feat(platform): validate IBM Bob in real clients

[tirth8205]

Latest refresh — 18 July 2026

• rebased patch-identically onto main 0a3bd6c; current head 9f07ae4
• all 15 hosted checks passed after this rebase
• Bob Shell and Bob IDE are not installed here; this stays draft and is not mergeable by policy## Status

Draft — do not merge until the real-client checks below pass.

This re-stages the safe IBM Bob portion of PR #540 after it was reverted from main because only automated configuration tests had been run. The original contributor remains credited.

Change

• install the MCP server for Bob Shell at its documented user configuration path
• install the MCP server for Bob IDE at its documented project configuration path
• use command-based STDIO entries
• preserve unrelated configuration during install, reinstall, and uninstall
• document both clients

Automated validation

• IBM Bob install/skills tests: 189 passed
• complete non-daemon suite: 1,913 passed, 1 skipped, 2 expected deselections, 2 xpassed
• both multiprocessing parity checks: 2 passed
• Ruff and git diff --check: clean

Required real-client validation

Do not mark this ready or merge it until all items below are recorded with the released applications:

• Bob Shell discovers the generated MCP server without configuration errors
• Bob Shell invokes a code-review-graph tool successfully
• Bob IDE discovers the project MCP server without configuration errors
• Bob IDE invokes a code-review-graph tool successfully
• reinstall/upgrade preserves unrelated Bob MCP entries in both clients
• uninstall removes only code-review-graph and both clients still load their remaining MCP configuration

Carries the safe intent of PR #540 with mohan-kumar-m2 preserved as co-author.

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code-review-graph review

Overall risk: 0.55 (MEDIUM) — 11 changed function(s)/class(es), 0 affected flow(s), 3 test gap(s)

Risk-scored changes

Risk	Level	Symbol	Location	Tested
0.55	medium	code_review_graph/skills.py::install_platform_configs	code_review_graph/skills.py:433	no
0.45	medium	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_all_does_not_create_bob_files_without_detection_signal	tests/test_skills.py:1662	(test)
0.30	low	tests/test_cli_install.py::test_platform_choices_use_current_bob_product_names	tests/test_cli_install.py:101	(test)
0.30	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_bob_platform_entries_follow_current_ibm_contracts	tests/test_skills.py:1566	(test)
0.30	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.find_executable	tests/test_skills.py:1647	no
0.25	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms	tests/test_skills.py:1563	no
0.25	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_install_bob_shell_uses_global_settings_without_stdio_type	tests/test_skills.py:1580	(test)
0.25	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_install_bob_ide_uses_project_settings_without_stdio_type	tests/test_skills.py:1593	(test)
0.25	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_bob_install_preserves_existing_servers_and_is_idempotent	tests/test_skills.py:1605	(test)
0.25	low	tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.test_all_detects_bob_ide_from_workspace_directory	tests/test_skills.py:1628	(test)

Test gaps

• code_review_graph/skills.py::install_platform_configs (code_review_graph/skills.py:433)
• tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms (tests/test_skills.py:1563)
• tests/test_skills.py::TestBobPlatforms.find_executable (tests/test_skills.py:1647)

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[rajpratham1]

This pull request provides a well-structured addition of IBM Bob Shell and IBM Bob IDE platform support. The implementation introduces dedicated platform definitions, updates CLI platform selection, follows the documented mcpServers configuration format for both Bob clients, and adds appropriate auto-detection logic to avoid generating unnecessary configuration files. The documentation has been updated to reflect the new supported platforms, and the accompanying test suite thoroughly validates installation, detection, idempotency, configuration preservation, and CLI behavior. The implementation is consistent across the codebase, documentation, and tests, and no blocking issues were identified. LGTM and approved.