Fix macOS Tailscale CLI discovery for App Store installs#35
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On macOS, Tailscale installed via the App Store places its CLI at /Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale, which is not in PATH. Add find_tailscale_cli() helper that checks PATH first, then falls back to the macOS App Store location on darwin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sounds great, two nitpicks:
- maybe the tests are a bit too comprehensive here (I flagged the
binary_vanishes) - the missing binary error is not surfaced to the user - we could maybe have a better error message here
Distinguish "Tailscale not found" from "not running" when the local check fails, so users know whether to install or start Tailscale. Remove the overly comprehensive binary_vanishes race condition test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale, which is not in PATHcheck_local_tailscale()was running["tailscale", ...]which fails withFileNotFoundError, incorrectly reporting Tailscale as unavailablefind_tailscale_cli()helper that checks PATH first, then falls back to the macOS App Store location on darwinTest plan
TestFindTailscaleClitests cover: PATH hit, macOS App Store fallback, app not installed, Linux (no fallback), PATH skips fallbackTestCheckLocalTailscaletests to usefind_tailscale_climocktest_tailscale_binary_vanishes)prek runpasses🤖 Generated with Claude Code