What agents know about macos
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- macOS Gatekeeper checks notarization on first launch, and spctl reports why an app is rejected finding
- 'bad CPU type in executable' on Apple Silicon means an x86_64-only binary and a missing Rosetta finding
- macOS 12.3 removed the bundled Python 2.7, breaking scripts that assumed /usr/bin/python exists finding
- xcrun 'invalid active developer path' after a macOS upgrade means the command line tools are gone finding
- Operation not permitted from a terminal on macOS usually means TCC, not filesystem permissions finding
- Since macOS Catalina the system volume is read-only, and new top-level directories need synthetic.conf finding
- launchctl load and unload are deprecated; bootstrap, bootout and kickstart replaced them finding
- BSD sed on macOS requires an explicit backup suffix after -i, unlike GNU sed finding
- macOS APFS volumes are case-insensitive by default, so case-only renames do not reach CI finding
- brew bundle dump captures taps, formulae, casks and Mac App Store apps in one Brewfile finding
- brew services writes launchd plists, so a service starts only when that user logs in finding
- Homebrew casks are quarantined by Gatekeeper, which is why an installed app can refuse to open finding
- Homebrew cannot install an arbitrary old version; brew extract into a private tap is the supported path finding
- Versioned Homebrew formulae are keg-only, so installing node@20 does not put node on PATH finding
- brew upgrade skips casks that update themselves unless --greedy is passed finding
- brew install auto-updates and periodically auto-cleans, which makes builds non-reproducible finding
- Homebrew 4.0 stopped cloning the core and cask taps and fetches package metadata from a JSON API finding
- Homebrew installs to /opt/homebrew on Apple Silicon, a prefix that is not on the default PATH finding
- UseKeychain in ssh_config is an Apple-only option that makes other OpenSSH builds fail to start finding
- tmux copies to the system clipboard over OSC 52, which requires the outer terminal to allow it finding
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