`labels.py` handed `_gitea.api` the issue store as a place to put the
request file, and on a checkout without a store that quietly created
`tmp/issues/.payload/`. Bootstrapping a repository's labels touches no
issue at all, so the one rule the store has — nothing materializes it as
a side effect of a write — was broken by an operation that has no
business knowing the store exists.
Where a request body goes was never the caller's decision to make. It is
now the transport's: `tmp/payload/`, resolved from `_gitea.py`'s own
location the way both domains resolve theirs, so every caller — sync and
wiki alike — writes to one directory whatever it was invoked from, and
`out_root` is gone from `api`, `add_dependency` and all six call sites.
The directory is created by the first write of a run and not before: a
`--dry-run` leaves nothing behind. `tmp/` is already gitignored.
The name carries the distinction the old path lost. A store holds the
only copy of something; this holds debris kept for a retry or a
post-mortem, and deleting it costs nothing. A dotdir sitting among an
issue's files claimed otherwise, and `ls tmp/issues` started lying about
what existed.
tests/test_payload_root.py runs the real `labels.py` in a throwaway repo
against a fake `tea` on PATH: no store appears, the payloads land in
tmp/payload/, a dry run writes nothing, and a run from a subdirectory
still resolves to the repo root. Two source checks keep the callers from
drifting apart again.
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pull.py's docstring said "the limit is on the write, not on the
selection", and the code did the opposite: `list_issues` truncated the
payload list to `limit`, and pull.py dropped the closed ones after that.
A milestone whose first issues are closed therefore answered `--limit 20`
with twelve files, and the only statement about the behavior anywhere was
the false one.
The limit now counts what the run leaves in the store. `list_issues`
takes a `keep` predicate, pages keep arriving until `limit` payloads have
satisfied it, and the ones that did not are still returned — they were
enumerated, and pull.py still reports them as "N closed, not stored".
What `keep` means stays the caller's business; the transport only counts.
pull.py hands it `lands_in_store`, which is the same test the walk itself
applies: a closed issue counts only when the store already has it, since
that one is refreshed rather than dropped.
Pagination is the other half, and it cuts both ways. `paginate` is now a
thin wrapper over a new `pages` generator, so the page after the one that
fills the budget is never requested. In the other direction "fetch until
N are kept" is "fetch the whole tracker" on a filter that matches mostly
closed issues, so a keep-bounded read scans at most PAGE_SLACK times the
pages the limit would need if nothing were dropped, then warns on stderr
and returns short. Raising --limit raises that ceiling with it. --deps is
outside the count: a dependency is followed because an issue named it.
remote.py keeps the old meaning and now says so in as many words — it
writes nothing, so there is no write for a limit to bound, and its
--limit caps the listing, closed issues included. Same flag, two jobs,
documented in both scripts and in the skill's command table.
Also refuses `--limit 0` instead of dividing by the page size and
raising ZeroDivisionError.
tests/test_pull_limit.py stubs the transport with a fake that serves
`page=`/`limit=` itself, so the request pattern is observed rather than
assumed: exactly N files out of a half-closed selection, the second page
fetched and the third not, the scan stopping at the budget with a
warning, and remote.py's listing unchanged. 251 tests, no network.
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Gitea becomes the source of truth. Once a push is confirmed, push.py
deletes tmp/issues/<id>.md and <id>.comments.md and prints the number and
URL the issue now lives at; the current state is obtained by pulling
again rather than by reconciling. --update follows the same rule, with no
exception: what is local is what has not left.
This reverses three statements AGENTS.md used to make, and rewriting them
is part of the change:
- "tmp/issues/ is the store, not a cache of Gitea" — it is both, split
by origin:. An origin: local file is the only copy of the work; an
origin: gitea file is a deletable working copy.
- "Pushing is additive: the file is never deleted" — it is deleted.
- "origin: local is a durable state" — complete, but not durable:
pushing ends it.
Slug stability, which the format promises for the life of an issue, can
no longer rest on a file push is about to delete. The slug goes up in the
body as a hidden marker, <!-- tea:id <slug> -->, on the first line:
map.to_payload strips every marker and prepends exactly one, map.from_api
strips every marker on the way down, so the local file never holds one
and a body cannot accumulate them however many round trips it makes. The
marker survives a rename in the web UI, a lost .remote.json, a fresh
clone and another machine — none of which a local index does.
Deletion is the last thing that happens to an issue and only after the
transport returned, the answer carried a positive integer number (and, on
--update, the number that was PATCHed — push.confirmed_number), and
.remote.json was written. A raised transport, a non-2xx, an empty or
mismatched body each leave the file on disk and stop the run.
.remote.json is no longer "only an index over the files": its entries now
deliberately outlive them, so it is the local number -> slug ledger and
rebuild_map merges into it instead of reconstructing it from files that
may be gone. It stays recoverable, from the markers in Gitea rather than
from the files. push.dep_state reads it too, so a blocker whose file an
earlier push dropped still gets its native dependency link.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug the new tests hit: issue.all_ids treated
<id>.comments.md as an issue called "<id>.comments", so a bare push.py in
a store holding pulled threads tried to file a comment thread as a unit
of work. A slug has no dot in it.
tests/test_drop_after_push.py covers the round trip (push -> gone -> pull
-> identical in slug, depends: and body), the marker's algebra, and every
failure path separately. test_push_dependencies.py is updated where it
encoded the old "never deleted" contract. 183 tests, no network.
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The local `depends:` graph never reached the tracker. push.py sent dependent
issues in topological order but created no native links, so `native_deps` in
_gitea.py was a reader with no writer and the slugs in `## Depends on` stayed
dead prose for anyone reading the issue in Gitea.
Once an issue has its number, every `depends:` entry that also has one now
becomes a real link: POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{index}/dependencies
with the blocker's IssueMeta. Topological order means the blocker is already
numbered, so no second pass is needed. Existing links are read back first, so
a repeat push is a no-op and never 409s; a link that fails anyway warns rather
than aborting a run that has already created issues. `--dry-run` prints the
links it would make and touches nothing.
The `## Depends on` prose is still passed through verbatim — the edge the
tracker acts on is the native link, not the text, which is exactly why the
text can be left alone. Removing a link that disappeared from `depends:` is
out of scope and now says so in push.py's docstring.
Establishes tests/: stdlib unittest, the transport stubbed at _gitea.api, no
network. Run with `python3 -m unittest discover -s tests`.
The POST body shape was confirmed against the instance's own swagger.v1.json
(Gitea 1.26.1), not assumed from upstream docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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