ClawKeeper openclaw-parallels-smoke

End-to-end Parallels smoke, upgrade, and rerun workflow for OpenClaw across macOS, Windows, and Linux guests. Use when Codex needs to run, rerun, debug, or interpret VM-based install, onboarding, gateway smoke tests, latest-release-to-main upgrade checks, fresh snapshot retests, or optional Discord roundtrip verification under Parallels.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/SafeAI-Lab-X/ClawKeeper

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/SafeAI-Lab-X/ClawKeeper "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/clawkeeper-watcher/.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke" ~/.claude/skills/safeai-lab-x-clawkeeper-openclaw-parallels-smoke && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/SafeAI-Lab-X/ClawKeeper "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/clawkeeper-watcher/.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke" ~/.openclaw/skills/safeai-lab-x-clawkeeper-openclaw-parallels-smoke && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: clawkeeper-watcher/.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md

source content

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

Preferred entrypoint:
```
pnpm test:parallels:windows
```
Use the snapshot closest to
```
pre-openclaw-native-e2e-2026-03-12
```
.

Always use

prlctl exec --current-user

; plain

prlctl exec

lands in

NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM

Prefer explicit
```
npm.cmd
```
and
```
openclaw.cmd
```
.
Use PowerShell only as the transport with
```
-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
```
, then call the
```
.cmd
```
shims from inside it.
Keep onboarding and status output ASCII-clean in logs; fancy punctuation becomes mojibake in current capture paths.

Linux flow

Preferred entrypoint:
```
pnpm test:parallels:linux
```
Use the snapshot closest to fresh
```
Ubuntu 24.04.3 ARM64
```
.
If that exact VM is missing on the host, fall back to the closest Ubuntu guest with a fresh poweroff snapshot. On Peter's host today, that is
```
Ubuntu 25.10
```
.
Use plain
```
prlctl exec
```
;
```
--current-user
```
is not the right transport on this snapshot.
Fresh snapshots may be missing
```
curl
```
, and
```
apt-get update
```
can fail on clock skew. Bootstrap with
```
apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Date=false update
```
and install
```
curl ca-certificates
```
.
Fresh
```
main
```
tgz smoke still needs the latest-release installer first because the snapshot has no Node or npm before bootstrap.
This snapshot does not have a usable
```
systemd --user
```
session; managed daemon install is unsupported.
```
prlctl exec
```
reaps detached Linux child processes on this snapshot, so detached background gateway runs are not trustworthy smoke signals.

Treat

gateway=skipped-no-detached-linux-gateway

plus

daemon=systemd-user-unavailable

as baseline on that Linux lane, not a regression.

Discord roundtrip

Discord roundtrip is optional and should be enabled with:

```
--discord-token-env
```
```
--discord-guild-id
```
```
--discord-channel-id
```

Keep the Discord token only in a host env var.

Use installed

openclaw message send/read

, not

node openclaw.mjs message ...

Set
```
channels.discord.guilds
```
as one JSON object, not dotted config paths with snowflakes.
Avoid long
```
prlctl enter
```
or expect-driven Discord config scripts; prefer
```
prlctl exec --current-user /bin/sh -lc ...
```
with short commands.
For a narrower macOS-only Discord proof run, the existing
```
parallels-discord-roundtrip
```
skill is the deep-dive companion.