The bundled skill's Discovery section told the agent to run the bare
dashboard and reach for --help proactively, and advertised overlapping
find-paths — inducing exploratory commands that made the gitea-axi arm the
most expensive of the benchmark's four. Replace it with a "find the target,
then act" section, name the non-obvious mutation flags so common edits do
not need --help, and drop the setup line and the over-tea/raw/git bullets
that only duplicated the description. A same-time A/B cut cost-equivalent
tokens ~10% and collapsed bare-dashboard use from 60% to 7% with no loss of
success.
`issue view` rendered state but never labels, and offered no way to add
them — so reading one issue's labels forced a detour through
`issue list --fields labels` and hunting the matching row. The benchmark
transcripts showed agents paying this round-trip on every labels/state
read.
Show labels by default in the detail view (a detail view should be
complete), and add a `--fields` flag mirroring `issue list` / `search`
to append assignees, closedAt, milestone, updatedAt, url on request.
Also strengthen SKILL.md against the two command-discovery round-trips
the transcripts exposed: name the required `search issues` / `search prs`
subcommand form (a bare `search "<query>"` is invalid), and point agents
straight at `issue view <n>` for a single issue's fields.
Verified live: read-issue-labels-and-state dropped from 10 turns to 4
(cache-read ~3.3x lower), the transcript reduced to three clean commands
with the search-help and issue-list round-trips gone.
The gitea-axi arm was the only shell arm handed no credentials: the
runner set only PATH, so the agent had to reverse-engineer the tea-login
system — guessing a profile name and hunting for a config file — before
any real work, burning ~4 turns per task. Since turns drive cache-read,
the benchmark's dominant cost metric, this scaffolding gap alone inflated
gitea-axi's cost-equivalent tokens above every other arm.
Hand the arm its host and token through gitea-axi's own env interface
(GITEA_AXI_API_URL / GITEA_AXI_TOKEN), the symmetric counterpart to the
gitea-mcp server's GITEA_HOST / GITEA_ACCESS_TOKEN env: both name the
same two facts, and both still leave the agent to name the repository per
call. A shell arm now carries a credential env (empty for tea and
raw-api, which need none), merged under PATH in the driver.
Also strengthen SKILL.md so a cold agent targets and authenticates on the
first call: an explicit "Targeting and authentication" section replaces
the buried, optional-looking one-liner, spelling out that outside a
checkout `-R OWNER/NAME` plus the environment's token is all that is
needed — do not go hunting for a config file or login profile.
Verified live: create-memory-leak-issue dropped from 10 turns to 3 and
its cache-read fell ~3.8x, with the auth flailing gone from the transcript.
Distribute gitea-axi's ambient context via explicit user actions (ADRs
0009, 0013), with no postinstall script:
- Bundle the Agent Skill markdown at skills/gitea-axi/SKILL.md (a
minimal pointer, not a command reference) and ship it via package.json
files.
- Add `setup`, which installs the skill into ~/.claude/skills/
idempotently (installed/updated/unchanged).
- Add `setup hooks`, which registers a SessionStart hook running the
bare dashboard for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode via the SDK's
installSessionStartHooks(), updating managed entries in place.
- Shadow the SDK's built-in `update` so it fails with VALIDATION_ERROR
and points at the npm update command, keeping the ten-code error list
intact.
Integration tests drive all three at the CLI seam against a temporary
HOME; these commands make no Gitea API calls, so there is no live-Gitea
e2e case.
