out of git — and joins tmp/issues. Markers rather than a
fixed number of `..` hops, because the layout is not a promise. cwd is
tried only if the scripts are not inside a repository at all.
The function lives in the domain layer and skills/sync imports it, so
both layers agree by construction — the direction the layering rule
allows. skills/issue stays stdlib-only.
An explicit --out still wins and is used exactly as typed: a relative
--out stays relative to cwd, because that is what the operator asked
for. No new environment surface.
Two consequences the issue also asked for:
- Missing is no longer reported as empty. `store_error()` returns one
message for a path that is not there and another for a store with no
issues in it.
- Nothing conjures a store as a side effect of a write. save() and
issue_index.build() require it instead of os.makedirs'ing it; only
issue_new.py and pull.py create one, and both say so on stderr.
Establishes tests/ — plain stdlib unittest, no pytest, no dependencies.
The store tests build a throwaway repo in a TemporaryDirectory (a .git
marker, a copy of both script layers, fixture issues) and run the real
scripts inside it as subprocesses from five different working
directories; tmp/issues/ is never touched. Against the pre-fix scripts
15 of the 21 fail, reproducing the report exactly — five stray stores,
including tmp/issues/tmp/issues.
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v
Closesclaude-skills/tea#15
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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>
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