How Gitea’s scores are calculated

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“It can be easily deployed on various servers without complex configurations or dependencies.”
• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Universally compatible with diverse operating systems and environments, including Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and Kubernetes. Compatible with multiple architectures, such as x86 and arm64.”
• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea Actions supports CI/CD functionality, compatible with GitHub Actions. Users can write workflows in familiar YAML format and reuse a variety of existing Actions plugins.”
• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/tea“official CLI documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/tea”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Used Gitea (previously Gogs) for a team of 45; setup with Docker was smooth and worked easily with Certbot, but documentation is lacking (had to rely on Gogs' docs since they're nearly identical).”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Put Gitea on a $5 VPS for personal projects; works great, though unsure how secure it is if exposed publicly (uses SSH port-forwarding instead). Wants a GitHub Pages-like static site feature.”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp“official MCP server documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 21.0 of 30 max

• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp“official MCP server documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/tea“official CLI documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/tea”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 10.8 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“You can create a private repo without using the UI/CLI just by adding a git remote and pushing—Gitea auto-creates it as private.”
• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/tea“official CLI documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/tea”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea places a strong emphasis on security, offering features such as user permission management, access control lists, and more to ensure the security of code and data.”

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32301936“Complaint about Gitea 1.17.0 breaking changes (e.g. reserving usernames) and maintainers allegedly ignoring valid concerns about email regex validation before merging.”

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“You can create a private repo without using the UI/CLI just by adding a git remote and pushing—Gitea auto-creates it as private.”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245246“Complaint about Gitea's backup and restore mechanism reportedly still not being good, cited as a blocker for migrating from Gogs.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“Last time I tried Gitea, migrating existing git repos into it was surprisingly difficult.”

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Comparison of GitHub stats: Gogs had 24,564 stars vs Gitea's 5,971, and Gogs' README listed a much more thorough features list; Gogs looked like the more polished product from README alone.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“Critique: Gitea's codebase has issues—migrations lack 'down' support, uses nonstandard go-macaron framework, too much logic in Go templates, and could use a rewrite; inherited many issues from Gogs.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245246“Gogs, which Gitea forked from, works just as well, has no clear technical advantage in the fork, and had far more GitHub stars, questioning why choose Gitea over Gogs.”

Self-host the core productweight 3

3 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 27.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“It can be easily deployed on various servers without complex configurations or dependencies.”
• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Universally compatible with diverse operating systems and environments, including Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and Kubernetes. Compatible with multiple architectures, such as x86 and arm64.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Used Gitea to deploy a Git server for 8 users; much simpler than a full Gitlab instance, just one binary to run, and users found the GitHub-like interface instantly familiar.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Used Gitea (previously Gogs) for a team of 45; setup with Docker was smooth and worked easily with Certbot, but documentation is lacking (had to rely on Gogs' docs since they're nearly identical).”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503“Put Gitea on a $5 VPS for personal projects; works great, though unsure how secure it is if exposed publicly (uses SSH port-forwarding instead). Wants a GitHub Pages-like static site feature.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“Using Gitea + Drone for several years: stable, fast, and doesn't consume a lot of RAM.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628939“Migrated from self-hosted Gitlab to Gitea, Nexus and Drone because maintaining Gitlab's size/complexity was too cumbersome; Gitea's UI is a bit worse than GitHub/Gitlab but far more performant on limited hardware (4GB RAM).”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32301936“Gitea performs well even on slow, low-resource computers (e.g. Atom x7-E3950 with 16GB RAM), unlike Gitlab which struggles on the same hardware.”

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea Actions supports CI/CD functionality, compatible with GitHub Actions. Users can write workflows in familiar YAML format and reuse a variety of existing Actions plugins.”
• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://docs.gitea.com/llms.txt”
• [probe] https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.gitea.com/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/swagger.json, https://docs.gitea.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.gitea.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp“official MCP server documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-mcp”
• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/tea“official CLI documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/tea”

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”
• [probe] https://gitea.com/gitea/tea“official CLI documented at https://gitea.com/gitea/tea”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 21.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea Actions supports CI/CD functionality, compatible with GitHub Actions. Users can write workflows in familiar YAML format and reuse a variety of existing Actions plugins.”
• [claimed-docs] https://about.gitea.com“Extend Gitea's functionality with our API and webhooks, creating custom workflows to match your unique needs.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea Actions supports CI/CD functionality, compatible with GitHub Actions. Users can write workflows in familiar YAML format and reuse a variety of existing Actions plugins.”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

1 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 7.0 of 10 max

• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea supports creating and managing repositories, browsing commit history and code files, reviewing and merging code submissions, managing collaborators, handling branches, and more.”
• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Gitea Actions supports CI/CD functionality, compatible with GitHub Actions. Users can write workflows in familiar YAML format and reuse a variety of existing Actions plugins.”
• [claimed-docs] https://docs.gitea.com“Code review supports both the Pull Request workflow and AGit workflow. Reviewers can browse code online and provide review comments or feedback.”