Use Gitea from Claude Code
Bring Gitea context into engineering work while Type keeps app access attached to the teammate and workspace.
AI agent integrationGitea
Gitea integration for multiplayer collaboration with AI agents using Claude Code or Codex
One governed connection your whole team and its AI agents can share, with approved actions and human review, so working in Gitea never means pasting credentials into a prompt.
CategoryDeveloper Tools & IT
Automate Gitea with Codex
Let coding agents ask for the right app action, preserve conversation context, and keep humans in the approval loop.
Connect open agent workflows
Use Type as the collaboration layer around OpenClaw and other LLM workflows that need app access.
Developer Tools & IT
What the Gitea integration exposes
Community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go
One connection, many teammates
Connect Gitea once, then decide which teammates can use it for threads, automations, skills, and coding work.
Representative actions
- Get ActivityPub Person Actor
Tool to retrieve the ActivityPub Person actor for a Gitea user. Use when you need to fetch a user's ActivityPub representation for federation purposes or to get ActivityStreams-formatted user data.
- Get General API Settings
Tool to retrieve the Gitea instance's global API settings including pagination limits and response size constraints. Use when you need to understand API rate limits or configuration parameters.
- Get General Attachment Settings
Tool to retrieve the Gitea instance's global settings for file attachments including enabled status, allowed file types, size limits, and file count limits. Use when you need to understand the attachment configuration of the instance.
- Get General Repository Settings
Tool to retrieve the Gitea instance's global settings for repositories including feature flags for mirroring, HTTP Git, migrations, stars, time tracking, and LFS. Use when you need to understand which repository features are enabled or disabled at the instance level.
- Get General UI Settings
Tool to retrieve the Gitea instance's global settings for UI including default theme, allowed reactions, and custom emojis. Use when you need to understand the UI configuration of the instance.
Connection
API and auth details
Gitea publishes Swagger/OpenAPI-style REST API documentation for code-hosting resources. Integrations can manage repositories, issues, pull requests, releases, organizations, users, packages, and administrative resources on self-hosted or hosted Gitea instances, typically using access tokens or other instance-supported API authentication.
- Source
- Type catalog metadata
- Auth schemes
- API key
- API docs
- https://docs.gitea.com/api/1.21/
- Official site
- https://about.gitea.com/
FAQ
Questions people ask before connecting Gitea
Can Claude Code use Gitea?
Yes. Type lets an AI teammate use connected Gitea actions from a governed workspace context, so Claude Code work can reference the app without copying credentials into a local prompt.
Can Codex work with Gitea through Type?
Yes. Codex can collaborate through Type with app context, skills, and approved actions. The Gitea catalog entry includes public integration details and example capabilities where available.
Is this the same as a Gitea MCP server?
Type exposes connected app capabilities to AI teammates and coding agents through Type's integration layer. Teams use it when they want shared app access, human review, and teammate-level permissions around agent work.
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