The scheduled-task runner built the agent's tool set from RAG retrieval plus
ASSISTANT_ALWAYS_AVAILABLE. Neither includes bash/python (nor the file tools),
and no keyword hint force-includes them, so a task only saw the shell when the
tool-embedding index happened to surface it. On hosts where that index is empty
or degraded (e.g. a fresh Docker deploy), retrieval returns nothing and the task
agent never receives bash/python — telling the user the shell is disabled even
for an admin owner.
Offer the shell/file group to task agents by default, mirroring the chat agent
where these are on unless a privilege or global setting turns them off. The
existing blocked_tools_for_owner() gate in stream_agent_loop still strips the
whole group for non-admin multi-user owners and only admits it for admins and
single-user (AUTH_ENABLED=false) deployments, so this changes what is offered,
not who is allowed. A crew that defines an explicit enabled_tools allowlist
still has its restriction honored.
Also merge the operator's global disabled_tools setting into the scheduler's
disabled set before composing relevant_tools and before entering the agent
loop, matching what chat already does. Without it, the global tool-disable
contract did not reach unattended scheduled tasks: an admin or AUTH_ENABLED=false
task could still see and call shell/file tools the operator had turned off
globally, since the prompt/schema/execution gates only enforce the disabled
tools passed in.
Ashvin