`-O` / `--tools` can already narrow the exposed tool set, but it needs every tool spelled out by name. `-S` / `--scope` (`GITEA_SCOPES`) complements it by selecting whole scopes, using the same names the `Scope` column of the tool tables documents.
```bash
gitea-mcp -S issue,pull_request # only those scopes
gitea-mcp --scope repository,branch --tools get_me # those scopes plus one extra tool
```
## What changed
- Each scope is one `tool.Tool` registry carrying a canonical name, so `operation/repo` is split into the six scopes its files already imply: `repository` (`repo.go` + `tree.go`), `file`, `branch`, `tag`, `commit`, `release`. The other twelve packages map 1:1, giving 18 scopes.
- The two allowlists combine as a **union**: with neither set every tool loads; with only `--tools` set behaviour is unchanged; with both set, the selected scopes' tools plus the individually named tools load. `-r` / `GITEA_READONLY` still hides write tools on top.
- Scope names are normalized on input (case, spaces, hyphens), so `Pull Request`, `pull-request` and `PULL_REQUEST` all resolve to `pull_request`. Unknown names only warn and list the valid scopes, mirroring how `--tools` treats unknown tool names.
- The `Scope` column of all three READMEs now uses the canonical names verbatim, so it doubles as the reference for `--scope`, and `TestReadmeToolTables` compares that column against the registry in both directions — no translation table needed.
- Flag parsing moves from `cmd.init()` into `Execute()`. `main()` only ever calls `Execute()`, so this is behaviourally equivalent, and it makes the `cmd` package testable at all: previously the `init()` parse of `os.Args` hit `flag.CommandLine`'s `ExitOnError` on `go test`'s own `-test.*` flags.
## Verification
`make fmt`, `make lint-go` (0 issues) and `go test ./...` all pass. New tests cover the filter matrix (no filters / scope-only / tools-only regression / union / read-only interaction / unknown scope), scope-name uniqueness across `domainTools`, and the flag+env parsing and normalization.
Smoke-tested `tools/list` over stdio against the built binary:
| flags | tools exposed |
| :-- | :-- |
| _none_ | 54 (identical to `main`) |
| `-S branch` | `create_branch`, `delete_branch`, `list_branches` |
| `--scope 'Pull Request,TAG'` | the 4 `pull_request` + 4 `tag` tools |
| `-O get_me` | `get_me` (unchanged) |
| `-S commit -O get_me` | `get_commit`, `list_commits`, `get_me` |
| `-S file -r` | `get_dir_contents`, `get_file_contents` |
| `-S bogus,issue` | the 4 `issue` tools, plus a warning naming the valid scopes |
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp/pulls/219
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: yp05327 <576951401@qq.com>
Net **-650 LOC** by removing duplication and dead noise. All tests pass.
### Duplication & helpers
- Extracted shared slim helpers (`UserLogin`, `UserLogins`, `LabelNames`, `BodyWithAttachments`, `UserDetail`, `Repo`/`Repos`, `Label`/`Labels`) into `pkg/slim`. Deleted the 4 copies that lived in `issue/`, `pull/`, `search/`, `repo/` (plus duplicate `slimUserDetail`/`slimRepo`/`slimLabels` across packages).
- Added `params.GetOptionalBoolPtr` and `params.GetOptionalStringPtr`. Replaced 18 awkward `new(localVar); if !ok { = nil }` patterns across `repo/`, `pull/`, `issue/`, `label/`, `milestone/`, `search/`.
- Extracted `pullRequestReviewerFn` for the 99%-identical `createPullRequestReviewerFn`/`deletePullRequestReviewerFn` pair.
### Dead code & noise
- Deleted **122** `log.Debugf("Called X")` narration lines (`zap.AddCaller` already records the caller) and pruned 19 unused `log` imports.
- Removed the unused `log.Logger` wrapper; the mcp-go server now uses `log.Default().Sugar()` directly (matches `util.Logger`).
- Deleted dead `s.DeleteTools("")` — confirmed no-op in mcp-go.
- Stripped WHAT-narration comments per project guidance.
### Correctness & consistency
- Fixed `log.Errorf(err.Error())` format-string bug in `pkg/to/to.go` — a `%` in the error would have been interpreted as a directive.
- Standardized `to.TextResult`/`to.ErrorResult` usage; `release.go`, `tag.go`, `branch.go` were bypassing the helpers in 9 sites (skipping the wrapper's debug/error logging).
- Made `params.GetString` reject empty strings; dropped 21 redundant `err != nil || x == ""` checks in `operation/actions/`.
- Replaced raw `args["org"].(string)` in `ListOrgReposFn` with `params.GetString` to match the rest of the codebase.
### Performance
- **Cached `*gitea.Client` by host+token via `sync.Map`** + shared `*http.Transport` via `sync.Once` for both SDK and raw REST paths. Eliminates the SDK's `/api/v1/version` preflight on every tool call and enables connection keep-alive across requests.
- Gated `to.TextResult` debug log behind `flag.Debug` to skip the `string(bytes)` allocation when debug is off.
- Hoisted `8192` and `60s` magic numbers in `pkg/gitea/rest.go` into named constants.
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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
---------
Co-authored-by: silverwind <silv3rwind@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp/pulls/195
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
- Tool list size reduced by 26.6% (43,032 → 31,599 bytes on the `tools/list` JSON-RPC response).
- Trim redundant tool/param descriptions; shared description constants for `owner`/`repo`/`page`/`per_page`.
- Schemas now use github-mcp-server param names directly: `issue_number` (was `index` on issue tools), `pull_number` (was `index` on PR tools), `path` (was `filePath`), `query` (was `keyword` on user/repo search), `per_page` (was `perPage`).
- New PR read methods `get_files` and `get_status`; new PR write method `update_branch` (update PR branch from base).
- `list_org_repos` now uses `per_page` (was `pageSize`).
- `milestone_write` accepts `update` and `edit`.
- `create_branch` `old_branch` is optional; Gitea defaults to the repo default branch.
- Fix `list_commits` handler to honour optional `page`/`per_page` schema (was erroring out when callers omitted them).
---
This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp/pulls/191
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-committed-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Adds `package_read` and `package_write` MCP tools for the Gitea
Packages API.
- `package_read` (read): `list`, `list_versions`, `get`
- `package_write` (write): `delete`
Package names containing slashes (e.g. container image paths like
`my-repo/my-image`) are accepted raw or pre-encoded and URL-encoded
correctly without double-encoding.
Co-Authored-By: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-Authored-By: Claude (Opus 4.7) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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