What problem does it solve? Validating OpenClaw installs, upgrades, and gateway behavior across macOS, Windows, and Linux Parallels guest VMs is slow and error-prone, with many transport, snapshot, and updater pitfalls that are hard to diagnose without deep runbook knowledge. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Cross-platform smoke orchestration: Drives fresh-install and same-guest update lanes on macOS, Windows, and Linux guests via pnpm test:parallels:* entrypoints with hard timeouts and per-phase logs. - Update-flow verification: Exercises the guest's own openclaw update command against published tags or host-served tgz packages, then verifies version, gateway RPC, and an agent turn. - Failure triage guidance: Encodes known signatures for prlctl exec transport drops, snapshot-switch hangs, npm install stalls, and gateway token mismatches so failures are diagnosed from the right phase log. - Use Case: Before publishing a beta release, run the aggregate npm-update wrapper with --beta-validation to confirm latest-to-beta upgrades and fresh installs pass on all three guest operating systems. ## Quick Start Run the Parallels npm-update smoke matrix for the current beta and summarize any failing lanes from the per-phase logs.
