fix: surface Gitea auth errors and document the service PAT
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Two related issues made the connected MCP server return a bare "Internal
server error" for tools that need real Gitea API access (e.g.
list_repositories), while public-repo-by-path reads worked:

1. Gitea OIDC access tokens only carry openid/profile/email and cannot call
   the repository REST API, so pure-OAuth mode fails for most tools. A service
   PAT (GITEA_TOKEN) is required in practice; per-user permission is still
   enforced before each call, so this does not weaken authorization.
2. The tool handlers caught GiteaError broadly and re-raised it as RuntimeError.
   Because GiteaAuthenticationError/GiteaAuthorizationError subclass GiteaError,
   a clean 401/403 was masked as a generic internal error and the server's
   re-authorization guidance never fired.

Changes:
- read_tools.py / repository.py / write_tools.py: re-raise the auth/authz
  subclasses before the broad GiteaError catch so server.py returns actionable
  guidance instead of a generic 500.
- .env.example + README.md: document GITEA_TOKEN as a least-privilege bot PAT,
  explain why it's needed and that OAuth remains authoritative, and note that
  list_repositories is intentionally unavailable in service-PAT mode.
- tests: assert tool handlers propagate auth errors unwrapped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
from aegis_gitea_mcp.config import reset_settings
from aegis_gitea_mcp.gitea_client import GiteaError
from aegis_gitea_mcp.gitea_client import (
GiteaAuthenticationError,
GiteaAuthorizationError,
GiteaError,
)
from aegis_gitea_mcp.tools.repository import (
get_file_contents_tool,
get_file_tree_tool,
@@ -70,6 +74,23 @@ async def test_list_repositories_tool_failure_mode() -> None:
await list_repositories_tool(RepoErrorStub(), {})
@pytest.mark.parametrize("auth_error", [GiteaAuthenticationError, GiteaAuthorizationError])
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_tool_propagates_auth_errors_unwrapped(auth_error: type[GiteaError]) -> None:
"""Auth/authz failures must surface as-is, not masked behind RuntimeError.
The server maps these to actionable re-authorization guidance; wrapping them
in RuntimeError would hide that and return a generic internal error instead.
"""
class AuthErrorStub(RepoStub):
async def list_repositories(self):
raise auth_error("token rejected")
with pytest.raises(auth_error):
await list_repositories_tool(AuthErrorStub(), {})
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_get_repository_info_tool_success() -> None:
"""Repository info tool returns normalized metadata."""