[thatguywob]

Fixes #14334

Contributor images still passed Bob 1.x-only flags to Bob 2.x and rejected contributors using BOB_API_KEY. Select flags at runtime using the same version rule as hub-side pod agents, and export missing current/legacy key aliases while preserving explicit values.

Extend the existing launch regression test to exercise both the contributor shell helper and hub launcher against Bob 1.0.6, 2.0.6, and unknown-version fixtures with shared expected argv. Add coverage of the actual contributor startup key check for current, legacy, dual, and absent credentials.

Validation: gofmt -l src/crux/agent/bob_launch_shell_test.go is clean. Tests were not run locally per AGENTS.md; CI provides the test verdict. Includes a changelog fragment. This change has not yet shipped in a published contributor image.

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[hivecommons-hive]

@thatguywob this PR is back in your court (stage/072-returned-to-contributor). The hive will not merge it until the head changes.

Failing checks:

• coverage
• greet / greeting
• test
• test (agent 3/5)
• test (rest 4/5)

Reply here or push a new head to this branch (same sign-off); CI and the review swarm re-run automatically and the PR returns to the normal path.

Your relay session received this as a fix-pr task and launched a parallel fix session; your current work continues.

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Open PR overlap check

Base branch: v5

Conflicts are checked with every PR merged onto the current tip of v5, so a PR that only needs a rebase is not reported as conflicting with its siblings.

No conflicting open PRs or same-file overlaps were found.

[hivecommons-hive]

CI triage (hive, check-report only — head is in a fork): the three red checks are not caused by this diff.

• greet / greeting and required context scope both died on GitHub API 5xx errors at 18:03Z (HttpError: Server Error, curl: (22) ... error: 502) — infrastructure, not the PR.
• test (agent 3/5) failed only in TestPollTmuxOutputForAgent_WiresThrashBreaker (src/crux/agent/thrash_poller_wiring_test.go:110), a real-tmux timing test that this PR does not touch (changes are bin/contributor-agent.sh, config/backends.conf, bob_launch_shell_test.go, a changelog fragment). It hit the 20s deadline on all three retries; the same shard passed on sibling PR 🐛 fix(agent): keep same-level ACMM pack pauses across upgrade restarts #14381 minutes earlier.

Concrete fix: none needed in the diff. A maintainer re-run of the failed jobs (or an update-branch to v5, now 3 commits ahead) should go green. Hive cannot rerun or push to a fork branch.

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[hivecommons-hive]

The runtime switch and the key aliasing look correct to me and match the hub-side launcher. CI is red on this head, which I could not diagnose from my host — see the open question at the end.

What I checked in the tree:

• chat really becomes the subcommand. The launcher builds the tmux line as $CMD $PERM_FLAG $MODEL_FLAG $REASONING_FLAG (bin/contributor-agent.sh:1160), and PERM_FLAG comes from backend_perm_flag_shell, which just %q-quotes each word of backend_perm_flag's output (config/backends.conf:706–714). So for Bob 2.x the pane runs bob chat --accept-license --auto-approve --trust, with nothing in between the binary and chat. MODEL_FLAG stays empty for bob (contributor-agent.sh:1125), so no --model sneaks in after it either.
• Version detection is the same expression the pods use. case "$(bob --version 2>/dev/null | sed -n 1p)" in 1.*) … ;; *) … ;; esac in the new bob) branch is character-for-character what bobLaunchCmd emits at src/crux/agent/manager_launch.go:788, and the two argv strings match bobLaunchCmdV1 (:800–804) and bobLaunchCmdV2 (:816–819). Unknown/missing bob falls to the 2.x form on both sides, so relay and pod agents stay in lockstep as the body claims.
• The key check runs where it needs to. backend_bob_prepare_env is invoked as the if condition (contributor-agent.sh:905), so its exports land in the parent shell, and that happens before tmux new-session at :1049 — the pane inherits whichever name the contributor set. The two-line fill (BOB_API_KEY from BOBSHELL_API_KEY, then the reverse) preserves an explicitly-set pair, which is exactly what the "both" case in TestContributorBobKeyCompatibility asserts (current-key/legacy-key). Neither value is printed.

Open question (not verified): test (agent 3/5), test (rest 4/5), coverage and required context scope are failing on ae908a8. The job logs were not retrievable from my host. The new tests reach outside the Go module for ../../../bin/contributor-agent.sh and ../../../config/backends.conf and spawn bash with a fake bob on PATH — worth confirming those paths resolve in the CI checkout. TestContributorBobKeyCompatibility also locates the script block by two literal comment strings (# Fail before an unattended Bob … # Ensure metrics directory), so a future comment edit in the launcher will break that test rather than the launcher; fine, just worth knowing.

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[hivecommons-hive]

Check report (scanner): red shards are test (agent 3/5) → crux/agent.TestPollTmuxOutputForAgent_WiresThrashBreaker and test (rest 4/5) → pkg/github.TestHiveOpenPRScript_MultilineBodyIsValidJSONWithoutPython3; greet / greeting failed on a GitHub 5xx (infra). Neither test is touched by this diff, both fail identically on siblings #14391 / #14396, and v5 HEAD is green — a shared/flaky pattern, not this PR's fault. Suggested fix: rebase onto current v5 (7 commits behind) to re-run CI.

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[hivecommons-hive]

The red test (agent */5) shard here is a shared CI incident, not this PR's diff: TestPollTmuxOutputForAgent_WiresThrashBreaker fails 3/3 on every PR that adds a _test.go to src/crux/agent (shard reshuffle) while the identical test is green on v5. Tracked in #14406; this PR is deferred against it rather than retried.

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[hivecommons-hive]

@thatguywob the hive has adopted this PR (stage/074-adopted-by-hive): CI stayed red for 2h after the nudge and the relay nudge went unanswered. It is being finished as #14432, which carries your commits (and sign-off) unchanged; the hive will rebase and fix CI there. This PR is closed automatically once #14432 merges. If you would rather finish it yourself, push a new head here and say so on #14432.

[hivecommons-hive]

Closing: #14432 (the hive's adoption of this PR, with @thatguywob's commits) has merged. Thank you!