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session	2026-05-27	gitea plugin cowork

2026-05-27 — Personal Gitea Plugin

What happened

Built a personal Gitea plugin (git-personal) for git.alwisp.com, forked from the existing work plugin (git-mpm targeting git.mpm.to). Updated all server URLs, API key, and plugin metadata throughout 8 files.

Then updated the plugin's file upload patterns to avoid a known base64 encoding problem.

Decisions made

• Personal plugin lives separately from the work plugin — same skill structure, different credentials and base URL
• File create/update operations now use Python + temp files for base64 encoding instead of echo -n | base64 (which caused silent corruption via line-wrapping and shell escaping)
• Reads always use the /raw/ endpoint rather than decoding the base64 content field from /contents/
• JSON payloads are written to a temp file and passed via --data-binary @file to avoid shell escaping issues

Artifacts

• F:\CLAUDE\COWORK\COWORK\git-personal.plugin — ready to install

Open threads / next steps

• None identified