OpenClaw Parallels Smoke

Use this skill for Parallels guest workflows and smoke interpretation. Do not load it for normal repo work.

Global rules

• Use the snapshot most closely matching the requested fresh baseline.
• Gateway verification in smoke runs should use openclaw gateway status --deep --require-rpc unless the stable version being checked does not support it yet.
• Stable 2026.3.12 pre-upgrade diagnostics may require a plain gateway status --deep fallback.
• Treat precheck=latest-ref-fail on that stable pre-upgrade lane as baseline, not automatically a regression.
• Pass --json for machine-readable summaries.
• Per-phase logs land under /tmp/openclaw-parallels-*.
• Do not run local and gateway agent turns in parallel on the same fresh workspace or session.

macOS flow

• Preferred entrypoint: pnpm test:parallels:macos
• Default to the snapshot closest to macOS 26.3.1 latest.
• On Peter's Tahoe VM, fresh-latest-march-2026 can hang in prlctl snapshot-switch; if restore times out there, rerun with --snapshot-hint 'macOS 26.3.1 latest' before blaming auth or the harness.
• prlctl exec is fine for deterministic repo commands, but use the guest Terminal or prlctl enter when installer parity or shell-sensitive behavior matters.
• On the fresh Tahoe snapshot, brew exists but node may be missing from PATH in noninteractive exec. Use /opt/homebrew/bin/node when needed.
• Fresh host-served tgz installs should install as guest root with HOME=/var/root, then run onboarding as the desktop user via prlctl exec --current-user.
• Root-installed tgz smoke can log plugin blocks for world-writable extensions/*; do not treat that as an onboarding or gateway failure unless plugin loading is the task.

Windows flow