A checkbox is the one part of a body that is state and not prose.
Everything else is written once; boxes get ticked as the work goes, and
until now the only ways to tick one were a human with an editor or a
model rewriting the whole body. The second is worse: the rewrite re-flows
lines and re-words sentences, so the issue's diff swells around a change
that means one character. Progress was invisible too — issue_index.py
builds INDEX.md from metadata and never looked inside a body, so "3 of 7
done" required opening the file.
All three pieces are domain: a checkbox is body syntax, which is part of
the answer to "what is an issue". The parser goes in issue.py so the sync
layer can reuse it instead of redefining the format on its own side.
issue.py gains checkboxes(text) -> [Checkbox(index, line, end_line,
checked, text, section)], plus set_checkbox(text, item, checked) and
checkbox_progress(text). All pure, no I/O, importable from another layer.
The scan covers the whole text, in any section: the type/feature template
keeps child issues as checkboxes under `## Issues`, so binding the parser
to `## Acceptance criteria` would silently lose half of them; the heading
is recorded, never required. Only a marker line opens an item, so a
wrapped continuation line belongs to the item above it rather than
counting as one of its own. A `- [ ]` inside a code fence is an example
of the markup and is skipped. Line numbers are relative to the text
given, which is what lets a caller work on a body or on a whole file.
issue_ac.py lists the items numbered, grouped by heading, and ticks one
by number or by substring. An ambiguous substring is an error that prints
the matches — a coin flip would tick the wrong box and look like it
worked. It patches the file rather than round-tripping through
Issue.to_text(), so exactly one character changes: metadata order,
wording, wrapping, trailing whitespace and CRLF endings all come back
byte for byte, proven by a diff in the tests.
INDEX.md gains a progress column: `3/7` for an issue with checkboxes,
blank for one without. Counted off the body at build time and stored in
no field — a second copy of the state would be wrong by the next edit.
issue_check.py is unchanged and stays that way on purpose: an unticked
box is work not done yet, not a malformed issue, and validate() carries a
comment saying so.
Delivering a tick to the tracker is out of scope — that is push.py
--update in /tea:sync.
format.md gets one clarifying bullet. It said acceptance criteria are
checkboxes but never said what a checkbox is, so the parser had to settle
questions the format left open: any section, wrapped items, fenced
examples. Those rules are now written down where the parser and the sync
layer can both point at them.
tests/ is new, and is the convention: plain stdlib unittest, no pytest
and no third-party deps, since the code under test may not have
dependencies either. Scripts are imported via sys.path.insert and every
fixture is built in a TemporaryDirectory, never in tmp/.
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v 32 tests, OK
skills/issue/scripts/ still imports stdlib only, with no subprocess.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five tracker issues, all in the bridge layer except the last.
pull.py fetches comments by default (#6). The thread was reachable only
through --comments, and only for a single issue, so a bulk pull left every
local copy silently incomplete: a missing <id>.comments.md could mean "no
comments" or "never asked". Now every written issue gets its thread, in key
and filter mode alike; an empty one costs no request (the count rides in the
list payload) and writes no file, and a file left over from an earlier pull
is deleted. --cached skips the thread along with the body. The --comments
flag is gone.
labels.py bootstraps the canonical label set (#7). Labels used to appear as a
side effect of the first push that happened to use them, so a repo could not
be filtered by type/bug until somebody pushed a bug. The set is finite and
already described by the domain taxonomy — 6 type/* and 5 severity/* — which
makes it a run, not a decision. Names and exclusivity come from issue.TYPES /
SEVERITIES / EXCLUSIVE_NS, colors from map.label_specs; no list is duplicated.
An exact name is never re-created or patched. Lookalikes (bug, Bug, "type:
bug", kind/bug) are reported with their id and left alone — renaming somebody
else's label is a decision, not a migration. Color or exclusive drift is
printed, and changed only under --fix.
branch: carries Gitea's ref (#8). map.to_payload sends ref only when the field
is non-empty, since ref="" would clear whatever the server has; from_api reads
it back; push fills an empty one from `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` and
writes it into the issue file. A hand-written value is never overwritten, on
create or on --update. Detached HEAD and running outside a repo warn and send
no ref. Reading the branch is the only thing these scripts ask of git. The
domain needs no change: unknown keys already ride in Issue.extra and render
after the domain fields.
Bulk pulls no longer store closed issues (#10). Filter mode wrote every
payload the server returned, so --state all dragged the closed backlog into a
store that gets read whole — INDEX.md, grep over tmp/issues/*.md. They are
still enumerated, the number left out goes to stderr, and an issue already on
disk is refreshed either way so the local copy learns it was closed instead of
staying open forever. --state closed stores them, and key mode is exempt: an
address is not a bulk read.
/tea:issue gains a "Writing a proper description" procedure (#9). Six steps
from reading an issue to issue_check.py, the rule that a missing fact is found
in the repository or asked about rather than invented, and the note that the
procedure is identical for origin: local and origin: gitea while delivery to
the tracker belongs to /tea:sync. No new script.
Verified: labels.py run for real against claude-skills/tea (9 created, 2
already present) and idempotent on a second run; pull.py exercised live for
the closed-skip, --state closed, key-mode and comment paths; the push write
path covered offline with the transport stubbed. skills/issue/scripts/ still
imports stdlib only, with no subprocess.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace fetch_issue.py with four scripts around a flat, greppable cache in
tmp/issues/. Planning stays offline and issues reach Gitea in one push:
- issue_get.py: fetch by key or by filter (--milestone/--label/-q). The list
endpoint carries issue bodies, so a whole milestone costs one request per 50
issues. Gitea silently ignores an unresolvable milestones= filter and returns
the entire backlog, so the milestone is resolved up front and every returned
issue is re-checked locally. --deps walks the dependency graph downwards via
the structured sections plus native dependencies and writes tree-<slug>.md.
- issue_push.py: validate a local draft against the canonical format, create
missing labels with the right colors and exclusivity, POST, delete the draft.
- issue_list.py: discovery to stdout, writes nothing.
- issue_index.py: rebuild INDEX.md from what is on disk.
Files use one metadata field per line with inline lists so plain grep works
without a parser. This is a cache and a drafting area, not a mirror: no drift
tracking, no sync back.
Projects are not fetchable — the projects API is 404 on Gitea 1.26; documented
alongside the milestone caveat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Match the Issues-Workflow wiki (claude-skills/tea#1): types expand to
bug|task|refactor|test|feature|draft (feature becomes a container,
task takes over new functionality), add severity/tech/comp label
namespaces, an optional "Depends on" section, and templates for
test and feature. Milestone/Project containers documented.
Refs claude-skills/tea#1
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Raw `tea issues -o json` / `tea api` dumps the full payload (avatars,
nested users, every comment) into the model context. The script writes
trimmed markdown to tmp/issue/<n>/ and prints only a compact index;
login comes from the operator pin, never an argument.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`/tea:login` could not be invoked as `/login` because Claude Code
reserves that name as a built-in command. Renaming the skill to `auth`
frees the short form: `/tea:auth` and `/auth` both resolve.
Updates all references in the guard hook, README, plugin manifests, and
the use skill.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous guard required $GITEA_LOGIN to be set in the Bash environment,
which (a) only happens after a session restart and (b) let Claude name any
login it liked as long as one was set. Two failures: pinning needed a restart
to take effect, and Claude could pick the wrong identity from memory.
Rewrite the guard (now python3 for JSON in/out) to RESOLVE the login itself:
- Claude must write the literal placeholder --login "$GITEA_LOGIN".
- The hook reads the operator's pin from .claude/settings.local.json
(env.GITEA_LOGIN) at call time — from the FILE via CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/cwd
walk-up — and rewrites the command to that literal via updatedInput.
- A literal login, another variable, an empty value, or a missing --login are
all blocked: Claude may not choose the identity, only the operator may.
- No pin -> block with a pointer to /tea:login.
Effect: pinning works in the same session (no restart), and Claude can no
longer act under a login it picked. /tea:login now mandates an explicit
operator choice (AskUserQuestion), never inferring from memory. /tea:use
documents the placeholder-only contract.
Guard unit-tested across 13 rewrite/block/passthrough cases incl. -l,
--login=, ${...}, compound+walkup+pipe. claude plugin validate passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convert the standalone `tea` skill into a skills-dir plugin so commands are
namespaced and an enforcement hook can ship with it:
- /tea:login — pin the project Gitea login into .claude/settings.local.json
- /tea:use — tea CLI reference (was the old root SKILL.md), with the
login rule slimmed since the hook now enforces it
- hooks/tea-guard.sh — PreToolUse(Bash) guard: blocks any `tea` command that
touches Gitea unless it carries --login and $GITEA_LOGIN is set. Exempts
`tea logins list` and `tea --version/--help` so /tea:login can bootstrap.
References moved under skills/use/references/. `claude plugin validate` passes;
guard unit-tested across allow/block cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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