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sysadminandClaude Opus 4.8 a002864a06 fix(mcp): add sanctioned gitea_edit_issue and a doc/registry drift guard (Closes #781)
The gitea-workflow documentation named a gitea_edit_issue tool that no
namespace had ever registered. There was no sanctioned MCP path to change an
issue title or body at all: the only edit tool, gitea_edit_pr, PATCHes the
pull-request endpoint. An authorized body correction on issue #780 therefore
had to be recorded as a discussion comment instead.

Add edit_issue.py as the authoritative rule and gitea_edit_issue as the tool
built on it:

- Only the fields the caller names are sent, so labels, state, assignee, and
  milestone cannot be overwritten from a stale read.
- A pull-request number is refused. Gitea serves pull requests from the same
  /issues/{n} collection, so without that check the issue path would quietly
  become a second, ungated PR edit path. gitea_edit_pr stays PR-only.
- Structurally invalid requests raise before any credential or network work;
  a request that would change nothing is reported as an explicit no-op with a
  next action rather than a silent success.
- Read-after-write proves the applied title/body and proves that state,
  labels, assignees, and milestone did not move. Transport failures on the
  pre-read, the PATCH, and the read-back are each reported, redacted, with
  the correct performed/verified state.

Gates match every other issue mutation: profile permission via the shared
capability map (resolver task edit_issue, gitea.issue.comment), preflight
purity, branches worktree validation, anti-stomp inventory membership, and
audited mutation.

Fix the drift that hid this. docs/mcp-tool-inventory.md is now the canonical
registered-tool list, and mcp_tool_inventory.py compares it to the live
registry in both directions, plus checks that every tool named under skills/
is registered. The new guard immediately found a second instance of the same
defect: gitea_record_pre_review_command had lost its @mcp.tool() decorator
while the canonical review workflow still instructed reviewers to call it, so
that registration is restored.

Validation:
PASSED: venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_issue_781_edit_issue_tool.py -s -q
  — 50 passed
FAILED: venv/bin/python -m pytest -s -q — 4095 passed, 11 failed, 6 skipped.
  The identical 11 tests fail on clean master 8e149e6 with no changes applied
  (254 passed, 11 failed across those five files), so they are pre-existing
  and proven by a baseline run rather than asserted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-21 16:52:23 -04:00

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"""Documented-vs-registered MCP tool inventory guard (#781).
The workflow documentation named a ``gitea_edit_issue`` tool that no namespace
had ever registered. Nothing compared the two lists, so an actor could plan a
mutation against a tool that did not exist and only discover it at execution
time — after the work was already scoped around it.
This module is that comparison, in two directions:
- :func:`assess_inventory_drift` compares the canonical inventory documented in
``docs/mcp-tool-inventory.md`` against the tools actually registered on the
MCP server. Either list drifting fails the guard, so a new tool must be
documented and a removed tool must be undocumented in the same change.
- :func:`assess_doc_references` catches the original defect directly: any tool
name a workflow/skill document tells an actor to call must be registered.
Module and script names legitimately appear in the same prose (``gitea_auth``,
``offline_mcp_runner``), so :data:`NON_TOOL_IDENTIFIERS` names the known
non-tool identifiers explicitly rather than loosening the pattern.
This module performs no I/O — callers own reading the files.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import re
from typing import Any, Iterable, Mapping
#: Canonical documented inventory, relative to the repository root.
INVENTORY_DOC_PATH = "docs/mcp-tool-inventory.md"
#: Delimiters around the generated inventory list in the doc.
INVENTORY_BEGIN_MARKER = "<!-- BEGIN REGISTERED TOOL INVENTORY -->"
INVENTORY_END_MARKER = "<!-- END REGISTERED TOOL INVENTORY -->"
#: Backticked identifiers that look like tool names but are modules/scripts.
#: Every entry is a real file in this repository, not an MCP tool.
NON_TOOL_IDENTIFIERS: frozenset[str] = frozenset(
{
"gitea_auth",
"gitea_config",
"gitea_mcp_server",
"mcp_server",
"offline_mcp_helper",
"offline_mcp_runner",
}
)
#: Prefixes that mark an identifier as a candidate MCP tool name.
TOOL_NAME_PREFIXES: tuple[str, ...] = ("gitea_", "mcp_")
_INVENTORY_ENTRY = re.compile(r"^-\s+`([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)`")
_BACKTICKED = re.compile(r"`([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)`")
def parse_documented_inventory(text: str) -> list[str]:
"""Return the tool names listed between the inventory markers.
Raises ``ValueError`` when the markers are missing or out of order, so a
mangled document fails the guard instead of silently documenting nothing.
"""
start = text.find(INVENTORY_BEGIN_MARKER)
end = text.find(INVENTORY_END_MARKER)
if start == -1 or end == -1 or end < start:
raise ValueError(
f"{INVENTORY_DOC_PATH} must contain "
f"'{INVENTORY_BEGIN_MARKER}' followed by "
f"'{INVENTORY_END_MARKER}' (fail closed)."
)
block = text[start + len(INVENTORY_BEGIN_MARKER) : end]
names: list[str] = []
for line in block.splitlines():
match = _INVENTORY_ENTRY.match(line.strip())
if match:
names.append(match.group(1))
return names
def looks_like_tool_name(identifier: str) -> bool:
"""Return whether a backticked identifier is a candidate tool name."""
if identifier in NON_TOOL_IDENTIFIERS:
return False
return identifier.startswith(TOOL_NAME_PREFIXES)
def extract_tool_references(text: str) -> set[str]:
"""Return candidate tool names a document tells an actor to call."""
return {
name
for name in _BACKTICKED.findall(text)
if looks_like_tool_name(name)
}
def assess_inventory_drift(
documented: Iterable[str],
registered: Iterable[str],
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Compare the documented inventory against the registered tool set."""
documented_list = list(documented)
documented_set = set(documented_list)
registered_set = set(registered)
duplicates = sorted(
{name for name in documented_list if documented_list.count(name) > 1}
)
documented_not_registered = sorted(documented_set - registered_set)
registered_not_documented = sorted(registered_set - documented_set)
unsorted = documented_list != sorted(documented_list)
reasons: list[str] = []
if documented_not_registered:
reasons.append(
"documented but not registered: "
+ ", ".join(documented_not_registered)
)
if registered_not_documented:
reasons.append(
"registered but not documented: "
+ ", ".join(registered_not_documented)
)
if duplicates:
reasons.append("listed more than once: " + ", ".join(duplicates))
if unsorted:
reasons.append("inventory entries are not in sorted order")
in_sync = not reasons
return {
"in_sync": in_sync,
"documented_count": len(documented_set),
"registered_count": len(registered_set),
"documented_not_registered": documented_not_registered,
"registered_not_documented": registered_not_documented,
"duplicates": duplicates,
"sorted": not unsorted,
"reasons": reasons,
"safe_next_action": (
""
if in_sync
else (
f"Update {INVENTORY_DOC_PATH} so the block between the "
"inventory markers lists exactly the registered tools, sorted, "
"one '- `tool_name`' entry per line."
)
),
}
def assess_doc_references(
references: Mapping[str, Iterable[str]],
registered: Iterable[str],
) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""Verify every tool a document names is actually registered.
*references* maps a document path to the candidate tool names it mentions.
"""
registered_set = set(registered)
unregistered: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
checked = 0
for path, names in sorted(references.items()):
for name in sorted(set(names)):
checked += 1
if name not in registered_set:
unregistered.append({"document": path, "tool": name})
clean = not unregistered
reasons = [
f"{entry['document']} documents '{entry['tool']}', "
"which no namespace registers"
for entry in unregistered
]
return {
"clean": clean,
"checked_count": checked,
"unregistered": unregistered,
"reasons": reasons,
"safe_next_action": (
""
if clean
else (
"Either register the named tool with @mcp.tool() or correct the "
"document. Documentation must never name a tool an actor cannot "
"reach. If the identifier is a module or script rather than a "
"tool, add it to mcp_tool_inventory.NON_TOOL_IDENTIFIERS."
)
),
}
def render_inventory_block(registered: Iterable[str]) -> str:
"""Render the marker-delimited inventory block for the documentation."""
lines = [INVENTORY_BEGIN_MARKER, ""]
lines.extend(f"- `{name}`" for name in sorted(set(registered)))
lines.extend(["", INVENTORY_END_MARKER])
return "\n".join(lines)