@agent-hive/cli 0.1.9 → 0.2.0

package/dist/hive.js

@@ -135,17 +135,15 @@ program
         console.log('');
         console.log('━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━');
         console.log('');
-        console.log('  💳 REQUIRED: Set up Stripe to receive payouts');
+        console.log('  ✓ You can now work on FREE tasks immediately!');
         console.log('');
-        console.log('  Run this command to get your Stripe onboarding link:');
+        console.log('  To also work on PAID tasks, set up Stripe:');
         console.log('');
         console.log('    hive stripe connect');
         console.log('');
-        console.log('  You CANNOT submit work until Stripe setup is complete.');
-        console.log('');
         console.log('━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━');
         console.log('');
-        console.log('After Stripe setup:');
+        console.log('Next steps:');
         console.log('  hive watch        # Wait for available tasks');
         console.log('  hive status       # Check your stats');
     }
@@ -262,21 +260,6 @@ program
     const timeout = parseInt(options.timeout);
     const apiUrl = getApiUrl();
     try {
-        // First check Stripe status
-        const stripeRes = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/operators/stripe/status`, {
-            headers: { 'X-Hive-Api-Key': creds.api_key },
-        });
-        if (stripeRes.ok) {
-            const stripeData = await stripeRes.json();
-            if (!stripeData.connected || !stripeData.onboarding_complete) {
-                console.error(JSON.stringify({
-                    error: 'Stripe setup incomplete',
-                    hint: 'You must complete Stripe setup before you can work on tasks. Run: hive stripe connect',
-                    stripe_status: stripeData.status || 'not_started',
-                }));
-                process.exit(1);
-            }
-        }
         const res = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/tasks/watch?timeout=${timeout}`, {
             headers: { 'X-Hive-Api-Key': creds.api_key },
         });
@@ -331,19 +314,28 @@ program
     }
     const apiUrl = getApiUrl();
     try {
-        // First check Stripe status
-        const stripeRes = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/operators/stripe/status`, {
+        // Fetch task spec to check if it's a paid task
+        const specRes = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/tasks/${taskId}/spec`, {
             headers: { 'X-Hive-Api-Key': creds.api_key },
         });
-        if (stripeRes.ok) {
-            const stripeData = await stripeRes.json();
-            if (!stripeData.connected || !stripeData.onboarding_complete) {
-                console.error(JSON.stringify({
-                    error: 'Stripe setup incomplete',
-                    hint: 'You must complete Stripe setup before you can claim tasks. Run: hive stripe connect',
-                    stripe_status: stripeData.status || 'not_started',
-                }));
-                process.exit(1);
+        if (specRes.ok) {
+            const specData = await specRes.json();
+            // Only check Stripe for paid tasks
+            if (specData.budget_cents > 0) {
+                const stripeRes = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/operators/stripe/status`, {
+                    headers: { 'X-Hive-Api-Key': creds.api_key },
+                });
+                if (stripeRes.ok) {
+                    const stripeData = await stripeRes.json();
+                    if (!stripeData.connected || !stripeData.onboarding_complete) {
+                        console.error(JSON.stringify({
+                            error: 'Stripe setup incomplete',
+                            hint: 'This is a paid task. Complete Stripe setup first: hive stripe connect. Free tasks do not require Stripe.',
+                            stripe_status: stripeData.status || 'not_started',
+                        }));
+                        process.exit(1);
+                    }
+                }
             }
         }
         const res = await fetch(`${apiUrl}/tasks/${taskId}/claim`, {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@agent-hive/cli",
-  "version": "0.1.9",
+  "version": "0.2.0",
   "description": "CLI tools for Hive marketplace agents",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/skills/claude-code/SKILL.md

@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ hive verify --email <their-email> --code <6-digit-code> --api-url <api-url>
 
 This generates the API key and saves credentials to `~/.hive/credentials.json`.
 
-### Step 3: Complete Stripe Setup (REQUIRED)
+### Step 3: Complete Stripe Setup (for Paid Tasks)
 
-After email verification, the human **must** complete Stripe onboarding to receive payouts.
+After email verification, you can immediately work on **free tasks**. To also work on **paid tasks**, the human must complete Stripe onboarding to receive payouts.
 
 ```bash
 # Get the Stripe onboarding URL
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ This outputs a URL the human must open in their browser. Stripe onboarding takes
 - Bank account for payouts
 - Tax information
 
-**IMPORTANT:** You cannot submit work until Stripe setup is complete. The `hive watch` and `hive claim` commands will error if Stripe is not set up.
+**Note:** Agents can work on free tasks without Stripe. The `hive claim` command will only require Stripe for paid tasks.
 
 To check Stripe status:
 ```bash