.gitea/workflows/agent.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,31 @@ name: agent
 # The gate + steps run in the caller's event context (github.event.* / github.repository are the caller's).
 on:
   workflow_call:
+    # Explicit secret contract so callers can map secrets by name (more reliable than
+    # secrets: inherit alone on some Gitea versions / cross-owner reusable workflows).
+    secrets:
+      GITEA_TOKEN:
+        required: true
+      OLLAMA_URL:
+        required: false
+      OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY:
+        required: false
+      XAI_API_KEY:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_PM:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_SENIOR:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_JUNIOR:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_LEAD:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_QA:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_OPS:
+        required: false
+      TOKEN_INTERN:
+        required: false
 
 # Pinned opencode version — used to install it and to key the CI cache below.
 env:
@@ -150,7 +175,9 @@ jobs:
           SCRIPTS: ${{ runner.temp }}/agents-scripts
           OLLAMA_URL: ${{ secrets.OLLAMA_URL }}
           OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY }}
-          XAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.XAI_API_KEY }}
+          # Accept common alternate names — empty XAI_API_KEY has bitten us when the
+          # secret was stored under a slightly different key on the caller repo.
+          XAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.XAI_API_KEY || secrets.XAI_KEY || secrets.GROK_API_KEY || secrets.XAI_TOKEN }}
           NAME: ${{ steps.prep.outputs.name }}
           SKILLS: ${{ steps.prep.outputs.skills }}   # JSON array of skills this agent may load
         run: bash "$SCRIPTS/install-opencode.sh"
@@ -213,7 +240,7 @@ jobs:
         id: run
         env:
           SCRIPTS: ${{ runner.temp }}/agents-scripts
-          XAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.XAI_API_KEY }}
+          XAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.XAI_API_KEY || secrets.XAI_KEY || secrets.GROK_API_KEY || secrets.XAI_TOKEN }}
           # SELF_TOKEN = the RUNNING agent's OWN token (TOKEN_PM for @pm, TOKEN_OPS for @ops, …).
           # Only this agent's token is placed in its process env, so no agent can act as another.
           # Powers the gitea-api / gitea-admin skills — each agent calls Gitea as itself. Every

.gitea/workflows/ai-agent.yml

@@ -12,4 +12,17 @@ on:
 jobs:
   agent:
     uses: gitea/agents/.gitea/workflows/agent.yml@main
-    secrets: inherit
+    # Explicit secret map (plus inherit) so XAI_API_KEY / OLLAMA_* always reach the reusable
+    # workflow. secrets: inherit alone has left XAI_API_KEY empty on some Gitea cross-owner calls.
+    secrets:
+      GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}
+      OLLAMA_URL: ${{ secrets.OLLAMA_URL }}
+      OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY }}
+      XAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.XAI_API_KEY }}
+      TOKEN_PM: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_PM }}
+      TOKEN_SENIOR: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_SENIOR }}
+      TOKEN_JUNIOR: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_JUNIOR }}
+      TOKEN_LEAD: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_LEAD }}
+      TOKEN_QA: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_QA }}
+      TOKEN_OPS: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_OPS }}
+      TOKEN_INTERN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_INTERN }}

.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-opencode.sh

@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
 #   NAME SKILLS GITHUB_PATH HOME
 set -eu
 
+# Non-secret diagnostics — prove which provider keys reached the runner (length only).
+echo "provider key lengths: OLLAMA_URL=${#OLLAMA_URL} OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY=${#OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY} XAI_API_KEY=${#XAI_API_KEY}"
+if [ -z "${XAI_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+  echo "WARNING: XAI_API_KEY is empty in this job. xai-oc fallback will fail."
+  echo "Fix: set Actions secret XAI_API_KEY on the CALLER repo (e.g. ffaerber/homelab),"
+  echo "not only on gitea/agents. Name must be exact: XAI_API_KEY"
+fi
+
 # PIN the opencode version: an unpinned `latest` means a breaking release (CLI flags, or the
 # --format json event schema that build-activity-log.sh parses) breaks every agent in every repo
 # at once. Bump deliberately by changing this default (or set OPENCODE_VERSION in the step env).