test: harden macos release-to-dev smoke verification

Author: steipete

.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Use this skill for Parallels guest workflows and smoke interpretation. Do not lo
 - Because the default upgrade lane no longer needs a host tgz, skip `npm pack` + host HTTP server startup for `--mode upgrade` unless `--target-package-spec` is set. Keep the pack/server path for `fresh` and `both`.
 - 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.
+- After the package -> git switch, prefer post-update verification through explicit `node ~/openclaw/openclaw.mjs ...` calls. In Tahoe `prlctl exec --current-user` runs, the shebanged global `openclaw` wrapper can fail with `env: node: No such file or directory` even though the dev switch already succeeded.
 - 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.
 - `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.

scripts/e2e/parallels-macos-smoke.sh

@@ -561,12 +561,22 @@ guest_current_user_exec() {
   guest_current_user_exec_path "$GUEST_EXEC_PATH" "$@"
 }
 
+guest_current_user_node_cli() {
+  guest_current_user_exec "$GUEST_NODE_BIN" "$@"
+}
+
 resolve_guest_current_user_home() {
   local user_name
   user_name="$(guest_current_user_exec /usr/bin/id -un | tr -d '\r')"
   printf '/Users/%s\n' "$user_name"
 }
 
+resolve_guest_git_openclaw_entry() {
+  local guest_home
+  guest_home="$(resolve_guest_current_user_home)"
+  printf '%s/openclaw/openclaw.mjs\n' "$guest_home"
+}
+
 guest_current_user_cli() {
   local parts=() arg joined=""
   for arg in "$@"; do
@@ -691,22 +701,26 @@ ensure_guest_pnpm_for_dev_update() {
 }
 
 run_dev_channel_update() {
-  local bootstrap_bin guest_home update_root
+  local bootstrap_bin guest_home update_root update_entry
   bootstrap_bin="/tmp/openclaw-smoke-pnpm-bootstrap/node_modules/.bin"
   guest_home="$(resolve_guest_current_user_home)"
   update_root="$guest_home/openclaw"
+  update_entry="$update_root/openclaw.mjs"
   ensure_guest_pnpm_for_dev_update
   printf 'update-dev: run\n'
   guest_current_user_exec /bin/rm -rf "$update_root"
   guest_current_user_exec_path "$bootstrap_bin:$GUEST_EXEC_PATH" \
     "$GUEST_OPENCLAW_BIN" update --channel dev --yes --json
-  guest_current_user_exec "$GUEST_OPENCLAW_BIN" --version
-  guest_current_user_exec "$GUEST_OPENCLAW_BIN" update status --json
+  printf 'update-dev: git-version\n'
+  guest_current_user_node_cli "$update_entry" --version
+  printf 'update-dev: git-status\n'
+  guest_current_user_node_cli "$update_entry" update status --json
 }
 
 verify_dev_channel_update() {
-  local status_json
-  status_json="$(guest_current_user_exec "$GUEST_OPENCLAW_BIN" update status --json)"
+  local status_json update_entry
+  update_entry="$(resolve_guest_git_openclaw_entry)"
+  status_json="$(guest_current_user_node_cli "$update_entry" update status --json)"
   printf '%s\n' "$status_json"
   printf '%s\n' "$status_json" | grep -F '"installKind": "git"'
   printf '%s\n' "$status_json" | grep -F '"value": "dev"'