hypershift/jira-agent: enable podman build capability

ci-operator/config/openshift/hypershift/openshift-hypershift-main.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ base_images:
     name: "4.22"
     namespace: ocp
     tag: manila-csi-driver-operator-test
+  nested-podman:
+    name: nested-podman
+    namespace: ci
+    tag: latest
   openstack-cinder-csi-driver-operator-test:
     name: "4.22"
     namespace: ocp
@@ -32,6 +36,31 @@ images:
   to: hypershift
 - dockerfile_path: Dockerfile.e2e
   to: hypershift-tests
+- dockerfile_literal: |
+    FROM quay.io/openshift/ci:claude-ai-helpers as claude-tools
+    FROM nested-podman
+    USER root
+    # Install GitHub CLI
+    RUN dnf install -y 'dnf-command(config-manager)' && \
+        dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cli.github.com/packages/rpm/gh-cli.repo && \
+        dnf install -y gh python3 python3-pip git jq openssl && \
+        dnf clean all
+    # Copy Claude CLI runtime and config from ai-helpers image
+    COPY --from=claude-tools /home/claude/.local/ /home/claude/.local/
+    COPY --from=claude-tools /home/claude/.claude/ /home/claude/.claude/
+    COPY --from=claude-tools /opt/ai-helpers /opt/ai-helpers
+    # Ensure OpenShift random UID compatibility (root group)
+    RUN chown -R 1000:0 /home/claude && chmod -R g+rwx /home/claude && \
+        chown -R 1000:0 /opt/ai-helpers && chmod -R g+rwx /opt/ai-helpers
+    ENV PATH="/home/claude/.local/bin:${PATH}"
+    ENV CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR="/home/claude/.claude"
+    RUN claude --version && gh --version && podman --version
+  from: nested-podman
+  inputs:
+    claude-ai-helpers:
+      as:
+      - quay.io/openshift/ci:claude-ai-helpers
+  to: claude-ai-helpers-nested-podman
 - dockerfile_literal: |
     FROM base
     RUN dnf install -y python3-pip

ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/jira-agent/process/hypershift-jira-agent-process-commands.sh

@@ -20,6 +20,19 @@ git clone https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers /tmp/ai-helpers
 echo "Cloning HyperShift repository..."
 git clone https://github.com/hypershift-community/hypershift /tmp/hypershift
 
+# Configure management cluster kubeconfig
+export KUBECONFIG=/var/run/agent-management-kubeconfig/kubeconfig
+echo "=== Validating management cluster access ==="
+oc whoami
+oc get nodes
+echo "=== Management cluster access validated ==="
+
+# Build HyperShift operator image
+echo "=== Building HyperShift operator image ==="
+podman build -f /tmp/hypershift/Dockerfile --platform linux/amd64 -t quay.io/agarcial/ho:test /tmp/hypershift
+echo "=== HyperShift operator image built successfully ==="
+exit 0
+
 # Copy jira-solve command from ai-helpers to hypershift
 echo "Setting up Claude commands..."
 mkdir -p /tmp/hypershift/.claude/commands

ci-operator/step-registry/hypershift/jira-agent/process/hypershift-jira-agent-process-ref.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 
 ref:
   as: hypershift-jira-agent-process
-  from: claude-ai-helpers
+  from: claude-ai-helpers-nested-podman
+  nested_podman: true
+  cli: latest
   commands: hypershift-jira-agent-process-commands.sh
   env:
   - name: CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX
@@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ ref:
   - namespace: test-credentials
     name: hypershift-team-claude-prow
     mount_path: /var/run/claude-code-service-account
+  - namespace: test-credentials
+    name: agent-management-kubeconfig
+    mount_path: /var/run/agent-management-kubeconfig
   documentation: |-
     Process step for the HyperShift Jira agent periodic job.
     This step runs a four-phase pipeline for each issue: