docs(skills): prefer latest Parallels snapshots

steipete · steipete · commit acf265d4d51d · 2026-05-24T01:30:25.000+01:00
diff --git a/.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md b/.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Use this skill for Parallels guest workflows and smoke interpretation. Do not lo
 - For beta/stable verification, resolve the tag immediately before the run (`npm view openclaw@beta version dist.tarball` or `npm view openclaw@latest ...`). Tags can move while a long VM matrix is already running; restart the matrix when the intended prerelease appears after an earlier registry 404/tag-lag check.
 - Use the configured secret workflow to inject only the provider keys needed by OpenAI/Anthropic lanes. Do not print secrets or env dumps; pass provider secrets through the guest exec environment.
 - Same-guest update verification should set the default model explicitly to `openai/gpt-5.4` before the agent turn and use a fresh explicit `--session-id` so old session model state does not leak into the check.
-- The aggregate npm-update wrapper must resolve the Linux VM with the same Ubuntu fallback policy as `parallels-linux-smoke.sh` before both fresh and update lanes. Treat any Ubuntu guest with major version `>= 24` as acceptable when the exact default VM is missing, preferring the closest version match. On Peter's current host today, missing `Ubuntu 24.04.3 ARM64` should fall back to `Ubuntu 25.10`.
+- The aggregate npm-update wrapper must resolve the Linux VM with the same Ubuntu fallback policy as `parallels-linux-smoke.sh` before both fresh and update lanes. Treat any Ubuntu guest with major version `>= 24` as acceptable when the exact default VM is missing, preferring the newest versioned Ubuntu guest with a fresh poweroff snapshot. On Peter's current host today, use `Ubuntu 26.04`.
 - On macOS same-guest update checks, restart the gateway after the npm upgrade before `gateway status` / `agent`; launchd can otherwise report a loaded service while the old process has exited and the fresh process is not RPC-ready yet.
 - The npm-update aggregate's macOS update leg writes the guest update script as root, then runs it as the desktop user. If `prlctl exec "$MACOS_VM" --current-user ...` cannot authenticate, retry through plain root `prlctl exec` plus `sudo -u <desktop-user> /usr/bin/env HOME=/Users/<desktop-user> USER=<desktop-user> LOGNAME=<desktop-user> PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/opt/node/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin ...`. That is a Parallels transport fallback; still verify `openclaw --version`, gateway RPC, and an agent turn after the update.
 - On Windows same-guest update checks, restart the gateway after the npm upgrade before `gateway status` / `agent`; in-place global npm updates can otherwise leave stale hashed `dist/*` module imports alive in the running service.
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Use this skill for Parallels guest workflows and smoke interpretation. Do not lo
 - If that release-to-dev lane fails with `reason=preflight-no-good-commit` and repeated `sh: pnpm: command not found` tails from `preflight build`, treat it as an updater regression first. The fix belongs in the git/dev updater bootstrap path, not in Parallels retry logic.
 - Until the public stable train includes that updater bootstrap fix, the macOS release-to-dev lane may seed a temporary guest-local `pnpm` shim immediately before `openclaw update --channel dev`. Keep that workaround scoped to the smoke harness and remove it once the latest stable no longer needs it.
 - In Tahoe `prlctl exec --current-user` runs, prefer explicit `node .../openclaw.mjs ...` invocations for the release->dev handoff itself and for post-update verification. The shebanged global `openclaw` wrapper can fail with `env: node: No such file or directory`, and self-updating through the wrapper is a weaker lane than invoking the entrypoint under a fixed `node`.
-- 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.
+- Default to the snapshot closest to `macOS 26.5 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 26.5 latest'` before blaming auth or the harness.
 - `parallels-macos-smoke.sh` now retries `snapshot-switch` once after force-stopping a stuck running/suspended guest. If Tahoe still times out after that recovery path, then treat it as a real Parallels/host issue and rerun manually.
 - The macOS smoke should include a dashboard load phase after gateway health: resolve the tokenized URL with `openclaw dashboard --no-open`, verify the served HTML contains the Control UI title/root shell, then open Safari and require an established localhost TCP connection from Safari to the gateway port.
 - For Tahoe `fresh.gateway-status`, prefer non-TTY `prlctl exec --current-user ... openclaw gateway status ...` plus a few short retries. `prlctl enter` can spam TTY control bytes and hang the phase log even when the CLI itself is healthy.
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ Use this skill for Parallels guest workflows and smoke interpretation. Do not lo
 ## 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, any Ubuntu guest with major version `>= 24` is acceptable; prefer the closest versioned Ubuntu guest with a fresh poweroff snapshot. On Peter's host today, that is `Ubuntu 25.10`.
+- Use the newest versioned Ubuntu guest with a fresh poweroff snapshot. On Peter's host today, that is `Ubuntu 26.04`.
+- If an exact requested Ubuntu VM is missing on the host, any Ubuntu guest with major version `>= 24` is acceptable; prefer the newest versioned Ubuntu guest over older fallback snapshots.
 - 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.
