Gitee Skill

Use git for clone, fetch, branch, and push operations. Use curl + jq for structured Gitee API calls.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• Checking Gitee pull requests, branches, or repository metadata
• Listing or creating issues on a Gitee repository
• Reading repository files through the Gitee API
• Automating Gitee workflows from the terminal when no dedicated CLI is available

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Working with GitHub repositories → use the github skill
• Doing local-only git work with no Gitee interaction → use git directly
• Handling browser-only flows such as login, captcha, or SSO approval

Setup

1. Create a Gitee personal access token with the repository permissions you need.
2. Export the API base URL and token:

export GITEE_API="https://gitee.com/api/v5"
export GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN="..."

3. Never print, commit, or paste the token into chat. Keep it in environment/config only.

Remote Patterns

Common Gitee remotes:

https://gitee.com/owner/repo.git
[email protected]:owner/repo.git

Inspect the current repo:

git remote -v
git remote get-url origin

API Conventions

• Gitee OpenAPI examples commonly pass OAuth2 credentials as access_token.
• Prefer curl -fsS so HTTP failures surface clearly.
• Prefer jq -nc to build JSON request bodies instead of hand-escaped strings.
• Repository issue APIs differ from GitHub: many issue routes use /repos/{owner}/issues and pass the repo name as a repo field.

Common Commands

Pull Requests

List open pull requests:

OWNER=owner
REPO=repo

curl -fsS --get "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/pulls" \
  --data-urlencode "access_token=$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "state=open" |
  jq '.[] | {number, title, state, author: .user.login}'

View one pull request:

PR_NUMBER=12

curl -fsS --get "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/pulls/$PR_NUMBER" \
  --data-urlencode "access_token=$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Create a pull request:

HEAD_BRANCH="feature-branch"
BASE_BRANCH="main"
TITLE="feat: add gitee support"
BODY="Summary of the change"

curl -fsS -X POST "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/pulls" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -nc \
    --arg access_token "$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
    --arg title "$TITLE" \
    --arg head "$HEAD_BRANCH" \
    --arg base "$BASE_BRANCH" \
    --arg body "$BODY" \
    '{access_token: $access_token, title: $title, head: $head, base: $base, body: $body}')" |
  jq '{number, title, html_url, state}'

Issues

List issues for a repository:

curl -fsS --get "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/issues" \
  --data-urlencode "access_token=$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "repo=$REPO" \
  --data-urlencode "state=open" |
  jq '.[] | {number, title, state}'

Create an issue:

TITLE="Bug: unexpected failure"
BODY="Steps to reproduce..."

curl -fsS -X POST "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/issues" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -nc \
    --arg access_token "$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
    --arg repo "$REPO" \
    --arg title "$TITLE" \
    --arg body "$BODY" \
    '{access_token: $access_token, repo: $repo, title: $title, body: $body}')" |
  jq '{number, title, state, html_url}'

Repository Contents

Read a file:

FILE_PATH="README.md"

curl -fsS --get "$GITEE_API/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/contents/$FILE_PATH" \
  --data-urlencode "access_token=$GITEE_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Create or update file contents use the same path with POST or PUT. Build the JSON body with jq -nc and include the commit message plus content fields required by the endpoint.

Git Transport

Clone from Gitee:

git clone "https://gitee.com/$OWNER/$REPO.git"

Push the current branch:

git push origin HEAD

Add a dedicated Gitee remote:

git remote add gitee "[email protected]:$OWNER/$REPO.git"
git push gitee HEAD

Useful jq Filters

Open PR titles:

jq -r '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.title)"'

Issue numbers and links:

jq -r '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.html_url)"'

Notes

• Prefer API calls when you need structured metadata, filtering, or automation.
• Prefer git when you need branch, commit, clone, fetch, or push behavior.
• Gitee OpenAPI docs: https://gitee.com/api/v5/swagger
• If an operation is missing here, look it up in the OpenAPI docs and keep the same access_token + curl pattern.