`_gitea.require_login` walked up from CWD and nowhere else. A worktree is a sibling of the main checkout, not a descendant, and `settings.local.json` is untracked — so the pin lives in the main checkout only, is not on the worktree's parent chain, and the whole tracker half of the plugin died there with "no login pinned". In the same directory the guard resolved it fine, because it had a search of its own: one order, written twice, disagreeing. It is written once now, in skills/auth/scripts/pin.py, and both callers import it — the transport and hooks/tea-guard.sh. $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR, then a hint the caller supplies (the hook passes its payload's cwd), then the current directory; each searched up its parent chain, and only if that finds nothing, across into the main working tree of a linked worktree met on the way, reached by reading `gitdir:` out of the `.git` FILE and following `commondir`. No subprocess — a PreToolUse hook runs before every Bash call and must not fork to answer this. The search still starts at the working directory and never at `__file__`, deliberately asymmetric with `issue.store_root` and `_gitea.PAYLOAD_ROOT`. Where an installation keeps its files is a fact about the installation; whose login a project runs under is a fact about the project, and a plugin pointed at somebody else's tree must not answer that from its own directory. pin.py says so in as many words, so the next reader does not "fix" the inconsistency. Two consequences fall out of it. `/tea:auth` no longer has any reason to run inside a worktree, so no second pin lands in a directory that is deleted with the branch — the skill now says to write it beside the common `.git`. And the scripts can run where the work is: the workaround the bug forced, cwd in the main checkout, made push.py send that checkout's branch as `ref`, which is the one thing `branch:` exists to record. tests/test_login_pin.py holds both halves: the hop against a hand-built layout and against a real `git worktree add`, a run from the worktree finding the login, no pin anywhere still erroring, the scripts' own directory not becoming a source, `ref` coming out as the worktree's branch, and the hook and a script answering the same directory alike. Two mechanical checks keep the callers from growing a second copy of the walk. Three existing fixtures now copy skills/auth/scripts, which the transport imports. Refs #24. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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tea — Claude Code plugin for the Gitea CLI
A Claude Code plugin that gives Claude a reference for the tea CLI and enforces a hard rule: every tea command runs under the login the operator chose, never one Claude picked.
What it ships
| Piece | What it does |
|---|---|
/tea:auth skill |
Prompts you to pick a Gitea login and pins it to the project |
/tea:issue skill |
Issues as units of work — create, read, grep, validate, walk the dependency graph. Entirely offline |
/tea:sync skill |
Moves issues between the local store and Gitea — pull, push, comment |
/tea:use skill |
Tea CLI reference for everything that is not an issue — loads command docs on demand |
tea-runner agent |
Subagent on Haiku that runs the scripts and reports back a receipt — the mechanical half, off your main context |
tea-guard hook |
PreToolUse hook that blocks or rewrites every tea invocation |
The layering
An issue is a unit of work first and a Gitea row second. Those are two layers, and knowledge flows one way:
skills/issue DOMAIN what an issue is: format, validation, dependency graph
▲ offline — no tracker, no network, stdlib only
│ imports
skills/sync BRIDGE md <-> Gitea JSON, then over the wire
▲
│ calls
tea-runner EXECUTION runs the scripts, reports a receipt — no opinions
Delete skills/sync and the domain layer keeps working — issues that live only
on your machine are first-class, not drafts waiting to be uploaded. That is the
point of the split: you can plan, write, validate, and track work without a
tracker, and publish only what you choose to.
Prerequisites
- Claude Code — CLI, desktop app, or IDE extension
- Python 3 — required by the
tea-guardhook (python3must be on$PATH) tea— Gitea's official CLI. Install withbrew install tea(macOS) or from gitea.com/gitea/tea/releases- At least one login configured:
tea logins add(interactive — run it in a terminal, not via Claude)
Installation
This is a Claude Code plugin — install it through the plugin marketplace, not by hand-editing settings.json.
-
Register this repo as a marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add https://git.noodles.cam/claude-skills/tea.gitAlready have a local clone? Point at the directory instead:
/plugin marketplace add /path/to/tea -
Install the plugin:
/plugin install tea@tea
The skills (/tea:auth, /tea:issue, /tea:sync, /tea:use) and the tea-guard hook load immediately. Use /plugin to enable, disable, or update it later.
The marketplace registration is written to
extraKnownMarketplacesand the plugin toenabledPluginsin your settings automatically — you don't edit those by hand. There is no top-level"plugins"settings key; if you've added one from older instructions, remove it.
First use
Run /tea:auth once per project. Claude will list your available Gitea logins and ask you to pick one. The choice is written to the project root's .claude/settings.local.json and takes effect immediately — no restart needed.
Once per project, not once per checkout: a git worktree shares its main checkout's pin. Both the hook and the scripts find it from inside a worktree, so don't run /tea:auth there — it would leave a second pin in a directory that disappears with the branch.
/tea:auth
After that, just ask Claude to do something with issues or Gitea — it loads the
right skill automatically. /tea:auth is only needed for the tracker side;
/tea:issue works without any login at all.
How the login guard works
Every tea invocation Claude writes must carry the literal placeholder --login "$GITEA_LOGIN". The tea-guard hook intercepts the Bash call before it runs, looks up the pinned login from .claude/settings.local.json, and rewrites the command to use it. The hook and the scripts look it up the same way — one search order, in skills/auth/scripts/pin.py.
Claude is blocked from:
- running
teawithout--loginat all - naming a login itself (e.g.
--login myaccount) - using any variable other than
$GITEA_LOGIN
This prevents silent fallback to the machine's default login (often a personal account) when working in a project that belongs to a different identity.
tea logins list and tea --version / --help are exempt — they don't touch Gitea data.
The tea-runner agent
The skills carry meaning; the scripts carry work. tea-runner is a subagent on
Haiku that does the second half in its own context and hands back a receipt —
what ran, what it touched, what failed, verbatim.
Delegate a batch: pull a milestone and rebuild the index, push the three
issues you just wrote, bootstrap the label set, post a comment from a file you
prepared. Spawning it for a single pull.py 42 costs more than running the
command yourself; the saving is in the loop, the retry, and reading somebody
else's stderr.
It cannot decide anything. No Edit, no Write, no --force, no closing or
retitling, no raw tea, no pushing beyond the set it was handed. A missing
type, a failed validation, an unpushed dependency come back as a question, not
as a guess. The tea-guard hook applies to it exactly as it does to the main
session — the pinned login is enforced on every call it makes.
Project layout
.claude-plugin/
plugin.json plugin manifest
marketplace.json marketplace catalog (makes `/plugin install` work)
agents/
tea-runner.md subagent (Haiku) that executes the scripts
hooks/
hooks.json registers the PreToolUse hook
tea-guard.sh the guard (Python 3, no deps)
skills/
auth/SKILL.md /tea:auth skill
issue/ /tea:issue — the domain layer, offline
SKILL.md
references/format.md canonical issue format (identity, types, templates)
scripts/ Python 3, stdlib only, no network:
issue.py domain module: slug identity, parse/render,
validation, taxonomy, dependency graph,
body checkboxes
issue_new.py create a local issue from its type template
issue_check.py validate against the format
issue_ac.py list the body's checkboxes; tick one
issue_tree.py draw the dependency graph
issue_index.py rebuild tmp/issues/INDEX.md
sync/ /tea:sync — the bridge to Gitea
SKILL.md
scripts/
map.py md <-> Gitea JSON, pure functions, no I/O
_gitea.py transport: login pin, tea api, pagination, filters
pull.py Gitea -> tmp/issues/
push.py tmp/issues/ -> Gitea, then drops the local file
remote.py discovery listing to stdout
comment.py post or edit a comment
use/ /tea:use — tea CLI reference (non-issue entities)
SKILL.md
references/tea/ command docs
Local issue store
Issues live in tmp/issues/ (gitignore it) as flat markdown with one metadata
field per line — so grep -l 'labels:.*type/bug' tmp/issues/*.md works without
a parser.
An origin: local file is the issue — the store, and the only copy.
Anything with origin: gitea is a working copy of something the tracker
already has, and it is deleted as soon as a push confirms the tracker is up to
date:
- Identity is a slug (
wire-sqlc-appclick.md), never a tracker number. Numbers live in agitea:field. origin: localis a complete state. An issue that never leaves your machine is valid and finished — but it is not permanent: pushing ends it.- A successful push deletes the local file (
--updatetoo) and prints the number and URL it now lives at. Only after a confirmed response: a failed call leaves the file exactly where it was. Get it back withpull.py <n>— same slug, samedepends:, even after a rename in Gitea. - Pulling overwrites the body: a fetch, not a merge. It is also how a pushed issue comes back.
- Nothing tracks drift, and there is no second copy to drift. A file that is still here has not been pushed.