test: release smoke test on macOS CI runners
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Since Sep 10, 2026.
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Description
Feature Description
The v0.9.0 exit bar says install works cold on four targets. Nothing checks that today, so every
release risks shipping an installer that only worked on the author's laptop.
Proposed Solution
- CI job on macOS runners installing from a published tag exactly as a user would
(curl | sh), not from a local build - Assert the launchd service starts and
abctl service statusis healthy - Drive a real request through the proxy and assert a parsed event with a non-zero token
count, read through the unattended capture path (#955) - Assert upgrade-over-existing and uninstall-is-clean
- Runs on every tag; a failure blocks the release
- Also runs against
main-latest, so breakage is caught before tagging - State which architectures CI covers and which stay manual
Additional Context
Part of the Cortex v0.9.0 release. Automates the macOS install verification (#944) and gates
exit criterion 1.
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